Nora Charles

https://helenish.tumblr.com/post/819085848418172928

I got an ask a few months ago and started to reply to it today and then tumblr ATE IT and I can’t find the tumblr of the person who sent it and–

so here’s the thing, I thought that what this person was asking me was why aren’t my popslash stories online?

and I was so profoundly excited to come here and explain all about how I didn’t respond for a few months because I was working on my ego death (accelerated by looking in the mirror and reminding myself, “you write hockey rpf.”) and so here I was, ready to just Get Over Myself already, the stories are uploaded, and I was SO enlightened and had found love in my heart for all my past selves even though they were very embarrassing, maybe even because they were embarrassing, and then when I re-read this ask it actually wasn’t about that at all (more ego death, since no one was really asking to see those stories at all, but I rose above it) and now I’m here because the ask was actually:

hey, look, if you have a moment, what happens in this unfinished untitled turn-of-the-century popslash AU that is based in its entirety on this picture?

and then I responded but tumblr disappeared my post and the ask but I have now come too far and must continue.

Okay, so of course, The Revolution happens and they overthrow the unjust dictatorship they’ve spent their lives fighting against and install a fair and democratic government and usher in an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity.

Lance dies tragically saving Justin’s life, as a final act of his doomed love for Joey, probably bleeding out in Justin’s arms, telling Justin to take care of Joey while Justin holds him and rocks back and forth and says “I will, I promise, I will–” his voice breaking.

Justin and JC become key (however also democratically elected) figures in the new administration. Joey and Justin work through the inverted power imbalance this causes—oh! let’s say Joey is nobly serving out a prison sentence for—oh, probably killing the guy who killed Lance, but insists on a trial to demonstrate that no one is above the law in the new administration.

Justin visits him in prison with his hair shorn down, wearing a fisherman sweater with sleeves pushed up over his forearms and looking terribly grown and important. They spend time really getting to know each other and discovering that in addition to their smoldering sexual chemistry which they can’t act on while Joey is imprisoned (the longing!!) , they also like each other. Joey has gray streaks in his hair and wears glasses and learns how to read in prison.

Chris overcomes his past trauma and becomes a stay at home father to the orphan children he’s raising with JC and he also has a pottery studio where he makes beautiful and functional bowls and mugs and finally finds peace and sleeps through every night in bed curled up next to JC who is sometimes up late working, but only because he has found a meaning and joy through work to better society and also because sometimes the dog who sleeps at the foot of their bed and is devoted to Chris needs to go out and he doesn’t want to wake Chris. (They have great sex also.)

Bug becomes a motorcycle mechanic and has an alpaca farm.

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