crack_van | Tupperware, by neveralarch (R)

Fandom: WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE
Pairing: Cecil/Carlos
Length: 8,160 words
Author on LJ:

neveralarch
Author Website: works on AO3; Dreamwidth; Tumblr
Warnings: Mild body horror, swearing, explicit sex, and canon-typical weirdness.
Notes: D/s
Why this must be read:

This is one of a spate of fanfics posted in September/October 2013 featuring Cecil as a service top who decides that Carlos needs looking after. I picked this one to recommend because it seems seasonally appropriate, what with the leftovers and the big birds. Well, not exactly birds...

At some point Carlos promised Cecil that he wouldn't pull any more all-nighters. He agreed that all-nighters were a game for teenaged undergrads with a paper due and not for thirty-something researchers who had eight months left on their latest grant. The science would be there in the morning.

That was before the crane cough hit.

The crane cough wasn't deadly, not directly. You just started coughing, and then sprouting feathers, and then talons, and then you started trying to peck everyone who came near you with your brand-new beak. The fatalities were all pecking deaths.

Gripping as the race to find a cure for the epidemic is, what really grabbed me were the delicate negotiations between Cecil and Carlos, as they figure out how far Cecil can go and how much Carlos can take.

“Tupperware” on AO3