White Collar Ficlet - Joy In The Morning

[elrhiarhodan]

I wrote this a few months ago for the lovely photoash , for her prompt "Late Morning."  The new title is shamelessly borrowed from Betty Smith's mid-century novel.

Joy In The Morning

Neal finds perfection in the morning light that streams into his apartment. It's a rare thing for Peter to sleep in, particularly here in his bed, but Elizabeth's visiting her sister and there's no reason for either of them to rush to get up. Except for the light.

It streams through the skylights, pouring across Peter's skin, turning him into a gilded, recumbent god of love and justice and Neal reaches for his sketchpad and a box of pastels.

Swiftly, before Peter wakes, Neal lays down lines of flowing color, capturing the dormant power of muscle and bone, the tight curve of ass and hips and waist, the formidable strength of Peter's broad shoulders and arms - all highlighted by the filtered light of the late morning sun.

Comments

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

Hey, hun. This is gorgeous. RL has kept me from commenting on things for a while, but this is sure a wonderful fic to come back in on. I love the sensuality of the description - I can practically feel the sun heating up ... heating up... erm, sorry, of course Neal couldn't resist. Who could?

The Tim DeKay T-shirt pic is so stunning. Mind telling us where it came from?

[elrhiarhodan]

I've missed you - I hope everything is good (like you've escaped Paris with the rest of the Parisians).

I'll be happy to send you the link to the Tim t-shirt picture...the cleaned up one is on my home PC. Will send you a PM later tonight.

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

I escaped a little bit - to London for the Proms. Third time this summer, and the fourth and last time is next week. It's the work backlog in between trips that's the problem. Re pic: oooh!

[elrhiarhodan]

The Proms...oh you lucky woman.

Here is the source picture for the icon on the main post and the one on this reply (feel free to head on over to my user pics and gank 'em if you want 'em.)

This terrific picture (with a distracting background) was posted on Tuesday, and sort of got lost amongst the awesomeness of the Tim and Matty prom pose pic they did just before the Today Show appearance.

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. That's made my day; my whole weekend, even. Thanks!