[fanfiction] as you wish, pt.1
365 Gay Sharks
Day 76, Word Count: 2654
Theme: March; Truth and Consequences
This post is part of the 365 Gay Sharks project. If you would like to learn more about this project, click here to read more about it. :D
Fandom/Pairings: The Social Network; Eduardo/Mark
Rating: Let's go with PG-13.
Pre-Notes: This is a Princess Bride au. It has a lot pictures in it, because that is what I do in my spare time, doesn't bother to differentiate between Winklevii, and it probably not very dial-up friendly. Do people still have dial-up? Whatever. This is what thousands and thousands of art school tuition dollars are being used for: shitty multi-media fanfiction. I was bored, sleep-deprived, and tweeting. You shouldn't take this seriously.
Disclaimer: Get out, Mark.
Summary: Scaling the Cliffs of Insanity, battling Rodents of Unusual Size, facing torture in the Pit of Despair-True Love has never been a snap.
as you wish
Hello! I'm glad you're here. Sit down, sit down . . . The story for tonight is quite a good one, if I do say so myself. It's got fencing and heroes and wizards and all sorts of good things. Are you interested? Good.
Mark was raised on a small farm in the city of Facebook. His favorite pastimes mostly consisted of riding his horse and tormenting the farm boy who work on the farm. His name was Eduardo, but Mark never called him that. Nothing gave Mark as much pleasure as ordering Eduardo around.
"As you wish" was all Eduardo ever said to Mark.
That day he was amazed to discover that when Eduardo was saying “As you wish,” what he meant was, “I love you.” And even more amazing was the day Mark realized he truly loved Eduardo back.
Eduardo, being a farm boy, had no money for marriage. So he packed up his things and left the farm to seek great fortunes as a navigator on a merchant ship. It was a very emotional time for Mark, which was saying something, because Mark was hardly ever emotional.
But Eduardo never reached his final destination, for the ship he was traveling on was attacked by the Dead Pirate Roberts and the Dread Pirate Roberts never left captives alive. When Mark got the news that Eduardo was murdered by pirates, he went into his room and shut the door. For days he neither slept nor ate.
Five years later, the main plaza of Facebook city was filled as it never had been before. All of the people were waiting to hear the announcement of the great Prince Sean's bride to be.
Mark's emptiness from the loss of his true love consumed him. For though the law gave Prince Sean the right to choose his bride (of whatever gender, because the law was not particularly clear on which gender the bride had to bed), Mark did not love him.
Despite Sean's reassurances that someday Mark would grow to love him, the only joy Mark found was in his daily ride. On one of his rides, Mark encountered a strange group of three men.
They Vulcan nerve-pinched Mark and then planted a trap so Prince Sean would think that Facebook's greatest enemy from across the sea, tumblr, had committed the deed for the three strange men (or the leader of the three, Divya, at least) were jonesing to start a war. They were going to kill Mark in order to do this, because Divya had saved the other two. The more brash one, Tyler, had been a drunkard before Divya had cleaned him up and Cameron had been unemployed and trying to keep his brother's liver from failing.
And so they sailed to the Cliffs of Insanity, which they would reach by morning if everything went right. Since this is a story, though, things don't ever go right.
Mark did not have the time to retort to that remark, however, because there was a boat following them. Divya went to investigate, and while he was distracted, Mark jumped off the side of the boat and began to swim away. However, the waters they were sailing through were infested with shrieking eels that greatly enjoyed the taste of human flesh.
Mark doesn't get eaten by eels. I'm explaining to you, because you look nervous. We can stop this story here if you want. You're good? Okay.
Cameron smacked the eel, just as it was about to take a bite out of Mark, and then hauled him back into the boat. So that Mark could no longer think of escape, Divya tied him up.
They sailed the rest of the night, and the boat following them followed, catching up quickly. They reached the cliffs of insanity, and Cameron began to climb, carrying Mark, while Tyler carried Divya. The boat following them landed too, though, and the man on it began to climb as well. Divya told Tyler and Cameron to climb faster, and they did but the man was still climbing up behind them.
When they reached the top, Divya cut the rope so the man would be stopped, but the man did not fall.
The man began to climb, which infuriated Divya. He instructed Cameron to carry Mark while they headed for the border of tumblr, while Tyler was to stay behind and watch the man climbing. It didn't matter if he fell or not, as Tyler was to kill him if he made it to the top.
But Tyler would not be persuaded otherwise. Cameron told his brother to be careful, like he always did, before picking up Mark and following after Divya. Tyler, who was impatient, called out to the man climbing the cliff.
Tyler, never one for waiting, was quiet for a moment before calling out again.
There was rope but, Tyler told the man, he was only waiting around to kill him so it would probably be stupid to accept his help. He did, however, promise not to kill him until he reached the top. Tyler, however, hated waiting. He asked if there was any way that he might be trusted and the man said that no, nothing came to mind.
So Tyler threw him the rope, and the man very quickly climbed the rest of the way up the cliff. Once the man was at the top, Tyler told him that they would wait until the man was ready to duel.
As it was, Tyler (and Cameron's) father was slaughtered by a six-fingered man. He happened to be a great swordmaker who made a special sword for the six-fingered man, but the six-fingered man killed him instead of paying him when his father refused to sell the sword for anything less than what it was worth. Because Tyler loved his father, he challenged the six-fingered man to a duel. He failed, and the six-fingered man left him alive, although with scars. As retribution, Tyler learned how to use the sword meant for the six-fingered man so the next time they met, he would not fail.
It was a very touching story, and after it the man stood.
And they dueled. The pair were quite equally matched, and they bantered quite a lot while they fought, and Tyler even admitted that the man was better than he.
They dueled more, the man professing that Tyler was amazing. Which he should have been, seeing as he'd been practicing for twenty years.
The duel raged on, highly choreographed and quite acrobatic as it were. Eventually, though, the man persevered. He left Tyler his life, only knocking him out so he could not follow. And so the man chased after Divya and Cameron. Divya was quite enraged that the man had managed to defeat Tyler, and instructed Cameron to take him out while he took Mark. Cameron waited, altering the man to his presence and offering him a deal.
They would face each other bare-handed, like civilized folk. The man accepted, although he felt that the odds were in Cameron's favor in this instance.
They fought, the man very clearly at a disadvantage until he managed to get onto Cameron's back. While there, he slowly choked Cameron until Cameron passed out. Not enough to kill him, mind you, just enough to make him pass out. The man didn't want to kill Cameron, just keep him from following as he chased after Divya and Mark. He wasn't big on killing, to be honest.
And I know you are probably quiet anxious to know more about the man, but we need to take a detour and talk of Prince Sean for a moment. You see, he was diligently tracking Mark down and not too far behind. He reconstructed the scene of Tyler and the man's fight, and his right-hand woman, Christy, asked if they should track both the loser of the fight and the winner.
And so Sean and his men followed the man's tracks. The man, however, had finally caught up to Divya.
Divya, who was quite enraged, threatened to kill Mark if the man moved any closer. The man tried to reason, but they agreed hat they were at an impasse. However, the man challenged Divya to a battle of wits for Mark. It would be to the death. Divya, would could never turn down such a thing, accepted.
The man produced a small tube of iocaine powder. It is odorless, tasteless, and among the world's most deadly poisons. The battle of wits would work like this: the man would pour iocaine powder into one of the goblets of wine that Divya poured, and then they would each drink from a goblet. One of them would, of course, be dead after drinking.
There was a very long monologue, which I neither remember nor wish to recount, where Divya mostly stalled for time. He distracted the man, though, and switched their goblets while the man was not looking. They drank, from the goblets before them, and Divya laughed once he had drunk. He thought he had it all figured out, when in fact he did not.
He died. It is largely unimportant, because the man now had Mark.
As it was, the man has spent the last few years building an immunity to iocaine powder. You must be anxious to hear more, I know, but I must tell you that while that was happening Prince Sean had reached the scene of the man's fight against Cameron.
As Prince Sean drew closer to Mark and the man, Mark told the man that if he would let him go, the man might have anything he wanted. The man scoffed, asking that that was worth, but Mark explained that he was merely giving the man a chance. Prince Sean was the greatest hunter there ever was, and he would find the man.
They bickered, the man saying that he was incapable of love and Mark protesting that he had loved more deeply than a killer could ever dream, and the man made to hit Mark but stopped. He told Mark that it was a warning, and that the next time he would hit him. There were penalties for lying where he came from.
Meanwhile, Prince Sean had come upon the scene of Divya's Battle of Wits against the man. He followed Mark's tracks, drawing ever closer to where he was having an argument with the man. Mark had figured out who the man was, for his cruelty could only make him one person: the Dread Pirate Roberts.
Mark still held a grudge against the Dread Pirate Roberts for killing his love Eduardo, you see.
Remembering Eduardo, Mark threw sharper words at the Dread Pirate Roberts, hoping they might hurt him. The Dread Pirate Roberts, however, was unaffected.
Mark looked away them, for he could not bear to look at Eduardo's killer. The Dread Pirate Roberts, as Mark looked out toward the horizon, told the tale of how Eduardo had died. How he hadn't bribed or blubbered, merely said that please, he needed to live. The Dread Pirate Roberts had asked him what was so important, and Eduardo has said true love. He had spoke of a boy of harsh edges, but utter honesty and faithfulness.
And in that moment, Mark realized that pushing the Dread Pirate Roberts down the hill had been an idiotic decision, because it wasn't the Dread Pirate Roberts at all, it was his sweet Eduardo. So, because Mark was not exactly in possession of large amounts of common sense, he tumbled down the hill after Eduardo.
Prince Sean and his men were catching up, but it didn't matter because Mark and Eduardo had been reunited.
"I told you I would always come for you," Eduardo said, "Why didn't you wait for me?"
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Day 76, Word Count: 2654
Theme: March; Truth and Consequences
This post is part of the 365 Gay Sharks project. If you would like to learn more about this project, click here to read more about it. :D
Fandom/Pairings: The Social Network; Eduardo/Mark
Rating: Let's go with PG-13.
Pre-Notes: This is a Princess Bride au. It has a lot pictures in it, because that is what I do in my spare time, doesn't bother to differentiate between Winklevii, and it probably not very dial-up friendly. Do people still have dial-up? Whatever. This is what thousands and thousands of art school tuition dollars are being used for: shitty multi-media fanfiction. I was bored, sleep-deprived, and tweeting. You shouldn't take this seriously.
Disclaimer: Get out, Mark.
Summary: Scaling the Cliffs of Insanity, battling Rodents of Unusual Size, facing torture in the Pit of Despair-True Love has never been a snap.
as you wish
Hello! I'm glad you're here. Sit down, sit down . . . The story for tonight is quite a good one, if I do say so myself. It's got fencing and heroes and wizards and all sorts of good things. Are you interested? Good.
Mark was raised on a small farm in the city of Facebook. His favorite pastimes mostly consisted of riding his horse and tormenting the farm boy who work on the farm. His name was Eduardo, but Mark never called him that. Nothing gave Mark as much pleasure as ordering Eduardo around.
"As you wish" was all Eduardo ever said to Mark.
That day he was amazed to discover that when Eduardo was saying “As you wish,” what he meant was, “I love you.” And even more amazing was the day Mark realized he truly loved Eduardo back.
Eduardo, being a farm boy, had no money for marriage. So he packed up his things and left the farm to seek great fortunes as a navigator on a merchant ship. It was a very emotional time for Mark, which was saying something, because Mark was hardly ever emotional.
But Eduardo never reached his final destination, for the ship he was traveling on was attacked by the Dead Pirate Roberts and the Dread Pirate Roberts never left captives alive. When Mark got the news that Eduardo was murdered by pirates, he went into his room and shut the door. For days he neither slept nor ate.
Five years later, the main plaza of Facebook city was filled as it never had been before. All of the people were waiting to hear the announcement of the great Prince Sean's bride to be.
Mark's emptiness from the loss of his true love consumed him. For though the law gave Prince Sean the right to choose his bride (of whatever gender, because the law was not particularly clear on which gender the bride had to bed), Mark did not love him.
Despite Sean's reassurances that someday Mark would grow to love him, the only joy Mark found was in his daily ride. On one of his rides, Mark encountered a strange group of three men.
They Vulcan nerve-pinched Mark and then planted a trap so Prince Sean would think that Facebook's greatest enemy from across the sea, tumblr, had committed the deed for the three strange men (or the leader of the three, Divya, at least) were jonesing to start a war. They were going to kill Mark in order to do this, because Divya had saved the other two. The more brash one, Tyler, had been a drunkard before Divya had cleaned him up and Cameron had been unemployed and trying to keep his brother's liver from failing.
And so they sailed to the Cliffs of Insanity, which they would reach by morning if everything went right. Since this is a story, though, things don't ever go right.
Mark did not have the time to retort to that remark, however, because there was a boat following them. Divya went to investigate, and while he was distracted, Mark jumped off the side of the boat and began to swim away. However, the waters they were sailing through were infested with shrieking eels that greatly enjoyed the taste of human flesh.
Mark doesn't get eaten by eels. I'm explaining to you, because you look nervous. We can stop this story here if you want. You're good? Okay.
Cameron smacked the eel, just as it was about to take a bite out of Mark, and then hauled him back into the boat. So that Mark could no longer think of escape, Divya tied him up.
They sailed the rest of the night, and the boat following them followed, catching up quickly. They reached the cliffs of insanity, and Cameron began to climb, carrying Mark, while Tyler carried Divya. The boat following them landed too, though, and the man on it began to climb as well. Divya told Tyler and Cameron to climb faster, and they did but the man was still climbing up behind them.
When they reached the top, Divya cut the rope so the man would be stopped, but the man did not fall.
The man began to climb, which infuriated Divya. He instructed Cameron to carry Mark while they headed for the border of tumblr, while Tyler was to stay behind and watch the man climbing. It didn't matter if he fell or not, as Tyler was to kill him if he made it to the top.
But Tyler would not be persuaded otherwise. Cameron told his brother to be careful, like he always did, before picking up Mark and following after Divya. Tyler, who was impatient, called out to the man climbing the cliff.
Tyler, never one for waiting, was quiet for a moment before calling out again.
There was rope but, Tyler told the man, he was only waiting around to kill him so it would probably be stupid to accept his help. He did, however, promise not to kill him until he reached the top. Tyler, however, hated waiting. He asked if there was any way that he might be trusted and the man said that no, nothing came to mind.
So Tyler threw him the rope, and the man very quickly climbed the rest of the way up the cliff. Once the man was at the top, Tyler told him that they would wait until the man was ready to duel.
As it was, Tyler (and Cameron's) father was slaughtered by a six-fingered man. He happened to be a great swordmaker who made a special sword for the six-fingered man, but the six-fingered man killed him instead of paying him when his father refused to sell the sword for anything less than what it was worth. Because Tyler loved his father, he challenged the six-fingered man to a duel. He failed, and the six-fingered man left him alive, although with scars. As retribution, Tyler learned how to use the sword meant for the six-fingered man so the next time they met, he would not fail.
It was a very touching story, and after it the man stood.
And they dueled. The pair were quite equally matched, and they bantered quite a lot while they fought, and Tyler even admitted that the man was better than he.
They dueled more, the man professing that Tyler was amazing. Which he should have been, seeing as he'd been practicing for twenty years.
The duel raged on, highly choreographed and quite acrobatic as it were. Eventually, though, the man persevered. He left Tyler his life, only knocking him out so he could not follow. And so the man chased after Divya and Cameron. Divya was quite enraged that the man had managed to defeat Tyler, and instructed Cameron to take him out while he took Mark. Cameron waited, altering the man to his presence and offering him a deal.
They would face each other bare-handed, like civilized folk. The man accepted, although he felt that the odds were in Cameron's favor in this instance.
They fought, the man very clearly at a disadvantage until he managed to get onto Cameron's back. While there, he slowly choked Cameron until Cameron passed out. Not enough to kill him, mind you, just enough to make him pass out. The man didn't want to kill Cameron, just keep him from following as he chased after Divya and Mark. He wasn't big on killing, to be honest.
And I know you are probably quiet anxious to know more about the man, but we need to take a detour and talk of Prince Sean for a moment. You see, he was diligently tracking Mark down and not too far behind. He reconstructed the scene of Tyler and the man's fight, and his right-hand woman, Christy, asked if they should track both the loser of the fight and the winner.
And so Sean and his men followed the man's tracks. The man, however, had finally caught up to Divya.
Divya, who was quite enraged, threatened to kill Mark if the man moved any closer. The man tried to reason, but they agreed hat they were at an impasse. However, the man challenged Divya to a battle of wits for Mark. It would be to the death. Divya, would could never turn down such a thing, accepted.
The man produced a small tube of iocaine powder. It is odorless, tasteless, and among the world's most deadly poisons. The battle of wits would work like this: the man would pour iocaine powder into one of the goblets of wine that Divya poured, and then they would each drink from a goblet. One of them would, of course, be dead after drinking.
There was a very long monologue, which I neither remember nor wish to recount, where Divya mostly stalled for time. He distracted the man, though, and switched their goblets while the man was not looking. They drank, from the goblets before them, and Divya laughed once he had drunk. He thought he had it all figured out, when in fact he did not.
He died. It is largely unimportant, because the man now had Mark.
As it was, the man has spent the last few years building an immunity to iocaine powder. You must be anxious to hear more, I know, but I must tell you that while that was happening Prince Sean had reached the scene of the man's fight against Cameron.
As Prince Sean drew closer to Mark and the man, Mark told the man that if he would let him go, the man might have anything he wanted. The man scoffed, asking that that was worth, but Mark explained that he was merely giving the man a chance. Prince Sean was the greatest hunter there ever was, and he would find the man.
They bickered, the man saying that he was incapable of love and Mark protesting that he had loved more deeply than a killer could ever dream, and the man made to hit Mark but stopped. He told Mark that it was a warning, and that the next time he would hit him. There were penalties for lying where he came from.
Meanwhile, Prince Sean had come upon the scene of Divya's Battle of Wits against the man. He followed Mark's tracks, drawing ever closer to where he was having an argument with the man. Mark had figured out who the man was, for his cruelty could only make him one person: the Dread Pirate Roberts.
Mark still held a grudge against the Dread Pirate Roberts for killing his love Eduardo, you see.
Remembering Eduardo, Mark threw sharper words at the Dread Pirate Roberts, hoping they might hurt him. The Dread Pirate Roberts, however, was unaffected.
Mark looked away them, for he could not bear to look at Eduardo's killer. The Dread Pirate Roberts, as Mark looked out toward the horizon, told the tale of how Eduardo had died. How he hadn't bribed or blubbered, merely said that please, he needed to live. The Dread Pirate Roberts had asked him what was so important, and Eduardo has said true love. He had spoke of a boy of harsh edges, but utter honesty and faithfulness.
And in that moment, Mark realized that pushing the Dread Pirate Roberts down the hill had been an idiotic decision, because it wasn't the Dread Pirate Roberts at all, it was his sweet Eduardo. So, because Mark was not exactly in possession of large amounts of common sense, he tumbled down the hill after Eduardo.
Prince Sean and his men were catching up, but it didn't matter because Mark and Eduardo had been reunited.
"I told you I would always come for you," Eduardo said, "Why didn't you wait for me?"
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