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sweetprinceMidterms are over for me, thank god! As has become fashionable in Generation Kill fandom, I have decided to do a snippet post. You are welcome to post a picture for any fandom I write in (SPN, Generation Kill, RPF, Glee, Never Back Down) and I will respond with fic. The two fics I have in the works are frightening me, but I am in a mood to write.
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amberlynne has been threatening me with 17 requests for more Model!AU, so come participate so I'm not just writing about Brad and Nate prancing about on the runway.
ETA: Oh, song of the day, "One Pure Thought" by Hot Chip, for you dirty-minded girls out there.
-Brad owning a winery foramberlynne
-Ray's Wedding foramberlynne
-Q-Tip Turning Up on Nate's Porch foraboutademongirl
-Nate The Romance Novelist foramberlynne and really, myself.
-Nate the Archeologist, Brad the wild mountainman foramberlynne
-ASkar's epic love with Batman formemphis86. Every time I type that, I laugh.
-Glee: Brokeback The Musical formemphis86
-Model!Au: The first photoshoot after they fuck foramberlynne
-Generation Kill Victorian!Au fortrolleys
-Model!AU: Brad finds school!Nate irresistable foramberlynne
-Brad Visiting Nate At Harvard forsoul_cake_duck
-Alex taking Stark back to Sweden foramberlynne
amberlynne has been threatening me with 17 requests for more Model!AU, so come participate so I'm not just writing about Brad and Nate prancing about on the runway.ETA: Oh, song of the day, "One Pure Thought" by Hot Chip, for you dirty-minded girls out there.
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amberlynne-Ray's Wedding for
amberlynne-Q-Tip Turning Up on Nate's Porch for
aboutademongirl-Nate The Romance Novelist for
amberlynne and really, myself.-Nate the Archeologist, Brad the wild mountainman for
amberlynne-ASkar's epic love with Batman for
memphis86. Every time I type that, I laugh.-Glee: Brokeback The Musical for
memphis86-Model!Au: The first photoshoot after they fuck for
amberlynne-Generation Kill Victorian!Au for
trolleys-Model!AU: Brad finds school!Nate irresistable for
amberlynne-Brad Visiting Nate At Harvard for
soul_cake_duck-Alex taking Stark back to Sweden for
amberlynne
Re: prompt!
Date: 2009-10-19 08:00 am (UTC)Two weeks ago, after a great blowjob, mindblowing sex, and a particularly vicious bite that Stark left in Alex’s shoulder, Alex stroked down his side and said, “Come home with me.”
Stark had stared at him in the dark, taking in Alex’s unreadable stone-faced expression that meant he really cared how Stark was going to answer. He’d breathed for a few seconds and then tightened his fingers around Alex’s wrist.
“Yes.”
But that means Alex’s crazy friends. And football games. He knows that Alex is planning to drag him to at least one Hammarby game and possibly to Djurgården, in Ostermalm to see Elfsborg kick the shit out of them. Or so Alex has promised. And Stark is really good at getting people to like him, but part of the secret to that is being incredibly prepared. He will not be like the girlfriend introduced into the men’s Monday night football games only to require them to explain everything. That girlfriend sucks.
The next time he meets up with Hugh for coffee in the village he asks for a crash course. Hugh thinks for a minute, coughs, and says, “Well, the Swedish league’s admirable in that they can hang on to their players, but their players are all for shit so it hardly matters. The five players they do have that know which direction to run down the pitch all play for other leagues.”
“I can’t say that to him,” Stark says, taking a bracing swallow of his black coffee.
Hugh ordered a cappuccino and he swirls his spoon around in the foam before saying, “American’s don’t understand coffee. Always running around with their to-go cups. I would die for some biscuits.” Stark raises his hands and looks at him with a mournful expression. “Right, so, Hammarby, that’s his team.” Stark nods and Hugh continues. “They’re a working class team, not bad, no PSV—” he stops at Stark’s blank look, “Dutch team, used to be a factory squad. You know what? Never mind. Hammarby is ranked in the middle somewhere, but their rival, Djurgården, is even more shit than they are, so they’re at the bottom.”
Stark wonders if he should be taking notes.
“The only Swedish team worth paying attention to is Kalmar. They’ve got a couple of Brazilians playing for them, so they’re not actually embarrassing.”
Stark glares at him.
Hugh takes another sip of his coffee and rolls his eyes. “I’m sorry, think of it this way, the way you feel about Mexicans playing basketball, that’s how I feel about Swedes playing football.”
“You’re terrible. Really terrible,” Stark replies. “I was going to pay for your coffee when the bill came, but now you’re on your own.”
Hugh laughs. “You asked, grasshopper. Now, the thing you need to understand about football rivalries is that they make your silly Eagles/Cowboys and Lakers/Celtics throw downs look like pillow fights at a little girl’s slumber party.”
“Right, rioting and that stuff,” Stark says and pushes his cup forward to be refilled when the waitress comes by.
“No, no, my naïve friend, that’s sheer bonhomie right there,” Hugh says and waves his hand, “Let me tell you a story. Have you heard of Fiorentina?”
“No?”
Re: prompt, Part 2
Date: 2009-10-19 08:02 am (UTC)Stark cracked up and Hugh shook his finger at him. “So you see, it’s quite serious. I hear in Holland when Ajax and Feyenoord play each other they have to stick them on separate trains where they’ve removed everything breakable so that they don’t do each other serious damage.” He gives Stark a mock grave look and then starts telling him all about Spanish fans and how psychotic they get.
“Well, thanks?”
It’s not much, but armed with a few Wikipedia searches and a yahoo!sports statistical rundown, Stark feels slightly better about it. They fly out of JFK on a Tuesday and arrive very early Wednesday morning. That first day all they do is sleep, adjusting to the time lag.
Alex is very open about his family and they’re very close. Nevertheless they seem mostly indifferent to Stark. Don’t take it personally, Alex tells him while they brush their teeth over the tiny porcelain sink. Stark doesn’t care. It’s not like he’s marrying into the family, but he knows this must matter a lot to Alex. He rubs to gentle fingers down the delicate slope of Alex’s neck when he bends over to spit out his toothpaste.
Stockholm’s beautiful and Stark adores how obvious it is that Alex loves it. They spend the day in Kungsträdgården, lounging in the sun and people watching. Alex said they’d have to come back for ice skating in the winter. Now, Stark’s nose is slightly red and the skin under his eyes is pale from the line of his sunglasses. He tells Alex he’ll have to buy sunscreen tomorrow, and Alex kisses across his cheekbone and says, “Anything higher than SPF 10 is going to be expensive.”
“Would you stay here if you could?” he says after Alex fucked him, boneless and comfortable, lying in Alex’s bed.
Alex rolls over to face him. He bites at his lip and then says, “No.” And there is so much in his face. Stark’s heart tightens painfully.
The next day is spent museum hopping: first the Nationalmuseum and then the Moderna Museet. Alex doesn’t have much patience for staring at paintings, but Stark appreciates the effort. It’s clear how much more excited Alex is when they get to Skansen. He says he doesn’t care about a lot of old houses, but Stark knows it’s a lie. Alex looks positively gleeful when he points out the world’s largest cigar.
“Seriously?” Stark says.
Alex is recognized by some tourists and he waves at them before turning back to Stark. “That’s a work of genius right there.”
Stark shakes his head. “I don’t think any of us ever quite realized how strange you are.”
Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-19 08:10 am (UTC)When Stark looks up at him, eyebrows raised, he shakes his head and says, “I don’t know.”
He showers quickly while Stark does the dishes. As the water runs over the mismatched plates, Stark wonders if he can ask Alex to move in with him. He’s startled out of his thoughts by Alex padding back into the kitchen, swabbing his hair dry cursorily with a ratty towel. “You ready?” Alex asks.
It’s time to meet up with friends at a pub before going to the Hammarby match. One of them, Alex introduces him as Erland, says, “So this is your sexy American girlfriend.”
Stark laughs and knocks Alex upside the head. Alex says something to Erland in Swedish but he smiles and looks at Stark the whole time. There are five of them altogether, three of them wear Hammarby jerseys, the other two are in plain green shirts, and Alex is wearing his Hammarby scarf. The pub is filled with others like them. Stark is perfectly happy to sit there and listen to them catch up. They speak in English for his benefit, but the conversation is all theirs. Stark drinks his beer and keeps his eyes on Alex the whole time.
Later as they head to the stadium Stark says casually, “I hear Hammarby won Allsvenskan in 2002.”
Alex looks down at him, face caught by surprise. “You’ve been studying!” And then he drags Stark in, kisses him right there on the street, in front of God and country. Alex's cups his cheeks with one of his long-fingered palms and tongues inside his mouth. It’s breathless and perfect and over too fast. Alex’s friends are whooping at them from up ahead. Alex’s eyes are lowered and he says, in a soft voice that contradicts the tight grip he still has on Stark’s left hip, “Amazing.”
“I guess TMZ can’t get you here,” Stark replies, laughter suddenly welling up through his throat.
Alex grins like he’s planning to push that to the limit, but Erland calls back to them, “Hey Fjolla, if we miss the kick off because of you, I will shit in your bed.”
Alex snorts and shouts back, “Dra åt helvete!” He knocks Stark with his shoulder. “Shall we?”
*
I wrote you like an actual fic right there. Over 1700 words. I am proud of myself. Most of it was Hugh's long speech about soccer! Just goes to show how much I want a sport's au.
*Of Sweden’s current national team, only four players currently play in the Swedish league. But they do have Zlatan Ibrahimović, who is a bastard, but an amazing player. It’s funny, because I’m biased, obviously, but it’s famously said that the Dutch don’t get to play enough together because they’re all exported elsewhere, however, the current Dutch national team has more than 8 players who all play in the Dutch league.
Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-19 03:39 pm (UTC)Oh, man, Stark asking Hugh for soccer info is GENIUS! And I love how comfortable Alex is in Sweden and wanting to have Stark there and awwwwwwwwwwwwww kissing on the STREET!!! ♥ AMAZING!
Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-19 08:08 pm (UTC)I hate PDA in real life, but I'm very fond of declaratory gestures in fic.
Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-19 08:10 pm (UTC)he clearly enjoys setting the pork chops and noodles before Stark.
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Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-19 08:32 pm (UTC)Right...got a bit carried away there.
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Danny Fox, the hotass. He's only 23!
Shaun Maloney!
Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-19 08:36 pm (UTC)Thank you! I'm like inordinately attached to it now. I'm just thinking about Stark choosing a team like Celtic or something, and Alex is like "NO! HOW COULD YOU!" Because he'll never forgive Celtic for stealing Henrik Larsson during the best years of his career. And Stark is like Danny Fox is so hot (internally laughing) and Alex steams over it. And Stark has to be like no, no, Shaun Maloney is totally fucking him! Don't worry. And then Hugh finds out that Stark is rooting for a Scottish team and he threatens a holy war against Alex.
Right...got a bit carried away there.
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Danny Fox, the hotass. He's only 23!
Shaun Maloney!
Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-20 12:14 am (UTC)Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-20 12:19 am (UTC)Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-20 09:14 pm (UTC)Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-20 09:19 pm (UTC)Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-20 10:14 pm (UTC)And dude, I don't even read RPF (well, I guess GK could be seen as RPF, BUT IT'S NOT, NOT REALLY!), but I read about ASkars and football (and boy, I'd like to believe that Alex calls it football, not soccer), and being Brazilian, I just had to read it. It was like, compulsory! I was afraid I might get my Brazilian card revoked if I didn't, but I digress. The thing is? I loved everything about Stark learning about football! And while RPF is so not my thing, this was incredibly sweet, and you just made me kinda like RPF, and now I don't know what I'll do with myself.
Seriously, though? This entire post is made of WIN!
Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-21 08:23 am (UTC)Why would he call it soccer? He's not American.
Anyway, ignore the RPF, it really was a vehicle to wax lyrical of about soccer. So I'm very glad you enjoyed it.
Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-21 02:53 pm (UTC)That's exactly my point. I'm very particular about it. So I hope that living in the US (is he living in the US?) and having to explain people why he loves the sport so much haven't made him start saying the "s" word. :)
Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2009-10-21 02:32 am (UTC)Re: prompt, Part 3
Date: 2010-04-18 04:39 pm (UTC)Ya've got a great grasp of the Swedish league. Hammarby's down in Superettan this year but hopefully they'll be back in Allsvenskan next season.