Title: The Shape I Found You In
Fandom: PatD (bandom)
Pairing: Ryan/Spencer (Brendon/Shane, Jon/Cassie)
Word Count: 24,500
Rating: Adult
Warnings: Angst! Melodrama! Codependency! Authorial self-indulgence!
Summary: Growing up, and growing into being in love with your best friend.
A/N: If this fic makes me look a bit like a Ryan apologist, well, that's because I am one. HOWEVER, I was writing this before the Ryan/Keltie break up (because I write fic very. very. slowly.) and most of the Ryan/OMC stuff was written before that happened. I did not draw on the real life Ryan/Keltie breakup for this story beyond a few very minor Keltie related details that were added later. I just wanted to say that.
As always, thanks to
neverneverfic for the beta and for the encouragement, and just for being her, really. bb, I can't even imagine what it would be like to be in this fandom without you. ♥ ♥ ♥
All remaining mistakes are mine.
Thanks to my fanmixers
signsonaves,
screamkaitlin and
athenejen and to my fan artist
wilde_stallyn.
All extras can be found
here.
Bonus thanks to
inlovewithnight for listening to flailing and to
darastar, who isn't even anywhere near this fandom, but who inadvertently named this fic. (Title taken from Girlyman's
The Shape I Found You In).
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