Ficlet O'Clock Open Prompts

[scribblemyname]

I've missed doing this, and when my best friend who loves these things was out of pocket for a while, I mostly didn't try. So here's the way it works. You give:

1. fandom, storyworld (optional)


2. character and/or pairing (optional)


3. prompt

We write ficlets. Feel free to ask questions on fills and get more fills. Fill whatever you like. Prompt whatever you like. The thread stays open until somewhere after activity slows down to a trickle, I randomly call done working the thread.

So personally I've been missing writing original fiction and Rogue/Remy fic (and Logan/Ororo and Kitty/Pyro), but prompt whatever (like Bobbi or Natasha or Skye or...), just no deathfic or supernatural please.



I dumped in a couple to start, but I'll be in and out. :)

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MASTERLIST

blamesthepen

• Alik + Vred, This moment, we own it.


• Katya, pillow fights


• Cadence + friend, pillow fights


• Alik + Vred, platonic soulmates


• Malina + Alik, insomnia


• Anyone But You (The Enadar Version) [Felise/Enadar + Alik]


• Disbelief (Enadar Take Two) [Felise/Enadar + Alik]


• Alik + Malina + Enadar, finding someone to love


• Clint/Natasha, Remy + OMC, I will not take from you and you will not owe


• For the Hundredth Time, I'm Not Marrying Your Brother [Lisea + Malina]


• Katya, dodging the matchmaker


• Alik + Vred, platonic soulmates + pillow fight


• Whistler + Stratford + Dare, platonic soulmates


• Cameron/Verina, trying to sleep with a new baby in the house


• Alik + Enadar, dogs and cats


• Forsythe/Stasia, a relationship in 5 kisses


• Katya, cuddles


• Katya, stealing the remote control


• Alik + Vred, a genetic recessive who doesn't have/show a soulmark


• The Danger of Discussing Marriage with Your Best Friend [Cadence/Dare]


• Another Cadence/Dare "Pillow" Fight


• My husband became a shepherd to me / I became a shepherdess to him


• Already Through [Vred/Malina]


• Cadence/Dare, You gotta make your own stuff work


• Lisea + Alik, Emotions aren't that hard to borrow / When love is a word you haven't learned

scribble_myname

• Anyone But You [Felise/Enadar]


• Crazy [Agents of Shield, Bobbi/Hunter]


• Five Cups of Coffee and a Stack of Pancakes [MCU/The Unusuals, Bobbi/Walsh]


• Marrying Into the Family [Felise/Enadar + Malina + Lisea]


• It's Only Natural [X-Men, Remy + Scott]


• Speculation [MCU, Steve + Clint/Natasha]


• When All Else Fails, Walk the Dog [616, Clint]


• Burn Your Kingdoms Down [Kingdoms & Thorn, Sear]


• There Is That [Felise + Enadar]


• Mixed Feelings [Felise/Enadar]


• I'm Not a Flirt, It's Just the Way I Talk [X-Men, Rogue/Remy]


• On the Properties of Love [Kingdoms and Thorn, Justus/Rachelle]


• Toto, We're Not in the Multiverse Anymore [X-Men/Narnia, Kitty]


• Almost Soulmate [Vred + Alik]


• Secrets [The Unusuals, Walsh/Beaumont]


• Picking the Family Pet: Spouse Supervision Required [Original]

Comments

[scribblemyname]

This moment, we own it.

[blamesthepen.livejournal.com]

“I never expected victory to feel so... hollow.”

Vred glanced in Alik's direction. “You never expected to survive to see 'victory.'”

Alik inclined his head, acknowledging that statement as true. “That does not make this feel any more satisfying. It simply leaves yet another hole in what is already a gaping void. We didn't win anything. Not here. Not now.”

“It was never about winning. It was about surviving.”

Alik snorted. “For you, maybe. No, not for you. For them. Not us.”

Vred said nothing. Alik's eyes drifted back to where the others were, Lisea and Malina holding onto each other in relief, Enadar and Felise wrapped up in an embrace born of the need for confirmation, wanting be sure the other was still alive to love.

“Let them have their moment,” Alik said, turning to leave. Their moment, not ours. Never ours.

[scribblemyname]

pillow fights

[blamesthepen.livejournal.com]

Very silly little bit of dialogue:

"You don't win pillow fights with house cats. What makes you think you can win one with a leopard?"

"I never expect to win," Randolph said. "I do, however, miss my pillow quite fiercely."

[scribblemyname]

platonic soulmates

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I have to ask... What exactly does this mean?

[scribblemyname]

Collab, Malina, insomnia

[(Anonymous)]

“I'm not keeping you awake, am I?”

Malina stilled, her foot still mid-step, wincing as she did. She sighed, shaking her head as she changed direction, veering off her intended path into the kitchen for the one that took her over to where her brother was on the couch. She should have known that even if he wasn't awake, he'd know she was up and moving the moment she got out of bed. Most of the time she tried not to move around at night, but she'd given up on sleep. Again.

“It's not you,” she said, sitting down beside him and allowing herself to take on his ability. “Though I might need you to get through work tomorrow.”

He snorted. “You know it doesn't work that way. You don't retain the energy the way I do. You can't use it to keep you awake for days—and you wouldn't want to.”

“Then why do you do it?” She asked, leaning her head against his arm. “You need your rest, too.”

“Not in the same way. I don't... I don't think I've ever really functioned like that. I remember being unable to sleep when Enadar needed the nightlight on, and I might have been showing signs of what I am even back then.”
Malina closed her eyes, wishing there was a way to will away pain and guilt, that she could take them from him somehow. “Why are you so stubborn about seeing yourself as evil when I'm not and Enadar isn't?”

“Why are you awake if not because of me?” Alik countered. “This is the third night in a row where you haven't gotten any sleep.”

“I have insomnia. You know that has no rhyme or reason.”

Alik gave her a look, and Malina caved. “Fine. I... It... You know it's been a year now, right? Or almost. I...”

“You're afraid of reliving the crash in your nightmares again.”

She shuddered, curling herself closer to him and his safety. “Yes.”

He put his arm around her, and she started twisting the fabric of his shirt in her fingers until he caught them and made them stop. “Ice is a fragile thing. Too fragile, sometimes, for any real existence. It can be broken, it melts easily in the sun and becomes as nothing... and yet ice can be hard and stubborn and unyielding—”

“I'm a mirror, not ice.”

“I never said this story was about you.”

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I hear my voice
And it's been here
Silent all these years.
~Tori Amos, "Silent All These Years"

[scribblemyname]

This one keeps bugging me because every time I pass it, I want to write something for it, but I haven't the faintest idea who.

[(Anonymous)]

If it's okay to AU it...

Felise realizing her soul mark is for Enadar. Or vice versa.

[scribblemyname]

I officially love you with a deep and abiding love.

I will write this.

[(Anonymous)]

I need you like the flower needs the rain
You know I need you guess I'll start it all again
I need you like the winter needs the spring
You know I need you, need you

~America, "I Need You"

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently, I am on a Felise/Enadar kick.

She said, "Stay away 'cause that boy's a warning sign."

[scribblemyname]

That song has never made me crack up laughing before. I am sooo glad for the Felise kick though. I've been having a hard time getting her voice back while digging into plot too. This will be fun!

[scribblemyname]

Love isn't about finding someone to love you, but rather finding someone to love.

[blamesthepen.livejournal.com]

"Why are we discussing this again?" Alik asked, and Enadar thought he sounded rather annoyed for a robot. "We have already exhausted the topic and it is not worth continuing to belabor the point."

Malina sighed. "Alik, you are allowed a life outside of taking care of us. You deserve more. You should have it."

"By dating?"

Enadar snorted. "He's got a point. Who would love a robot?"

The cat stood on all four legs and hissed at him. He glare back at her.

"We love our robot plenty," Malina reminded him. "Others would, too, if they knew him. Besides, it isn't about finding someone to love us but someone to love."

Alik walked over and picked up Robot. "What affection I am capable of extends to the people in this room. I neither desire nor have the capacity to add to that number."

"You're a liar," Enadar said, surprising himself by taking his sister's side. "You had Mom and Dad once, too. There's room there somewhere."

"No," Alik insisted. "There isn't."

[(Anonymous)]

You have amazing eyes
The right one's suspicious and the left one wants my love

~Good Old War, "Amazing Eyes"

Crazy

[scribblemyname]

Every. Single. Time.

"What? Was it my charm?" Hunter teased the first time she fell for him.

Not even. It was those come hither, gorgeous eyes that saw the gun behind her back and the danger behind the smile in her eyes.

"I'd be bloody crazy to trust you, but..." More softly, like she meant something to him, and both of them knew she did. "I'll always want to."

Bobbi would be crazy to get back on that roller coaster, crazy to love him, but they both knew she did.

[(Anonymous)]

Instead of talking sense
And acting like we're friends
You think it's a better idea
Calling calling
Calling me names.

[scribblemyname]

This still strikes me as Lisea and Alik. :le sigh: I suppose I'll have to write it that way.

[(Anonymous)]

'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark in these final hours
I'll lay down my heat and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no, you won't
'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't

I'll close my eyes then I won't see
The love you don't feel when you're holding me

~Bonnie Raitt, "I Can't Make You Love Me"

[(Anonymous)]

Oops,typo. That's heart not heat.

[scribblemyname]

I will not take from you and you will not owe
I will protect you from the fire below

— "Who Will Save You Now" by Les Friction

Bonus points for Clint/Natasha

[(Anonymous)]

Okay... Rusty and kind of off-prompt, but the guys decided to talk so you get a little piece in the Untouchables universe.

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“Why is it,” Clint hissed in a low voice that still almost made the empath jump out of his skin, “that we got stuck with the psychotic Russian assassins?”

Cumbrian let out a breath, calming himself. “I don't know. To be honest, I don't know which of us is worse off, either. Mine thinks she's in love with me. Yours... Yours I think wants to kill you.”

“You think? Shouldn't you know? Empath and all that?”

The other boy snorted. “I have been doing nothing but work on building my shields around you people. Do you know how much it sucks to be around teenage emotions? And let's make that worse by having most of those teenage emotions joined with PTSD. Yes. That is so much fun for an empath I can't even begin to tell you about it.”

Clint rolled his eyes. “I could shoot you with an arrow and put you out of your misery.”

“And I would be tempted to accept but there's this psychotic not-quite-Russian assassin who claimed me and will kill you if you do, so no, I won't.” The empath frowned, and Clint watched him, knowing the other kid was onto something. “Wait. That's it.”

“What? Mutually ensured destruction? Suicide pact? That's your brilliant idea?”

“You are worse than Gambit,” Cumbrian muttered. “And Wolverine.”

“That's low. Really low.”

The empath shrugged. “Still true. Look, you're not thinking this through. Your assassin kind of hates you because she owes you, right? See, in my case, Unity saved my life. In your case, you spared Natasha hers. That means she's in debt to you. She hates it. So... make it so she has to save your life and you erase her debt and you're free of her.”

“This sounds like one of Gambit's crackpot ideas.”

Cumbrian sighed. “You all call me Gumbo-lite. Why is any of this surprising to you?"

Clint grunted. “If it's such a great idea, why aren't you using it?”

“Shapeshifter, mon frère,” Gambit said, making them both jump. “She's about as impossible to kill as the badger is.”

Clint eyed him, reaching for an arrow. “You know, you traveling through time just to screw with us is really getting old.”

“You all still think I do this merde on purpose,” Gambit muttered. “I don't. Can help you with your little problem, though.”

“I am not letting you blow me up so she can save my life. Besides, Natasha's not that stupid. She won't buy that.”

“You like her.”

“Don't be stupid, Cajun.”

“Um, that was me saying that,” Cumbrian told him. “The empath? Yeah, Clint, you are so officially screwed.”

Clint groaned.

[(Anonymous)]

I swore I was done for a bit, but then this song played and I am just going to prompt the whole thing because it has too many beautiful lyrics.

http://www.songlyrics.com/hem/hollow-lyrics/

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

Ooo I can't resist - Rogue/Remy "Untouched" by the Veronicas. I swear I wanna see her sing kareoke to this song lol

[scribblemyname]

Karaoke is something I've never done, but I'm looking at the lyrics now to see if I can even come close on this prompt.

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

And how about some crossover goodness? Jason Walsh/Bobbi Morse. "At least the aliens hadn't wrecked his diner. Course, that meant he suddenly had a whole mess of new customers."

[scribblemyname]

Oooh! And Clint exists but not as Walsh?

(Girl, I love you.)

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

Kitty Pryde, X-over with Narnia. "Guess she'd phased a little farther than she thought."

[scribblemyname]

:sporfle:

[(Anonymous)]

AU again. Vred has always been able to find his soulmate.

Almost Soulmate

[scribblemyname]

A/N: So since Alik's recessive and we don't know, I went somewhere I wasn't expecting, 'kay? Angsty. Sorry.

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Vred always knew who belonged to the other end of the resonant line between them. He always knew how to follow that thread to the other end of his mark.

He never wanted to.

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There was so much hostility toward those with abilities, and Vred was straight out of legend, one of the last of the trackers, who could supposedly find anyone or read your soul. No one wanted to be near him, not even his own family. They used him to control their interest when they could. They feared him when they could not.

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He found a likeminded soul, too intent on protecting his family from a dangerous world that hated the very genes that made up their bodies. The Kallas family moved from town to town like drifters, leaving when the hostility became too great—like Vred in a way. But also like Vred and so many others of the Revente clan, they ended up back in Holteshire often as well.

He met Alik when they both stepped in to defend a young girl with abilities being accosted by a group of bigoted men.

Alik looked at him suspiciously but then in vague recognition. "I know you, don't I?" he asked, faint accusing in his voice.

Vred breathed in softly and considered the flavor of a livewire of too much energy. He remembered the burning taste always near his cousin Lisea, but never coming close enough. An almost soulmate, a might have been if the world were just a little different and they'd met at a different age. Finally, he nodded, curtly affirmative. "Malina's brother."

Alik's face shut down. "Malina."

"My cousin's friend." Vred did not say, my soulmate.

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They were alike. They eschewed the love they might have had because they were almosts, not quite close enough, not innocent enough, not unjaded, and too unwilling to hurt the ones around them.

Alik was born without a mark and never had to know how close he'd come. Vred was born with one but never showed it and never mentioned it was Malina's.

[scribblemyname]

The Unusuals, Casey + Walsh, he was like the big brother she never meant to acquire

Also wouldn't mind it for MCU, Mack + Bobbi

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I do kind of miss the edit button. :/

Perhaps a better idea is that Vred's soulmate is the one he can't track.

[scribblemyname]

Both! I'll do both!

[scribblemyname]

Malina's disappointed because Alik isn't Lisea's soulmate; Lisea is unsurprised

[(Anonymous)]

... sigh. That means he doesn't have a soul mate, doesn't it?

[scribblemyname]

happy new parents Cal/Skye's mom (I don't mind if that just makes it angstier/sadder)

[scribblemyname]

a genetic recessive who doesn't have/show a soulmark

[blamesthepen.livejournal.com]

“The idea of soul mates is absurd,” Alik said, leaning back and watching electricity arc across the sky, creating the kind of fireworks his mother had always enjoyed but he felt were rather stupid. Parlor tricks, the sort of thing people with abilities wanted to see because they weren't frightening or repulsive but amusing and useless. “I don't know why a world with abilities suddenly means that kind of nonsense is true, too, but I'm sick of hearing about it. What is it with this age that makes everyone assume that you have to have a soul mark?”

Vred looked at him. “You're saying you don't have one?”

Alik snorted. “No. And please don't tell me you believe in this stuff. I thought we understood each other on that part.”

Vred was quiet for long enough where Enadar would have fidgeted, but Alik was not like his brother. “You know that I track. I can track the soul bonds.”

“Now I wish you had a sense of humor,” Alik muttered. “You don't, and that's not funny.”

Vred did not deny that. “You have a bond.”

“I don't,” Alik said. "You know a person's physiology, don't you? Everything that makes them who they are—and I suppose you could argue that is how you know the soul mate thing—so look at me. I don't have one. It's not small or something I could mistake for a freckle or birthmark. It does not exist. I don't have a soul mate.”

“Your mark may not show physically. It is still there.”

Alik shook his head. “Unbelievable. You know what? I thought you and I were the only two sane people left in this place, but I can see now that doesn't exist at all. I may have some kind of genetic... affliction, but not a soul mate.”

“Stubborn.”

“Maybe,” Alik conceded. “I don't like the idea of my fate being set before birth. If that is true... No. I refuse to accept that my life had to happen this way. I have to be able to choose or I may as well give up now.”

Vred nodded. “They will miss you.”

“Yeah, well, that's the other reason I don't have a soul mate. I'm not capable of love. I won't miss them.”

[scribblemyname]

culturally Deaf Clint Barton

[(Anonymous)]

Emotions aren't that hard to borrow
When love is a word you haven't learned

[scribblemyname]

This screams Natasha to me.