The Second Floor

What We Do Instead (5)

2011-09-29T07:45:52Z

Title: What We Do Instead
Pairing: Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert
Rating: R
Word Count: 3100
Warnings: implied violence
Summary: As of his junior year, Jon spends most of his weekends hanging around abandoned classrooms with nothing stronger than the occasional bottle of wine on the table. Stephen gets that, even if he doesn't know why. College AU
Notes: Thanks to w_thit who has graciously beta'ed this. Any remaining mistakes are my own, probably resulting from poking at it after she'd been over it.
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

( There's no other way to account for his presence save the obvious – a malevolent, or perhaps merely whimsical, God. )

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What We Do Instead (4)

2011-09-29T07:44:45Z

Title: What We Do Instead
Pairing: Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert
Rating: R
Word Count: 2800
Warnings: implied violence
Summary: As of his junior year, Jon spends most of his weekends hanging around abandoned classrooms with nothing stronger than the occasional bottle of wine on the table. Stephen gets that, even if he doesn't know why. College AU
Notes: Thanks to w_thit who has graciously beta'ed this. Any remaining mistakes are my own, probably resulting from poking at it after she'd been over it. I have no idea what Mitch McConnell's actual views, if any, are on the subjects mentioned are.
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

( According to Stephen, the place you start running is Waffle House. )

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What We Do Instead (2)

2011-09-29T06:38:49Z

Title: What We Do Instead
Pairing: Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert
Rating: R
Word Count: 4700
Warnings: unbetaed; please tell me if I have inadvertently done something terrible and/or grammatically incorrect
Summary: As of his junior year, Jon spends most of his weekends hanging around abandoned classrooms with nothing stronger than the occasional bottle of wine on the table. Stephen gets that, even if he doesn't know why. College AU
Notes: The first of many flashbacks.
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

Chapter 1

( The first Thursday in March, there was no food in the cafeteria. )

Chapter 3

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What We Do Instead (1)

2011-09-29T06:36:37Z

Title: What We Do Instead
Pairing: Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3000
Warnings: unbetaed; please tell me if I have inadvertently done something terrible and/or grammatically incorrect
Summary: As of his junior year, Jon spends most of his weekends hanging around abandoned classrooms with nothing stronger than the occasional bottle of wine on the table. Stephen gets that, even if he doesn't know why. College AU
Notes: This is the thing I started because I wanted to write something not sad. It didn't really work.
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

( Credits roll and Jon's up with the lights. . . )

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It's Going To Happen Again

2011-09-29T06:35:23Z

Title: It's Going To Happen Again
Pairing: Anderson Cooper/Keith Olbermann
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Unbetaed, detailed description of clinical depression
Summary: A decision is made.
Notes: The prompt: "Make it a happy ending. Take a scenario that you can't imagine having a happy ending -- say, someone's stranded in an alternate universe, forever, or sent off to be executed -- and fix it." There was only one answer. I stand by my assertion that this happy, though it may not be an ending.

( An hour after the sixth or seventh time Keith talks Anderson through the existential hole he's sunk into. . . )

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What Is Okay

2011-09-29T06:33:20Z

Title: What Is Okay
Pairing: Anderson Cooper/Keith Olbermann
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2600
Warnings: Unbetaed, cigarette porn, detailed description of what sounds a lot like clinical depression, including abstract discussion of suicide
Summary: Anderson is okay. He's always okay. He has to be. He's got to go teach the country about the bad things that happen in rural mountain communities. He's fine.
Notes: Theoretically fits in with something larger, but works on it's own. Guest starring environmentalist propaganda. Feel like I should emphasize I know nothing about Anderson Cooper apart from what's known to the public at large and I would be extremely surprised if his reality resembled this.
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

( “I can feel it sometimes,” he wants to say to Keith. “I know when it's happening.” )

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The Logic of Peace

2011-09-29T06:31:11Z

Title: The Logic of Peace
Pairing: Anderson Cooper/Keith Olbermann
Rating: PG-13?
Summary: There are some stories Anderson will never get to tell. There are others he will never have the chance to learn.
Warnings: suicide, discussion of serious mental and physical illness
Notes: emmelinep has graciously looked over this and cleared it for public consumption.
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

( It's the kind of thing he would probably like to know. )

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