The Hours Everyone Else Throws Away
or
Nick and Tyson’s Infinite Playlist


Band(s): AAR, PATD, CS, TC (FOB, TAI, GCH, MCR)
Pairing(s): Nick/Tyson, Nick/Gabe, Tyson/Ryan
Word Count: ~29k
Rating/Warnings: R.
Summary: A Nick & Norah AU.

When Nick Wheeler is dumped by his boyfriend, he heads into the city with his band mates in search of a rumoured secret show that he hopes will pull him out of his breakup blues.

Tyson Ritter is also in the city on the search for the same show. Their paths cross and they find themselves on a madcap scavenger hunt through New York- for the band that provides the soundtrack to their lives, for missing best friends and for answers they don’t always know the questions to.

Will they find the elusive band? Or will they find something more along the way?

Disclaimer: Untrue. Lies and fabrications etc etc.
A/N: This wasn’t supposed to be my BBB but it just grew and grew and…well. A world of thanks to mintyfiend for the handholding and putting up with reading this in 500 word segments throughout the working day and for the wonderful beta job. Thanks also to redandglenda and vampyreranger for reading it over and Ameri-picking it for me, and to everyone else who put up with me moaning about how writing was hard. All remaining mistakes are mine.

Inspired by both the movie and book of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, which have very different storylines so hopefully this makes sense!

Massive thanks to astaria51 and finny91 for the wonderful fanart and to stardustonsable for the fantastic fanmix. It’s wonderful to think the story inspired them to create this stuff, which I adore so much. Thanks, you guys.

The story:
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[Fanart by astaria51] * [Fanmix by stardustonsable] * [Fanart by finny91]