crack_van | You Are In My Vision, by Cesare (PG)

Fandom: WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE
Pairing: Cecil/Carlos, refs to Carlos/OMC
Length: 1,051 words
Author on LJ:

almostnever
Author Website: cesare on Dreamwidth; codenamecesare on Tumblr; works on AO3
Warnings: Unsafe sex
Notes: Set sometime after “First Date”
Why this must be read:

This is an introspective, retrospective look at our favorite scientist that stretches from his adolescence to his life in Night Vale, and takes an amusing twist towards the end. I really like this version of Carlos, with his awkwardness, his stubbornness, his dedication to his work and his occasional lapses in judgement.

You received a scholarship to your first choice college and stuck with your books and your graphing calculator til a boy asked you if you wanted to hang out sometime, and then if you wanted to come over and watch a movie, and then if you'd mind if he put on some porn, and then if you wanted to trade handjobs. The experience retroactively clarified a lot of the nebulous conflicts of your adolescence.

The next few months saw every rushed shower of your teenage years paid back, and then some, as you discovered clubs and casual sex and codified your taste in porn. You almost endangered your scholarship (or so it felt at the time, though all that really happened was that you got your first ever C.) You caught two minor STDs despite your near clean-room levels of precaution in the bedroom, because you seemed to have some sort of odd mental block that made you forget that sex outside the bedroom also required protection.

“You Are In My Vision” on AO3 and on Tumblr