#lenny summers x reader
Autumn’s End
Secret Winter Exchange time!! @rdrevents
This year I once again got to write for the awesome @charlessmithhasmyheart
I hope you enjoy this story, and I hope your winter season is merry and bright!!
Summary: Lenny and reader work a job together. But Lenny hasn’t slept in days, and his exhaustion puts them both in danger.
As always below is a little snip, read the full thing on AO3
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No one else saw it, or if they did they didn’t say, or didn’t care. But you knew just how hard Lenny worked himself. The young man was desperate to prove himself, to prove his value to the gang. You hardly ever saw him sit down. He was always working sentry duty, out searching for leads, cleaning weapons, working his ass off to prove himself. He did almost as much as Arthur.
You really only ever saw him sit down to eat, or to read. Sometimes you or Hosea could coax him over to the fire to relax for the evening, but even then you could see him always thinking, trying to find a new way to be useful.
Maybe Hosea noticed. He often would pull Lenny aside under the pretense of little chat. But you couldn’t help but wonder if he was just trying to get Lenny to sit down and breathe for once. The wise older man missed nothing in camp.
You did what you could to help Lenny. You brought him coffee when he was on late night sentry duty. Made sure he ate supper every day. Just little things.
You were absolutely smitten with him. He was so smart, so kind, so brave and loyal and just… good. Sometimes your heart ached with how sweet you were on him. You’d mostly flown under the radar, you thought. Lenny never seemed to notice anyway. You weren’t sure if that was a good or a bad thing. Hosea and Susan may have had their suspicions though. Those two kept a keen eye on everything, and you couldn’t help but notice Hosea always pulling you into his conversations with Lenny, or Susan always handing you Lenny’s things to mend. But everyone else seemed blessedly oblivious to your pining.
When Lenny approached you to help him on a job, you jumped at the chance.
Okay okay! Guys, defs go check out the entire thing on AO3, cause its amazing! Thank you so much! Lenny is such an awkward gentleman! XD
