title: another chapter where the hero shifts from one foot to the other
fandom: Brand New / Taking Back Sunday / Straylight Run
pairing: Jesse/John
rating: pg-13
synopsis: John moves out because Jesse keeps telling him things he's not sure he wants to hear. (Fairly ambiguous relationship but infer what you will.) Mild angst.
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title: cliché / perfection
fandom: Brand New / Taking Back Sunday / Straylight Run
pairing: Jesse/John
rating: PG-13
synopsis: Goodbyes are never easy, even if they're only temporary, and these goodbyes are tinged by the need for perfection which will never be achieved.
author's note: Initially scrawled on the back of a bus ticket, in the ( Read more... )

title: out-and-out lies and cowardice through-and-through
fandom: Brand New / Taking Back Sunday / Straylight Run
pairing: Jesse/John
rating: R
synopsis: Jesse lies and John doesn't trust a word he says - so, when Jesse gets serious John doesn't know what to think.
author's note: I really don't like this - to the extent that I wrote this over ( Read more... )

title: forever starts tonight / summer '95 [part 2 of 2]
fandom: Brand New / Taking Back Sunday / Straylight Run
pairing: Jesse Lacey/John Nolan
rating: PG
synopsis: Some forevers are better than others and John wants the best forever he can get.
author's notes: Second person. Adressee is Jesse. This goes out to everyone who's ever wanted a ( Read more... )

title: forever is forever is forever / summer '95 [part 1 of 2]
fandom: Brand New / Taking Back Sunday / Straylight Run
pairing: Jesse Lacey/John Nolan
rating: PG
synopsis: Sat out on John's car in the dark Jesse's got something to say.
author's notes: Second person. Adressee is Jesse. Utterly spontaneously written.
word count: 600w approx.
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title: You're Skin And Bones, I'm A Nervous Wreck / your life as a footnote on his
fandom: Taking Back Sunday / Straylight Run
pairing: John Nolan/Adam Lazzara
rating: PG / PG-13 (for adult realism)
synopsis: It's the end of the tour which John walked out on halfway through and John's waiting for Adam at the end of the line.
author's notes: ( Read more... )

title: what happens on tour / closure
fandom: Taking Back Sunday / Straylight Run / Brand New
pairing: John Nolan/Jesse Lacey, Adam Lazzara/John Nolan
rating: R
synopsis: Jesse breaks it off with John. John mopes around their apartment and can't understand why Jesse left.
author's notes: My summaries are about as good as my titles, sorry. ( Read more... )

title: fraternity. / romanticising secrets.
fandom: Straylight Run / Taking Back Sunday / Brand New
pairing: John/Jesse (also taking guesses on Adam/somebody but I shan't tell.)
rating&warnings: PG (possibly) & could be construed as twisted-in more ways than one.
synopsis: John has Michelle keep secrets for him. Michelle's not sure if even she ( Read more... )

title: John Nolan is Godlike / Sorry, Fred, but we like John better.
fandom: Taking Back Sunday / Straylight Run
pairing(s): Fred/Adam, Adam/John, everyone-in-TBS/John
rating: R
synopsis: After sex Adam says that Fred isn’t as good as John. It’s not that Fred isn’t good it’s just that John is practically Godlike, in every sense, and this is a ( Read more... )

title: our love's not unconditional
fandom & pairing: Taking Back Sunday / Straylight Run / Brand New [jesse/john]
rating: PG-13
synopsis & notes: Jesse comes home late drunk & smeeling of perfume. Kudos to anyone who knows where I lifted the line "you know our love's not unconditional" from.
word count: 100 words exact. Drabble.

( Jesse comes home, drunk, loud and clumsy and stumbles into John’s bed smelling of perfume. )