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Boys Will Always Break Your Heart by fourteencandles (R)
Fandom: Entourage
Pairing: Vince/Eric
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fourteencandles
Author Website: Fanfic Tag on LJ
What is so impressive about "Boys Will Always Break Your Heart" is not that the author took us back to New York instead of planting us firmly in LA, though that is pretty unique. It's not that the author creates an entire neighborhood, an entire universe out of the handful of canon we have about the boys' life in Queeen, though s/he does. It's not that s/he uses the perspective of Eric's mother to tell the story of her son and her son's best friend coming out to their parents, though the grace with which that perspective is developed is pretty phenomenal. It's that, at the end of the day, you come to love Vince and Eric as the boys they really are, not as the personas they have to maintain in LA. There's no pretense, no bullshit, no runaround. They're as far away from LA as they can possibly be and remain in the same country, and the shift in location illuminates aspects of their characters that would otherwise be overlooked.
I can't recommend this story enough, because it's so perfectly in character--it's just the character that's hidden behind all the amusing Hollywood shenanigans of the show. Fourteencandles does a wonderful job of pulling it out and making it real, and it's a wonderful companion to the abusive hilarity of the show itself. Just read it. You won't regret it.
“All right. Love you, Ma,” he says.
“Eric, I love you, too,” she says. She takes a minute to untangle the cord, then hangs the phone up on the wall and smiles. She didn’t ask about the hotel, in part, because it will be nice to have him home. He has always been a sweet boy. Endlessly sweet. She thinks if he’d grown up somewhere else — the middle of the country, maybe, or upstate — maybe it would be more obvious. As it is, the sweetness was buried once he started school, and though he’s always been a good boy — knows better than to talk back to his mother, for one — she knows he comes off harder than he is. Tough. Scrappy, one of the teachers called him. She used to hear him talking with the boys on the stoop, everyone exaggerating, and it used to surprise her to hear her Eric, her earnest, sweet boy, come up with fast little lines that made her gasp while the other boys laughed. But he does all right, now, and there was no other way she could have raised him. Nothing else she could have done.
Boys Will Always Break Your Heart
Pairing: Vince/Eric
Author on LJ::
fourteencandlesAuthor Website: Fanfic Tag on LJ
What is so impressive about "Boys Will Always Break Your Heart" is not that the author took us back to New York instead of planting us firmly in LA, though that is pretty unique. It's not that the author creates an entire neighborhood, an entire universe out of the handful of canon we have about the boys' life in Queeen, though s/he does. It's not that s/he uses the perspective of Eric's mother to tell the story of her son and her son's best friend coming out to their parents, though the grace with which that perspective is developed is pretty phenomenal. It's that, at the end of the day, you come to love Vince and Eric as the boys they really are, not as the personas they have to maintain in LA. There's no pretense, no bullshit, no runaround. They're as far away from LA as they can possibly be and remain in the same country, and the shift in location illuminates aspects of their characters that would otherwise be overlooked.
I can't recommend this story enough, because it's so perfectly in character--it's just the character that's hidden behind all the amusing Hollywood shenanigans of the show. Fourteencandles does a wonderful job of pulling it out and making it real, and it's a wonderful companion to the abusive hilarity of the show itself. Just read it. You won't regret it.
“All right. Love you, Ma,” he says.
“Eric, I love you, too,” she says. She takes a minute to untangle the cord, then hangs the phone up on the wall and smiles. She didn’t ask about the hotel, in part, because it will be nice to have him home. He has always been a sweet boy. Endlessly sweet. She thinks if he’d grown up somewhere else — the middle of the country, maybe, or upstate — maybe it would be more obvious. As it is, the sweetness was buried once he started school, and though he’s always been a good boy — knows better than to talk back to his mother, for one — she knows he comes off harder than he is. Tough. Scrappy, one of the teachers called him. She used to hear him talking with the boys on the stoop, everyone exaggerating, and it used to surprise her to hear her Eric, her earnest, sweet boy, come up with fast little lines that made her gasp while the other boys laughed. But he does all right, now, and there was no other way she could have raised him. Nothing else she could have done.
Boys Will Always Break Your Heart