ext_38162 ([identity profile] onewhiteglove.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fellowshippers2004-08-09 08:17 pm

Voyeur - EW/OB

Such a little thing. My very first.

Title: Voyeur
Author: [livejournal.com profile] onewhiteglove
Pairing: Elijah/Orlando, possibly unrequited.
Rating: Very PG.
Summary: Elijah stashes Orlando away, in thin black boxes.
WARNING: None
Feedback: Sure.
Archive: If you want.
Disclaimer: If I knew them, or owned them, or had them on a leash in my bedroom, I would not be writing this.




Elijah watches Orlando's interviews on television when he can; and if he can't, he gets someone to tape them for him. He now has a collection -- he tries hard not to think of it as a shrine -- a collection of black videotapes, slipped into a box that sits incongruously on the bottom shelf of his wardrobe; unlabelled, unobserved, unnamed. Inconspicuous, really. He likes to think of them as mechanical slivers of Orli; solid black slices of evidence; memory boxes.

He likes to watch the way Orli moves his silver-and-leather ringed hands as he talks, running pink nails through thick dark scruff; likes to watch the curve of his jaw and the smooth plane of his neck; likes to watch his brows twitch and lift and his eyes grow bright and his grin widen; likes to hear the clipped, boyish British inflections and carefree lavish affections of his speech.

In one interview, he mentions Elijah. Elijah likes to watch him fling his hands around as he talks excitedly; sweet, unselfconscious Orli talking about his friends and all the fun they had together. His voice deepens and his words run together and there is a giggle dancing behind each word, and love seeps out through the pauses.

"Elijah," he says -- Elijah likes the way his mouth works around his name -- "Elijah is crazy, alright, but was never quite as crazy as the rest of us. He never wanted to skydive. He just liked to watch."

Elijah carefully stashes that tape in with the others.

---fin.

eerie

[identity profile] janaan-ya.livejournal.com 2004-08-09 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
slightly mental, eh? and yet sweet. is this all? or is there room for a little more?
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[identity profile] buckle-berry.livejournal.com 2004-08-09 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Loved the idea of this - mechanical slivers of Orli - very nice. I vote for more too. :)

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_theo/ 2004-08-09 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh so good. Elijah's slight obsession with Orlando is a tad creepy, but it works very well.

and me three for a bit more if you're up to it.

[identity profile] sin-of-pride.livejournal.com 2004-08-09 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Gorgeously twisted. Ventures a little into the edge of obsessions, dark things they are, but remains light with honest motivation behind it. Sweet. Do please write some more.