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ptahrrific) wrote2009-05-09 08:57 am
ptahrrific) wrote2009-05-09 08:57 am
Fake News: Measure In Love
Title: Measure In Love
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: Happy!"Stephen"(/Jon), Lorraine
Rating: G
Disclaimer: See the index.
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seagullsong, who wanted to hear more about the world in which Stephen is happy. (Title is a RENT reference.)
ETA, December 2010: ahahahah, wow. This is completely different from the way I ended up writing happy!Stephen not six months later. It is faintly ridiculous, but I'm leaving it as-is for posterity's sake XD
Measure In Love
"There you are, girlfriend!" exclaimed Stephen, as Lorraine threaded her way through the food court to the smoothie stand. "I'm so glad you could make it. I'm just at my wits' end!"
"Another anniversary?" asked Lorraine , taking the smoothie that Stephen held out to her. Blueberry: her favorite. It was the kind of thoughtfulness that seemed to come naturally to him — which made his perennial trouble with gifts all the more surprising.
Stephen nodded. "A whole year, this time. And I have absolutely no idea what to get him."
"You got him such a nice gift for your six-month anniversary," pointed out Lorraine, "and your three-month anniversary, and your one-month anniversary, and your two-week anniversary, and your one-week anniversary...I'm sure Jon won't mind if the one-year present isn't too extravagant."
From anyone else, this level of fretting would have been annoying. Not Stephen. After all, he had done so much for Lorraine.
It had been Stephen who, back at their small, liberal-arts college, got her to realize that all the guys she dated were angry, controlling jerks. "Girl, you deserve better," Stephen had insisted, until at last she had believed it. Now she had a happy, loving marriage with three bright, well-adjusted children, and she probably owed it all to him.
"It doesn't have to be expensive," admitted Stephen now, looking from storefront to storefront as they strolled through the mall. "But no matter how much it costs, I'm not sure anything can convey just how deliriously happy a whole year with my little fluff muffin has made me!"
"Don't worry," said Lorraine soothingly, while Stephen sipped his own banana smoothie. "We'll find something. And, even if we don't, I'm sure he already knows."
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: Happy!"Stephen"(/Jon), Lorraine
Rating: G
Disclaimer: See the index.
For
seagullsong, who wanted to hear more about the world in which Stephen is happy. (Title is a RENT reference.)ETA, December 2010: ahahahah, wow. This is completely different from the way I ended up writing happy!Stephen not six months later. It is faintly ridiculous, but I'm leaving it as-is for posterity's sake XD
Measure In Love
"There you are, girlfriend!" exclaimed Stephen, as Lorraine threaded her way through the food court to the smoothie stand. "I'm so glad you could make it. I'm just at my wits' end!"
"Another anniversary?" asked Lorraine , taking the smoothie that Stephen held out to her. Blueberry: her favorite. It was the kind of thoughtfulness that seemed to come naturally to him — which made his perennial trouble with gifts all the more surprising.
Stephen nodded. "A whole year, this time. And I have absolutely no idea what to get him."
"You got him such a nice gift for your six-month anniversary," pointed out Lorraine, "and your three-month anniversary, and your one-month anniversary, and your two-week anniversary, and your one-week anniversary...I'm sure Jon won't mind if the one-year present isn't too extravagant."
From anyone else, this level of fretting would have been annoying. Not Stephen. After all, he had done so much for Lorraine.
It had been Stephen who, back at their small, liberal-arts college, got her to realize that all the guys she dated were angry, controlling jerks. "Girl, you deserve better," Stephen had insisted, until at last she had believed it. Now she had a happy, loving marriage with three bright, well-adjusted children, and she probably owed it all to him.
"It doesn't have to be expensive," admitted Stephen now, looking from storefront to storefront as they strolled through the mall. "But no matter how much it costs, I'm not sure anything can convey just how deliriously happy a whole year with my little fluff muffin has made me!"
"Don't worry," said Lorraine soothingly, while Stephen sipped his own banana smoothie. "We'll find something. And, even if we don't, I'm sure he already knows."
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the first time I read this, I went, "huh. cute but werid"
Then I got it, and rewatched the Joydown ^_^
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And this was delightful. :D