Title: Find Out What It Means
Fandom: Bandom
Pairing: Patrick/Pete, Patrick/OMCs
Categories: angst, attempted suicide, dark, hurt/comfort, prostitute
Length: Long (~18,000 words)
Warnings: underage prostitution and its repercussions, attempted suicide and its repercussions (anti-warning: there is no explicit underage sex or underage sex between the main characters)

Author on LJ: dsudis
Author Website: Words Words Words

Review:
Patrick tells Pete about his job. Pete doesn’t handle it the right way.

The nice thing about Bandom is the amount of wildly implausible behavior that happens in the real musicians’ lives, giving writers in Bandom plenty of material to build off of. Pete Wentz has a history so full of potential plots he is a writer’s dream. It’s ridiculously easy to cast him in any number of skeezy or disturbing roles. So, it was unusual to find Patrick in the role of prostitute.

This is an intriguing story, looking at Patrick’s other occupation from Pete’s POV. It does a fantastic job of showing how difficult it can be on a character to handle knowing a loved one’s dirty secrets.

There are a few jumps in this that could use a little smoothing over; the tie into canon is both ingenious and practically impossible to write successfully. Also, there’s a point in the story where it seems certain Pete’s going to start up with the exploitive behavior. But then he goes out and really, really doesn’t. Truthfully, Pete is nothing but sweet in this, and everyone ends up with a happy ending.

Find Out What It Means