paris/rory – mr and mrs smith AU
- The first time they met, Rory had a high-tech microchip tucked into the band of her bra, her gun in pieces scattered throughout Tver. Paris had enough firepower strapped to her waist to start a small land war (since that was the point.) Most of what Rory remembers is the blue of Paris’ dress, how breathless and warm she had been, laughing over martinis at the bar with the mysterious blonde. Most of what Paris remembers is thinking how she would to miss her window because the brunette kept plying her with drinks and listening to her talk about the political situation in North Africa. Actually listening. It is hard to find people who actually listen to Paris.
- (They both received commendations for their work. Shortly after, Paris got a phone call asking if she had any feelings about Eastern Europe she would care to discuss.)
- “She’s so normal,” Paris told Louise as they left the firing range. “She’s got eyes like a Disney princess, every time she smiles I expect to see little animated bluebirds swarm her. It’s disgusting. I think I love her.”
- “I wouldn’t call her normal,” Rory said to Lane as they applied a thin layer of strychnine to the array of coffee cups. “But she’s–I don’t know, she’s angry and funny and smart, and alive. She’s really alive. I’m tired of everyone I meet being dead all the time.“
“You’re an assassin,” Lane pointed out, setting down another poisoned coffee mug. “It’s in the job description.”
- Rory is a “correspondent” because hey, they’re always being sent to weird places at the last minute, right? Paris is a “surgeon” because it explains the beeper and the bad hours. They get a little white house on a little cute street, and their wedding is a mix of Jewish and Emily Gilmore. Paris hires a very nice pair of actors to play her parents, but she can tell from the way that the Gilmores flock around Rory that they are not. You can’t buy that kind of sincerity.
- That they love Paris, Richard Gilmore shaking her hand and welcoming her to the family, Lorelei trying to hide her tears with increasingly flimsy excuses–Paris can’t breathe with how good it feels, to sink into it, to belong to someone.
- Paris has withstood torture that would break lesser men–that’s not an
exaggeration, it’s something she’s worked very hard to cultivate over
the years. (Doyle, her ex-partner-turned-intelligence-agent, had cracked
after forty-two hours in simulated hostile territory, the weakling.) But all Rory has to do is give her the big doe eyes and Paris would spill pretty much any state secrets.- Paris always smells like the lavender shampoo she uses and just a hint of something earthy, metallic. Rory would say it’s blood, but that’s ridiculous, why would Paris smell of blood?
- “YOU’RE A WHAT,” Paris shouts as they duck behind the marble island. And fuck this hail of machine gun fire, they just got new countertops–
“I COULD SAY THE SAME THING,” Rory shouts back, reloading with a dangerous sort of efficiency that Paris does not find attractive. Not at all.
“YOU CAN’T EVEN KILL THE RABBITS EATING THE PETUNIAS!” Paris shouts.
“WELL NO ONE IS PAYING ME TO KILL RABBITS NOW ARE THEY?” Rory hurls back.
“UGH,” Paris groans, and ducks above the counter to pick off the remaining men in ski masks as they come through the kitchen door. “WE ARE SO BRINGING THIS UP WITH TERRANCE NEXT SESSION!”
Parks and Rec con men AU. Gilmore Girls, Paris/Rory Mr. and Mrs. Smith AU.
paris/rory – mr and mrs smith AU
- The first time they met, Rory had a high-tech microchip tucked into the band of her bra, her gun in pieces scattered throughout Tver. Paris had enough firepower strapped to her waist to start a small land war (since that was the point.) Most of what Rory remembers is the blue of Paris’ dress, how breathless and warm she had been, laughing over martinis at the bar with the mysterious blonde. Most of what Paris remembers is thinking how she would to miss her window because the brunette kept plying her with drinks and listening to her talk about the political situation in North Africa. Actually listening. It is hard to find people who actually listen to Paris.
- (They both received commendations for their work. Shortly after, Paris got a phone call asking if she had any feelings about Eastern Europe she would care to discuss.)
- “She’s so normal,” Paris told Louise as they left the firing range. “She’s got eyes like a Disney princess, every time she smiles I expect to see little animated bluebirds swarm her. It’s disgusting. I think I love her.”
- “I wouldn’t call her normal,” Rory said to Lane as they applied a thin layer of strychnine to the array of coffee cups. “But she’s–I don’t know, she’s angry and funny and smart, and alive. She’s really alive. I’m tired of everyone I meet being dead all the time.“
“You’re an assassin,” Lane pointed out, setting down another poisoned coffee mug. “It’s in the job description.”
- Rory is a “correspondent” because hey, they’re always being sent to weird places at the last minute, right? Paris is a “surgeon” because it explains the beeper and the bad hours. They get a little white house on a little cute street, and their wedding is a mix of Jewish and Emily Gilmore. Paris hires a very nice pair of actors to play her parents, but she can tell from the way that the Gilmores flock around Rory that they are not. You can’t buy that kind of sincerity.
- That they love Paris, Richard Gilmore shaking her hand and welcoming her to the family, Lorelei trying to hide her tears with increasingly flimsy excuses–Paris can’t breathe with how good it feels, to sink into it, to belong to someone.
- Paris has withstood torture that would break lesser men–that’s not an
exaggeration, it’s something she’s worked very hard to cultivate over
the years. (Doyle, her ex-partner-turned-intelligence-agent, had cracked
after forty-two hours in simulated hostile territory, the weakling.) But all Rory has to do is give her the big doe eyes and Paris would spill pretty much any state secrets.- Paris always smells like the lavender shampoo she uses and just a hint of something earthy, metallic. Rory would say it’s blood, but that’s ridiculous, why would Paris smell of blood?
- “YOU’RE A WHAT,” Paris shouts as they duck behind the marble island. And fuck this hail of machine gun fire, they just got new countertops–
“I COULD SAY THE SAME THING,” Rory shouts back, reloading with a dangerous sort of efficiency that Paris does not find attractive. Not at all.
“YOU CAN’T EVEN KILL THE RABBITS EATING THE PETUNIAS!” Paris shouts.
“WELL NO ONE IS PAYING ME TO KILL RABBITS NOW ARE THEY?” Rory hurls back.
“UGH,” Paris groans, and ducks above the counter to pick off the remaining men in ski masks as they come through the kitchen door. “WE ARE SO BRINGING THIS UP WITH TERRANCE NEXT SESSION!”
26 Favorite Femslash Moments of 2014
20. Jane the Virgin – Luisa and RoseThis was only the second episode, so it might seem unfairly ranked above some of the other moments below, but I just really liked it. At the time, I wasn’t expecting much, I knew a main character’s sister would be a lesbian and the doctor who messed up everything and there’d be an ex in the picture, but that’s it. That ex turned out to be Bridget Regan, though, so interest immediately soared, but I still figured there’d be some bickering and tension at most, but not much screentime for them. I did not expect that in this second episode, we’d get both a shift from ex back to lover and the reveal that Rose was Luisa’s stepmom! Fun.
But really, as the fall season started last year, there was already this general anger and hurt at the spate of recent queer lady TV deaths, so it was lovely to see my dash swept away in a wave of amused and excited surprise (if you’d followed the Legend of the Seeker fandom at all, you’d know just how many people wanted Bridget Regan to kiss a woman) after this scene. And don’t get me wrong, the show was already so great and watchable, I’d have it as favorite new series of the season even without Rose/Luisa, everyone keeps saying that’s just extra toppings on a yummy sundae, and that’s true, but I like that we do get a queer storyline. Yeah, it’s not NECESSARY, but what is? They chose to go with it and in a ridiculous but genre-appropriate way and they get all my support for that.
Okay, Rose, until that point, hadn’t had much to do except have that hair and be played by Bridget Regan but our poor Luisa! She messed up, yeah, big time, no one’s going to disagree, but in the same way that Jane is a certain kind of archetypal romance lead, strong-willed and intelligent and so good of heart, Luisa turns out to be one too, the hapless, adorable, endearing heroine who the suave, beautiful, in-control Rose somehow can’t resist. And even in this short scene, we see there’s actually a lot of depth and history to their relationship, with Rose worried about Luisa’s drinking and apologizing for and knowing she’s hit a nerve. Of course, there are a whole bunch of plot developments to follow (some kind of iffy), but at this point, I’d been eager to see how it’d all play out.
(Bonus: these tags for why I continue to love this ship.)
(Extra bonus! This incredibly fun fake trailer for a movie I would pay a lot of money to see.)
(Source: http://booasaur.tumblr.com/)
26 Favorite Femslash Moments of 2014
20. Jane the Virgin – Luisa and RoseThis was only the second episode, so it might seem unfairly ranked above some of the other moments below, but I just really liked it. At the time, I wasn’t expecting much, I knew a main character’s sister would be a lesbian and the doctor who messed up everything and there’d be an ex in the picture, but that’s it. That ex turned out to be Bridget Regan, though, so interest immediately soared, but I still figured there’d be some bickering and tension at most, but not much screentime for them. I did not expect that in this second episode, we’d get both a shift from ex back to lover and the reveal that Rose was Luisa’s stepmom! Fun.
But really, as the fall season started last year, there was already this general anger and hurt at the spate of recent queer lady TV deaths, so it was lovely to see my dash swept away in a wave of amused and excited surprise (if you’d followed the Legend of the Seeker fandom at all, you’d know just how many people wanted Bridget Regan to kiss a woman) after this scene. And don’t get me wrong, the show was already so great and watchable, I’d have it as favorite new series of the season even without Rose/Luisa, everyone keeps saying that’s just extra toppings on a yummy sundae, and that’s true, but I like that we do get a queer storyline. Yeah, it’s not NECESSARY, but what is? They chose to go with it and in a ridiculous but genre-appropriate way and they get all my support for that.
Okay, Rose, until that point, hadn’t had much to do except have that hair and be played by Bridget Regan but our poor Luisa! She messed up, yeah, big time, no one’s going to disagree, but in the same way that Jane is a certain kind of archetypal romance lead, strong-willed and intelligent and so good of heart, Luisa turns out to be one too, the hapless, adorable, endearing heroine who the suave, beautiful, in-control Rose somehow can’t resist. And even in this short scene, we see there’s actually a lot of depth and history to their relationship, with Rose worried about Luisa’s drinking and apologizing for and knowing she’s hit a nerve. Of course, there are a whole bunch of plot developments to follow (some kind of iffy), but at this point, I’d been eager to see how it’d all play out.
(Bonus: these tags for why I continue to love this ship.)
(Extra bonus! This incredibly fun fake trailer for a movie I would pay a lot of money to see.)
(Source: http://booasaur.tumblr.com/)
26 Favorite Femslash Moments of 2014
20. Jane the Virgin – Luisa and RoseThis was only the second episode, so it might seem unfairly ranked above some of the other moments below, but I just really liked it. At the time, I wasn’t expecting much, I knew a main character’s sister would be a lesbian and the doctor who messed up everything and there’d be an ex in the picture, but that’s it. That ex turned out to be Bridget Regan, though, so interest immediately soared, but I still figured there’d be some bickering and tension at most, but not much screentime for them. I did not expect that in this second episode, we’d get both a shift from ex back to lover and the reveal that Rose was Luisa’s stepmom! Fun.
But really, as the fall season started last year, there was already this general anger and hurt at the spate of recent queer lady TV deaths, so it was lovely to see my dash swept away in a wave of amused and excited surprise (if you’d followed the Legend of the Seeker fandom at all, you’d know just how many people wanted Bridget Regan to kiss a woman) after this scene. And don’t get me wrong, the show was already so great and watchable, I’d have it as favorite new series of the season even without Rose/Luisa, everyone keeps saying that’s just extra toppings on a yummy sundae, and that’s true, but I like that we do get a queer storyline. Yeah, it’s not NECESSARY, but what is? They chose to go with it and in a ridiculous but genre-appropriate way and they get all my support for that.
Okay, Rose, until that point, hadn’t had much to do except have that hair and be played by Bridget Regan but our poor Luisa! She messed up, yeah, big time, no one’s going to disagree, but in the same way that Jane is a certain kind of archetypal romance lead, strong-willed and intelligent and so good of heart, Luisa turns out to be one too, the hapless, adorable, endearing heroine who the suave, beautiful, in-control Rose somehow can’t resist. And even in this short scene, we see there’s actually a lot of depth and history to their relationship, with Rose worried about Luisa’s drinking and apologizing for and knowing she’s hit a nerve. Of course, there are a whole bunch of plot developments to follow (some kind of iffy), but at this point, I’d been eager to see how it’d all play out.
(Bonus: these tags for why I continue to love this ship.)
(Extra bonus! This incredibly fun fake trailer for a movie I would pay a lot of money to see.)
(Source: http://booasaur.tumblr.com/)