Fic: Swinging Both Ways (And Then Some)
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apocalypsosTitle: Swinging Both Ways (And Then Some)
Author: Troll Princess
Fandom: Heroes (with a wee bit of a crossover in the last section, just ‘cause)
Rating: PG-13
Character: Zach
Word count: 538 words
Disclaimer: Not mine, not mine … wheeee!
Summary: That’s funny. He could have sworn he was straight.
Author’s note: After the whole thing about NBC or the show or whatever changing their mind about Zach being gay, I needed to get this out of my system. ;)
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Swinging Both Ways (And Then Some)
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A little while after Claire Bennet comes up to him acting as if she never stopped treating him like an unwashed petri dish, Danny Cartwright crowds him into a dark corner in the locker room and tries to suck on his neck.
“Dude,” Zach says, pushing him away. “What the hell are you doing?”
Danny just smiles. Danny‘s in the drama club, the art design classes, and practically lives in the home economics room. He dresses better than most of the cheerleaders and puts on hand lotion after wood shop. It’s like he’s trying to win a world’s best stereotypical gay guy award or something.
“The same thing I was doing last Thursday after biology, if I’m remembering correctly,” he says.
He leans forward to tug Zach’s shirt down a little and lick along his collarbone, and Zach jerks backward. “Come on, man. I mean, I appreciate the attention and all, but I’m not gay.”
Danny sounds as if he’s about to choke on his own tongue.
Zach holds up his hands. “Seriously.”
It takes a few long seconds, but Danny finally backs away from him with a roll of his eyes and says, “Really, handsome, if you wanted to stop making out with me, then just say so."
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After school Zach spends a half an hour scraping rainbow stickers off the inside of his bedroom door. He tries to remember who could have possibly put them on the door in between his Breaking Benjamin poster and the location stills from Scarface and can’t think of anyone other than him who could have done it.
Not that he has anything against ‘em, man, but this is Texas, he is in high school, and he’s not suicidal, you know what I mean?
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At dinner he picks through veggie fried rice while his mom goes on and on about how trying that whole cheerleader thing was which … okay, fine, if he admits he didn’t want Jackie dead, just mute and in another postal district, does he win a prize or something?
But then his mom takes another sip of her Coke and says, “So, when you bringin’ that boyfriend of yours over?”
A mouthful of fried rice nearly goes right down the wrong pipe. Zach tries to catch his breath as he coughs into his hand and says, “Girlfriend, mom,” he says. “You know, of which I have none.”
“Oh,” she says, and stares at him as if he’s lost his mind.
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That night as he’s checking his email a chat window pops up.
Did you see what Wilhelmina Slater was wearing at that Mode party the other night?!, suavesuarez says to him.
Zach frowns and checks the guy’s info, and he’s pretty sure he would have remembered putting a preteen with a penchant for old musicals and glitter on his buddy list.
Do I know you?, he asks.
He can almost hear the sigh on the other end of the chat.
You‘re no fun since you started hanging out with that cheerleader, suavesuarez says, and signs out.
Author: Troll Princess
Fandom: Heroes (with a wee bit of a crossover in the last section, just ‘cause)
Rating: PG-13
Character: Zach
Word count: 538 words
Disclaimer: Not mine, not mine … wheeee!
Summary: That’s funny. He could have sworn he was straight.
Author’s note: After the whole thing about NBC or the show or whatever changing their mind about Zach being gay, I needed to get this out of my system. ;)
Swinging Both Ways (And Then Some)
*
A little while after Claire Bennet comes up to him acting as if she never stopped treating him like an unwashed petri dish, Danny Cartwright crowds him into a dark corner in the locker room and tries to suck on his neck.
“Dude,” Zach says, pushing him away. “What the hell are you doing?”
Danny just smiles. Danny‘s in the drama club, the art design classes, and practically lives in the home economics room. He dresses better than most of the cheerleaders and puts on hand lotion after wood shop. It’s like he’s trying to win a world’s best stereotypical gay guy award or something.
“The same thing I was doing last Thursday after biology, if I’m remembering correctly,” he says.
He leans forward to tug Zach’s shirt down a little and lick along his collarbone, and Zach jerks backward. “Come on, man. I mean, I appreciate the attention and all, but I’m not gay.”
Danny sounds as if he’s about to choke on his own tongue.
Zach holds up his hands. “Seriously.”
It takes a few long seconds, but Danny finally backs away from him with a roll of his eyes and says, “Really, handsome, if you wanted to stop making out with me, then just say so."
After school Zach spends a half an hour scraping rainbow stickers off the inside of his bedroom door. He tries to remember who could have possibly put them on the door in between his Breaking Benjamin poster and the location stills from Scarface and can’t think of anyone other than him who could have done it.
Not that he has anything against ‘em, man, but this is Texas, he is in high school, and he’s not suicidal, you know what I mean?
At dinner he picks through veggie fried rice while his mom goes on and on about how trying that whole cheerleader thing was which … okay, fine, if he admits he didn’t want Jackie dead, just mute and in another postal district, does he win a prize or something?
But then his mom takes another sip of her Coke and says, “So, when you bringin’ that boyfriend of yours over?”
A mouthful of fried rice nearly goes right down the wrong pipe. Zach tries to catch his breath as he coughs into his hand and says, “Girlfriend, mom,” he says. “You know, of which I have none.”
“Oh,” she says, and stares at him as if he’s lost his mind.
That night as he’s checking his email a chat window pops up.
Did you see what Wilhelmina Slater was wearing at that Mode party the other night?!, suavesuarez says to him.
Zach frowns and checks the guy’s info, and he’s pretty sure he would have remembered putting a preteen with a penchant for old musicals and glitter on his buddy list.
Do I know you?, he asks.
He can almost hear the sigh on the other end of the chat.
You‘re no fun since you started hanging out with that cheerleader, suavesuarez says, and signs out.
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Date: 2007-02-11 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-02-11 09:12 pm (UTC)Justin and Zach TOTALLY would talk online about fashion and such. Oh man, that teeny crossover part just made my day. :D
And the rest was awesomecakes too.
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Date: 2007-02-11 09:13 pm (UTC)Well done!
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Date: 2007-02-11 11:03 pm (UTC)*cuddles this to bosom*
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Date: 2007-02-12 01:03 am (UTC)*snickers* Poor Zach.
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Date: 2007-02-12 06:12 am (UTC)That's totally what I decided had happened when they went and changed it.
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Date: 2007-02-27 10:25 pm (UTC)This makes so much sense hahaha!
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Date: 2010-08-26 07:20 pm (UTC)This fic was nominated at the Summer 2010 Fanfiction Awards (http://community.livejournal.com/heroes_faves/24540.html), hosted by
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