New Story: Four Things (Spy Game, Nathan Muir & Tom Bishop)

This year, I completely spaced on signing up for Yuletide. The month of October is a blur. Call it premenopausal brain or hiker brain or work-being-a-pain brain! Perhaps I left my brain in the Grand Canyon (and I've forgotten to write up about my GC trip! Guys, it was so hard hiking and amazing!) All those things. I want to say it's been hectic and busy, and it has! Anyway, I was hyper aware of HLH Shortcuts and my assignment and when December rolled around and I'd started writing my HL story and was like waaiiiiiit a second what about yule.... oh whoops. 🫠 :D Hey, at least I remembered to sign up for HLH Shortcuts!

BUT, I did manage to squeeze out a very quick Yuletide Treat in the literal last 4 hours before the Yuletide archive went live. Started it at like 8am and had it in the archive at 12:40pm before it went live at 1pm my time. \o/ Went with Spy Game because a) I know it well, and b) I could tell there were no other stories in the archive for it this year.

And so here it is, now with fixed typos:


Four Things (1646 words) by hafital
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Spy Game (2001)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tom Bishop & Nathan Muir
Characters: Tom Bishop, Nathan Muir
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary:

“Four things,” said Tom, raising his hand, showing four fingers, folding one finger for each thing. “Fifteen minutes, a secret, something stolen, and something of value willingly given, starting…” he looked at the clock over the bar. “Now.”