The Fourth Annual "I Challenge You to Challenge Me" Challenge!
In what I hope to be an annual event, I'm doing this (otherwise known as "Force Me to be Creative for You!") again. I started it way back in 2006, when I lifted an innocuous meme from gypsyjr, and I'm going to keep doing it once a year until I get it right, or until you people storm the castle and force me to stop
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Book-Reading Dollhouse
Falling-Down-A-Lot Angel
Pregnant Crow
Bathtime Buffy
Drunker-than-all-get-out Bones
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*Ow*
*Medical Insurance Premium Increase*
*OW!!!*
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Author: Bill L.
Size: Double Drabble
Summary: Angel hits the deck. Constantly!
Challenge: Falling-Down-A-Lot Angel
Disclaimer: "Angel" owned by Mutant Enemy productions. Grrr Arrgh!
HAVE A NICE TRIP
By Bill Livingston
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"Guys, tell me you're making progress here," Angel pleaded, slowly dragging himself to his feet for the 37th time.
"Some," Wesley said, then added ruefully, "But not much."
"How much?"
"None really," Fred admitted.
"Nothing?"
"Just what's in these seven books, and that's about it."
"Aw c'mon, there's got to be..." The rest of Angel's sentence was cut off as he tripped over his own feet yet again and the floor smacked him.
"If it helps," Lorne offered from the other side of the room, I could always do a couple of verses of 'Stumbling In'."
"Ow!" Angel said in response to both the tumble and Lorne's comment. He shot a hard look at Gunn, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Y'know, it may look funny, but you try being the one who can't walk more ( ... )
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Author: Bill L.
Size: Longer Form
Summary: Someone has left a book for Echo
Challenge: Book-Reading Dollhouse
Disclaimer: "Dollhouse" owned by Mutant Enemy productions. Did I fall asleep?
The Book of Names
By Bill Livingston
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Someone had left a book on the table where Echo usually sat. That was odd - there are very few books here, and most of them are small. This one was thicker, colored pink, with a picture of a fat smiling baby and the words POPULAR BABY NAMES FOR GIRLS written on the front.
Echo smiles. Babies are nice.
Echo opens the book and, starting at the back, skims through it. Most of the names are very pretty, but they mean nothing to her.
Some names, though, are circled. Reading them makes Echo feel - strange. Vague, half-formed memories come to her unbidden.
"Yvonne" (The cold steel of a gun in her hand, watching as an oddly-dressed man exits a car)
"Taffy" (A giant metal door swings open, revealing statues and pictures)
"Rebecca" (A man holding ( ... )
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I'm guessing that's post-Season 1, and Paul was the one who put the book there.
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Author: Bill L.
Size: Double Drabble
Summary: Crow wants to know.
Challenge: Pregnant Crow
Note: Title taken from an old Carol Burnett quote about pregnancy.
Disclaimer: "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and all characters owned by Best Brains Inc. You never had a puppy.
FORCING IT OVER YOUR HEAD
By Bill Livingston
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"Hey Mike, tell me something."
"If I can."
"What's pregnancy like?"
That made Mike Nelson lower his copy of Temps Monthly. "OK, first, why do you want to know, and second, why are you asking me?"I want to know because it's part of the human experience, and that's what I strive for ( ... )
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Author: Bill L.
Size: Triple Drabble
Summary: Hodgins has a plan. Not a good one, but a plan.
Challenge: Drunker-than-all-get-out Bones
Note: Takes place right after the Season 3 finale "The Pain in the Heart".
Disclaimer: "Bones" owned by 20th Century Fox Television in association with Far Field Productions and Josephson Entertainment. What's That Mean?
LONG LIVE THE KING
By Bill Livingston
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"Hodgins?"
Jack Hodgins lifted his head, exposing eyes so bloodshot they were almost solid crimson. "Dr. Bennen! Agent Brooth! Two of my very fav'rite people not onna way to the nuthatch! Howerya?!"
"OK Hodgins," Booth said, "What're you doing?"
Hodgins swept his arm at a pile of empties in the corner - several beers, Maker's Mark, an expensive bottle of champagne, a couple of vodkas, even MD 20/20. "My plan," he slurred, "Is to drink ever' ounce of alcohol at th' Jesserfonian. When that's gone, I'll manufacture more here in th' lab an' drink that it too ( ... )
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Author: Bill L.
Size: Drabble
Summary: Sometimes, baths don't help so much
Challenge: Bathtime Buffy
Note: Takes place sometime in late season 3.
Disclaimer: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" owned by Mutant Enemy productions. Saving the World. A lot.
THE SWEET (?) SMELL OF SUCCESSFULLNESS
By Bill Livingston
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Chasing the demon had taken them through one of the Sunnydale's ickier swamps, so Joyce had let the gang wash up there - a sign, maybe, that she was getting used to the weirdness surrounding Buffy being the Chosen One.
They were in the kitchen, munching on lemon squares or corn chips (or in Xander's case, both at once) when she came in. Suddenly, she stopped, winkled her nose and sniffed. "I better check those towels - I think they're starting to smell like wet dog."
All eyes turned to the dude at the end of the table.
"Sorry," Oz shrugged.
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I've always liked Oz as a character. Too bad he didn't last long on the show.
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