[myl] 60.1 & 61.4

Favorite things to see:

- The Strip at night
- Bee smiling with that big-ass grin that kinda shows her gums...that's when I know she's really happy
- May konked out so deep she's suckling in her sleep
- Sassy holding May and beaming like a lighthouse
- Sassy dancing around with May and singing corny songs
- Mom playing with May and actually loosening up
- Dad talking about work...or his granddaughter...or anything that makes him start talking a mile a minute
- Sal making someone's life miserable
- Sal talking about his girl and getting that look on his face...the one that makes me wanna ask if he's propsed yet
- Ryder with his guitar
- Zumanity at the NYNY
- The handful of Zee's things I got to keep around the new place
- May "waving" at me when she gets excited about something
- The Bellagio water show at night
- Pictures of Zee
- A new pair of handcuffs

Things I'm attached to:

- my favorite pair of jeans
- my new place
- my new handcuff amulet (gave Bee my original a while back)
- Road to Ruin as a hangout
- Control Freak's material
- Zee's old nightshirt (aka one of my old t-shirts)
- the earrings Sass gave me for my birthday last year
- the little German Shepherd puppy that kept crawling in my lap when I went to see the folks in Searchlight...I may take Ruby up on her offer
- my bike
- my car
- my power

Tommy Karras
Original Character

[ct] 37.2 - charlie brown quote

NOTE: Takes place shortly after Zee and Tommy's first kiss.

“I’m not even kidding. If you try to hold my hand? I’ll slug you.”

She was smiling when she said it, but there was a weight to her voice that told him she wasn’t kidding as they walked away from the coffee shop where they’d just had lunch. She was capable of being impossibly scary that way most of the time, and yet Tommy was as drawn to it as he was repelled.

Not that it revolted him, it was just…strange to him. The only softness she had shown him so far was in her lips and skin, even the eye-catching curves of her body that tortured his thoughts were sharp and solid. Her body was athletic and strong, and overwhelmingly female.

He was more than aware of how little softness there truly was in real women.

Tommy feared that rough touch, the violence and vitriol in her. He didn’t understand it, couldn’t fathom where it came from or how she still managed to be so radiant in spite of it…

Tommy reached out and took her hand. The movement stopped her dead in her tracks.

They stood there for years crammed into seconds, eyes locked. She glared at him in shock, steady and prepared to strike…but she felt it, too, he could see it in her eyes. The warmth of skin on skin, the solidity of that grip as her fingers curled into his on reflex alone. The soft sweep of his thumb over her knuckles, caressing…

His cheeks were a little red, but there was an overwhelming sense of confidence in that moment. He smirked, actually smirked at her…dared her without words to make good on her threat.

He held her hand, touched her essence, her energy…oh yeah, that was soft, too. Soft and so very strong…

As her shock and annoyance melted into something else, something more vulnerable and almost confused, he felt like he’d won something. It was a prize, an award…it was a plunge into something deep and limitless, a balancing act he was doing on a ledge he was destined to fall from.

Licking his lips nervously, he smiled and tightened his fingers around hers, lacing them together as he pulled her just a little closer and started walking again.

She didn’t make him let go of her hand as they walked back to his apartment building.

Muse: Tommy Karras
Fandom: Original Character
Words: 394
Partner: Ziyah Ambrogio (zee_ali) [deceased]

[sws] post where tommy is a pushover for a pretty face...

[I...think I'm gettin' a dog.]