Fic Exchange - Two More Days
1. Your Still The One
Ben woke up slow. Kevin was pressed against his back, a muscular arm thrown protectively over his slender waist. Ben found himself smiling for no apparent reason that he could determine. He just loved these little moments, where he was aware of how very much he loved Kevin, and was loved in turn. It would go on for years, he knew.
2. The Wild Side Of Life
Kevin, his fingers fidgeting restlessly against the cords of his guitar, looked occasionally to the phone. Ben didn’t want him to call. Kevin didn’t know what to do. Kevin had never claimed to be good, but Ben saw it in him, and Kevin tried - for him. This time, he’d failed, and Ben knew it - heart twisting in pain, Kevin couldn’t find it in him to blame Ben for how he felt. Kevin had failed, though no promises had been broken, Kevin felt just the same - heart broken.
3. Coal Miner’s Daughter
Kevin knew he was dirt smudged and dirty, but when Ben grinned at him, he felt as if it didn’t - and could not - touch him. Kevin had never hid how he felt very well, but even he knew he had to take care. Ben didn’t seem to realize it, while Kevin did. How he felt about Ben wouldn’t be looked upon kindly by the town folk; it didn’t change how he felt for Ben. Kevin still held out hope, he was a coal miner, and as enduring as the earth he mined.
4. When You Say Nothing At All
Ben couldn’t help how he felt. He smiled tight and sure, as Kevin glanced to him. Kevin was always looking toward him; Ben sometimes wondered why no one else seemed to notice it. Ben’s heart ached for Kevin, and Kevin’s eyes told him he wasn’t alone in the need they kindled for each other. It tugged them together, making the moments they had longer, surer, full of comfort but it felt frail- it was not, it burned and bonded and wouldn’t break. It was love.
5. Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)
Ben was getting on the bus, settling into his seat - and when someone mentioned it - the attack, he thought it was a joke. Or just something small, a fire - something that would be forgotten in the next days news. He hadn’t heard it on the TV news; he’d been watching his morning cartoon shows, or on the computer, game playing. New York was so very far away, and Ben didn’t - could not have - quite wholly understood what it would mean ever after; politics went right over his head, and something like “Twin Towers” sounded foreign, distant - just as New York was.
Then he saw the TV broadcasts, saw the towers fall, the grey smoke rise up like an oncoming storm. He grasped it then, the slivers of the whole. He felt fear - for who wouldn’t be afraid? He also felt the surety of fury - all those people suffering, dying, and no known reason to why. No word for weeks. His world became something darker, not so certain or so sure - for New York had meant something to Ben; it was there that Ben had met Kevin.
6. Elvira
Kevin watched as Ben laughed at some joke a jock was making. His eyes narrowed a little bit, and he may have been glowering. Certainly something made the joke pale and step back. Ben was only asking around for information about aliens or strange happenings. Kevin couldn’t help but be a little jealous, to the point where he wouldn’t let Ben go out and do this alone. It wasn’t about trust, was what Kevin would never tell Ben, it was about how his heart felt hot, and how it hurt when Ben wasn’t in his sight.
7. That’s All That Matters
Ben couldn’t look Kevin in the eye. He was thinking of how many people Kevin had held, had kissed - his cousin, Gwen, among them. Kevin probably puzzled over why Ben hadn’t really had a social life, not really popular - and not an outcast for all his quirks; for all that he was good looking and in sports - being good enough in soccer to warrant professional attention. Ben hadn’t really cared about any of that; he’d cared about Gwen - and Grandpa.
Then, Kevin had come around, and Ben had found himself loving him, a little. Gwen hadn’t known, until Ben had blurted it out - if she had, Ben knew she would have stepped aside, for Ben. Now, Kevin only held Ben - and that, really, was all that mattered to Ben. Not who had had Kevin, but who had him now.
8. Faded Love
Kevin touched the faded words, the script rushed and sprawling across the yellowed paper. Ben was gone. Kevin didn’t know if he’d moved on (Gwen was sure he hadn’t, Ben was better then that - he’d have said something) or dead. Gwen couldn’t give him an answer to the last. She wanted to say, but did not - like Kevin - that if Ben was dead, they would have somehow known.
9. Smoky Mountain Rain
Kevin held the wireless in his hand, the phone was cold. It echoed how Kevin felt. He’d gone into the city, wanting his chance at rich living, leaving Ben behind with his alien bunker and chosen isolation. Kevin had changed his mind, like how Gwen had told him he would. Now, Kevin called the bunker - and Ben wasn’t answering, someone else was - another guy, rich sounding voice and musical. Kevin felt the jealousy flare up, then simmer, cold as he was. Wetness caressed his cheeks, Ben needed the warmth - living for warmth - Kevin didn’t know if he were worth waiting for, cold as he had become.
10. Breathe
Ben held Kevin to him; it was strange how the years had changed them. Ben used to be slender, with a runners build, while Kevin was the bulkier between them. Now it was reversed, and Kevin was thin and sickly frail, while Ben was bulky and hard muscle. Kevin had gotten sick, and though Ben loved him, it wasn’t enough - Kevin was sicker and dying, some said.
Now, Ben had a chance to save him - all it would take was the memories Kevin had of him. Ben felt Kevin breath, and shakily let him go, blurred eyes nodding to the white clad doctor.
11. I Ain’t Never
Ben knew he was in love. It was a matter of fact knowledge, sure and certain. What he didn’t know was if Kevin loved him in return. Kevin didn’t act like it - and Ben would never ask. Kevin was hardly one to say.
12. Flowers On The Wall
Kevin was trying to stay away. Gwen had broken up with him, and he was mahogany and depressed, wanting nothing to do with him self. Doing nothing to get over her, them - the break up. Gwen asked Ben to help, and - really - that was the start of it. Gwen should have known better then to send Ben, vibrant and thriving and alive, to Kevin.Yet, she did. Kevin circled Ben as if he were a firefly, and Ben his light.
13. Please Help Me, I’m Falling
Kevin didn’t really know what to do with himself; Ben came over on the weekday nights, and usually spent the weekends away. And, it hurt - Ben was dating, and Kevin wasn’t. He hadn’t known way, until Gwen paid him a visit. Then, he realized - he’d fallen in love with his best friend.
14. Will It Be Love By Morning
Ben panted for breath, muscles shaking and his skin sweating. Kevin stood beside him, narrow eyed and skin shinning metallic silver in the night. Ben ached, but it wasn’t because of what they’d faced - Kevin looked to him, and Ben had to resist reaching out to touch him. He licked his lips, and noticed that Kevin followed his tongue keenly.
15. Amarillo By Morning
Kevin walked into the town, haggard and tired. Ben watched him, from that moment onward. Kevin was a stranger, and here - they didn’t get many of those. Kevin lingered, sleeping in the park, seeming to own nothing but what he wore, and wanting nothing. Many things were said, his history, his nature - most of it lies. When Kevin left, wondering out of town as he had wandered in - Ben followed.
16. Forever and Ever, Amen
Ben watched his grandmother, an alien - hover worriedly about his grandfather (literally), watched the love between them, still there. Realized, perhaps for the first time, what had been between them and how much Max had to have loved her, to let her go, staying behind to care for their children and grandchildren with no idea if she would return to them.
Kevin stood by Ben, held his hand.
17. We’ve Got A Good Fire Going
Kevin had always known what he wanted, and he’d always worked to have it. Some things came to him, easer then others. But never, not before this, before Ben, had he been given something he’d needed but hadn’t known he could have. Kevin had Ben, because Ben had given himself to Kevin, a gift, and Kevin wasn’t about to let him leave.
18. Touch Me
Gwen touched Kevin, though it was Ben that Kevin ached for. Kevin had watched Ben leave, hadn’t stopped him because Kevin loved Ben still. Kevin was able to do more then absorb touch, was what Gwen didn’t know but Ben had - from touch he felt emotions, felt a person for who they really were. For once, Kevin wished that his ability was two-sided, then Gwen would know how he felt, having lost Ben - that it couldn’t be so easily mended as she wished
19. My Elusive Dreams
Kevin had found himself dragging Ben along side him, across the country - though he hadn’t meant to, and Ben never said a word of complaint. He was looking for something, a dream, Kevin used to say if Ben asked without words. Always, they moved on, and Kevin pushed until Ben couldn’t take it anymore. It was the next town over, and Kevin stopped in a bar, and realized - Ben had been what he’d been looking for, all along.
20. Chiseled In Stone
Ben was lonely, when Kevin left to go out of town, sometimes. He did consider the little flat theirs, a home. He understood it, that Kevin couldn’t sit still in one town for too long - not like Ben, who was going to college and had to stay put. It showed how much Kevin cared, that he’d tried - that he settled as much as he was able. Still, sometimes he would leave, and Ben would get lonely and worry that maybe - maybe this time, Kevin wouldn’t come back - but he always did, but between times, Ben found himself aimlessly waiting. Hoping.
21. You’re The First Time I’ve Thought About Leaving
Gwen slept beside Kevin, in their bed, but Kevin’s mind wandered to the family reunion Gwen had dragged him to that day. It was her family, and as Kevin didn’t have one of his own - he didn’t hold much of a grudge in the going. He’d get some sweet form of payback, Kevin knew. His thoughts turned to him - Ben, and though he held Gwen to him in bed - his thoughts lingered on the younger youth who’d smiled and captured Kevin’s heart with his laughing nature
22. Convoy
Ben grinned at Kevin, and it was a little blood thirsty and thrilling. They were at war; it was Earth, fighting off its alien natured children and the realities of the universe. Kevin had taken Ben’s side, from the very start, and stood by him, even as Ben showed he had regrets - he was still the leader of them, still held sway with the aliens that flocked to Ben, seeming to be in his thrall. Kevin didn’t blame them - and now, they were going into neutral territory, where Gwen laid in wait for them, her uprising readying to join their ranks.
23. The Gambler
Under their feet, the train rumbled and rolled. Kevin glanced to the boy-man beside him, who looked as lost as Kevin was. He might be in Tennessee, or Wisconsin, and wouldn’t know the difference. The boredom overcoming him, Kevin spoke, and it came pouring up out of him - Ben, and Kevin knew it had been bubbling in him, and it didn’t take much guessing to realize that Ben had only ever needed someone to ask. Maybe it was partly for that reason, how young Ben seemed to the realities to life - how determined he was, that Kevin told Ben bits of gritty hard earned wisdom - and Ben, in the end, thanked him with more then a kiss on the cheek. It was the last night either of them traveled alone despite the long road they traveled.
24. Take This Job And Shove It
Kevin fair vibrated with tension, the day Gwen fled from them - and Ben could understand that. He waited for Kevin to tell him - to say to hell with Ben and leave after Gwen. Kevin broke down in the locker room, shoving at Ben, wrestling on the wet cement - there was yelling and hitting, and Kevin had a bloody lip to match Ben’s black eye by the end of it.
Then with Ben under him, and Kevin having the upper hand straddling his hips, Kevin leaned in and gave him a bruising kiss, hot and demanding - and Ben realized it wasn’t Gwen that had had Kevin so taunt with repressed tension for weeks - it was him, Ben. It was an exhilarating feeling, and Ben only caught his breath a little when the kiss broke before he dived back in - writhing and eager.
25. Delta Dawn
Gwen knew it was magic, the moment she set eyes on Ben. Someone had enthralled her cousin, pay back - and Kevin’s doing. Ben would forever love Kevin, his mind stuck in that time, and he’d walked with a still-vibrate yellow flower braided through his hair - a suitcase sometimes in hand, muttering about mansions and skies. Gwen kept him at her side, taking care of him, and that was her own little bit of revenge for Kevin would realize, one day soon, that for all that Kevin hadn’t cared for Gwen in the end - for Ben he would move earth and sky. Ben she felt pity for, as he was tied between them, caught in a web he’d never fully understand. He was their making, their creature - and both of them in their own ways and for their own magic-strange reasons, loved Ben in turn.
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Punishment? What punishment? -Evil Grin -
Ben woke up slow. Kevin was pressed against his back, a muscular arm thrown protectively over his slender waist. Ben found himself smiling for no apparent reason that he could determine. He just loved these little moments, where he was aware of how very much he loved Kevin, and was loved in turn. It would go on for years, he knew.
2. The Wild Side Of Life
Kevin, his fingers fidgeting restlessly against the cords of his guitar, looked occasionally to the phone. Ben didn’t want him to call. Kevin didn’t know what to do. Kevin had never claimed to be good, but Ben saw it in him, and Kevin tried - for him. This time, he’d failed, and Ben knew it - heart twisting in pain, Kevin couldn’t find it in him to blame Ben for how he felt. Kevin had failed, though no promises had been broken, Kevin felt just the same - heart broken.
3. Coal Miner’s Daughter
Kevin knew he was dirt smudged and dirty, but when Ben grinned at him, he felt as if it didn’t - and could not - touch him. Kevin had never hid how he felt very well, but even he knew he had to take care. Ben didn’t seem to realize it, while Kevin did. How he felt about Ben wouldn’t be looked upon kindly by the town folk; it didn’t change how he felt for Ben. Kevin still held out hope, he was a coal miner, and as enduring as the earth he mined.
4. When You Say Nothing At All
Ben couldn’t help how he felt. He smiled tight and sure, as Kevin glanced to him. Kevin was always looking toward him; Ben sometimes wondered why no one else seemed to notice it. Ben’s heart ached for Kevin, and Kevin’s eyes told him he wasn’t alone in the need they kindled for each other. It tugged them together, making the moments they had longer, surer, full of comfort but it felt frail- it was not, it burned and bonded and wouldn’t break. It was love.
5. Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)
Ben was getting on the bus, settling into his seat - and when someone mentioned it - the attack, he thought it was a joke. Or just something small, a fire - something that would be forgotten in the next days news. He hadn’t heard it on the TV news; he’d been watching his morning cartoon shows, or on the computer, game playing. New York was so very far away, and Ben didn’t - could not have - quite wholly understood what it would mean ever after; politics went right over his head, and something like “Twin Towers” sounded foreign, distant - just as New York was.
Then he saw the TV broadcasts, saw the towers fall, the grey smoke rise up like an oncoming storm. He grasped it then, the slivers of the whole. He felt fear - for who wouldn’t be afraid? He also felt the surety of fury - all those people suffering, dying, and no known reason to why. No word for weeks. His world became something darker, not so certain or so sure - for New York had meant something to Ben; it was there that Ben had met Kevin.
6. Elvira
Kevin watched as Ben laughed at some joke a jock was making. His eyes narrowed a little bit, and he may have been glowering. Certainly something made the joke pale and step back. Ben was only asking around for information about aliens or strange happenings. Kevin couldn’t help but be a little jealous, to the point where he wouldn’t let Ben go out and do this alone. It wasn’t about trust, was what Kevin would never tell Ben, it was about how his heart felt hot, and how it hurt when Ben wasn’t in his sight.
7. That’s All That Matters
Ben couldn’t look Kevin in the eye. He was thinking of how many people Kevin had held, had kissed - his cousin, Gwen, among them. Kevin probably puzzled over why Ben hadn’t really had a social life, not really popular - and not an outcast for all his quirks; for all that he was good looking and in sports - being good enough in soccer to warrant professional attention. Ben hadn’t really cared about any of that; he’d cared about Gwen - and Grandpa.
Then, Kevin had come around, and Ben had found himself loving him, a little. Gwen hadn’t known, until Ben had blurted it out - if she had, Ben knew she would have stepped aside, for Ben. Now, Kevin only held Ben - and that, really, was all that mattered to Ben. Not who had had Kevin, but who had him now.
8. Faded Love
Kevin touched the faded words, the script rushed and sprawling across the yellowed paper. Ben was gone. Kevin didn’t know if he’d moved on (Gwen was sure he hadn’t, Ben was better then that - he’d have said something) or dead. Gwen couldn’t give him an answer to the last. She wanted to say, but did not - like Kevin - that if Ben was dead, they would have somehow known.
9. Smoky Mountain Rain
Kevin held the wireless in his hand, the phone was cold. It echoed how Kevin felt. He’d gone into the city, wanting his chance at rich living, leaving Ben behind with his alien bunker and chosen isolation. Kevin had changed his mind, like how Gwen had told him he would. Now, Kevin called the bunker - and Ben wasn’t answering, someone else was - another guy, rich sounding voice and musical. Kevin felt the jealousy flare up, then simmer, cold as he was. Wetness caressed his cheeks, Ben needed the warmth - living for warmth - Kevin didn’t know if he were worth waiting for, cold as he had become.
10. Breathe
Ben held Kevin to him; it was strange how the years had changed them. Ben used to be slender, with a runners build, while Kevin was the bulkier between them. Now it was reversed, and Kevin was thin and sickly frail, while Ben was bulky and hard muscle. Kevin had gotten sick, and though Ben loved him, it wasn’t enough - Kevin was sicker and dying, some said.
Now, Ben had a chance to save him - all it would take was the memories Kevin had of him. Ben felt Kevin breath, and shakily let him go, blurred eyes nodding to the white clad doctor.
11. I Ain’t Never
Ben knew he was in love. It was a matter of fact knowledge, sure and certain. What he didn’t know was if Kevin loved him in return. Kevin didn’t act like it - and Ben would never ask. Kevin was hardly one to say.
12. Flowers On The Wall
Kevin was trying to stay away. Gwen had broken up with him, and he was mahogany and depressed, wanting nothing to do with him self. Doing nothing to get over her, them - the break up. Gwen asked Ben to help, and - really - that was the start of it. Gwen should have known better then to send Ben, vibrant and thriving and alive, to Kevin.Yet, she did. Kevin circled Ben as if he were a firefly, and Ben his light.
13. Please Help Me, I’m Falling
Kevin didn’t really know what to do with himself; Ben came over on the weekday nights, and usually spent the weekends away. And, it hurt - Ben was dating, and Kevin wasn’t. He hadn’t known way, until Gwen paid him a visit. Then, he realized - he’d fallen in love with his best friend.
14. Will It Be Love By Morning
Ben panted for breath, muscles shaking and his skin sweating. Kevin stood beside him, narrow eyed and skin shinning metallic silver in the night. Ben ached, but it wasn’t because of what they’d faced - Kevin looked to him, and Ben had to resist reaching out to touch him. He licked his lips, and noticed that Kevin followed his tongue keenly.
15. Amarillo By Morning
Kevin walked into the town, haggard and tired. Ben watched him, from that moment onward. Kevin was a stranger, and here - they didn’t get many of those. Kevin lingered, sleeping in the park, seeming to own nothing but what he wore, and wanting nothing. Many things were said, his history, his nature - most of it lies. When Kevin left, wondering out of town as he had wandered in - Ben followed.
16. Forever and Ever, Amen
Ben watched his grandmother, an alien - hover worriedly about his grandfather (literally), watched the love between them, still there. Realized, perhaps for the first time, what had been between them and how much Max had to have loved her, to let her go, staying behind to care for their children and grandchildren with no idea if she would return to them.
Kevin stood by Ben, held his hand.
17. We’ve Got A Good Fire Going
Kevin had always known what he wanted, and he’d always worked to have it. Some things came to him, easer then others. But never, not before this, before Ben, had he been given something he’d needed but hadn’t known he could have. Kevin had Ben, because Ben had given himself to Kevin, a gift, and Kevin wasn’t about to let him leave.
18. Touch Me
Gwen touched Kevin, though it was Ben that Kevin ached for. Kevin had watched Ben leave, hadn’t stopped him because Kevin loved Ben still. Kevin was able to do more then absorb touch, was what Gwen didn’t know but Ben had - from touch he felt emotions, felt a person for who they really were. For once, Kevin wished that his ability was two-sided, then Gwen would know how he felt, having lost Ben - that it couldn’t be so easily mended as she wished
19. My Elusive Dreams
Kevin had found himself dragging Ben along side him, across the country - though he hadn’t meant to, and Ben never said a word of complaint. He was looking for something, a dream, Kevin used to say if Ben asked without words. Always, they moved on, and Kevin pushed until Ben couldn’t take it anymore. It was the next town over, and Kevin stopped in a bar, and realized - Ben had been what he’d been looking for, all along.
20. Chiseled In Stone
Ben was lonely, when Kevin left to go out of town, sometimes. He did consider the little flat theirs, a home. He understood it, that Kevin couldn’t sit still in one town for too long - not like Ben, who was going to college and had to stay put. It showed how much Kevin cared, that he’d tried - that he settled as much as he was able. Still, sometimes he would leave, and Ben would get lonely and worry that maybe - maybe this time, Kevin wouldn’t come back - but he always did, but between times, Ben found himself aimlessly waiting. Hoping.
21. You’re The First Time I’ve Thought About Leaving
Gwen slept beside Kevin, in their bed, but Kevin’s mind wandered to the family reunion Gwen had dragged him to that day. It was her family, and as Kevin didn’t have one of his own - he didn’t hold much of a grudge in the going. He’d get some sweet form of payback, Kevin knew. His thoughts turned to him - Ben, and though he held Gwen to him in bed - his thoughts lingered on the younger youth who’d smiled and captured Kevin’s heart with his laughing nature
22. Convoy
Ben grinned at Kevin, and it was a little blood thirsty and thrilling. They were at war; it was Earth, fighting off its alien natured children and the realities of the universe. Kevin had taken Ben’s side, from the very start, and stood by him, even as Ben showed he had regrets - he was still the leader of them, still held sway with the aliens that flocked to Ben, seeming to be in his thrall. Kevin didn’t blame them - and now, they were going into neutral territory, where Gwen laid in wait for them, her uprising readying to join their ranks.
23. The Gambler
Under their feet, the train rumbled and rolled. Kevin glanced to the boy-man beside him, who looked as lost as Kevin was. He might be in Tennessee, or Wisconsin, and wouldn’t know the difference. The boredom overcoming him, Kevin spoke, and it came pouring up out of him - Ben, and Kevin knew it had been bubbling in him, and it didn’t take much guessing to realize that Ben had only ever needed someone to ask. Maybe it was partly for that reason, how young Ben seemed to the realities to life - how determined he was, that Kevin told Ben bits of gritty hard earned wisdom - and Ben, in the end, thanked him with more then a kiss on the cheek. It was the last night either of them traveled alone despite the long road they traveled.
24. Take This Job And Shove It
Kevin fair vibrated with tension, the day Gwen fled from them - and Ben could understand that. He waited for Kevin to tell him - to say to hell with Ben and leave after Gwen. Kevin broke down in the locker room, shoving at Ben, wrestling on the wet cement - there was yelling and hitting, and Kevin had a bloody lip to match Ben’s black eye by the end of it.
Then with Ben under him, and Kevin having the upper hand straddling his hips, Kevin leaned in and gave him a bruising kiss, hot and demanding - and Ben realized it wasn’t Gwen that had had Kevin so taunt with repressed tension for weeks - it was him, Ben. It was an exhilarating feeling, and Ben only caught his breath a little when the kiss broke before he dived back in - writhing and eager.
25. Delta Dawn
Gwen knew it was magic, the moment she set eyes on Ben. Someone had enthralled her cousin, pay back - and Kevin’s doing. Ben would forever love Kevin, his mind stuck in that time, and he’d walked with a still-vibrate yellow flower braided through his hair - a suitcase sometimes in hand, muttering about mansions and skies. Gwen kept him at her side, taking care of him, and that was her own little bit of revenge for Kevin would realize, one day soon, that for all that Kevin hadn’t cared for Gwen in the end - for Ben he would move earth and sky. Ben she felt pity for, as he was tied between them, caught in a web he’d never fully understand. He was their making, their creature - and both of them in their own ways and for their own magic-strange reasons, loved Ben in turn.
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Punishment? What punishment? -Evil Grin -