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What If: A Bandom AU Picspam

Jun 29, 2009 14:42

So harriet-vane had a post about photos representing AUs, and I went away and thought for a little while and got terrifyingly inspired.

Here is the result.

( The One Where... )

the academy is..., fall out boy, panic at the disco, my chemical romance, bandom, the young veins, picspam, cobra starship, mindless self indulgence

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ashlein June 29 2009, 05:01:30 UTC

This is the AU about Victoria the modern ballet dancer. You know you'd read it.Oh man yes. And like ok (I'm totally stealing this bit from experience), Victoria goes to regualar school so she has to get changed in the bathrooms at school and make it to dance class in time and then sometimes she has morning ballet and has to get changed into her school uniform and get back to school in time for her Advanced Science class and she's sweaty and gross but her hair always looks super awesome when she pulls it out of the bun and she's become a master at quick changes ( ... )

ashlein June 29 2009, 05:02:55 UTC

and by high school career I mean the detention bit. Not the dance off with the bad boy of the school bit. Obviously.

blindmouse June 29 2009, 05:15:52 UTC

Oh my god yes. Vicky-T/Gabe dance-off, I have no words for how much I would read that.

This is clearly the beginning of a beautiful not-yet-romance because they're pretending it's not a romance, wherein they sign up together for a Saturday Night Fever-esque club competition which is going to go national if they can get past this round, and there is a TRAINING MONTAGE plus bicker-flirting and many frozen moments while Gabe is dipping Victoria, and getting their styles to work together is HARD but becomes something amazing, and they blow the judges away with their awesome fusion style and PERSONALITY and then there is more kissing.

Also: Not the dance off with the bad boy of the school bit. Obviously.

I do not see why this would be obvious. I am very sad indeed that your high school career didn't include a dance-off with a bad boy, I feel you may have wasted your youth.

ashlein June 29 2009, 05:29:23 UTC

I am very sad indeed that your high school career didn't include a dance-off with a bad boy, I feel you may have wasted your youthI blame my parents for sending me to an all girls school. The only bad boy there was my science teacher who was a total hot ass ( ... )

rilee16 June 29 2009, 05:33:17 UTC

LIKE, WHATSHERNAME IN GREASE.

ChaCha DeGrigorio.

ashlein June 29 2009, 05:34:27 UTC

That's the one. Thankyou!

blindmouse June 29 2009, 05:42:26 UTC

OF COURSE THERE IS A DANCE/ROMANTIC RIVAL.

And, hm, OK, so now Gabe needs to woo Victoria somehow (to be his dance partner, and Alex and Ryland can shut the fuck up with the laughing right now because that's what it's about, okay, Gabe's honour is at stake or some shit), so basically he needs to show her, first, that he's the best partner she could possibly get.

Unfortunately that involves as a first step some in-your-face dancing with various girls who are not Victoria, especially DANCE RIVAL GIRL, randomly in the sidewalk when Victoria walks by and in the club and in gym and it's all VERY ANGSTY, and Vicky-T is so close to snapping and just wishes she could be sure that that wouldn't involve her bursting into tears. And she just doesn't get why Gabe can't just leave it alone, why he's being such a douche about this. She'd really thought he was sweet, away from everybody else, but she guesses she was wrong.

ashlein June 29 2009, 05:50:28 UTC

OH MY GOD YES TO ALL OF THAT ( ... )

blindmouse June 29 2009, 05:58:50 UTC

Oh oh oh yes! OK, and in the club earlier when she's dancing with Nate and Gabe is dancing with random chick, Gabe steers his partner closer and he's trying to dance all up in Victoria and Nate's space and meeting her eyes all challenging and exaggerating his hip rolls and at first Victoria narrows her eyes and makes Nate take up the challenge, but over-sexed challenge dancing is really NOT Nate's style and then Victoria just feels empty and crushed and can't deal with it and Nate's kind of unflappably Nate-ish but raised eyebrows and relieved when she says she wants a drink and gets them off the dance floor.

so she shrugs off the jacket and is all "Fine. But after the competition we're done" and then she goes back inside to get Nate.

Waaah /o\

OK, but so now they're training again, but they don't know how to act around each other.

ashlein June 29 2009, 06:08:37 UTC

OH MY GOD YES YES YES!!!!

but over-sexed challenge dancing is really NOT Nate's style lol especially not with people who are that tall that when they hiproll they smack him in the face.

Oh yes, time for awkwardness. So like maybe they arrange to practise after school and Victoria comes straight from ballet so she's sweaty and tried and kinda gross and Gabe is being nice like overly nice and she doesn't get why he can't just be Gabe why does he have to have a different persona for every single situation, but then she reminds herself that she doesn't care so they try to pick up where they left off and they're supposed to be doing this one lift but everytime they try to do it Victoria kinda stops or stumbles so Gabe can't pick her up and Gabe is like How can I lift you if you don't trust me to do it? and Victoria just glares at him and is like Maybe you should give me a fucking reason to trust you and then grabs her bag and storms out.

blindmouse June 29 2009, 06:29:00 UTC

Oh my god Gabe's hip in Nate's jaw, lolol.

OK, I'm bringing in new characters. Say that Lyn-Z and Gerard use the practice space after Victoria and Gabe on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and they do [insert some vaguely edgy dance style, I'm afraid you'll have to bring all the actual knowledge to this partnership], and Lyn-Z's got into the habit of idly watching them while they finish up and she does warm-ups.

So Vicky-T storms out and starts walking, and realises, mortifyingly, that she's left her bag behind. So she sort of creeps back in, terrified Gabe's going to be there still, but instead finds Lindsey, practicing backbends over the bar. And Lindsey flips upright and sits up on the bar and curls her knees around and says "You guys could be fantastic if you were actually dancing together, you know."

And Victoria just kind of stares at her because. She knows. They were fantastic, what they were doing was fantastic, and Victoria just wants that back, so badly. And training together without it is so much worse than not training together ( ... )

ashlein June 29 2009, 06:42:54 UTC

Poor Nate. He'd never be the same again ( ... )

blindmouse June 29 2009, 06:47:11 UTC

Gabe can tell there's something different as soon as she walks in. And they dance and it takes off and when they stop for a breather Gabe grabs his water bottle and leans against the wall and stares at Vicky-T stretching out a cramp with her hair all in her face, breathing hard, and thinks, stunned, I'm so completely fucking in love with you. Fuck.

I am really starting to feel my complete lack of cobra icons here

ashlein June 29 2009, 06:57:21 UTC

ohmygod I just flailed at the screen.

SO maybe Vicky-T looks up and Gabe is staring at her and she smiles at him and he's like "So,um,again?" and they're maybe incorporating some Tango inspired dance moves so Victoria's does a pirouette and then finishes with a leg hooked on Gabe's hip and then she kinda has to lean back a bit and slide down his body and Gabe is trying really hard to concentrate but it's really fucking hot and when he hold out a hand to pull her to her feet and into another lift his hand slips and she falls and there is like this silence and he's kinda waiting for her to yell at him or call him an asshole but she just laughs, pulls herself to her feet and says "Ok let's take it from the top" and when she turns, he takes a deep breath and is like "Yep totally fucked"

me too dude.

blindmouse June 29 2009, 07:07:16 UTC

The thing is, though, that Gabe still doesn't actually get what he did wrong before, and dance rival girl is still around, and still flirting with Gabe. And for him, it's basically, he doesn't even notice her, not when Victoria's around or even on the other side of the quad, but for Victoria, it seems that he's letting her flirt, encouraging her even. And so she just decides, okay, Gabe is flirty, and they're friends, and they're fucking awesome partners, and there's sexual tension, sure, but Gabe probably has sexual tension with everybody. Gabe probably has sexual tension with his fucking bedroom door. So off the dance floor, Victoria's determined that they're going to have a total bro vibe going, no sign at all that Victoria wants anything else, because she is above all that.

Gabe is kind of despairing.

(ETA: ALSO, yes yes to the tango and the sexy slide that turns into falling over, and also YES to Lyn-Z and Gee dancing Electro Jazz/Crunk/Anything else my eyes are totally starry.)

ashlein June 29 2009, 07:19:05 UTC

YES!!

So then the Dance Rival girl is always hanging around trying to intimidate Victoria and Victoria is just too fucking busy for that bullshit. Between dance classes, school, homework and practise with Gabe, she doesn't have time for Gabe's...whatever. So she takes the higher ground. Until of course Dance Rival corners her in the bathroom and is talking shit and Victoria is like "Listen here you Britney Spears wannabe. If you think for a second, that I'm intimidated by your cheap and tacky dance moves you're dreaming. The running man is sooo nineties and baby, if you're not doing it with a sense of irony than you're not doing it right. So either bring it or step off" and walks out ( ... )

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