Title: Halcyon
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
Rating: NC-17
Length: About 12k.
Characters/Pairings: Mikey/Frank, secondary Ray/Gerard.

Summary: It started, as it often did, as a favor for Gerard. Gerard was the reason Mikey was a supermodel who wore both suits and dresses for work, and Gerard was the reason that Mikey helped out a budding designer named Frank Iero.

But falling in love...that was all Mikey and Frank, really.

Notes: For bandombigbang 2015. Be sure to check out the wonderful complementary art by chibifukurou!

This story includes references to depression, addiction, and mild gender dysphoria (Mikey is genderqueer). The non-binary stuff riffs off my personal experience and isn't meant to represent a greater whole. (Also, I'm DFAB and Mikey's DMAB, which means some of it was speculation by necessity.) Thanks to the mods of this lovely challenge (I can't believe I've been doing it for four years now!). This story is in tribute to the great people I've met through bandom, many of whom helped me sort through gender identity stuff through example or direct conversation or both.

Also on AO3.

( Halcyon )

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: Barnacle
Fandom: Bandom (Fall Out Boy)
Rating: PG.
Length: About 1000 words.
Characters/Pairings: Pete/Patrick.

Summary: It's not like biology's ever paid attention to anyone's plans, much less Patrick's avoid-Pete's-heat tour plans.

Notes: I originally wrote the concept of an asexual character in an alpha/beta/omega universe not the desperate type, an Avengers Pepper/Natasha story. I was going to leave it there, but romantical commented with "In my head, Pete and Patrick are now Pepper and Natasha." and this happened. Whoops.

Also on AO3.

( Barnacle )

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: it's a small world after all
Fandom: Professional Griefers, Danger Days, My Chemical Romance, Deadmau5
Rating: R.
Length: 15,410 words.
Characters/Pairings: g3rard/deadmau5, background deadmau5/Kat Von D.

Content notes: ( Notes. )

Summary: From Griefer to Killjoy: an origin story.

Notes: All the thanks in the world to tuesdaysgone and lasabrina for the speedy and thorough beta. Also on AO3 and LJ.

( it's a small world after all )

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 )

Title: Like a Secret in Your Throat
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
Rating: NC-17.
Length: About 3070 words.
Characters/Pairings: Frank/Gerard.
Disclaimer: Fictional like a fictional thing.

Summary: There was a time for cuddling. It was not when Frank was trying to have hot sex with his vampire boyfriend.

Notes: Written for this prompt on bandom_meme for xojemmaxo. What better time to write about faily vampires than in October? The title comes from Vampires Will Never Hurt you because I'm unoriginal like that.

Also on AO3 and LJ.

( Like a Secret in Your Throat )