Title: This Town Just Wasn't Made for Two Author: pinkichan Pairings: Jon/Tom, Jon/Ryan/Tom, Brendon/Spencer Rating: NC-17 Summary: Jon and Tom are farmers in a Nebraska town in the early 1900's. Jon is alone on the farm often when Tom takes jobs as a rail runner, traveling across the country. Brendon Urie is kicked out of his home and told to grow up, and Ryan Ross is a traveling...
...of them and it feels like they can put the incident behind them and move on. It’s good, but it’s nothing like what it was before; how easily Tom was offering smiles to Ryan and how Ryan could touch Jon without anyone thinking anything of it. It’s not perfect but it’s good enough for now. Jon doesn’t bother bringing up last night; the lie Tom created or the actual truth. But he smiles at Ryan over...
There isn’t much work to be done the next day. Somehow even without Jon’s assistance, Tom, Ryan, Brendon, and Spencer had managed to box up all the produce that’s to be sold as well as loading all the bundled hay into the cart. Jon’s on the porch and he’s surveying the fields. The golden stalks of hay are gone replaced with short ugly stubs of tough yellow, the roots of the stalks that will grow...
Neither Jon nor Tom bring up what they saw in the barn and Spencer winds up staying for dinner. Even if Jon hadn’t witnessed what had happened between the two of them, he reckons he’d still be suspicious, considering the numerous times Brendon blushes or stammers or knocks over a cup during dinner. Brendon won’t look at anyone, not even Spencer, and Jon wonders if maybe Tom was onto something when...
...when Tom decides to take half of their ripened produce down to Beckett’s for selling before the vegetation grows past its prime. Tom only takes what Ryan has boxed up and placed in the root cellar. Jon offers to go and help but Tom tells him to stay at the farm, to relax. Today Spencer is at the farm and he’s teaching Brendon the basics of putting metal shoes on a horse; they aren’t doing it to...
...to fix up a place for Ryan; the handmade cots are still set up from when Spencer had spent the night with Brendon. Ryan collects his bag and sketchbook, his blank canvas and his hat, and shoes. Jon feels a little bad and he offers to carry Ryan’s canvas and bag upstairs for him. Ryan glances at Tom and then Jon and he shakes his head, lugs his effects up the stairs on his own. “I’m fine, Jon...
Jon wakes up late to Brendon standing in the doorway with a concerned and mildly horrified look on his face and a warm, lean body lying next to his own. Sometime during the night, he and Ryan must’ve moved. The both of them are now lying the right way on the bed, Jon on Tom’s side and Ryan on Jon’s. Brendon clears his throat as Jon blinks away the last clinging remainders of sleep. “Sorry to wake...
When Jon arrives back at the train station both Brendon and Spencer are waiting there. “Jon! There you are!” Brendon says as he rushes forward to meet Jon the rest of the way, Spencer following along behind him. “You left the store,” Brendon says and then he notices the painting tucked under Jon’s arm. “What’s that under your arm?” “I couldn’t find you in the store, Brendon and this is a painting...
Jon and Brendon fall into a routine rather quickly. Brendon’s already up by the time Jon wakes up and he cooks up breakfast, though the day after Brendon’s first day of work on the farm the boy had been particularly worn out so Jon had wound up getting up first and making breakfast for them. Brendon tends the animals while Jon works the fields. They take a break when the sun hits the middle of...
