Call My Name (Numb3rs doubledrabble, PG-15)

[browngirl]

Title: Call My Name
Fandom: Numb3rs
Rating: PG-15
Pairing: Charlie/Susan Berry
Warnings/Spoilers: Het, past girlfriend. Set pre-series.
All Thanks To: lomedet and thewhiteowl
Author's Note: First of Four for the February 2008 Drabble Rewind.
Disclaimer: None of these characters or their settings belong to me.



"Charlie Eppes, are you still on that? It's like you're in another world!" Charlie heard Susan distantly, somewhere beyond the page of intransigent symbols he'd been staring at for the last... he couldn't remember how long. But another five minutes and he'd make it work, he knew he would.

Then something pink-yellowish interposed itself between Charlie and the page, resolving into Susan's hand holding a french fry. Charlie opened his mouth to say something and Susan shoved in the fry, her rounded fingertips brushing his bottom lip as they withdrew. The fry was hot and potatoey and suddenly Charlie was profoundly, stomach-gurglingly hungry.

He looked up as Susan stepped back, holding a bowl of fries in front of her astoundingly naked breasts. His girlfriend was wearing only pink panties, holding hot food, smirking a little as she stood out of arm's reach. "Want another chip?"

Charlie nodded as he swallowed, and Susan maddeningly stepped away. "Then come away from that notebook," she said, standing in the doorway.

Charlie glanced at the page, but he could smell the fries she held, and she was very close to naked, and maybe it'd all make more sense in the morning. Flipping the notebook shut, Charlie stood up.

Comments

[owl]

Aw, this is adorable! Naked and holding chips, Susan knows how to get the attention of a 20-year-old boy :)

No-one's ever thanked me for something I didn't beta before; I am highly flattered :)

But another five minutes and he'd make it work, he knew he would.

In coding circles we have a phrase for that: "One last compile!"

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Susan always struck me as eminently sensible. :D And you're very welcome; you deserve the thanks.

Oh, I've heard "one more compile" indeed. I'm not a computer person, but I have friends who are.

[owl]

At one point this year I had an appointment in my calender every day at 5.30pm: You should go home now, or phone to say you aren't coming. We now have three devs out of the team who live in roughly the same direction and tend to walk home together, so there's a good chance that at least one of us will be wanting to leave at an appropriate time and collect the others.