Boys You Don't Know

Title: Moving Closer
Author: nouveau_monday
Pairing: Noah/Luke
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 2.4k
Summary: This is a remix of ithilien22's amazing Farm Boy
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Nothing is better than barn!sex.
Notes: This was perhaps the scariest thing I've ever written because I had to work around the incredible framework of Ithilien's story and the outrageously beautiful poetry of language she always manages to use. I hope this honors her words appropriately. Also, this part had no beta. All mistakes are mine and mine alone.

( Noah can't help it. He loves to watch. The way Luke moves his shoulders, the way he arches his back as he lifts something, but especially the way he bends over. )

Title: Home (Learning to Breathe)
Authors: ithilien22 and nouveau_monday
Genre: Romance/Angst
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 4,660
Summary: Slight AU. Luke never came back after the fateful events of move-in day. Weeks later, Noah gets a message from his father and goes to visit him in prison.
Spoilers: Up to Luke and Noah attempting to move in together.

Authors' Notes: Once upon a time, ithilien22 and nouveau_monday started emailing, and ithilien22 suggested they write something together. nouveau_monday thought that was crazy because Ithilien22's writing is beautiful, like poetry and her writing is clumsy and cutesy (at best) by comparison. But then they started throwing plot ideas at each other, and then the other would continue with "and then this would happen ..." and eventually this is what happened.


( Sometimes, when his father was driving him crazy and he was sick and tired of the military base, Noah would get in his car and just drive. For hours he would drive in the direction of California or New York or wherever and he would tell himself that it was for good this time – that this time he’d really had enough, that this time he was really leaving. But he was always back home before the dinner bell. )