Quartet for a Haunting (J2 RPS AU, R)
Title: Quartet for a Haunting
Genre/Pairing: J2 RPS AU
Rating: R
Word count: 24,900
Warnings: Locational vagueness. Historical vagueness. Traces of Chad.
Disclaimer: Well, no one in the story is actually dead.... Seriously, this is all absolute fiction.
Summary:
There's an abandoned theater in Jared's neighborhood that's perfect for him and his friends to take over for their own productions. (Jared makes movies. Misha writes plays. Everyone else has ideas.) Or it would be perfect if it didn't have a possessive squatter, a mystery who calls himself Ross and sleeps on a mattress on the stage surrounded by his own drawings and musical compositions, under a cloud of tiny Christmas lights conjured with the little magical ability that most people have. Jared thinks he's making progress in convincing Ross to let him and his friends use the theater, until he learns something entirely unexpected - Ross isn't a squatter. He's a ghost. So Jared conceives of a plan to end the haunting, despite his increasing attraction to the ghost he's trying to send home. But he'll see his plan through, even though he knows the only possible resolution to this ghost story means he's going to end up alone.
Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five
AO3
Author's Note | Fabulous Art
Thanks:
dear-tiger for cheerleading, going "eh..." at my dumb ideas, reminding me that I can write 20k in two and a half months because she's seen me do it, and sending me good and helpful beta notes
amberdreams for picking my summary for the second time and making such lovely art for my fic. Give her some love!
fannishliss and
dreamersdare for trying to help me figure out the plot of my first attempt, even tho I abandoned it
my writing group for talking about ghosts and listening to me whine
wendy for continuing to mod the best of all bangs
and "The Magicians" (for the gestures), "The Deuce" (for Red Hot), and "The Haunting of Bly Manor" (for Owen and Mrs Grose)
Genre/Pairing: J2 RPS AU
Rating: R
Word count: 24,900
Warnings: Locational vagueness. Historical vagueness. Traces of Chad.
Disclaimer: Well, no one in the story is actually dead.... Seriously, this is all absolute fiction.
Summary:
There's an abandoned theater in Jared's neighborhood that's perfect for him and his friends to take over for their own productions. (Jared makes movies. Misha writes plays. Everyone else has ideas.) Or it would be perfect if it didn't have a possessive squatter, a mystery who calls himself Ross and sleeps on a mattress on the stage surrounded by his own drawings and musical compositions, under a cloud of tiny Christmas lights conjured with the little magical ability that most people have. Jared thinks he's making progress in convincing Ross to let him and his friends use the theater, until he learns something entirely unexpected - Ross isn't a squatter. He's a ghost. So Jared conceives of a plan to end the haunting, despite his increasing attraction to the ghost he's trying to send home. But he'll see his plan through, even though he knows the only possible resolution to this ghost story means he's going to end up alone.
Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five
AO3
Author's Note | Fabulous Art
Thanks:
dear-tiger for cheerleading, going "eh..." at my dumb ideas, reminding me that I can write 20k in two and a half months because she's seen me do it, and sending me good and helpful beta notes
amberdreams for picking my summary for the second time and making such lovely art for my fic. Give her some love!
fannishliss and
dreamersdare for trying to help me figure out the plot of my first attempt, even tho I abandoned it
my writing group for talking about ghosts and listening to me whine
wendy for continuing to mod the best of all bangs
and "The Magicians" (for the gestures), "The Deuce" (for Red Hot), and "The Haunting of Bly Manor" (for Owen and Mrs Grose)