"Shift" + "Silence"
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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Shift
Author: Pet, at Bury Me Deep and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Characters: BSB,
Prompt: 22 UST
Rating: sex
Length: medium
Brief summary: Howie is nice and fun to spend time with now that Brian is completely wrapped up in Leighanne. He and Nick are friends, that's all, even if Howie has the prettiest smile and kind of sparkle... A very sweet story about the growing closeness between Nick and Howie.
One night on the bus, after a show, when Brian had brushed off his invitation to dinner with a "DAMMIT, Nick, could I please have a MINUTE here?", Howie wandered over to sit next to him, as he watched his microwave meal go around and around on the little turntable. Howie kind of leaned on him, and he looked down, surprised.
"What's up, D?" It wasn't that he didn't talk to Howie; they all talked, they lived in each others' pockets for most of the year. But Howie was usually just sort of a quiet calm presence. Nick couldn't remember the last time he and Howie had just chatted.
"Missed my Nicky." Howie grinned up at him. "Just wanted to say hey. Why are you here eating -" Howie pulled the package out of Nick's hand, "Stouffer's Lasagna, instead of out on the town?"
Nick shrugged. "Didn't feel like it." He didn't really want to talk about it.
"Where's Brian?" And that felt like a leading question, but Howie's eyes were big and dark and innocent, and he just looked curious.
"On the phone with the girl." He was a little surprised at the venom in his own voice, but Howie just nodded, and waited a moment before he spoke.
"It's still the honeymoon period for them, you know. He'll be back." And Nick couldn't even pretend not to know what he was talking about. He just sighed, and got up to get his lasagna because the timer had beeped. When he came back, Howie hadn't moved, and tried to steal bites of his food, and poked him when he started pouting. Later, they watched a movie, and Howie wrapped an arm around him and played with his hair. He was small and warm and solid against Nick. It was amazing, how much he'd missed the pleasure of simple, friendly touch.
Link to the story: Shift
Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Silence
Author: Lucy, atlucy_fic
Characters: BSB
Prompt: 37 Make-up
Rating: sex
Length: medium
Brief summary: This is a story about AJ in rehab and after, trying to put his life back together. The rest of the Boys are there for him, but from Nick there is only silence. A first-class AJ characterisation story.
It didn't hurt as much as he thought it would, what they said about him - it was actually kind of perversely nice, although his counsellor told him that wasn't a strange reaction, since it only proved how much they cared about him, really. He watched it a couple of times in a row, listening the first time and just watching the second, sitting cross-legged on the bed, lighting cigarettes that burned down in the ashtray, mostly untouched.
It was the first time that he really noticed Nick's silence.
Brian told him that Nick had gone home right after they finished wrapping everything up, and that should have been the first sign, because Nick never went home, if he could help it. Nick didn't like his home - the one he owned on his own, because it was too big and lonely for him, or his parents', because, well, of his parents - and almost always went to someone else's home when they were off, either Brian's or Kevin's or Howie's. Most often over the past year Nick had gone home with AJ, though, adopted in by the family like a long-lost relative. Hell, AJ accused his mom of loving Nick more than she loved him, sometimes, when he walked into the living room and found Nick sprawled across the couch, watching tv with his head on Denise's shoulder while she petted his hair. Nick almost always scrunched up his face and stuck out his tongue, and AJ would attack him in a flying leap and suddenly they were twelve and fourteen again, real and not just figurative boys, and his mom would shake her head and yell at both of them not to wreck the place.
Howie said that Nick asked about him when they talked on the phone, and wanted to know if AJ was okay. AJ didn't think that D would make something like that up just to make him feel better, but he couldn't be completely sure. It would be like him.
Kevin just shrugged and said, "It's Nick," and that pretty much summed it all up.
Link to the story: Silence
Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Shift
Author: Pet, at Bury Me Deep and
apetslifeCharacters: BSB,
Prompt: 22 UST
Rating: sex
Length: medium
Brief summary: Howie is nice and fun to spend time with now that Brian is completely wrapped up in Leighanne. He and Nick are friends, that's all, even if Howie has the prettiest smile and kind of sparkle... A very sweet story about the growing closeness between Nick and Howie.
One night on the bus, after a show, when Brian had brushed off his invitation to dinner with a "DAMMIT, Nick, could I please have a MINUTE here?", Howie wandered over to sit next to him, as he watched his microwave meal go around and around on the little turntable. Howie kind of leaned on him, and he looked down, surprised.
"What's up, D?" It wasn't that he didn't talk to Howie; they all talked, they lived in each others' pockets for most of the year. But Howie was usually just sort of a quiet calm presence. Nick couldn't remember the last time he and Howie had just chatted.
"Missed my Nicky." Howie grinned up at him. "Just wanted to say hey. Why are you here eating -" Howie pulled the package out of Nick's hand, "Stouffer's Lasagna, instead of out on the town?"
Nick shrugged. "Didn't feel like it." He didn't really want to talk about it.
"Where's Brian?" And that felt like a leading question, but Howie's eyes were big and dark and innocent, and he just looked curious.
"On the phone with the girl." He was a little surprised at the venom in his own voice, but Howie just nodded, and waited a moment before he spoke.
"It's still the honeymoon period for them, you know. He'll be back." And Nick couldn't even pretend not to know what he was talking about. He just sighed, and got up to get his lasagna because the timer had beeped. When he came back, Howie hadn't moved, and tried to steal bites of his food, and poked him when he started pouting. Later, they watched a movie, and Howie wrapped an arm around him and played with his hair. He was small and warm and solid against Nick. It was amazing, how much he'd missed the pleasure of simple, friendly touch.
Link to the story: Shift
Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Silence
Author: Lucy, at
lucy_ficCharacters: BSB
Prompt: 37 Make-up
Rating: sex
Length: medium
Brief summary: This is a story about AJ in rehab and after, trying to put his life back together. The rest of the Boys are there for him, but from Nick there is only silence. A first-class AJ characterisation story.
It didn't hurt as much as he thought it would, what they said about him - it was actually kind of perversely nice, although his counsellor told him that wasn't a strange reaction, since it only proved how much they cared about him, really. He watched it a couple of times in a row, listening the first time and just watching the second, sitting cross-legged on the bed, lighting cigarettes that burned down in the ashtray, mostly untouched.
It was the first time that he really noticed Nick's silence.
Brian told him that Nick had gone home right after they finished wrapping everything up, and that should have been the first sign, because Nick never went home, if he could help it. Nick didn't like his home - the one he owned on his own, because it was too big and lonely for him, or his parents', because, well, of his parents - and almost always went to someone else's home when they were off, either Brian's or Kevin's or Howie's. Most often over the past year Nick had gone home with AJ, though, adopted in by the family like a long-lost relative. Hell, AJ accused his mom of loving Nick more than she loved him, sometimes, when he walked into the living room and found Nick sprawled across the couch, watching tv with his head on Denise's shoulder while she petted his hair. Nick almost always scrunched up his face and stuck out his tongue, and AJ would attack him in a flying leap and suddenly they were twelve and fourteen again, real and not just figurative boys, and his mom would shake her head and yell at both of them not to wreck the place.
Howie said that Nick asked about him when they talked on the phone, and wanted to know if AJ was okay. AJ didn't think that D would make something like that up just to make him feel better, but he couldn't be completely sure. It would be like him.
Kevin just shrugged and said, "It's Nick," and that pretty much summed it all up.
Link to the story: Silence
