The Social Network fic
The Social Network - Mark/Eduardo
all that is left is all that I hide by therealw - Mark hires a prostitute that looks like Eduardo. Eduardo finds out about it. [PG-13, ~11,300 words]
"So talk," Mark says once they’re inside.
"Before you start bitching about the interruption, I'd like you to think very carefully of anything you might've done lately that's worth over a quarter mill and has the potential to ruin both your life and the company."
Shaped Like a Question Mark by jibrailis - Impossibly sweet librarian AU where Eduardo is a children's librarian and Mark is an information specialist. [Explicit, ~27,000 words]
Mark doesn't answer him. They arrive at the parking lot of the Fairview Library just in time to see Eduardo get out of his car, and Dustin's eyes go wide. He starts laughing. "If Eduardo's your target, you've got the easiest job in the world ahead of you. He actually likes you. How did that happen?" Eduardo starts waving energetically. Dustin waves back.
Perfect Situation by oflights - Harvard!Era, Dustin and Mark are virgins and decide to have a competition to see who can lose their virginity first. Or, well, that's Dustin's plan. Mark sees it as a social experiment. Eduardo is not. amused. I love, love this story, because it has all the things I love: pining, flirting, obliviousness, adorableness...[NC-17, ~20,000 words]
It takes him a minute to register that Eduardo, Dustin and Chris are staring at him with varying degrees of tragedy in their faces, and he pauses in his diatribe on wining and dining to squint at them. “What?”
“You’re a-” Chris starts, and Wardo finishes it in a hushed, pitying voice. “-a virgin?” He makes it sound like a dying cancer patient?
Mark blinks. “Um. Did I say that?”
“Basically,” Dustin says, but he’s avoiding eye contact with just about everybody, shifting uncomfortably from his spot on the floor by the couch. Mark notes that and mentally hits ctrl+s to keep it in mind, and looks back at Eduardo and Chris and tries not to feel the stupid, irritating flush of embarrassment threatening to creep up the back of his neck.
What You See Is What You Get by a_jejune_star - Harvard!Era, and Mark and Eduardo somehow end up adopting a litter of kittens. Kittens, guys, KITTENS. That's adorable and I really don't even like cats. [Hard R/Soft NC-17, ~16,000 words]
He stands before the dumpster and stares at it, eventually turning on his heel, the gravel under his feet crackling loudly.
They explode into shrieks, one clearly louder than the rest, cutting through the clean white of the snow and disturbing the earth.
these things get louder by fledmusic - Post-movie, Mark figures out that apparently everyone thought that he and Eduardo had been dating. [R, ~11,000 words]
Then he realized his mom was still talking, and he’d stopped paying attention again.
“-and really, you work too hard, and you should at least try dating again,” she was saying, and that’s when Mark managed to piece together the things she was saying then and the things she was saying before, about how it’s been five years, and Eduardo, and Mark knows he’s not the best at this kind of thing, but he thought maybe, oh god, is she-
“Mom,” he said, “are you...uhh, I guess there’s no other way of putting this, do you think that Eduardo and I were, like, together?”
(act as if) the world is watching by grim_lupine - Spans from the Harvard!Era all the way post-movie. Eduardo likes to be watched, and Mark likes Eduardo happy. You know, until he doesn't anymore. And then he does again. [NC-17, ~14,500 words]
“Keep watching if you want,” Mark murmurs, and Eduardo lets a strangled laugh; Mark supposes he might be sending some mixed messages considering that he’s undoing each button of Eduardo’s shirt and slipping it off his shoulders as he speaks.
“Your faith in my ability to multitask is-probably misplaced,” Eduardo says, shifting around as Mark rakes his teeth lightly over Eduardo’s collarbone. His shirt is caught around his wrists, and there’s a flush spreading down his chest, and he looks-fuck. Mark slides down to his knees in one move, pushing Eduardo’s legs apart and settling between them. “Mark,” Eduardo hisses, darting a look toward the door which they didn’t lock because they’d just been planning to watch a movie before Mark got distracted (really, it’s Eduardo’s fault for-for having that face), but Mark ignores him and pops the button on his pants and slides the zipper down.
Never Marry for Money (you Can Borrow it Cheaper) by alexthegreat - Post-movie, Mark and Eduardo wake up married in Vegas. Um, oops? [NC-17, ~71,000 words]
Eduardo rubs his face and sinks down onto the armchair. The bar had been Dustin's idea - “We're in Vegas!" he'd pointed out. "We have to get wasted!"--but he hadn't told Eduardo that Mark was coming. (Really, Eduardo should have realized since the reason they were in Vegas was for some bullshit meeting with new investors.) Anyway.
All Eduardo remembers is drinking a lot and then arguing with Mark outside for a while. How they got from there to sprawled out on Mark's bed is still a mystery.
He checks the next few messages. They’re from one of his cousins whom he rarely, if ever, talks to.
Eduardo congrats!!!!!!!
The Anatomy of an Unfortunate Seduction by anon - Completed story in the kinkmeme for the fandom. Harvard!Era, Mark decides to seduce Eduardo. It goes far better than it should, if only because Eduardo is so indulgent of Mark. [NC-17, word count unknown]
When Mark peeks over his shoulder he finds Eduardo rifling through the bag at his hip, brows furrowed in concentration. And so Mark keeps at it, right? Because he has to look up eventually. Only Eduardo doesn't, and Mark wants to grab that fucking bag from Eduardo's shoulder and dump the contents everywhere so that Eduardo will just find whatever he wants and for the love of god, look at Mark's ass already.
the farther I fall I'm beside you by therealw - Mark actually listens to his lawyers. Takes place during the depositions!era. I enjoy stories about Marylin, because Rashida Jones is hardcore kinds of awesome. [PG-13, ~7,000 words]
"Anyway, I also… see, if you click here," he drags the mouse until it's hovering over a link called 'IP log' Marylin is pretty sure wasn't there the last time she checked her account, "you'll find an automatic IP logging and geo tracking. Every time someone browses your profile page, your wall, whatever, their IP is recorded and tracked back to their location, and also crosschecked with registered users' IPs. There's also a blocking option next to each log." Marylin fears she's doing a pretty accurate impression of a gaping fish at this point. "Oh, and one more thing," Mark rambles on, "if you delete content it will be permanently deleted. It's something Dustin's been nagging me about doing but advertisers oppose, obviously. Anyway, if you want it gone, it will be gone."
"I… thank you." She shakes her head. "Wow. Thank you, Mark. I don't know what to say. Mainly because ninety percent of what you just said was Greek to me, but I get the gist of it, I think. And… thank you. That was very thoughtful of you."
Buyer's Remorse by Silvia Kundera - Post-movie, it's a fic where Sean gets a chance to redeem himself a bit by getting back in Eduardo's good graces and helping him patch up his relationship with Mark. Not many authors could have pulled this premise off believably. [no rating, ~18,600 words]
He’d maybe call it a deal with the devil, except he’s not a bad guy. (Though being the devil always sounds pretty cool when he’s high).
Except, except: that kid’s stupid chin and the red around his eyes the next day. Fingers white around the beer cans and he cleaned some papers out of his room that Dustin had wanted to help him with. And, whatever dude, way to be emo, live the tortured genius dream, but Sean's maybe a little sorry this time. Which is weird, but then he's that kind of guy - open to new things.
oriented towards the other by alexthegreat - Fantasy AU where superpowers exist. Mark is a telepath who has cut himself off from all emotion in order to control his power. Well, that's certainly one explanation for Mark Zuckerberg. [R, ~15,000 words]
One of Mark’s few memories from childhood includes his first day at kindergarten. All he remembers is being assaulted with other people’s emotions, feelings of nervousness and anger and sadness at being parted from mommy. One little girl brushed past him, her bare skin touching his, and all he could hear was, I don’t wanna be here why do I have to be here I miss my mommy, until she moved away.
The star to every wandering bark by noelia_g - Mark and Eduardo slowly begin to get their friendship back, and Eduardo messes it all up by falling in love with him. Angst, pining, long distance plane travel. [R, ~16,000 words]
Seven attachments, from the minutes of the meeting to the presentation on something called Farmville that sounds like an incredibly stupid idea. It sounds like something Dustin would have come up as a prank.
Farmville? he types with incredulity and only after he clicks send does he realise what he has done.
For all Mark’s genius he could have figured out a way to take back e-mails. It would make even more more money than facebook.
here comes the sun by oflights - Post-movie, Mark decides to raise Sean's accidental baby. Eduardo drifts back into his life, but it's mostly about Mark! becoming an adult! raising a baby! [NC-17, ~56,800 words]
“God, just fucking tell me, Sean. Did you kill somebody?”
“No. Worse.” Sean heaves a heavy sigh, and Mark’s gripping the steering wheel ridiculously tight.
“Sean, for fuck’s sake-”
“She’s pregnant,” Sean says, and Mark feels a night of drunken rambles all suddenly make so much sense. “She’s pregnant, and I have no idea what to do.”
Place That Don't Know My Name and Place Between Here and the Destination by antistar_e - Doctor Who crossover! Ugh, I love that you can crossover Doctor Who with anything. Why WOULDN'T Eduardo run off with Eleven after the depositions were over, to have tons of adventures and be fantastic? Makes complete sense to me.
"Are you sure?" the man says, which is a stupid question. "No, wait, stupid question," he's correcting himself before Eduardo even finishes the thought. He squints thoughtfully. "You are absolutely identical, I could have sworn ... spatial genetic multiplicity, then? It's happened before -- very lovely girl in Cardiff, could talk to ghosts. Tell me, what's your name?"
"Eduardo Saverin."
For some reason, this seems to be a better answer than all the others combined. The man's eyes double in size. "Are you really?" he goes, as absolutely delighted as a child on a scavenger hunt. "That's brilliant. I loved how they portrayed you in the movie."
"What?" Eduardo goes, so horribly confused.
"No?" The man's eyes flicker back and forth between his. He's still much too close. "No, I've gotten it wrong again, that hasn't happened to you yet. You're still so young."
still your song by daisysusan - This takes place at an interesting place in the narrative. Mark has cut Eduardo out of the company, but Eduardo is still in school, with Chris. It's easy to forget that all of this happened when they were sophomores. I really like the emphasis on Eduardo's friendship with Chris and Dustin here, which is something that often gets lost in the shuffle in fics. [PG-13, ~14,000 words]
From Chris’s cell, still in his hand, he heard a tinny “Chris? … Chris? Chris, are you okay?” Looking at the phone’s screen, he saw that Chris was on a four-and-a-half hour call with “D-MAN.”
(He’s pretty sure that Chris has never changed that contact, that he’s now a responsible, mature adult who gets phone calls from what is probably the only person saved in his phone as anything other than mundane the first-name-last-name.)
He gritted his teeth and said into the phone, “He fell asleep, Dustin.”
There was a long silence on the other end. Then, “Eduardo?”
“Yeah,” he answered.
“Shit,” Dustin said flatly.
“Well put. Look, I’m not dealing with you. I just … I’m not. I just didn’t want you to worry about Chris. I’ll keep an eye on him, but I’m not talking to you.”
pause the tragic ending by indecentexposed - Hate!sex in Eduardo's hotel room, during the deposition!era. Of course, since nothing is ever easy between the two of them, this leads to feelings and stuff. [NC-17, ~3,000 words]
“We’re not supposed to see each other,” he says, his tone quiet, even.
“Obviously,” Mark retorts. He’s right, but obvious is the best Eduardo can do while simultaneously trying to ignore things like the way Mark’s muscles move under his t-shirt.
He tries again: “Mark. You shouldn’t be here.”
“So tell me to leave.”
It’s completely typical of Mark, backing Eduardo against a wall, trying to force a fight. Really, Mark might as well actually back him against a wall, as long as he’s feeling provocative.
all that is left is all that I hide by therealw - Mark hires a prostitute that looks like Eduardo. Eduardo finds out about it. [PG-13, ~11,300 words]
"So talk," Mark says once they’re inside.
"Before you start bitching about the interruption, I'd like you to think very carefully of anything you might've done lately that's worth over a quarter mill and has the potential to ruin both your life and the company."
Shaped Like a Question Mark by jibrailis - Impossibly sweet librarian AU where Eduardo is a children's librarian and Mark is an information specialist. [Explicit, ~27,000 words]
Mark doesn't answer him. They arrive at the parking lot of the Fairview Library just in time to see Eduardo get out of his car, and Dustin's eyes go wide. He starts laughing. "If Eduardo's your target, you've got the easiest job in the world ahead of you. He actually likes you. How did that happen?" Eduardo starts waving energetically. Dustin waves back.
Perfect Situation by oflights - Harvard!Era, Dustin and Mark are virgins and decide to have a competition to see who can lose their virginity first. Or, well, that's Dustin's plan. Mark sees it as a social experiment. Eduardo is not. amused. I love, love this story, because it has all the things I love: pining, flirting, obliviousness, adorableness...[NC-17, ~20,000 words]
It takes him a minute to register that Eduardo, Dustin and Chris are staring at him with varying degrees of tragedy in their faces, and he pauses in his diatribe on wining and dining to squint at them. “What?”
“You’re a-” Chris starts, and Wardo finishes it in a hushed, pitying voice. “-a virgin?” He makes it sound like a dying cancer patient?
Mark blinks. “Um. Did I say that?”
“Basically,” Dustin says, but he’s avoiding eye contact with just about everybody, shifting uncomfortably from his spot on the floor by the couch. Mark notes that and mentally hits ctrl+s to keep it in mind, and looks back at Eduardo and Chris and tries not to feel the stupid, irritating flush of embarrassment threatening to creep up the back of his neck.
What You See Is What You Get by a_jejune_star - Harvard!Era, and Mark and Eduardo somehow end up adopting a litter of kittens. Kittens, guys, KITTENS. That's adorable and I really don't even like cats. [Hard R/Soft NC-17, ~16,000 words]
He stands before the dumpster and stares at it, eventually turning on his heel, the gravel under his feet crackling loudly.
They explode into shrieks, one clearly louder than the rest, cutting through the clean white of the snow and disturbing the earth.
these things get louder by fledmusic - Post-movie, Mark figures out that apparently everyone thought that he and Eduardo had been dating. [R, ~11,000 words]
Then he realized his mom was still talking, and he’d stopped paying attention again.
“-and really, you work too hard, and you should at least try dating again,” she was saying, and that’s when Mark managed to piece together the things she was saying then and the things she was saying before, about how it’s been five years, and Eduardo, and Mark knows he’s not the best at this kind of thing, but he thought maybe, oh god, is she-
“Mom,” he said, “are you...uhh, I guess there’s no other way of putting this, do you think that Eduardo and I were, like, together?”
(act as if) the world is watching by grim_lupine - Spans from the Harvard!Era all the way post-movie. Eduardo likes to be watched, and Mark likes Eduardo happy. You know, until he doesn't anymore. And then he does again. [NC-17, ~14,500 words]
“Keep watching if you want,” Mark murmurs, and Eduardo lets a strangled laugh; Mark supposes he might be sending some mixed messages considering that he’s undoing each button of Eduardo’s shirt and slipping it off his shoulders as he speaks.
“Your faith in my ability to multitask is-probably misplaced,” Eduardo says, shifting around as Mark rakes his teeth lightly over Eduardo’s collarbone. His shirt is caught around his wrists, and there’s a flush spreading down his chest, and he looks-fuck. Mark slides down to his knees in one move, pushing Eduardo’s legs apart and settling between them. “Mark,” Eduardo hisses, darting a look toward the door which they didn’t lock because they’d just been planning to watch a movie before Mark got distracted (really, it’s Eduardo’s fault for-for having that face), but Mark ignores him and pops the button on his pants and slides the zipper down.
Never Marry for Money (you Can Borrow it Cheaper) by alexthegreat - Post-movie, Mark and Eduardo wake up married in Vegas. Um, oops? [NC-17, ~71,000 words]
Eduardo rubs his face and sinks down onto the armchair. The bar had been Dustin's idea - “We're in Vegas!" he'd pointed out. "We have to get wasted!"--but he hadn't told Eduardo that Mark was coming. (Really, Eduardo should have realized since the reason they were in Vegas was for some bullshit meeting with new investors.) Anyway.
All Eduardo remembers is drinking a lot and then arguing with Mark outside for a while. How they got from there to sprawled out on Mark's bed is still a mystery.
He checks the next few messages. They’re from one of his cousins whom he rarely, if ever, talks to.
Eduardo congrats!!!!!!!
The Anatomy of an Unfortunate Seduction by anon - Completed story in the kinkmeme for the fandom. Harvard!Era, Mark decides to seduce Eduardo. It goes far better than it should, if only because Eduardo is so indulgent of Mark. [NC-17, word count unknown]
When Mark peeks over his shoulder he finds Eduardo rifling through the bag at his hip, brows furrowed in concentration. And so Mark keeps at it, right? Because he has to look up eventually. Only Eduardo doesn't, and Mark wants to grab that fucking bag from Eduardo's shoulder and dump the contents everywhere so that Eduardo will just find whatever he wants and for the love of god, look at Mark's ass already.
the farther I fall I'm beside you by therealw - Mark actually listens to his lawyers. Takes place during the depositions!era. I enjoy stories about Marylin, because Rashida Jones is hardcore kinds of awesome. [PG-13, ~7,000 words]
"Anyway, I also… see, if you click here," he drags the mouse until it's hovering over a link called 'IP log' Marylin is pretty sure wasn't there the last time she checked her account, "you'll find an automatic IP logging and geo tracking. Every time someone browses your profile page, your wall, whatever, their IP is recorded and tracked back to their location, and also crosschecked with registered users' IPs. There's also a blocking option next to each log." Marylin fears she's doing a pretty accurate impression of a gaping fish at this point. "Oh, and one more thing," Mark rambles on, "if you delete content it will be permanently deleted. It's something Dustin's been nagging me about doing but advertisers oppose, obviously. Anyway, if you want it gone, it will be gone."
"I… thank you." She shakes her head. "Wow. Thank you, Mark. I don't know what to say. Mainly because ninety percent of what you just said was Greek to me, but I get the gist of it, I think. And… thank you. That was very thoughtful of you."
Buyer's Remorse by Silvia Kundera - Post-movie, it's a fic where Sean gets a chance to redeem himself a bit by getting back in Eduardo's good graces and helping him patch up his relationship with Mark. Not many authors could have pulled this premise off believably. [no rating, ~18,600 words]
He’d maybe call it a deal with the devil, except he’s not a bad guy. (Though being the devil always sounds pretty cool when he’s high).
Except, except: that kid’s stupid chin and the red around his eyes the next day. Fingers white around the beer cans and he cleaned some papers out of his room that Dustin had wanted to help him with. And, whatever dude, way to be emo, live the tortured genius dream, but Sean's maybe a little sorry this time. Which is weird, but then he's that kind of guy - open to new things.
oriented towards the other by alexthegreat - Fantasy AU where superpowers exist. Mark is a telepath who has cut himself off from all emotion in order to control his power. Well, that's certainly one explanation for Mark Zuckerberg. [R, ~15,000 words]
One of Mark’s few memories from childhood includes his first day at kindergarten. All he remembers is being assaulted with other people’s emotions, feelings of nervousness and anger and sadness at being parted from mommy. One little girl brushed past him, her bare skin touching his, and all he could hear was, I don’t wanna be here why do I have to be here I miss my mommy, until she moved away.
The star to every wandering bark by noelia_g - Mark and Eduardo slowly begin to get their friendship back, and Eduardo messes it all up by falling in love with him. Angst, pining, long distance plane travel. [R, ~16,000 words]
Seven attachments, from the minutes of the meeting to the presentation on something called Farmville that sounds like an incredibly stupid idea. It sounds like something Dustin would have come up as a prank.
Farmville? he types with incredulity and only after he clicks send does he realise what he has done.
For all Mark’s genius he could have figured out a way to take back e-mails. It would make even more more money than facebook.
here comes the sun by oflights - Post-movie, Mark decides to raise Sean's accidental baby. Eduardo drifts back into his life, but it's mostly about Mark! becoming an adult! raising a baby! [NC-17, ~56,800 words]
“God, just fucking tell me, Sean. Did you kill somebody?”
“No. Worse.” Sean heaves a heavy sigh, and Mark’s gripping the steering wheel ridiculously tight.
“Sean, for fuck’s sake-”
“She’s pregnant,” Sean says, and Mark feels a night of drunken rambles all suddenly make so much sense. “She’s pregnant, and I have no idea what to do.”
Place That Don't Know My Name and Place Between Here and the Destination by antistar_e - Doctor Who crossover! Ugh, I love that you can crossover Doctor Who with anything. Why WOULDN'T Eduardo run off with Eleven after the depositions were over, to have tons of adventures and be fantastic? Makes complete sense to me.
"Are you sure?" the man says, which is a stupid question. "No, wait, stupid question," he's correcting himself before Eduardo even finishes the thought. He squints thoughtfully. "You are absolutely identical, I could have sworn ... spatial genetic multiplicity, then? It's happened before -- very lovely girl in Cardiff, could talk to ghosts. Tell me, what's your name?"
"Eduardo Saverin."
For some reason, this seems to be a better answer than all the others combined. The man's eyes double in size. "Are you really?" he goes, as absolutely delighted as a child on a scavenger hunt. "That's brilliant. I loved how they portrayed you in the movie."
"What?" Eduardo goes, so horribly confused.
"No?" The man's eyes flicker back and forth between his. He's still much too close. "No, I've gotten it wrong again, that hasn't happened to you yet. You're still so young."
still your song by daisysusan - This takes place at an interesting place in the narrative. Mark has cut Eduardo out of the company, but Eduardo is still in school, with Chris. It's easy to forget that all of this happened when they were sophomores. I really like the emphasis on Eduardo's friendship with Chris and Dustin here, which is something that often gets lost in the shuffle in fics. [PG-13, ~14,000 words]
From Chris’s cell, still in his hand, he heard a tinny “Chris? … Chris? Chris, are you okay?” Looking at the phone’s screen, he saw that Chris was on a four-and-a-half hour call with “D-MAN.”
(He’s pretty sure that Chris has never changed that contact, that he’s now a responsible, mature adult who gets phone calls from what is probably the only person saved in his phone as anything other than mundane the first-name-last-name.)
He gritted his teeth and said into the phone, “He fell asleep, Dustin.”
There was a long silence on the other end. Then, “Eduardo?”
“Yeah,” he answered.
“Shit,” Dustin said flatly.
“Well put. Look, I’m not dealing with you. I just … I’m not. I just didn’t want you to worry about Chris. I’ll keep an eye on him, but I’m not talking to you.”
pause the tragic ending by indecentexposed - Hate!sex in Eduardo's hotel room, during the deposition!era. Of course, since nothing is ever easy between the two of them, this leads to feelings and stuff. [NC-17, ~3,000 words]
“We’re not supposed to see each other,” he says, his tone quiet, even.
“Obviously,” Mark retorts. He’s right, but obvious is the best Eduardo can do while simultaneously trying to ignore things like the way Mark’s muscles move under his t-shirt.
He tries again: “Mark. You shouldn’t be here.”
“So tell me to leave.”
It’s completely typical of Mark, backing Eduardo against a wall, trying to force a fight. Really, Mark might as well actually back him against a wall, as long as he’s feeling provocative.