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[iesika]

Title: Close To Home
Author: iesika
Fandom: DC Comics
Rating: R
Wordcount: 65,000
Pairings: Kon/Tim, Kon/Cassie, Kon/OMC
Art by:sammage_art
Summary: A murder mystery at Smallville High drives Kon to brush up on his detective skills – and his undercover work. He might need to call in some help. Good thing his best friend is an expert at both.

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Continuity: This story was conceived and begun between the release of Red Robin #1 and Adventure Comics #1. Some canon after that point was taken into effect, but most was ignored. Consider it AU from that point.

Acknowledgments: The art in this story was done by the glorious and wonderful sammage_art , and I am forever in her debt. I'm also eternally grateful to faile_neume and kirax2 for beta, cheerleading, and hand-holding far above and beyond the call of duty. I can't possibly express how indebted I am for all their help, and how glad I am to have them both as friends (and if you happen to notice their names in the story - it's not a coincidence).

And go tell sammage_art you love her pictures!

Comments

[sammage-art.livejournal.com]

I came by to say that I love this fic and I love Jake. Like whoa-em-gee, love him. :3

You already knew this but I figured my love should be public record. <3

[not-unwise.livejournal.com]

....

I am seeing the study time.

It's going away in favour of reading this. :/

[iesika.livejournal.com]

I love your art and I love YOU!

Also for the record.

SUPERBOY, QUEER AVENGER! TO THE RESCUE!

[iesika.livejournal.com]

It'll keep, you know. :P

[not-unwise.livejournal.com]

Maybe.

But I have horrific priorities.

[iesika.livejournal.com]

I love your icon. *snerk* Even if it lies. No porn here folks.

Well... not quite.

[not-unwise.livejournal.com]

I got a friend of mine to make me a bunch of, ah... inappropriate icons a while back. This was one of them. I love them all, and if you want to take a look, they're all here. Yes, I am trying to give these icons to as many people as possible because I think they should be going around >>;;;

That said, I haven't been reading for the porn. Happily. Because if I had been, I would be very disappointed right now.

[porntestpilot.livejournal.com]

The level of my excitement here: VIHBKOLPIH{JO()P}MOL"KN:BJ HVYFGOUHIPJ{O}PJ{INK:BJLN

[iesika.livejournal.com]

Teehee! Those are great! i mostly like to make my own icons, though. I think this one is my wrongest - and also appropriate to what this fic did to me.

[iesika.livejournal.com]

^___^

I hope I don't let you down!

[not-unwise.livejournal.com]

You do have a fast hands, big mouth icon, which, okay, maybe I find wronger because of my Millerverse obsession, but it's pretty *wrong*.

I believe I have more wrong icons than G ones. Hmm. This may show how mature and responsible I am.

Also, I am slowly reaching the end of this fic. I will try to crit after, but I have to tell you now that I suck at critting so this may also simply not happen.

[iesika.livejournal.com]

But I want to know what you think! But at least you did tell me you were reading it...

I forgot about this one, too.

[not-unwise.livejournal.com]

Of course I'm reading it. Chapter 16 right now. So far -- I love how's there's a plot. I know it's a stupid thing to say, but the plot is really well though-out and it reads easily and for... anyone who has been bullied in HS, incredibly easy to get into. And, well, I could rant about other reasons this plot in particular is getting to me. I'm in teacher's college (or the equivalent, where I live) and homophobia in class is one of those things we barely see in classes. We talk about how, as a teacher, we should react to sexism and racism, but homophobia is handwaved. I had to ask my pedagogy teacher this semester to fit in sexual orientation and identity in her curriculum. And, ah, I'm rambling about my life but I study every day with men and women who are going to teach respect and tolerance to a *lot* of kids in the future but who think "that's gay" isn't a homophobic insult. The school setting gets to me in so many way.

...wow that became tl;dr quite fast.

And I changed the topic because the initial point was to say that a real, fleshed-out plot isn't frequent enough and is fantastic.

There, that's how I feel about the plot.

I'll try to say more when I'm done with these last two chapters.

[iesika.livejournal.com]

No, rant away! I'm glad I evoked some emotion, assuming it was in a positive way. Parts of this are semi-autobiographical, though none of the students are based on real people. Well, Chase is maybe sort of this guy from college... Cross is 100% my HS principal.

Dalton's totally me, though. ^_^;

[not-unwise.livejournal.com]

I am done. I (predictably) don't really have anything to add. Tim and Kon need to talk more.

Cassie must be linefacing quite a lot. I'm curious as hell about Cassie.

But, yeah, it was a great fic and I enjoyed it a lot. ♥

Now I just feel even more like I should be writing. Damn.

[iesika.livejournal.com]

There will be a sequel eventually that focuses on those things. Thanks for letting me know you liked it. ^_^

Now go study!

[not-unwise.livejournal.com]

Who studies when they could instead be writing fics about abusive Batmans or watch Queer as Folk?

Don't make me study. I don't want to.

[faile-neume.livejournal.com]

This story is shit. I don't know why anyone in their right mind would waste their time reading this. They could be do something better, like gouging their eyes out. I mean, it's not like there's a well developed and intriguing plot. Or interesting and unique original characters. Or solid character development for canon characters. And it's not like I still get all light headed when reading Tim Wayne.

Seriously though. This is rubbish.

<3

[iesika.livejournal.com]

Oooo are you writing the Millerverse thing? I take it bacik! Write! Write! :P

[iesika.livejournal.com]

So sorry to hear that. And here I was thinking you might want a water-fight out-take for xmas.

[faile-neume.livejournal.com]

I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING I SAID

[not-unwise.livejournal.com]

I see how it is B|

I'm sort of stuck, to be honest, but I will probably just... skip to the next arc and come back to this one later.

I never knew to write anything in order.

[ladymirth.livejournal.com]

I squealed out loud with delight when I saw this was up. I've been waiting for it since you started posting excerpts.

*runs off to read*

[iesika.livejournal.com]

^_____^

[porntestpilot.livejournal.com]

You did not! At all! It was perfect! And strangely, like an expansion of something tiny I wrote a month ago or so, which was vastly hilarious.

I loved it! Thank you!