What You Bring With You, What You Leave Behind

[parsnips]

Title: What You Bring With You, What You Leave Behind
Author: parsnips
Rating: PG
Pairing: none
Warnings: language
Spoilers: Up to season 5 of CSI: Miami, season 3 of Without a Trace, and the movie Empire RecordsSummary: Lucas grows up; Joe sells the Empire; Speed leaves Miami; Jack finds him. And, again, Lucas grows up. CSI:Miami/Without a Trace/Empire

Comments

[octette]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

i love this. i love all the details. i love the name game, the history of joe/jack, the midlife superman crisis, the growing up. gina. &, omg, you put my CAT and my LIVING ROOM into the story. MY LIVING ROOM, BB. holy fuck.

this is the best thing i have read all year & i love it, & it was worth waiting six months for.

xxxxxoooo

[parsnips]

HEE.

If you actually have that coffee table, I WILL DIE OF AWESOME. If you don't yet, omg, PROJECT.

(By the way, the you in the story couldn't be you you, because you kept wanting to stick around and do stuff. Like, in one memorable draft, call the cops. You are a very action-oriented person, even in character form. I had to use a zombie-you.)

(btw, I also made sure no one cried. Not that my stories tend to have people crying, except maybe in the unattractive-with-snot variety, but still.)

Thank you so much for the kind words -- I am SO GLAD you liked it. Happy, happy birthday!

[octette]

omg, hahahaha, YES, i kept thinking, "at this point i'd call the cops," or "at this point, he'd not be my roommate anymore!" or "at this point, i'd be eavesdropping and taking bets on livejournal w/r/t making out violently!"

i DO in fact have that coffee table, although it is really a steamer trunk, and i painted over most of the nailpolish with black. BUT WAY TO GO calling my character, dude, fr rl!!!!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

[parsnips]

THAT IS SO AWESOME.

Here is the one bit I still have -- because I was working on this on two computers, I was copy/pasting over previous drafts as I went. Anyway:

A thump comes from the next room, and Lou yells through the door something involving the word "cops

[octette]

HAHAHAHAHAH.

"I'm putting this on the Internet!" yells Lou through the door.

[parsnips]

Joe pulls himself away and swears and looks like he's going to hit something, possibly Speed. Speed blinks, and stares, and kind of wishes Lou had actually come into the room, because then he'd have a witness to what he can only assume was Joe going insane.

As is, Speed can only pant slightly and wonder if his mouth is ever going to feel the same.

[octette]

THEN THEY DO IT.

"If you are going to have sex," yells Lou, "please turn on my webcam first!"

[parsnips]

"Jesus Christ," Joe mutters. He looks down at Lucas and seems to lose the thought.

Lou laughs at something in the next room, and they can both hear the rapidfire typing that follows.

Joe says, "If we go into the hall, will she follow us there?"

"No," says Speed, "but, um, I wouldn't stay in the hall. She has friends. Who like floor shows."

Joe's distracted again, but he still manages to say, "They have cameras?"

Speed tries to say, "Probably," but gets lost on the way.

[octette]

heeeeeeee

*dies of the giggles*