"Routine" - Man From U.N.C.L.E. Drabble

[periwinkle27.livejournal.com]

Author: periwinkle27
Title: Routine
Fandom: Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Spoilers: none
Disclaimer: Not mine. If I owned them, I wouldn't be here
Warnings: slash
Word count: 100
Notes: Written for challenge #170 at slashthedrabble: "Habit"
Summary: One habit defines an agent

Routine (PG-13)
By Periwinkle

According to the dictionary, one meaning of “habit” was “an acquired pattern of behavior that often occurs automatically.” According to Napoleon, that defined his relationship with Illya.

In their apartment, the two of them alone, they had set patterns: who cooked, who did the security check, who bottomed. Well, maybe not the last one. That happened according to their needs and desires.

But their morning habit turned them from lovers into spies - the putting on of their shoulder holsters; the instinctive checking of their guns. The other routines merely defined them as a couple. This could save their lives.

Comments

[tipsywitch.livejournal.com]

You do realise that I've watched these films for years, had a huge crush on Ilya Kuryakin and have never ever seen them as slashy...

...until now.

*grins*

[periwinkle27.livejournal.com]

Are you a member of crack_van? You can find lots of good recs for many fandoms there, one of which is Man From U.N.C.L.E.

I never saw them as slashy until I started reading the fiction. Now I can picture it.
Check out this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEcFQ1e4H9o&feature=related

Btw, the last scene is from when David was a guest on the A-team with Robert.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

I was so wee and innocent when I watched this show, but as soon as I 'discovered' slash, my brain clicked back over a lot of my earlier favourite shows and MFU was one of those which pinged my slashdar. *g*

A lovely little peek into their lives. They have domestic and not-so-domestic habits! :D

[periwinkle27.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

I like how the patterns of living together meld seamlessly with their professional lives, too. Deceptively simple but very telling.

[periwinkle27.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I write so many drabbles I figured I'd join the group as it already included MFU

[(Anonymous)]

I really liked this – thanks! The last part reminds me of one of Linda White's Third Level universe, where the guys check each other’s weapons, and Napoleon wonders about their ritual.

Nezad :-)

[periwinkle27.livejournal.com]

I just reread Linda White - in fact I think I linked to her today.

I was actually thinking of Taliesin's " The 'Fine and Private Place' Affair" where Solo, as a ghost, watches Illya clean and load his gun.


He sat at the table in the cramped kitchen and cleaned his gun. [...]

His hands performed their task automatically, leaving his mind blissfully blank. These habits were old, ingrained for years before he joined U.N.C.L.E. They were without memory, without association. They just were. Each step executed precisely, no fumbling, no consideration required, just the intimate familiarity of the gun in his hands. [...]

Out of habit, he chambered a round. He propped his elbow on the table and raised the muzzle, savoring the weight of the gun in his hand. This, at least, he could rely on.