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scribblemyname ([personal profile] scribblemyname) wrote2013-09-22 07:54 pm
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Fluff, Relationships, and Traditions

This entry is part 52 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

So characters have habits, ways they interact with certain people and situations, things they do and like to do, stories and histories together. I've known a lot of my characters' for a long time but getting them all into fic is interesting, particularly for the ones I don't know that for.

I've got about five novelettes I want to turn out plus a short story, created out of the 5 Things Meme and then the whole Pieter/Ashen dynamic that originally played in my head before I even wrote that first Ashen drabble (and it is awesome to me, but got sidelined drastically with a deluge of other prompts), but, but, but...

I'm on day 265 of my challenge and story count 157 and I'm still plying angles and there's all those little things above that I'm itching to nibble at. Want to help a girl out?

Particularly of interest to me are things like where does Wesley work (not sure actually), and then relationship things that I haven't gotten to like how Justus always recognizes Shift regardless of her current form or demeanor, friendships, sibling relationships, Ilsa and her husband, etc.

Calling for prompts, as promised:

  1. character(s) and/or canon/fandom
  2. random word, quote, or other prompt

Oh, and I'll try to keep it short and fluffy or sweet. Try is the operative word. :grins:

Prompts

Ficlets

Seven Days

Kingdoms and Thorn

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

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Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Leash

[personal profile] scribblemyname 2013-10-16 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Meld stopped in the doorway back into the common area. He looked over his team, sleeping in scattered pallets on the floor, on couches, on the oversized chairs. Sear stood watch by the back door. She nodded at him, but otherwise paid him no mind.

It was a strange feeling to know they had won. This was war, not a mission, and they had won—defeated their masters. He reached up and rubbed the back of his neck. The taste of Shift was still in him. She chose well her intolerable risks.

He picked his way through the pallets and dropped to a crouch beside one. Long auburn hair tangled across the Database's sleeping back. He said sotto voice, "Cipher."

Her body tensed. Realizing it was him, she rolled over to look at him.

"Can you take it out?" he asked quietly.

The fact that he spoke his request drew Sear's attention and the Database's reluctant look. But she slid out of her sleeping bag and wrapped one hand around the back of his neck and placed the other palm flat in the center of his chest. Intangibility, healing. She could be anything she wanted to be.

He felt the moment her borrowed abilities kicked in and his own healing ability kicked in, melding them together at the same time her hand went through his neck and removed the implant buried in his central nervous system. Agonized pain. He didn't move, didn't flinch or react—he'd felt worse vicariously so often. If he moved, the healing wouldn't work, the removal wouldn't be clean, and he would die. It was as simple as that.

Then it was over and she was healing him with yet another power. She let go.

He felt lightheaded but alive. He looked at the chip in her hand, his former leash, and simply nodded. "Thank you."

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Leash

[identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com 2013-10-16 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad she could do that for him. I can see why she wouldn't want to, but he needed to be very free. He had to be rid of the leash. :)
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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Leash

[personal profile] scribblemyname 2013-10-16 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
She hates putting Meld at risk. He's less concerned about it. :shakes head:

And yes, he needed the full freedom.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Leash

[identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com 2013-10-16 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
He doesn't seem to mind as much as everyone else minds him being at risk.

They all did. They all deserved to be free.

Well, other than the psychos that have been off-screen so far.
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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Leash

[personal profile] scribblemyname 2013-10-16 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Got it in one. Meld is... :shrugs helplessly: Selfless.

:blinks:

I'm not sure I'd characterize them that way so much as beyond rehabilitation. They are weapons. It's not entirely their fault.

There was one girl I felt for a lot because as much as one of the admins I like a lot (might write her eventually) tried to reach her and almost did, they could never make the connection of forgiveness. That's the huge thing here: could they forgive? If they could, they could move on. If they couldn't... Well.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Leash

[identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com 2013-10-16 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

They do have to be able to let it go or they couldn't move on. Not all of them have moved on as much as others, but that would be hard to forgive.

:(
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