Fic: Bicky's Chickens

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Title: Bicky's Chickens
Author: Derien
Pairing: Rocky Todd / Francis "Bicky" Bickerstaff.
Summary: Bicky thought raising chickens and selling eggs would be a good way to make money, but he lives in a small apartment in New York City. Can voodoo help?
Rating: Green for nothing fun because I'm not so comfortable writing fun stuff.
Words: 6,000-ish
Disclaimer: To think I owned these characters would be the greatest folly. Not so, but in fact quite otherwise. I'm just developing them. ;)
Notes: Many, many, thanks to my kind betas: kryptyd, who was willing to kick things around with me, and jabber_moose, who reminded me that just checking the back of the video box might not be the best way to do research. And also to my brother, Hawk, who assured me that my lack of research probably didn't hurt me much. :)

Posted on AO3

ETA: My gosh, I'd never looked at the tags available when posting here, before, they're great! Good work, whoever did that (I fail at remembering anything, especially names).

ETA yet again: I need to dedicate this story to RatGirl, an ex-coworker, because she totally came up with the ghost chicken, like two years ago, and I'd pretty much forgotten until I was responding to one of the comments, here. Bad Derien! *slaps wrist*

Comments

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's very cute. Very Rocky. Thank you for sharing it with us!

[derien.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! :D I'm glad the Rocky characterization came through - I was trying to picture what might go on inside his head, as he tends to look so dim and good-natured in the show.

(I've been horribly remiss about really paying attention to my email this week, sorry.)

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

It's been the busy AFK season for a lot of people. No worries!

[trista-zevkia.livejournal.com]

Trotted on over for a look, very glad I did. Nice characterizations, and a good story line too. As Bertie's friends would try to raise chickens in an apartment! Lovely!

[derien.livejournal.com]

That came together rather nicely, I thought. At the end of the tv episode Bicky is trying to convince his father to give him capital to start a chicken farm, he seems quite enamored of the idea, so I knew I had to do something with chickens, and one of my coworkers mentioned that people often raise chickens in apartments, against code, and she totally came up with the ghost chicken concept, so I really should have dedicated it to RatGirl. Dumb! It was like almost two years ago, and I'd kind of half forgotten that whole conversation before just now, actually.

[trista-zevkia.livejournal.com]

Memory is tricky like that. I can see trying for one or two chickens for personal use, but only Bertie's friends would think they could make money from it. It's pretty sad when Bertie's the smart one, right?

[storyfan.livejournal.com]

Can you imagine Bertie telling this story? Oh, gawd help us!

This was very cute, and anything with Rocky Todd in it is fine by me.

[derien.livejournal.com]

I've written Bertie voice before and not done too badly with it, but it really had to be Rocky or it couldn't have been a proper Bicky/Rocky. :)

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Cute-er-amma

[derien.livejournal.com]

Thank you SO MUCH for all your support! :D