Get your own Free Home Page Title: Best Kept Secret
Author: Thesseli
Fandom: I Dream of Jeannie
Pairing: Tony/Roger
Rating: PG
Summary: Sequel to "She Just Wouldn't Understand".
Disclaimer: I don't own Major Nelson, Major Healey, or Jeannie.
No money is being made, and no NASA personnel were
harmed in the writing of this fanfic.
Best Kept Secret
Major Anthony Nelson gazed down affectionately at his sleeping
lover.
The night before, Tony had made sure to put the stopper in
Jeannie's
bottle -- a discreet and rather desperate attempt to keep one
secret from
another, he knew, but it wouldn't do for her to blink in at an
inopportune
moment. He knew that Jeannie wouldn't understand about
Roger and
him; in truth, there were times even he didn't understand.
It wasn't as if he didn't know what had initially drawn him to
Roger Healey.
That was something he was quite clear on. It was his good
humor, his
easy self-acceptance, his lack of self-consciousness. This,
from the
beginning of their work together in the astronaut program, had
been the
basis of their friendship.
He wasn't sure exactly how or when it had turned into something
deeper.
In the past, keeping their relationship a secret had never been
much of a
problem. No-one ever questioned why he and Roger spent so
much time
together. They worked together, they went on missions
together. They
were traditional comrades-in-arms. This, plus Roger's
carefully-cultivated
image of skirt chaser, had always been the best way to throw
others off
the trail. Nobody would wonder why Major Healey never got serious
with any one girl, if he was always on the lookout for
another. And Major
Nelson himself was the upright, stalwart 'family man' type,
turned off by
the groupies and free-love hippie chicks who were constantly
throwing
themselves at him...attracted by his celebrity but not to his
real self. Even
Jeannie -- to her he was the hero, her rescuer, someone larger
than life.
He was very fond of her, but she had certainly complicated his
life in more
ways than she could possibly know. And not just because of
the magic!
Keeping the secret from everyone had been easy...at least until
Jeannie.
Jeannie added a whole new level of difficulty. But Tony had
decided long
ago that it was worth it.
Tony gazed down at his sleeping lover, stroking his hair gently.
If he kept
this up, he would soon be rewarded by Roger's sleepy smile and
opened
eyes -- the bluest eyes he'd ever seen, on the best-kept secret
of his life.
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