Fic: While Nero´s burning Rome [timelord!Steve snippet]
I blame this one entirely on crimson_jay_o - which makes sense, since she not only provided the prompts but also "forced" me to write this (don´t remember how though...) I wrote it a few weeks back but decided to post it now in celebration of the new season of "Doctor Who"
A few weeks ago we were talking about the BB story we are writing together and somehow the topic turned towards boys in toga´s (this will - hopefully - make perfect sense once we are done with the BB) and Crimson liked the idea so much she asked me to write a "boys in togas" story for her. Somewhere along the line the slave-gladiator idea I had got abandoned in favour of a timelord!Steve idea - and I swear I only mentioned it in passing...*sigh*
So we started talking about this and before I knew it I had this very intricate set-up with a world in which there are more than just the one (or two...) Timelords and the Gypsie is one of them and his Tardis has a working cameleon-circuit and lil Chris (I picture him around the age he was when he did Fame) is his companion (and somehow that sounded so much more like a "Firefly" than a "Doctor Who" term in my head now...)
But I still hadn´t written anything...so after 2 weeks of bugging me I turned to Crimson and said "Okay, we got toga. Give me 4 more prompts for this and I´ll write this thing for you. "She did...and the next day I sat down and wrote this little thingy...
Title: While Nero´s burning Rome
Author:jennamcquaid
Rating: PG13 (for boys kissing)
Warnings: historical inaccuracies, ridiculous costumes and a Timelord
Pairing: timelord!Steve/Chris (Steve looks about the age he is now [2012], Chris is about Fame L.A. age)
Wordcount: 583
Disclaimer: This story is not true, completly made up and also utter fiction!
Summary: written for the prompts: toga, TARDIS, thunder, tree, trick-or-treat
Authors Note I: This is set in an AU in which Steve is a Timelord (yap, just like that guy in "Doctor Who")- an alien who looks like a human (or maybe we humans just look like Timelords *shrugs*) - and has a TARDIS, a machine that can travel through time and space, look like anything in order to blend in and is much bigger on the inside...I guess that´s all you need to know in order to understand this. If there´s something you don´t understand ask in the comments or msg me...
Authors Note II: I think of this as the lil teaser bit at the beginning of an episode, just before the credits...it´s pretty much stand-alone...but there might be more of this...
The moment the small playhouse appeared in the park - a perfect, though mirrored copy of the one a few meters away at the other end of the playground - the red door was flung open and Christian stumbled out. The young man was clad in only a toga - and not the Socrates ones, that look like a bedsheet but rather one of those gladiator ones that left the chest bare - and was greedily sucking in the fresh air.
Steve stepped out after him, a lot calmer and wearing the outfit of a roman soldier.
“Well, looks like you can add Nero to the ever-growing list of people you pissed off.” the half-naked man complained, his voice a little rough around the edges.
“Oh, come on. I couldn´t leave you there. He wanted to keep you as his slave…and from the way he was looking at you I don´t think he was planning on sending you to the kitchens…” Steve wiggled his eyebrows suggestively. “Can´t say I blame him though…” His eyes trailed over Christian´s bare torso, prompting the younger man to cross his arms over his chest and declare “I´m gonna get dressed!”
Steve stopped him as he tried to stalk back to the TARDIS. “But you´re gonna keep this?” He gestured at the flimsy sheet. “You know for…special occasions...or Halloween…”
“Halloween?” Chris raised an eyebrow at the suggestion. “You want me to what? Go trick-or-treating like that?”
Steve´s grin was back in place. “Great idea! Maybe you can get another fire started…!”
“I did not start a fire…if this is anyone´s fault, it´s yours.” Chris´s comment went unanswered because Steve was too busy giggling at…something.
Chris waited not-so-patiently until he´d gotten himself back under control before prompting “Something you wanna share with the rest of the class?”
That nearly set Steve off again, but he finally managed to explain “I just realized how all the history books got it wrong. You know, when they say Nero started the fire because of the Christians…Looks like he started it because of a Christian…” He started laughing again and Chris couldn´t help the small smile tugging at his lips.
But suddenly Steve grew serious again. He stepped closer to Chris, letting his eyes trail over him again. “You´re sure you´re okay, though?”
Chris sighed and leaned back against the tree behind him. “I´m fine. Don´t always need a Timelord to save my ass.”
And just like that Steve was in front of him, pressing close against him and mumbling “But it´s such a pretty ass…” before diving in for a kiss. He broke it again to declare “and a pretty mouth” - licking over Christian´s lips while his hands traveled from his neck down to his shoulders - “and pretty shoulders…”- another kiss while Steve´s hands made their way down Christian´s arms.
But before the Timelord could go on naming all off Christian´s “pretty” body parts, a low rumble disrupted the otherwise silent night.
Christian´s eyes flew open - and when exactly had he closed them? - and he softly pushed Steve off of him. “Better head inside. The last thing I need is getting caught in a thunderstorm in this thing…”
Steve watched as Chris made his way back to the waiting TARDIS, pouting as he yelled after him “But I really wanted to know if your toga-thing turns see-through when it gets wet…!?!”
The only answer he received was the “Bang” of the plastic door being thrown shut, closely followed by another roll of thunder.