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iluvroadrunner6) wrote2006-10-19 04:17 pm
iluvroadrunner6) wrote2006-10-19 04:17 pm
Flack/Stella - Didn't See it Before
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fivebyfiction prompts that i'm combining with my alphabetasoup prompts might be turned into a little mini section of my Fiesta series centered around "All Access"/"Charge of this Post." They're all senses so...hmmm...i'll have to play with it a bit.
Fandom: CSI:NY
Title: Didnt' See it Before
Author:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iluvroadrunner6
Rating: FRT
Pairing Don Flack/Stella Bonasera
alphabetasoup Prompt: P is for Pensive
fivebyfiction Prompt: Sight
Content Warning: Spoilers for "All Access" and "Charge of this Post"
Summary: Mac takes a closer look at Stella's relationship with Flack.
Author's Note: Also used the prompt Mac Taylor / Stella Bonasera / watching you. Mac's POV. I think this is one-sided Mac/Stella if you squint. Really really hard. But that's just me.
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of CSI:NY. They're owned by CBS.
“It’s Stella’s boyfriend, Frankie.”
It wasn’t so much the statement that bothered Mac. Don was only stating a fact that everyone knew. The dead body on the floor was Frankie Mala, the man Stella had been seeing for a while now. It wasn’t as if no one at the lab had known she was dating someone, they all had picked up on it eventually. So the statement itself wasn’t where the problem was.
It was the tone Flack used when he said it. It was so bitter. Maybe even jealous. He hadn’t picked up on it at the scene, he was too concerned with Stella. But now that he didn’t have to focus on the case, something about the way Don had said it bothered him. It wasn’t a tone that Mac was familiar with the man using when it came to crime scenes.
He chocked it up to them being good friends and left it at that, but now that the case was over and he had time to think about it, time to process it really, he had a sense that there was something much more than that afloat here. He had frequently been accused of being left out of the loop when it came to the personal lives of his employees, but he was nothing if not observant. Flack’s entire body language changed when Stella was involved. Before the whole mess with Frankie had happened, whenever Stella turned the corner, he would straighten somewhat, he was at ease, yet not totally. Like there was a barrier there he wanted to break, but he didn’t know how.
Mac had originally chalked it up to a schoolboy crush, nothing serious. He figured the man probably had done the same thing around Aiden when she was around, but with Aiden he stood more of a chance, so he came on a little stronger. But then, thinking back, there were other things he noticed as well.
In the whole mess with Moran, Flack went to Stella, not him. Mac knew that the younger man had wanted it off the books, and that he probably knew Mac wouldn’t go for it, but then there was the way Stella was concerned about him, and whether or not he could handle it. He thought she was just being a friend. But everything pointed to being more than that lately.
It was the hug that really called it to his attention. He didn’t mean to walk in on anything, but it was obvious that there was something more between them than he was willing to give credit to. There was so much unexplained trust between them, that couldn’t have developed just over the time that he’d been working with the CSIs.
He remembered her mentioning something about how they had worked together before, but thinking back on the moment, the hand shake between them was stiff and uncomfortable, at least on Flack’s end. Every time she entered the room back then, he would stiffen, and say something about going to run down a lead and excusing himself. Stella never seemed to acknowledge anything to the contrary, but Mac knew that he was guilty of not pay as much attention to Stella and her emotions as he used to.
And now they were sitting in the hospital, waiting for Flack to wait up and crack a joke, and this time he was watching her. Watching her slip her hand into his, and even though he didn’t respond to her, she kept it there, and just sat with him.
Mac knew she probably didn’t realize she was being watched, nor probably did she care, but he knew that there was something there, buried somewhere, that she still cared pretty deeply about him. Whatever there was before this, before Flack started working with the crime lab, it was still there, and she knew that Don Flack was someone she could trust and lean on, no questions asked. Mac used think that he was that man for her, but now that he thought about it, and reasoned it over in his mind, he still was, but not quite the same way. Mac she trusted with her life, and could count on him for anything, she knew that.
But when it came to Flack she was in love.
fivebyfiction prompts that i'm combining with my alphabetasoup prompts might be turned into a little mini section of my Fiesta series centered around "All Access"/"Charge of this Post." They're all senses so...hmmm...i'll have to play with it a bit.Fandom: CSI:NY
Title: Didnt' See it Before
Author:
iluvroadrunner6Rating: FRT
Pairing Don Flack/Stella Bonasera
alphabetasoup Prompt: P is for Pensivefivebyfiction Prompt: SightContent Warning: Spoilers for "All Access" and "Charge of this Post"
Summary: Mac takes a closer look at Stella's relationship with Flack.
Author's Note: Also used the prompt Mac Taylor / Stella Bonasera / watching you. Mac's POV. I think this is one-sided Mac/Stella if you squint. Really really hard. But that's just me.
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of CSI:NY. They're owned by CBS.
“It’s Stella’s boyfriend, Frankie.”
It wasn’t so much the statement that bothered Mac. Don was only stating a fact that everyone knew. The dead body on the floor was Frankie Mala, the man Stella had been seeing for a while now. It wasn’t as if no one at the lab had known she was dating someone, they all had picked up on it eventually. So the statement itself wasn’t where the problem was.
It was the tone Flack used when he said it. It was so bitter. Maybe even jealous. He hadn’t picked up on it at the scene, he was too concerned with Stella. But now that he didn’t have to focus on the case, something about the way Don had said it bothered him. It wasn’t a tone that Mac was familiar with the man using when it came to crime scenes.
He chocked it up to them being good friends and left it at that, but now that the case was over and he had time to think about it, time to process it really, he had a sense that there was something much more than that afloat here. He had frequently been accused of being left out of the loop when it came to the personal lives of his employees, but he was nothing if not observant. Flack’s entire body language changed when Stella was involved. Before the whole mess with Frankie had happened, whenever Stella turned the corner, he would straighten somewhat, he was at ease, yet not totally. Like there was a barrier there he wanted to break, but he didn’t know how.
Mac had originally chalked it up to a schoolboy crush, nothing serious. He figured the man probably had done the same thing around Aiden when she was around, but with Aiden he stood more of a chance, so he came on a little stronger. But then, thinking back, there were other things he noticed as well.
In the whole mess with Moran, Flack went to Stella, not him. Mac knew that the younger man had wanted it off the books, and that he probably knew Mac wouldn’t go for it, but then there was the way Stella was concerned about him, and whether or not he could handle it. He thought she was just being a friend. But everything pointed to being more than that lately.
It was the hug that really called it to his attention. He didn’t mean to walk in on anything, but it was obvious that there was something more between them than he was willing to give credit to. There was so much unexplained trust between them, that couldn’t have developed just over the time that he’d been working with the CSIs.
He remembered her mentioning something about how they had worked together before, but thinking back on the moment, the hand shake between them was stiff and uncomfortable, at least on Flack’s end. Every time she entered the room back then, he would stiffen, and say something about going to run down a lead and excusing himself. Stella never seemed to acknowledge anything to the contrary, but Mac knew that he was guilty of not pay as much attention to Stella and her emotions as he used to.
And now they were sitting in the hospital, waiting for Flack to wait up and crack a joke, and this time he was watching her. Watching her slip her hand into his, and even though he didn’t respond to her, she kept it there, and just sat with him.
Mac knew she probably didn’t realize she was being watched, nor probably did she care, but he knew that there was something there, buried somewhere, that she still cared pretty deeply about him. Whatever there was before this, before Flack started working with the crime lab, it was still there, and she knew that Don Flack was someone she could trust and lean on, no questions asked. Mac used think that he was that man for her, but now that he thought about it, and reasoned it over in his mind, he still was, but not quite the same way. Mac she trusted with her life, and could count on him for anything, she knew that.
But when it came to Flack she was in love.