Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been is a story written by shukyou and illustrated by quaedam. It ran in Issue 36 and can be found at s2b2.livejournal.com/214451.html and shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been/.
Summary
A man whose job it is to root out communists meets a really cute communist.
Les was late because, God damn them, they'd switched the room again without proper notice, and he'd arrived seven minutes ahead of the scheduled conversation to find an empty table. Finding a secretary who knew anything took him another five minutes, and when she told him they were the next wing over and three flights up, he clenched his fist to keep from shouting in disappointment and anger. Any other attorney, client, or whole man in the whole building could have gotten there in five minutes with three to spare, and probably some of the women too. Nobody else would have had a problem.
Connections
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been could technically be considered part of the Whitniverse continuum, though it predates the setting by a good sixty years.
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Author's Notes
No lie, this entire story came from joking around and answering the Fall Out Boy question of 'Where is your boy tonight?' with the follow-up question, 'IS HE WITH HITLER?' ...And then the plot all shifted forward a decade or so, so that wasn't even relevant, but I feel that as an origin story, that pair of ridiculous sentences should be preserved.
Shocking no one, beeblebabe is responsible for most of Peter's personality -- the good parts, at least. And quaedam came through above and beyond the call of duty to do such lovely work, and so much of it! You guys, you're the best, you guys.
I fudged on a lot of historical things here because ... well, I've been too lazy and too busy to do the proper research. The February-March-April s2b2 schedule is pretty brutal, what with my winding up writing 23K words a month and all, and this one sort of got away from me. But hey, it ended in porn, so it can't be all bad, right?
(from ladysisyphus.livejournal.com/799336.html)
