if you ever change your mind

Title: Frame-Up: Expertise, Quality & Great Design
Pairing: Kurt/Blaine
Rating/Length: G / ~2,250
Summary: Kurt is a high school student in Lima working a part-time job at framing store in the local mall, counting the hours until he graduates and gets the hell out of town, when Blaine comes in with a slightly embarrassing photo to frame.

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Kurt really doesn’t care much about the fine art of picture framing, despite his current part-time job at Frame-Up, the framing store in the middle of the Lima Mall. And he doesn’t particularly care about the fine art that goes into the frames either. Sometimes it’s fine art, other times it’s $10 prints of celebrities, movie posters, or terrible vacation photos he has to pretend are masterpieces for his overly proud clients.
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Title: Until I Wake Up
Pairing: Chris/Darren
Length/Rating: ~1300 / PG
Summary: Darren can’t quite remember what he did for Halloween, but Chris can.

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When Darren wakes up, his mouth tastes like dirty socks, his head feels like it’s clamped tight in a vice, and his entire body hurts. Hungover then. He blinks sawdust from his eyes and tries to sit up, only to end up groaning loudly as every vertebra in his back pops and cracks and realigns under protest.
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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: Beacon Hill(s)
Pairing: Stiles Stilinski/Derek Hale
Length/Rating: 7,860 / G
Summary: Boy owns bookstore. Boy meets movie star. The rest is the rest.

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Stiles’ little travel bookshop makes no money. It’s quaint and cute and the windows are dusty in the corners and he absolutely loves his shop, but it makes no money. This is why Stiles also works as a freelance copy editor for people who manage to write books that do in fact sell.

He can keep the lights on by the mere fact that his grandparents owned the shop for 35 years and passed it down to him free and clear. Back then it was a moderately successful bakery, but while Stiles inherited a good many things from his grandparents, the ability to make bread rise and cookies crumble was not among them. He pays no rent, just the taxes and utilities, which is why he’s still there, in his little shop with groaning wooden floors and a bright blue door.
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Title: Drop It Like It’s Obvious
Pairing: Chris/Darren
Rating/Length: G / ~1,200
Summary: A belated birthday gift for Katie.

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In hindsight, Darren should have seen it coming.

Chris likes to bake and is a good hand at it, but he tends to stick to the handful of recipes he’s already proven adept at. Darren is intimately familiar with Chris’ chocolate chip cookies, his banana bread, and his pecan pie (which Darren sometimes convinces him to add bourbon to, on special occasions). There have been other attempts along the sliding spectrum of success: key lime pie, misshapen eclairs, and croissants that used up more butter than Darren had ever seen before in his life.
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Title: The 4th
Pairing: Chris/Darren
Summary: I dunno @alittledizzy​ tagged me so I guess I had to

Chris is on his third gin and tonic when his phone starts buzzing in his pocket. He almost misses it, with how loud the music is, vibrating across his skin.

Once he notices the call he almost misses picking it up in time, surprised as he is by the number.

Darren’s face is bright on his screen, an incoming FaceTime. Chris almost lets it go, almost just lets the buzzing finish and fade into the night. Just another missed call in a busy life. Almost.

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