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Might I Have a Bit of Earth & Apastron by theopteryx (NC-17)
Fandom: BANDOM
Pairing: Frank/Gerard, Mikey/Alicia
Length: 14,470 & 26,680 words
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theopteryx
Author Website: Masterlist for Art and Fic
Why this must be read: This is the space AU of my heart! I always like stories set in space but the worldbuilding of this makes it stand in a class of its own. It's a gritty, dirty, incredibly vivid and tangible universe and the characterisations of Gerard the space pirate, his brother Mikey, and Frank the bounty hunter/stowaway are both wonderful and heartbreaking. They're all exactly how I can imagine them being if they'd grown up in this universe. Frank and Gerard's relationship is so fucked up and so right and I love everything about it, from the their mutual trust issues to the banter and the deep love.
Excerpt from the story:
Gerard hated space. Some people thought it was soothing, all that quiet, but it always just seemed to make things louder, like there was more room for the noise to stretch out. He barely remembered living on the planets, anymore. When he managed to dream, though, he always dreamed of suns, so many they filled the sky, burning his skin until he crumbled and turned to ash. He always woke up sweating. It was the only time he was warm on these fucking ships.
He shivered and pulled the blanket tighter around his shoulders. Mikey was passed out in the chair next to him, his body bent in weird ways to fit the lopsided seat. He’d always been good about sleeping anywhere, the fucker.
Gerard rubbed at his eyes and stared at the console. The ships the Joes were using had some crazy navigational system, totally different than the shit Gerard grew up on, but Gerard had taken enough of them over the years to figure them out. They just wanted to look complicated.
They had at least another few hours before they hit The Grit, and he wasn’t going to get any sleep this cycle. He left Mikey asleep in the chair but grabbed the bag by Mikey’s feet and set about sorting through it - singed in a few places where the Joes had got a few hits in on their way out, but mostly intact, and only some of the money’d been burned too much to use.
He paused. He hadn’t noticed back in the office, but Mikey’d nicked a couple of books from the foreman’s shelf. They were shoved at the bottom of the bag and one of them - The Secret Garden - had a dark streak across the spine from one of the blasts.
Gerard awkwardly brushed some of the dirt off the front cover. There was a girl in red on the cover, almost completely faded away, and there was green all around her, practically choking the corners of the drawing. It was an old copy, and cracked when he opened it. It smelled like a book, and Gerard had to resist pressing it against his face and just inhaling. He only vaguely remembered the story - something Elena had read to him, once, back when there were suns.
He had a lot of time to kill before they hit the airspace. Gerard couldn’t help but check over his shoulder before he wiped his palms on his pants and picked up the book and flipped to the first page.
Might I Have a Bit of Earth & Apastron
Pairing: Frank/Gerard, Mikey/Alicia
Length: 14,470 & 26,680 words
Author on LJ:
theopteryxAuthor Website: Masterlist for Art and Fic
Why this must be read: This is the space AU of my heart! I always like stories set in space but the worldbuilding of this makes it stand in a class of its own. It's a gritty, dirty, incredibly vivid and tangible universe and the characterisations of Gerard the space pirate, his brother Mikey, and Frank the bounty hunter/stowaway are both wonderful and heartbreaking. They're all exactly how I can imagine them being if they'd grown up in this universe. Frank and Gerard's relationship is so fucked up and so right and I love everything about it, from the their mutual trust issues to the banter and the deep love.
Excerpt from the story:
Gerard hated space. Some people thought it was soothing, all that quiet, but it always just seemed to make things louder, like there was more room for the noise to stretch out. He barely remembered living on the planets, anymore. When he managed to dream, though, he always dreamed of suns, so many they filled the sky, burning his skin until he crumbled and turned to ash. He always woke up sweating. It was the only time he was warm on these fucking ships.
He shivered and pulled the blanket tighter around his shoulders. Mikey was passed out in the chair next to him, his body bent in weird ways to fit the lopsided seat. He’d always been good about sleeping anywhere, the fucker.
Gerard rubbed at his eyes and stared at the console. The ships the Joes were using had some crazy navigational system, totally different than the shit Gerard grew up on, but Gerard had taken enough of them over the years to figure them out. They just wanted to look complicated.
They had at least another few hours before they hit The Grit, and he wasn’t going to get any sleep this cycle. He left Mikey asleep in the chair but grabbed the bag by Mikey’s feet and set about sorting through it - singed in a few places where the Joes had got a few hits in on their way out, but mostly intact, and only some of the money’d been burned too much to use.
He paused. He hadn’t noticed back in the office, but Mikey’d nicked a couple of books from the foreman’s shelf. They were shoved at the bottom of the bag and one of them - The Secret Garden - had a dark streak across the spine from one of the blasts.
Gerard awkwardly brushed some of the dirt off the front cover. There was a girl in red on the cover, almost completely faded away, and there was green all around her, practically choking the corners of the drawing. It was an old copy, and cracked when he opened it. It smelled like a book, and Gerard had to resist pressing it against his face and just inhaling. He only vaguely remembered the story - something Elena had read to him, once, back when there were suns.
He had a lot of time to kill before they hit the airspace. Gerard couldn’t help but check over his shoulder before he wiped his palms on his pants and picked up the book and flipped to the first page.
Might I Have a Bit of Earth & Apastron