New Fic Chapter: Roller Rink on the Edge of Forever, Chapter 10, Mars/Dash, rated E

[deifire]

Roller Rink on the Edge of Forever, Chapter 10: The Edge of Reason

Meanwhile, back in the '90s...


The Roller Rink on the Edge of Forever (61803 words) by Deifire
Chapters: 10/?
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
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
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."

Comments

[froodle]

Oh thank God, Simon! Also, He was expanding their policy against guns again as soon as they were home. HAH!!

[deifire]

Yeah, Simon still has at least a small while yet to go before eternal slumber and/or permanently haunting a roller rink and/or winding up as someone's lunch.

Poor Simon.

And I guess there's always a chance that if they survive, his expanded policy will actually be respected...

[froodle]

Weirdly despite his near death experience the one i feel really bad for is Scott. It should not be This hard to hit on a hot guy at a club without it blowing up in your face

[deifire]

Ah, yes! Poor Scott.

And said hot guy had no clue, either.

I think it was around this chapter or maybe one of the ones just ahead when I had the first "Is it weird that I'm feeling this sorry for my OCs?" moment.

[froodle]

Going on a pseudo predate date and winding up handcuffed against your will to a desk drawer is the sort of warning you get when you start internet dating, and since this predates the internet, it's especially unfair.

[deifire]

Internet dating would exist at this point, but the dating website industry would be in its relative infancy and the dating pool within driving distance of weird small town Indiana probably isn't that great. Though, in retrospect, Scott would have been a lot safer going online to meet guys than going to Eerie...

I mean, really.

[froodle]

Of it was sti l at that point whe r you type in its postcode and it goes HEY I FOUND MATCHES FOR YOU IN BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND HOW ABOUT IT HUH and I'm like THAT IS LITERALLY ACROSS THE OCEAN COME ON OKCUPID GET WITH THE RIGHT LANDMASS AT LEAST!!

Ahem. Altho in Scott's case, if you're gonna date an Eerieite, long distance may be the way to go. Maybe with one initial check to make sure you're not accidentally chatting up Things Incorporated's latest creation.

[deifire]

That is, assuming your research is good enough or that you manage to figure it out or they tell you before you're already emotionally invested.

Alas, no mid-90s dating site is probably Eerified enough that it lets you specify whether or not you're seeking someone a) human or b) still alive.

[froodle]

Now *that* is the invention Things Inc should be working on - a dating site that let's you self select out of a relationship with anything that might want to eat you in the non-sexy sense of the word.

[deifire]

Yes! Or opt in to those relationships if that's the sort of thing you're into.

Of course in Eerie you'd still have situations like Melanie's which would be hard to categorize via drop-down menu.

Or Mars, who would never self-identify as a cryptid despite the minor case of lycanthropy. And that's not even the reason he's a dangerous person to try and get to know better...

[froodle]

Plus there's the question of whether lycanthropy falls under a lifestyle choice or a medical condition, and is it something you should be obligated to disclose to potential sexual partners? Things Inc may not want to get their name attached to these kind of sticky wickets.

[deifire]

Very true. Given how easily lycanthropy can be transmitted by biting or scratching in the Eerie-'verse, it would definitely be a conversation Mars would need to have with future intimate partners at some point.

I forget whether Marshall's refusal to sleep with Dash during the full moon has come up in the published part of Roller Rink yet, but that's not something he's willing to risk given they don't know if Dash can catch lycanthropy or what the possible effects might be if he did. (The paranormal literature doesn't cover the situation at all, but it seems unlikely to Mars that were-Dash would be any sort of a normal werewolf.) Though that was less of an awkward disclosure conversation and more of an awkward "This is all your fault to begin with, so shut up!" conversation.

[froodle]

OMG!! It hasn't but now I simultaneously really want to see that conversation play out, and don't because of The sheer embarrassment-sweat inducing awkwardness of it all!

[deifire]

IKR?

Looking back, in the published bit it's only been established (in Chapter 9) that Mars did tell/show Janet about the werewolf thing back when they were dating.

Which was also awkward in its own way, but all in a much more G-rated context.