if you ever change your mind

Title: The Neighbor, Or, Another Meg Ryan Rom-Com
Pairing: Chris/Darren
Length/Rating: ~5,800 / G
Summary: Darren doesn’t bake, or, that time he had to ask his previously unseen neighbor for help and a cup of sugar.

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Darren doesn’t bake.

He’s got his talents, maybe more than his fair share, but baking isn’t one of them. Flour, eggs, and sugar rarely come together for him in anything but a mess. Two months ago, he tried to make a cookie in a mug to satisfy a vicious bout of late-night munchies without leaving his apartment, and his microwave ended up coated in burnt butter and chocolate. It doesn’t seem right that his dad is chef and he can’t even attempt lemon bars without getting lemon juice in his eyes and powdered sugar all over the floor.

He knows it’s just chemistry, but he wasn’t very good at that either.
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Title: Stuffed
Pairing: Chris/Darren
Rating/Length: who cares
Summary: I mean, it’s Thanksgiving, so…

“So who knocked you up?” Chris asks casually, staring again at the photo that popped up on his phone just five minutes ago. It had taken him that long to excuse himself from his chattering family and turn on his laptop in the privacy of a spare bedroom.

On the screen, Darren grins into the camera. “Considering I look about 10 weeks along…I’m gonna say it was you.”
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Title: Return (Me) To Sender
Pairing: Chris/Darren
Rating/Length: G / ~2,800
Summary: Based on this old Tumblr post.

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Chris almost doesn’t even check the mail that day. It’s a frigid and dreary day of dark grey skies and freezing rain. The weather is no real excuse not to at least put his slippers on and shuffle downstairs to the lobby to get his mail, but he doesn’t want to. The poor mail carrier has to trudge through this miserable winter day; all Chris has to do is get on an elevator.
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Title: Elevator Pitch
Pairing: Chris/Darren
Rating/Length: G / ~1,700

el·e·va·tor pitch
noun, informal
a succinct and persuasive sales pitch.

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His name is Chris, he has a dog, and he lives on the 8th floor. He owns a lot of button-down shirts, sometimes wear dark-framed glasses, and does not like it when it rains. These are the things Darren knows about him.

Chris walks his dog often, he owns multiple pairs of Converse (red, black, and blue), and he does not have a paper subscription to the New York Times. These are other things Darren knows about him.
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Title: Departure
Pairing: Chris/Darren
Rating/Length: PG / ~4,000 (total)
Summary: A meeting on an airplane in three parts.

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Part 1 - Departure

The seat is bigger than Chris anticipated, and feels more like a some lawyer’s overstuffed business chair than anything on an airplane.

Chris finds his seat belt and watches the other passengers shuffle slowly, despondently towards coach. Normally he’d be shuffling along with them to the cheap seats in the back, but not this morning. This morning he’s up front.
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Title: Surge
Pairing: Chris/Darren
Length/Rating: ~1,350 / G
Summary: Quite simply: a meet-cute in an UberPool

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Darren just wants to go home. Rehearsals for the reading the next week had been a bitch that day; some of the songs weren’t coming together and too many of the actors had early outs that were fucking with the schedule. There’s not much Darren can do about it though – he shows up at his call time, knows his parts, and just hopes that this reading might be the one to lead to something more.
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Title: Prix Fixe
Pairing: Chris/Darren
Length/Rating: ~2,800 / G
Summary: Chris is famous, Darren is not. They meet at a restaurant. I’m great at summaries.

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Darren knows exactly who he is the moment the man walks by his table – Chris Colfer, movie star. Darren would recognize him anywhere. Tall in a blue shirt and grey tie, Chris strides by Darren’s booth without even glancing at him before taking a seat at a two-top near the back. He sits with his back to the rest of the dining room, even though it means he can’t see someone approaching him. He pulls out his cell phone while he waits and doesn’t fidget at all.
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Title: No Place Like Home for the Holidays
Author: @twobirdsonesong
Summary: Sometimes taking someone home for the holidays is easy as Christmas.
Ratings/Warnings: PG / such fluff
Gifted to @imsorrydidijuststutter as part of the @crisscolfergiftexchange 2017

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“I should have brought something.”

The house loomed large through the windshield, imposing despite the cheerful facade and bright winter flowers.

“Chris.”

“I should have something with me. I should have brought something. That’s what guests do. They bring things to parties.” Dread filled his stomach.

Darren shook his head. “You’re not a guest.”

“I am a guest. I’m very much a guest. They’re going to think I’m ungrateful. And rude. The worst guest.”

“They’re not.”

“I should have baked a pie,” said Chris. “I’m pretty good at baking pies. You like my pies.”

Darren nodded. “I do like your pies, but there are going to be plenty of pies here already.”

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