Fandoms 23, 24, 25 and 26.
Title: Sinking
Fandom: Ashes to Ashes
Rating: PG
Word Count: 232
Summary: Chris doesn't have anybody to talk to.
The thing about having Ray as a best friend was that you couldn’t exactly tell him stuff.
Well, you could tell him some stuff. Like, stuff about birds (as long as you didn’t mention love, he got all weird about that) and stuff about TV and stuff about work, that was all fine. But serious stuff, they didn’t really do that. He normally talked to Shaz about this stuff but he couldn’t talk to her about this, she’d be all upset and scared and … and maybe disgusted, maybe she’d hate him because of what he’d done and he hadn’t meant it to go this way, he hadn’t wanted it to, it had just been money and then just one file and it had seemed okay at first only then it had got so much less okay and he didn’t know how to make it stop …
He couldn’t tell anybody. He couldn’t let anybody knew what he’d done. They’d all be so disappointed, they’d all hate him if they ever, ever knew and they were his friends, kind of like family really and he didn’t want anyone to hate him ...
He’d just have to keep things going. If he could keep it going long enough, it’d all come okay, right? He’d marry Shaz and they’d get away and somehow, all of this would go away.
He had to believe that.
Title: Frozen
Fandom: Jyu Oh Sei
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: It's cold on Chimera
It’s cold on Chimera.
The winter seems to go on forever - which it does of course but that’s not really why it’s cold, not to Thor.
The cold on Chimera comes from the people. From the survivors, the ones who have managed to defeat plant life and the people; the monsters and murderers. There’s something in their eyes, an icy look that makes everything around them colder too.
There’s a few that aren’t like that. Tiz has a sun in her, a sun that blazes out enough to warm the frozen people around her.
Almost enough to warm even Thor.
Title: Handcuffs
Fandom: Jonathan Creek
Rating: G
Word Count: 157
Summary: Jonathan is not inpressed when one of Maddy's pranks goes a little wrong ...
“I’m going to kill you,” Jonathan announced, rattling the handcuffs on his wrists furiously. “As soon as I get out of this, I’m actually going to kill you. I know just how to get away with it too, you mark my words. You think that I can spend as much time as I have solving grizzly and unlikely murders without getting a good idea about how to commit one? They’ll never find your body and they’ll never be able to prove anything but to be quite frank, even if they did, no jury in the land would convict me because after all this, it would be just cause!”
“Found them!” Maddy said triumphantly, appearing with the handcuff keys in her hands. “See, we’ll have you out in no time, you’re barely even late and it’s not like they can start the wedding without you, is it? God, you always make such a fuss Jonathan!”
Jonathan just growled.
Title: Inside and Out
Fandom: Thunderbirds
Rating: PG
Word Count: 364
Note: The Tracy brothers ages vary from every offical source ever produced but a very early one put John and Gordon's ages the same. This was probably a mistake but I liked it too much not to play with.
Summary: Scott can't imagine ever knowing any twins less alike than John and Gordon.
Anybody who thought twins were always deeply alike needed only to look at John and Gordon Tracy to know that this was not necessarily the case.
Scott couldn’t really imagine any set of twins that could possibly be less alike. Gordon was lively, loud and everywhere from the minute he could walk. He was never more bored than if you weren’t letting him do something physical. He liked to make people laugh too, sometimes a little too much - he was a natural practical joker. He wore his heart on his sleeve, had done from almost the minute he was born.
John on the other hand, was quiet, still and cerebral. He tolerated exercise because he wanted to be healthy but he was never happier when he was curled up with a book or with some sort of experiment. He had a sense of humour too but it was quieter, less showy than Gordon’s. He kept things inside, everything all hidden away unless you were one of the few that he chose to reveal it to.
They were as unlike as almost anything you could imagine.
Sometimes, Scott found himself fancifully wondering if something strange had happened when they’d been conceived. If Gordon had got all of the world and John had got all of … something else. Because there was something to John. Something just a little different about the way John reacted to things. The way John knew things.
“Mommy isn’t coming home, Scott.”
“What are you talking about?”
“She’s not coming home. Ever. A bad thing happened and she’s not coming home.”
John had never been able to explain how he’d known that. Just like he’d never been able to explain how he knew when Gordon broke his leg or where Alan was when Alan got lost in the woods. He just knew.
None of the Tracys ever talked about that, even though they all knew. Scott knew their father and Alan didn’t really believe and that Virgil wasn’t sure.
Gordon believed though. Gordon always believed him.
“Why wouldn’t I?” he said when he and Scott talked about it once. “John’s my twin. Of course’s he’s special.”
Which was typical Gordon, really.
Fandom: Ashes to Ashes
Rating: PG
Word Count: 232
Summary: Chris doesn't have anybody to talk to.
The thing about having Ray as a best friend was that you couldn’t exactly tell him stuff.
Well, you could tell him some stuff. Like, stuff about birds (as long as you didn’t mention love, he got all weird about that) and stuff about TV and stuff about work, that was all fine. But serious stuff, they didn’t really do that. He normally talked to Shaz about this stuff but he couldn’t talk to her about this, she’d be all upset and scared and … and maybe disgusted, maybe she’d hate him because of what he’d done and he hadn’t meant it to go this way, he hadn’t wanted it to, it had just been money and then just one file and it had seemed okay at first only then it had got so much less okay and he didn’t know how to make it stop …
He couldn’t tell anybody. He couldn’t let anybody knew what he’d done. They’d all be so disappointed, they’d all hate him if they ever, ever knew and they were his friends, kind of like family really and he didn’t want anyone to hate him ...
He’d just have to keep things going. If he could keep it going long enough, it’d all come okay, right? He’d marry Shaz and they’d get away and somehow, all of this would go away.
He had to believe that.
Title: Frozen
Fandom: Jyu Oh Sei
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: It's cold on Chimera
It’s cold on Chimera.
The winter seems to go on forever - which it does of course but that’s not really why it’s cold, not to Thor.
The cold on Chimera comes from the people. From the survivors, the ones who have managed to defeat plant life and the people; the monsters and murderers. There’s something in their eyes, an icy look that makes everything around them colder too.
There’s a few that aren’t like that. Tiz has a sun in her, a sun that blazes out enough to warm the frozen people around her.
Almost enough to warm even Thor.
Title: Handcuffs
Fandom: Jonathan Creek
Rating: G
Word Count: 157
Summary: Jonathan is not inpressed when one of Maddy's pranks goes a little wrong ...
“I’m going to kill you,” Jonathan announced, rattling the handcuffs on his wrists furiously. “As soon as I get out of this, I’m actually going to kill you. I know just how to get away with it too, you mark my words. You think that I can spend as much time as I have solving grizzly and unlikely murders without getting a good idea about how to commit one? They’ll never find your body and they’ll never be able to prove anything but to be quite frank, even if they did, no jury in the land would convict me because after all this, it would be just cause!”
“Found them!” Maddy said triumphantly, appearing with the handcuff keys in her hands. “See, we’ll have you out in no time, you’re barely even late and it’s not like they can start the wedding without you, is it? God, you always make such a fuss Jonathan!”
Jonathan just growled.
Title: Inside and Out
Fandom: Thunderbirds
Rating: PG
Word Count: 364
Note: The Tracy brothers ages vary from every offical source ever produced but a very early one put John and Gordon's ages the same. This was probably a mistake but I liked it too much not to play with.
Summary: Scott can't imagine ever knowing any twins less alike than John and Gordon.
Anybody who thought twins were always deeply alike needed only to look at John and Gordon Tracy to know that this was not necessarily the case.
Scott couldn’t really imagine any set of twins that could possibly be less alike. Gordon was lively, loud and everywhere from the minute he could walk. He was never more bored than if you weren’t letting him do something physical. He liked to make people laugh too, sometimes a little too much - he was a natural practical joker. He wore his heart on his sleeve, had done from almost the minute he was born.
John on the other hand, was quiet, still and cerebral. He tolerated exercise because he wanted to be healthy but he was never happier when he was curled up with a book or with some sort of experiment. He had a sense of humour too but it was quieter, less showy than Gordon’s. He kept things inside, everything all hidden away unless you were one of the few that he chose to reveal it to.
They were as unlike as almost anything you could imagine.
Sometimes, Scott found himself fancifully wondering if something strange had happened when they’d been conceived. If Gordon had got all of the world and John had got all of … something else. Because there was something to John. Something just a little different about the way John reacted to things. The way John knew things.
“Mommy isn’t coming home, Scott.”
“What are you talking about?”
“She’s not coming home. Ever. A bad thing happened and she’s not coming home.”
John had never been able to explain how he’d known that. Just like he’d never been able to explain how he knew when Gordon broke his leg or where Alan was when Alan got lost in the woods. He just knew.
None of the Tracys ever talked about that, even though they all knew. Scott knew their father and Alan didn’t really believe and that Virgil wasn’t sure.
Gordon believed though. Gordon always believed him.
“Why wouldn’t I?” he said when he and Scott talked about it once. “John’s my twin. Of course’s he’s special.”
Which was typical Gordon, really.