you can't take the firmament from me

Title: our hands were just that close
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
Rating: R
Length: ~1900 words.
Characters/Pairings: Frank/Gerard.

Summary: The first time Gerard lies on the gurney on the Black Parade tour cycle, he's alone. (A daemon AU.)

Notes: Written for a prompt on bandom_meme. Also on AO3.

( Content notes/notes on daemons. )

( our hands were just that close )

Title: And highways I call home
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance/Fall Out Boy)
Rating: R.
Length: ~7k.
Characters/Pairings: Mikey/Patrick.

Summary: When Mikey joins Fall Out Boy on tour for a couple weeks, he finds out all kinds of surprising things about Patrick. That he's a werewolf is pretty low on the list.

Notes: This was written for akamine_chan's fanworks auction (and my deepest apologies to glitteryv for going so far over the projected finish date, oops). The story's set loosely in summer 2014, with some liberties taken for creative reasons/because I felt like it. Title's from MCR's Summertime also because I felt like it.

Additional content notes: ( Mildly spoilery. )

Also on AO3.

( And highways I call home )

Title: Kiss Kiss
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
Rating: NC-17.
Length: ~1900 words.
Characters/Pairings: Frank/Gerard.

Summary: "That's what you were thinking?" Frank asks. "And you thought you were being selfish?"

(Or: Gerard and Frank expand their D/s play to include subspace.)

Notes: Written for this prompt on bandom_meme. It takes place during an unspecified tour that I made up at an unspecified time (although it's in the past for obvious reasons).

Also on AO3.

( Kiss Kiss )

Title: Frank the crankiest elf
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
Rating: NC-17.
Length: 2065 words.
Characters/Pairings: Frank/Gerard.

Summary: There were two things Frank hated: Christmas, and disappointing his mom. Considering his mom's last name had been Claus ever since she remarried, it was a bit of a fucking problem.

Notes: Who doesn't love a (very) late Christmas story? Thanks to real Frank for hating Christmas, real Gerard for tweeting what Christmas songs he liked around the actual day, and courtneylovedcobain for the inspiring art of Frank wearing an offensive Christmas sweater.

Also on AO3.

( Frank the crankiest elf )

Title: Petezza
Fandom: Bandom (Fall Out Boy)
Rating: R.
Length: ~1170 words.
Characters/Pairings: Pete/Patrick.

Summary: A pizza night in isn't exactly wine by the beach, but Pete's just fine, thanks.

Notes: Written for the "food" square on my kink_bingo card. This story was inspired by a couple things:

1. Seeing Fall Out Boy (for the first time!) in San Francisco. When doing the acoustic set, Pete told Patrick something along the lines of, "When you said we were getting intimate on the beach, I didn't know this is what you meant." (The show was on a pier.) He referenced bringing wine and said "speaking of blue balls" to transition to Grand Theft Autumn (and Patrick complimented him on it).

2. The band voting Patrick the funniest drunk. Probably didn't use it to full advantage here, but there you go.

There's also the fact that Pete constantly tweets about how much he loves pizza. This link wasn't specifically inspiration because he posted after I wrote the story, but Pete actually got pizza in Atlanta. First rule of bandom in play again.

(So yes, if you haven't seen the AO3 tags, this story's about food and getting off on eating/feeding and purposely getting a little drunk. /long notes)

Also on AO3.

( Petezza )

Title: and the music's all you've got
Fandom: Bandom (Panic! at the Disco and My Chemical Romance)
Rating: PG.
Length: About 2200 words.
Characters/Pairings: Jon, Ray, Cassie, and Christa.

Summary: Jon's music career dried up, so he had to take the job teching for U2. What's Ray's excuse?

Notes: I have no idea where this story came from, but it wouldn't leave me alone until I wrote. And then I wrote it, and it didn't match my Jon headcanon at all, so I tucked it away...and it still wouldn't leave me alone. Maybe my brain knows something I don't.

There are non-explicit references to past/present addiction in both Panic! and MCR. I tagged alcoholism because that's the most prevalent in the story, but there's also some discussion of marijuana.

Also on AO3.

( and the music's all you've got )

Title: Powderpuff
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
Rating: NC-17.
Length: About 2200 words.
Characters/Pairings: Frank/Gerard.

Summary: It isn't like Frank's opposed to powderpuff football. The timing's just kind of bad.

Notes: Written for the gender play square on my kink_bingo card. Frank and Gerard are seniors, so I didn't warn for underage in the tags on AO3, but they are still in high school.

Also on AO3.

( Powderpuff. )

Title: Well, I Changed For Good
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~33k.
Characters/Pairings: Frank/Gerard.

Content notes: ( Includes spoilers. )

Summary:

2003: Frank's a werewolf that changes when it's too cold outside, and Gerard isn't. But considering Frank saved Gerard when he got partially eaten by starving werewolves, Gerard should be. Gerard, for his part, is too busy getting sober after the loss of his band to remember that the attack actually happened.

2012: They reunite in Southern California while both are struggling to cope. They've both lived lives full of disasters apart; how much of a disaster can it be if they spend some time together before Frank leaves the country?

It's only when a cold snap hits LA that everyone finds out what disaster really is.

Author's notes: Also on AO3.

This story was written for Wave One of bandombigbang 2013, and it's an AU of Maggie Stiefvater's novel Shiver. (Appropriately, the title of this story is based on a lyric from Coldplay's song Shiver.) I took liberties with the Shiver story/canon, and even though I intended this to be a fork-in-the-road AU (with werewolves), I also played with the factual MCR canon that made it into the story. That means it's as made up as all of my bandom fics! Fiction, yay!

I also consider this to be the third part in an informal Frank/Gerard werewolf trilogy. They don't share universes or anything; I've just written a Frank/Gerard werewolf story every year I've been writing bandom fic. The first, A Lesser Disaster, was actually my first bandom story ever posted. The second, Strays, was written for Werewolf Big Bang 2012. I got this idea, and I figured it was time to bring the werewolves to the main fandom stage, as it were. (I think this is going to be the last part, but then, I never really intended to write the other two. Maybe I'll try writing Ray/Mikey werewolves instead.)

All the thanks in the world to tuesdaysgone for the beta (all remaining errors are mine, believe me), to my younger sister for insisting I read Shiver at the beginning of the year, to the wonderful BBB mods for juggling everything, and to everyone in my sphere for putting up with me giving support and encouragement during yet another Big Bang cycle. See you all again for Wave Three!

Fanart:
Two pieces by chimneythunder (Note: one image contains blood.)

Fanmix:
Shake It Off (Run With Wolves) by truthismusic

( Well, I Changed For Good )

Title: So gimme all you've got (I can take it)
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
Rating: NC-17.
Length: About 2400 words.
Characters/Pairings: Ray/Frank.

Summary: Ray's played a bunch of different types with Frank, and he doesn't always take the lead. But he's usually the virgin, not the teacher.

Notes: Written for this prompt on bandom_meme. (Roleplaying hookers! I couldn't resist.)

Also on AO3.

( So gimme all you've got (I can take it) )

Title: Game On
Fandom: Bandom (Panic! at the Disco)
Rating: NC-17.
Length: About 3500 words.
Characters/Pairings: Ryan/Brendon, with a random collection of background bandom figures.

Summary: In which Pete Wentz's games are not a triathlon, and Ryan Ross hates everybody.

Notes: This was written for the game night square on my trope_bingo card.

( Additional content notes. )

Also on AO3.

( Game On )

Title: At Least I'm In Good Company
Fandom: Bandom (Fall Out Boy)
Rating: NC-17.
Length: 3865 words.
Characters/Pairings: Pete/Patrick.

Content notes: ( Notes. )

Summary: When Patrick gets dosed with funky shampoo, Pete is the last (and first) person he wants to see.

Notes: Major thanks to were_duck for the beta. The original post is here, and the story's also on DW.

( At Least I'm In Good Company )

Title: This Jet Black Feeling
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
Rating: NC-17.
Length: 4585 words.
Characters/Pairings: Ray/Mikey, background Frank/Gerard.

Content notes: ( Notes. )

(FYI: Since I can't see hover-over text on my iPad, I'm switching back to cuts for hiding content notes. I hope this doesn't cause any difficulties.)

Summary: It wasn't Romeo and Juliet, or even Buffy and Angel. But Ray had never had sex with a vampire before, either.

Notes: Happy birthday, ladyfoxxx! And thanks to RubyTuesday5681 and turlough for chatting a little bit about this on Twitter/DW with me and generally being supportive.

Also on AO3 and LJ.

( This Jet Black Feeling )