High School Alternate Universe - Iphignia939 (R)

[agirlnamedfia.livejournal.com]

Fandom: BANDOM - ensemble with a focus on MCR
Pairing: Frank/Gerard mostly, but background past!Pete/Mikey, Mikey/Alicia, Branden/Jepha and John/Jesse
Length: No idea, but I'd estimate...15-20k
Author on LJ: iphignia939
Author Website: unknown
Summary: Me: No, seriously, Frank is really fucking pretty. God, *please* tell me someone's done an AU where Gerard and Frank are in a Catholic boarding school and they secretly meet up in the back of the library and make out, hands clutching each other's waists while they kiss softly and talk dirty to each other under the watchful eye of God.
xoverau: It's one thirty in the morning Christmas, and I have to be to work by eight AM, and I wasn't going to even sign in to LJ, but in fact I was hurled there by the desire to go OMGUHWIBBLEDROOLPRETTY over [that] and offer to write you just about anything your heart could desire in exchange for THAT FIC.

Why this must be read: As you can gather from the summary, the concept of this fic is pretty simple. It's a series of shorter stories that create an AU where bandom goes to high school together, alternating stories about Frank and Gerard with stories about various other people. It's a novel concept, but the reason why this story is so brilliant (despite the fact that it doesn't really have much in the way of plot, and it's not technically finished) is the world-building.

Ever read an AU where everything was so amazing and awesome, you really just want to live in it and never leave? Yeah, that's how this one is. Somehow, in the space of 10 individual stories, Iphignia manages to create a world that has pretty much all of bandom in it, has background stories and characterisation for 75% of the guys (and girls) and is enganging and amusing and awesome to boot.

If it was at this school, I might consider going back to high school. Maybe. That's how amazing this story is. (Fair warning: this story has been labelled WIP by the author and hasn't been updated since 2006, so it's unlikely to be finished. But so worth it.)



“How many of these do we have left, anyway?”

Gerard looks at him for a long minute, then looks over Frank’s shoulder and nods towards the front of the library. Frank glances back – and holy shit, there are, like, four more fucking carts full. *Full.*

”It’s a good thing we don’t have plans,” he says without thinking.

“Or lives,” Gerard adds, but when Frank glances up, he’s trying really hard not to smile. Frank feels something in his stomach unknot at that, because yeah, they’re stuck inside reshelving books when they could be doing *anything else ever*, but A) Mr. Wallace never found those frogs they busted out of the bio lab, and B) they’re not suspended. Things could be worse.

“Shut up,” Frank mutters under his breath, but he’s grinning when he says it. There’s no way to be serious on a day like this, when he’s stuck in the library with his best friend and everyone else is gone, and no one, not even Mrs. Dobson, is in a position to see him—

He turns suddenly and tilts his head, kissing Gerard on the mouth.

-- well. To see him doing *this*.


There's no single tag or single post on her journal where she links the parts, so I'll round them up for you here:
01. the wonders and undiscovered joys of the Dewey Decimal system
02. try again
03. after-school special
04. word of mouth
05. breathing exercises
06. scenes from an unconvential romance
07. waffle house
08. four days
09. blank canvas
10. ladies' night

Comments

[agirlnamedfia.livejournal.com]

I definitely consider it to be the former. It reads to me like a series of one-shots that are self-contained, but need to be read in order. But there's no grand overlapping plot and there's no cliffhanger in the end, which I why I thought it'd be okay to rec here. If it's not, thought, let me know and I'll take it down. :)

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no, that's definitely fine, I just couldn't tell from the way you categorized it in the post. I think of that more in the sense of being a series, I guess, rather than a WiP.