Fic:: Cook/Archuleta "You and I Will Be"
Title: "You and I Will Be"
Pairing: Cook/Archuleta (Okay, this is about the time you are going to have to stop being shocked here.)
Rating: So so so G it hurts
Summary: Archie performs a surprise song on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
Author's Notes: This is another flclet from the kid!verse that we will seriously get finished someday. It was written to cheer up mausi, and is mostly me being a dork. I use Billy Joel's "Lullaby (Goodnight My Angel)" and like always I own nothing but the ideas and apparently a lot of hormones.
The thing was that neither one of them had ever actually come out of the closet. It wasn’t a big deal to them to have the press validate them as a couple, and to be honest it just made life for them easier to leave it up to speculation. They had a handful of fans that had all but told them they knew and it was kind of nice to know they had the support but it just wasn’t worth the inevitable backlash.
When they had gotten married, just a little bit after Addy had been born it was more of a way to keep their lives together and to give a back up for any problems that California would try to give them with raising her together. It was short and simple and surprisingly didn’t even make any papers or trashy magazines.
(“Get real, Archie,” Cook had laughed, “We just aren’t that interesting.”)
Archie decided he had had enough the day that he was ‘set up’ on a date for a local radio station interview. He took the winner, a shy 18 year old who blushed every time he looked at her, out to dinner but gotten home that night completely sure of his decision. When he talked to Cook about it he realized that maybe Cook had wanted to be able to do that all along and was just waiting for Archie to catch up. It made his heart ache and his smile grow and he promised himself he wasn’t going to go over the top for it but that went out the window when he saw Cook’s excited grin.
Two days later Cook was in the front row of the Tonight Show with Addy wrapped up in a blanket in his arms. When Conan announced his name he didn’t hear the applause, didn’t get the usual flutter of nerves that accompanied a performance… instead he walked out across the stage with his eyes firmly on his family. He sat down at the piano they had set up for him and leaned forward to get the mike in the right angle.
“I am going to play something special tonight,” he cleared his throat. In rehearsal he had played ‘Crush’ so when he started the first few bars he could see the band leader tilt his head in confusion. “This is something pretty personal, and I am dedicating it to my family, which is even more special to me. So this is for my husband David and our daughter Adelaide.”
It might have been his own nerves blocking out the noise but the audience seemed deadly quiet through all of his performance. He had chosen the song because of a million different reasons. The first verse he thought was what he could only hope Cook knew about how he felt for him. He sang it for his mother to hear that what she had always taught him had stuck. Mostly though it was because he sang it for Addy almost every night and he hoped that someday she would hear the recording and know that from the first minute they knew about her she was loved and wanted. By the time he reached the final lines his stomach was in one tight knot.
“Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on. They never die, that’s how you and I will be.”
From the dead quiet came the beginnings of murmuring and Archie stared down at his hands until suddenly there was a huge thunderous applause. His head jerked to look, he was getting a standing ovation, and in the front he saw Cook grinning like a mad man. He wasn’t applauding (his hands were full) but he looked like if he could he would be on stage beside him, giving him a huge hug and somehow that is just the image to get him to stand up and bow.
He walked over to where Conan was standing, reached out and took the handshake he offered. When he sat down the crowd was still cheering and he wasn’t exactly tearing up but he knew his eyes must have been suspiciously red and he put his hand up to wipe the moisture at their corners.
It felt like forever for the audience to quiet down, and it ended up taking Conan literally telling everyone, “SHUT UP!” a few times to get it under control. When it had though, Conan turned to him and smiled.
“So nothing new to share with us then,” he deadpanned.
Archie blushed. “Oh, uh. Gosh. Nope, not really anything at all. “
Pairing: Cook/Archuleta (Okay, this is about the time you are going to have to stop being shocked here.)
Rating: So so so G it hurts
Summary: Archie performs a surprise song on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
Author's Notes: This is another flclet from the kid!verse that we will seriously get finished someday. It was written to cheer up mausi, and is mostly me being a dork. I use Billy Joel's "Lullaby (Goodnight My Angel)" and like always I own nothing but the ideas and apparently a lot of hormones.
The thing was that neither one of them had ever actually come out of the closet. It wasn’t a big deal to them to have the press validate them as a couple, and to be honest it just made life for them easier to leave it up to speculation. They had a handful of fans that had all but told them they knew and it was kind of nice to know they had the support but it just wasn’t worth the inevitable backlash.
When they had gotten married, just a little bit after Addy had been born it was more of a way to keep their lives together and to give a back up for any problems that California would try to give them with raising her together. It was short and simple and surprisingly didn’t even make any papers or trashy magazines.
(“Get real, Archie,” Cook had laughed, “We just aren’t that interesting.”)
Archie decided he had had enough the day that he was ‘set up’ on a date for a local radio station interview. He took the winner, a shy 18 year old who blushed every time he looked at her, out to dinner but gotten home that night completely sure of his decision. When he talked to Cook about it he realized that maybe Cook had wanted to be able to do that all along and was just waiting for Archie to catch up. It made his heart ache and his smile grow and he promised himself he wasn’t going to go over the top for it but that went out the window when he saw Cook’s excited grin.
Two days later Cook was in the front row of the Tonight Show with Addy wrapped up in a blanket in his arms. When Conan announced his name he didn’t hear the applause, didn’t get the usual flutter of nerves that accompanied a performance… instead he walked out across the stage with his eyes firmly on his family. He sat down at the piano they had set up for him and leaned forward to get the mike in the right angle.
“I am going to play something special tonight,” he cleared his throat. In rehearsal he had played ‘Crush’ so when he started the first few bars he could see the band leader tilt his head in confusion. “This is something pretty personal, and I am dedicating it to my family, which is even more special to me. So this is for my husband David and our daughter Adelaide.”
It might have been his own nerves blocking out the noise but the audience seemed deadly quiet through all of his performance. He had chosen the song because of a million different reasons. The first verse he thought was what he could only hope Cook knew about how he felt for him. He sang it for his mother to hear that what she had always taught him had stuck. Mostly though it was because he sang it for Addy almost every night and he hoped that someday she would hear the recording and know that from the first minute they knew about her she was loved and wanted. By the time he reached the final lines his stomach was in one tight knot.
“Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on. They never die, that’s how you and I will be.”
From the dead quiet came the beginnings of murmuring and Archie stared down at his hands until suddenly there was a huge thunderous applause. His head jerked to look, he was getting a standing ovation, and in the front he saw Cook grinning like a mad man. He wasn’t applauding (his hands were full) but he looked like if he could he would be on stage beside him, giving him a huge hug and somehow that is just the image to get him to stand up and bow.
He walked over to where Conan was standing, reached out and took the handshake he offered. When he sat down the crowd was still cheering and he wasn’t exactly tearing up but he knew his eyes must have been suspiciously red and he put his hand up to wipe the moisture at their corners.
It felt like forever for the audience to quiet down, and it ended up taking Conan literally telling everyone, “SHUT UP!” a few times to get it under control. When it had though, Conan turned to him and smiled.
“So nothing new to share with us then,” he deadpanned.
Archie blushed. “Oh, uh. Gosh. Nope, not really anything at all. “