Monday: Gen/No pairings
medjai_trowa here, and I'll be your guest host for this week :-)
Today we have Gen fic - that's right, no x-rated stuff. Just, oh, the Leverage crew having to deal with Parker on a sugar high - or even the Firefly crew having to deal with Parker on a sugar high. Or maybe it's a prank war at the SGC - go wild!
Important rule-y bit:
No more than 5 ( Read more... )
Today we have Gen fic - that's right, no x-rated stuff. Just, oh, the Leverage crew having to deal with Parker on a sugar high - or even the Firefly crew having to deal with Parker on a sugar high. Or maybe it's a prank war at the SGC - go wild!
Important rule-y bit:
No more than 5 ( Read more... )
(Dom/Mal, of course; implied Artur/Eames in the background. Some character death.)
Phillipa remembers Mal; she tells her little brother fairy tales about their mother, jokes she gets half right, proverbs she rewords accidentally.
Phillipa promises Dom that she'll dream like her mother. Dom hugs her close and hopes so very hard that she won't.
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James makes up stories as he grows, adventures his parents went on, reasons for why his mother left. That's what he always says; he never utters the words dead, dying, or death. That leads to confused teachers and questioning friends, but James doesn't care.
James tells Dom that one day, he'll make a name for himself, just like his mother. Dom pulls him close and hopes that he doesn't.
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Arthur is present for every birthday, including Mal's. He stays for a week, usually, with lavish yet practical gifts. He frequently checks to make sure Dom and his kids are safe, and Dom knows about half a dozen times he takes matters into his own hands, leading to vanished individuals. Once, it was an entire group.
Phillipa and James both have childhood crushes on their Uncle Arthur. Dom completely understands.
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Eames visits every few years, usually with Arthur. He teaches the children things Dom wishes they didn’t need to know. Arthur watches with a careful eye, correcting every now and then. They teach different styles of self-defense: Arthur learned his from the military, Eames from street fighting. Both have dirty tricks, and both tell the kids to make sure whoever goes down won’t get up.
Eames teaches painting, pick-pocketing, and poise. Dom isn’t surprised that Phillipa and James crush on him, too.
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Both of Dom’s children go to college. Phillipa goes on to medical school and eventually becomes a neurologist. James graduates and then backpacks his way through Europe. He disappears somewhere in France; Arthur and Eames track him down, put the fear of God in those foolish enough to waylay him, and bring him home.
Phillipa and Dom meet them at the airport. James can’t look either of them in the eye, but he clings just as tightly when they both envelope him in massive hugs.
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When James calls Arthur later that same year and says, If not you, somebody, Dom knows what he means. Arthur does, too, and he says, Put your father on.
Dom says, I trust you, Arthur. You’ll protect him. No one else would.
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Phillipa is the child Dom can brag about. She’s far more successful in a way the real world understands. Phillipa marries a dream researcher, a man with no idea of what his father-in-law used to be. Who he was. She has two children, both daughters.
James is always away on business. Dom tells people that James does something with computers, something his father just can’t understand. It usually works. Whenever James calls home, he talks about different ‘friends’; Dom jokes that James has a lover in every port, a reference that flies over both his children’s heads. James is a forger, trained by the best: Eames. He never marries, but he does have a son Dom never meets.
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Phillipa does not dream like her mother. She stays firmly rooted in the real world and when her daughters learn about the history of dreamsharing, what little is known, they have no idea how it is part of their legacy.
James makes a name for himself, eventually eclipsing his parents. At first, he trades on his teachers’ reputations-Arthur and Eames are legends, the best of all dream-thieves. Soon enough, though, when people say Cobb, they mean James.
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Phillipa outlives her father by many years. She outlives her beloved Uncles Arthur and Eames by more.
James, though… he dies young, just like his mother. Eames isn’t alive to attend his funeral; he died trying to save James’ life. Arthur doesn’t live much longer, and Dom buries them all.
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"but he does have a son Dom never meets." OH DOM. I almost started to cry.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you for this <3
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Thank you for reading!
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