who i will be in the story of your life

Title: For Worse or for Better
Author: courts576
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1027
Pairing: Dave/Neal friendship, mentions of Dave/Archie
Disclaimer: Not mine. Title stolen from a line in an Andy Grammer song.
Summary: Dave isn't having a very good birthday so Neal comes over to hang out.
Notes: I was feeling like writing some mopey!Dave tonight for some reason. I didn't really start out with a plan so it's a little rambly but whatever :P

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( For Worse or for Better )

Title: Sugarhigh
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: Not mine.


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( part three )

Title: Sugarhigh
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: Not mine.


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( part two )

Title: Sugarhigh
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary A day in the life of the crew at Empire Records.
Word Count: 23,732
Pairing: Dave/Ryan, Andy/Archie, Neal/Alexis, Kris/Cale
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Once upon a time I made up a little challenge for myself to write a story for the first five songs I got on iTunes shuffle. And Coyote Shivers' Sugarhigh from Empire Records turned out to be one of the songs I got. Then my "drabble" grew to over 20,000 words. Oops. I figured I should finally post it :P
Thanks: A million thanks to celtic_fish for beta reading :)

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( what's with today, today? )

Title: Wednesday
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary From the Wonder Boys universe;
Word Count: 2403
Pairing: Dave/Kris/Lee
Rating: NC-17
Notes: This is for the "sleeping in" square on my domesticbingo card.

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( wednesday )

Title: Test Drive
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: Not mine. Title and cut lyrics belong to .
Summary Kris goes looking for a new car and winds up finding a lot more.
Word Count: 1415
Pairing: Kris/Cale
Rating: PG
Notes: This is for the "new car" square on my domesticbingo card.
Thanks: to celtic_fish for reading this for me :)

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( test drive )

Title: Car Wash
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary Tim finally gets around to doing a chore he's been avoiding and Casey finds that he quite enjoys the view.
Word Count: 754
Pairing: Tim/Casey
Rating: PG-13
Notes: This is for the "washing the car" square on my domesticbingo card.

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( he hadn't really thought anything of it when Tim had answered, 'washing the car' )

Title: Here Comes My Girl
Author: courts576
Rating: PG
Word Count: 843
Pairing: Artie/Kelly
Disclaimer: Not true. This is just some crap I made up. Song belongs to Tom Petty.
Summary: He might forget to mention it sometimes, but Artie knows that he has gotten pretty lucky in love.
Notes: I decided to do this iTunes shuffle meme thing where I wrote a story for the first five songs that came up. This was one of them and I decided to do one in the Waiting For You To Come Around universe and figured Artie and Kelly haven't really gotten much time in the story so I went with them as the focus. Apologizes in advance to the 99.99% of you who couldn’t give a crap about this pairing, lol.
Thanks: to celtic_fish for the beta!

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( here comes my girl )

Title: Detour
Author: courts576
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 1572
Pairing: Dave/Ryan
Disclaimer: Not true. This is just some crap I made up.
Summary: Dave and Ryan are always incriminating themselves via Twitter.
Notes: I wrote this a while back, after one of Dave and Ryan's Twitter convos in which they talked about being together and watching one of Gambit's videos. I just embellished a ~little ;)
Thanks: to celtic_fish for the beta!

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( Please do not let me turn on the news one day to see that you and Neal got arrested for decorating the 405. )

Title: Falling Is Like This
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: This is so not even a little bit true. Totally, 100% false. And I stole the title from Ani Difranco.
Rating: PG-13 for this part
Summary: Sometimes your family is the one that you make for yourself.
Notes: Previous parts can be found here. Feedback is loved and appreciated as always!
Well, this is THE END. I can't really believe it. I feel like I've been working on this fic forever and it's very bittersweet to actually be done with it. I would just like to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who has stuck with me through this entire thing, offering feedback and gentle nudges and letting me know that you guys hadn't forgotten about the story even when it seemed like maybe I did. That's the real reason it is finally finished so THANK YOU ALL!!! <3
Thanks: to celtic_fish for beta reading!

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( twenty. beginning and end. )

Title: Stay
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: Not mine. Title and cut lyrics belong to Lee DeWyze.
Summary In which Neal's not home yet and Kira waits.
Word Count: 822
Pairing: Neal/Kira, Neal/Dave
Rating: PG
Notes: I made up my own fanfic prompt meme, taking the first five songs from iTunes and writing a story inspired by each of them. This is the first one, inspired by Stay by Lee DeWyze.

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( i know you're wide awake but i haven’t slept yet . . . )

Title: Back to Static Start
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: Not mine. Title and cut lyrics belong to Sick Puppies.
Summary From the We Might Fall universe. Even after it's all over, Ryan remembers their first night fondly.
Word Count: 1050
Pairing: Dave/Ryan
Rating: PG-13
Notes: This is for princessleia04, for one of the fanfic memes I posted last week. She wanted something from this universe with Dave and Ryan. Sarah, sorry if you had something from the road trip portion in mind, but I ended up going back to the very beginning and writing something from Ryan's POV about that first night they got together, since I had never really told that story from his side before. I hope you like it and thanks for the prompt!!

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( we struggle and fall apart, we build it back to static start )

Headers, disclaimers, etc in part one

( Part Two )

Title: Hold Your Breath Until You See the Light
Author: courts576
Fandom: American Idol/Anthemic bandslash
Disclaimer: I don't have any rights to the people used in this story, to Being Human, or to much of anything else. I'm just making this up for fun; no personal gain involved and no infringement intended. Also, the title is from a lyrics to a Civil Wars song.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 16,599
Summary: AU based on the US version of Being Human; David Cook never expected to be a werewolf. And he never expected his best friends to be a vampire and a ghost. But this is his life now, apparently; the set up to a really bad joke. He can't think of anything else to do but try to live it and, hopefully, find something good in a really fucked up situation.
Pairings: David Cook/Neal Tiemann; Andy Skib/Jennie Nye
Notes: Written for au_bigbang. This is my first attempt at a Big Bang story and, though I probably could have fleshed out the story a little more, I felt like it turned out pretty well, all things considered. I'm just happy that I finished it and ended up with something that I am relatively happy to post. It is also my first attempt to crossover into another show, so I hope that works out okay. I really love the US version of Being Human and it was fun to play with these characters that I love in that universe that I love. Thanks to all of you who read this, I hope you like it!
Thanks: I would also like to thank pandorablu for the AMAZING art work and celtic_fish for continuing to be the best beta ever. I know that this story is better for both of your contributions and I thank you so much for that!

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ART POST
( READ THE STORY )

Title: Falling Is Like This
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: This is so not even a little bit true. Totally, 100% false. And I stole the title from Ani Difranco.
Rating: PG-13 for this part
Summary: Sometimes your family is the one that you make for yourself.
Notes: Previous parts can be found here. Feedback is loved and appreciated as always!
Thanks: to celtic_fish for beta reading!

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( nineteen. confession. )

Title: Falling Is Like This
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: This is so not even a little bit true. Totally, 100% false. And I stole the title from Ani Difranco.
Rating: PG-13 for this part
Summary: Sometimes your family is the one that you make for yourself.
Notes: Previous parts can be found here. Feedback is loved and appreciated as always!
Thanks: to celtic_fish for beta reading!

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( eighteen. bond. )

Title: See You Later, See You Soon
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: Not mine. Title and cut lyrics belong to Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers.
Summary Neal is moving out and Dave is self medicating his emo with Tollhouse cookies.
Word Count: 1440
Pairing: Dave/Neal friendship
Rating: PG
Notes: I was reading Neal's tweets about moving while I was at work tonight and found myself feeling very emo about he and Dave no longer being roomies. IT'S SAD, OKAY? So, yeah, this is basically just me projecting my melancholy onto Dave. Imagine that. Also, this is for the "around the kitchen table" square on my domesticbingo card.
Thanks: to celtic_fish for reading this for me :)

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( maybe on some sunny day, see you later, see you soon )

Title: Falling Is Like This
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: This is so not even a little bit true. Totally, 100% false. And I stole the title from Ani Difranco.
Rating: PG-13 for this part
Summary: Sometimes your family is the one that you make for yourself.
Notes: Previous parts can be found here. Feedback is loved and appreciated as always!
Thanks: to celtic_fish for beta reading!

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( seventeen. matinee. )

Title: Falling Is Like This
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: This is so not even a little bit true. Totally, 100% false. And I stole the title from Ani Difranco.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Sometimes your family is the one that you make for yourself.
Notes: Previous parts can be found here. Feedback is loved and appreciated as always!
Thanks: to celtic_fish for beta reading!

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( sixteen. need. )

Title: Technical Difficulties
Author: courts576
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary A tale of butt dialing, secret dating and Cookie Crisp.
Word Count: 1621
Pairings: various
Rating: PG-13
Notes: This is for the "new cell phone" square on my domesticbingo card.
Thanks: to celtic_fish for reading this for me :)

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( hello? hello? is anyone there? )