Mini Fic time part 2!
Prompt sent in by @cobb-vanthss thank you!! I hope I wrote Rick ok!
Prompt: “Bear hug” for Cooper and Rick
“McCoy, could I have a word?” Rick asked. Cooper finished off the last of his beer, setting the glass down on the bar.
“Yeah, sure thing.”
He followed Rick out of the Spread Eagle into the cool evening. He plucked a cigarette from its pack and stuck it in his mouth before offering the pack to Rick.
“No thanks,” Rick said, holding a hand up, “not right now.”
Cooper shrugged and returned the pack to his back jeans pocket before lighting his cigarette.
“So what’s up?” He said, blowing out a stream of smoke.
“Well…uh,” Rick coughed uncomfortably, and Cooper, thinking it was because of the smoke, quickly took his cigarette and dropped it, crushing it under the heel of his cowboy boot. Rick looked at the ground and scuffed the toe of his own cowboy boot against the gravel of the alley, before looking back up at Cooper, who was waiting expectantly.
“Look, I don’t really know how to say this…”
Cooper’s heart fluttered. He thought he knew what Rick was about to say and he couldn’t pretend he hadn’t been looking forward to it for a while now. Rick was probably the most attractive man Cooper had ever met. He had been a little standoffish, around Cooper anyway, so Cooper had given him space, only flirting lightly here and there. Plus Rick was a U.S. Marshal so Cooper had every reason to avoid him. But now Rick was about to reveal his own attraction to Cooper so they could finally get things going.
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