Fic Post: After the party
Title: After the party
Author: achika_chan
Pairing: Linkara/Spoony
Rating: PG-13
Summary: AlwaysAGirl!Linkara and Spoony drag everything out into the open after returning Molossia to its rightful leader.
At first, she was just relieved to have him back. That feeling carried her about as far as giving Molossia back to its rightful leader. As they made their way back to the hotel, she started really thinking about the entire situation in a way she hadn’t let herself before, when everything was in chaos and she was still trying to cling to denial. And she got angry. Angrier than she’d ever been in her life. It bubbled and burned under her skin and in her stomach, and by the time they actually got to the hotel everyone was giving her a five foot radius.
“Hey, uh, guys? You should probably get…anywhere but here,” Spoony said quietly, “I’ve got this,”
Everyone else was gone like a shot, wanting nothing to do with a pissed off magician, leaving Spoony and Linkara alone in the room.
“Got something you want to say?” Spoony asked.
Linkara stopped her pacing and turned around slowly to face Spoony. Had he been a lesser man, he’d probably have fled. But oh he had practice facing down an angry Linkara and not backing down, didn’t he?
“Me?” She said incredulously. “Really? Don’t you have something you want to say?”
She watched as Spoony closed his eyes and sighed. “I tried. All day, every day. You wouldn’t listen. You wouldn’t even look at me,”
Her mind flashed back, conjuring up the image of Spoony, pale and with a tremble to his hands, trying to force a hopeful smile while his eyes held nothing but fear and resignation. She shoved the image away.
“All day, every day for the two years we’ve known each other? I’m impressed. Or maybe you mean just the year we’ve been sleeping together,” Linkara said.
Spoony stared at her, defiant. “Yeah, I should have told you. I really should have and I was a bastard for not saying anything. But Christ, Linkara, everyone else figured it out, how did you not know?”
“I…” Linkara couldn’t think of a defense. It wasn’t like the clues weren’t there. The locked basement, Insano showing up when she’d been out of town and he shouldn’t have known where she was and Spoony disappearing, the fact that Insano looked like Spoony in a pair of ridiculous goggles. It was obvious. And she hadn’t seen it. Or maybe she had seen it and had just been ignoring it that hard…
“This isn’t about that!” Linkara hissed. “I had to find out from the Cinema Snob! Actually, no. I had to find out by overhearing the Cinema Snob. What the hell, Spoony,”
“Yeah, I bet that sucked,” Spoony said.
“Oh you have no idea. How do you think it feels, finding out that it’s been your boyfriend trying to kill you and take over the world the entire time, and that he’d been keeping it a secret?” Linkara said.
Spoony gave her a look of exaggerated surprise. “So now I’m your boyfriend, am I? Since when? Because I vividly remember you telling me not make things weird and then running off to be with the girls with even less care than a ‘here’s a twenty for the cab ride back, show yourself out’”
“…You never said anything,” Linkara said quietly, her anger cooling rapidly. They’d been…whatever they were for a year. Had Spoony really been holding that in the entire time?
Spoony shrugged.
“Why would I? That would just make things weird, wouldn’t it?” He said, pointed and vicious.
Linkara felt helpless. When had this conversation turned on her?
“No! I am not the bad guy here. I was your friend. If you had issues you should have told me. Just like you should have told me that you were my freaking arch enemy,”
“What do you want from me, Linkara? ‘Cause I’m honestly fucking lost. I’m sorry, okay? I’m god damn sorry. I should have told you. I was wrong. Do you want me to get down on my fucking knees? I would, but they’re still a little sore from the royal ass kicking I took for you bastards, so you’ll just have to wait if that’s what you want,” Spoony said, frustration and anger in his voice and body language.
“Just say it. Say it to my face,” Linkara said, her fists clenched at her sides. She could feel the magic sparking under her skin in response to her anger.
“That’s what you want? That’s what’s going to make you feel better?” Spoony asked in disbelief.
“SAY IT!” Linkara yelled, eyes shut tight. “You’ve waited two years, here’s your chance!”
Spoony sighed and walked closer. He tapped her chin, forcing Linkara to look at him.
“Linkara, there’s something I need to tell you,” He said solemnly. “I’m Doctor Insano.
He’s a part of me, of who I am. I love you and I’m sorry,”
This was what it took to get him to say that to her, Linkara thought idly, confessing that he had an alternate personality that frequently tried to kill her. Clearly the two of them were too socially awkward to actually be in relationships, let alone with each other.
“And there’s something I need to tell you,” Linkara said. “You may be the guy I love half the time and my arch enemy the other half, but me?” She could feel the magic gathering in anticipation of the spell’s final words. “I AM A MAN!”
Nobody said anything when the two of them came down to dinner that night and Spoony had a new black eye. Probably that was because they were holding hands and were joking with each other again and no one wanted to risk ruining it.
“So…we’re kind of actually dating now?” Spoony said to the dinner table.
There was some applause, some eye rolling, at least one muttered ‘FINALLY!’, the changing hands of at least $20 in payment of a bet, and Sage mimed wiping away tears of joy.
Later, Marzgurl pulled Linkara aside.
“So everything’s really okay? You were pretty angry, and there was a lot of yelling,”
Linkara smiled and looked over at Spoony, who was laughing and looked much better than he had the entire time they’d been in Nevada, even with the black eye.
“We worked everything out. I really think things are going to be okay,”
Author: achika_chan
Pairing: Linkara/Spoony
Rating: PG-13
Summary: AlwaysAGirl!Linkara and Spoony drag everything out into the open after returning Molossia to its rightful leader.
At first, she was just relieved to have him back. That feeling carried her about as far as giving Molossia back to its rightful leader. As they made their way back to the hotel, she started really thinking about the entire situation in a way she hadn’t let herself before, when everything was in chaos and she was still trying to cling to denial. And she got angry. Angrier than she’d ever been in her life. It bubbled and burned under her skin and in her stomach, and by the time they actually got to the hotel everyone was giving her a five foot radius.
“Hey, uh, guys? You should probably get…anywhere but here,” Spoony said quietly, “I’ve got this,”
Everyone else was gone like a shot, wanting nothing to do with a pissed off magician, leaving Spoony and Linkara alone in the room.
“Got something you want to say?” Spoony asked.
Linkara stopped her pacing and turned around slowly to face Spoony. Had he been a lesser man, he’d probably have fled. But oh he had practice facing down an angry Linkara and not backing down, didn’t he?
“Me?” She said incredulously. “Really? Don’t you have something you want to say?”
She watched as Spoony closed his eyes and sighed. “I tried. All day, every day. You wouldn’t listen. You wouldn’t even look at me,”
Her mind flashed back, conjuring up the image of Spoony, pale and with a tremble to his hands, trying to force a hopeful smile while his eyes held nothing but fear and resignation. She shoved the image away.
“All day, every day for the two years we’ve known each other? I’m impressed. Or maybe you mean just the year we’ve been sleeping together,” Linkara said.
Spoony stared at her, defiant. “Yeah, I should have told you. I really should have and I was a bastard for not saying anything. But Christ, Linkara, everyone else figured it out, how did you not know?”
“I…” Linkara couldn’t think of a defense. It wasn’t like the clues weren’t there. The locked basement, Insano showing up when she’d been out of town and he shouldn’t have known where she was and Spoony disappearing, the fact that Insano looked like Spoony in a pair of ridiculous goggles. It was obvious. And she hadn’t seen it. Or maybe she had seen it and had just been ignoring it that hard…
“This isn’t about that!” Linkara hissed. “I had to find out from the Cinema Snob! Actually, no. I had to find out by overhearing the Cinema Snob. What the hell, Spoony,”
“Yeah, I bet that sucked,” Spoony said.
“Oh you have no idea. How do you think it feels, finding out that it’s been your boyfriend trying to kill you and take over the world the entire time, and that he’d been keeping it a secret?” Linkara said.
Spoony gave her a look of exaggerated surprise. “So now I’m your boyfriend, am I? Since when? Because I vividly remember you telling me not make things weird and then running off to be with the girls with even less care than a ‘here’s a twenty for the cab ride back, show yourself out’”
“…You never said anything,” Linkara said quietly, her anger cooling rapidly. They’d been…whatever they were for a year. Had Spoony really been holding that in the entire time?
Spoony shrugged.
“Why would I? That would just make things weird, wouldn’t it?” He said, pointed and vicious.
Linkara felt helpless. When had this conversation turned on her?
“No! I am not the bad guy here. I was your friend. If you had issues you should have told me. Just like you should have told me that you were my freaking arch enemy,”
“What do you want from me, Linkara? ‘Cause I’m honestly fucking lost. I’m sorry, okay? I’m god damn sorry. I should have told you. I was wrong. Do you want me to get down on my fucking knees? I would, but they’re still a little sore from the royal ass kicking I took for you bastards, so you’ll just have to wait if that’s what you want,” Spoony said, frustration and anger in his voice and body language.
“Just say it. Say it to my face,” Linkara said, her fists clenched at her sides. She could feel the magic sparking under her skin in response to her anger.
“That’s what you want? That’s what’s going to make you feel better?” Spoony asked in disbelief.
“SAY IT!” Linkara yelled, eyes shut tight. “You’ve waited two years, here’s your chance!”
Spoony sighed and walked closer. He tapped her chin, forcing Linkara to look at him.
“Linkara, there’s something I need to tell you,” He said solemnly. “I’m Doctor Insano.
He’s a part of me, of who I am. I love you and I’m sorry,”
This was what it took to get him to say that to her, Linkara thought idly, confessing that he had an alternate personality that frequently tried to kill her. Clearly the two of them were too socially awkward to actually be in relationships, let alone with each other.
“And there’s something I need to tell you,” Linkara said. “You may be the guy I love half the time and my arch enemy the other half, but me?” She could feel the magic gathering in anticipation of the spell’s final words. “I AM A MAN!”
Nobody said anything when the two of them came down to dinner that night and Spoony had a new black eye. Probably that was because they were holding hands and were joking with each other again and no one wanted to risk ruining it.
“So…we’re kind of actually dating now?” Spoony said to the dinner table.
There was some applause, some eye rolling, at least one muttered ‘FINALLY!’, the changing hands of at least $20 in payment of a bet, and Sage mimed wiping away tears of joy.
Later, Marzgurl pulled Linkara aside.
“So everything’s really okay? You were pretty angry, and there was a lot of yelling,”
Linkara smiled and looked over at Spoony, who was laughing and looked much better than he had the entire time they’d been in Nevada, even with the black eye.
“We worked everything out. I really think things are going to be okay,”