Bandslash: Crossover RPS Recs
This rec set is a long time coming, so expect some older fic. Also expect some unusual pairings and crossovers with other fandoms.
Bandslash Crossover RPS (FOB, PatD, MCR, CS, TAI, THS, GCH)
Various Pairings- 18 Recs
"I'm Kind of a Record Nerd" by runthegamut--Patrick/Mikey--Record shop AU. Patrick owns the show and has an epic crush on one of his customers.
The first time Mikey had come in, he’d bought a Stone Roses album. Patrick had been skimming over an inventory list on his laptop when the album had been set down gingerly on the counter. Patrick’s eyes went to the record sleeve before he registered the customer. He’d widened his eyes before looking up to find a guy around his age with disheveled hair and angular glasses.
Your Dreams and your Hopeless Hair by feelingcold--always-a-girl!Gerard/Patric
“Did you draw these?” Gee asks, leafing through drawings she finds stacked neatly on a row of books. The Fall Out Boy bus is a lot cleaner than her bus. It also smells a lot better. Patrick puts the beer in the fridge, then comes over to look.
I Said Hey, Have You Heard of My Religion by txtequilanights--Gabe/Justin Timberlake--I don't know how the world existed without this pairing for so long. NC-17 (2200 words)
Gabe grins at him. "I won't tell, I promise," He puts his hand on Justin's wrist, thumb brushing over Justin’s pulse and Justin thinks, wow, this is a bad idea. Such a bad idea. But he lets Gabe pull him away from the bar anyway.
Geometry by helluvalot--Patrick/Keira Knightley--I've recced this story before, but then the author locked down. Here's a link that works. Yeah, the most unlikely pairing of my HEART. PG (2800 words)
“Oh, hi!” she says, and when Patrick looks up, she’s looking right at him, smiling prettily. She sort of is disconcertingly beautiful.
like a cigarette (the way that lovers do) by linzeems--Gabe/Patrick--I've talked a lot about my grand and epic quest to read a story about Patrick/everyone else in the world. Here's another pairing checked off the list. This is a Summer of Like story, which I find interesting. Summer of Like that ISN'T FOB/MCR in various combinations. Plus, jealous Pete. Kind of an overuse of Gabe saying papi though. NC-17 (5600 words)
Gabe can't remember, in retrospect, why Midtown hooked up with the Warped Tour this year. They've done it a few times before, but everybody's kind of tired right now, and up until approximately a month ago they were thinking about a serious break, maybe, kinda, for a while. But touring is a lot like drinking, and no matter how many times you say just one more you still end up pissed off your ass in someone else's dirty bunk with a headache and a load of regrets and no memory at all of just how fucked you got.
Football is the Gayest Profession (and I, Dear Madam, am a Professional) by tremblings--Pete/Patrick, Jon/Spencer, Frank/Gerard--Epic high school AU, so hilarious and precious. The Jon/Spencer stuff is my favorite, but it's all so good. I could take or leave Brendon the airheaded cheerleader, but he had his endearing moments, so I can't complain much. PG-13 (20000 words)
“I like your hoodie!” Jon called as Spencer started to turn a corner. Spencer looked up quickly to make sure if Jon was kidding or not (he’d had doubts about actually wearing a Pussy Cat Dolls hoodie in public, but, well, he liked it) and walked straight into a row of lockers. He didn’t particularly care to see Jon’s face after that so he ran off down the hall, blushing furiously, trying to outrun his shame.
a scenic world by softlyforgotten--Frank/Gerard, Brendon/Ryan--It's an AU where Frank and Gerard work on a nature show together and travel around the world. Oh, Frank. Pg-13 (7800 words)
It was blind luck, really, that got Frank and Gerard their show. They’d been talking about it idly for ages, stupid what ifs and well if I were famous-es, and it had mostly consisted of them bitching about the prospective shows they were working for, and how this was totally not what they’d signed up for when they decided to work with animals in a different medium to the plain old study version of it.
Everybody's Living Like They're Crazy in Love by welltimedsmiles--Brendon/Cash Colligan--This does one of my favorite cliches - they don't know they're married! - and does it so, so well. PG (4100 words)
Cash totally doesn't think about it when they come home from tour and he just piles his stuff into Brendon's car and walks into Brendon's place behind him. Brendon doesn't think anything about making sure there is whatever skank brand of beer Cash likes in the fridge and always pulls him into his bedroom with him at night.
welcomed back by the lights by lordessrenegade--Frank/Ian Crawford--Yes, you read that pairing right. It's ridiculously unlikely and silly, but if you've read anything else by this author, that wouldn't be a huge surprise to you. Frank the baby stalker. PG (2500 words)
It had definitely been sometime long after that first night at Patrick's, because at that point Ian was still in a state of hiding behind people every time any member of My Chem walked into the room. "You don't get it," he said to Marshall as Bob Bryar walked by and Ian crawled bodily behind Marshall on the couch to keep from being noticed. "They're…I mean. Look at them."
in this white house by lordessrenegade--Frank/Gerard(/Lindsey/J
It was later, during the first campaign to get Gerard into the New Jersey House of Representatives, that Frank walked into their office one morning and decided to stay. "No, really," he'd say later, when asked about it, "it actually was that easy." He'd been working for one of Gerard's opponents, and had been sent over to negotiate debate format with Mikey. About three hours into a conversation about education reform with Ray, he'd stopped, leaned back in his chair, and crossed his arms. "You guys are the real deal, aren't you?" he'd asked, sounding kind of amazed. "Like...you're actually going to try to do these things."
[The one about Bob, hot sound guy, and Patrick (whose ID says he's 21)] by mazily--Patrick/Bob--Patrick has a crush on Bob, the sound guy. I bet you couldn't tell all that from the title. I bet reading this summary has been very enlightening. Also, it's very hot. Adult (No length)
So, fine, one last gulp and his beer's empty. He pushes away from the bar, wanders over toward the sound booth. The girl's actually kind of smoking hot, the kind of scene queen Pete's always sneaking off with--and, seriously, he's so fucking dead when Patrick sees him because they were supposed to check out this band together--and then bringing to practice the next day, hand in the back pocket of her fucking jeans. Sound guy looks like he's moving from freaked to annoyed to pissed the fuck off, so Patrick tries to make eye contact. Waves, and says, "Hey, um, good to see you, dude."
New Kid Makes a Rule by sinsense--Joe/Spencer--She says it's not finished, but it's worth the read for how utterly ridiculous it is. Office AU. Oh, to live inside Joe Trohman's head for one day. Rish (No length)
"I'm totally going to start making Jew jokes, you fuck," Joe hisses back. "And then when Bryar yells at me, I'm going to say 'it's okay, I'm Jewish, I'm allowed to joke about my people.' And then I'm going to say he's oppressing my culture."
The Space Made Empty by ficjournal--Spencer/Seth Cohen--Crossover with The O.C. Spencer and Seth are both bummed about their Ryans: Spencer because Ryan has transferred schools, and Seth because Ryan Atwood has just begun attending Harbor School. R (3100 words)
Spencer’s heard things about Seth Cohen. They don’t really run in the same circles, because Seth is an actual nerd and Spencer’s just a band geek, but he’s heard things. And now he can only assume that they’re all the truth. “Dude,” he says. “I just asked you about your fucking summer.”
I Never Said I Wasn't a Disaster. (And if I Did, I Lied) by erin2326--Greta Salpeter/Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet--Takes place on the HCT. Greta needs to get laid. This fic made me care about Alex Greenwald, if only for the ten or so minutes it took me to read it, and that is saying something. PG/PG-13 (2200 words)
Brendon made a noise of assent, his eyes closing, and Greta studied him for a long moment. “I could have sex with you,” she said consideringly, watching as his eyes popped open and he stared at her with something akin to horror.
Anyone Perfect Must Be Lying (Jon's Bookstore II) by foxxcub--Jon/Spencer, Ryan/Brendon, Pete/Patrick, Frank/Gerard--The continuing adventures of those bookselling gaymos in love. I was a little disappointed by the way that the Ryan/Brendon plotline was resolved, but the Frank/Gerard stuff was adorably precious. R (15200 words)
He's lying on his stomach on Jon's couch, chin resting on his folded arms as he watches Jon mess with the DVD player. He's wearing Jon's favorite pair of black basketball shorts and a retro Bulls t-shirt that's about three sizes too small for him; he found it at some thrift shop, and Jon swears up and down it's children's-sized.
Taboo Happenings and Poor Sportsmanship by riflethrough--Cash/Brendon--Taboo is a vicious game, and Ryan and Spencer take their perfect record very seriously. PG-13 (1470 words)
It had become a mission of sorts among the bands on tour to beat them, just once. The only people to come close had been Pete and Andy when the tour passed through Chicago. The night had ended with an inconsolable Pete nursing a painful knot on his forehead from when he had started getting a little too trigger-happy with the buzzer--"Bzzt motherfuckers!"--for Spencer‘s liking.
Welcome to Monroeville, Hope You Enjoy Your Stay by Cappuccino--Pete/Mikey, minor (and hilariously precious) Frank/Gerard--The only 16 Candles!verse that I've read in a long time. Pete decides to run away from his friends for their own good, and of course gets himself mortally wounded. He's nursed back to health by Mikey, the horny, vampire-obsessed sixteen year old boy from the INOK-verse. 10,000 bonus points for excellent use of Brendon in the fic. R (No length)
"So I was thinking," the guy said, standing up suddenly, "That I can help you. You can stay here until you're better. My parents never come in, and if they do I'll warn you. No problem."
A Rose is a Rose by seimaisin--Greta/Jon--Librarian AU! Greta has a secret admirer, and she has a few ideas about who she hopes it is. PG (2500 words)
Greta raises an eyebrow and wanders over. When she gets close enough to look around Spencer, she sees a red rose tied to the metal door handle with a length of plain white ribbon. A card dangles from the stem. “For Greta,” it reads, in dark, scratchy handwriting. “For me?” she repeats, a little dumbly.
The Ex by morganya--Travis/William--A very realistic break-up story that ends on a positive note. Suitable for those over the age of thirteen. (No length)
Travis throws all of William's shit in a box and figures he'll mail it back later when he has time. William had this habit of sloughing off all of his spares onto Travis – notebooks, clothing, CDs, glasses, a laptop one time, what the hell – and every time he came to town Travis' apartment would end up ten times more cluttered than it already was.
Various Pairings- 18 Recs
"I'm Kind of a Record Nerd" by runthegamut--Patrick/Mikey--Record shop AU. Patrick owns the show and has an epic crush on one of his customers.
The first time Mikey had come in, he’d bought a Stone Roses album. Patrick had been skimming over an inventory list on his laptop when the album had been set down gingerly on the counter. Patrick’s eyes went to the record sleeve before he registered the customer. He’d widened his eyes before looking up to find a guy around his age with disheveled hair and angular glasses.
Your Dreams and your Hopeless Hair by feelingcold--always-a-girl!Gerard/Patric
“Did you draw these?” Gee asks, leafing through drawings she finds stacked neatly on a row of books. The Fall Out Boy bus is a lot cleaner than her bus. It also smells a lot better. Patrick puts the beer in the fridge, then comes over to look.
I Said Hey, Have You Heard of My Religion by txtequilanights--Gabe/Justin Timberlake--I don't know how the world existed without this pairing for so long. NC-17 (2200 words)
Gabe grins at him. "I won't tell, I promise," He puts his hand on Justin's wrist, thumb brushing over Justin’s pulse and Justin thinks, wow, this is a bad idea. Such a bad idea. But he lets Gabe pull him away from the bar anyway.
Geometry by helluvalot--Patrick/Keira Knightley--I've recced this story before, but then the author locked down. Here's a link that works. Yeah, the most unlikely pairing of my HEART. PG (2800 words)
“Oh, hi!” she says, and when Patrick looks up, she’s looking right at him, smiling prettily. She sort of is disconcertingly beautiful.
like a cigarette (the way that lovers do) by linzeems--Gabe/Patrick--I've talked a lot about my grand and epic quest to read a story about Patrick/everyone else in the world. Here's another pairing checked off the list. This is a Summer of Like story, which I find interesting. Summer of Like that ISN'T FOB/MCR in various combinations. Plus, jealous Pete. Kind of an overuse of Gabe saying papi though. NC-17 (5600 words)
Gabe can't remember, in retrospect, why Midtown hooked up with the Warped Tour this year. They've done it a few times before, but everybody's kind of tired right now, and up until approximately a month ago they were thinking about a serious break, maybe, kinda, for a while. But touring is a lot like drinking, and no matter how many times you say just one more you still end up pissed off your ass in someone else's dirty bunk with a headache and a load of regrets and no memory at all of just how fucked you got.
Football is the Gayest Profession (and I, Dear Madam, am a Professional) by tremblings--Pete/Patrick, Jon/Spencer, Frank/Gerard--Epic high school AU, so hilarious and precious. The Jon/Spencer stuff is my favorite, but it's all so good. I could take or leave Brendon the airheaded cheerleader, but he had his endearing moments, so I can't complain much. PG-13 (20000 words)
“I like your hoodie!” Jon called as Spencer started to turn a corner. Spencer looked up quickly to make sure if Jon was kidding or not (he’d had doubts about actually wearing a Pussy Cat Dolls hoodie in public, but, well, he liked it) and walked straight into a row of lockers. He didn’t particularly care to see Jon’s face after that so he ran off down the hall, blushing furiously, trying to outrun his shame.
a scenic world by softlyforgotten--Frank/Gerard, Brendon/Ryan--It's an AU where Frank and Gerard work on a nature show together and travel around the world. Oh, Frank. Pg-13 (7800 words)
It was blind luck, really, that got Frank and Gerard their show. They’d been talking about it idly for ages, stupid what ifs and well if I were famous-es, and it had mostly consisted of them bitching about the prospective shows they were working for, and how this was totally not what they’d signed up for when they decided to work with animals in a different medium to the plain old study version of it.
Everybody's Living Like They're Crazy in Love by welltimedsmiles--Brendon/Cash Colligan--This does one of my favorite cliches - they don't know they're married! - and does it so, so well. PG (4100 words)
Cash totally doesn't think about it when they come home from tour and he just piles his stuff into Brendon's car and walks into Brendon's place behind him. Brendon doesn't think anything about making sure there is whatever skank brand of beer Cash likes in the fridge and always pulls him into his bedroom with him at night.
welcomed back by the lights by lordessrenegade--Frank/Ian Crawford--Yes, you read that pairing right. It's ridiculously unlikely and silly, but if you've read anything else by this author, that wouldn't be a huge surprise to you. Frank the baby stalker. PG (2500 words)
It had definitely been sometime long after that first night at Patrick's, because at that point Ian was still in a state of hiding behind people every time any member of My Chem walked into the room. "You don't get it," he said to Marshall as Bob Bryar walked by and Ian crawled bodily behind Marshall on the couch to keep from being noticed. "They're…I mean. Look at them."
in this white house by lordessrenegade--Frank/Gerard(/Lindsey/J
It was later, during the first campaign to get Gerard into the New Jersey House of Representatives, that Frank walked into their office one morning and decided to stay. "No, really," he'd say later, when asked about it, "it actually was that easy." He'd been working for one of Gerard's opponents, and had been sent over to negotiate debate format with Mikey. About three hours into a conversation about education reform with Ray, he'd stopped, leaned back in his chair, and crossed his arms. "You guys are the real deal, aren't you?" he'd asked, sounding kind of amazed. "Like...you're actually going to try to do these things."
[The one about Bob, hot sound guy, and Patrick (whose ID says he's 21)] by mazily--Patrick/Bob--Patrick has a crush on Bob, the sound guy. I bet you couldn't tell all that from the title. I bet reading this summary has been very enlightening. Also, it's very hot. Adult (No length)
So, fine, one last gulp and his beer's empty. He pushes away from the bar, wanders over toward the sound booth. The girl's actually kind of smoking hot, the kind of scene queen Pete's always sneaking off with--and, seriously, he's so fucking dead when Patrick sees him because they were supposed to check out this band together--and then bringing to practice the next day, hand in the back pocket of her fucking jeans. Sound guy looks like he's moving from freaked to annoyed to pissed the fuck off, so Patrick tries to make eye contact. Waves, and says, "Hey, um, good to see you, dude."
New Kid Makes a Rule by sinsense--Joe/Spencer--She says it's not finished, but it's worth the read for how utterly ridiculous it is. Office AU. Oh, to live inside Joe Trohman's head for one day. Rish (No length)
"I'm totally going to start making Jew jokes, you fuck," Joe hisses back. "And then when Bryar yells at me, I'm going to say 'it's okay, I'm Jewish, I'm allowed to joke about my people.' And then I'm going to say he's oppressing my culture."
The Space Made Empty by ficjournal--Spencer/Seth Cohen--Crossover with The O.C. Spencer and Seth are both bummed about their Ryans: Spencer because Ryan has transferred schools, and Seth because Ryan Atwood has just begun attending Harbor School. R (3100 words)
Spencer’s heard things about Seth Cohen. They don’t really run in the same circles, because Seth is an actual nerd and Spencer’s just a band geek, but he’s heard things. And now he can only assume that they’re all the truth. “Dude,” he says. “I just asked you about your fucking summer.”
I Never Said I Wasn't a Disaster. (And if I Did, I Lied) by erin2326--Greta Salpeter/Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet--Takes place on the HCT. Greta needs to get laid. This fic made me care about Alex Greenwald, if only for the ten or so minutes it took me to read it, and that is saying something. PG/PG-13 (2200 words)
Brendon made a noise of assent, his eyes closing, and Greta studied him for a long moment. “I could have sex with you,” she said consideringly, watching as his eyes popped open and he stared at her with something akin to horror.
Anyone Perfect Must Be Lying (Jon's Bookstore II) by foxxcub--Jon/Spencer, Ryan/Brendon, Pete/Patrick, Frank/Gerard--The continuing adventures of those bookselling gaymos in love. I was a little disappointed by the way that the Ryan/Brendon plotline was resolved, but the Frank/Gerard stuff was adorably precious. R (15200 words)
He's lying on his stomach on Jon's couch, chin resting on his folded arms as he watches Jon mess with the DVD player. He's wearing Jon's favorite pair of black basketball shorts and a retro Bulls t-shirt that's about three sizes too small for him; he found it at some thrift shop, and Jon swears up and down it's children's-sized.
Taboo Happenings and Poor Sportsmanship by riflethrough--Cash/Brendon--Taboo is a vicious game, and Ryan and Spencer take their perfect record very seriously. PG-13 (1470 words)
It had become a mission of sorts among the bands on tour to beat them, just once. The only people to come close had been Pete and Andy when the tour passed through Chicago. The night had ended with an inconsolable Pete nursing a painful knot on his forehead from when he had started getting a little too trigger-happy with the buzzer--"Bzzt motherfuckers!"--for Spencer‘s liking.
Welcome to Monroeville, Hope You Enjoy Your Stay by Cappuccino--Pete/Mikey, minor (and hilariously precious) Frank/Gerard--The only 16 Candles!verse that I've read in a long time. Pete decides to run away from his friends for their own good, and of course gets himself mortally wounded. He's nursed back to health by Mikey, the horny, vampire-obsessed sixteen year old boy from the INOK-verse. 10,000 bonus points for excellent use of Brendon in the fic. R (No length)
"So I was thinking," the guy said, standing up suddenly, "That I can help you. You can stay here until you're better. My parents never come in, and if they do I'll warn you. No problem."
A Rose is a Rose by seimaisin--Greta/Jon--Librarian AU! Greta has a secret admirer, and she has a few ideas about who she hopes it is. PG (2500 words)
Greta raises an eyebrow and wanders over. When she gets close enough to look around Spencer, she sees a red rose tied to the metal door handle with a length of plain white ribbon. A card dangles from the stem. “For Greta,” it reads, in dark, scratchy handwriting. “For me?” she repeats, a little dumbly.
The Ex by morganya--Travis/William--A very realistic break-up story that ends on a positive note. Suitable for those over the age of thirteen. (No length)
Travis throws all of William's shit in a box and figures he'll mail it back later when he has time. William had this habit of sloughing off all of his spares onto Travis – notebooks, clothing, CDs, glasses, a laptop one time, what the hell – and every time he came to town Travis' apartment would end up ten times more cluttered than it already was.