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You Get What You Need by Cori Lannam (PG-13)
Fandom: Sports Night
Pairing: Dan/Casey, Natalie/Jeremy
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marzilla
Author's Webpage: Cori Lannam's Fan Fiction
Why this must be read:
This story starts in a place of pain for any true Dan/Casey shipper - they guys are barely able to be in the same room together. No banter, no love, no pure joy in each other's presence. It's so bad that Dan takes an assignment to Nigeria to cover a soccer championship, swallowing his hatred of soccer for the opportunity to get some distance and hopefully repair their friendship when he returns. Natalie goes with him, and suddenly they're in over their heads.
Cori delivers a story that's filled with suspense and anxiety. The characterizations of Jeremy and Dana are particularly strong, especially for a fandom that has a tendency to paint those two with broad strokes of geekiness and neuroses. I worried about Natalie and Danny, about Casey and Jeremy helpless in New York, and about how my two favorite guys were going to get themselves back on track. It's a totally engrossing story, and I heartily recommend it.
Dan did look at him this time, but cautiously, as if he suspected it was a set-up to something nasty. It hurt, just for a moment, to see that look from his best friend. Then Casey sternly reminded himself that this was the way of things now. This was the way they had wanted it and, after two full weeks of it, the minute and a half before air time was hardly enough to change anything now. "Yeah," Dan finally replied, voice cool. "Can't wait to get the hell out of here. Nigeria should be a nice change. And I hear the hotel is real nice."
He held Dan's gaze for a moment, then looked back down at his papers as stoicly as he could. While Casey figured Dan would have been the one roped into going anyway, this wasn't the way it was supposed to happen. Dan wasn't supposed to like it. He wasn't supposed to want to get away from Casey as badly as Casey wanted him to get away. They were supposed to fight it out, day by day until, at the bitter end, one of them, preferably Dan, was coerced into miserably packing his bags and heading into exile.
Dan wasn't supposed to want to leave him. And, when all was said and done, Casey wasn't supposed to want him to leave. They were partners. It wasn't right.
He sighed a little and shifted in his chair, wishing he could ease the deep feeling of discontent inside him. Beside him, Dan was laughing at something Kim had just said from the control room. "If I meet that cute Dutch player you like, you want me to get his autograph for you?" Casey couldn't hear Kim's reply, but Dan laughed again. "Okay, you got it," he said. "But I think that might be prohibited under the Geneva Convention."
"Sixty seconds live." Dave's disembodied voice said over the PA. Casey took a deep breath and tried to clear his thoughts. He didn't want Danny to leave. Not that he suddenly had a plan for restoring their friendship or anything, but if Dan was all the way across the ocean, there wasn't even the possibility that a reconciliation might spontaneously occur. And without that possibility, Casey found himself skating the edge of a very real and unfamiliar panic.
In ten years, they had never been through anything like this. Arguments aplenty, annoyance on a daily basis, but, for the first time in ten years, there was no joy or comfort there. And it terrified Casey that he could see no light at the end of the tunnel.
Worst of all, he wasn't even sure anymore whose fault the whole thing was.
You Get What You Need
There's also an NC-17 sequel at the author's page.
Pairing: Dan/Casey, Natalie/Jeremy
Author on LJ:
marzillaAuthor's Webpage: Cori Lannam's Fan Fiction
Why this must be read:
This story starts in a place of pain for any true Dan/Casey shipper - they guys are barely able to be in the same room together. No banter, no love, no pure joy in each other's presence. It's so bad that Dan takes an assignment to Nigeria to cover a soccer championship, swallowing his hatred of soccer for the opportunity to get some distance and hopefully repair their friendship when he returns. Natalie goes with him, and suddenly they're in over their heads.
Cori delivers a story that's filled with suspense and anxiety. The characterizations of Jeremy and Dana are particularly strong, especially for a fandom that has a tendency to paint those two with broad strokes of geekiness and neuroses. I worried about Natalie and Danny, about Casey and Jeremy helpless in New York, and about how my two favorite guys were going to get themselves back on track. It's a totally engrossing story, and I heartily recommend it.
Dan did look at him this time, but cautiously, as if he suspected it was a set-up to something nasty. It hurt, just for a moment, to see that look from his best friend. Then Casey sternly reminded himself that this was the way of things now. This was the way they had wanted it and, after two full weeks of it, the minute and a half before air time was hardly enough to change anything now. "Yeah," Dan finally replied, voice cool. "Can't wait to get the hell out of here. Nigeria should be a nice change. And I hear the hotel is real nice."
He held Dan's gaze for a moment, then looked back down at his papers as stoicly as he could. While Casey figured Dan would have been the one roped into going anyway, this wasn't the way it was supposed to happen. Dan wasn't supposed to like it. He wasn't supposed to want to get away from Casey as badly as Casey wanted him to get away. They were supposed to fight it out, day by day until, at the bitter end, one of them, preferably Dan, was coerced into miserably packing his bags and heading into exile.
Dan wasn't supposed to want to leave him. And, when all was said and done, Casey wasn't supposed to want him to leave. They were partners. It wasn't right.
He sighed a little and shifted in his chair, wishing he could ease the deep feeling of discontent inside him. Beside him, Dan was laughing at something Kim had just said from the control room. "If I meet that cute Dutch player you like, you want me to get his autograph for you?" Casey couldn't hear Kim's reply, but Dan laughed again. "Okay, you got it," he said. "But I think that might be prohibited under the Geneva Convention."
"Sixty seconds live." Dave's disembodied voice said over the PA. Casey took a deep breath and tried to clear his thoughts. He didn't want Danny to leave. Not that he suddenly had a plan for restoring their friendship or anything, but if Dan was all the way across the ocean, there wasn't even the possibility that a reconciliation might spontaneously occur. And without that possibility, Casey found himself skating the edge of a very real and unfamiliar panic.
In ten years, they had never been through anything like this. Arguments aplenty, annoyance on a daily basis, but, for the first time in ten years, there was no joy or comfort there. And it terrified Casey that he could see no light at the end of the tunnel.
Worst of all, he wasn't even sure anymore whose fault the whole thing was.
You Get What You Need
There's also an NC-17 sequel at the author's page.