Trope Meme!

[rsadelle]

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write).

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical au
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. high school / college au

I restrained my impulse to annotate this list (What is "drunk!fic" anyway? Is it just fic where people get drunk? How does that reach the level of a trope?), but since I've seen other people do it, I did cross out the things that made me hesitant to do this meme for fear that someone would want me to write them. I will take hockey prompts, obviously, and possibly other things - feel free to ask and I'll see if it's something I think I can do.

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Not!Fic: Hockey Practices and Half-Credit Cooking Classes (6/6)

[rsadelle]

Claude starts spending nights at Danny's sometimes, when Sylvie has the boys, and he still hangs out with his friends sometimes, but he stays for dinner most nights when Danny has the boys.

They also have an awkward conversation about money that results in Danny still paying Claude what he's been paying him, but with Claude's assurances that he'll quit or break up with Danny anyway if he really wants to, which Danny insists on even though Claude can't imagine wanting to do either of those things.

It's one of the nights that Claude stays for dinner when they tell the boys they're dating. The boys take it as just another thing that's happening in their lives, and Cameron asks, "Are you going to live with us?"

Claude exchanges a look with Danny before he says, "Not right away, but maybe sometime."

Things don't change much after that, although the kids sometimes treat him like more of a dad than a babysitter, which always gives Claude a quick glow of satisfaction.

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The boys have a lot of things going on in the summer, camps and playdates and birthday parties. Claude goes home and gets spoiled by his mom for the two weeks they're at Sylvie's and then away at hockey camp, and comes back to spend the rest of the summer alternately driving the boys around and hanging out by the pool during the day and seeing Danny at night.

Danny takes the boys on a yearly vacation to a rented cottage in the Laurentians for a week, and invites Claude along with them. They spend most of the time hanging out by the lake, with the boys running around and hanging out with the kids from another family they see there every summer. They switch off with the other family, so they have all of the kids one night and the other family takes them all another.

As much as he loves the boys, it's nice to have a night to themselves as part of their vacation, when Claude can be as loud as he wants, make Danny be even louder. It's afterward - or between, really - that Danny runs his hand through Claude's hair and says, "I love you."

Claude wasn't sure he could get any happier, but that does it. "Yeah?"

"Mmhmm." Danny's fingers keep playing through Claude's hair. "Do you want to move in with us?"

Oh, and there Danny goes again, making him happier. "Yes."

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Claude breaks the news to his roommates when he gets home, and he moves in while Sylvie has the boys. As much as he would like to have the boys around on his first night officially living there, it's a lot easier to do the moving part of things without the three of them underfoot.

Danny stops paying him, and they combine their finances instead. Claude worries about not contributing, but Danny just kisses him and says, "You're taking care of the boys, and you're in school."

The boys are delighted to have Claude around all the time, even if being a full-time caregiver means he ends up putting his foot down in a parental way more often. For his part, Claude is perfectly happy to be part of their family.