Drabbles for Alias, The Pretender, and Dirty Dancing
Three drabbles I've written for halfamoon based on prompts given to me.
Fandom: Dirty Dancing
Author: ciaimpala
Rating: PG
Summary: A prompt from pigtailedgirl : Any of the main girls, prompt being grass stains, rating not going above R.
Lisa’s jeans were always covered in grass stains, from tag with the neighborhood boys, hide and seek kisses behind the oak tree at the edge of their property, dropping off the low-hanging roof to giggle-sneak away with Molly and Sarah, her best friends since kindergarten.
But Baby’s jeans never had grass stains. Newspaper ink yes, and once some blood from a paper cut off her favorite book, but never green. And she never dropped off the roof, because she was tucked under her covers at 7:30 just like her parents told her to be.
Now, though, as she runs through the downpour, her and Johnny’s laughter blending into one joyful soaking sound, she spies a grass stain and smiles. Maybe it’s time to untuck her covers and drop off that roof after all.
Fandom: The Pretender
Author: ciaimpala
Rating: PG
Summary: A prompt from ofparsnip : The Pretender: Miss Parker, defying expectations, nothing above R.
What no one knows is Miss Parker owns a bottle of pale pink glittery nail polish, the watery kind you buy at a corner drugstore for ninety-nine cents. It’s been sitting in her desk drawer so long the pink has separated, tendrils of glitter curled at the top, heavy pink faded almost to white coating the bottom. She bought it the night of her first day at The Center, after Daddy told her he had always known she would be his perfect successor, she’s always been so good at pushing emotions aside and doing what needs to be done.
Just like a man, he’d said.
Just like a man with a bottle of pale pink glittery nail polish, that she’ll never wear, but always hold onto. Because sometimes Daddy’s belief system gets a little screwed up, and he doesn’t seem to understand she’s just like a woman. Not the way he sees women, all pink and glitter, but then again lately she’s realized defying Daddy’s expectations isn’t something she needs to be afraid of.
Fandom: Alias
Author: ciaimpala
Rating: PG
Summary: A prompt from chaila43 : Alias, Irina/Jack, thief. Nothing above R, lower rating is totally fine
Irina steals everything, a compulsion Jack blinds himself to because life is so much easier when you don’t see anything but the way your wife slinks across the sheets like you’re the only prey she desires. Lipsticks and nail polishes line the underside of the sink where she keeps her tampons, as if she thinks his gray-haired masculinity will never venture in there. A pair of tawdry earrings intertwined with the diamonds he bought her on their anniversary, a pack of gum under her birth control pills. He doesn’t speak of these things because no man wants to admit their wife is a kleptomaniac, because what man wouldn’t blame himself when his wife looks to a pack of gum to bring excitement into her life.
Jack realizes now she was keeping her skills sharp, the better to steal herself away without a sound.
Fandom: Dirty Dancing
Author: ciaimpala
Rating: PG
Summary: A prompt from pigtailedgirl : Any of the main girls, prompt being grass stains, rating not going above R.
Lisa’s jeans were always covered in grass stains, from tag with the neighborhood boys, hide and seek kisses behind the oak tree at the edge of their property, dropping off the low-hanging roof to giggle-sneak away with Molly and Sarah, her best friends since kindergarten.
But Baby’s jeans never had grass stains. Newspaper ink yes, and once some blood from a paper cut off her favorite book, but never green. And she never dropped off the roof, because she was tucked under her covers at 7:30 just like her parents told her to be.
Now, though, as she runs through the downpour, her and Johnny’s laughter blending into one joyful soaking sound, she spies a grass stain and smiles. Maybe it’s time to untuck her covers and drop off that roof after all.
Fandom: The Pretender
Author: ciaimpala
Rating: PG
Summary: A prompt from ofparsnip : The Pretender: Miss Parker, defying expectations, nothing above R.
What no one knows is Miss Parker owns a bottle of pale pink glittery nail polish, the watery kind you buy at a corner drugstore for ninety-nine cents. It’s been sitting in her desk drawer so long the pink has separated, tendrils of glitter curled at the top, heavy pink faded almost to white coating the bottom. She bought it the night of her first day at The Center, after Daddy told her he had always known she would be his perfect successor, she’s always been so good at pushing emotions aside and doing what needs to be done.
Just like a man, he’d said.
Just like a man with a bottle of pale pink glittery nail polish, that she’ll never wear, but always hold onto. Because sometimes Daddy’s belief system gets a little screwed up, and he doesn’t seem to understand she’s just like a woman. Not the way he sees women, all pink and glitter, but then again lately she’s realized defying Daddy’s expectations isn’t something she needs to be afraid of.
Fandom: Alias
Author: ciaimpala
Rating: PG
Summary: A prompt from chaila43 : Alias, Irina/Jack, thief. Nothing above R, lower rating is totally fine
Irina steals everything, a compulsion Jack blinds himself to because life is so much easier when you don’t see anything but the way your wife slinks across the sheets like you’re the only prey she desires. Lipsticks and nail polishes line the underside of the sink where she keeps her tampons, as if she thinks his gray-haired masculinity will never venture in there. A pair of tawdry earrings intertwined with the diamonds he bought her on their anniversary, a pack of gum under her birth control pills. He doesn’t speak of these things because no man wants to admit their wife is a kleptomaniac, because what man wouldn’t blame himself when his wife looks to a pack of gum to bring excitement into her life.
Jack realizes now she was keeping her skills sharp, the better to steal herself away without a sound.