Six to Eight Months by Cherry Ice (PG)

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Fandom: Ocean's Eleven
Pairing: Rusty Ryan/Tess Ocean, Danny Ocean/Tess Ocean (implied Danny Ocean/Rusty Ryan)
Author on LJ: cherryice
Author Website: Cherry Bombs
why this must be read:

Because it fleshes Tess out and makes her a person instead of the brittle construct she is in the movie. Because the pacing is languid and the language is lyrical, and because this is a Tess I can believe Danny would fall in love with, and who I believe Rusty would share him with.

This is Rusty and Tess on the road while Danny is in jail after the first movie, and it's lovely.

an excerpt:

Rusty takes her home, after they put Danny into the back of a police car and he smirks through the window at her, with his cravat just the wrong shade of blue and the blood on his lip the wrong shade of red.

Rusty is the one who finds her sitting on the steps, still in that stupid gold dress and those stupid little shoes and she's *always* hated heels.

"Hey," he says, and drops down beside her. Impeccable suit and tie the right shade of maroon, his hands dance a rhythm against the marble cool beneath them. He looks naked to her, vulnerable, and there's a moment where she thinks it's because Danny's not there.

But it's just because there's nothing in his mouth. When she thinks of him, he is sprawled across Danny's couch, talking and working his way through one of those tootsie-pop rolls, and she's always wanted to ask him how many licks it takes to get to the centre.

Six to Eight Months by cherryice

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