Disclaimers: Characters belong to Cameron Crowe. I just love them

Author: Get your wings

Title: Almost incendiary

Characters/Pairings, if any: Russell

Summary: Russell thinks about The Enemy

Almost Incendiary

By: Get your wings

He still sees that fresh faced kid, looking at them all as though they were…super heroes. He’s clutching Creem Magazine to him like it might run away. There’s hope in his eyes, a kind of hope that the guitarist dimly remembers. But yet, he looks like a journalist, someone who hates him.

He and Jeff were discussing him. “He’s a fan.” Russell says smoothly as William stands around looking very out of place but yet this is his place. “We can trust him.”

And Jeff of course, thinks it would be cool to be on the cover of The Rolling Stones. Like all their heroes. And they, they are The Enemy’s heroes.

And he and William have something in common don’t they? They both love the same woman. Penny. Penny and her always smile, Penny and her charms. It’s easy for Russell to understand why William fell for her. They lived in the same city, were probably the same age.

“I don’t even know her real name.” Russell had admitted to the Enemy. Apparently, William didn’t either for he didn’t tell it. He just kind of smiled. Already she was rubbing off on him.

Make us look cool.

Such a simple request. And his answer, for a kid, had been very professional. How had this little boy with Opie face became a journalist within this mad circus? How? Russell must’ve been blinded with too much blonde, too much charm to think about anything else.

She was your fan. Your biggest fan! And you just used her and then threw her away!

Yeah. He had done that very thing. Sold her to Custard Pie for beer and a few bucks. He hadn’t wanted to, but once the guys called him soft, Russell knew he had to. Had to show him that he didn’t care, that Penny didn’t mean anything to him but a good time.

But she did. She was so much more than a good time.

And it took a fresh faced kid, it took this William Miller and all his shiny innocence to make Russell see it.

We wanted to be with her, and she wanted us to be together

Leaving William’s Russell felt better. He felt lighter, as though he’d come to terms with the previous summer. He wanted to go see Penny Lane. See where she lived, who she was about.

And he owed it all to someone who had once called him incendiary.

Sometimes the Enemies actually knew what they were talking about.

FIN