Fandom: Whose Line Is It Anyway
Subject: Colin Mochrie/Ryan Stiles
Title: For We Are In Love
About: based on the fanfic "Carousel" by
liketostopthen and tells the story of Ryan and Colin sleeping together over the course of 30 years and the fall-out that eventually happens over the feelings both of them have for each other but won't admit.
Notes: Real-Person-Slash! Songs are mostly slow folk-ish numbers. Made for
waywardmixes round 18 (mix for a fic).
(
Carousel ) written by
liketostopthen, is a Colin Mochrie/Ryan Stiles fanfic based on a chance meeting in 2007 during their respective improv tours. Haven't seen each other for two years, the onslaught of emotions and feelings is almost too much to handle for both of them, but especially Colin. Told from his point of view, Colin tells the reader from four instances in the past where he and Ryan had sex, and how this seemingly fuck-buddy thing between two lonely guys turned into more in the span of 30 years of friendship. Being in denial about his own feelings and the consequences of their actions, Colin rejects Ryan after their fourth night together in 2005 (first night: Vancouver 1978, second night: London 1992, third night: LA in 2003) and starts avoiding him all together. What Colin doesn't know is that Ryan fully gave up on his marriage because the thing between them just wouldn't go away. And tells him so. Colin later acknowledges it's that Ryan is anything but a coward about his feelings which is the reason why he finally gives in.
The mix covers little moments of sadness, rejection, denial and longing during the two years apart without any contact whatsoever and how Colin is finally realising that it's Ryan who he really wants. Carousel might be one of my top three fanfics in this fandom and this mix is dedicated to
roseofpain84 who wanted me to make a mix for this fic for forever :)
Listen. Download.Like/Reblog. {01}
THE CIVIL WARS ⇨ The One That Got Away
(Colin's PoV)
I never meant to get us in this deep / I never meant for this to mean a thing / Oh, I wish you were the one / Wish you were the one that got away
{02} COUNTING CROWS ⇨ Raining in Baltimore
(Ryan's PoV)
It's raining in Baltimore, baby / But everything else is the same / There's things I remember and things I forget / I miss you I guess that I should / Three thousand five hundred miles away / But what would you change if you could?
{03}
JOSHUA RADIN ⇨ Winter
(Colin's PoV)
I should know / Who I am by now / I walk / The record stands somehow / Thinking of winter / Your name is the splinter inside me
{04} TAYLOR SWIFT ⇨ White Blank Page (Mumford & Sons cover)
(Ryan's PoV)
Can you lie next to her / And give her your heart, your heart / As well as your body / And can you lie next to her / And confess your love, your love
{05}
SUFJAN STEVENS ⇨ Size too Small
(Colin's PoV)
Everything rises, going at it all / All the surprises in a size too small / And what if I told you I was still in love with this? / Would you surprise us in a size for all of me?
{06} THE SWELL SEASON ⇨ Two Tongues
(Ryan's PoV)
And I'm tiring of this attitude / And you fall to pieces like you do / I can't believe you're still talking / with two tongues in your mouth / After all we've been around. / Will you hear me out? / You're the only thing that really counts.
{07}
THE CIVIL WARS ⇨ Same Old, Same Old
(Ryan's PoV)
I’m gonna break things / I’m gonna cross the line / And make you wake up / ‘cause you won’t
{08} BELL X1 ⇨ I'll See Your Heart And I'll Raise You Mine
(Colin's PoV)
And this time they hold their gaze / for too long / Now they're playing poker / and this time it's the angel who says / "I'll see your heart / and I'll raise you mine"
{09}
GLEN HANSARD ⇨ High Hope
(Colin's PoV)
'Cause I've been livin' in the half life / Not sure which way to turn / Why must a man lose everything / To find out what he wants / I'm gonna wait until it feels right / And when that time has come / Wild horses won't keep me back / From where you have gone
{10} BON IVER ⇨ I Can't Make You Love Me/Nick of Time (Bonnie Raitt cover)
(Ryan's PoV)
Cause I can't make you love me if you don't / I can't make your heart feel something it won't / Here in the dark in these final hours / I will lay down my heart / I feel the power but you don't / No you don't / I can't make you love me if you don't / If you don't, / No, you won't
{11}
ELBOW ⇨ The Bones of You
(Colin's PoV)
And it's you, and it's May / And we're sleeping through the day / And I'm five years ago / And three thousand miles away / And I can't move my arm / Through the fear that you will wake / And I'm five years ago / And three thousand miles away
{12} ZERO 7 ⇨ The Pageant of the Bizarre
(Ryan's PoV)
We will never be a nuclear family / But a rainbow will begin at our feet / And if you take my hand / Beware that this boat can / Run aground making the ocean floor weep