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Lee ([personal profile] randomling) wrote2008-07-16 11:52 pm

This Side Of The Fence

My second entry for Jammin' July.

Summary: Chris keeps an eye out for Justin and Lance.
Warnings: Boybands, RPF.
Also: Thank you to [livejournal.com profile] ephemera_pop for a lovely prompt and [livejournal.com profile] adelate for hand-holding.

This Side Of The Fence

From the other side of the fence, Chris watched. Justin was standing back a little, talking to the farm hand, but he had one hand in the centre of Lance's back. Lance had his arms around the donkey's neck, his face buried in its fur. Honestly, the things they did on their days off.

They spoke decent English here, which was nice, because “day off” should mean they didn't have to struggle with foreign languages. Lynn had even promised them McDonald's later; they had to drive back into Oslo anyway, and Chris was looking forward to familiar fast food. For now, though, they were here. Donkeys and chickens and pigs and horses and cows – JC and Joey were off communing with the cows – and the smell of manure and the pretty farmhand who was clearly putty in Justin's hands. Justin hadn't noticed, though. He was still in his I-only-have-eyes-for-Lance phase.

Chris wished he wouldn't be so fucking obvious about it. They were a boyband. A new, precarious, not-very-successful boyband. They couldn't be groping one another in public all the time.

Across the fence, Justin's hand rubbed down Lance's back. Thankfully, Justin stopped short of grabbing Lance's ass, but it was a damn close call. Lance lifted his face from the donkey's neck and said something that made Justin smile, and the farm hand laugh and pat the donkey on the nose. Justin shook her hand, and she turned away as Justin and Lance turned towards Chris.

“She was beautiful,” Lance was saying as they came into earshot.

“The farm hand?” Justin asked, eyes twinkling, and Lance laughed.

“You idiot,” Lance said affectionately. Their hands brushed against each other briefly, they glanced at each other and smiled, and Chris wanted to grab them both and shake them. Young and in love and completely, completely stupid.

“You're both idiots,” Chris said loudly.

Lance, predictably, looked at the ground, cheeks turning slightly pink. Justin, on the other hand, met Chris's gaze, and in his eyes there was an unspoken challenge. Don't you dare. Chris was the only one who knew about them.

For now.

By the time Lance looked up, the steel in Justin's expression was gone, replaced by his brightest shit-eating grin. “Yeah,” Justin said, getting a foothold to hop the fence. “But you love us anyway.”

Justin hit the ground on Chris's side and turned to help Lance over; sighing, Chris shoved his hands in his pockets, trying not to watch Justin make use of the opportunity to thread his fingers through Lance's, or see Lance's smile. It would be so easy to be mad at them.

Love them anyway, huh?

It was true.

[identity profile] puszysty.livejournal.com 2008-07-16 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, how cute. :) Lambs, not even Chris can resist.

(Did Lambs go visit some lambs on the farm? /bad pun)

[identity profile] wanderingwombat.livejournal.com 2008-10-13 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahaha. I hadn't thought of that!

Thank you for reading, I'm glad you enjoyed it. :D

[identity profile] wanderingwombat.livejournal.com 2008-10-13 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] vaudevilles.livejournal.com 2008-07-17 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Oh SMOOSHCAKES!

I love Chris's understandable frustration and the undercurrents beneath it, and Justin's awareness and pig-headedness and Lance! Lance being so very happy and innocent.

[identity profile] wanderingwombat.livejournal.com 2008-10-13 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, thank you! I love little-happy-innocent baby!Lance, it's fun to write him like that and it seems rare now he's all grown up.

So glad you enjoyed this!

[identity profile] ravenbat.livejournal.com 2008-07-17 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
oh so cute. :)

[identity profile] wanderingwombat.livejournal.com 2008-10-13 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much!
adelate: Min Yoongi with his eyes closed on an orangey yellow background about to take a sip out of a yellow Teema coffee mug (Chris - beauty more than skin deep)

[personal profile] adelate 2008-07-17 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It's so easy to be a hand-holder for something as COMPLETELY ADORABLE as this is. I don't even like Lambs generally! But they're SO CUTE HERE. Awwwh.

[identity profile] wanderingwombat.livejournal.com 2008-10-13 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww I know you don't, so I was totally thrilled that you enjoyed it! See, I will slowly convert the non-Lambs girls, one tiny ficlet at a time. Mwahahahahaha.

Also, mwahahahahaha.

Thank you!
ext_1650: (smug Justin (rikes))

[identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com 2008-07-17 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Donkey! I love donkeys :)

Very lovely ficlet too.

[identity profile] wanderingwombat.livejournal.com 2008-10-13 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much!

And yes, donkeys are made of awesome.
rikes: Snuggling lambs (Our kisses deep and warm)

[personal profile] rikes 2008-07-17 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwww!

[identity profile] wanderingwombat.livejournal.com 2008-10-13 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! :D

[identity profile] llamabitchyo.livejournal.com 2008-07-17 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
You know how totally twisted I've become when I click on the link and half expect it to be Donkey!Justin/Lamb!Lance or something. :)

This was sweet. And I like how the steel shows in Justin's expression and then is gone again when Lance looks up.

[identity profile] sassyrose88.livejournal.com 2008-07-23 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to ask, bc I see it referenced everywhere -- what is the llama fic?

[identity profile] llamabitchyo.livejournal.com 2008-07-23 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, dear. It's a couple different things. If the reference you see is recent (or to "llama porn") it could be something [livejournal.com profile] turps33 and I are writing in which Chris is a llama and Justin and JC get sexy with him. (It started because we were being extremely silly.)

But Lise wrote a fic years ago in which Lance is turned into a llama. (And it's safely porn-free!) I heard references about it for a long time before I ever found it. It's here: http://www.doyourthing.org/lise/pop/lancellama.htm

And then, just recently, [livejournal.com profile] turps33 remixed Lise's fic. It's "Lance turns into a llama" written from Lance's point of view. It's here: http://tamarindball.org/remix6/lise.html

[identity profile] sassyrose88.livejournal.com 2008-07-23 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
thank you so much! I've always wondered.
:)

Amazing icons, btw. TFP :)

[identity profile] wanderingwombat.livejournal.com 2008-10-13 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Hehehehehehehehe! Now I want to write both of those!

I'm glad you liked it, too - thank you! It's so awesome when people pick out bits of your fics that they like. ♥

[identity profile] withdiamonds.livejournal.com 2008-07-19 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, this is so sweet, with that hint of Justin not about to take any shit from Chris. Nice.

[identity profile] wanderingwombat.livejournal.com 2008-10-13 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it and I maybe have a little thing for defiant!Justin which it was definitely fun to indulge here!

[identity profile] blueboxers.livejournal.com 2008-07-20 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Awe, taht was sweet. I love lambs.

[identity profile] wanderingwombat.livejournal.com 2008-10-13 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Lambs rock! They're very nearly my OTP and I get the chance to write them surprisingly rarely considering how much I love them. (I mostly seem to do challenges and requests.)

Thank you for reading, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[identity profile] blueboxers.livejournal.com 2008-10-14 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
I know! They are my OTP for Nsync. I write a few. Right now, I'm on an Aaron/Lance for some reason.

Thank you for writing it!

[identity profile] pikapika217.livejournal.com 2008-12-12 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
awesome! it's so simple, yet really sweet. I love him watching out for them!

[identity profile] wanderingwombat.livejournal.com 2008-12-27 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, thank you! I'm glad you liked it - I like this Chris, all mother-hen-like.