I didn't know what I needed
Title: I didn't know what I needed
Author: diane_mckay
Rating: G
Fandom: American Idol Season 8
Disclaimer: There's not even a blanket in here for me to own. Fine, I own the airplane. :p
Summary: Kris can't sleep. Set August 2009 when Adam and Kris had to go to NYC.
Authors note: written for kradingo for the prompt Idol Tour: Hotel Night. I kind of warped it a little. Written post-rage on an airplane leaving nowhere. I was very tired ok? Grrr arrgh at anobakitay and claire_kay
It was raining on the tarmac. At night the glisten of rain on the dark pavement looked like vast oceans, the highways made into rivers. Streetlights and headlights float in a sea of gleaming black, so separate and small. Far away.
Kris leaned his head closer to the window of the airplane looking out, down below. Next to him he could hear a slow and deep breath go in. And out. He gave a small smile and glanced over to his right. For once, Adam was the one who had fallen asleep first, putting the score at about one to Adam and one hundred to Kris. Kris could spy the fingers of Adam's left hand, painted their usual dark blue. They were still posed to continue his tap of an unknown rhythm on the arm rest that separated Kris and Adam. Thankfully, they were in first class and Adam's long legs were stretched out in front of him. Adam's hair, the longest Kris had ever personally seen it outside old photographs, drifted down over his face covering his blue eyes. They were closed right now. There weren't many opportunities on tour for Adam to get his hair cut, at least not a haircut up to his standards Kris knew. Adam loved his hair. There was barely enough time to sleep in between the idol tour performances and trying to put together an album each of them could be proud of.
Kris knew the late night flight to New York that they had hopped that night as soon as possible following the concert tonight was necessary. It was allowing Kris --and Adam-- the opportunity to work on their own albums. Kris was finally making music with his own words and feelings. But he was tired, he felt stretched thin and wanted a bed. A real bed, not his bottom bunk on a bus he shared with nine other guys, listening to the snores and the rustling as someone shifted in bed (usually Matt). Not a couch in a venue the name of which Kris would not remember the next day either. And not in a car or a bus or on an airplane. He wished he could find the outlet Adam had found so easily tonight. Kris just wanted the comfort of a bed, that he hadn't truly had since those last days they had spent in the mansion.
Sleep evaded him despite all, and he spent the remainder of the flight caught up in the view he had beside him He wished for his guitar.
As the plane made its final taxi into the airport, Kris watched as Adam yawned. He felt the movement of Adam's body next to him as Adam raised his arms from the position they had maintained for the last hour or so, stretching them high, painted tips reaching up further than Kris himself could ever reach.
"What was that?" Adam asked, standing as he shook his hair free from his face and peering down at Kris.
"Hmmm?" Kris' response came deep from within his chest. He cleared his throat. "What was what?"
"You were humming something. It sounded pretty." Adam smiled at the confused look on Kris' face.
"Oh. I --- didn't know. Maybe something new?"
"Just what you need then. I liked it." Adam's smile grew into a grin as Kris continued to sit. "Come on sleepy head, time to rock and roll."
Adam reached a hand down to Kris. Kris blinked and grasped it tight as Adam pulled him up.
"Just what I need," Kris murmured in agreement.
They left the airport together.
IDOL TOUR: Adam + Microphone
SUPERNATURAL: Vampires
RANDOMS: Sparkling!Plaid
Living Dangerously
RANDOMS: Rolling Stone
PRE-IDOL: Concert
AU/CROSSOVERS: Sherlock Holmes
RANDOMS: Halloween
IDOL TOUR: Hotel Night
I didn't know what I needed
KRIS TOUR: Lost
MUSIC: The Killers
AU/CROSSOVERS: Sex Tape
FUTURE: First Time
WILD CARD
MUSIC: Maroon 5
FUTURE: Vacation
GLAMNATION: Accident on Stage
IDOL: Bonding
AU/CROSSOVERS: Big Brother (tv)
PRE-IDOL: Adam visits Arkansas
KRIS TOUR: Frustrated
MUSIC: Radiohead
AU/CROSSOVERS: Chef
MUSIC: mgmt
I don't want to lose ya
SUPERNATURAL: Time Travel
RANDOMS: Musical
Kradam Bingo - Sign-ups
Author: diane_mckay
Rating: G
Fandom: American Idol Season 8
Disclaimer: There's not even a blanket in here for me to own. Fine, I own the airplane. :p
Summary: Kris can't sleep. Set August 2009 when Adam and Kris had to go to NYC.
Authors note: written for kradingo for the prompt Idol Tour: Hotel Night. I kind of warped it a little. Written post-rage on an airplane leaving nowhere. I was very tired ok? Grrr arrgh at anobakitay and claire_kay
It was raining on the tarmac. At night the glisten of rain on the dark pavement looked like vast oceans, the highways made into rivers. Streetlights and headlights float in a sea of gleaming black, so separate and small. Far away.
Kris leaned his head closer to the window of the airplane looking out, down below. Next to him he could hear a slow and deep breath go in. And out. He gave a small smile and glanced over to his right. For once, Adam was the one who had fallen asleep first, putting the score at about one to Adam and one hundred to Kris. Kris could spy the fingers of Adam's left hand, painted their usual dark blue. They were still posed to continue his tap of an unknown rhythm on the arm rest that separated Kris and Adam. Thankfully, they were in first class and Adam's long legs were stretched out in front of him. Adam's hair, the longest Kris had ever personally seen it outside old photographs, drifted down over his face covering his blue eyes. They were closed right now. There weren't many opportunities on tour for Adam to get his hair cut, at least not a haircut up to his standards Kris knew. Adam loved his hair. There was barely enough time to sleep in between the idol tour performances and trying to put together an album each of them could be proud of.
Kris knew the late night flight to New York that they had hopped that night as soon as possible following the concert tonight was necessary. It was allowing Kris --and Adam-- the opportunity to work on their own albums. Kris was finally making music with his own words and feelings. But he was tired, he felt stretched thin and wanted a bed. A real bed, not his bottom bunk on a bus he shared with nine other guys, listening to the snores and the rustling as someone shifted in bed (usually Matt). Not a couch in a venue the name of which Kris would not remember the next day either. And not in a car or a bus or on an airplane. He wished he could find the outlet Adam had found so easily tonight. Kris just wanted the comfort of a bed, that he hadn't truly had since those last days they had spent in the mansion.
Sleep evaded him despite all, and he spent the remainder of the flight caught up in the view he had beside him He wished for his guitar.
As the plane made its final taxi into the airport, Kris watched as Adam yawned. He felt the movement of Adam's body next to him as Adam raised his arms from the position they had maintained for the last hour or so, stretching them high, painted tips reaching up further than Kris himself could ever reach.
"What was that?" Adam asked, standing as he shook his hair free from his face and peering down at Kris.
"Hmmm?" Kris' response came deep from within his chest. He cleared his throat. "What was what?"
"You were humming something. It sounded pretty." Adam smiled at the confused look on Kris' face.
"Oh. I --- didn't know. Maybe something new?"
"Just what you need then. I liked it." Adam's smile grew into a grin as Kris continued to sit. "Come on sleepy head, time to rock and roll."
Adam reached a hand down to Kris. Kris blinked and grasped it tight as Adam pulled him up.
"Just what I need," Kris murmured in agreement.
They left the airport together.
IDOL TOUR: Adam + Microphone
SUPERNATURAL: Vampires
RANDOMS: Sparkling!Plaid
Living Dangerously
RANDOMS: Rolling Stone
PRE-IDOL: Concert
AU/CROSSOVERS: Sherlock Holmes
RANDOMS: Halloween
IDOL TOUR: Hotel Night
I didn't know what I needed
KRIS TOUR: Lost
MUSIC: The Killers
AU/CROSSOVERS: Sex Tape
FUTURE: First Time
WILD CARD
MUSIC: Maroon 5
FUTURE: Vacation
GLAMNATION: Accident on Stage
IDOL: Bonding
AU/CROSSOVERS: Big Brother (tv)
PRE-IDOL: Adam visits Arkansas
KRIS TOUR: Frustrated
MUSIC: Radiohead
AU/CROSSOVERS: Chef
MUSIC: mgmt
I don't want to lose ya
SUPERNATURAL: Time Travel
RANDOMS: Musical
Kradam Bingo - Sign-ups