Fic: No Experience Necessary - Master Post

[ladyfoxxx]

No Experience Necessary

Band: My Chemical Romance
Pairings: Frank/Gerard, background Mikey/Ray
Word Count: 26, 361 words
Ratings/Warnings: R for sex, underage drinking and some weed

Summary: Gerard accidentally lands a job at a pizza store and even though the pay is shit, the guys he works with are pretty cool. Soon he’s made all the friends he missed out on in high school and he actually has something to do on a Friday night. Everything's great until he realizes he’s got a hard-on for his cute punk workmate Frank, who is, in all likelihood, straight.

Featuring store-based pranks, a moshpit, a black eye, frosting licking, sex on a picnic table, an army of zombie pizza boys and gratuitous mentions of The Cake Of The Week.

Author’s Notes: This fic would not have been finished without endless cheerleading and hand-holding from dancinbutterfly, invaluable input and audiencing from b_dsaint (I love you bb) and spectacular beta by madame_d and this isn't even her fandom. So much love, you guys.


Awesome Cover Art by b_dsaint

Part One | Part Two | Part Three


Bonus Tracks/Enhanced Content:

Fanmixes:
Welcome To Paradise by jezrana
No Experience Needed by geranosaurusfic
Health and Safety by bexless

Comments

[ladyfoxxx.livejournal.com]

Oh man, obviously I still have nightmares about the Mystery Shopper. I worked at a pizza place all through uni (because, come on, easy money and they will NEVER fire you because they really are desperate for suckers to deliver for them, even when I would take off 2 weeks at a time for exams and stuff without warning)

I swear to god, on my grave that they told everyone that if you answered the phone a particular way and it was the mystery shopper you'd get $200 on the spot, in your hand. But do you know how they wanted us to answer? "WOW!!! Thank you for calling XXXX Pizza, this is XXXX, how can I help you?!?!?!"

Yes. Wow. They wanted us to say WOW. And you know what? I did. Because I was poor and I wanted that money. I started answering my HOME PHONE saying WOW. At the store I had so many people just sit silently on the line after I would finish my spiel and I'd be like "hello? Hello?" and they'd be all "Oh! I thought you were a recording!"

OMG. Obviously I am still scarred by this. WOW. WOW.

Anyway woohoo I'm so glad you enjoyed it and their loseryness appealed. And Ray totally deserves more attention in fic because he is massively awesome.

Thanks for the love bb!

[halfeatenmoon.livejournal.com]

I WOULD SCARRED TOO. That sucks. What the hell is it with the "WOW!!!" That's crazy. We have to do some stupid stuff at the bakery too. Just not... WOW. But since our customers are all regulars we're supposed to try to GET TO KNOW THEM and ask about their LIVES and dude I am not comfortable asking strangers about their lives while I'm trying to sell them shit!

Phones, though. Sometimes I'm at home and the phone rings and I struggle not to say "Hi this is Ashburton Bakery, Megan speaking, how can I help you?"

But it's awesome how they at least give you $200 for a perfect mystery shop. We just get bawled out if we get shopped and score badly. Though I know something that I'm not supposed to know, which is that we're not having any mystery shoppers for a year because of cost-cutting. But the boss is still pretending they exist.

I think Ray's one of those people that's kind of harder for people to write because he's not this clearly defined type of person. He likes to hide in the bus and work on music like a hermit when they're on tour! But he also clearly likes to drink a lot of beer sometimes! He looks like a scary manly guy! But he has that squeaky girly voice! And so on. I liked how you had him being not-very-subtle with Mikey, that seemed kind of true to me. I don't know why, I get the feeling he's kind of a goof with people, but really honest.

The loseryness is perfect. I almost want to work their job so I can be part of the loser army.

[ladyfoxxx.livejournal.com]

Yes I am scarred forever. WOW! Thanks for calling! Oh god just shoot me.

OMG RAY. His squeakyness never ceases to surprise me because GOD that man is incongruent with his girl voice and his large manly thighs. And yes he LOVES a beer. In fact, I'm pretty sure he's off his face in this video which nicely displays how contagious stagegay is and Ray totally caught it from Gee and Frankie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKJTKM_a_f0).

[halfeatenmoon.livejournal.com]

Oh I love that clip. Ray/James is my favourite Ray pairing by a looooong way. I mean I like Ray, and I get that you can ship him with any of the other boys in the band and I've read it all and all those pairings are nice but Ray/James just makes me go more? Please? More more more? Possibly because of the lack of fic (I think I've found a total of 3) but it's the one that I actively ship and always want more of.