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calatheaBruno/Boots, Bugs/Adam
This is basically bandslash, but without any of the bands. I like to think of this as the first bandslash I ever read, though, which is why it is on this list.
"We're Canadian. We know how to rock." Bandslash (FOB, MCR, PATD & intergroup crossovers)The Great American Novel by
Arsenicjade(
arsenicjade)
Frank/Gerard, Frank/Mikey, , Mikey/Pete, Brendon/Ryan, Spencer/Bob, Jon/Pete, Gerard/JC (chasez)
This 'novel' is made up of five interconnected novella and novel length stories (between 20,000 and 50,000 words, apx.), each of which can be read on it's own, but which are more fun read as a whole. It's pretty fucking epic. I'll admit that what sold me on this story (at least to start) was the Gerard/JC pairing, but Arsenicjade has always been one of my favourite popslash authors, so I was also really excited to see that she was writing bandslash.
Youngest member or not, when he joins the band, Frank is old enough to know he's getting himself into trouble. It's good
trouble, so far as he can tell, but trouble all the same, because all either Way brother has to do to get him to pay attention is to breathe, and generally Frank is harder to impress than that. He is actually, for the most part, not terribly interested in people. People are largely stupid.
Tragically for Frank, neither Mikey nor Gerard is. Even more tragically, Gerard has eyes that make Frank want to write lyrics, which isn't really his thing.
Mikey has hipbones and hands and cheekbones and a jaw line, but Frank pretends he doesn't, because there is trouble and then there is trouble, and the Ways are the latter, pure and simple.
Please try not to die in a fire by
dysintegrationBob/Frank
"We have to switch bunks," Ray says, and Bob peers over the top of Us Weekly (Mikey's) at him.
"I'm serious. Apparently it is —" Ray takes a deep breath, as if what he's about to say is either very long or patently ridiculous, and Bob immediately knows this is Frank's fault. "Apparently it is a danger to your well-being for you to be on the top bunk. So we need to switch."Happy Little Bluebirds Fly by
mceeFrank/Gerard
Ficlet.
underwear.Signify by
Arsenicjade(
arsenicjade)
Frank Iero, Jon Walker
Gen
"Our guitars have super-powers." Bend Over Boyfriend by
sinsenseFrank/Jamia
Het, pegging
She's actually looking for Pirates of the Caribbean when she finds the other DVD. The boys are out doing something, she didn't even ask, and she's too tired to go out and be sociable. She just wantsJohnny Depp and microwave popcorn, but she can't find the damn movie. She thinks she has, when she feels the edge of a DVD box in the back, behind a messy pile of other movies. It takes some careful handling to get it out without toppling the whole stack over, but she manages. It's not Pirates of the Caribbean, though. It's Bend Over Boyfriend 2.
Of course she watches it.Fall Out of What I Fell In by Rhiannon (
cheshireempress)
Frank/Gerard, Gerard/Mikey, Gerard/Frank/Mikey
Gerard focuses the vast majority of his stage play on Frank, but sometimes he ends up next to Mikey-- usually when Mikey's been blending too far into the background and Gerard wants to draw him out. He'll go down on his knees in front of his little brother, or pretend to bite his neck, or lick
him.
And maybe it shouldn't
be, but it's the hottest thing Frank's ever seen.Give Me More by
wearemanyRyan/Brendon
"So it's all about this, like, transsexual, you know, and she's --"
They're on the lawn outside Spencer's grandmother's house, waiting because she's making Spencer try on a suit for a wedding, and Ryan looks up from the grass he's tearing into long narrow strips.
"You should just read it," Ryan says. "I think you -- of anyone you would like it. Really it's about what happens when people hate themselves. When you let the world make you believe you should hate yourself."
Brendon sits up. "I don't hate myself."
Ryan ties two splinters of grass in a knot, his long fingers looping around and his lips pulled tight.
where we went wrong by
softlyforgottenRyan/Spencer
to tell the truth spencer would rather be inside, would rather be watching TV or maybe trying out that new game his dad got him for his birthday that he hasn’t had the chance to play yet, but there’s this unfortunate thing, right, where when ryan stands on his doorstep and twists his t-shirt in his fingers and says hey, you wanna—
well, spencer doesn’t really know how to say no.
Et Tu by
impertinencePete/Patrick
Because the thing is, Pete doesn't write the songs. He writes fragments, and then Patrick looks at those fragments and puts them together and suddenly they mean
something, and that's what Patrick means to Pete. That's what Patrick is.
Sometimes Pete gives him scraps of paper--shit scribbled on the back of receipts, decorating the edge of the kids' menu coloring paper he always requests at TGI Friday's--and Patrick always blinks down at it, lips pursed, before saying something like, "You know, you could just stop calling her."
Light by
synchronikMikey-centric, Frank/Gerard
Synchronik is another of those from popslash fandom that is now writing bandslash, which I pretty much love A LOT. This story, though, makes my heart ache to read. And it always makes me cry.
Mikey had always known that life wasn't fair, but that knowledge was never so painful as it was when he watched his brother kiss his best friend on the mouth.Ride by
synchronikFrank/Gerard, Mikey/OMC
The coolest place ever, in the middle of nowhere.
"It's a punk rock bed and breakfast" Everyday Mysteries in the Summertime by
wax_jismMikey/Pete, Gerard, Frank
AU
Pete's nodding eagerly. "It just pisses me off that I'm like too young? Ten years too young. Way to be a fucking infant when all that stuff went down. What do we have now? Missed out on grunge--" </p>"Britpop--"
"Thank fuck we missed out on Vanilla Ice--"
They both crack up at the same time, and Pete's laugh is loud and braying. Mikey's got this really stupid thing where he snorts and the rest of his laughter sounds like he's about to choke--just him giggling is enough to drive Frank to fucking fits of hilarity--but it's kind of drowned out by the donkey bray, so that part is pretty rad.
"Man, man," Pete gasps, "being retro is such a fucking hassle, but at least we have, you know, options. We can take the pretty and leave the scuzz. It wasn't all Kurt Cobain genius back then."
Of All The Angles by
ofkitchensinksBob/Mikey
er. wingfic?
it's not like bob woke up one morning with wings. bob wakes up every morning with wings, and sometimes there are feathers in his mouth and sometimes he's so warm he can barely breathe. he tries not to think anything of it, really, except they tend to get in the way and bob's easily annoyed by things he can't change.
it doesn't occur to him that the guys in my chem don't know until gerard catches him with his sweatshirt off. his t-shirt is thin and white, and his wings are a faint outline underneath it, soft gray and just peeking out under the hem. bob says hello, and that's when gerard steps closer, squints.
"are those--?" he asks.wanted to be your by
provetheworstPete/Patrick, others
Boarding School AU
Pete Wentz is just something that happens to people. Like a tornado or a lightning strike, he's sudden and nearly impossible to avoid. Maybe he's more like puberty, something weird and awkward that everyone goes through. Patrick's not sure which he'd rather believe -- natural disaster or just a phase.
It takes Patrick a while to realize this, since it takes Patrick a while to learn that Pete Wentz actually existsSixteen Tons (How Frank Made It Happen) by
bexlessFrank/Gerard, Brendon/Ryan
Working Girl AU for
reel_bandThe first thing Frank does when he gets into work is give Brendon a huge bunch of flowers and an even huger hug.
The second thing Frank does when he gets into work is send an email to ‘Wentz Industries: All Users’ that says, MATT PELLISIER IS A SLEAZOID PIMP WITH A TINY LITTLE DICK.
The third thing Frank does when he gets into work is sit in Ray-in-HR’s office for the third time since he joined the company, watching Ray-in-HR’s crazy hair bob a little bit with every word he says.
“Frank,” Ray-in-HR says meaningfully. “Frank, Frank, Frank.”
“I know,” says Frank, head in his hands.
Ray-in-HR says, “You don't get ahead in this world by calling your boss a pimp.”What you don't know by
thehousekeeperPete/Patrick
Things Pete has learned about his band mates that he didn't know before they went on tour: Miss Cleo Was An Ametuer by
impertinenceFrank/Mikey, psychic!Gerard
Frank is the first to figure it out, because Frank is a genius.
Or at least, that's how Frank always starts the story. Gerard starts it with "so one day Frank did something fucking moronic", which is more or less the truth.
Because what Frank does is this: during the show, he decides to up the ante a little. You know, make 'em scream a little louder. So he grabs his guitar, swings it above his head...and hits Gerard.Catch by
iphiginia939Ryan/Pete, Spencer/Patrick
AU. Very strange, but awesome.
"You've been stalking me
?"
Ryan couldn't tell if Pete sounded impressed or horrified. He chose to take it as the former 'til he heard otherwise. "Um. Yes? But just from, like, afar. I don't know where you live or anything."
"But you know where I work."
Ryan flushed, but didn't look away. He nodded.The Year of Living Safely by
stele3Gerard, Mikey
Gen
Gerard nods, says, "I kind of wanted to hate your guts," and promptly cringes again. God, they have a shoot in two days. He wants a drink. "I mean, I totally don't. You're cool – I just wanted to, is all."
Bob quirks his eyebrows. "It's the beard, huh?"
"What?"
"The beard. People say it's evil."
Gerard eyes it. "It's… kinda devious-looking, yeah."
"Good." Bob drags on his cigarette, blows a smoke ring. It's kind of cool. "Like to keep people guessing.The Une Femme 'Verse by
superspleen and
fallingfortruthFrank/Gee, Mikey
AU
This is a girl!gerard story, but its not genderswap or always-been-a-girl, rather, Gerard(Gwen) is non-op m-to-f transgender. And it isn't at all cracky or shticky, its just really, really
good. This story is
realistic; it doesn't ignore the realities of the situation, or skip the odd and uncomfortable bits.
"I'm- a friend of Mikey's." Frank finds his smile somewhere, crooked and a little stunned, and he holds his hand out to Gee. "I don't think I've met you. I mean. I know
I haven't met you." Mikey, she's
beautiful. Why the fuzzy heck haven't you told me about her?
Gee only hesitates a moment before taking Frank's hand and giving it a cute little shake, carefully soft, her manicured nails short and maybe the slightest bit smudgy with ink. Her smile's quirky and crooked as she looks down, at their hands, and then back up at Frank, through the long sweep of her lashes. "I'm Gwen, Mikey's cruel taskmistress and sometime conveyance. It's nice to meet you, Frank."You Lost Me At Hello by
normalhumanbeinPatrick/Spencer, Pete/Ryan
The not-pornstar!AU
“Oh, good, you’re still here,” Spencer says when he barges into the studio moments after Patrick has arrived.
“Hi.”
“I’m scheduled to be in here tomorrow? I’m dubbing? When I told Gabe I couldn’t work tomorrow, I didn’t mean I wasn’t feeling pretty.” Spencer is talking and ignoring Patrick simultaneously, rather than doing his usual thing of ignoring Patrick and looking prettily sullen. According to the wall chart Brendon made, this means that Spencer is upset and wants to ask for help, but is unsure how to do so.
“Can I help?”
I Will Let You Sleep by
imogenediseaseSpencer/Jon
It was just, sometimes, he knew it was going to rain in three days, hard enough that it was hard to see, or that Brendon would break Ryan's favourite eyeliner stick before a show in Vancouver. He never tried to stop any of it, never did anything about it, really, he just let it happen and tried his best to ignore it.
But the thing was, when Spencer turned seventeen, he started having dreams about this guy. Social Activism (or how to make the world a better place by kissing Spencer Smith) by
airgodslvSpencer, Gerard, others
“This is political,” Gerard announces, and kisses him.and i say it's all right by
thirdonebetweenBredon/Spencer
And then? They go to the beach.
Graffiti by
megyalPete/Patrick
"What?" Patrick says, blinking at the graffiti written on the back of the bus. "Who the fuck wrote this here? What the hell does it even say?"Anywhere You Let It Go by
skoosiepantsPete/Patrick, Spencer/Brendon
Also, there might be unicorns.
“Look, look
,” Patrick said, exasperated, “I’m not gay, okay? I’m not gay, I’m not in love with Pete
—”
“You’re—” Jon struggled upright, leaning back on one hand. “You’re in love with Pete?”
“Huh,” Brendon said. He scratched his chin, staring into the middle distance. “Okay, yeah, I can see it.”
“I’m not
,” Patrick stressed, tugging his hat down lower and crossed his arms over his chest.
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