AI8 fic: Colliding with Reality, Part 2 Teaser
Series Title: Colliding with Reality
Chapter Title: How Could You Be So...
Author: dark_orion
Pairing: Kradam
Rating: G, again
Summary: It’s the first time since elimination night, since the awful fight with Katy, since Adam’s tantalizing not-quite-offer, that Kris has actually had a free moment to process it all, to try and fit these desperate pieces of his life into a whole that makes some kind of sense.
Author's Notes: NOT A COMPLETE CHAPTER! Sorry for the caps, but just wanted to make sure no one got their hopes up. This might be a little mean, posting a teaser, but I'm so excited to have this part done before Idol tonight, even though it's written by hand so I have to type it into my computer now, that I had to post something. So treat this like a trailer for Chapter 2, 'kay. The rest should be posted sometime tonight/early next morning, depending on how fast I can type.
Colliding with Reality, Part 2: Teaser
How Could You Be So…
dark_orion
Kris hadn’t thought that his life could get more chaotic, more rushed, more compressed than it already is, thanks to the Idol machine, but the days following Allison’s elimination make the previous weeks of the competition seem like grade-school arithmetic in comparison to the calculus his days have become-simple equations like 1 performance + 2 shoots + 7 interviews + 0 hours free time = 1 exhausted contestant transforming into a confusing, crowded mass of obscure symbols and operations where everything Kris sings sounds derivative, and Kris is quickly approaching his limit.
So it is with unexpected relief that Kris boards the private jet that will whisk him to Arkansas for his hometown visit. Kris has never particularly cared for flying-after all, despite knowing the basic physics of lift, it is still a little difficult to trust that a couple of engines and the shape of a wing will keep him airborne-but since Katy had taken an earlier flight back to Conway, embracing the excuse provided by the Idol producers that a “reunion” back home would be better TV, despite the fact that anyone paying attention during broadcasts would have realized that Katy had attended every show, leaving a reunion between the two of them holding all the emotional import of a Coke ad-and not even the “I’d like to teach the world to sing” one-after a few shots on board taped for his homecoming package on Wednesday, Kris has six whole hours to himself to do with as he wishes.
After the plane is underway, he can hear the cameramen lamenting to each other about how dull Kris is being, meaning that any incidental shots of him they may want to take will be dull as well, and Kris can only smile wryly, because if those two could see inside his head to what Kris is thinking, they’d find more material than they’d know what to do with.
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Sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes. I'll proofread better later.
Chapter Title: How Could You Be So...
Author: dark_orion
Pairing: Kradam
Rating: G, again
Summary: It’s the first time since elimination night, since the awful fight with Katy, since Adam’s tantalizing not-quite-offer, that Kris has actually had a free moment to process it all, to try and fit these desperate pieces of his life into a whole that makes some kind of sense.
Author's Notes: NOT A COMPLETE CHAPTER! Sorry for the caps, but just wanted to make sure no one got their hopes up. This might be a little mean, posting a teaser, but I'm so excited to have this part done before Idol tonight, even though it's written by hand so I have to type it into my computer now, that I had to post something. So treat this like a trailer for Chapter 2, 'kay. The rest should be posted sometime tonight/early next morning, depending on how fast I can type.
Colliding with Reality, Part 2: Teaser
How Could You Be So…
dark_orion
Kris hadn’t thought that his life could get more chaotic, more rushed, more compressed than it already is, thanks to the Idol machine, but the days following Allison’s elimination make the previous weeks of the competition seem like grade-school arithmetic in comparison to the calculus his days have become-simple equations like 1 performance + 2 shoots + 7 interviews + 0 hours free time = 1 exhausted contestant transforming into a confusing, crowded mass of obscure symbols and operations where everything Kris sings sounds derivative, and Kris is quickly approaching his limit.
So it is with unexpected relief that Kris boards the private jet that will whisk him to Arkansas for his hometown visit. Kris has never particularly cared for flying-after all, despite knowing the basic physics of lift, it is still a little difficult to trust that a couple of engines and the shape of a wing will keep him airborne-but since Katy had taken an earlier flight back to Conway, embracing the excuse provided by the Idol producers that a “reunion” back home would be better TV, despite the fact that anyone paying attention during broadcasts would have realized that Katy had attended every show, leaving a reunion between the two of them holding all the emotional import of a Coke ad-and not even the “I’d like to teach the world to sing” one-after a few shots on board taped for his homecoming package on Wednesday, Kris has six whole hours to himself to do with as he wishes.
After the plane is underway, he can hear the cameramen lamenting to each other about how dull Kris is being, meaning that any incidental shots of him they may want to take will be dull as well, and Kris can only smile wryly, because if those two could see inside his head to what Kris is thinking, they’d find more material than they’d know what to do with.
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Sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes. I'll proofread better later.