Two Timbertone Drabbles

[randomling]

Written for the It's Gonna Be May challenge and submitted to fanfic100.

Summary: Justin doesn't like to lose.
Warnings: Boybands, RPF.
Also: Unbeta'd.

Consolation Prize

“Settle down, J,” Joey says. He settles himself on the couch, comfortably close to Justin, and Justin looks at him. “It's just a game.”

Chris and Lance are celebrating, loudly and obnoxiously, on the other side of Justin's pool room, shooting champagne and hollering. Justin knows it's just a game, but he's still pissed that he lost. That they lost.

He could blame Joey. But Justin took that last shot, and missed.

Joey slips an arm around Justin's shoulder. “Lance may have won the game,” he whispers, leaning in close. “But I bet Chris won't suck his dick tonight.”

Summary: Justin's just a kid, really.
Warnings: Boybands, RPF
Also: Unbeta'd.

Angel

It's moments like these that Joey remembers Justin's still a kid; the youngest, not even sixteen. It's January, though – almost Joey's birthday; almost Justin's, too – and they've finally gotten their first day off in weeks. It's snowing.

Chris, of course, is making snowballs, although Joey doesn't realize until one hits him square in the back. Joey turns and drops into a crouch to gather some snow of his own. Soon the other guys will notice, too.

For now, though, JC and Lance are sitting and talking. And Justin is grinning to himself, alone, on his back, making a snow angel.

Comments

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice. There's something so friendly and familiar about this pairing, and you've managed to get that across in two very different ways here -- but with an interesting theme of isolation. Lovely!

[wanderingwombat.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm really, really fond of this pairing (these are in fact fanfic100 fics, I just haven't got around to posting them there yet) and I feel just the same about them. Friendly and familiar is a great description. (I should push my boundaries at some point and see how hard it is to write a Grand Angsty Timbertone Romance.)

So glad you enjoyed them!

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

I should push my boundaries at some point and see how hard it is to write a Grand Angsty Timbertone Romance.

HOMG YES. Because, see -- for most people, I like the friendly & familiar dynamic of timbertone because I think that's as far as they can go with it. You, however, have that sort of writing style that ... well, there's this certain tone that I get from a lot of Asian cinema; this delicate understanding of how beautiful something can be even (or maybe especially) when there's a thread of sadness or melancholy running through it.

And you have such a great touch for that particular feeling that if you did take on a deeper, more emotionally complex timbertone story you'd completely knock it out of the park. And it wouldn't even have to be epic-length! *g*

[wanderingwombat.livejournal.com]

Wow. I wandered around in a daze after reading this for the first time, for days, going, "I'm like Asian cinema!" That kinda rocks, thank you!

Well, having tried the Angsty Timbertone (and really only managed to make it angsty by shoehorning Lance in there, really) I'm keen to keep trying and see if I can hit the vibe I'm after. These self-challenges are interesting to me and I'm hoping that they're making me a better writer. Although I may just be going over the same old "let's have as much angst as possible!" ground...

Anyway. Watch this space - and thank you for the encouragement, you're such a fab cheerleader!