cimorene

also, chris and justin are so in love! but i have this problem. they obviously both already love each other. it's hard to come up with any believable conflict for them beyond angst-of-not-knowing and reluctance on one or the other's part because they're afraid.

but how often can i write that plot??? and for some reason, chris is always the one that i write scared. well, it seems more believable, but eventually you people have to get tired of reading this shit.

conflict tally of my timbertrick stories:
spoon: justin is touchy-feely, which makes it hard for chris to control himself, and he won't come out and say he loves chris. this is more justin being the afraid one, although there's self-loathing from chris too.

weak: chris is just sort of brooding. there's no real conflict except that they don't know they love each other.

jumping to conclusions: no conflict. humor and fluff.

so damn hot: chris and justin are fucking, but chris assumes that justin's not in love with him, and he's getting pissed about this. justin says he loves him and chris doesn't believe him at first.

hitch: justin doesn't want to say anything out loud, so he tries to just show chris he loves him by the way he acts, and chris isn't picking up the messages because he's sort of afraid, and used to not being loved.

implicit: they have sex, but chris thinks justin just wants sex, even though that's a stupid thing to think. he is afraid because having the longing thing taken away turns his world upside down, because over time, it's become all he was.

kiss: chris has been longing for justin for a long time and justin has been longing for chris and neither one of them knew about the other one and neither one of them said anything.