AUTHOR: Danang1970

RATING: M (language)

SUMMARY: From a prompt on the A-Team Kink Meme. Write a fic wherein the boys have "buckets of platonic love" for each other.

CHARACTERS: Face, Murdock, Hannibal, Sosa, BA

WARNINGS: Language

DISCLAIMER: Not my characters.

PART ONE:

It's understandable that people misinterpret it sometimes.

The way Murdock hangs off BA while he's working, accepted by the bigger man with barely a token eye-roll and a few gruff comments that everyone knows will never amount to any serious threat. The way Face and Hannibal have an intimacy that goes beyond the boundaries of Colonel and subordinate, whether they're breathing the same air while hunched over a map or having beers by Murdock's barbecue, leaning into each other's spaces and laughing at in-jokes whose origins were forgotten years ago.

The way BA pulls at the waistband of Face's shorts to prove that Face's torso is burnt from too much tanning, and how Face's automatic retaliation instinct is to chase BA all over camp trying to whip him with a towel. Hannibal borrowing Murdock's cap when it's too sunny out, and Murdock using Face's arm to scribble his strategy for the next mission's air support because he can't be bothered looking for paper.

All of these things, taken separately and especially together, make people outside of the elite team of Rangers say, "...Huh. They sure are... CLOSE, aren't they?", in a tone heavy with implication. No one considers speculation outright since the gossip isn't worth the threat of a reprimand from superiors, but everyone knows what everyone else is thinking.

For a while, the next line around the proverbial water cooler would be about Face's relationship with Charisa and the conversation would sidestep and devolve from there. But now, it's just four single men who seem really, really comfortable in each other's company.

Clearly, they must be having buttsex.