[A-Team series] ficlet "To and From Borneo", Murdock/Amy, PG

Title: To and From Borneo
Fandom: The A-Team (TV series)
Author: FuziPenguin
Pairing: one sided Murdock/Amy, Murdock POV
Rating: PG
Word Count: 496
Summary: Takes places during the Borneo episode. Murdock learns some things about himself in regards to Amy.
Disclaimer: This is a piece of fiction. No harm was intended in the creation of this work. All rights belong to the original creators.

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He’s pretty sure he starts to fall in love with Amy Allen during the conversation when she to tell him the rest of the team has been captured by Lynch.

It is only the sound of her voice coming out through the tiny little speaker of the phone that grounds him, keeps him from bolting, or crawling under the bed, or something else equally unproductive. Her words give him focus. Amy is a member of the A-team too, and she is keeping watch over the building where the others are held. That information is enough to keep him moving in a straight line. It all becomes easy at that point.

Get to Amy.

Her presence is calming. If she hadn’t been there, he would be talking to five different made up people and God only knows what they would be suggesting he do. Unfortunately, Amy doesn’t know how to proceed, so it’s up to him to make a decision, and he does. Once he’s at the airfield, the decisions keep coming almost like he has a plan.

He absolutely does not have a plan. And even if he did, it would be completely tossed out to float among the clouds because she’s wearing a flight suit and sitting in the co-pilot seat and that just does something to him. He’s not blind. Amy’s a pretty girl and he’s admired her slim frame in an absent-minded way before, but once it’s all wrapped up in bulky olive green just inches away from him while he’s flying, his brain short circuits.

It utterly and completely blows a fuse when she’s hanging from the tree branch by her parachute cords. The few inches she’s dangling in the air puts her exactly at his height and she’s squirming all over and adorably annoyed and he wants to keep her there so she can never run away and BA always did say there was something wrong with him, didn’t he?

He lets her down, of course. He’s a gentleman, after all, and gentlemen do not let ladies dangle and Amy is a lady tried and true. She’s also a warrior. He gets a firsthand glimpse of this when he stands frozen at the sight of his best friend/brother about to be shot full of holes and she takes initiative to fire the flare gun into the puddles of gasoline, saving them all. He definitely loves her then, and he would throw her to the ground and kiss her, except for… you know… the bullets and explosions and all.

She falls asleep in the co-pilot’s chair on the way home, dirty and rumpled, and no longer in a flight suit, but right there, and he starts to tell the cockpit “I love it when you...” but trails off because there are just too many ways to finish the sentence. He contents himself with alternately staring at the sky and her the entire way home, happier than he can ever remember being.

~ End