Thursday - By the Numbers

[trinityday]

trinityday here, wrapping up my week as guest host. For my last day, the theme is going to be by the numbersFirsts and lasts have their places, but second times, fifth times, three-hundred and twelfth times... they can be fun too. Second dates might not be as disastrous. The fourth time they have sex might be when it actually clicks. There's counting.

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[trinityday]

Pirates of the Caribbean, Barbossa, ten years dead

[danse_amore]

(Man, I love your Barbossa prompts. ♥)

He's been ten years dead. Ten years of seeing his flesh melt from his bones as the curtains rot or sway from the windows of his cabin. Watching the food fall from his his ribs like rain through rigging, tasting neither rum nor flesh nor sweet, fresh fruit.

He's been ten years dead, ten years searching, ten years screaming at a crew with no ears to hear with, only empty holes into emptier skulls. Ten years of staring at the glitter of gold and loving it, hating it, because it is all he has left and all he can have

[trinityday]

Whereas I adore your Barbossa ficlets, which just makes it that much worse that I haven't already told you how much I liked this response. It's just so beautiful and so terrible and so Barbossa.

[trinityday]

Dark Angel, Alec/Rachel, with her he feels like he's more than just a number

[trinityday]

Life on Mars/Doctor Who, Sam Tyler/The Doctor, living in two time periods

[trinityday]

Doctor Who, Doctor/Donna, the fourth time they were thrown in a prison

[jennytork]

The fourth time they were thrown in a prison, it was on a world where men were third-class citisens. His crime had been to be a male and dare to speak to a female in public.

Hers had been not to rein in "her man".

The fourth time they were thrown in a prison, his sentence was to be beaten with forty lashes and imprisoned underground for forty days. They stole everything of his, even his clothing.

They led her out to witness his punishment, for her own education. That was their grave error.

Guards were knocked unconscious. Guns were procured and threatened to be used. Demands for return of property were met under duress. The sonic screwdriver was used to release his bonds, and she grunted when his body fell limply into her arms, his bare back covered in reddish-brown from the four lashes she had not been able to prevent.

With the help of some friends she'd made, she got him back to the TARDIS where he slowly healed.

The fourth time they were thrown in a prison, she was his hero.

[sexycazzy]

Ohhh - nice! a nice change - good to see that Donna was the one who did the rescuing! :-) Liked it!

[jennytork]

Thank you!!!

[trinityday]

Harry Potter, James/Sirius, stealing away for fifteen minutes

[pinikir]

They were Aurors now, grown men who were in a war and didn't have the same chances to laugh anymore. One of them was married but it didn't stop James and Sirius from finding spare moments alone.

When Harry and Lily had fallen asleep in front of the fire Sirius had gestured towards the kitchen and James had followed. Their arms had locked around each other. "Dumbledore said," James began heavily but he was silenced with an urgent kiss from his best friend.

"Not now, James," he urged, "Can't we just have fifteen minutes to ourselves where we don't have to think?"

James tired eyes lit up, "As you like Padfoot."

[trinityday]

Very lovely. Somewhat sad, in that you could really feel just how much of the world they're both carrying on their shoulders in this, and I love the idea of James' eyes lighting up, to be able to have fifteen minutes with Sirius where he doesn't have to think.