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Date: 27 Mar 2013 04:18 pm (UTC)Me!
Oh gosh! Wow, really, another person with a combination of excellent taste and crack!slash goggles!
Date: 29 Mar 2013 12:43 pm (UTC)Kevin is supposed to have been a life-long fan of This Old House, as well as being obviously something of a Tom Silva fanboy on screen in that he tends to bring Tom's opinions up in his absence ("Tommy's not going to like that!" "Have you showed this to Tommy yet? Tommy needs to see this! Tommy has to okay that!" "I can't wait to see what Tommy says about that." "What do you say, coffee to go and one for Tommy?") So I like to imagine for background that he was a pre-existing Tommy fanboy and was a wee bit diffident as a result of being dazzled at first.
But my idea is that he buys a fixer-upper shortly after joining the show and after calling Tom a few times for help with home improvement projects, he really does put him on Speed Dial and it becomes a crutch/excuse for frequent social overtures and spending time together. Not that Tom is averse! He only pretends to be gruff: he actually thinks Kevin's artless wide-eyed puppyism is the cutest. Between lending Kevin his tools and showing him how to do things himself he's over there all the time, and they both get comfortable in the routine. Tom takes the initiative in projects around Kevin's fixer-upper himself sometimes and maybe Kevin diverts them from home improvement to watching whatever sports Boston people like (baseball?) a couple times.
At work Kevin's completely clueless that Tom has a significant soft spot for him and people are using him as go-between if they have bad news or tricky requests for Tom. Since he was usually planning to talk to Tom anyway it never strikes him as odd that people ask him to pass things on and he never realized that Tom is grumpier or less amenable to other people. Even a producer seeking him out on a really bad news day to deliver an even more obnoxious request to Tom that would logically be something they would tell him themselves doesn't strike him as odd until after the fact when Tom says something about it. Maybe something about Kevin being an errand-boy or shooting the messenger in other circumstances or why someone didn't ask him earlier. Maybe after that Kevin says something to one of the other guys and gets told "You should see him when you're not here."
Re: Oh gosh! Wow, really, another person with a combination of excellent taste and crack!slash goggl
Date: 29 Mar 2013 12:52 pm (UTC)That. That.
That is the most adorable thing ever.
*coooos at it and rolls around in it*
*leaves carrots and cookies (no chocolate!) out for the bunny*
cont. because I never know when I might hit the character limit
Date: 29 Mar 2013 01:23 pm (UTC)When they finish some project or other at Kevin's Kevin looks around and says something offhand about how by now Tom has done more of the work in the house than the original builder and he guesses he's used to that but he should do something for him because it's not like he's getting paid for this. Tom says he can get him a beer, Kevin insists, and then he says he might have something Kevin can do but he's not going to like it... and Kevin says what, what! and Tom is all mysterious but tells him to free up two whole days. But it turns out his payback is taking Kevin fishing. I have no idea what Kevin knows about fishing except that in one episode he said he'd seen Tom's boat, but for purposes of this story he will be a first-time fisher and Tom will get to use all of his patience because unlike with house-fixing, Kevin doesn't have an excellent basic competency. Tom, however, is capable of being as encouraging as a kindergarten teacher and it's obvious that he doesn't mind.
Still, even though Tommy obviously had a great time, Kevin can't help feeling that he's offered to pay him back for dinner and been taken out to drinks and dessert and a spontaneous blues concert instead. There's basically nothing he likes better than having Tommy all to himself and he was the opposite of a help because Tommy spent so much time showing him how to fish that he got less fishing done. He says something about it without making a big deal of it and Tommy brushes it off, maybe says he'll get more fish out of him later or that he's just happy to have gotten to spend a weekend in the boat or something.
But later, Tom remembers the conversation because he's doing a project of his own that's been put off and he realizes the reason he's put it off is not so much because he hasn't had time for it as because it's not as much fun alone. He doesn't need help for it, really, it's just a matter of handing him stuff, but he calls Kevin and asks him to come over and help anyway. It's really a first, him asking for help instead of offering it or being asked for it, and Kevin makes some jokes about being called in to do the heavy stuff and some jokes about his expertise, but when Tom tells him the job isn't that big and he can relax, he's pleased and surprised, because he was assuming it was something that one guy can't lift alone or something, but actually he's mostly there for company, and as he realizes that it warms him from head to toe, causing him to curse his redheaded genes because he blushes at the drop of a pin. It's kind of a revelation for him, 'He really likes me!' He knew that Tom liked him, of course, but maybe never exactly thought about it like that, that maybe in addition to Tommy being his best friend he is also Tommy's best friend.
My intention was vaguely for this revelation to lead to some very fluffy revelations suffused with feelings and adorable cuddling and awkward middle-aged sexy times. I realized I haven't entirely worked out how that should go though, if Kevin should make the first move or if Tom should or if there should be one more plot point in there, maybe a revelation on Tom's part that Kevin liking him is not the same as hero worship because he is literally actualfax Kevin's favorite and maybe Kevin is his favorite too? I imagine there's a certain amount of distance in the way Tom regards this, which is perhaps really caution, but that without noticing it he's become attached to Kevin in an insidious way that probably makes him quite disgruntled when he notices it, because he doesn't like to be reliant on things... but too late.
I might remember more later. I feel like there was more of this idea, or maybe it's just that it seemed more complete inside my head...
Re: cont. because I never know when I might hit the character limit
Date: 29 Mar 2013 01:31 pm (UTC)Oh, oh.
That thing about Tom taking him fishing. And Kevin being all uncertain because yeah, spontaneous blues concert of ducks and loons and bullfrogs and leaping bass.
And then awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....
Oh, Tom. <3.
Re: cont. because I never know when I might hit the character limit
Date: 29 Mar 2013 03:23 pm (UTC)"You're gonna pay for that one," says Tommy as the credits roll.
"Aren't we square - I thought we were even now?" says Kevin.
"Not even close," says Tom.