#maycoulson

“Where on earth are you taking me, Phil?”

“Just follow me.”

Melinda rolls her eyes, but allows Phil to continue to lead her through the winding halls of the Playground; everyone has long since gone to bed, but she’d been helping Phil with the mound of paperwork cluttering his desk, time slipping away from them without her knowledge.

Things had been different between them since his return from the planet where Simmons had been trapped for so long. Phil was different, and so was she; their friendship was still being repaired, but sometimes she’d catch him looking at her from the corner of her eye with a look on his face like he still couldn’t believe she was back and it’d make her heart thump painfully in her chest. She didn’t quite know how to convince him she was there to stay.

Phil stops a few feet from the entryway to one of the living areas and turns to her, he scratches the back of his neck with his new hand and she swallows, shifting her weight from one foot to the other.

“Close your eyes and hold out your hands,” he requests softly; she frowns, confused, but does as he asks, catching the glimpse of his lips curling into a smile before her eyes shut. The contrast of his warm skin in one hand and soft leather on the other makes her shiver, and Phil leads her forward, guiding her to step down into the living room.

It smells like melted chocolate and cinnamon, and she sniffs, trying to pinpoint the scent as Phil halts her progress, his hands soft at her waist. “Open.”

When she opens her eyes, her lips part in surprise, cheeks flushing as she gazes around the room.

Christmas lights are strung across the room, the soft, colored glow casting over the entire space. The television was lit up with the menu screen of It’s A Wonderful Life, and on the table were two steaming mugs of cocoa, a can of whipped cream and a cup of cinnamon sticks between them. “Oh, Phil...”

“Merry Christmas, Lin,” he replies softly, and she turns to look at him, eyes uncharacteristically watery. She crosses the space between them, throwing her arms around his neck and hugging him tightly; his hands come to wrap around her back, holding her to him almost instantly, and she burrows into his embrace, face pressed to his neck.

Fandom: The Librarians

Rating: K

Pairing: Eve Baird/Flynn Carsen

Summary: “We can’t spend Thanksgiving on the floor,” Flynn murmured after a moment, and Eve laughed softly, Vivienne shifting between them sleepily.

Fandom: The Librarians

Pairing: Eve Baird/Flynn Carsen

Rating: K

Summary: The image of him walking away, the debris of the library behind her and the lack of his mouth lingering on hers for the first time in a long time, haunts her for days.