Cinder-Fuckin’-Rella (Brian May x Reader)
A/N: Another Pretty Woman-inspired fic that I also took way too seriously. Please indulge how very extra I am. Also, I would like to emphasize that this is a completely FICTIONALIZED take on the New Orleans Jazz party, I’m 100% sure Brian partied just as hard as the other boys, but for the story’s sake let’s pretend he was feeling sad boi hours. Additionally, the research I did on the party was fairly limited and there aren’t very many clear accounts of what happened that night, so who knows if this party and this hotel was really this extra. All of the descriptions of the hotel are fictional as well as the party guests/hired entertainment (cuz who knows, ya know?). For the sake of the story, Brian is also not married/in a relationship/a father in 1978 in this fic because that would complicate things way too much.
Summary: A Night at the Fairmont. It’s 1978, and Freddie Mercury is hosting the legendary New Orleans party in celebration of Queen’s latest album, Jazz. Exotic dancers, musicians, peculiar acts plucked from the street join in revelry alongside glossy celebrities. As one of the hired entertainers of the evening, you feel like you can’t quite enjoy the festivities. Queen’s guitarist feels the same way.
Warnings: smut, prostitution, angst, kinda cheesiness, extraness, foul language, 18 + ONLY
The lively, uptempo music was flowing through the large ballroom of the Fairmont Hotel. The source of the music was the hired cross-dresser band that had been playing on a temporary, yet very ornate stage that Freddie Mercury himself had commissioned to be built for the party. The way they played was deafeningly loud, but was somehow still not as ear-shattering as the roar of the guests, who were ineffectively yelling over each other, laughing raucously, and shrieking obnoxiously—not to mention hammered six ways to Sunday.
In some ways, this was exactly your scene, but in others it was far too expensive for what you were used to, and you weren’t nearly drunk enough to tolerate the behavior of some of the guests. The other hired entertainment, acts picked off of the street, flown in from exotic lands, or plucked from houses of ill fame were also interesting to say the least, but you weren’t one to judge. You came from your own house of ill repute.
The girls like you who had been hired to entertain at the party had scattered, all hanging off of the arm of an gentleman or lady decadently dressed to the point of obscenity. It was Halloween after all, and many guests had taken the theme of the night quite seriously—costumed in everything from fine silks to ghoulish rags.