crack_van | I hope our time and place match again soon, by Psilent (a.k.a. HereThereBeFic) (PG)

Fandom: WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE
Pairing: Gen, Dana/Cecil friendship
Length: currently two parts, combined wordcount ~4,000
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: on Tumblr; works on AO3
Notes: spoilers for “Dana” (ep. 30) in part 1, and “The Sandstorm” (eps. 19A & B) in part 2
Why this must be read:

The life expectancy of the average Night Vale Community Radio intern falls somewhere between Star Trek redshirt and Spın̈al Tap drummer. So far, Dana is beating the odds. Why would she take the risk? How would Cecil react to an intern who lasts more than one episode?

So she gets why it’s her, and maybe it should make things bittersweet, but she hasn’t gotten close to anyone since high school because Mickey vanished and Ramea slipped and Marianna sat in the back of a police cruiser and slammed herself against the doors and howled louder than the sirens, and Cecil interviewed a Hooded Figure and he talks on public radio about things no one else dares to think on too loudly and he walked into a vortex and walked back out with bruises and ruined shoes, and Dana is pretty sure he gets it, too.

“I hope our time and place match again soon” (link to series page)