Quickdrabbles Fic 36: Focused on what I could attract...

[labyrinth2015]

You made a pact, you dropped the act, you focused on what you could attract...

Meh, I'm feeling somewhat written out - I am working on a wedding story (a separate story
from the one on which I'm collaborating with the fabulous frackin_sweet), and it's not going too well - and I want to start on this cracky R possibly-canon, possibly-AU bordello fic, and my guitars-by-gaslight AUbigbang, but I have just no impetus.

And I'm in Court this afternoon, WOE.

As a way of importuning the Muses, I thought I might try the drabbular method recently employed by timeisgone, kissesblow, orochi_kitty and otherbella.

Hundred word drabbles, snatches of story, any Cook, Anthemic, AIS7 pairing; crossovers with X-Men, BtVS/AtS, Discworld, Holmes, The Law. I think I have a tiny legalesque Cook/Ryan Seacrest somewhere! I'll even write you self-insert (of you). Leave me a prompt (word, song, whatever) and rating. Will turn around fast, so as to importune quickly XD



Gorgeous pic from the insanely talented ciudad, used with permission.

Masterlist

* Cook/Arch/Andrew - If I Told You, extract [R/NC-17], post Long Way Down, for orochi_kitty
* Cook/Arch - The Leaf Crown [PG]: Cook gets Walt Whitman-esque with Archie, for kissesblow
* Cook/Arch - The Reichenbach Faultline [PG], extract: Holmes!Cookleta AU gracelessheart
* Cook/Arch - Offerings to Polyhymnia, [PG-13/R]: Arch is Cook's demanding Muse of Song, for lacedsarcasm
* Cook/Arch - Eagle's Wings [PG-13]: Greek mythology professor Cook and student Archie, for paitac
* Cook/Arch - Need You Now: [PG-13] from AIRNverse, for honeybeemmw and otherbella
* Logan/Archie - Spaceship [PG], X-Men Cookleta cross-over, post United, We Stand for starafar
* Neal/Archie - Interlude [PG], Iberian historical fantasyverse/self-insert, post Inkspell, for mellowdee
* Andy/Neal - His Most Perfect Day [PG]: It's Neal's birthday; Andy wants things to be perfect, for celtic_fish
* Cook/Kara DioGuardi - Judging David 1 [PG-13/R], 2 [R/NC-17]: Bikini Girl, who?, for chemicalwonder
* Cook/Kelly Clarkson - Poison and Wine [R]: the Civil Wars, for lilac_girl84 and micheleeeex
* Cook/Cowell - Spin [PG-13]: Simon learns to play Spin the Bottle, for amccoy1972 and cincodemaygirl

ETA: Cook/Ryan Seacrest - (Matt Giraud v AIEight Corp, PDRC First Mention, xxx of 2009) [PG]: Ryan can't take his eyes off illegally-attractive plaintiffs' counsel Cook, for goseaward at idolmeta, archiving this

Comments

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Oh, Honey, you have always been so kind about AIRN! And, truth be told, that verse still consumes me, a little, and so I was so glad to write you an extract from it. I was also keen to write from Arch's POV - the thing about AIRN is that we get these unremitting 12 chapters of Cook POV, where his love and obsession with Arch is documented meticulously, but Arch remains a bit of a cipher, very much an Object.

The scene with the 'phone in Ch 7, with Cook - you know it's Arch, don't you? ;)

I do have a long (25k word!) AIRNverse story coming up, which tells what happened to them in 2015 (Nine 1/2 Weeks in L.A.). I hope you'll be there for that <3

[honeybeemmw.livejournal.com]

BB, I will be there with frickin bells on! Also, Nine 1/2 weeks in L.A. sounds vaguely porn filled, y/n? Dare I make assumptions? XD

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's pretty porny (and messed up kind of porn) but it's also sad - you know that year ends badly for them. But I really enjoyed making adult-Arch perspective, so I loved writing it!

[honeybeemmw.livejournal.com]

ooooh! More Archie POV and porn to boot? I'm also anticipating the angst. May I be greedy and ask when you will spoil us and post this??? :)

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

I have it coming for idolbigbang. Um, I guess nobody will see it down here in the comments, so here's a tiny spoiler:

[NC-17, obviously; SPOILER for Labyrinth 2015: Nine 1/2 Weeks in L.A.]

Cook wants to play another game, and this involves the ticking sound of the antique clocks in their house, the loud gongs of the long, elegant Austrian cloche that stands in their hallway, the sound of Cook’s wristwatch, an old-fashioned Panerai.

Cook gives Arch a diamond-studded Rolex with an expensive mechanical movement and a unique, hourly chime.

In this game, the sound is the trigger: "When you hear this sound, at this time, think of me, and touch yourself."

Cook changes the time every couple of days, and when he isn’t home he leaves Arch voice and text messages with numbers on them. It drives Archuleta to distraction; he finds himself sitting at home or writing or being driven to appointments, checking the time on the wall or on his wrist, the simmering fire building slowly under his skin, making him infernally aroused.

800 on his cell, and Arch hears the hall clock striking the hour, and he rises from his morning juice and cereal and takes himself to their bedroom, where he strokes himself to his climax as directed. “1400 hours,” is all Cook says on the phone in the little music studio in their house, and Arch leaves it on speaker as he jerks off, very slowly and vocally, leaning back in Cook's leather director’s chair. His handheld beeps1900, and the sound emanating from his Rolex is so oppressive (at this time, think of me), and his sudden erection is so uncomfortable, that Arch has to excuse himself from dinner with his agent and rush to the nearest men’s room to take himself in hand.

In later weeks, Cook takes to pointing to his own wrist as a sign that Arch should do what Cook’s asked of him, that doesn’t necessarily involve touching himself; by this time, Arch’s eyes water automatically, as do other things.

[honeybeemmw.livejournal.com]

I think you might be trying to kill me. I'm so conflicted - it's like UNF but also *sad façe* because Cook's game is effing hot but also kind of Pavlovian and controlling. Regardless, DO WANT because I am a Cookleta fic whore apparently. IDEK anymore. XD *sits and waits patiently for the rest of the story*

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Honey, that is TOTALLY what I was going for in this snippet (sorry, not trying to kill you!). Coked-out Cook loves his boy so much, but has become paranoid and controlling, and Arch stays because he thinks he can deal (and because he regrets running out on Cook in 2010). And the sex, as always, is hot, but it's also become a power thing.

Should posty next month, I think!