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vocab_drabblesTitle: Achilles Heel
Fandom: Miami Vice
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: G
Words: 416
Characters: Sonny Crockett
Summary: Sonny reflects on his relationship with Rico after returning from a fishing trip to find out Rico had been kidnapped while he was away.
Notes: Part two of the trilogy that started with "Point of Contention."
When you're in the dark
Baby, don't despair
I'm just a spark away
I will be there
--Richie Sambora
Rico is fine, Rico can take care of himself. Rico is fine. Rico can take care of himself. It had been an endless loop in Sonny’s head every minute he was away. Even Billy had asked if everything was all right.
No, it wasn’t and hadn’t been for a long time.
Backing away from each other, not working together as much was its own type of torture, but it was the only way to preserve what they could of their status quo. Because they were compromised and they knew it. There was a reason the police department didn’t let couples work together, and even though they couldn’t, strictly speaking, be classified as such, they’d always been closer than was appropriate. The times Rico was in danger Sonny was panicked, frantic. Rico had gone from the best partner he’d ever had to his Achilles heel.
This guy I gotta wait for, had turned into, this is the one I can’t lose.
Sonny was an expert at dissembling. He’d spent his life undercover, after all, and no one saw anything he didn’t want them to. No one would ever guess how deep his feelings for Rico went.
Except Rico himself.
It was nearly impossible for either of them to keep anything from the other. All they had to do was lock eyes and it was like every thought and feeling was crystal clear. Not 100%, they still got things wrong, but it was accurate enough to be eerie.
And he didn’t know what any of it meant.
Sonny was nothing if not expert at lying to himself. He hadn’t thought much about it before, but since his amnesia it had taken on disturbing connotations. It felt like he could never be sure of himself anymore, never knowing what he might be keeping from himself.
The only thing he could be sure of in this confusing, soul-crushing world was Rico. Rico, who, like he’d told Joey Hardin that time, had never let him down. Why? Why did Rico take everything he dished out, over and over again?
There he was, lying to himself again. He knew why.
Still, it didn't matter, it couldn't. Because despite everything that had ever happened to Sonny, every heartbreak and betrayal, every loss and disappointment, times when he didn’t think he could go on yet, somehow, he did…
Rico was the one thing that could destroy him.
Fandom: Miami Vice
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: G
Words: 416
Characters: Sonny Crockett
Summary: Sonny reflects on his relationship with Rico after returning from a fishing trip to find out Rico had been kidnapped while he was away.
Notes: Part two of the trilogy that started with "Point of Contention."
When you're in the dark
Baby, don't despair
I'm just a spark away
I will be there
--Richie Sambora
Rico is fine, Rico can take care of himself. Rico is fine. Rico can take care of himself. It had been an endless loop in Sonny’s head every minute he was away. Even Billy had asked if everything was all right.
No, it wasn’t and hadn’t been for a long time.
Backing away from each other, not working together as much was its own type of torture, but it was the only way to preserve what they could of their status quo. Because they were compromised and they knew it. There was a reason the police department didn’t let couples work together, and even though they couldn’t, strictly speaking, be classified as such, they’d always been closer than was appropriate. The times Rico was in danger Sonny was panicked, frantic. Rico had gone from the best partner he’d ever had to his Achilles heel.
This guy I gotta wait for, had turned into, this is the one I can’t lose.
Sonny was an expert at dissembling. He’d spent his life undercover, after all, and no one saw anything he didn’t want them to. No one would ever guess how deep his feelings for Rico went.
Except Rico himself.
It was nearly impossible for either of them to keep anything from the other. All they had to do was lock eyes and it was like every thought and feeling was crystal clear. Not 100%, they still got things wrong, but it was accurate enough to be eerie.
And he didn’t know what any of it meant.
Sonny was nothing if not expert at lying to himself. He hadn’t thought much about it before, but since his amnesia it had taken on disturbing connotations. It felt like he could never be sure of himself anymore, never knowing what he might be keeping from himself.
The only thing he could be sure of in this confusing, soul-crushing world was Rico. Rico, who, like he’d told Joey Hardin that time, had never let him down. Why? Why did Rico take everything he dished out, over and over again?
There he was, lying to himself again. He knew why.
Still, it didn't matter, it couldn't. Because despite everything that had ever happened to Sonny, every heartbreak and betrayal, every loss and disappointment, times when he didn’t think he could go on yet, somehow, he did…
Rico was the one thing that could destroy him.
