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Delphi (they/them) ([personal profile] delphi) wrote2025-02-24 08:34 pm

REC: Your Favourite Perk by TwelveLeagues (Severance, Irving Bailiff/Dylan George)

Fandom 50 #7

Your favourite perk by [archiveofourown.org profile] TwelveLeagues (archive-locked)
Fandom: Severance
Ship: Irving Bailiff/Dylan George
Medium: Fic
Length: 4478 words
Rating: Mature (Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings)
My Bookmark Tags: drama, ambiguous ending, getting together, developing relationship, colleagues with benefits, competence, first kiss (character), first kiss (ship), first time (character), first time (ship), flirtation, identity, jealousy, kissing, loss, secret relationship, touch, praise
Summary: First rule of finger traps: Don’t freak out. Don’t try to yank yourself free. They can be fun if you know how to use them safely.


Excerpt:
On the third day of running his multinational topical salve empire, Kier Eagan brought the smackdown on office romance. And Dylan knows exactly why. Fuck the handbook bullshit about pouring your love into your work, and fuck the inter-departmental conspiracy theories too. The fact is, secret assignations at the vending machine are a serious waste of company time. It’s advanced-level goofing off and it annoys your hard-working co-workers, who have to pretend they can’t see you fraternising. Dylan’s been that co-worker and he knows for a fact that it’s awkward as hell.

But it turns out, Dylan’s okay with it when he’s the one being fraternised.

I'm still living in the scene where Dylan tells Irving he's someone who loves him, and where Irving calls himself Dylan's favourite perk, and this fic runs straight from there into the intense, weird, romantic, and intensely weirdly romantic office hook-ups of my dreams. Here, Dylan and Irving are exploring new territory (with the complicated Severance layer of walking in the imagined paths of their outies) while united by grief for other people out of reach and their attempts to find greater meaning on the inside. The Dylan voice in this fic is spot on, and Irving...Irving is just a gift.

ETA: Fixed fandom category