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They Outlawed Love So We Do It In The Dark

Summary

“Consorting with prostitutes was forbidden, of course, but it was one of those rules that you could occasionally nerve yourself to break. It was dangerous, but it was not a life-and-death matter. To be caught with a prostitute might mean five years in a forced-labour camp: not more, if you had committed no other offence. […] Tacitly the Party was even inclined to encourage prostitution, as an outlet for instincts which could not be altogether suppressed. Mere debauchery did not matter very much, so long as it was furtive and joyless, and only involved the women of submerged and despised class.”
-- George Orwell, 1984

This story is set in the universe of the novel, 1984. It would help if you've read the book, yeah.

(I posted this on 2 other sites (AO3 and dA, if you were wondering) and the reception's pretty good, so I figured, why not? So, yes, this is completely my first upload on this site. Excuse me if I make a fool of myself?)

I found the cover photo on tumblr. This post.

Disclaimer: This never happened, I don't own any of them, etc.

And I suck at character descriptions (why are those even required?!) so here goes nothing:

Characters

Frank Iero

Frank Iero

He's the 22-years-old proletarian prostitute. That's all I'm gonna say.

Gerard Way

Gerard Way

Disenchanted Inner Party member in his late thirties. He has recurring dreams of his parents and his brother, Mikey. He's been separated from them at a very young age. He is also very much in love with Frank Iero \o/

Mikey Way

Mikey Way

I totally gave up on trying to find a photo of him that fits this 'verse. This is the closest I could find, but imagine less WWII!glasses.

Chapters

  1. Prologue

    (Introducing some of the things unique to the 1984 'verse. You wouldn't understand some of the later chapters if you didn't read this first.)

  2. Ignorance Is Strength

  3. Frankie

  4. Santa Ain’t Coming To This Town (But We’ll Manage)

  5. A Form Of Stupidity That Penetrates Our Minds

  6. An Unpleasant (But Not Unforeseen) Ending For The Cherophobic

  7. Mikey

  8. Epilogue

Comments

@fiftyshadesofmrway
thanks for reading and leaving feedback ^_^ much appreciated :)

starsafterlight starsafterlight
4/13/14

This is just gorgeous! It's so well written, and so accurate. It's got such a mood to it. I love it.

@Darklace
oh man, if there's any chance of me continuing this with a sequel that will have to wait after i graduate. it's my final year and i want to actually get into a university afterwards! but the thing is i never intended this story to be a series, so i didn't really leave anything behind that's not explained and can be continued in a sequel. like, okay, i didn't explain it explicitly, but obviously Gerard and Frank can never be together after this because they're separated physically AND emotionally, and it's not like you can just reverse the damage that's been done to Gerard in Room 101. so it's just really difficult to try and write a sequel, you know? if i spend the time i try to come up with a plot for the sequel to write other fics i will actually complete several Frerards so I'd rather do the latter instead. :P sorry.
thanks for reading though, i'm so glad you liked it :) and really, if you have any unanswered question you can always just ask me in the comments!
starsafterlight starsafterlight
9/18/13
Are you gonna write a sequel? I have so many unanswered questions but I love this concept. Don't let it be over ):
Darklace Darklace
9/4/13
@Turtle
do it! :D just a bit of warning though: it's even MORE serious than the nature of this fic. and i always thought the romance in it was shittily written XP but it's a political cause anyway so whatever.
starsafterlight starsafterlight
8/27/13