FIC: Happy birthday, Brenda!! (Karl Urban/Harry Sinclair)

[lobelia321]

Birthday ficlet for azewewish

In a tree
by Lobelia

Karl and Harry sat in a tree. It was a plum tree. Or perhaps a guava tree. They didn't know. They were not experts on stone fruit arboriculture. At any rate, the fruit was tough and not nice to eat. They had tried. Then they had stopped.

Now they just sat there, dangling their feet. Harry said that his lower spine hurt from having twisted it on the way up. Karl said to shut up and be quiet, he needed to think. Harry asked what he needed to think about. Karl said nothing but his pupils swivelled and fastened on Harry's finger.

"That?" said Harry. "That bothers you?"

"No," said Karl. "Why should it bother me?"

"It's gold," said Harry and held up his hand. "It's 14 carat. It's got a date inscribed on the inside of it. The date is the fifth of December."

"I don't care about that date." Karl plucked a twig and chewed on it. A bird tweeted.

"It's not a particularly significant ring. It's not The One Ring. It might make me invisible, though."

"You'll never be invisible," said Karl past his twig. "Not to me." He furrowed his brow and stared into the distance so hard that his eyes began to water. The sun was setting on the Pacific's horizon.

"You shouldn't look into the sun," said Harry. "It might make you blind. It could make your eyes weep."

Karl spat out the twig. "Let me try it on."

Harry looked at his hand. "Okay," he said. He looked at his hand some more. "All right," he said. "I'm not sure I can get it off," he said.

"Try butter," said Karl and started to climb down the tree.

"Hey," said Harry. He rubbed his finger and wriggled the ring back and forth. He wrenched the ring off his finger. "Here."

Karl stopped and perched on a branch below Harry. He slipped the ring onto his ring finger but it wouldn't fit. He slipped it onto his little finger but it was loose. He looked at the ring close up, twirled it between his fingers, held it up so that the sun flashed orange on its flanks.

Karl popped the ring into his mouth.

"Oh, for goodness..." said Harry.

Karl said nothing.

"Okay, okay," said Harry.

He lowered himself onto Karl's branch.

"You're so predictable," said Harry. "My back hurts."

Karl pulled an annoyed pout.

Harry grabbed hold of Karl's neck to hold him still. He leant forwards and bit Karl's top lip. Then he bit Karl's bottom lip. Then he bit both lips at once.

Karl opened his mouth. Harry parted his lips. The ring slid out and onto Harry's tongue.

"Fits fine now," said Harry. The ring slithered easily onto his fourth finger.

"Shit, Harry," murmured Karl.



THE END.
P.S. Inspired by a real-life marriage.

Comments

[azewewish.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, this is awesome!! And so very, very you, as well. *g* I love that it's vaguely dream-like, but really sharp, even though they seem to be having the mother of all non-sequiter conversations. And that Harry so willingly does whatever Karl tells him. It's sort of hot. ;)

Thank you, baby!!!!! <33

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy you got it and liked it! You know, this is the first fic I have written in at least 7 months. I've been on the wagon 'dry', and oh yes, it was very nice to take deep long draughts of fic again. You are an inspiration! I had no idea that Harry was getting married until I saw your post for today, *g*, so it's a kind of instant-fic. ;-)

Thanks for having a birthday and continuing to be an inspiration!

[ia-ne.livejournal.com]

Karl and Harry sat in a tree. It was a plum tree. Or perhaps a guava tree. They didn't know. They were not experts on stone fruit arboriculture. At any rate, the fruit was tough and not nice to eat. They had tried. Then they had stopped.

I never really know how to put in words why I love your fic. It's sweet and precise, observant and funny. Show not tell.

Happy Birthday Brenda indeed :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year, Ianechen!! Bist du gut gerutscht??

Thank you for your lovely feedback. *knuddelt dich*

[ia-ne.livejournal.com]

Dir auch ein Frohes Neues Jahr! Gut gerutscht, ganz entspannt und gut gelaunt :) Ich hoffe, Du und Deine Familie auch?

Okay, this feels really weird, writing in German! Trotzdem, *zurückknuddel*

And you're most welcome!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd forgotten that the Germans do the whole *knuddel* thing differently from the English! For whatever reason, English in between the asterisks is 3rd person singular without a pronoun. And German is a weird form of truncated infinitive.

So *snuggles you* becomes *zurückknuddel*.

Weird!

[ia-ne.livejournal.com]

I suppose you coud say/use *knuddelt Dich zurück", too! This is actually the first time I did the *knuddel* thing (heh) in German, I think.