Title: This is the Sound
Pairings: Pete/Patrick, little bits of Pete/Ashlee, Pete/Ryan
Rating: PG-13, for swearing.
Author's Notes: A lot of you probably remember bexless’s post of awesome fandom things yet-to-be-written a while back. Here’s a link to what I wanted, and had to write myself. :(

This is heavily based around questions Pete has answered on the website – because they leave me a big, gooey, lovesick mess of Pete-n-Patrick.







go to quizilla .com search patrick stump and theres this gross story about patrick...........um....yeah
Asked by ashlee on 2006-04-08 18:35:00
patrick doesnt do gross things. his body is made up of kittens, saturdays, 70 degree weather, first kisses and butterflies. trust me, i cut that bitch open once to check.
Answered by peter on 2006-04-08

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The thing is, Pete never really meant to fall in love with Patrick. It’s just really hard to not be.

Peter never means to fall in love with anyone, to be honest. It just happens. Even though he can be an abusive, vitriolic, attention-seeking, self-serving asshole anytime it suits him – and sometimes when it doesn’t – at heart Pete’s always been too forgiving. Too easy with apologies, too quick to assume that his feelings for someone else were anything like their feelings for him. Too openhanded with second – third, fourth, fifth – chances.

Which isn’t to say Patrick has ever needed a second chance. No. That was always Pete.

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Heey , I am confused. I thought you wrote all of the songs?? Well i love the songs no matter what =D
Asked by |aura on 2006-03-13 22:49:00
i write the lyrics. patrick writes the music. we are in love and live in a castle in the sky. our next door neighbors are carebears. grumpy bear has a baditude. but i still heart him. i hope your life is as magical as ours is.
Answered by peter on 2006-03-14

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And sure, pretty much everyone he and Trick had ever toured with made a joke about them being married at some point or another, but they all said the same thing about Ryan and Brendon, and the idea of those two together made Pete’s brain want to explode like in the old zombie movies he used to watch with My Chem. Seriously. Talk about something for a Behind The Music special.

Pete has pretty close tabs on the people who do know –Joe and Andy, of course, because you just can’t hide shit like that from you own band, even if your lead guitarist is more or less always stoned out of his mind; Mikey Way, because he’s Mikey-fucking-Way and Pete loves, admires, and owes him in so many ways its unbelievable; Ryan, because the little bitch is sneakier than shit in a smug, knowing, mad-ninja-skills kind of way, and okay, Pete’s mom probably knows, and he wouldn’t put it past Patrick’s mom either ‘cause moms have seriously magical psychic powers when it comes to shit like love and their kids, but that’s about it.

Minus Patrick and the millions of fans, of course.

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How does patrick sing the emotion in the songs that u (pete) wrote.. Do you have to explain it to him or does he just know?
Asked by hope on 2005-06-15 20:37:00
me and patrick can finish eachothers sentences. this is what makes it so funny when people ask us if we care that you think the the other one is hotter or cooler, or how much everyone makes a big deal about who writes what or is where in photos. we don't care. that kid is my best friend and the rest of the world could blow up and fall out boy can break up and he still will be.
Answered by peterface on 2005-06-16

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Yeah, Patrick knows. Pete wasn’t lying when he said you can’t hide shit like that from your band, and you can’t hide it from your best friend either.

It’s less dramatic than you would think. Hurts less than you could expect. They leave it unspoken between them – granted, there aren’t a lot of things like that, but in any friendship you’ve got to know when to cut your losses and just shut the fuck up – maybe mostly because Pete doesn’t have to say anything. Nobody had to tell Patrick. Patrick knew. Patrick always knows. Patrick has known everything about Pete since the beginning of time, it feels like, much less the beginning of the band.

They mention it every once in awhile. Obliquely. It slips into the songs now and again, but Pete figures if Patrick’s okay with Pete writing multiple songs about his quasi-suicide attempt, he can deal with a little unrequited angst. Pete just needs to touch base now and again. I’m-still-in-love-with-you-you-still-know-yeah-okay. Like picking at a scab to remind yourself it’s still there, hoping it’ll leave a scar. Something to remember. Pete likes scars, tattoos. Permanence.

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Pete, would you and Patrick be friends if Fall Out Boy never existed?
Asked by Kace on 2005-10-10 21:54:00
we would have to be friends. cause i dreamt him.
Answered by peter on 2005-10-11

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If Pete really had dreamt him, he and Patrick would be more than friends.

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In 10 words or less what is your relationship with patrick and would you ever consider becoming the "tough Guy" of the group??
Asked by Anonomous on 2006-05-08 18:29:00
patrick is pretty much the only person on this planet that gets me. id be nowhere without him. we are a two man gang.
Answered by peter on 2006-05-09

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It doesn’t come up that much in the day-to-day. Yeah, Andy might make sure Pete gets a little extra handling whenever Patrick gets a new girlfriend, or when things start to get serious with an old one, and occasionally Ryan might send him broken bits of songs on his Sidekick – beautiful bits of things that make Pete think he’s a little in love with Ryan Ross, but also that Ryan Ross is a little too in love with Pete for that to ever really work out – but the thing is, Pete’s mostly okay with it. Mostly, of course, because being okay with it made it seem like it wasn’t anything at all. Like it didn’t bother him. Like he didn’t feel anything at all.

But he does feel things – he feels whole fucking caseloads of things, and there are days that Pete has to try and tell himself it’s okay that it doesn’t work, that they’d only fuck it up and break up the band and become a footnote in musical history, and Ryan would cry and smear his makeup, and Spencer would probably kill him, and how the fuck would Joe get choice weed then?

But the truth is Pete can see it working perfectly, him and Patrick, with stupid hats and oddly-colored shirts all over the bedroom floor, fridge stuffed with vegetarian things on the weeks they remembered to shop and take-out on the weeks they didn’t – plus the eggs Pete always guiltily tries to hide in the back of the fruit drawer. And Hemmy would steal the comfy spots on the furniture, except when Pete and Patrick made-out on the couch and Hemmy has the good sense to get lost. And Pete would know about the spot behind Patrick’s ear, and that his belly and sides are really sensitive but he’s too sensitive about how he looks to let anyone close enough – anyone but Pete, anyway – and the biggest, most awesome room in the house is where they would keep all their instruments and records, and he can see Patrick there, wrapped in dust motes and music and sunlight, burning in his chest.

Whenever Pete thinks about it it always takes him awhile to bring himself back. It always leaves him prickly and raw and worn around the edges. He doesn’t like himself like that – no one does – so he tries to avoid the whole train of thought.

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i try to come up with all these cool questions for you to answer but you dont answer any. peter, i think that you should have 2 Q&A boards so that patrick can answer some questions and you could answer some questions. because i dont think you like me. i like you.
Asked by Kailee on 2005-11-11 13:41:00
patrick doesnt like the internet. but he likes me.
Answered by peter on 2005-11-11

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Patrick really doesn’t like the internet. He’s been accosted and weirded out by entirely too many crazy fans to go looking for trouble. He sometimes checks out shit like Wired and youtube and that fucked-up Neopets site for the three or four months Brendon was obsessed with it, but ninety-nine-percent of Patrick’s computer time is spent on GarageBand.

This is okay with Pete on two levels. One, though Patrick becomes a Patrick-shaped lump whenever he gets engrossed in GarageBand, he’s at least a happy Patrick-shaped lump. And two, Patrick’s avoidance of all things internet also includes Pete’s blog. Because of that, Pete probably gets away with more than he should. He already gets to fall asleep in Patrick’s bunk when he needs someone to hold, or on Patrick’s lap when he’s tired and the couch springs are digging into his ass. He can call Patrick at three in the morning and get a very special concert for one. He gets to hear his words come out of Patrick’s mouth, his lyrics wrapped up in Patrick’s music. He gets to tell the world every day how much he loves Patrick Martin Stump, and hey, if Trick doesn’t love him back, at least it’s not because Pete never tried.

The fans probably knew he was in love with Patrick before Patrick did. They certainly know more about it.

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Does Patrick have a nickname? If so what is it?
Asked by kara on 2005-06-12 23:02:00
rickster. von stump. sophmore strump. winchester snomp, lunchbox. cookie jar. healthbar. rick ta life. patty boy. dont ever call him these. they are mine.
Answered by peter on 2005-06-13

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He’s got Ashlee. And he doesn’t have to tell himself that to cheer himself up, or to convince himself that he’s doing okay. She’s not a substitute or a stopgap. She’s been with him step by step in the longest, sanest relationship he’s ever had, and you barely need to know anything about Pete at all to realize what an accomplishment that is.

He does love her. Loves her like burning, and an iPod full of his favorite songs, and even if he doesn’t call her at three in the morning to hear her sing or if she doesn’t sleep like a baby next to him, he still loves the little snort in her laugh when she watches Robot Chicken, and the feeling he gets when he’s with her, and the secret smile she has just for him.

It's not about it being enough. It's about what is.

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Hypothetically asking, Ok, what if one day you woke up and Patrick was not there. Would you be worried?
Asked by I Didnt Do It on 2005-06-14 19:59:00
it would make me want to disappear to wherever he was.
Answered by pete on 2005-06-14