There is a method behind the madness

Title: You’re the One That I Want
Fandom: Kids Incorporated
Universe: Canon (Season 1 – 1984)
Genre: Friendship/Romance
Rating: T
Summary: Mickey didn’t realize just how much Gloria had come to mean to him until it was almost too late.

Links: DW | LJ | FF.net | AO3

Now that we're at the halfway point, it's time to put up or shut up - so let the (hints of) romance begin! :D

( Notes for III - Human Touch )

Title: You’re the One That I Want
Fandom: Kids Incorporated
Universe: Canon (Season 1 – 1984)
Genre: Friendship/Romance
Rating: T
Summary: Mickey didn’t realize just how much Gloria had come to mean to him until it was almost too late.

Links: DW | LJ | FF.net | AO3

Woohoo for getting another giftfic off my plate! This one is a (much belated) gift, intended for gloriafan's 2011 fandom_stocking. I promised him a Mickey/Gloria story, and boy, did my muse deliver.

I don't know what it is, but for some reason, all of the KI fic ideas I have manage to explode out of my control, and this story is no exception. What I'd originally intended to be a short oneshot (~5K) turned into a four chapter story by the outline (with an estimated word count around 10K), and ended up being nearly 16K words long by the time I finished. I suppose once I got started, it was hard to stop...

( Notes for I - I’ve Done Everything for You )

This is definitely a fic more about friendship than romance, but anybody who knows me knows I can't resist sprinkling in a bit of magic somewhere, LOL :P

I also used a prompt from my Summer Mini Challenge table to help me write this story. That prompt was "smooth" - I only intended to write one scene around it (which did happen), but I also found myself using the word as a nominal adjective in all of the chapters. So, win-win, no? :P

This story has been written in its entirety; I decided to space out the chapters a bit, not only because of their individual length, but also because this story is absolutely chock-full of canon references. I'll need four separate author's notes posts to get them all in, LOL - and keep them straight!