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Negotiations

Chapter one

Pairing:
Dee/Ryo

Fandom: Fake

Rating:
Mature

Warning:
Kissing between two men. Yeah,
sorry, that's all they do. But
it's still pretty hot.

Spoilers:  To
Volume 7

Timing: In my
vision of Fake, Dee and Ryo become a couple in May. That's when the wonderful RPG Fake 2^nd Chances
had their relationship begin, so I went along with that start time, even though
it looks like dead winter in the manga. (But Bikky and Carol had gone off to 'summer'
camp! Hope those cabins were heated)
Negotiations takes
place in July of that same year, so Dee and Ryo have been together for a couple
of months at this point.

Summary:
Rose extracts concessions from Ryo in exchange for canceling Dee's suspension
from duty.

Disclaimer:
I do not own these characters. They are the property of Sanami
Matoh. I am not making any money from this.

Author's
notes: This is the first chapter
of three. I'll post the rest in the next few days. Naturally, I'll post first at my
Livejournal page, http://brit-columbia.livejournal.com/ .
I think I've hit upon the perfect way to get you to visit, too. Negotiations doesn't have any sex in it. However, when
the story is over and the credits are rolling, Dee drops on his knees in front
of Ryo and---Well, that's only going to happen after I have posted chapter
three here, and that little sex scene will ONLY be available on my Livejournal
page!

Please read
and review.

A big kiss for
my beta, Blue Simplicity, who never fails to forgive me for trying to drown her
in commas!

Negotiations

Chapter one

It
was a hot summer's day in the city of New York.   Yet Detective Ryo McLean was shivering. The battered old air-con unit that was
installed in their office had exactly two settings: freezing cold and totally useless. Ryo sipped hot coffee and tried not to let his teeth chatter
on the rim of the mug.

It
started innocently enough. His
partner, Dee Laytner, offered to warm him up. One thing led to another and now the two men were heavily
engaged in a compromising act.

All
Ryo could think about was the taste and feel of Dee's tongue moving inside his
mouth. Dee had backed him up
against his desk and had a firm grip on the front of his tie. Although Ryo knew that someone could
come into their office at any moment and that he really should push Dee away,
the heat that was coming from Dee's whole body seemed to paralyze his sense of
reason.

He
pulled his mouth back from his partner's long enough to utter a half-hearted
protest, but this only caused Dee to press even closer and grind his crotch
against Ryo's. Ryo was finally
warm. More than warm, in fact.

At
that moment, they heard the sound of someone politely clearing his throat. Ryo turned his head quickly and saw to
his profound dismay that it was Commissioner Rose standing at the door, a file
in his hand. There was no saying
how long the man had been waiting there. Dee immediately let go of Ryo's tie
and moved back from him. Rose
fixed the guilty pair with a cold and predatory look.

"Gentlemen,
may I ask if this is the reason why we are behind in our investigation of the
Hartford shooting? And is this what comes of my generosity in allowing you two
to have a private office?"

Dee
swore under his breath and Ryo stammered, "N-no sir, not at all. And we have a strong lead on the
shooting. We're due to interview a
witness this afternoon."

Rose
gave them another hard look and said softly, "I should suspend you
both."

"Then
just do it, you son of a bitch."
Even when caught red-handed, Dee couldn't help being belligerent. The commissioner always seemed to set
his teeth on edge.

"And
yet..." Rose looked thoughtful.
"I want this murder solved and I don't want the whole department to
fall behind because of the necessity of suspending TWO of its detectives."

Ryo
and Dee exchanged glances, each having a fair idea of where Rose was going with
this.

"No,"
continued the Commissioner.
"I don't believe it's necessary for me to suspend both of you. One will do." His eyes moved back and forth between
them speculatively. It was evident
that he was taking a certain amount of pleasure in exercising his authority
like this. It was also not hard to guess which detective was about to get sent
home.

"Laytner,
since you were clearly the aggressor in the little scene I just witnessed, and
since your contribution to the success of the CI Division is negligible at
best, I am hereby suspending you for a week without pay, effective
immediately. I don't want to see
you back here again until the 14th."

"Sir!" Ryo protested. "Dee's contribution is far from
negligible. Do you think I solved
all these cases by myself?"
He gestured angrily to a pair of bursting filing cabinets next to Dee's
desk.

Dee
held up a hand. "Save it, Ryo.
He made up his mind about me a long time ago."

However,
Ryo wasn't finished. "We have
a difficult witness to interview this afternoon, and I'm half expecting
trouble. I need Dee to back me up. Ted's on vacation, Marty's out sick
today, and JJ and Drake are in court."

"Well,
you're in luck there Ryo, because my schedule just happens to be free this
afternoon. We'll do this one
together."

Dee
exploded. "You lousy
shit-eating weasel! You just want
me out of the way so you can pursue your own private agenda with Ryo."

"TWO
weeks, Detective Laytner," Rose murmured calmly.

"Sir,
won't you reconsider? We've got a
lot of balls up in the air right now.
If I have to handle everything by myself for two weeks, I'm sure I'll
drop some of them." Ryo
struggled to bury his anger and to inject a placating note into his voice. It seemed to work, because the
Commissioner's eyes, when they swung to him, were softer.

"Ryo,
I have faith that you'll handle everything just fine. And you know you can always come to me if you need
help."

"It's
not that simple," Ryo said.
"Over half the contacts we need to communicate with on our current
set of cases are Dee's. They're
not going to talk to me without him there. You know how these things work. Sir, please reconsider,
just this once. I give you my word
that this...that what you saw will never happen again."

Although
he didn't show it openly, Rose was enjoying himself immensely. Now THIS was a side of Ryo he so rarely
got to see. The beautiful
dark-eyed detective, normally so reserved and reticent, was trying to please
him and was actually imploring him not to use his power to punish Detective
Laytner. Rose wondered how far Ryo
would be willing to go to protect his partner.

"'Never'
again, Ryo? Not anywhere? Nor with anyone else?" Rose closed the door and faced the two
men with his arms folded across his chest.

Ryo
flushed and took a breath as though to say something. But then his mouth closed again and he fell silent.

"You're
out of line, Rose," Dee said.

"That's
'Commissioner', Laytner, " Rose shot back, with only the briefest of
glances in Dee's direction. His
full attention was on Detective McLean.
The man stood there facing him nervously with an adorable blush on his
handsome face and his tie hanging askew.
The commissioner recognized that if this conversation were to continue,
the next move would have to come from him.

"Ryo,"
he said gently. "It's not
that I don't understand how these things can sometimes just 'happen'. We're all human, after all, aren't
we?"

"Yes,
sir."

"But
I expect professionalism at all times from the men and women of the NYPD, and
especially from those of the 27th precinct, for whom I have always had a
special feeling. Do you understand
me?"

"Yes,
sir."

"And
of course, I cannot hold myself completely blameless in this regard,
either," said Rose. "You
will perhaps remember that there was also a time when I myself was guilty of
attempting to kiss a colleague."

Dee's
head was nodding grimly. He had
been going to mention that himself, but the commissioner had beaten him to it.

"However,
although I try my best to be tolerant and understanding, certain people persist
in refusing to recognize that I should be accorded the respect that my position
deserves and they feel inexplicably justified in breaking the rules and
insulting me to my face."

Dee
and Ryo were both silent. Neither
was in any doubt of whom he meant, and there wasn't really anything that either
of them could say. They waited
warily.

Satisfied
that he had their full attention, Rose dared to go one step further.

"And
certain other people who, while
always respectful and courteous to my face, resolutely persist in rebuffing all
of my overtures of friendship as well as my offers of professional assistance,
leading me to conclude that in their hearts they hold me in the same contempt
as do their counterparts."

"S-sir?" Ryo was staring at him in confusion and
disbelief that he was hearing such a thing from the commissioner's own
lips. "What are you saying?"

"That
I have been disappointed in you, Ryo.
While I certainly don't expect you to willingly make time in your busy
schedule for me, I have been surprised by the degree to which you seem repelled
by my company."

"Sir! That's...That's not true. I don't feel that way at all."

"Oh? Is that perhaps why your face always
falls at the sight of me? Why you
make any excuse you can to leave my presence as quickly as possible? Why I am the only person in this entire
building excluded from the pleasure of ever receiving so much as a smile from
you?"

Ryo
could only gape at him, but where he had been rendered speechless, Dee was full
of angry words that were fighting to get out of him.

"You
manipulative bastard! You're not
only his superior officer; you're the goddamn COMMISSIONER of the NYPD! What the hell do you expect from
him? Thursday nights at the
opera? Weekend jaunts to Long
Island? Breakfast in bed, more like!"

"Quiet,
Laytner. Even if YOU haven't
figured it out, Ryo understands that he and I are in negotiations concerning
the length and severity of your suspension from duty."

"Fuck
that. I'll take the two
weeks."

"Dee,"
Ryo said. "Let him
finish." His eyes returned to the commissioner. "What DO you expect from me sir?"

"Yeah,
asshole," added Dee, who also folded his arms. "This I've got to hear. Maybe I should take
notes."

"THREE
weeks, Detective Laytner."

"What? What the hell for?"

"If
I hear one more piece of insubordination from you, I'll make it four. Now stop interrupting, or Ryo and I
will continue this discussion in my office without you."

Dee's
whole body tensed and he clenched his fists. He actually growled. Ryo quickly stepped forward and laid a
warning hand on one of his partner's wrists.

Rose
observed with amusement how Ryo calmed the savage beast with just a look and a
touch. A jewel like Ryo was
completely wasted on this man. He
would never reach his true potential, would never rise to the heights he was
capable of as long as he was chained to dross like this. One of these days I'll rescue you,
Ryo McLean, Rose thought to
himself.

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