Good Feelings by candysays (PG-13)
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het_reccersFandom Category: The Breakfast Club
Pairing: Claire&Bender
Fic Title: Good Feelings
Author: candysays
Link: Good Feelings
Summary: Neither knows if they'll have more than those stolen moments, but each feels those moments are worth more than, well, diamonds. Are they as hard to break? It just keeps going and going.
Rating/Warning(s): Hard PG-13 for language and sexual connotation (these kids are in high school after all)
Genre: Romance/Drama
WIP?: Yes. As of today, 25 chapters, 170,000+ words and counting.
Why This Must Be Read: Because this story is one of the best I ever have read in ALL of my fandoms, not just BC.Opening immediately after the movie ends, this story takes on the well worn question of what happens next and just turns it on it head. Everyone is perfectly in character, every line of dialogue, every expression, every emotion; it's almost like the movie never ended and the camera was just on and candysays is just writing what occurs next. While the story's main focus is on Claire and Bender's up and down, sharp-edged lust for each other (which is done so perfectly WELL), it doesn't neglect the other three BC members and their developing relationship (in fact, one of my favorite parts of this story is the Allison and Claire friendship). The chapters are nice and long and combine enough deep friendship, sexual tension, humor and angst to make anyone happy. Bender and Claire are still themselves but more fleshed out and the author does a brilliant job of handling their relationship: the defensiveness, fearfulness, deep desire and the longing. Believe me when I say this story is worth checking out.
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Claire felt herself blush a little at that thought and then felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. She turned a little to the right and up ahead, away from her friends, and sure enough, there was John Bender, leaning up against his locker with a couple of other burnout looking kids. But John was looking right at her, face passive.
Claire felt like her knees might give out, how stupid did she look singing to her jeans in the hallway, did her friends see where she was looking? Claire wanted to crawl away into some hole and die and never come out and she was going to turn away and then Bender smiled, just a tiny, slow, corner of his lip turned up.
Claire felt herself blushing even more and she felt her face light up and she felt herself smile and look right at John Bender's eyes and for a second she could feel them burning into her, and then he nodded, just a tiny, almost invisible movement of his head, down and then up, just shaking his head back. Dead cool, dead sexy, and enough to move the hair back from his ear so she could see he had the earring on and it was the best thing that had happened to her since Saturday.
Suddenly all the butterflies were back and she thought she might float right down the hall and out of the school and she had no idea what she was doing and she had to look down. But by some superhuman effort she met his eyes again, they were still on her, and she smiled again and then flipped back her hair behind her ear, casually, so he could see, she hoped, the place on her ear where there was no earring.
And then it was over. She swore Bender was smiling a little bit more as he turned back to his friends and she turned back to her friends who were still talking about jeans and no one had noticed how she had almost floated out of the school or how she had had the most totally meaningful conversation in the middle of school hallway, all without using any words.
Pairing: Claire&Bender
Fic Title: Good Feelings
Author: candysays
Link: Good Feelings
Summary: Neither knows if they'll have more than those stolen moments, but each feels those moments are worth more than, well, diamonds. Are they as hard to break? It just keeps going and going.
Rating/Warning(s): Hard PG-13 for language and sexual connotation (these kids are in high school after all)
Genre: Romance/Drama
WIP?: Yes. As of today, 25 chapters, 170,000+ words and counting.
Why This Must Be Read: Because this story is one of the best I ever have read in ALL of my fandoms, not just BC.Opening immediately after the movie ends, this story takes on the well worn question of what happens next and just turns it on it head. Everyone is perfectly in character, every line of dialogue, every expression, every emotion; it's almost like the movie never ended and the camera was just on and candysays is just writing what occurs next. While the story's main focus is on Claire and Bender's up and down, sharp-edged lust for each other (which is done so perfectly WELL), it doesn't neglect the other three BC members and their developing relationship (in fact, one of my favorite parts of this story is the Allison and Claire friendship). The chapters are nice and long and combine enough deep friendship, sexual tension, humor and angst to make anyone happy. Bender and Claire are still themselves but more fleshed out and the author does a brilliant job of handling their relationship: the defensiveness, fearfulness, deep desire and the longing. Believe me when I say this story is worth checking out.
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Claire felt herself blush a little at that thought and then felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. She turned a little to the right and up ahead, away from her friends, and sure enough, there was John Bender, leaning up against his locker with a couple of other burnout looking kids. But John was looking right at her, face passive.
Claire felt like her knees might give out, how stupid did she look singing to her jeans in the hallway, did her friends see where she was looking? Claire wanted to crawl away into some hole and die and never come out and she was going to turn away and then Bender smiled, just a tiny, slow, corner of his lip turned up.
Claire felt herself blushing even more and she felt her face light up and she felt herself smile and look right at John Bender's eyes and for a second she could feel them burning into her, and then he nodded, just a tiny, almost invisible movement of his head, down and then up, just shaking his head back. Dead cool, dead sexy, and enough to move the hair back from his ear so she could see he had the earring on and it was the best thing that had happened to her since Saturday.
Suddenly all the butterflies were back and she thought she might float right down the hall and out of the school and she had no idea what she was doing and she had to look down. But by some superhuman effort she met his eyes again, they were still on her, and she smiled again and then flipped back her hair behind her ear, casually, so he could see, she hoped, the place on her ear where there was no earring.
And then it was over. She swore Bender was smiling a little bit more as he turned back to his friends and she turned back to her friends who were still talking about jeans and no one had noticed how she had almost floated out of the school or how she had had the most totally meaningful conversation in the middle of school hallway, all without using any words.
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