crack_van | Healing the Living, by Polly Hammer (PG-13)

Fandom: TWIN PEAKS
Pairing: Cooper/Rosenfield
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Polly Hammer’s Bedtime Stories
Why this must be read:

The local meteorologists are predicting rain on Christmas, which reminded me of this pre-series story set in Seattle. Cooper and Rosenfield are in town on a serial-killer case, and the weather is the least of their problems.

Despite Rosenfield’s prickliness (as he says in this story, he goes “From zero to Sarcastic Bastard in nothing flat”), there is a canonical hurt/comfort aspect to his relationship with Cooper that’s highlighted in this fic.

I saw this coming. No doubt it was some form of delayed shock, a post-trauma reaction. An incident like that one on top of minor sleep deprivation would do a number on anyone's system, no matter how strong they insisted they were. Coop had put on a good stoic front back at the crime scene, but it was catching up with him now. For a split-second I wondered how many other times this sort of thing had happened to him, given the stiff-upper-lip routine that he usually employed.

Yeah, well, all those other times _I_ hadn't been there to make sure that he took care of himself. _Somebody_ had to watch over this guy, and I'd never forgive myself if I just went back to bed without making sure that Coop was okay first.

Healing the Living