crack_van | The Bespectacled Affair by utopiantrunks (PG)

Fandom: MAN FROM UNCLE
Pairing: Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin
Length: 3,362 words
Author on LJ:

utopiantrunks
Author Website: East of Sanity
Why this must be read:

This is fluff. Totally adorable fluff. A truly clever concept; wonderful, sharp banter; and the explanation behind one of MFU's iconic props. No, not the communicater pen, but The Glasses. The female-repellent, all-purpose disguise, Soviet issue glasses.

There are two kinds of MFU fans. Those who love geek!Illya and his fugly, black rimmed, tinted glasses, and those who love geek!Illya, but hate the glasses and wish he'd get a pair like those cute, rimless ones that he found in the lab coat in "The Virtue Affair". When this story starts, Napoleon is amomg the latter. So when Illya has to go buy a new pair, he volunteers to help him pick something out. But there's a reason the subtitle of this story is How Napoleon Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Illya's Glasses. Read and learn the secret of The Glasses right along with Napoleon.

At the end of another quarter hour, and a few more eliminations, Illya's 'maybe' tray held three candidates, none of which Napoleon had chosen, and Napoleon, with only two of his selections left untried, was trying not to scowl. "Why did you bring me along, if you were going to ignore everything I said? I would have given you the money."

Illya blinked at him through the horn-rimmed spectacles which he was trying on for the third time. "What do you mean? I'm listening very carefully to your opinion."

"But you've put down every pair I--" Napoleon's eyes rounded. "Aha!"

The Bespectacled Affair or How Napoleon Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Illya's Glasses