title: we danced with monsters (our demons)
genre: angst/romance, predominately.
summary: or, the giant clusterfuck. They're all a little messed up. They use each other to forget that fact for just a night (or maybe forever). Some find love, some find hate, some find life and some find death. But in the end, they are irrevocably dedicated to one another. After all, no one else can really understand what they've been through.
characters: all of them, at some point, maybe.
ships: everything under the sun.
warnings: character death, mentions of sex, mentions of drugs, explicit language.
word count: 817, excluding header and authors note.
author notes: can be found at the bottom.
heather/justin
He falls in love before he can stop himself.
There's something nice about falling in love, even if it be with someone like Heather. Perhaps it's that feeling that maybe, maybe there'll be someone to hold his hand as he braves the paparazzi and his critics. Maybe he doesn't want to be alone any more.
Too bad the girl has next to no interest in him.
(sometimes, he reaches out to grasp a hand that's not there, but he knows that he's reaching out for her)
zoey/duncan
She's not sure when she fell in love with Duncan Lawson.
Somewhere between meeting him and him dying, Zoey supposes.
(he dies pushing Courtney out of the way of an oncoming car)
She still loves him a little, even now, as she's standing at the alter preparing to marry Mike.
Only Courtney knows of her little crush, and Courtney holds her when she cries.
And she wishes she could be thankful, but really, she just wants Courtney dead.
lindsay/cody
He's a bit of an asshole to her.
He doesn't mean to be—not really, it's just in his nature.
Because there's something about Lindsay that really fucking grates him.
Maybe it's because she was the first to friend zone him, and everyone else just follows suit.
But as he's lying in her bed, tracing patterns onto her tanned skin, he finds himself wanting to apologize.
He doesn't.
Because she'll get up in the morning and pretend this night never happened.
And that's fine, because he will too.
alejandro/bridgette
She's nothing but a game to him.
And not that he knows, but she likes to play him, too.
They eventually end up destroying their relationship, and that's fine, because he has Heather and she has Geoff and they're both so irrevocably in love with other people that they mean nothing to each other.
(but what's that empty feeling he feels when he receives her wedding invitation?
and why does she cry when he and his pregnant girlfriend turns up to her wedding, and he's silent when the priest asks if there's any reason that they shall not be wed?)
tyler/courtney
It's at Duncan's funeral when they first kiss.
She's crying and he's frustrated but it's so perfectly them and the kiss feels like home, so they keep kissing.
All their relationship is are little stolen kisses when the cast reunites, and they're never really each others so Tyler doesn't have the right to cry when she's diagnosed with cancer, but he does.
(she survives and he asks her to be his girlfriend and she says no, but they keep kissing anyway, because they feel like home)
noah/duncan
They get along strangely well.
They bitch about Sierra and they vent about their families to one another and they'll toke up and sometimes, they'll fall asleep together, their limbs entwined but it's not love.
One night, though, they fuck and it's glorious.
And then Duncan gives his life for his stupid fucking Princess and Noah loses the only person who understood him.
scott/dawn
He hates her.
He swears he does.
She doesn't hate him, though, and he's not sure why.
Not that he cares.
(he asks her why she doesn't hate him and she smirks, eerily mirroring his own natural expression, and he realizes he doesn't hate her at all
he asks the beetles what the fuck is going on, because they're his only friends, really
they tell him it's love, and he tells them to go fuck themselves)
heather/gwen
They're fire and ice. They'll never work. They're supposed to hate each other.
They do. They hate each other. They don't work. They set a house on fire, and one of them snorts a shitload of ice every night.
They cry, they laugh, they fight, and they hug, they scream, they kiss.
- Heather has a baby and a husband who's supposed (he doesn't, not any more) to love her, they really shouldn't be doing this.
They keep doing it.
sadie/katie
Sadie grew up in a Christian household, with parents who expected the best of their only child.
So when Sadie befriends Katie, a girl with atheist parents with several children, they tell her to just dump her as a friend.
Sadie does the unthinkable, and defies her parents.
And whilst Katie gushed over boys, Sadie stared at her friend and thought, none of them are as attractive as you.
Katie never returns her feelings.
courtney/justin
They're both lonely.
Justin's been living a life in the spotlight on his own, and Tyler's lips haven't found Courtney's in months.
It's only inevitable that once they run into each other, they go back to Courtney's apartment and fuck each other's brains out.
Courtney whispers, "I love you", and Justin returns the favor, but they're both imagining different people.
Afterwards, Courtney calls Tyler and kicks Justin out of her apartment because she has something she needs to take care of.
Well, so does he.
authors note: what am i doing
so yeah, hi! this is my first piece of writing on THIS account. i've had others, which i'd happily give y'all the links to if you wish them. interestingly, this is also my first piece of writing that it styled like this. i generally write big, lengthy pieces of writing and this was, originally, just me trying to work on that. then i found out it was rather fitting to the TD crew, and subbed words in here and there and blahblahblah.
all ten drabbles take place in the same universe (Duncan's proclaimed dead in at least three of these, and Heather and Alejandro's baby is mentioned twice, but both instances exist in all ten drabbles, believe it or not - every single thing that happens). if i ever continue this, it'll be a brand new universe!
but yeah this sucks im sorry leave a review saying how much you hated it/loved it/didn't care about it and i'll love you forever
~whispers of eternity