AN: Based off of the fanfic100 challenge on LJ, these are little backstory drabbles for my modern retelling fic 'Company,' the sort of scenes that come to you when you're sitting in traffic or washing your hair. They don't really do anything to further the plot or aid character development, but they're fun to have around.
Title: Of Unicorns and Sanity
Fandom: The Phantom of the Opera; au modern retelling style (I am my own fangirl ::hangs head::)
Characters: Erik, Ahmed
Prompt: 077. What?
Word Count: 234
Rating: T for Teenage Shennanigans
Disclaimer: Don't own the prompts and I don't own Phantom of the Opera or any of the products, people, places or media referenced in the context of this fic. I'm doing this for fun, not making any profits.
"...what is this?" Ahmed asked, unable to tear his eyes away from the iPod's tiny screen.
"Isn't it great?" Erik asked, eyes shining with excitement. When he did not continue Ahmed realized, to his immense surprise, that the question had not been rhetorical.
"You found this when you were high, didn't you?" This question wasn't rhetorical either, but that was more a matter of Ahmed knowing the answer already, rather than Erik being unable to come up with one.
"Well, yeah," his friend admitted. "But I watched it again this morning and it was still funny – damn it, Ahmed, either pause it or keep watching, you're missing the best part." And then his voice took on a high-pitched, dreamy quality as he quoted in time with the animated mythical beasts on the screen, "Shun the nonbeliever! Shuuuuuuun!"
Ahmed was usually willing to humor Erik when he found something amusing on YouTube and wanted to share it with the world. He was usually okay with that and wasn't really concerned five minutes ago when Erik called him Charlie and told him that they were going to Candy Mountain. However, when Erik gleefully informed him that this MS Paint acid trip had a sequel and began singing an oddly catchy song about putting bananas in his ears, Ahmed worried that his best friend had well and truly lost it.