New TS fic. Night 'verse

[castalie]

Title: Two Hundred Dollar Worth
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 200
Story Notes: Set in my AU Night 'verse. The Cliff's Notes would be: Blair is a prostitute and Jim isn't a cop. They are together, though. Then again, what universe would that be if they weren't, right?
Story Notes 2: Written for sentinel_thurs's 200th challenge, the prompt being '200 + 200 words'

Thank you to both turps33 and starwatcher307 for the encouragements and help :-)

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Before Jim, Blair's secret to continuing the routine of getting up in the morning and going outside at night and making himself available - making himself a commodity - was to hide behind the walls he had erected from an early age.

Kids build Lego forts in their rooms to have fun. Blair had built solid walls around him to stay sane.

It’s said that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right? It’s the same principle; what doesn’t touch you can’t hurt you.

It was a pretty easy lesson to learn, really. Or so Blair has convinced himself. He learned it fairly young, and he’s damned proud of it.

So that’s the secret that helped him keep going before Jim. It wasn't so bad. Because, hey, at least he still kept going, right?

But after Jim, things aren’t the same.

Now, the secret to continue getting up in the morning and going outside at night and making himself available - a commodity - is to believe.

Believe that he’s worth something. That he’s worth much more than the two hundred dollars crumpled in his fist tonight.

And if that's too difficult? Then the secret is to believe that Jim, at least, believes it.

Comments

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I does help to know the rest of the series, admittedly, because you'd know the bigger picture :-)

Why does he still have to 'make himself available', even after meeting Jim?

You know about those hooker!fics where one of the boys is a hooker and is rescued by the other after they meet and fall in love? I have a huge hooker!fic kink and I've always wanted to write my own; except I wanted to do it a bit differently.

So in my version, there's no rescue. Well, no obvious rescue; ie Blair is still a prostitute even after he's gotten together with Jim. But Jim and Blair do help each other with their issues and difficult pasts, so in my eyes, there is a rescue, only not the kind we usually see.

I know it might sound weird, but hopefully it does work in the series *g* Not to say it'd be to everyone's liking, of course *nods*

Anyway, enough rambling. Thank you for the comment; I'm delighted you enjoyed it; especially as you didn't even know what came before :-)