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kat_lair ([personal profile] kat_lair) wrote2013-03-27 12:06 pm
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Bandom Ficlet: Storm Rising

Title: Storm Rising
Author: Mistress Kat /  [livejournal.com profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Bandom
Pairing: Implied Gerard/Mikey
Rating: PG
Word count: 251
Warnings: Implied incest
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing.

Summary: “I don’t want to wait!” Mikey shouts, his heart beating frantically, like a butterfly in a storm, under Gerard’s fingertips.

Author notes: I wanted to write some ficlets. [livejournal.com profile] pushkin666 gave the title & pairing as a prompt. Result.



The clouds are the colour of graphite and the steady pressure feels like a rope over Gerard’s throat.

It’s Mikey who’s choking though, his heaving breaths caught somewhere between tears and anger. “I can’t stay here anymore,” he says.

Gerard kneels next to him on the gravel, in the criss-cross shadow of the jungle gym, standing above them like a skeleton of some alien monster. “You won’t have to,” he promises, like he always does. “We’ll go as—”

“As soon as I turn eighteen,” Mikey finishes, bitterly.  “You always say that!” He’s holding himself like he’s about to break, arms wrapped around his middle. His eyes are too bright and he’s shivering in his thin t-shirt.

“Mikey...” Gerard raises his hands, wanting to touch but unsure where. His fingers flutter over the curve of Mikey’s spine, the sharp jut of collarbones where the skin is damp and translucent.

“I don’t want to wait!” Mikey shouts, his heart beating frantically, like a butterfly in a storm, under Gerard’s fingertips. He looks like he wants to flinch away but he presses closer instead. There’s nowhere else for either of them to go, after all. “I want to go now. Gee, please.”

The air tastes of electricity, the sky kissing its brother earth with a bone-deep crack of thunder. Gerard bites his own tongue to stop himself from saying ‘yes, yes, anything’, Mikey’s mouth open and pleading against his neck.

The rain, when it comes, is hard and fast, and dirty like love.



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[identity profile] moth2fic.livejournal.com 2013-03-27 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Lovely! That made me feel better in a twisted kind of way - I hope you are right and others will continue to write bandom!!

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2013-03-27 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! It was good to write short ficlets again, something I could start and finish on one sitting!

I'm certain people will keep writing bandom. MCR may have broken up but FOB is freshly back from hiatus after all...

[identity profile] dreamersdare.livejournal.com 2013-03-27 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck, I love the contrasts in this - the environment so hard and unforgiving, Mikey so fragile in the centre and Gerard helplessly trapped between the two. Gorgeous hon, just gorgeous

Am not at all browsing LJ to avoid writing learning reflection. Not at all

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2013-03-27 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you very much! I could picture the scene really vividly - the two of them kneeling on some derelict playground, storm clouds overhead - so I'm glad the feeling came through.

Ahaha I feel you, I'll be doing the same in a couple of weeks
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[personal profile] akamine_chan 2013-03-28 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Lovely - stark and beautiful.

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2013-03-28 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you very much. It was quite a vivid image in my head so I'm glad it transferred to the story :)

[identity profile] pushkin666.livejournal.com 2013-03-28 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
oh I do like that. The imagery is gorgeous.

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2013-03-28 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you do. Your prompt was very inspirational :) Thank you!

[identity profile] desfinado.livejournal.com 2013-04-01 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
Mmmmmmm yes...

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2013-04-01 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
A satisfying response, thank you :)
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[identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com 2013-04-05 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
This is gorgeous.

I love the way you write them both.

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2013-04-07 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you very much. It was a treat to go back to writing waycest, I think it will always be one of those beautifully fucked-up-except-not pairings I'll return to from time to time.

[identity profile] jez-two.livejournal.com 2013-05-29 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
Beautiful :)

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2013-05-29 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you very much!