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Frerard - What's In A Name

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Fandom: My Chemical Romance
Pairing(s): Party Poison/Fun Ghoul, background Jet Star/Kobra Kid
Warnings: None
Word Count: 695

A Killjoy's worst nightmare is BLI knowing who they used to be, because if they know that they know all their weaknesses. That's why they try to keep their name as much secret from the Company as possible, and why it's a momentous occasion often when a Killjoys tell someone their real name. It's more or less the ultimate sign of trust between zone runners. It's a gesture that says, "Yes, I believe that you would sooner let Better Living torture you to insanity than sell me out and tell them who I was."

Or at least that's the common belief.

Party Poison, on the other hand, think there's a very different, secondary, reason why it's so important. He sees the validity of other people's argument, and he does recognize it as part of the reason, but he likes thinks there's a little more sentiment behind it than just that.

It's all honestly because Poison doesn't think of himself as Party Poison. Behind all those bright colours and raygun scars, he still sees himself as Gerard Way, and Party Poison is just the guise he uses so that Gerard isn't burdened with all the post-apocalyptic bullshit. Often other Killjoys end up being part of that bullshit, he finds. So many of them have lost their compassion and empathy to the apocalyptic wasteland they call home, and to those ones he's only known as Poison.

It's the ones that matter, the ones that help keep him sane and remind him of friendship and life in days before the bombs and fires that he's okay with letting into the life of, not only Party Poison, but Gerard Way.

That's why there's not very many people that know what Party Poison's name used to be. Kobra knows of course, because he's Poison's brother and the single most important person in his life, but besides that's there's only three people in all the zones who know it.

One is Jet Star. Jet knows because they met in the zones before the idea of code names came into popular use, so it wasn't completely by choice that he knows. That being said though, Poison probably would have told him by now anyways. Jet is one of the best friends Poison has ever had: Not to mention that there's something going on between him and Kobra, something undefined, but something enough that Kobra's felt the need to reveal his name to Jet, and if Kobra trusts him that much, then Poison does too.

The second person to find out his name was Dr. Death Defying. That was truly an accident, but not one Poison really regrets now. Just a slip of the tongue that could have been disastrous had it not been the most Killjoy of DJs he was speaking with at the time.

The last person who knows, is Fun Ghoul. And Poison chose to tell him of his own accord. Ghoul was, from the moment they picked him up in the zones, noticeably something special to Poison. A friend almost immediately, and something more almost just as fast.

Ghoul trusted Poison with his name the first time they'd said "I love you" to each other, which had only a month after they'd met, but Poison hadn't been so quick with it. He held off for a lot longer than Ghoul was completely at ease with sometimes, and he knew his boyfriend was aware of that. He got the feeling every once and a while that Poison didn't love him as much as he loved Poison. But Ghoul never pushed him to tell, he knew that would have been outrageously rude.

So it was a surprise even to him the morning they woke up beside each other in bed and Poison whispered the name "Gerard" into his ear. Ghoul couldn't remember being happier than he was that day.

Before that morning their relationship was as deep as the guises of Fun Ghoul and Party Poison, but with the trivial knowledge of names, they became "Frank and Gerard". Their names, the thing that could tell BLI their greatest weaknesses, served to strength their greatest strength, their love.
Oh gods I am extremely unhappy with how this turned out. I started writing it at 5am one day and when I came back I couldn't remember where I was headed with it so I made it up :/

I just felt I needed to submit something so...here it is. >>

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This is a fanfiction. Gerard and Frank belong to themselves...and their wives.
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