ext_79605 ([identity profile] desfinado.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2011-07-28 07:02 pm
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Cinderella, She Seems So Easy by kat_lair (NC-17)

Fandom: BANDOM
Pairing: Gerard/Mikey
Length: 9,600 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] kat_lair
Author Website: author's masterlist of fic
Why this must be read: This is, hands down, the best incest story I have ever read in any fandom. Incest is a complex thing to write, and usually requires suspending all disbelief; this, story, however, treats it with such realism and honesty, it blows me away.

Mikey finds himself walking right into one of Gerard's personal kinks, entirely by accident, and things spiral downwards from there. He makes attempts, puts himself out there, just to see - never making a move, because it would be too much to risk, but just to see. [livejournal.com profile] kat_lair is not only a fantastic writer but a spectacular poet, so she brings such vivid imagery and feeling into this story, honouring just how complex things are because they're brothers, because there's so much riding on this. And when they slip and finally break, it makes your stomach bottom out and your breath catch in your throat - it is really, really, not a story to be missed.


Excerpt:

Mikey knows the exact moment Gerard sees him, his gaze following the line of Frank’s extended arm and landing on Mikey with an almost physical weight. His eyes grow wide and then narrow in recognition as he takes in what Mikey is wearing. There’s a half a second when Mikey actually thinks Gerard is going to miss a line but he spits out the end of the verse like it’s something foul and soul-stealing.

Mikey feels hot and feverish all over but he
has to know, has to know so he keeps his eyes on Gerard even though everything in him wants to look down in apology. But he’s done nothing wrong, nothing that couldn’t be explained away, not yet, and if Gerard doesn’t—

There. A deliberate once-over, Gerard’s eyes travelling up and down his body, lingering on hips and neck just like that night and fuck fuck, the look he’s giving Mikey is neither brotherly nor particularly friendly.

Their eyes meet for a split second when they both stop moving and breathing, but then Gerard wrenches his gaze away with a visible effort, stalking to the other end of the stage.

The rest of the concert is a confused mix of
oh god, he wants me too and what the fuck did I just do.

Gerard takes out his — Mikey doesn’t even know; anger, frustration? — on everything and everyone else, while Mikey stands to the side and watches his brother do his very best to bring a crowd of scene kids to the brink of an orgasm.

Gerard plasters himself all over Ray’s back for the chorus, goes to his knees in front of Bob’s drum kit, crowds Frank until he pushes Gerard to the floor with a feral grin on his face. It’s clear that while his band has no idea what is going on, they’re happy to just roll with it.

Gerard prowls across the stage like he plans on having sex with it, leaning into the sea of reaching hands while he screams about love in a voice on the edge of breaking. He sings like he’ll die if he doesn’t, every other word stretching into a filthy moan; runs his hands over his own body, slow and obscene.

Not once does he look at Mikey.



Cinderella, She Seems So Easy