Fandom: HARD CORE LOGO
Pairing: Billy/Joe
Length: 6,260 words
Author on LJ:
sagenessAuthor Website:
web siteWhy this must be read: because Sage is one of the best writers in any fandom and this is a well-thought out, well-researched, perfectly conceived and excuted fix-it story, a totally believable what-might-have-been. This is one of the first stories I ever read in the HCL fandom, and remains one of my favorites for its skewed but perfectly realistic view of the events of the movie.
He fucks Billy-clone after Billy-clone in seedy Vancouver clubs. He gets fucked and likes it, but he always comes biting the word "Billy" into his forearm. He knows it's fucked up, but it hurts less than wondering what Billy's doing down in sunny fucking California.
Pot brings him down, makes him useless and paranoid, which he hates. Heroin's never been a temptation-all anybody's gotta do to say no to that shit is spend three weeks on the road with Pipe. Stuff'll mess you up. He likes coke; he can do any fucking thing in the world with a noseful of blow, nosebleeds be damned. He's good. He's the man with the plan. He's Joe Dick, the man no one dares fuck with.
The Secret Life of Joe Dick (or, The Big Con).