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15minuteficlets challenge.
Title: Playing and Winning
Author: catch22girl
Fandom: 24
Summary: Tony wants her but he doesn't have a chance, does he?
Disclaimer: Not mine, belong to whoever owns 24.
Nina sat next to Tony at work or close enough that he saw her all the time. They had to work together
but he'd stare at her when she wasn't looking and pretend to be focused on the task at hand when really
just wanting to lean over and kiss her graceful neck which her short haircut only highlighted.
It wasn't a contest, because in the fight for her heart he was at best an afterthought. Her affair
with Jack was the worst kept secret in intelligence agency history. The kind where he wondered if people were
just pretending not to know because they were waiting for the chance to use that knowledge in a better way.
Tony would have to be blind to not see the way Nina was always finding an excuse to touch Jack but Tony
knew that this kind of thing couldn't last, especially not when he heard Jack on the phone to his wife
several times a week checking up on things, telling her he's changed and how much he misses her.
So, maybe Tony had a chance of winning after all.
It was only when Nina came into work a few minutes late one day, without make-up, wearing low heels,
sitting down without saying a word and speaking curtly to everyone that Tony knew it was over.
A week later, Nina walked over to Tony's desk and smiling in a secretive way asked, "What are you doing tonight?"
I'm not going to be your rebound, Tony almost said, but then he saw her eyes and her delicate
hands and remembered all the nights that he couldn't stop thinking about her and pushed aside
any misgivings and instead said, "Nothing, why?"
Inwardly, he thought, I win.
The word was: Competition.
For word #46 of
15minuteficlets challenge.Title: Playing and Winning
Author: catch22girl
Fandom: 24
Summary: Tony wants her but he doesn't have a chance, does he?
Disclaimer: Not mine, belong to whoever owns 24.
Nina sat next to Tony at work or close enough that he saw her all the time. They had to work together
but he'd stare at her when she wasn't looking and pretend to be focused on the task at hand when really
just wanting to lean over and kiss her graceful neck which her short haircut only highlighted.
It wasn't a contest, because in the fight for her heart he was at best an afterthought. Her affair
with Jack was the worst kept secret in intelligence agency history. The kind where he wondered if people were
just pretending not to know because they were waiting for the chance to use that knowledge in a better way.
Tony would have to be blind to not see the way Nina was always finding an excuse to touch Jack but Tony
knew that this kind of thing couldn't last, especially not when he heard Jack on the phone to his wife
several times a week checking up on things, telling her he's changed and how much he misses her.
So, maybe Tony had a chance of winning after all.
It was only when Nina came into work a few minutes late one day, without make-up, wearing low heels,
sitting down without saying a word and speaking curtly to everyone that Tony knew it was over.
A week later, Nina walked over to Tony's desk and smiling in a secretive way asked, "What are you doing tonight?"
I'm not going to be your rebound, Tony almost said, but then he saw her eyes and her delicate
hands and remembered all the nights that he couldn't stop thinking about her and pushed aside
any misgivings and instead said, "Nothing, why?"
Inwardly, he thought, I win.
The word was: Competition.
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Date: 2004-03-16 02:38 pm (UTC)I don't know why, but some reason this one hurts.
In a good way!
Extremely well-written, an excellent job as usual ;)
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Date: 2004-03-16 03:05 pm (UTC)P.S. - miiine.
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Date: 2004-03-16 03:09 pm (UTC)(And no, you didn't ramble, it was perfect ;))
P.P.S: "You've been packing!">
*kiss*
Virtual Kiss
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Date: 2004-03-16 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-16 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-16 03:28 pm (UTC)Her affair
with Jack was the worst kept secret in intelligence agency history.
Heh. Those lustbunnies.. they probably got it on in every corner of CTU. ;)
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Date: 2004-03-16 07:05 pm (UTC)I didn't find it too painful, which means I probably just can't tell.
good job
Date: 2004-03-16 06:25 pm (UTC)Re: good job
Date: 2004-03-16 07:05 pm (UTC)This is totally unrelated...
Date: 2004-03-27 08:43 pm (UTC)Did you find the stupid event/game schedule for the stadium in the next mission of that '24' online game? I can find D.C. United's game schedule but not anything specifically for the stadium and it's driving me nuts...
Re: This is totally unrelated...
Date: 2004-03-31 06:43 am (UTC)And thank you :)