hackthis_archive ([personal profile] hackthis_archive) wrote2009-01-28 01:19 pm
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Let's Be Bad Guys - A Generation Kill AU in 15 minutes or 532 words.

Generation Kill
Brad/Nate
AU
PG


Let's Be Bad Guys



Detective Nate Fick's been chasing after Brad Colbert for more than six months now, ever since the plans for Intel's top secret new micro-processing chip went missing from their offices.

There's no proof that Colbert was involved in the heist, but Nate's no fool, and he knows all about Brad Colbert's ability to do a job without a trace. In fact, Nate knows Colbert's abilities better than anybody else in the precinct.

He knows that Colbert has very few weaknesses.

Brad Colbert is one of the top new media thieves in the nation, and while Alec Hardison would be Nate's first guess if the plans had just been duplicated from the private server, the fact that the written plans are physically missing from the offices leaves Nate with only one suspect.

Nate's not obsessed with Colbert, no matter what his partner Mike Wynn says.

It doesn't matter that Nate's got a copy of Colbert's jacket at his apartment, or that he has bits of unsolved computer cases taped up to his wall with a grainy year-old shot of Colbert right in the middle of them.

Nate knows Colbert's guilty even if there's no proof, because there is no better thief than Brad Colbert. He could probably steal Nate's shoes with Nate still in them. So, it should be no surprise that when Nate gets home after a too long shift with too many unhelpful witnesses, he's got a guest sitting at his kitchen table and eating his leftover Chinese food.

Brad just raises an eyebrow, slurping down the last of Nate's Lo Mein and then licking his lips. "You left me the combination lo mein and a spring roll. Should I blow you now, or do you want to play cops and robbers first?"

Nate crosses his arms. "You're making me look bad," he says. "The captain is starting to think I can't do my job."

Brad balls up his napkin, tosses it on the table, and stands up, stretching out his 6'4 frame. He's wearing one of Nate's tee shirts, and of course, it's too small for him. "I know you can do your job." Brad's grin is sharp.

"Evidence is starting to say otherwise."

"Aw," Brad teases. "Is Nate mad? If it helps, I'll even let you handcuff me to the bed because I've been bad."

Nate raises an eyebrow as Brad strides across the room to stand before him. "How many times have I told you about stealing in my part of town? There are 49 other states for you commit crime!"

Brad shrugs. "I like it here."

Nate is not amused. "Are you feeling neglected, is that it?"

Brad licks his lips, and Nate's pulse quickens. "If I say yes, then can we fuck?"

Nate sucks in his cheeks. "Everybody else has a regular boyfriend, why did I have to choose the criminal?"

Brad's fingers tangle in Nate's belt loops, pulling him forward. "I asked you to join my life of crime," Brad says. "The hours and pay are better than anything the city is offering you. Plus, I give time off for good head. You should think about it."

Nate just rolls his eyes, but Brad's eyes narrow as though he knows something that Nate doesn't. Or just won't say.

They both know Nate's thought about it before, he just hates admitting defeat.



ETA: Now with art by [livejournal.com profile] trolleys

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno about all that, I kind of thing the current White House could explode from awesome and hotass. Thank God [livejournal.com profile] sparky77 never made me work on that Nate and Brad do the White House thing. We had Nate as one of Rahm's staff and Brad working for the Secret Service. Maybe I will revist that idea.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Also, damn you and your sneaky fandom pimping ways. I've spent all my free time the last couple of days watching Generation Kill - I dont even know how this happened! One minute I'm studying, the next thing I'm devouring all the Brad/Nate I can find...

So, that's what that new pack of baby wipes was for! Awesome! Some fandoms give toasters, we give practical items.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
:D

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Nate should really just give in and join Brad in his illicit ways.

I could not agree more.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
*feeds your muse* Grow baby, grow.

*eyes muse that is bigger than the house*

Uh huh. So, this is your fault, is it?

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you see these people over here, haranguing me about things like the GK US AU or that one story we'd drabbled where Brad works for the Secret Service and Nate works for Rahm. That last one's a good idea. Maybe after the HS AU. And the Merlin thing.

I need a dictaphone and a secretary.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Brad is always bad; it's why we Nate loves him.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL. It was unintentionally. I didn't realize I'd done it until five hours later.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you :)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Jesus, are you spying on my e-mail? I had coffee yesterday morning (which I never do) and it brought two ideas to the forefront of my head pretty immediately. One was a Merlin reincarnation story -- where are you with Merlin, have you watch it? You should watch it. You like pretty, obtuse young men, I know about the Swim!Slash, so uh, yeah, watch that. Anyway, one was Merlin and the other was that story, yes, that one. I think I've figured a way to bring it down from 7000 pages, to like 40. So, uh, yeah. I will expect a pony and my own Brad when it gets posted. Just saying.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you liked it :)

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It's okay, productivity is overrated anyway. :)

It's not just that the shirt is too small, it's where it's too small that always causes Nate's problems, specifically at the shoulders, where Nate can see every cotton fibre streching to cover Brad's back and chest, and at the hem, which is at least two inches north of the waistband of Brad's jeans. It's just -- it's mean.

Nate is not a small man. He's 6'2, but he's built lean. Mike's wife calls him wiry. Brad on the other hand, Brad is 6'4 of lean muscle. "You're stretching out my clothes again," Nate complains.

Brad stretches his arms over his head. "I needed something clean."

He knows Nate is staring at his exposed swath of stomach. And Nate knows Brad knows, because when he looks back up, Brad got that grin on his face. The one that says, "If you don't remove your own clothes, I will do it for you, and you will have to replace them all."

[identity profile] alethialia.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
VERY hot. ::loves::

Poor Nate. Life is just full o' tough choices, man.

[identity profile] kristories.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god yay! See, now you've just gone and proved I'm like psychic or something...now I just need a Magichead sidekick. Anyway, I'll just be waiting here in the corner patiently for when you break down and write it.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I object to that insinuation! I don't succunmb easily! I fight hard against the oppression from my bunny masters. Besides I have to write that GK HS AU first.

[identity profile] kristories.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I fight hard against the oppression from my bunny masters.

Hah!

I don't succunmb easily!

Yes, but really:

Nate, in a suit.

Brad in a suit bitching about the damned thing itches more than a mop suit after 6 weeks of having sand shoved in it. And that thing where the staff can't keep their damned hands to themselves and he's going to choke a bitch if it keeps up.

Ray with the inability to be hired because he can't pass the background check because of that thing with that he that Ray totally thought was a she down in Florida that ended with a bang that he totally didn't cause and doesn't know how that grenade got smuggled off base but it doesn't stop him from showing up randomly to redneck up the big white house.

Poke! Poke with the 5 am phone calls to Brad about how Nate is still oppressing his people and they didn't let him live through ass-wipe haji ambushes just so he could rule the country like every other white man. And just so you know, he voted for the Mexican!

You're going to cave. It's an eventuality.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, that's like the dirtiest pool that ever did dirty pool. Do you know how I am about suits? Of course you do. Look at your first eight words, two of them are suit. NGGGGHHH.

*stomps off to stick head in freezer*

[identity profile] kristories.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
This Suit? (http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0b3t3AGb1B6ot/340x.jpg)

Yes? Did someone say pool?

[identity profile] redheadaholic.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOD! Any bad day I was having just got completely erased imagining that little scene..

And Besides I have to write that GK HS AU first, please? soon?

[identity profile] sparky77.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
ME! I volunteer! I will totally be your secretary!

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
There's no pay and the hours aren't set, but there's a lot of porn. And crack. All the crack you can smoke.

[identity profile] sparky77.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I can smoke a lot of crack, but I generate crack too, so I won't deplete the supply... dude, there has to be some sort of way that we could solve all the world's energy problems with a continuously regnerating supply of crack... or possibly I need to get more than three hours of sleep a day.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I left cookies all over this post. Trufax.

[identity profile] sparky77.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh cookies. I love cookies! Especially cookies that involve Brad and Nate. Which makes me think of the Cookie monster which makes me think of Brad and Nate interacting with muppets which makes me think of Brad offering commentary on Sesasme Street while Layla is watching and Nate sort of laughing, but also worrying that Brad is permenantly scarring their poor child.

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