FIC: Unsaid Jukebox (6x5)
Title: Unsaid Jukebox
Fandom: Gundam Wing
Pairing: 6X5
Meme: set MP3 player to random all tracks and list the first 10 songs that come up. Write drabble for each song
Disclaimer: Neither Gundam Wing nor any of the songs used belong to me. They all belong to other, no doubt wealthier, people. I make no money from this and I mean to harm.
Notes: This one snuck up on me in a darkened alley, jumped on and refused to go away until I was finished. Now I'm going to go back to Mirror Jukebox...
1) My Eyes, Doctor Horrible’s Sing-along Blog
Part I
Anyone with half a brain
Could spend their whole life howling in pain
The rain came down in dull sheets, slicking the city in airborne muck. Down below he could see the bottom feeders, the sheep, scuttling out of the deluge. Afraid to be stained. They were too soaked to idly return indoors; they would ruin the carpets.
“I hate them sometimes.” He confesses, voice hoarse from roared anger the stones are already forgetting. “For being weak. For needing us.”
“That’s like hating us for being reliable.”
His silence is louder than the patter of a billion raindrops.
Part II
Just when you feel you’ve almost drowned
You find yourself on solid ground
The rain throbbed down like a pulse of hearts blood bringing much needed relief to the city below. He did not need to see the joy on the faces of the scattering poor to know it was there. Exclamations drifted up to their deserted rooftop, bringing a soft curl to his lips.
“They need us, and you at least are too good a man to turn away.”
The world could be shifted on that certainty; his companion’s anger wavers a moment then slips away leaving just a battle weary child behind and a uniform that clung obscenely in the rain.
2) Everything About You, Ugly Kid Joe
And I get sick when I’m around-
I can’t stand to be around -
I hate everything about you!
Watching him from across the room, Wufei took deep satisfaction in the immediate surge of hate he felt for Marquise. Everything about the man irritated like glass splinters under skin - the way Noin fawned on him, the imperceptible kinks in the golden mane and the natural grace with which he executed every gesture were particularly annoying, but none of it infuriated him like the man’s brain!
“He is magnificent. You have fine taste, Wufei.”
“You think that I-?! I hate him!”
Quatre’s knowing laughter drew Zechs’ attention, and for a moment sound competed with Wufei’s furious blush for top billing.
3) The Vampire Club, Voltaire
Number one rule in this game
Never call him by his real name
When Wufei was angry, he was ‘Marquise’.
On a mission, he was ‘Wing’.
When he beat Wufei at chess, he was an ‘aryan bastard’.
When his spitfire lover was feeling playful or teasing, he was ‘Blondie’.
When they made love his name was almost always lost in a garbled moan that could have meant anyone, but belonged to and was swallowed up by him.
But most often he was just ‘Zechs’, spoken with loving conviction.
If there was one thing he’d come to appreciate about Chang Wufei it was that the other man had never, not once, called him Milliardo.
4) Seasons of Love, RENT
How do you measure, measure a year
In daylight, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee,
In inches, in miles, in laughter in strife,
It really was too cold to be outside, and today of all days he supposed he should have been at his sister’s mansion. Strangely the idea had only occurred to him now that he was here, staring down at two empty graves alongside Treize’s killer. Unkind, perhaps, to call him that. Treize had used the boy as they’d used the rest of them; was the bridge guilty of killing the jumper?
“Shouldn’t you be at Relena’s?”
“Oughtn’t you be at Winner’s?”
Uncomfortable silence descends, and it’ll be hours until Zechs invites Wufei to share the brandy hidden in his coat.
5) Rocket Man, Elton John
I’m not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I’m a rocket man
He’d never expected to miss anything about the war, and largely he was glad it was past. There was nothing redeeming about war, but he’d still wake up nights from dreams with the adrenaline thumping through him and an acute sense of loss. Those nights he wondered if the other pilots had the same dreams.
He got his answer in time, when he took Zechs to bed. Waking up from one of those dreams to find the naked blonde staring longingly out the window at the colony’s faux starlight, he knew he wasn’t the only one who dreamt of flight.
6) Good Girls Go to Heaven, Meatloaf
I can't believe how hard it's been to
Conjure up your face
And trace your body in the air
Zechs learnt early that it takes a fertile imagination to keep even sex with yourself interesting, and in the privacy of his shower lets his off its leash. The cold tiles shock warm flesh to awareness, and he lets his mood lead him; realisation that its Chang Wufei’s mouth he imagines on his cock almost shocks him out of it. But dark eyes urge him on, his minds' eye providing him with more to wandering hands and trembling muscles. No-one hears the completion in each syllable of Wufei’s name when he cries out, golden body straining against his own pleasure.
7) 20th Century Boy, Placebo
Fly like a plane, drive like a car, hold out your hand,
Babe I’m gonna be your man
And it’s plain to see you were meant for me
Yeah, I’m you boy, your 20th century toy
He hadn’t wanted to come to the rock club. Too loud, too boisterous, too... everything and nothing that he would ever seek out himself. But shoved so hard into the darkest corner that lead guitar ripped through his body -
- Zechs’ muscular thigh rocking against his twitching groin with the bass line -
- sweaty blonde hair twisted around his fingers and yanked back sharply with the chorus -
- hard, hungry lips devouring his neck with the drums -
- drowning in sensation and unable to care if it’s his sweat or condensation making him slide against the wall, he’s silently singing Maxwell’s praises for nagging him into going.
8) Never Again, Nickleback
Clenching his hands
She's just a woman
Never again
The book had been bought on a whim. Something had told him that Wufei would like it, and so he had bought it. Now, watching those slim hands clenching white around the slim volume so tightly that it actually shook, he couldn’t help wondering why he ever listened to ‘that’ voice.
“Wufei?”
The dark head shakes furiously, dark eyes clenched as tightly as his fists - and he recognised the expression, with a shock,
“Who?” That’s all he asked, but Wufei flinched the book to his chest.
“Meirian.” His voice shook, just for a moment before inky eyes lifted “My wife.”
9) Walk through the Fire, Once More with Feeling (Buffy)
Cause she is drawn to the fire
Some people never learn
And she will walk through the fire
And let it - -
Wufei tries not to think about the kind of missions the Preventers send Zechs on, absolutely refuses to consider the reasons why his reasonable request for the change of partner from Sally to the ex-prince was refused. He tries especially hard not to imagine the horrors when Zechs returns bloody, burnt and too often dead behind the eyes, because when he does its not sympathetic or protective he feels.
“I thought you were supposed to be intelligent, Marquise?”
The blonde drops onto the mistreated sofa, stares through his lover - and biting back choice comments, Wufei patches the sacrificing idiot up.
10) King of Spain, Moxy Fruvous
Prince and pauper, junior and whopper
World made up of silver and copper
Under my own volition, I took a change of position
Their notice board is full of take out menus (because Zechs can only make frozen pizzas, Wufei can only rehydrate rations and men cannot live by pizza and rations alone).
They always have exactly 20% of their income left at the end of the month (because a household budget is nothing after learning to handle a country’s income).
Their whites are all stained various hues, their woollens shrunken (because Zechs forgets to separate and Wufei forgets why you shouldn’t put wool in the dryer).
It’s not perfect, but they’re still learning and they both pride themselves in being quick studies.
Fandom: Gundam Wing
Pairing: 6X5
Meme: set MP3 player to random all tracks and list the first 10 songs that come up. Write drabble for each song
Disclaimer: Neither Gundam Wing nor any of the songs used belong to me. They all belong to other, no doubt wealthier, people. I make no money from this and I mean to harm.
Notes: This one snuck up on me in a darkened alley, jumped on and refused to go away until I was finished. Now I'm going to go back to Mirror Jukebox...
1) My Eyes, Doctor Horrible’s Sing-along Blog
Part I
Anyone with half a brain
Could spend their whole life howling in pain
The rain came down in dull sheets, slicking the city in airborne muck. Down below he could see the bottom feeders, the sheep, scuttling out of the deluge. Afraid to be stained. They were too soaked to idly return indoors; they would ruin the carpets.
“I hate them sometimes.” He confesses, voice hoarse from roared anger the stones are already forgetting. “For being weak. For needing us.”
“That’s like hating us for being reliable.”
His silence is louder than the patter of a billion raindrops.
Part II
Just when you feel you’ve almost drowned
You find yourself on solid ground
The rain throbbed down like a pulse of hearts blood bringing much needed relief to the city below. He did not need to see the joy on the faces of the scattering poor to know it was there. Exclamations drifted up to their deserted rooftop, bringing a soft curl to his lips.
“They need us, and you at least are too good a man to turn away.”
The world could be shifted on that certainty; his companion’s anger wavers a moment then slips away leaving just a battle weary child behind and a uniform that clung obscenely in the rain.
2) Everything About You, Ugly Kid Joe
And I get sick when I’m around-
I can’t stand to be around -
I hate everything about you!
Watching him from across the room, Wufei took deep satisfaction in the immediate surge of hate he felt for Marquise. Everything about the man irritated like glass splinters under skin - the way Noin fawned on him, the imperceptible kinks in the golden mane and the natural grace with which he executed every gesture were particularly annoying, but none of it infuriated him like the man’s brain!
“He is magnificent. You have fine taste, Wufei.”
“You think that I-?! I hate him!”
Quatre’s knowing laughter drew Zechs’ attention, and for a moment sound competed with Wufei’s furious blush for top billing.
3) The Vampire Club, Voltaire
Number one rule in this game
Never call him by his real name
When Wufei was angry, he was ‘Marquise’.
On a mission, he was ‘Wing’.
When he beat Wufei at chess, he was an ‘aryan bastard’.
When his spitfire lover was feeling playful or teasing, he was ‘Blondie’.
When they made love his name was almost always lost in a garbled moan that could have meant anyone, but belonged to and was swallowed up by him.
But most often he was just ‘Zechs’, spoken with loving conviction.
If there was one thing he’d come to appreciate about Chang Wufei it was that the other man had never, not once, called him Milliardo.
4) Seasons of Love, RENT
How do you measure, measure a year
In daylight, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee,
In inches, in miles, in laughter in strife,
It really was too cold to be outside, and today of all days he supposed he should have been at his sister’s mansion. Strangely the idea had only occurred to him now that he was here, staring down at two empty graves alongside Treize’s killer. Unkind, perhaps, to call him that. Treize had used the boy as they’d used the rest of them; was the bridge guilty of killing the jumper?
“Shouldn’t you be at Relena’s?”
“Oughtn’t you be at Winner’s?”
Uncomfortable silence descends, and it’ll be hours until Zechs invites Wufei to share the brandy hidden in his coat.
5) Rocket Man, Elton John
I’m not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I’m a rocket man
He’d never expected to miss anything about the war, and largely he was glad it was past. There was nothing redeeming about war, but he’d still wake up nights from dreams with the adrenaline thumping through him and an acute sense of loss. Those nights he wondered if the other pilots had the same dreams.
He got his answer in time, when he took Zechs to bed. Waking up from one of those dreams to find the naked blonde staring longingly out the window at the colony’s faux starlight, he knew he wasn’t the only one who dreamt of flight.
6) Good Girls Go to Heaven, Meatloaf
I can't believe how hard it's been to
Conjure up your face
And trace your body in the air
Zechs learnt early that it takes a fertile imagination to keep even sex with yourself interesting, and in the privacy of his shower lets his off its leash. The cold tiles shock warm flesh to awareness, and he lets his mood lead him; realisation that its Chang Wufei’s mouth he imagines on his cock almost shocks him out of it. But dark eyes urge him on, his minds' eye providing him with more to wandering hands and trembling muscles. No-one hears the completion in each syllable of Wufei’s name when he cries out, golden body straining against his own pleasure.
7) 20th Century Boy, Placebo
Fly like a plane, drive like a car, hold out your hand,
Babe I’m gonna be your man
And it’s plain to see you were meant for me
Yeah, I’m you boy, your 20th century toy
He hadn’t wanted to come to the rock club. Too loud, too boisterous, too... everything and nothing that he would ever seek out himself. But shoved so hard into the darkest corner that lead guitar ripped through his body -
- Zechs’ muscular thigh rocking against his twitching groin with the bass line -
- sweaty blonde hair twisted around his fingers and yanked back sharply with the chorus -
- hard, hungry lips devouring his neck with the drums -
- drowning in sensation and unable to care if it’s his sweat or condensation making him slide against the wall, he’s silently singing Maxwell’s praises for nagging him into going.
8) Never Again, Nickleback
Clenching his hands
She's just a woman
Never again
The book had been bought on a whim. Something had told him that Wufei would like it, and so he had bought it. Now, watching those slim hands clenching white around the slim volume so tightly that it actually shook, he couldn’t help wondering why he ever listened to ‘that’ voice.
“Wufei?”
The dark head shakes furiously, dark eyes clenched as tightly as his fists - and he recognised the expression, with a shock,
“Who?” That’s all he asked, but Wufei flinched the book to his chest.
“Meirian.” His voice shook, just for a moment before inky eyes lifted “My wife.”
9) Walk through the Fire, Once More with Feeling (Buffy)
Cause she is drawn to the fire
Some people never learn
And she will walk through the fire
And let it - -
Wufei tries not to think about the kind of missions the Preventers send Zechs on, absolutely refuses to consider the reasons why his reasonable request for the change of partner from Sally to the ex-prince was refused. He tries especially hard not to imagine the horrors when Zechs returns bloody, burnt and too often dead behind the eyes, because when he does its not sympathetic or protective he feels.
“I thought you were supposed to be intelligent, Marquise?”
The blonde drops onto the mistreated sofa, stares through his lover - and biting back choice comments, Wufei patches the sacrificing idiot up.
10) King of Spain, Moxy Fruvous
Prince and pauper, junior and whopper
World made up of silver and copper
Under my own volition, I took a change of position
Their notice board is full of take out menus (because Zechs can only make frozen pizzas, Wufei can only rehydrate rations and men cannot live by pizza and rations alone).
They always have exactly 20% of their income left at the end of the month (because a household budget is nothing after learning to handle a country’s income).
Their whites are all stained various hues, their woollens shrunken (because Zechs forgets to separate and Wufei forgets why you shouldn’t put wool in the dryer).
It’s not perfect, but they’re still learning and they both pride themselves in being quick studies.