Fic [MM]: Cities change before they die (Pete/Ken)

Oct 23, 2010 01:30

Title: cities change before they die
Fandom: Mad Men
Pairing: Pete/Ken, Pete/Trudy
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~1,800
Summary: He didn't want to go to Kenny's stupid party. Takes place between episodes 4x04 and 4x05.

Kinsey is going to be there. I'll need to drink before I even reach the bar. )

fic, mad men

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ellamalfoy8 October 23 2010, 09:39:36 UTC
Oh my god, the little touches in this are fantastic.

Then I actually fell in love with her, and I thought, ‘Damn. Now I can’t tell anyone.’”

I had your baby, and I gave it away. He pitched forward, and heard something break. Pictured glass splashing against his feet. “I don’t feel so swell.”

Absolutely incredible.

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fallen_woman October 23 2010, 18:55:43 UTC
Thank you so much! Pete angst and willful self-destruction is always a pleasure to write. <3

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thar he blows (let's see how many times i mention cocksucking) fallen_woman October 23 2010, 18:59:47 UTC
YOU LIKED IT. I AM PURPLE WITH DELIGHT.

Pete is totally a spitter. Stop bitching, Campbell; Cosgrove didn't ask you to faceplant on his cock.

I INCLUDED THE HO HO LINE JUST FOR YOU. Because once you mentioned that pairing, I couldn 't unsee it. Freshman ball (hurr hurr) at Dartmouth. When you get the first yes, you go home and suck cock

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fallen_woman October 23 2010, 19:04:38 UTC
Thank you thank you thank you. New canon: Pete got no screen time in Season 4 because he was busy sucking cock. Lee Garner Jr. wants to remove the Lucky Strike account? Send Pete in. That Homeland Security investigation? Slap on some chapstick and get to work.

P.S. That photo you linked me of Peter holding his baby freaked me out in the best way. He looks so... mannequin-ish, and vaguely disconcerted, like he's going to fling the baby at the wall the moment the camera leaves.

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fallen_woman October 24 2010, 19:06:24 UTC
That entire Christmas party was mesmerizing. Joan conga line? Lee Garner Jr. snapping photos of all the boys? Roger humiliation? Roger humiliation. "Lee Garner Jr. never took you seriously because you never took yourself seriously."

P.S. THIS ISN'T EVEN MY BABY ANYMORE hahaha basically any of our cracked-out scenarios would have been preferable to the /actual/ finale.

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cmk418 October 23 2010, 16:58:31 UTC
I love this. Pete/Ken is such an awesome pairing - I always think there should be more of it - and I love how you handled them here with their past history coming into play within the context of their present lives. And there's something absolutely wonderful in the line ‘Years from now, you’re going to regret not having destroyed more things.’ It gives a definite sense to how Ken was feeling about Pete at the time of the writing. And that last paragraph is haunting - I think that's something that's going to be turning around in my head for some time. Excellent, excellent work here.

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sorry long comment is long fallen_woman October 23 2010, 19:16:51 UTC
Thank you for the kind feedback! The (one-sided) competition between Pete and Ken was one of my favorite subplots in Season 3, and I was eggcited beyond belief when Ken popped up at SCDP in S4. I was v. worried about screwing up Ken's portrayal, since he's kind of a cipher on the show, but his bitterness in that lunch scene with Pete in "The Rejected" struck a chord for me. I'm also thrilled you liked the last paragraph, because on some level, I think Pete is always going to resist the things that are supposed to make him happy (the wife, the job, the baby). And seeing Ken the golden boy, who folded away his writing talent and married "up," exacerbates that restlessness.

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kita0610 October 23 2010, 18:03:39 UTC
Jesus, woman, I want to live in your brain for just like, a day.

This is painfullly perfect stuff.

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fallen_woman October 23 2010, 19:18:46 UTC
Hah! Thank you, that is crazy flattering. Really, this was an elaborate exercise to get Pete on his knees, but then I had to consider his, like, feelings and shit. Characters are awful like that. I was totally going to name this story "COCKS AHOY."

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kita0610 October 23 2010, 20:39:20 UTC
No, man you give great Pete voice, seriously. He's so completely un-self aware, such a dick and still you make him empathetic. That's something VK does but you can :see: him. You did it on paper, which is much harder.

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fallen_woman October 23 2010, 22:50:51 UTC
It's probably a terrible thing that I can slip into Pete's mindset so easily. I just finished the S4 finale and chortled at all of his lines. "You don't say 'Congratulations' to the bride; you say, 'best wishes.'"

Ken: "I'm not Pete. Sorry about that."

Pete [bitchface]: "No, you're obviously not."

MARVELOUS. LOVE. GIVE VINCENT KARTHEISER AN EMMY, AND ELISABETH MOSS (who btw looks gorgeous in your icon. Which photoshoot is that from?).

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