breathedout | Fic: How to See Lexington, Kentucky on Twenty Dollars A Day

I wrote a thing! This ties with my Archer story for the goofiest story-with-occasional-feelings I've ever written; I had a ton of fun with it and hope you will too. Bonus: lovely art by Kazhig.

Title: How to See Lexington, Kentucky on Twenty Dollars A Day
Fandom: The Magicians
Relationships: Penny Adiyodi/Frankie Gallo
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 34k
Tags: Luck Magic, Curse Magic, Zany hijinx, Prickly Strangers to, Friends With Benefits, Stranded in Middle America, Only one room at the inn, Feelings porn, Porn Porn, Complementarity, Casual Sex, For Science!, This entire story is an excuse for, Semi-Erotic Bible-Themed Miniature Golf, Not Really Romance, Foot Fetish, Foot Massage, Frottage, Anal Fingering, Coming Untouched, Blowjobs, Mildly Unsafe Sex, Inadvertent property destruction, Passing allusions to the existence of systemic racism homophobia and fatphobia, Mild poking of fun at the cultural hegemony of Christianity, Walks in the woods, Childhood discussions, Dance contests, Casual alcohol use and overuse, Mutually amicable breakups are still hard

Summary:

It's not just the hangover, or his fiancée leaving him the literal day before the California vacation they'd planned together: Penny Adiyodi is legitimately cursed. Magically; metaphysically; possibly demonically: the whole deal. He has been his entire life, so there's no point in fighting it: least of all when sitting next to a weirdly entitled stranger on a packed cross-country flight, two days before a culturally compulsory holiday he doesn't even celebrate. But when the plane is grounded in Lexington, Kentucky, and Penny's seat-mate, Frankie Gallo, is somehow able to effortlessly secure the two of them the last hotel room in town, Penny starts to think something even stranger than usual is going on. Strange enough to suck it up and endure the dude's presence for a night, anyway—just to see what he's about.

And honestly, the more time Penny spends holed up with Frankie in suburban Lexington, the stranger it gets. But Penny has to admit it also gets more interesting. And better, too, actually. A lot better. So there's that.