rivers_bend

Title: Let the Darkness Lead You Home
Author: rivers_bend
Band(s): My Chemical Romance (with cameos from Cobra, Black Cards, Gym Class Heroes, and Ryan Ross)
Pairing(s): Frank/Gerard (background Mikey/Pete)
Word Count: 49,500
Rating: NC17

Warnings: This story contains vampire-related violence including graphic mentions of blood and blood drinking (both violent and eroticized), and some on-screen death. Only original (and mostly unnamed) characters die in any permanent way. Brief mentions of an animal injury. Some humans in this verse are controlled or owned by vampires, but all sexual activity is consensual.

Summary: Vampires are in charge and most of the humans on earth are prey, so Frank Iero's parents have him train as a cyber tech to protect him. Leaving the family he's born into may have saved his life, but his parents never could have expected the lengths he'd go to in order to find a new family to call home.

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on DW
part 1 || part 2 || part 3 || part 4 || part 5

Bonus Materials
And please go check out the (spoiler-free) gorgeous art and mix I got, and tell solarbaby614 and dwg how awesome they are :D art is here and the mix is here.

Title: Let the Darkness Lead You Home
Author: rivers_bend
Band(s): My Chemical Romance (with cameos from Cobra, Black Cards, Gym Class Heroes, and Ryan Ross)
Pairing(s): Frank/Gerard (background Mikey/Pete)
Word Count: 49,500
Rating: NC17

Warnings: This story contains vampire-related violence including graphic mentions of blood and blood drinking (both violent and eroticized), and some on-screen death. Only original (and mostly unnamed) characters die in any permanent way. Brief mentions of an animal injury. Some humans in this verse are controlled or owned by vampires, but all sexual activity is consensual.

Summary: Vampires are in charge and most of the humans on earth are prey, so Frank Iero's parents have him train as a cyber tech to protect him. Leaving the family he's born into may have saved his life, but his parents never could have expected the lengths he'd go to in order to find a new family to call home.

There is amazing art for this story here and an amazing mix here

( Let the Darkness Lead You Home )

I was so excited to see my art. I've only ever done big bangs where you work with your artist, and I didn't know how this one was going to work, and then WOW. I got my posting email and there was art, and it was FANTASTIC. I was doing happy-wiggles and grabby-hands at the same time, and I want to roll around with them. solarbaby614 did such a great job of taking the Frank and Gerard I'd pictured when I was writing and making them look like Darkness!Verse and not just like the Killjoys I'd based them on. So great!!!







THANK YOU SO MUCH, solarbaby614!

and you should go see the mix if you came here first :D

master post

I cannot even tell you the sound I made when I got this mix. Then after that noise, I sat for like five minutes flapping my hands and staring and making more sounds of joy. The cover art is absolute PERFECTION for my story, and the mix itself totally captures the atmosphere. I'm always in awe of mixers. dwg did such a great job, and I am so glad she claimed me!

Seriously. Look at this cover. I got so so so lucky with art all around in this Big Bang.





mix here


master post
THANK YOU SO MUCH dwg!!

and you should go to the art if you came here first