the present and the distance [2/19]

Title: The Present and the Distance [2/19]
Author: lolab
Rating: NC-17 overall
Pairings: Panic: Ryden-heavy, hints of everyone, eventual GSF, a bit of Brendon/Shane
POV: Third; varies
Warnings: Character death, violence, angst. Also, angst. Did I mention ANGST.
Disclaimer: They belong to Pete  each other  the island  themselves, not me. Fiction, I hope to god.  Any similarities to Lost are incidental, as I have never seen the show.
Summary: There is no way to summarize this that doesn't sound ridiculous, so I leave you with my original cheesy!blurb(tm): There are 17,508 islands in Indonesia, about 6,000 of which are inhabited. On August 31, 2008, returning from an Australian tour in the middle of the year's most violent storm to date, a plane carrying Panic at the Disco loses power, veers off course, and crashes into one of the remaining 11,508 islands. This is their story.

Dedication: bunniesontoast, for un-sticking me, having awesome ideas, being delicious jailbait, for Brylliam, etc.  Belatedly, worldofthorns, for reccing and voicemail squeeage.  minus_four, for awesomeness and priestsmutfic.

Author's Notes:  Parts of this chapter totally make me *headdesk*, but whatever; I like the way it ends.  Also, I'm taking kink requests -- "kink" being very generalized, i.e. anything you want to see in the fic; I'll try to work in ones I like.  (e.g., will not use "I want to see Ryan get attacked by a giant squid!" b/c, LMAO.)  P.S. Been listening to tracks from here while I write; it's excellent setting noise.  In addition, I've made a pwf photo gallery b/c I just wasn't enough of a nerd already, so head on over for some visualz, yo.

Please refer to the master post for previous chapters, notes, soundtrack listing, etc.  I was a total idiot on Chapter 1 and didn't mention the prologue, so, anyone who missed the prologue, READ IT FIRST, IT'S IMPORTANT.

 

PROLOGUE.  (and Chapter 1, while I'm at it.)

( It's maybe the thousandth time Shane's said the words... )