Jon's Bookstore Series - foxxcub (R)
Fandom: BANDOM - Ensemble (MCR, FOB, PATD and a smattering of others)
Pairing: Jon/Spencer, Frank/Gerard, Ryan/Brendon, Pete/Patrick
Length: 26,260 words in two stories
Author on LJ: foxxcub
Author Website: AO3
Summary: A funeral is really the wrong place to learn you've inherited a business.
Why this must be read: The premise is roughly explained by the summary and title: Jon inherits a bookstore. Considering this is an ensemble fic, obviously pretty much everyone in bandom shows up in some capacity or another and shenanigans ensue. It's mostly a PATD fic, I'm not going to lie, but as all good ensemble fics it manages to balance out character time pretty well so even if Panic isn't your thing, I'd urge you to give this one a try. :) I don't think you'll regret it.
As for why you should give it a try, there's a myriad of reasons. Excellent characterisation, plenty of humour, solid storytelling. It's not a stunning, award-winning, mindblowing piece of literature, but as far as well-written fic goes, trust me, you could do far, far worse.
Katherine "Kat" Walker owned Between the Lines Used Books for over forty years. She used to say the store had been a birthday present from Jon's grandfather because she'd always wanted her own bookstore, but his grandfather said he won it in a poker game from a guy desperate to get rid of the empty space.
The store sits on the corner of a calm intersection, tucked between a Kinko's and a music store that deals primarily in microphones and sound equipment. The Kinko's is fairly new, while the music store is almost as old as the bookstore; the brick on the outside wall has been covered in graffiti more than once, and gradually the colors and designs have faded enough to give the place a feel of authenticity (the brick outside of Between the Lines, however, is painted white, because it made it easier for Kat to simply blot out said graffiti, and eventually the vandals got tired of redoing their work).
Jon's childhood consisted of video games played on an ancient color TV with rabbit ears wrapped in duct tape in Kat's musty back office after school. He loved it when his grandmother read to him, but, much to her dismay, he was never a voracious reader. The store was more than reading, though; it was learning genres and authors and what covers would make Kat smile whenever someone dropped off a sack of unwanted paperbacks.
"My goodness," she'd say, holding a yellowed sci-fi novel out to him that looked to be around a million years old. "Twenty-five cents for three hundred pages. How the written word has inflated, hmm, Jonny?"
Jon now has a special affinity now for old paperbacks with the price stamped on the front cover.
Jon's Bookstore (A Few Of My Favourite Things) on LJ or on AO3
Anyone Perfect Must Be Lying (Jon's Bookstore II) on LJ or on AO3.
Pairing: Jon/Spencer, Frank/Gerard, Ryan/Brendon, Pete/Patrick
Length: 26,260 words in two stories
Author on LJ: foxxcub
Author Website: AO3
Summary: A funeral is really the wrong place to learn you've inherited a business.
Why this must be read: The premise is roughly explained by the summary and title: Jon inherits a bookstore. Considering this is an ensemble fic, obviously pretty much everyone in bandom shows up in some capacity or another and shenanigans ensue. It's mostly a PATD fic, I'm not going to lie, but as all good ensemble fics it manages to balance out character time pretty well so even if Panic isn't your thing, I'd urge you to give this one a try. :) I don't think you'll regret it.
As for why you should give it a try, there's a myriad of reasons. Excellent characterisation, plenty of humour, solid storytelling. It's not a stunning, award-winning, mindblowing piece of literature, but as far as well-written fic goes, trust me, you could do far, far worse.
Katherine "Kat" Walker owned Between the Lines Used Books for over forty years. She used to say the store had been a birthday present from Jon's grandfather because she'd always wanted her own bookstore, but his grandfather said he won it in a poker game from a guy desperate to get rid of the empty space.
The store sits on the corner of a calm intersection, tucked between a Kinko's and a music store that deals primarily in microphones and sound equipment. The Kinko's is fairly new, while the music store is almost as old as the bookstore; the brick on the outside wall has been covered in graffiti more than once, and gradually the colors and designs have faded enough to give the place a feel of authenticity (the brick outside of Between the Lines, however, is painted white, because it made it easier for Kat to simply blot out said graffiti, and eventually the vandals got tired of redoing their work).
Jon's childhood consisted of video games played on an ancient color TV with rabbit ears wrapped in duct tape in Kat's musty back office after school. He loved it when his grandmother read to him, but, much to her dismay, he was never a voracious reader. The store was more than reading, though; it was learning genres and authors and what covers would make Kat smile whenever someone dropped off a sack of unwanted paperbacks.
"My goodness," she'd say, holding a yellowed sci-fi novel out to him that looked to be around a million years old. "Twenty-five cents for three hundred pages. How the written word has inflated, hmm, Jonny?"
Jon now has a special affinity now for old paperbacks with the price stamped on the front cover.
Jon's Bookstore (A Few Of My Favourite Things) on LJ or on AO3
Anyone Perfect Must Be Lying (Jon's Bookstore II) on LJ or on AO3.