Get Up and Go by inlovewithnight (Teen and Up)

[gorgeousnerd]

Fandom: BANDOM (My Chemical Romance)
Pairing: None
Length: About 6000 words.
Author on AO3: inlovewithnight

Why this must be read: Because it's pure happiness in fic form? Because it's an extremely unlikely idea - Mikey Way running a marathon and an ultramarathon - executed perfectly? Because, as inlovewithnight says in the end notes, "Picture Mikey Way in little running shorts. Just picture it"? If those aren't enough of a hook, I don't know what would be.

Summary

Mikey Way: Ultramarathon Runner.

Excerpt

"I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna walk there instead of driving." He put the keys down and went to find his sneakers. Actual good supportive athletic-bullshit sneakers, which Gerard had made him buy during the whole pre-tour gym-going phase. He laced them up carefully and stood there for a minute, looking at his feet.

Piglet put her paw on his knee and huffed at him.

"This is LA," he told her. "It's entirely possible that walking there might kill me."

She didn't look too worried, so he scritched behind her ears, told her to be good, and left the house.

Half a block out of his driveway, he realized that all of the other people on the sidewalks were not walking. They were jogging. Jogging was the thing, and him wandering along with his hands in his pockets was profoundly out of place. They were looking at him like he was weird.

So he picked up a shuffling semi-run for the next three blocks. His knees hurt like a son of a bitch when he stopped, but the thing where his pulse was racing and his blood was sliding hot and fast under his skin--that was a lot like being on stage. Same adrenaline rush. That was kind of cool.

Get Up and Go