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• The boy next door by ledbythreads, thebookhunter

  Fandoms: Led Zeppelin  

  • Explicit
  • Underage Sex
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  03 Jun 2020

  Tags

  • Underage Sex
  • Jimmy Page/Robert Plant
  • Jimmy Page
  • Robert Plant
  • Jimmy's mum
  • The Aunties
  • two sisters - Character
  • Teen AU
  • Teen Romance
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Origin Story
  • Under the willow tree
  • Learning to Dance
  • and stuff
  • marbles and footie cards
  • a shared passion for Elvis
  • Wildling!Robert
  • Flower Crowns
  • paradise (lost and regained) (eventually)
  • two kids in the garden
  • LGBTQ+ historically accurate
  • an effort at research has had a thorough go at
  • Bad Shit Happens
  • poor babies
  • Found Family
  • Catharsis
  • (ours)
  • WHY DO WE DO THIS TO OURSELVES
  • growing up queer in late 50s in the UK
  • before it was even legal and only for adults
  • mixing canon refs just for fun
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • not even canon divergent
  • just a story about a boy called robert and a boy called jimmy
  • britishisms
  • even better: BRUMMIE-ISMS
  • (who knew it would come in so handy one day having lived in Birmingham for over 10 years!)
  • First of a series
  • THEY'LL GROW UP AND ALL
  • MORE AU ZEPPELINGS MIGHT FEATURE WHO KNOWS??
  • (WE know. all the zeppelings WILL feature.)
  • (no spoilers though)
  • this is not a happy story
  • but it's sweet as fuck
  • breaking our own hearts only to mend them later
  • at some point
  • GIVE IT A GO THORKLINGS COME ON!
  • as we said not canon at all - especially their families
  • Established Relationship
  • True Love
  • Best Friends
  • Falling In Love
  • Boys In Love

  Summary

  "I don't know how I'm gonna tell you
  I can't play with you no more
  I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me
  My friend the boy next door."

   
  A story about two queer kids called Robert and Jimmy growing up in Birmingham in the late fifties

  November 2020 - This work is still in progress. It is just a weird year. If you want to read a little of these two while we work, you might like the drabble collection Tiny Flowers which is a companion to this fic https://archiveofourown.org/works/26238853/chapters/63865228

  Series

  • Part 1 of The Boy Next Door

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  12,729

  Chapters:

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