You Only Live Forever In the Lights You Make by fleurdeliser & tuesdaysgone (NC-17)

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Fandom: BANDOM
Pairing: Frank/Gerard/Grant Morrison
Length: 8 stories with a total of 110,800 words, 1 prequel of 8,060 words
Authors on LJ & DW: fleurdeliser & tuesdaysgone / fleurdeliser & tuesdaysgone
Authors on AO3: fleurdeliser & tuesdaysgone

Why this must be read: An album, a video shoot, an overdue encounter. None of them could have imagined what would happen next. The story of three people, three seasons, three continents, and how things begin.

I love what the writers are doing with this relationship. The first story is pretty much a PWP but you can already see hints of the relationship dynamics that the later stories will explore. It's wonderful to get to see grownup people working their way into a relationship. The established pairing between Frank and Gerard being opened up to Grant and slowly becoming a true three-way relationship. Getting to follow the slow growth of emotional as well as physical intimacy between the three of them and the way it interacts with their various insecurities, is absolutely fascinating.

Excerpt from the story:

"See you tomorrow, man!" Ray claps him on the shoulder and heads toward the parking lot. They've been shooting SING all night and Frank's so fucking tired he's loopy. He's pretty sure he tried to do dust angels on the pavement outside at one point. The point is, he's not even sure what's going on around him anymore. Tomorrow, and the rehearsals and everything else that will come with it, seems like a million years away. His mind is a whirl of ray guns and running around pretending to fire them. And standing back and watching while Grant and Gerard got their close-ups for the dramatic death scene.

Frank has eyes, okay, and he's not so tired he hasn't noticed these looks passing between Gerard and Grant. He's not sure how everyone hasn't noticed, actually. For about ten seconds he's just jealous. And then he takes another ten seconds to review everything he knows about Gerard, and about Grant, and he's not surprised at all. Gerard is looking unfairly beautiful right now, carrying himself like a gunslinger, red hair like a flag, but then again, Frank's never surprised when people want Gerard. Usually, though, he ignores it, but this is Grant, and he's a friend, and... well, those looks weren't one-sided. He thinks to himself, 'dude, you can work with this'. He's got to.

"Man, you may as well just go home now," Jon says walking up, nodding toward where Gerard and Grant are still chatting. "At this rate, they'll be at it for hours."

Frank laughs and rolls his eyes. "Hey, thanks for coming out, man. And for all your help on this." He slings an arm around Jon's shoulders and squeezes.

"Wouldn't miss it for the world," Jon says and saunters off in the same direction Ray went.

Frank looks back over to Gerard and Grant. Gerard's clearly just as loopy as Frank, but still wired, gestures getting spastic. Frank saunters over and wraps his arms around Gerard and nuzzles. Like 'Hey. Hi. Here I am.' They've been so busy today he's barely had a chance to stand still, much less anything else. And Gerard just wraps an arm around Frank and keeps talking. But Grant totally looks at Frank and - smirks. Frank's not imagining that. Okay, so Grant's clearly down for whatever. But he's holding back, obviously, waiting to see what Frank does about it. Frank returns the smirk and runs his thumb along this spot on Gerard's neck that makes him shiver, every time. And Gerard does, because yeah, it's a spot for him, but when he doesn't complain like he usually does when Frank starts getting overly handsy in public... that's when Frank knows Gerard realizes something's going on. Frank doesn't do anything more, doesn't say anything. They can wait. He's still thinking.

They're all still in full costume, so they wander back to the RV they're using as a wardrobe trailer. The lot's pretty deserted. Most everyone else has already bailed, and the crew is busy packing up the equipment. Frank waves Grant and Gerard inside; the props person is looking kind of twitchy, and Frank stops her on the pavement outside and says, "Sorry we kept you, go home, we promise we'll put everything back where it belongs." He gets a very dubious look in return. But he leans in farther and says confidentially, "Gerard is here, he's anal as hell about this shit, you saw it this morning! We promise." And he gives her his most earnest expression and smiles, and it works. Everyone leaves. Frank waits out on the pavement for a couple minutes, watching the crew walk back to the vehicles and contemplating having a smoke, wondering what he'll find when he goes inside. It's very quiet. He pulls open the door, letting it click shut behind him. When he sees what's going on, he reaches back and locks it too. Grant has Gerard's jacket down around his elbows so he can't really move his arms and is kissing the hell out of him.

You Only Live Forever In the Lights You Make (Masterlist on LJ) or here (Masterlist on AO3 - also includes various short outtakes)