My Ruby Redfort One-shots

LBaker Songfic

Italics are LB, Bold is Bradley, and Underlined are both, if they were actually singing it. The song is What are We Doin' in Love by Kenny Rogers and featuring Dottie West. Hope you enjoy! 

We're like summer and winter. We're not one bit alike. 

When they first met, it was because he was reckless. Sure, he was pushed into the river, but what was he doing by the river in the first place, when he was warned of the dangers and told to stay away unless an adult was around? She, on the other hand, was there because he temper might have got the best of her, so she went for a walk to cool down; to make sure she didn't snap at her niece and nephew that she was being forced to babysit. She was catious too, staying on the trail until she heard the shouts. 

After the rescue, he was happy to meet someone new, and tried to flirt with her right off the bat. She turned him down cool, and then gave him a good dressing down for being so reckless. It made him almost wish that his people would show up, that was until they dud show up. 

We're like satin and cinders. I'm definitely not your type. 

When they met later, they were even more different than that day. Bradley, as she learned his name was, seemed to have it all together, but he was fragile and had a death wish. You had to be careful what you said or did around him, or he might go crazy and do something stupid and reckless. He needed a warning if he was going to be able to do something properly. You couldn't just ask him to do something without preparing him. She, was all burnt out though. She had no energy to deal with his stunts and pranks. She was course, straight to the point, and could handle anything anyone threw her way with ease.

He kept on flirting with her, and seemed surprised when she just rolled her eyes, sighed, and ignored him. She didn't tease, some, laugh, or do anything on the whim. Instead she planned everything, sighed, rolled her eyes, shot any guy who got within 10 feet of her down with her scathing sarcasm, and seemed to have a permanent death stare and scowl. He was romantic, buying her red, the color that suited her the best, roses and chocolates for Valentine's Day, while she was even more sarcastic and mean to him. He also couldn't understand sarcasm, practically the only language she spoke, at all, while she didn't understand hoe someone could always be smiling. 

Then what are we doin' in love? What are we doin' in a mess like this?

Surprisingly, Bradley thought that he knew it first. He figured out that whenever LB was really being mean to him, she was actually using sarcasm. And, unlike with most other people, her sarcasm didn't mean You-are-so-annoying it actually meant I-love-you-but-don't-know-how-to-show-it. Once he realized this, he didn't get offended by her sarcasm, but responded to it with more sarcasm. Granted, it was awful sarcasm, but it's the thought that counts; or so he said when LB made it her living point to rip his sarcasm to shreds. 

In all reality, LB knew that she felt something other than annoyance and disgust to the teenage boy that she was forced to work with. She couldn't quite pinpoint what this feeling was, but she knew it was something. She tried to hide it be being even more sarcastic to him, which caused office conflict for everyone. Most were taking Bradley's side that LB was being mean to him for no reason, but others took LB's saying that Bradley needed to grow up. To put it shortly, a lot if age it's got mad at one another because if the other person's view on who was at fault, and this went on for many years until everyone was told to get it together or get fired.

What are we doin' in love?

What indeed were they doing in love, Hitch, who was forced paired with them in hopes to make them at least be diplomatic to each other when lives weren't on the line, asked himself daily. Along with how they, along with everyone else, were so oblivious to it. LB wasn't like that to everyone, and neither was Bradley. You couldn't talk any bad about LB with Bradley around, or you would get severally tongue lashing; something that Hitch learned the hard way. And LB, she wasn't that mean to everyone; if she disliked you this much, she just wouldn't speak to you. And if he even suggested they were in love, he was insane because they didn't even like each other. But, he saw the truth, so he would just smile and bide his time until it was the proper time to start placing bets that is.