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Well, one person asked for it. And it needs to be put down somewhere. This is just the bare bones of the plot... I'm sure there'll be all sorts of random shit cropping up as I write.
Quote from story, to serve as a warning:
“Why is it,” said David pitifully, “that my best friends are my ex-girlfriend, my nephew, a psychiatrist, a lesbian and a pair of hookers?”
He was right. It was like one big What Is Wrong With This Picture.
Still interested? You must be as insane as me. Welcome aboard. And if someone thinks up a better title for God's sake tell me.
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The main character is David, a fairly normal guy. He interferes with what appears to be a mugging, but discovers that the ‘victim’ is a young male hooker being beaten by his buyer. He pays the buyer to go away, and takes the almost-dead hooker to the hospital. He rings his ex-girlfriend Debbie for help, and they pass the hooker off as David’s boyfriend, victim of a mugging attack, to avoid questions. There’s no chance of getting the police involved – the buyer can’t be identified, and they don’t want the boy arrested for underage hooking (even though they discover later he is 18). Eventually David decides to take the boy – Tasha – home and look after him.
Tasha, however, has a massive submission complex and can hardly function away from the streets and without being given orders. He has huge amounts of issues, stemming from the fact that his mother Natasha died when he was born, and his father Phillip obsessed over her to the point of renaming Tasha (once Keiran) with her name. He wasn’t abusive, but dominating, and his mental stability deteriorated and his alcohol problem increased until he finally sold Tasha as a prostitute when he was only 13 – leaving the boy with a complete distrust of any type of affection. After Phillip was sent to jail for drunken assault and killed in a jail brawl two months later, Tasha lived on the streets and became almost robotic in his complete surrender of personality and spirit – which is why he was letting himself be beaten when David found him.
It takes David a very long time to get through to Tasha, aided by Debbie and her lesbian best friend Kim. To try and find out more about Tasha’s life, they track down his only ‘friend’ on the streets – a career hooker called Jesse (my beloved narrator <3) who agrees to help them sort out Tasha’s problems. Jesse is gay – and slowly but surely, falls in love with David.
As he adjusts to his new life, Tasha slowly develops a personality – but will retreat immediately at the first sign of threat. David takes him to Kim’s cousin Anthony, who is a psychiatrist, and they discover that he has a mild form of split personality syndrome, built up as a defense mechanism. His ‘real’, or suppressed, persona is a surprisingly spirited young man who they call Kieran for the sake of convenience (but I’m going to keep calling him Tasha at the moment or we’re all gonna get confused).
Parallel to this is David’s sister, Laine, who he tells about the situation when his father Leonard and mother Elle flatly reject the fact that David is living with a male hooker. Laine had a child – Leo, now 10 – at the age of 19, to a guy called Max, who dumped her when she became pregnant and moved interstate. Laine is now married to a friend of David’s called Paul, and had a miscarriage rendering her infertile. When asked for help with the Tasha situation, Paul displays a surprisingly homophobic streak. He also has a steadily worsening alcohol problem, and starts abusing Laine for her support of David. Laine sends Leo to live with David and Tasha, scared for him because Paul only tolerates the boy, being no blood relation to him and resenting the fact that he and Debbie can never have kids of their own. Leo is an intelligent kid, into computers, and becomes surprisingly good friends with Tasha.
Tasha develops a complete dependency on David, who is starting to fall in love with him and is scared by this fact. He also makes a friend called Alex, who he meets regularly – and everyone takes this as a sign that he is improving. Just when things are looking up slightly, Jesse’s pimp Lexus shows up. He always hated Tasha for working freelance and being so popular, but also sold Tasha alcohol at extortionate prices, and demands that Tasha repay his huge debts by working on the streets again for him. He manages to force Tasha to work for one night before the others find him, but Tasha has retreated back to his old self and undone lots of the rebuilding work. Jesse refuses to let his friend go back on the streets, and eventually Lexus fires him. A while later, a completely drugged-up Lexus shows up at David and Tasha’s apartment when Jesse is visiting, and tries to kill Tasha – but Jesse gets in the way of the bullet, because he knows that David is in love with Tasha, and dies in the ambulance on the way to hospital. Lexus is arrested for murder.
Tasha, who had begun to recover at a surprisingly fast rate from his one night on the streets, flips completely after Jesse’s death and spends more and more time with Alex. Anthony starts getting suspicious and discovers that Alex is in fact an invention of Tasha’s own psyche, created to make up for the loss of his other personality. Lots of intensive therapy follows, at the end of which Tasha comes out shaken but well on the way to being himself again. David has a couple of nervous breakdowns along the way. Anthony starts dating Debbie.
Eventually, Laine works up the courage to divorce Paul and sue him for abuse – so off he goes to jail. Laine and David’s older brother James is a lawyer and handles the case free of charge, becuae Laine was only just earning enough to support herself and Leo. James was always the ‘favoured son’ in their family – Laine a disappointment because of her pregnancy, and David because he dropped out of medical school without finishing. The three siblings never got along well, but manage to patch up their differences over the course of things.
Kim has been jokingly flirting with Laine ever since they met, and Laine surprises her by asking her out – having been mistreated by two men, she decides she doesn’t want anything to do with them for a while.
David has finally admitted to being in love with Tasha, who is still wary of overt affection but would not leave David for anything. It’s hardly a normal relationship – but it’s a good start.
Right, the list:
* 2 hookers (Tasha and Jesse)
* 1 pimp (Lexus)
* 1 schizophrenic (Tasha)
* 1 split personality syndrome (Tasha again ^^;;)
* 4 alcoholics (Phillip, Tasha, Paul, Lexus)
* 3 homosexuals (Tasha, Jesse, Kim)
* 2 bisexuals. (David, Laine) But I'm sure half of them are repressed.
* 1 corpse (Natasha. Ok, I was being dramatic.)
* 1 person who doesn't actually exist (Alex)
* lawyers (James), hairdressers (Kim), psychiatrists (Anthony), martial artists (also Anthony), computer geniuses (Leo)...
Man, that was exhausting.
Quote from story, to serve as a warning:
“Why is it,” said David pitifully, “that my best friends are my ex-girlfriend, my nephew, a psychiatrist, a lesbian and a pair of hookers?”
He was right. It was like one big What Is Wrong With This Picture.
Still interested? You must be as insane as me. Welcome aboard. And if someone thinks up a better title for God's sake tell me.
~
The main character is David, a fairly normal guy. He interferes with what appears to be a mugging, but discovers that the ‘victim’ is a young male hooker being beaten by his buyer. He pays the buyer to go away, and takes the almost-dead hooker to the hospital. He rings his ex-girlfriend Debbie for help, and they pass the hooker off as David’s boyfriend, victim of a mugging attack, to avoid questions. There’s no chance of getting the police involved – the buyer can’t be identified, and they don’t want the boy arrested for underage hooking (even though they discover later he is 18). Eventually David decides to take the boy – Tasha – home and look after him.
Tasha, however, has a massive submission complex and can hardly function away from the streets and without being given orders. He has huge amounts of issues, stemming from the fact that his mother Natasha died when he was born, and his father Phillip obsessed over her to the point of renaming Tasha (once Keiran) with her name. He wasn’t abusive, but dominating, and his mental stability deteriorated and his alcohol problem increased until he finally sold Tasha as a prostitute when he was only 13 – leaving the boy with a complete distrust of any type of affection. After Phillip was sent to jail for drunken assault and killed in a jail brawl two months later, Tasha lived on the streets and became almost robotic in his complete surrender of personality and spirit – which is why he was letting himself be beaten when David found him.
It takes David a very long time to get through to Tasha, aided by Debbie and her lesbian best friend Kim. To try and find out more about Tasha’s life, they track down his only ‘friend’ on the streets – a career hooker called Jesse (my beloved narrator <3) who agrees to help them sort out Tasha’s problems. Jesse is gay – and slowly but surely, falls in love with David.
As he adjusts to his new life, Tasha slowly develops a personality – but will retreat immediately at the first sign of threat. David takes him to Kim’s cousin Anthony, who is a psychiatrist, and they discover that he has a mild form of split personality syndrome, built up as a defense mechanism. His ‘real’, or suppressed, persona is a surprisingly spirited young man who they call Kieran for the sake of convenience (but I’m going to keep calling him Tasha at the moment or we’re all gonna get confused).
Parallel to this is David’s sister, Laine, who he tells about the situation when his father Leonard and mother Elle flatly reject the fact that David is living with a male hooker. Laine had a child – Leo, now 10 – at the age of 19, to a guy called Max, who dumped her when she became pregnant and moved interstate. Laine is now married to a friend of David’s called Paul, and had a miscarriage rendering her infertile. When asked for help with the Tasha situation, Paul displays a surprisingly homophobic streak. He also has a steadily worsening alcohol problem, and starts abusing Laine for her support of David. Laine sends Leo to live with David and Tasha, scared for him because Paul only tolerates the boy, being no blood relation to him and resenting the fact that he and Debbie can never have kids of their own. Leo is an intelligent kid, into computers, and becomes surprisingly good friends with Tasha.
Tasha develops a complete dependency on David, who is starting to fall in love with him and is scared by this fact. He also makes a friend called Alex, who he meets regularly – and everyone takes this as a sign that he is improving. Just when things are looking up slightly, Jesse’s pimp Lexus shows up. He always hated Tasha for working freelance and being so popular, but also sold Tasha alcohol at extortionate prices, and demands that Tasha repay his huge debts by working on the streets again for him. He manages to force Tasha to work for one night before the others find him, but Tasha has retreated back to his old self and undone lots of the rebuilding work. Jesse refuses to let his friend go back on the streets, and eventually Lexus fires him. A while later, a completely drugged-up Lexus shows up at David and Tasha’s apartment when Jesse is visiting, and tries to kill Tasha – but Jesse gets in the way of the bullet, because he knows that David is in love with Tasha, and dies in the ambulance on the way to hospital. Lexus is arrested for murder.
Tasha, who had begun to recover at a surprisingly fast rate from his one night on the streets, flips completely after Jesse’s death and spends more and more time with Alex. Anthony starts getting suspicious and discovers that Alex is in fact an invention of Tasha’s own psyche, created to make up for the loss of his other personality. Lots of intensive therapy follows, at the end of which Tasha comes out shaken but well on the way to being himself again. David has a couple of nervous breakdowns along the way. Anthony starts dating Debbie.
Eventually, Laine works up the courage to divorce Paul and sue him for abuse – so off he goes to jail. Laine and David’s older brother James is a lawyer and handles the case free of charge, becuae Laine was only just earning enough to support herself and Leo. James was always the ‘favoured son’ in their family – Laine a disappointment because of her pregnancy, and David because he dropped out of medical school without finishing. The three siblings never got along well, but manage to patch up their differences over the course of things.
Kim has been jokingly flirting with Laine ever since they met, and Laine surprises her by asking her out – having been mistreated by two men, she decides she doesn’t want anything to do with them for a while.
David has finally admitted to being in love with Tasha, who is still wary of overt affection but would not leave David for anything. It’s hardly a normal relationship – but it’s a good start.
Right, the list:
* 2 hookers (Tasha and Jesse)
* 1 pimp (Lexus)
* 1 schizophrenic (Tasha)
* 1 split personality syndrome (Tasha again ^^;;)
* 4 alcoholics (Phillip, Tasha, Paul, Lexus)
* 3 homosexuals (Tasha, Jesse, Kim)
* 2 bisexuals. (David, Laine) But I'm sure half of them are repressed.
* 1 corpse (Natasha. Ok, I was being dramatic.)
* 1 person who doesn't actually exist (Alex)
* lawyers (James), hairdressers (Kim), psychiatrists (Anthony), martial artists (also Anthony), computer geniuses (Leo)...
Man, that was exhausting.
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i don't like a lot of your names, but that's just a taste thing. get writing, girl.
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Can you give me some more? David, Jesse, Tasha and Debbie STAY. The others could use some suggestions.
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