Green Room by Sinead (PG-13)

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

Fandom: POPSLASH
Pairing: Chris/Lance
Author on LJ: smallbeer
Author Website: Gaypants
Why this must be read: Because the Larry King interview is one of my absolute favourite pieces of footage and this puts the sparkliest and best spin possible on what happened before it.

"There'd been a rumor. Their PR office had gotten a phone call, a heads-up from some sympathetic or meddling insider, which Catherine said "was nothing to worry about, really", but she'd looked worried anyway. She was new, new enough that these kinds of phone calls still unnerved her, made her want to fix it, somehow, to take care of it, to make sure every question that might be asked them was under her careful control. Lance could have told her there was nothing to fix. Lance could have reassured her, Larry King isn't going to out me on national television. Probably."

Green Room

Comments

[turlough]

Yay, you've recced this story! I discovered her(?) site by accident a while ago and this is one of my favourites on it. Definitely an undervalued story.

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

It's one of the stories I keep coming back to because I love how uncertain they both are and the discussion of the bar fight. And because, for me, the brief touching we get at the end is hotter than a lot of NC-17 stuff.

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

God how I love stories from back then. And this story, with what we know now, is so bittersweet and lovely.

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just gorgeous? I love how it still works in canon.