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Synchronicity by Jericho (R)
Fandom: POPSLASH
Pairing: Howie/Nick
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jericho1
Author Website: Sweet & Low
Why this must be read: This story is one of my favorites when it comes to this pairing. Nick especially is so wonderful here - there's a vulnerability to him that seems very true to life, especially because he hardly ever lets it show. Throughout the story he tries to get over Howie after their split, even by trying to 'find his angels' so to speak, and it's written in such a soft, reflective manner that my heart just goes out to him. Personally I'm a sucker for stories where you can sense how much the characters want each other, even if it's never said, and this story does that so beautifully. It's a sequel to Schism, and while you don't need to read that to follow this story, I'd definitely recommend you do, because it's every bit as gorgeous.
Nick figured he did a pretty good job of putting himself back together again. Like Humpty Dumpty. A little glue in the form of a new girlfriend, and it didn't matter if he rarely saw her. She did the trick. A little varnish in the form of staying in his room, finding his own things to do, creating his own world that not only didn't include Howie, but it didn't really include any of them. The new separate busses made it easier to drift in and out, from their existence into his own, and after awhile, he actually started to have fun.
He read. Nick was never a big reader. Reading, he figured, was something functional you had to do to get from one place to the next, like driving a car. It was good to know how to do it, but it wasn't the sort of thing you'd do for fun. Then they stopped at an open air market in Santa Monica, where a library was selling books for a quarter apiece, and he bought six of them. One was called "Famous Last Words" and was a compilation of the last words of famous and infamous people, like the general who said "From that distance, they couldn't hit an eleph--." Another was called "Blind Items," which was about the gay editor of a porn magazine who was dating the star of a Baywatch-type show, and everywhere they went, they had to run from the press. Nick's favorite was a worn paperback called "How to Talk to Your Angels," and he devoured it.
Synchronicity
Pairing: Howie/Nick
Author on LJ:
jericho1Author Website: Sweet & Low
Why this must be read: This story is one of my favorites when it comes to this pairing. Nick especially is so wonderful here - there's a vulnerability to him that seems very true to life, especially because he hardly ever lets it show. Throughout the story he tries to get over Howie after their split, even by trying to 'find his angels' so to speak, and it's written in such a soft, reflective manner that my heart just goes out to him. Personally I'm a sucker for stories where you can sense how much the characters want each other, even if it's never said, and this story does that so beautifully. It's a sequel to Schism, and while you don't need to read that to follow this story, I'd definitely recommend you do, because it's every bit as gorgeous.
Nick figured he did a pretty good job of putting himself back together again. Like Humpty Dumpty. A little glue in the form of a new girlfriend, and it didn't matter if he rarely saw her. She did the trick. A little varnish in the form of staying in his room, finding his own things to do, creating his own world that not only didn't include Howie, but it didn't really include any of them. The new separate busses made it easier to drift in and out, from their existence into his own, and after awhile, he actually started to have fun.
He read. Nick was never a big reader. Reading, he figured, was something functional you had to do to get from one place to the next, like driving a car. It was good to know how to do it, but it wasn't the sort of thing you'd do for fun. Then they stopped at an open air market in Santa Monica, where a library was selling books for a quarter apiece, and he bought six of them. One was called "Famous Last Words" and was a compilation of the last words of famous and infamous people, like the general who said "From that distance, they couldn't hit an eleph--." Another was called "Blind Items," which was about the gay editor of a porn magazine who was dating the star of a Baywatch-type show, and everywhere they went, they had to run from the press. Nick's favorite was a worn paperback called "How to Talk to Your Angels," and he devoured it.
Synchronicity