New Fic Chapter: The Roller Rink on the Edge of Forever, Chapter 20

[deifire]

The Roller Rink on the Edge of Forever, Chapter 20: Circle's Edge

Meanwhile, back in the present...


The Roller Rink on the Edge of Forever (143042 words) by Deifire
Chapters: 20/?
Fandom: Eerie Indiana
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Marshall Teller/Dash X, Melanie Monroe/OFC, past Melanie Monroe/Marshall Teller, past Marshall Teller/Janet Donner, Janet Donner & Melanie Monroe, Simon Holmes & Dash X
Characters: Marshall Teller, Dash X, Simon Holmes, Melanie Monroe, Janet Donner
Additional Tags: Future Fic, Weirdness Investigation, Angst, roller skating, Light Bondage, Knifeplay, Canon-Typical Silliness, Haunted Structures, Murder, Panic Attacks, Speculations on the Nature of Causality, Canonical Child Abuse/Neglect, Semi-Public Sex, Weirdness-Related Partial Nudity
Series: Part 2 of After Nightfall
Summary:

It was supposed to be a routine investigation of the haunted roller rink on the edge of town.

Except that Dash and Marshall are breaking up (not that they were ever really together), Melanie Monroe's date might be undead, there's a new threat only Simon can see, and nothing in the years they've spent battling the forces of weirdness will have prepared those who survive the night to come face-to-face with the very worst one of all.

Sequel to "Selected Scenes from Eerie after Nightfall."

Note tag change.

Comments

[froodle]

now I want to know what DID happen to the Eerie City Pool!

[deifire]

Should that be my next project? An After Nightfall prequel?

Eerie, Indiana: 1980s Edition. The continuing adventures of some kids I made up just for this fic.

[froodle]

12/10 would read!

[froodle]

EVIL HAIRDRESSER CULT!!

[deifire]

:D

[froodle]

Simon couldn't help thinking just how much he, Marshall, and Dash could learn from kids who'd grown up in Eerie and who, well, hadn't quite survived, but who were at least still around in some form to tell the tale.

Maybe, he thought selfishly, it could stop them from making their same mistakes.

Oooh I love this bit!!

[deifire]

Thank you!

[froodle]

Omfg fish food trebuchet! But also ;___; Simon with no friends his own age!

[deifire]

I'm trying to remember when I first realized just how big the age gap between them was going to seem by the time Simon got to be Marshall's age and how hard that would be on Simon and how much I wish the show had stuck around to deal with it.

[froodle]

Ohh that would have been so hard and awkward and I would have been here for it!

[froodle]

Marshall would be gone next year and Simon didn't fully trust in his own ability to start a whole new social life without his best friend's help.

;___;

[deifire]

Have to admit, I kind of broke my own heart writing that

[froodle]

Simon, who had his own reasons for disliking any series featuring artificial intelligence gone apocalyptic and who hadn't been able to make it through the sequel, only nodded.

Poor Simon, but also, I laughed SO HARD at this bit!

[deifire]

Someday, I still want to do the Simon Holmes meets John Connor crossover

[froodle]

I kind of want to see Simon scold the melty terminator now...

[froodle]

"So how'd you decide who kissed who first?"

The look she gave him made Simon wonder if he'd just asked a weird question. "It was pretty much a mutual decision."

"You didn't fight about it later?"

Omg poor Simon, he really doesn't have a good role model for this...

[deifire]

He really, really doesn't...

[froodle]

Mr and Mrs Teller, maybe? But thats probably it. Devon and Melanie did also eventually reach an understanding, but their situation isn't all that applicable

[froodle]

Omg I want to know who this girl was so bad right now!

[deifire]

I have known so much about Georgia's backstory for such a long while now and am so happy to finally get to publish parts of it

[froodle]

I am SO EXCITED to get to hear more about Georgia omg!!

[froodle]

I wasn't myself for long while after that

Oh that line gave me the shivers!

[deifire]

Thank you!

[froodle]

"Maybe I was just hoping against hope that I wouldn't be the only one to come back."

;_________;

[deifire]

I mean, given that Simon has her dead friend trapped in a summoning circle, technically she wasn't...

[froodle]

Fortunately Simon decided against making that point to her face...

[froodle]

I love that dye from the Eerie Mall outranks ghoul transformation magic!

[deifire]

It's probably a good thing that stuff isn't permanent

[froodle]

Potentially that's a long 6-8 weeks tho...

[froodle]

OH NO A GARBAGEMAN!!!

[deifire]

Mine is an evil laugh!