Book Boyfriend (ST: VOY, Explicit)

[xslytherclawx]

Book Boyfriend (1490 words) by xslytherclawx
Chapters: 1/6
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harry Kim/Tom Paris, Tom Paris & B'Elanna Torres
Characters: Tom Paris, Harry Kim, B'Elanna Torres, Miral Paris
Additional Tags: past Tom Paris/B'Elanna Torres, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, (which is technically historical for trek), Community: unconventionalcourtship
Summary:

There are three things you need to know about Thomas Eugene Paris:
1) He’s a writer, toiling in obscurity as an editorial assistant at a New York City publishing house.
2) He is not a cliché. No, really.
3) He’s been secretly in love with his best friend, Harry, since they once drunkenly kissed in college.

When Harry moves in with Tom following a bad breakup, Tom hopes this will be the moment when Harry finally sees him as more than a friend. But Harry seems to laugh off the very idea of them in a relationship, so Tom returns to his writing roots—in fiction, he can say all the things he can’t say out loud.

In his book, Tom can be the perfect boyfriend.

Before long, it seems like the whole world has a crush on the fictionalized version of him, including Harry, who has no idea that the hot new book everyone's talking about is Tom’s story. But when his brilliant plan to win Harry over backfires, Tom might lose not just his fantasy book boyfriend, but his best friend.

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Work is complete, but will be posted in chaptered instalments.
Link on AO3

Like a Frozen Over Lake (Sports Night, Danny/Casey)

[out_there]

Title: Like a Frozen Over Lake
Author: out_there
Fandom: Sports Night
Pairing/Characters: Dan Rydell/Casey McCall
Rating: Teen
Medium: Fic
Length/Size: 9,910 words

Summary:
"You know how you said there was a storm coming in today," Casey says when Dana answers, "and I should change my flight to Saturday?"

"Did you change your flight to Saturday?"

"I did not."

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Prompt based on Between Strangers by Linda Conrad:
Rescuing a stranded father and child from a raging blizzard hadn’t been part of Dan Rydell’s plans. Yet he couldn’t abandon Casey McCall. And ended up getting snowed in with him, tasting those fiery kisses.

Notes: This was originally started for the 2021 challenge but I didn't get it finished in time. (Hilariously, it's still late but that's due to me marking the wrong day in my calendar.) Thanks to Celli for cheerleading as I wrote this, and Simplelyric for a fantastically detailed beta. Story title comes from Paul Kelly's "Careless".

This is set one step left of canon, where Danny never worked for Lone Star and Casey didn't go to Sports Night with Dana. I had to write out a Sports Night timeline to figure this out, but all you need to know is that it's set during the "Blizzard of 1996", where NYC got 20.2 inches of snow on 7-8 Jan.

Link:
Like a Frozen Over Lake (AO3)