CHALLENGE 008: Drabble tree
CHALLENGE #008
Description We're going to make a drabble tree. The tree will start with one drabble (below). You take the last words/sentence and use them to write a new drabble and the chain will go on. Tenses can be changed, the words can be a little altered (like replacing a "he" with a name). You can also make puns/plays on homonyms: for ( Read more... )
Description We're going to make a drabble tree. The tree will start with one drabble (below). You take the last words/sentence and use them to write a new drabble and the chain will go on. Tenses can be changed, the words can be a little altered (like replacing a "he" with a name). You can also make puns/plays on homonyms: for ( Read more... )
Team Clubs
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
She sighs. There are times when immortality wears thin. Her brother would be so disappointed if he could hear her thoughts. But she didn’t want to wage an eternal war against humanity. To make hybrids. She didn’t necessarily feel they were better.
She envied humans. She envied their ability to truly live, the feeling of running out of time. She envied their ability to have children, to fall in love and make families. She envied their ability to not watch everyone around them die for generations and generations.
This was Rebekah’s darkest secret. She wanted to be loved. And human.
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Team Hearts
Fandom: Almost Human, Dorian
Dorian wanted to be loved. And human. He was made to feel, look, sound, and behave like a human; he even had a soul… synthetic or not, in his mind it counted. But when it came right down to it, he was silicone and metal and circuitry and he was constantly reminded of that fact by everyone.
Everyone except John. He invited him out for noodles or to a bar for drinks and always asked what he wanted. John made him feel like he was almost human, cared about even. Dorian wanted more, but for now, it was close enough.
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Team: clubs
Fandom: Almost Human
Dorian wanted more, but for now, it was close enough. Not independent, but almost: able to come and go, meet his partner and not be “picked up from the shop.” Not on his own, but almost: in the lab, with Rudy, he had his own space, and not strapped to a stretcher, but a bed, in an old office, with a sink and everything. Not completely self-powered, but almost: still had to plug in, but hey, people had to eat, so it wasn’t totally different, right? And anyway, he could enjoy a good meal, so that was something. Not free of being a machine, but almost.
Not human, but almost.
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Team Clubs
Fandom: Twilight
Almost. There was a moment when she was almost his. When his lips pressed to hers and her fingers tangled in his hair. He could feel her giving herself over to the sensation. To the idea of being with him. He could see a future. Her, him, babies. Free and safe from vampires. Part of the pack.
And then the moment had slipped through his fingers. She pulled away. Looked at him. Spoke his name. And said, without saying it that all that he had to offer was not good enough.
She didn’t need fire. She wanted to love ice.
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Team Clubs
Fandom: Roswell
Not Human, but almost. That was how they classified her, she wasn’t an alien but she wasn’t a human any more either. She had powers, she could see things; the fact that she’d started out human hadn’t mattered to the Special Unit, she was different now. One of the ‘doctor’s’ had used the word contaminated.
Liz looked around her tiny glass cell, rubbed her stomach for the hundredth time and told her daughter they’d escape. Michael was still out there, and she was pretty sure Kyle had escaped too. She had seen it. All she had to do was survive.
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Team Spades
Fandom: The Closer: Brenda/Sharon
All she had to do was survive.
That wasn’t so much to ask, was it? Brenda’s leg bounced nervously, clutching her fifth cup of coffee, sitting in the corner in the waiting room. Sharon’s kids were talking amongst themselves in the other corner. They had no way of knowing Brenda was also there worried for their mother.
If she hadn’t been so insistent that she and Sharon kept their relationship quiet then maybe the three of them would be comforting each other.
She couldn’t lose Sharon now, there were so many things she hadn’t done right; things that Sharon deserved.
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Team: clubs
Fandom: Game of Thrones; spoiler for later episodes of Season 3. Sansa.
All she had to do was survive. And despite her fear, and her weakness, and the death of her family and the dreams of her youth, she had, hadn’t she? She had survived. Which was more than could be said of Joffrey, her parents, her brothers and sister, Aunt Lysa, and likely her husband.
They were dead, she was alive, and she would do anything to stay among the living. Looking at her reflection in the water bowl, she raised her chin, tightened the laces of her dress, and walked out to meet Lord Baelish.
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Team: hearts
Fandom: Mass Effect, Kai Leng
Not human, but almost, Kai thought to himself glancing at the asari dancing around the pole. Almost, at least, physically speaking. He frowned at the disgusting bright blue hue, wishing there were regulations to stop such horrible creatures to display so much skin. That was completely indecent, albeit not as awful as the turians on the dance floor. At least, asari looked human. Still, he couldn’t repressed a shiver of repulsion as he sat next to the woman he had been told to meet, her eyes glued to the alien’s body. This was going to be a very long meeting.
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Team: Hearts
Fandom: Grey's Anatomy
This was going to be a very long meeting. The chief’s voice droned on and on, going over the inane details of charting and patient flow that he wanted them all to know about.
She wished she had coffee to stay awake.
She glanced to her left. Her husband looked as bored as she felt.
She didn’t know he had seen her look at him, but a few seconds later, she felt the soft touch of fingers moving up her thigh.
“Let’s keep this interesting,” Derek whispered, and his fingers dipped under her skirt.
Addison gasped, but she didn’t argue.
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Team Clubs
Fandom: Being Human US
Not human, but almost. That was what Aidan told himself as he moved through the hospital, offering comfort and administering care.
Nursing was surprisingly satisfying work. Aidan hadn't expected to enjoy it when he chose it as his new career. He'd mostly been thinking about ways to access blood while keeping his distance from the rest of the community, with the added benefit of maybe doing a bit of good to counteract all the evil he'd done. But joking with Mrs. McGuire as he checked her vitals, seeing the grateful smile from her daughter, it was almost like he belonged.
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Team Clubs
Fandom: Daughter of Smoke and Bones Series
For now, it was close enough.
She still stayed mute most of the time around him. But she was around him. She was terrified to say the wrong thing, to hurt his feelings. But sometimes her silence hurt more.
Her actions said it all though. She had set aside her sword. She touched him, in this form, this body, cloven hooves and bat wings and horns. And she flew with him.
He wanted more. When he was the white wolf, he thought she might love him, like he loved her. She sang his soul home. For her. He could wait.
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Team: Clubs
Fandom: Glee/Shameless
He could wait. He could wait. If he kept telling himself that, he might actually believe it.
But then she came out of the bathroom.
"How do I look?" Sugar asked him, turning around in a string bikini he swears was smaller than the one she went in with.
"You look great," Lip said, genuinely. Sure, she looked great, but she also looked so fucking hot he could feel his trunks getting uncomfortably smaller by the second.
"Awesome!" she said in her bubbly voice. "Let's go!"
He followed her out and sighed - this was going to be a long day.
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Team clubs
Fandom: Supernatural
A long day ahead of them, Dean got a head start and drove 100 miles before breakfast.
"It always seems so much easier on TV," Sam complained when they stopped.
"What did?"
"Living on the road. Glorified like it's some sort of exciting and adventurous lifestyle."
"Hey, our life is exciting and adventurous," Dean argued.
"I could use a little less exciting and a lot less adventurous."
"Stop complaining and get your gimpy ass back in the car."
"Who you calling gimpy?" Sam shot back.
They bantered as they both limped towards the parking lot, stiff and aching from the hunt the night before.
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Team Spades
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
For her, he could wait.
In his dark little world, Elizabeth Weir was the only guiding light John Sheppard had. Before her he was lost....wandering aimlessly through a never ending forest. Like the north star she guided him home to the city amongst planets and constellations.
He was nothing, someone who's time shouldn't be wasted upon saving, but it never mattered to her. She still gave him meaning.
She was lost now and John stood at the gate for her to return. Hope was lost but not for him.
Even if it takes forever, she will one day come home.
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Team Clubs
Fandom: Shameless
“Come home.”
Those were the last words of the message. She slammed the flip phone closed. “Stupid bitch.” She muttered, as she shoved it deep into her pocket, almost as if she was trying to make the message not exist by forgetting her phone did.
Karen’s mother had left message after message, asking her to come home. Lip missed her. She missed her. Jody missed her. Fucking asshole.
But she couldn’t go home. Not ever. Her mother had chosen her grandchild over her child.
She might not have much now. But she still had one thing. She had her pride.
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