Fake News: "I'm Right Behind You"

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Title: I'm Right Behind You
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Genre: Romance, dramedy
Rating: G through PG-13
Words: ~11,200 in total
Disclaimer: The usual two.

For the Report character fic: The Colbert Report characters are property of Stephen and the other Report writers. Not mine. Sue me not, please.

And for the real people, the poem:
Please, make no mistake:
these people aren't fake,
but what's said here is no more than fiction.
It only was writ
because we like their wit
and wisecracks, and pull-squints, and diction.
We don't mean to quibble,
but this can't be libel;
it's never implied to be real.
No disrespect's meant;
if you disapprove, then,
the back button's right up there. Deal.

Notes: The fake news fandom is pretty much saturated with gay, but it was always about the guys. It needed some femslash. Trouble is, the female characters are pretty much limited to Sam and ... well, Sam. Unless you count the woman who is never seen but always on Stephen's mind.

We don't know a lot about Charlene. She's Stephen's cousin; they went to high school together; he stalked her during the eighties; she now has a restraining order against him. We've never seen a picture of her; I envision her as looking a lot like Stephen, because an extreme family resemblance would help explain why he's so obsessed with her.

In eight parts, plus a coda. Rather than copy the whole story into this journal, I'm just going to post a list of chapters.

I'm Right Behind You

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Coda (October 17, 2015)