Somewhere in Brooklyn | A Charlie Barber x Reader One-shot

Q Train at night is the last place to meet somebody. It's cramped and it smells awful- the stale air has a pungent mixture of people's sweat who are inconsiderate to take a shower that morning and there's some who are very considerate that even the scent of their one-night stand is still on their body. People are too exhausted from work to be the cheery background characters of a romcom who are always in the brink of a dance break.

Charlie knows all of that, he's the epitome of a naturalized New Yorker citizen who sees the city as it really is- fast and bustling. It's doesn't have the Nora Ephron, always-fall season filter Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks (or Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal) sold to the world back in the 90s.

But then he keeps seeing you on the same train ride every night. And when you started an unexpected conversation with him during a Friday rush hour that put him into an unexplainable bewitching trance, he's starting to reconsider that idea.