#starklycontrasted

Dear Phil,

I can’t believe you want me to leave you a sappy paper trail. What are you going to do if your team finds this? I’m telling May I want video when that happens. Don’t blame me if they never let it go.

But I love you. If I could give you a medal for putting up with my stupid shit, I would. You deserve better. I am sorry for that much at least. I’m grateful, probably more than you realize, that you still want me in your life even if I can’t be there all the time. Or a lot of the time. 

I’ll see you soon though. The cabin’s empty right now if you want to head up there when things settle. I think I owe you some vacation time.

Yours,

( Gossip and Speculation - starter )

I was so pumped for this thread! :D I have so much fun writing with Pickles (yes you! <3) and this was the first time we got to write together so that was awesome.

I really love Nick and Tony’s interactions in canon so diving into that was great too. I love that neither of them are particularly impressed with each other but Nick still cares about Tony and wants him armed in whatever way he thinks he needs to be. So that was the motivation for Nick to let Tony in on the secrets he’d collected.

Sign Away Your Peace For Our War: early stage

          Although he makes a lot of bad decisions, and can often comeoff as foolish, Scott is far from oblivious as to what Sharon is doing there. ACIA agent turning up at his door asking questions with a well-known associationwith the SRA? Yeah, he knows what she’s there for. What’s more, Scott knowsthat she is aware of his identity, so sees no point in trying to hide it orpretend otherwise.

         He is also very, very acutely aware of the SRA and what itcould potentially mean, and is honestly afraid that she is there to arrest him.Honestly afraid that he will be taken from home before getting a chance to seehis daughter one more time. So of course Scott’s voice wavers slightly when herreason for visiting is put into words, when the SRA is actually brought up.

Through all the pain and anger and fear in his system at that moment. Through the doubts and the horrible feeling that no matter how this went, they’d missed their window and now the world would pay for it. Through it all...

It’s never the big moments that stand out to him. It’s the little stuff that sticks and he’s never really sure why that is. But he remembers a night in New York, a few years after Bogota when he and Melinda and Phil worked as a team and they went out for dinner because, why not?

Melinda nixed each and every Chinese food place except one. His Mandarin wasn’t good enough to pick up much of the conversation she had with the waiter but it was the best food--outside of the homemade stuff her dad and mom cooked up for them a couple times--he’d ever had.