Fic: Questionable Moral Authority (the evil scientist AU)

[formerlydf]

So this was actually supposed to be a little bleaker, but apparently a tiny bit of humor snuck in there as well. *shrugs* What can you do?

Title: Questionable Moral Authority
Author: DF
Fandom: P!atD, FOB
Pairing: Ryan/Brendon, Pete/Patrick, implied Jon/Spencer
Summary Futuristic scientists!AU. Spencer and Ryan looked at each other for a moment,

Comments

[lexicon]

Holy. Wow. I really don't have any words. I have a serious love of AUs, but this. This is seriously incredible. Just the whole concept of it, and oh god. Ryan BREAKS MY HEART SO MUCH at the end. Perfect.

[formerlydf]

Thank you so much! *smiles* I have no idea where the idea came from, but once it came, I immediately knew I had to write it. (Not)EvilScientist!Ryan is just too perfect to resist.

Yeah, I feel bad for him. The one time I don't write a happy ending... Does it help to know that, in my head, it takes about 5-10 years for Ryan to figure out how to keep Brendon up for days at a time (he keeps working at it over the decades, until Brendon can live almost normally) and that in the meantime, Brendon manages to focus his energy to spell "ILU" in morse code through localised power fluctuations in the building?

~DF

[lexicon]

I think it works better that it's not a happy ending? There's the potential for one? And it's not like Ryan doesn't have the time to figure it out? A decade is a drop in the bucket for him at this point, you know?

UGH I DO NOT KNOW YOU, BUT I LOVE YOU AND YOUR BRAIN. MY HEAAAAAAAAART.

[formerlydf]

*nods* Thus why it remained in my head and, now, in this comment, as opposed to in the story. Not that I wouldn't like to have Ryan be happy and whatever, but... It would feel kind of like a cop-out ending. It wouldn't have fit. *makes face*

*laughs* Thank you!!! *bounces* Anything specific that brought this on?

~DF

[lexicon]

Morse code 'i love you's! That is ridiculously precious!

[formerlydf]

Well, it's Brendon. *hugs him* Even "asleep", he'd probably figure out a way to learn morse code specifically so he could do that. *grins*

~DF

[the_randomist]

OMG your icon, is that from the Mediator series?

[formerlydf]

Nope, it's a quote from a Daily Show/Colbert Report fanfic featuring a haunted house, possessions, Jon/Stephen, all that good stuff. Sorry!