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giddygeek ([personal profile] giddygeek) wrote2008-09-14 10:00 am

New fic: A Minor Fall (a Major Pain in the Ass), Pete/Patrick

Title: A Minor Fall (a Major Pain in the Ass Lift Pain in the Ass)
Author: [livejournal.com profile] giddygeek
Pairing: Pete/Patrick, 2100 words, adult.
Notes: Sometimes you've got to break through the writer's block however you can. Fluff works!



By the third time he has to duck a water bottle that had totally been launched directly at his head -- one of those Fiji ones, too; a bottle with corners -- Pete's pretty much gotten over finding Patrick's tantrum adorable.

"Asshole!" he yells, as the bottle hits the wall behind him. "Stop throwing shit and pay attention for two fucking seconds!" He ducks a stuffed monkey and Hemmy's (mostly) empty food bowl as they come flying at him, then says, "Oh, screw this," and climbs over the back of the couch. He gets shot in the ass with something sharp as he goes, motherfucking fuck.

He takes cover in the narrow space between the grungy, rough plaid fabric back and the wall, then crouches a little, out of the line of fire, and takes up yelling again. "That major to minor progression sucks dick, Patrick, and you know it!"

"You suck dick," Patrick yells back, and he's so mad he probably doesn't even hear what he's saying. Honestly, though, honestly. How does he expect Pete to keep fighting when Patrick keeps feeding him such awesome lines? He tries to keep his sudden, convulsive laughter quiet -- why poke the beast when it's already enraged? -- but pretty much Pete's a guy who pokes enraged beasts just to see 'em roar, so, yeah. Except usually he has a somewhat carefully planned escape route figured out. With Patrick, not so much.

Something heavy thuds against the back of the couch, evidence that Patrick does not appreciate being laughed at. "Shut your fucking face," Patrick orders. "This isn't funny. You don't know a good minor progression from being a major pain in the ass!"

"Well, if that's how we're playing, it could be arranged," Pete says, poking his head up for a hopeful second, and that's when Patrick pounces.

Sort of.

Patrick tries to shove the couch out of his way so he can get to Pete and, probably, attempt to murder him in one of his uncreative ways; the guy keeps going back to strangulation like that's ever worked. But the couch is roughly 900 years old and made almost entirely of wood with a thin layer of cushions and blue plaid, because it's not a real studio unless it's got all the comforts of Pete's parents basement, circa 1986. It's heavy, and Pete's pretty sure some molecular process, possibly involving the Great Jell-O Wars of last week, has joined its legs to the old linoleum beneath it.

The couch is like, at one with the floor, and all Patrick's accomplishing with shoving at it is making his face even redder, and getting sweaty.

Patrick's almost a realist. For their band, anyway; he's the closest thing to a realist they've got. He's the one who remembers to fill the tank when Pete's ready to drive through the night. But there he is, huffing and puffing and heaving so he can get to Pete and drag him out of his narrow hiding space and try to choke him a little. Just like that, Pete goes from kind of pissed off, a lot amused, and a little bit turned on to flat-out amused -- and turned on. He cracks up and has to hold on to the back of the couch, bracing his hips against the wall, to keep from toppling over.

"Big Bad Wolf," he tries to say. "Blowing down my cushion house. But you'll never get me!" Except for how oh, fuck, that sweet red face, sweaty disheveled hair, and soft, grim mouth, Patrick -- Pete's been got for an awful long time.

Patrick stops pushing at the arm of the couch and looks up, eyes narrow behind his glasses. "Did you just make a three little pigs reference?"

"Not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin," Pete swears, and the force of Patrick's glare sets him off again.

"Fuck it, if you're not even going to try to take me seriously," Patrick says, and Pete has to fling an arm out to catch him by the collar of his shirt as he turns to stomp away. His grip knocks Patrick off-balance and he thumps backwards against the couch, falling onto the cushions with a startled oof.

Pete scrambles over the back of the couch and across Patrick's lap, Patrick's shirt still held in his fist to keep him from shaking Pete off. Fuck, he feels good, all solid and running at about 120 degrees even in the air conditioning. Pete takes a second to settle himself comfortably, his knees widespread, his feet in about twenty pounds of sneaker tucked against Patrick's calves. Patrick stares at him, wide-eyed, and Pete shakes him a little, then pins him against the back of the couch with the hand still wrapped in his shirt.

"Trust me, I am always taking you seriously," Pete says, and then he digs his phone out of his back pocket with his free hand.

Patrick pretty much goes supernova at that, like Pete needing his phone is evidence of his disrespect as opposed to oh, say, Pete's natural state of being. He rides out the storm, clinging to Patrick as he bucks and wiggles, pushing into the hands that are trying to push him off.

"Hey lady," he says when Ashlee answers her phone. He's breathless, a little husky, and she says, "Uh-huh?" all knowing and amused. Fuck, she's awesome. "You mind if I take some serious Patrick-time tonight? We got that thing tomorrow, but I should be home in the morning, or if not I'll just meet you there. Hey, no, motherfucker, oww." He sidles away from Patrick's pinching fingers and glares at him, tucks the phone against his shoulder and switches to two hands holding Patrick down; much safer that way.

"Only if you promise me you'll show up with a big hickey and a really bad, obvious, messed up makeup job to hide it," Ashlee says, and Pete's totally down with that.

"You got it," he promises, grinning at Patrick's pissy attempts to get his hands free. "You want me to bring you anything else?"

"Some nachos and a pumpkin pie," Ashlee says. "Don't forget the Cool Whip. But I gotta go, baby, I'm out -- you be good to Patrick, okay?"

"Always," Pete says. "Okay, love you, bye," and he disconnects, drops the phone, tries to recapture Patrick's flailing arm.

"We are supposed to be working," Patrick says, and Pete knows that work is pretty much Patrick's lifeblood, absolutely, but if he doesn't chill the fuck out he's going to pop something in his little artist brain, and then where will Pete be? Who'll be the Christian to his Cyrano? Who'll keep the music coming, so Pete's not just jerking words off on the internet?

He wraps an arm around the back of Patrick's neck and snuggles close, even though Patrick's doing his best to be no good at snuggling. "We are working," he says, nuzzling Patrick's neck with his stubbly chin; can't seduce a guy a couple times a year without learning exactly what gets him in the mood fast and easy. "We're doing a thing you sometimes do in working, where you stop working for a little while, and relax, and then you go back to working and you don't want to kill anyone anymore. It's called taking a fucking break." He stops and thinks about that for a second, then says, "Haha, literally."

"I still want to kill you," Patrick says grimly, but whatever. He's going limp and tilting his head back; he shivers when Pete bites him a little, just under his chin.

"You can try again later," Pete says, but he knows that's not how this is going to go. He's going to get Patrick off, and let him do his Patrick-thing where he sleeps like the dead for twenty minutes after. Then he's dragging Patrick upstairs to a bedroom, turning him over and fucking him through the goddamned mattress for an hour or ten minutes, whatever; Pete knows his limits.

Another twenty minute nap, a shower, some food, and they'll work like they've got a mind meld until Patrick seriously crashes and drags himself back to bed to faceplant. He'll let Pete curl up around him, although Pete probably won't be sleeping much, and in the morning they'll do it all over again. They'll probably finish three songs and a video treatment before Pete has to leave.

It's a system they've got. Pete calls it Dealing With the Diva.

Whereby Diva he means, First Love of My Life.

Except when he means, That Fucking Asshole Patrick, Motherfucker Tried to Kill Me Again.

He goes for Patrick's zipper, and Patrick lets him. Pete kind of wants to blow him, but he also kind of wants to kiss him, keep working on his neck maybe. Nothing wrong with a good handjob, he decides, and he leans back, brings his hand up to Patrick's mouth, says, "Lick."

Patrick slits his eyes open, gives Pete a turned-on version of the death glare, and bites.

"That is not punishment," Pete says, wiggling a little, trying to get some room in his pants. "C'mon, I want to jerk you off."

Patrick considers that, still glaring at Pete, and then he licks a broad, wet stripe across Pete's palm, the tip of his tongue dipping between Pete's fingers, and fuck, Pete loves him. A couple more stripes, Pete watching avidly and Patrick watching him right back, and they're both ready. Pete wraps his hand around Patrick's dick, thumbs just beneath the already slick head, and Patrick's head rolls back against the arm Pete still has wrapped behind him; his eyes close, his lips part.

Pete has to kiss him then because fuck, but he's pretty, and when polygamy is legal, Pete's marrying him for that mouth. And for the heavy, gorgeous dick sliding in Pete's palm, and the thighs between his knees, and the heart pounding away in Patrick's broad chest.

"Fast," he says, breaking the kiss for a second, shifting back so he can get a better angle. "I want it now -- how fast can you come?"

Patrick groans, bites his lip, his hips trying to arch under Pete's weight. "Faster if you'd just shut up and kiss me," he says, and since Pete is a man who knows a good idea when he hears one, he leans up and kisses Patrick again. He tries to figure out a rhythm between his hand and his mouth that'll get Patrick off so fast and so hard he has music notes dancing around his head, like a cartoon character who just got an anvil dropped on him.

And it works; it works really well. Patrick's squirming, pushing up, hands scrabbling at Pete's side before settling on his ass, fingertips digging in just right. His mouth is fierce, demanding, stale from working too long but sweet anyway. It doesn't take much more at all before he twists and freezes and gasps. Pete can feel him coming, a hard, fast 1-2-3, wet across his hand and probably all over both of their clothes; naked is good, but Pete has to admit he loves a good come stain too.

He slows his hand to ease Patrick through it, shifts his grip so it's just his fingers lightly cupping the head, his thumb rubbing gentle circles underneath it. He kisses Patrick's temple, slick with sweat. Patrick's neck is sweaty too, pressed against his arm, but that's okay, that's all right; Pete's never been one to complain about that. Not when it comes along with Patrick all limp and wrung-out and relaxed, finally, easy and trusting under his hands.

After a long, slow while, Patrick coughs a little, clears his throat. "You can have your chord progression," he says, languid and husky, and they really could sell a million records of him reading the phone book, if he'd do it like that.

Pete smiles against his skin, kisses his neck again for the hell of it. "I know," he says. "This wasn't about getting a chord progression, I was totally getting my chord progression. I just kind of also wanted to get laid."

Patrick laughs at him, a tired little huff of sound, and murmurs, "Asshole," but Pete knows him, knows this. Patrick's too tired and content and in fucking love with him to mean it, if he ever does; he may not have quarter notes bobbing around his head, but he might as well have cartoon hearts coming out of his eyes, just like Pete's.

"I'm your favorite," he says smugly, and settles against Patrick's chest as Patrick agrees himself to sleep, pale lashes on flushed cheeks and pink mouth slack. Patrick'll wake up again soon, and then Pete will see what else he can get from him; man, he fucking loves recording.

Scratch that. He fucking loves his life.

[identity profile] sarren.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I may possibly have cartoon hearts coming out of my eyes for this fic, or possibly you.

ADORABLE.

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
*beams* Either way, I'll take 'em! And thank you! :)

[identity profile] atomichatred82.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
THIS.

Since reading about Patrick throwing stuff over chord progressions, I just *KNEW* somebody was going to write fic about it.

This captures their dynamics perfectly, and that phonecall to Ashlee was just icing on the pumpkin pie.

"Big Bad Wolf," he tries to say. "Blowing down my cushion house. But you'll never get me!" Except for how oh, fuck, that sweet red face, sweaty disheveled hair, and soft, grim mouth, Patrick -- Pete's been got for an awful long time.

Patrick stops pushing at the arm of the couch and looks up, eyes narrow behind his glasses. "Did you just make a three little pigs reference?"

"Not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin," Pete swears, and the force of Patrick's glare sets him off again.


BRB LOLLING FOREVER.

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man, I HAD to write about it. I was telling [livejournal.com profile] loveyouallwrong all about how it went down in my head, and she told me to write it, and so. *grins* But I just LOVED that so much -- pissy diva Patrick is v much FTW!

I'm glad that you liked it! Thank you very much!

[identity profile] apetslife.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
CARTOON HEARTS. MOTHERFUCKER TRIED TO KILL ME AGAIN.

Oh my god.

I love this so much I have no words for it. Pete's inner voice is so completely hilarious and awesome here that I was making big cartoon heart-eyes myself!

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, Pet! *beams* I'm so glad that you liked it. Pete's inner voice = one of my favorite things EV.ER. to write -- ridiculous, hilarious, emo, it all works for him. I'm always happy when other people enjoy it too. Thank you very much!

[identity profile] torakowalski.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh wow but this is awesome.

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks very much! It's been a while since I wrote Pete/Patrick, I was afraid I'd lost it -- yay awesome. *grins*

[identity profile] mojojessjo.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
This was adorable and hot and funny and wonderful and a whole lot of adjectives that mean full of awesomeness!

What a way to work through writer's block and I love the fact that you used the canon of Patrick throwing things at Pete in this! There needs to be more Diva!Patrick fits!

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
There seriously needs to be more diva!Patrick. One of my favorite things to do is tell all the stories where Patrick's a serious douchebag and everyone needs to have a lot of patience to deal with him -- it strikes me as not untrue! As evidenced by the throwing things! *grins* I'm glad you liked it, thank you!
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[identity profile] loveyouallwrong.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, this is EXACTLY what I wanted. Jesus, Giddy! *hugs you to pieces*

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, I'm glad you liked it, and very glad it was what you poked me for! I was starting to be Very Glum about the lack of Written Things coming from this corner lately. *g*

[identity profile] impertinence.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
\o/

I love your Pete voice so much.

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
*beams* Thanks, Imp! I do love writing that dude -- he's a LOT of fun, characterization-wise. I'm glad you liked it!
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[identity profile] gritkitty.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
A great ratio of hot and sweet. Good one!

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you liked it! I'm always iffy about my ability to write sex scenes, so yay for the great ratio. *grins* Thank you!
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[personal profile] shirasade 2008-09-14 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously, I've been craving some studio fighting that turns into sex ever since those quotes about working on the new album - do you, by any chance, live in my brain? Because this was everything and more. I totally have little cartoon hearts coming out of my eyes, too. *worships at your feet*

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man, I MIGHT live in your brain, because that's exactly what I wanted too! *grins* And it turned out to be a lot of fun to write. I have cartoon hearts for THEM, is all! <3.<3 And thank you -- I'm very glad you liked it!

[identity profile] daydreambeleevr.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
By the third time he has to duck a water bottle that had totally been launched directly at his head -- one of those Fiji ones, too; a bottle with corners -- Pete's pretty much gotten over finding Patrick's tantrum adorable.

this is as far as I got before I got all squeely. I wanna squish you so hard right now!

Fiji ones, a bottle with corners... so fucking brilliant!


*squiiiiiiiiiish*

:runs back to read the rest:

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I was just thinking about Patrick with all those bottles of Fiji water all the time and it struck me as hilariously appropriate to use them in such a manner. *grins* I'm so glad that you liked it -- thank you very much!

[identity profile] bayleaf.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm flailing and giggling, dude, i love this so much!

[identity profile] daydreambeleevr.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"This isn't funny. You don't know a good minor good progression from being a major pain in the ass!"

you know Patrick said that. You just fucking know he did. God bless canon!

you have us all giggly and happy, then toss in, Who'll keep the music coming, so Pete's not just jerking words off on the internet? . So much more then just silly happy. 0 to 60, and you hit a level deeper. Amazing. *smile*

I love this, start to finish!

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[identity profile] trixiesfic.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
This is everything I love about Pete and Patrick.

I have a sad feeling I always say this about your Pete/Patrick stories, but it's true.

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Heeee! You can say that for every Pete/Patrick story I write, and it will make me beam happily every time. Thank you so much -- as always, I'm so glad you liked it!
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[personal profile] fairestcat 2008-09-14 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I completely adore this story. It's got everything I could possibly want in a Pete/Patrick story.

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
\o/ I'm so glad. It's got pretty much everything I like, too -- I think some things are just universal. At least on my f'list. *grins* Thank you very much!
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[identity profile] engnrd-disaster.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
eeeeee! that's kind of all i have.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That is totally enough for me! *grins* Thank you very much -- I'm glad that you liked it!
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[identity profile] shadow8light.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
So, so much fun and joy in your stories. Do you mind if I friend you to keep track of them? I just read Chord Change as well, and I love it. :)

Thanks for sharing these cool parts of your brain with the internet.

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Heeee, first off, I love your icon. And feel free -- although right now I'm pretty much restricting myself to friending people I meet in person, but this is bandom, so I'll probably meet you next week -- I hope you don't mind! And I'm very glad you liked Chord Change as well. It is one of my very most favorites. *beams* Thanks very much!

[identity profile] kickthebeat.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
this was ridiculously adorable. &them;

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yay, thank you! I &them; a lot too -- Patrick! Throwing things! Holy cow, so much ♥ *grins*

[identity profile] thissugarcane.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
*squawks* Have I commented to you before since the bandslash thing started up? I'm not sure, but I wanted to say you're pretty amazing, and this-- seriously, I'm a freak of nature, because I love your Ashlee more than anything. like, really. *really*. :D thanks.

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! I'm bad at names, so I do not know, but I appreciate any comment any time. I'm so glad you liked it -- and dude, I love writing Ashlee, I'll be honest. Particularly an Ashlee who totes does not mind her husband being in love with his BFF. What, it's totally plausible characterization! *G* Anyway, thank you!

[identity profile] memeamberleigh.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
another great one for my "giddy" folder...

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
*beams* I did always want my own folder! Thank you, and I'm very glad that you liked it!

[identity profile] seimaisin.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
This is awesome - hot and funny and full of a great feeling of longtime friends and lovers. They're comfortable, even in fighting! :)

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
They are! They've survived fights like this before, and clearly will do so again! Hopefully, you know, with more handjobs. *grins* I'm glad that you liked it. Thank you very much!

[identity profile] heartsdesire456.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
lol, it seems we share a love for Ashlee having no issues sharing Pete, lol.

*its just so fun, though, right? That way she's like, awesome without actually being in the fic!*

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I like her being awesome, though mostly if she is sharing. *grins* Pete/Ashlee, I adore. But add in Pete being madly in love with Patrick too and I am a v. happy camper! *G* I'm glad you liked it, thank you very much!

[identity profile] weird-one.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Awesomesauce! I've been waiting for a story about that quote. And you did it so so well. I'd been missing reading good Patrick/Pete fic and now here's a very good one! Thanks.

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You're welcome, and thank you, I'm glad that you liked it! I was dying to write it after I read that, and I was glad it helped break the writer's block! Hopefully that just means more Pete/Patrick for me -- I love writing them. ;-)

[identity profile] why-me-why-not.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
ahaha, I have no words to tell you how amazing I think you are for this! I LOVE IT! <3

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
*beams* That's good enough for me! I'm so glad that you liked it. Thank you so much!

[identity profile] embracepassion.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
\o/ The absolute perfect bedtime story!!! So much love! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Heeee, you're very welcome. A lot of times, like this one, I start stories by telling them to myself before bed. I wrote a couple lines down, fell asleep, woke up at 7am and was done and posted by 10. So a bedtime story indeed, in a way. *G* Anyway, I'm glad you liked it, thank you!

[identity profile] thepouncer.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
\o/

I love Pete's life too, especially when it's written like this!

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-19 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Heeee, thank you! Pete's life = not so bad, actually. He's got a Patrick, so basically he trumps us all! *grins* I'm glad that you liked it, thanks again!
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[identity profile] go-gentle.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
I love this Pete. He has a Plan, okay?

[identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com 2008-09-19 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
He does, and it involves naked Patrick. That's a fucking awesome plan, and I, for one, fully approve. And wish it were real and that I could watch. What, that's not creepy, is it? *grins* Thank you -- I'm glad you liked it!

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