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Title: Clean Break
Series: Hard Lessons
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Past Cookmann; current Mavid-on-the-rocks; current Dandy friendship
Summary: Sometimes, you don't get them back.
Word Count: 3600
Warnings: Rated for language. Adult situations and the continued aftermath of broken scenes. Oh, and Papa's being a bit of a horse's ass here, sry.
Archived: Here on IJ ONLY. Links to IJ are fine. :)
Disclaimer: Real people exist with these names; but these folks here are fictionalized characters, and not directly intended to represent the actual persons mentioned. Any similarity between the fictional version of the persons portrayed herein and the actual persons is somewhat intentional, but as far as I know, none of this ever happened, except in my mind. Dammit. (Unless it did, and then it's strictly a coincidence.) TL;DR? Fiction, don't sue.
Notes: This follows Safe in the Hard Lessons universe. There are two more fic bunnies in this arc; after that, I'm not sure if this series will continue.

Those of you interested can find the previous chapters here: Broken Trust | Safe | Scenes

Cheerleading, hand-holding, and all-around general awesomeness c/o celticfish -- as always, as ever. ♥ Thank you, bb, for your flailing enthusiasm when I mentioned finishing this storyline. :)

( Turning points and loneliness abound / I'm better off not having you around )

Title: Five Kisses at Midnight
Rating: PG-13 for language
Pairing: David/Bobby, David/Liz, David/Andy, David/Kim
Summary: There's always someone to kiss at midnight.
Word Count: 4946
Warnings: Um... Kim Caldwell? :D
Archived: Here on IJ ONLY. Links to IJ are fine. :)
Disclaimer: Real people exist with these names; but these folks here are fictionalized characters, and not directly intended to represent the actual persons mentioned. Any similarity between the fictional version of the persons portrayed herein and the actual persons is somewhat intentional, but as far as I know, none of this ever happened, except in my mind. Dammit. (Unless it did, and then it's strictly a coincidence.) TL;DR? Fiction, don't sue.
Notes: For courts576's New Year's Eve "Midnight Kiss" challenge:

Ooo, also, if you are home like me and bored, I challenge you to write a story about who DFCook is kissing at midnight :)

Courts, this is all your fault. :P

And kisses to celticfish for being her usual awesome self. :)

( The countdown starts...now! )

In light of all the recent, um, commentary on the "ring rumors" and such, and in knee-jerk response to several (supportive!! :) posts I've seen on my flist...

...Some iconage for all y'all because far be it for me to prolong any obvious fandom wankage you understand; oh no, not me... :P



Update: Jan 25, 2009:


( Please read before posting a stupid comment cutting Kim down, m'kay? )

Title: Scenes
Series: Hard Lessons
Rating: R
Pairing: Dandy; Cookmann
Summary: Scenes from a friendship
Word Count: 3135
Warnings: Adult situations - one scene is more D/s gone horribly wrong, but nothing too drastic or graphic... give it a chance? :-\
Disclaimer: Real people exist with these names; but these folks here are fictionalized characters, and not directly intended to represent the actual persons mentioned. Any similarity between the fictional version of the persons portrayed herein and the actual persons is somewhat intentional, but as far as I know, none of this ever happened, except in my mind. Dammit. (Unless it did, and then it's strictly a coincidence.) TL;DR? Fiction, don't sue.
Notes: IDEK anymore, I swear... I guess you could call it backstory for "Broken Trust" and a follow-up to "Safe"...

Starts in the near-present, regresses into the past, and ends in the immediate present -- sorry if it's confusing, but that's the way it came to me. *shrug*

III. Spring is set in 2008
II. Summer is set in 2007
I. Winter is set in 2006
...And the fall (Summer, again) is once again 2008.

Also? I have no idea how this damn thing got so long -- Winter just got away from me completely... *facepalm*

( And it's all right if you stay with me tonight, until the rain passes by... )

Title: Safe
Series: Hard Lessons
Rating: PG-13 for swearing
Pairing: Dandy!!
Summary: A bit more of the aftermath of "Broken Trust"
Word Count: 1722
Warnings: not much, really -- language?
Disclaimer: Real people exist with these names; but these folks here are fictionalized characters, and not directly intended to represent the actual persons mentioned. Any similarity between the fictional version of the persons portrayed herein and the actual persons is somewhat intentional, but as far as I know, none of this ever happened, except in my mind. Dammit. (Unless it did, and then it's strictly a coincidence.) TL;DR? Fiction, don't sue.
Notes: *points @ summary*

No, really -- for some reason, I thought it would be a good idea to continue what happens in Andy's apartment after David shows up. For that matter, I started having additional thoughts about formulating the backstory of David and Andy's relationship, which can of course only end in tears... anyway -- *points @ summary*

Written very haphazardly and probably not very good, so you've been warned and all.

( whether you're wrong, whether you're right, I know it's hard... )

Title: Broken Trust
Series: Hard Lessons
Author: machka
Dramatis personae: Cohnstro, stealth!Mistro, with bonus Dandy friendship!
Rating: R (adult situations)
Warning: Angsty McAngst fic. Lots of cursing. BDSM gone bad.
Disclaimer: Real people exist with these names; but these here are fictionalized characters, and not the actual persons mentioned. Any similarity between the fictional version of the persons portrayed herein and the actual persons is intentional, but as far as I know, none of this ever happened, except in my mind.
Summary: Three words remembered would've made this work...but another was spoken because he forgot.
Word Count: 3532
Prompts: These things right here.
Author's Notes: OMG. So somehow that fluffy prompt turned in the angst fic from Hell. WTF, Muse?? I wanted pr0n, She gave me the mirror opposite of the fic I wrote last time, and no matter how hard I tried to reason with Her, She would not be budged. *shrug*

So anyway, this is not the same universe as the previous fic -- here, Michael and David "switch" as to who's the Dominant and who's the submissive -- that's kind of where things start to go wrong. :-/

Needless to say, this almost didn't get written, but annie2791 nagged me to do it anyway. Blame her. :P

For the Cohnstro LiveJournal community's fic contest, prompt 2.

Crossposted to the idolslash community on LiveJournal.

( Three little words would be fine )

Title: Blind Trust
Author: machka
Dramatis personae: Cohnstro
Rating: NC-17
Warning: BDSM (with an emphasis on the D/s portion) in the context of an established relationship.
Disclaimer: Real people exist with these names; but these folks here are fictionalized characters, and not intended to represent the actual persons mentioned. Any similarity between the fictional version of the persons portrayed herein and the actual persons is intentional, but as far as I know, none of this ever happened, except in my mind. Dammit.
Summary: "There is no delight in owning anything unshared." ~ Seneca (Roman philosopher, 1st century A.D.)
Word Count: 5019
Prompts: The word "blindfold" and the phrase "be a good boy, and do what you're told."
Author's Notes: Um, hi. *waves* First time writing in this fandom, and I just gotta go and subject all y'all to an unbetaed 2nd-person-POV BDSM fic. My bad.

But hey! it's pr0n! What more do you want? :D

For the cohnstro LiveJournal community's fic-writing contest. Linked here.

ETA, 7-6-08: Thanks to everyone who voted for this fic! I've never won anything like this before! :D *blushes*

Cross-posted to The_Flyboys and Idolslash LiveJournal communities.

( Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~ Norman Macewan )