under the fig tree

I was tagged by @piratefalls on Sunday and @onthewaytosomewhere today - Thank you lovelies !

I'm cheating a bit today as this isn't a WIP but a smutty, fluffy little one shot I worked on yesterday, featuring Pregnant Henry and Blue balls Alex.

It's been posted on AO3 here and there is a little teaser & tags under the cut

Alex moves to stand over him, looking down at that soft pink mouth. He feels himself standing at a very tall, very dangerous precipice, with no intention of backing away.

Nick on Taylor (“brilliant”) and Alex (“conjures the light in Henry”)

“I mean immediately Taylor and I knew we were going to be mates. I think we both have a very dry sense of humor, he’s very British in the way that he has a mocking sense of humor, where he’s not afraid to ‘take the piss’ as we say, out of someone.

I think—you know, it was a different challenge in a lot of ways, because I’ve done a ton of chemistry tests before, in my time. You have to find something really connected there to be able to bounce off each other.

And I think the charm of Alex and Henry together is it’s kind of like a ping pong match, it’s a lot of back and forth, and Taylor’s just a very warm, charismatic guy, which I think is very much who Alex is as well, as a person. Henry’s kind of a more broken, feeling, brooding kind of character. I think Alex needed to be someone who just conjured the light in Henry, in a lot of ways, and I think we see the character brighten up as his relationship with Alex starts to evolve.

So, it was funny, it was the first time really that I had also been on the chemistry side of having been cast first and reading with a bunch of different actors. You start to gain an appreciation of the industry and the fact that some actors came in and were incredible but maybe the chemistry was slightly off or just didn’t really fit the character.