"Dropped Call" (Love Ahead: Over the Road; Jimmy/Elliot; 1/1)

[mjules.livejournal.com]

Title: Dropped Call
Author: m.jules
Fandom: Love Ahead: Over the Road
Disclaimer: The characters belong to Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux, and this is purely an extension of my ridiculous fangirling and is not done for profit.
Author's Notes: Being hopelessly stalled on one of my original stories, I implored aidara to give me a fandom, pairing, and prompt for a little fluff. Being that I just got her hooked on the Urban/Roux books, she asked me for "Love Ahead, Jimmy and Elliot, camping and bears."

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Elliot's hand flailed out to the side, aiming for his alarm clock before he realized it was his phone ringing. He groaned and brought the phone to his ear, flipping it open without opening his eyes to look at the caller ID. "Hello?" he croaked.

"Good morning, Millis," came a familiar voice, entirely too cheerful for as early in the morning as Elliot suspected it must be. "You sound half asleep. Hard night?"

Elliot groaned and rolled to the side, snorting into his pillow. "Not half," he muttered. "Mostly." The sunny laugh rang over the phone connection and Elliot couldn't help a reflexive smile at the sound. "Where are you?" he asked, stretching his legs out and wiggling his toes in an attempt to wake up a little more.

"Sitting in a tree looking at a bear." The blithe answer made Elliot blink and sit up straight, groaning as his back protested. And he thought he'd picked a soft spot this time.

"How close is the bear?" Elliot asked urgently, scrubbing his free hand through his hair as he stood up and cast a bleary eye around for his boxers. He found them and tugged them on awkwardly.

"Oh, I don't think he's dangerous." Elliot could almost see the evil smile behind that voice. "He mostly looks sleepy. And a little confused. I think he's just a big ol' teddy bear."

Elliot paused, blinked, and turned slowly. The flap to their tent was pinned open and just outside, Elliot could see Jimmy comfortably sitting in the low vee of a young tree, ankles crossed where they stretched out on the ground in front of him.

"I don't know about that," Elliot growled, fighting to keep the smile off his face. "He seems like the biting type to me."

Jimmy grinned broadly, still holding the phone his ear. "Oh God, do you really think so?" The breathless anticipation in his voice made Elliot bite the inside of his cheek.

Elliot stalked out of the tent, doing his best to glower at his lover who was basking in the early morning sunlight of the Appalachian Trail. Jimmy's smile was in danger of splitting his face in half as he said, "Oh no, he's spotted me. He's headed right toward me - I think I'm a goner, Millis! Tell my family I love 'em."

Elliot crowded his body against Jimmy's, biting into the side of his neck and relishing the groan he drew from the other man. "Tell 'em yourself," he said huskily.

Jimmy laughed softly and Elliot felt warm lips against the shell of his ear. Jimmy murmured, "I love you," just before the phones slipped from their hands and dropped forgotten to the ground.

Comments

[aidara.livejournal.com]

OMG I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.

This is the cutest thing ever, as I've already told you. You have the most genius ideas! How the heck do you do that?

Not only is the characterization spot-on in so few words, the writing is hilarious and incredibly hot.

[mjules.livejournal.com]

It's you, my ever adorable straight internet girlfriend! You INSPIRE me.

And you flatter me, omg, do you EVER flatter me. *blush*

[anorthosite.livejournal.com]

Don't even know this fandom and I liked this a lot; stands alone very well. Nice pun for the title.

[mjules.livejournal.com]

You should read the book! It's a cute little gay romance novella. You can get it as an ebook from dreamspinnerpress.com, or I think it should be available in paperback from Amazon.

[griffndor.livejournal.com]

Took a look after seeing a recommendation on Sileya's LJ and I'm happy that I did! I'm a fan of Urban/Roux stories. This was fun to read and I love the title. Thanks for sharing.

[mjules.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you! I'm also glad to find someone else who has read them. :) I assume you've read Caught Running, as well?

[griffndor.livejournal.com]

I have indeed read Caught Running and I cannot say enough good things about the story or the authors. I want thank you once again for venturing into their universe to write and doing it so well too!

[mjules.livejournal.com]

Haha, well, if you've read the online comic Honeydew Syndrome, watch out. aidara and I are writing a crossover between HoneySyn and Caught Running. It happened one day when I said, "Wouldn't it be funny if Jake was Josh's coach?"

[griffndor.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up, I'm looking forward to reading it. I'll keep an eye out for it, I'm assuming it'll be posted in your writing journal?

[mjules.livejournal.com]

Yep. There's not much of anywhere else to post it. *grin*

[griffndor.livejournal.com]

Wasn't sure if you posted to a com. Thanks : )

[griffndor.livejournal.com]

You hooked me on HoneySyn and I've enjoyed discovering and reading in that fandom. I love Metis/Josh. I was just wondering if the crossover with Caught Running is still in the works?
Just curious and hoping.. please don't take it as anything other than a compliment that I would love to read it. (I'm always afraid when asking about a story that it comes off as being pushy or rude) Thank you.

[mjules.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, you're not being pushy. :) I'm glad you like HoneySyn! Josh and Metis are so flippin' cute.

The crossover is on the back burner for now - I'm working on several original stories for possible publication, including one with aidara who is going to write the crossover with me. Hey, request it for Yuletide. ;) You never know, you might land one of us.