Fic: I Would Take A Whisper (If That's All You Had To Give)
Title: I Would Take A Whisper (If That's All You Had To Give)
Fandom: The Social Network
Rating: PG-13
Pairing(s): Mark/Eduardo, background Chris/Dustin
Warnings: Character death in the form of Chris and Dustin. Swearing. Angsty feels.
Word Count: 40,969
Summary: A 'Life As We Know It' AU. Chris and Dustin die in a car accident a few years after the lawsuit and Mark and Eduardo are left joint custody of their one year old daughter. Turns out that losing your only friends and raising their baby is hard enough without also having to live with the ex-best friend who broke your heart. Basically this is a fix-it and a kid!fic and boy does everyone have a lot of feelings.
Notes: Okay, where to begin. Credit goes to the film 'Life As We Know It', without which this story never would have been born and also to 'The Social Network' for providing the main characters (and also copious amounts of pain). I also referenced a couple of children's tv shows so I should mention them, but special mention goes to the children's books 'I Love You, Blue Kangaroo' and 'No Matter What' which I quoted a couple of times. The title is taken from the song 'Echo' by Jason Walker which I listened to a lot while writing this story.
An embarrassingly huge thank you to my brilliant beta, impromptu_song. Jackie, you have been a monumental help to me over this whole process, bless you for putting up with me. Thanks also to savetomorrow for her invaluable support. She is the Samwise to my Frodo, and 'Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam'.
Finally I'd just like to mention that I might do an epilogue one day. I am aware that this ends rather abruptly and this is due mostly to time constraints. I wrote many versions of an epilogue but I wasn't happy with any of them in the end. So if people care enough I might write one one day. But until then, I hope this is enough :)
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7 | part 8 | part 9
or in full over on AO3
Amazing fanmix/art by am41
Beautiful art by lovesletyoudown
Fandom: The Social Network
Rating: PG-13
Pairing(s): Mark/Eduardo, background Chris/Dustin
Warnings: Character death in the form of Chris and Dustin. Swearing. Angsty feels.
Word Count: 40,969
Summary: A 'Life As We Know It' AU. Chris and Dustin die in a car accident a few years after the lawsuit and Mark and Eduardo are left joint custody of their one year old daughter. Turns out that losing your only friends and raising their baby is hard enough without also having to live with the ex-best friend who broke your heart. Basically this is a fix-it and a kid!fic and boy does everyone have a lot of feelings.
Notes: Okay, where to begin. Credit goes to the film 'Life As We Know It', without which this story never would have been born and also to 'The Social Network' for providing the main characters (and also copious amounts of pain). I also referenced a couple of children's tv shows so I should mention them, but special mention goes to the children's books 'I Love You, Blue Kangaroo' and 'No Matter What' which I quoted a couple of times. The title is taken from the song 'Echo' by Jason Walker which I listened to a lot while writing this story.
An embarrassingly huge thank you to my brilliant beta, impromptu_song. Jackie, you have been a monumental help to me over this whole process, bless you for putting up with me. Thanks also to savetomorrow for her invaluable support. She is the Samwise to my Frodo, and 'Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam'.
Finally I'd just like to mention that I might do an epilogue one day. I am aware that this ends rather abruptly and this is due mostly to time constraints. I wrote many versions of an epilogue but I wasn't happy with any of them in the end. So if people care enough I might write one one day. But until then, I hope this is enough :)
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7 | part 8 | part 9
or in full over on AO3
Amazing fanmix/art by am41
Beautiful art by lovesletyoudown