Inclined to Domesticity by Berevette (Explicit)

[cilla-bean.livejournal.com]

Fandom: LEWIS
Pairing: Robbie Lewis/James Hathaway
Length: 11k
Author on LJ: berevette
Author Website: Berevette at the AO3

Why this must be read:
Hathaway knows he's in love, Lewis doesn't yet. This is gorgeous. It's sweet and genuinely domestic, but has enough realism to give it some grit. It gets to the heart of the way they care for each other, and it's a slow, sustained build. It's also extremely hot. It's hot because of the words they use to define what they are to each other; talking almost dispassionately, like solving a case. And then it's hot because of Hathaway's voice.

Want to wake up next to you, have you pressed against my back while I make breakfast. Want everything, everything.

Inclined to Domesticity

Comments

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

SO happy to see this recced! This is the story I previously alluded to as being at the very, very top of my Lewis favourites, one I re-read every few weeks or so even though there are sections of it I now know by heart. They are so married already in the series: they know each other so well, can anticipate each other's words and actions and desires, and it's completely plausible that their off-duty friendship is just as it is at the beginning of the story. The journey from there is inevitable - as James says, once he pushes things that bit further than Robbie expects, they're there already. They are a couple, in every way that counts.

(And I love the fact that their friendship is so well-established - which is completely canonical, as well - that James's pushing of the line doesn't destroy things; they're both determined to get past it one way or another, and not by ignoring it either. Robbie's trust in James is so absolute that he listens and is willing to consider possibilities he would never have previously contemplated).