Strangely Captivating Fan Fiction (Part One In An Ongoing Series)
One of our favourite ways to tackle a hangover is to cocoon ourselves in blankets and begin Googling one topic obsessively whilst listening to Prince’s I Feel For You. Surely this is not unusual?
Ahem. So there we were, wildly searching Australian radio stars of yesteryear, when we stumbled across this piece of fan fiction centered around “celebrity” Paul McDermott falling head over heels in love with a straight talkin’ down to earth journalist named Gina. Next thing we knew, an hour of our time had passed – and we hadn’t even FINISHED the bloody story yet!
Here’s an excerpt…
“No seriously, I can’t get you out of my head and that just never happens to me. I mean it’s insane because this, whatever it is we have, it can’t possibly work can it? I mean I’m a celebrity…”
“And I’m a journalist,” Gina sighed.
“I love hard drinking.”
“And I don’t.”
“I love partying.”
“I hate partying.”
“I dance to techno.”
“I dance to 80s pop rock.”
“I can’t cook a boiled egg.”
“I can cook a three course meal.”
“I take my moods out on people.”
“I’ll take mine out on you.”
Paul looked wryly at Gina, “It’ll never work.”
“Crazy to even try really,” she agreed, amused.
“We’re relationship challenged individuals.”
“It’ll end in tears.”
“I shouldn’t have come,” Paul breathed. “What was I thinking? Well I wasn’t obviously. I just wanted to see you and I don’t even know why. I mean are we even dating?”
“I don’t know, but what I do know is you need to drink less because you’re just kinda rambling at the moment,” Gina chided.
They pondered each other for a moment, smiling for reasons they weren’t sure why before naturally falling into a kiss. Gina let her fingers slide through his hair and found herself secretly enjoying the fact he tasted like red wine.
It all got a bit Opposites Attract by Paula Abdul for a moment there, huh? We are currently up to Chapter Eight. We find it really strange that someone devoted so much time to writing fan fiction about ex- Good News Week star Paul McDermott, and even stranger that we appear to be unable to stop reading the fucking thing. Still, we need to know. Was Mikey Robbins right when he warned Paul off Gina? Is Gina going to end up hurt, like she did when her ex went back to her wife?
WE ARE GRIPPED. Somewhat.
Read it yourself, should you feel so inclined.
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Comments
Bah!! I would read a Paul McDermott only blog…
“Celebrity”…
How rude!!
Please PLEASE finish this story, its so so good Im addicted to it!
I read it all, it was great.. I couldn’t stop. I am quite obsessed with the man myself and found it quite an entertaining read.. Well done!
I have read the fan fiction of which you speak and it’s probably the best fanfic I’ve ever read as a lot of fanfic is quite laughable. But I got addicted to this, then realised it was actually a prequel related to some long series of Whose Line Is It Anyway fanfics which I also read. Sure, I’ve never seen Whose Line, but the stories are so well written that it doesn’t matter. Paul McDermott is a character in the Whose Line fics. Hence why the prequel is about him.