Gift fic for b_akakame: Close Encounters With Mars

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Title: Close Encounters With Mars
Written for: b_akakame
Pairing: Akame
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~10,300
Disclaimer: All of this is fiction.
Note: This story can also be read at the Archive of Our Own.
Warnings: None
Author’s Notes: To my recipient-hope you enjoy!
Summary: Two singers walk into a concert, and one of them says to the other…

Comments

[pinkynishi]

Gosh, this was so pleasant to read :D Sure, Kame was a bitch in the beginning but it turned out great :D

Thank you for writing this, Anon writer :D

[frameofmind6]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! (And yeah...Kame was a bit of a bitch wasn't he. Good thing Jin's not fazed by his moods... ;)

[masami93]

Nice fic :D I always enjoy the bitchy Kame. Thanks to DAT-TUN5 and some making ofs I can totally imagine them playing darts and being terrible at it ;)
Thank you for your work!

[frameofmind6]

Thank you! Yeah, for a couple of guys as coordinated as they can be, they generally seem to suck at hand-eye-coordination games. (Well. Unless it's catching ping pong balls with chopsticks, which Kame is apparently freakishly good at... ;)

Glad you enjoyed it!

[kaminikaku]

I really loved the way you wove canon into this.... the invitation to come out, Kame's hesitation and Jin's insistence in the face of ignored phone calls and messages rang really true, and I apparently really enjoyed the fact that Kame did hear about stuff after things had happened, it made this seem really grounded...like their relationship had gone off the rails and they needed to deal with that sort of stuff to make it work. The darts was cute, the shower was hot hot hot (like the water) but my favourite part was the conversation in bed afterwards, where they could be honest with each other and make things work because they could trust each other. Beautifully done, I really enjoyed reading this.

[frameofmind6]

Thank you! Yeah, the ideas for this came from a few different places, but one of them was an interview I remember reading a vague translation of (and then couldn't find again when I was actually planning to write this -- oops) where Kame confirmed that they had met at the concert and said he'd told Jin that he heard about him leaving the agency via news/newspapers. And then there are all the other little press conferences and awkward-question moments where Kame has to interact with something involving Jin publicly when Jin isn't there, and I've always wondered exactly what he knows beforehand and where and when he hears it. Obviously in some cases (like when the decision about Jin leaving became final) I'd like to think he hears stuff from Jin first, and not through the grapevine...but you just never know. I get the feeling that Jin could be the kind of person who -- without intending to cause anyone problems -- might not get around to telling people important and relevant things as quickly as he should, just because he doesn't want

[b_akakame]

I only got around to finishing this yesterday, which is a shame. Because shiny. *_

[frameofmind6]

Hee-glad you enjoyed it! ;)

I’ve sort of had this title and a vague sense that I wanted to use The Encounter as a catalyst for something in my head pretty much since…April. ;) But I couldn’t decide where to go with it-if it should be just the start of something long and gradual, like they’re really starting from zero again, or if it should be more like this, where the whole thing focuses on this incident and its immediate aftermath. But your “if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all” prompt sent me toward the latter, and also toward this idea that they’ve had an ongoing relationship for a number of years, and it pretty much already is exactly the real relationship they both want, except that they’re not calling it that or treating it that way.

(Also, making them squabble like children is always fun. And alcohol + Akame + pointy objects, well… ;)

And then there’s the shower sex. *_* Okay, to be very honest, I didn’t think I’d get that one

Oh come now. You didn’t really think I would be able to resist

[solo]

That's a really cool story! I love how you make everything work with canon, and their bickering sounds so real. Also great how Jin keeps insisting and won't let Kame get away.

He does have stuff to do tomorrow, though it’s not exactly early-but he wasn’t planning on an all-night drinking session, which is what these things often seem to turn into. And he definitely wasn’t planning on an all-night Jin session either. (Which is the other thing they sometimes turn into.)

Apart from the lovely rhetoric, this really intrigued me because it was an early indication that there was an ongoing thing between them, even though everything else pointed in another direction.

“The shower was a very good idea.”
~ ~ ~
“The shower was a very bad idea,”

LOL. This reader thinks the shower was an excellent idea. It was a 'hot' shower. :)

Every time something big happens in your life, I end up hearing about it on freaking Mezamashi.”Oh Kame, I HEAR YOU

[frameofmind6]

Thank you!! ;)

Also great how Jin keeps insisting and won't let Kame get away.

Yeah, Kame is a bit slippery-Jin has to be sticky if he wants to hang onto him… ;)

Apart from the lovely rhetoric, this really intrigued me because it was an early indication that there was an ongoing thing between them, even though everything else pointed in another direction.

Thanks! I didn’t want to get stuck on explaining their relationship up front, but I didn’t want it coming out of nowhere either. Very glad the hints came across.

LOL. This reader thinks the shower was an excellent idea. It was a 'hot' shower. :)

\o/ (Jin will most likely agree eventually, once his wallet finishes drying out. And until then, he’ll probably just make Kame pay for things… ;)

I like how you dealt with that, and how the whole issue got resolved. Feels gooooooood! :D

Yaaaay! I’m really glad to hear that-glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the comment!