Burn Notice | Burn It To The Ground | PG-13 | Larry/Michael

[scripted_sra]

Title: Burn It To The Ground
Fandom: Burn Notice
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Larry/Michael, sorta
Warning: Larry being Larry?
Summary: Together, they'll be invincible.
Word Count: 300
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A/N: This sprang up on me out of nowhere as soon as I saw the prompt from winter_deaddrop: Larry. Probably a result of my Queer Big Bang being Michael's POV, and thus Larry not getting to showcase his awesome creepiness from his own POV, lol. Thanks for looking it over, Geena!


There’s so much anger there, simmering just beneath the surface, that it’s like the kid is ripe for the picking; Larry doesn’t even try to resist it. It’s not hard to figure out where it stems from—Daddy was mean to him—so all it’ll take is being supportive, giving advice, knowing just when to criticize and just when to praise.

That doesn’t mean he won’t be careful. He wants the first move to be Michael’s, he wants Michael thinking it was all his idea. So he’ll guide him, get him thinking, and when he gets Michael before him, giving him that challenging look, as if to say, Your move, he’ll have to try hard not to grin, because he won’t see it.

Every part of this will have been his move, and Michael won’t see it; oh, but he’ll see something, that taste of danger Larry will give him, and he’ll think he knows.

He’ll think he knows how Larry plans to have him, every inch of him, mind, body, heart, and even—he thinks, snorting derisively—soul. He’ll think he knows, as if he’ll have even the first goddamn clue how he plans to break him down and build him back up just right so that every little piece of Michael has a little whisper, a little reminder of Larry—so that delicious, beautiful, simmering little spark of rage boils over into a full-blown fire, destructive and vengeful and taking down anything that gets in its way.

He’ll think he knows, which is almost cute—because by the time he does, it won’t matter. He’ll be his. Larry can already taste it.

Together, they’ll be invincible. They’ll have so much fun. They’ll make so much money.

Together, they’ll set fire to the world, just to watch it burn.

Comments

[dariaw]

MMM this is crazyscary and also hot, and I love the take on their past, and why it's now so hard for Michael to walk away from Larry and the parts of himself that come from Larry.

[scripted_sra]

Oh yeah, it's a huge part of my headcanon that Larry has dug himself into Michael's psyche good and deep, much deeper than even Michael realizes, if not quite as deep as he'd (Larry) have liked; still, it's why it's repeatedly so hard for Michael to just end him already. (Of course, it kind of goes both ways, because I firmly believe there is no one else in the world Larry would have let get away with fucking up as much shit for him as Michael did. In his weird, blackened, psychopathic way, he cares for Michael, and plus he put in all this effort...)

Thank you very much!

[subluxate]

Larry, man. He's so damn good--he knows exactly what to do and how to do it, and he knows how to get Michael and keep him forever.

Creepy motherfucker.

[scripted_sra]

Right? If not for outside influences (in this case, Sam; later on, Sam and Fi together, plus Michael's family) there's a good possibility he'd have succeeded. Hell, even with them, he got his influence rooted pretty damn deep.

Thanks!

[bring_me_sugar]

You totally get that push-pull dance of their relationship, and definitely Larry's vicious POV.

[scripted_sra]

Larry's POV is weirdly fun, heh. Thank you!

[bring_me_sugar]

Hee, it was a wonderful read!

[scripted_sra]

Hee, I'm glad! And it helped get Larry off my back long enough that I could finish his section of my Big Bang, which is kinda nice, lol.

[bring_me_sugar]

Hee! I'm glad he stopped being stubborn long enough for you to get it done!