I'm Not Sure Any Of You Know Who Both Of These People Are.

[rionaleonhart]

I want fanfiction in which Patrick Jane plays poker with Victoria Coren. They keep playing long into the night and gradually the other players depart, thoroughly stripped of their money, and eventually it's just Jane and Coren and the dealer left in the low light. Jane and Coren are smiling at each other across the table; it's not a friendly smile, but it's not a hostile one either, more a mixture of amusement and respect and personal confidence. Coren has fewer chips than Jane, perhaps, but it's not a big difference, and she's the only person who's come close to him all evening, and she knows it.

Eventually, Coren takes a big risk with a bet. Jane has been counting the cards; he knows exactly what's going to be dealt and in what order, and he knows she'll take it all if he makes the card exchange that would be obvious at the time if he didn't know what was in the pile, and he knows that he can still win if he makes a counterintuitive move in exchanging his cards.

And he takes the obvious decision and loses, as he knew he would.

Afterwards, she presses him against the corridor wall and mouths at his neck and slides her knee between his legs, and he lets her. She won, after all.

Comments

[inappropriately.livejournal.com]

I am fully in favour of this.

(Riona, should I watch The Mentalist? Would I enjoy it?)

[rionaleonhart]

(I think you should, and I think you very well might! My problem with The Mentalist is that it's not like Merlin, which I love no matter how rubbish it is; I want every episode of The Mentalist to be amazing, and, although there are amazing episodes, there are quite a few weaker ones as well. But my massive amounts of love for the entire central cast carry me through.

ALSO I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO 'SHIP JANE/EVERYONE. And someone to 'ship Jane/Coren.)

[inappropriately.livejournal.com]

(*makes a mental note - hah - to watch it over the summer*)