i live suddenly

Title: Just Trying to Get the Good (Part 2/2)
Author: allthingsholy
Pairing: Ben/April (Parks & Rec)
Rating: R? NC-17? Let's say NC-17.
Words: ~15000 total; ~6500 this part.
Notes: Thanks so much to cypanache for looking over all of this one, two, three times and helping me work out some plot and characterization kinks. Thanks to ishie for the once-over and slybrunette for being the best cheerleader ever. Cross-posted to geegollythanks, a Ben/April shipping community that everyone should check out because these two are awesome. Title from "The Future's Nothing New" by The Alternate Routes.

( After The Bulge, Ben decides to try harder to be a normal person, a functioning member of society, something other than a waste-of-space asshole. For every step Ben tries to take forward, April’s determined to take two steps back. )

geegollythanks
graphics by gigglemonster (@lj|@tumblr)

This happened. I have no regrets.

If you've ever thought, wow, those two characters might be super interesting together because they both start off as really cut off from other people and slowly blossom into folks who are more open and engaged and emotionally invested in things, and those similarities are appealing to me, there's a community for you! Now, I ship Ben/Leslie and April/Andy pretty severely in canon, but canon is canon and fandom is not, and this is how I deal with that.

tl;dr, they're my new Jim/Jan, only I've turned my crazy up to 11 and this is what happens.

So if you've ever wanted Ben/April, if you've ever written Ben/April, if you've ever WANTED to write Ben/April (certain people on my flist, I am looking right at you), yeah. geegollythanks. Please come and play.