#fobid

By: dear_monday

“If there's one thing Gerard dislikes more than his job at the Needle, Belleville's premier independent record store, it's his co-workers. Frank has an attitude problem, Ray has a stick up his ass, and the less Gerard knows about what Mikey has, the better. The customers are bad, the colleagues are worse and the job, as Gerard will tell anyone who'll listen (i.e. no one), is definitely the worst thing that's ever happened to him. But then, one day, Brian announces that they're being bought out, and everything changes. An Empire Records AU.”

By: dear_monday

By: roxy_palace

By:  silver_etoile

"The bright side, Gerard told himself as he painted canvas after canvas of scorpions and Frank’s smile, was that he never had to go back to that coffee house again. He wasn’t even sure he could find it again, let alone go inside and be a creepy stalker. Well, the stalker part he was sure he could do, it was the finding the coffee house that he couldn’t."

**SEQUEL**

By:  turps33

By:  maryangel

Fanart - Fanmixes

By:  littlblackghost

Or at AO3:  Shoes!Verse

By:  stereomer

"'Good. So, there're some vests over there, make sure to strap up before you head out.' Ray looks at Frank for a beat, then resumes cleaning his gun, holding it up to the strips of light that stream through the Venetian blinds and peering through the empty barrel. 'I told you you're going out today, right?'

'Yeah, you did. With Gerard.' Frank ambles over to the door and picks up a vest. He tries to rip apart the Velcro straps quietly.

'He asked to do this, I have no idea why.' Ray blinks and shakes his head. 'Get out of here, Frank. Gerard should be waiting for you downstairs. Try not to act like a dumbass and risk getting a bullet through your head. Don't get one of my men killed on some stupid shit like this.'"