Sedentary Series by James (NC-17)

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Fandom: EMERGENCY!
Pairing: Johnny Gage/Dr. Kel Brackett
Author on LJ: zortified 
Author Website: Gila's Cave
Why this must be read:

While the list of bad E! slash is much, much, much longer than the list of good, the Sedentary series definitely belongs to the second list.

It's a pairing that doesn't immediately come to mind: Johnny Gage and Kelly Bracket. Yet James somehow makes it work with a minimum of cringe-worthness:

"John, who are you in love with?"

Wouldn't it be nice to say it, just once? he asked himself. Wouldn't it be nice....

"Come on, you're scaring me here. It can't be *that* bad." Roy teased him.

Johnny looked at him. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad. Maybe it wouldn't turn out that Roy had been pretending all along, and that he didn't really think it was horrible as long as he didn't have to do more than simply see one of "those" once in a while, in a safe, public workplace. As long as one of those didn't turn out to be his partner.

"Johnny?"

"Kelly."

Roy looked confused. "Uh, which Kelly? Kelly Barnes or Kelly Sinclaire?" He named two of the married nurses they knew at Rampart.

Johnny shook his head. "I'm not in love with a married woman," he began. Now that he'd begun, he couldn't make himself continue.

But he didn't have to. Roy's eyes grew wide again. "Kelly Brackett?"

Sedentary
Motile
Pendulous