Drabble Meme Responses
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Title: Territorial
Universes: Anita Blake/Underworld
Characters: Anita and Michael
Prompt: Understanding
For: Mhalachai
Word Count: 100
“We have an understanding then?” Anita shifted her grip on her beretta, though she wasn’t sure what she could do if attacked.
“Of course,” Michael said. The stress in his coiled hands gave lie to his soft voice. “We know the rules.”
“I am bolverk, I protect what is mine,” Anita gritted through her teeth.
Jean Claude was insane to allow these two time-bombs into St. Louis, but he did have a point: another shifter doctor would be welcome.
But it was what the doctor shifted into that made Anita wish she had a bigger gun.
A much bigger gun.
Title: Mistaken Identity
Universe: Angel/Highlander
Characters: Wesley and Methos
Prompt: Resurrection
For: Meri_Beth
Word Count:100
“This is fascinating,” Wesley said as the corpse he was investigating for Angel sat up on the table, looking dazed. “I wonder what makes it move. Possession, perhaps?”
The corpse looked at him, obviously annoyed. “I am not possessed.”
“But you’re no longer dead.” Wesley poked the other man’s side with a forceps. “And you were filled with lightning.”
“I’m not dead, I’m Death.” The man looked around with a sigh. “I’m naked, have a screaming migraine, and am having an atrocious day. Can I have my clothes back, now?”
Wesley stammered an apology as Death walked out his door.
Title: Happiness is a Warm Witch
Universes: HP/AB
Characters: Asher and Luna
Prompt: Success.
For: Emeraldswan
Word Count: 100
Asher couldn’t stop touching his face, the new skin smooth under his fingers. It was all so surreal, that a tiny slip of a witch’s love could make him whole once more.
She was watching him with hooded eyes, a small smile on her face. “You’re happy then?”
Asher moved faster than she could see, sweeping her up into his arms with a whoop. “Ma petite chou, you’ve given me the greatest gift in the history of the world. Happiness doesn’t even begin to describe it.”
She kissed his cheek, “No, happiness is the day you walked into my life.”
Title: Problem Solver
Universe: Fables
Characters: Gepetto and the Blue Fairy
Prompt: Promise
For: Empressvesica
Word Count: 100
It was the promise that Gepetto loved. The idea that his talent and vision could expand until all the world was his.
But no matter how great his craftsmanship, in the end it was just sticks of wood playing at living without her gift.
The Blue Fairy had potential swirling in her veins, liquid magic just out of reach. She thought him amusing, and played along for now. But it didn’t take a genius or a fortune teller to know that one day she wouldn’t want to play anymore.
And then?
Well, Gepetto had a plan for that as well.
Title: Teacher
Universe: HP/Highlander
Characters: Harry and Duncan
Prompt: Training
For: Jilltanith
Word Count: 100
Harry dropped his sword with a grunt, blood running down the side of his arm.
“Pick up it and try again.”
“This is stupid. Why can’t I just use magic?”
“Do you know a spell to slice an opponent’s head off?”
Harry responded with a sulky silence.
Methos was unimpressed. “I thought not. Now pick that sword back up and try again. And if you don’t get it right, I’m sending you back to Snape. See what he has to say. You know how much he loves his students.”
Harry blanched and gripped the sword tighter. Methos never played fair.
Title: Self-Justification on a Grand Scale
Universe: Battlestar Galactica
Characters: Baltar/Six
Prompt: Trust
For: Indigochild76
Word Count: 100
Intellectually, it was hard for Baltar to trust a figment of his imagination. Okay, so she was a delicious figment, in more ways than one, but still. It’s just that she was so authentic for a hallucination, and she really seemed to like him.
His darling was always right. His scientific training didn’t particularly like the idea that his mental instability was smarter than he was, but it was just easier to trust her, take what she says to be real.
Maybe his beloved science couldn’t explain everything, but as long as she kept coming to him, he didn’t care.
Title: Curses, Foiled Again
Universe: Bones/House
Characters: none given,
Prompt: none given,
For: Wildecate
Word Count: 100
Booth was curled on his side, staring at the wall, when Cameron came in.
“I have the results of tests. They’re … unusual. What did you say you were doing when this started?”
Booth stretched out his blue-spotted hands. They itched like fire. “Apparently, I was getting cursed.”
“There’s no such thing as curses,” she responded, lips pursed.
“Then how do you explain the oh-so-charming blue rash?”
Cameron had no answer. “Well, this doesn’t usually happen when someone tries to rescue a cat from roof.”
Booth glared. “It does when it’s the voodoo lady’s possessed cat. No curses, my ass.”
Title: Misery loves company
Fandom: AtS/Bones
Characters: Angel [and Booth and Angelus, sorta]
Prompt: geas
For: Booster17
Word Count: 200, double drabble
Of all the places to end up.
I finally get my shanshu.
Oh, yeah, I’m a real boy, all right. Except now there are three of us all tramping around inside my head: me, Angelus-who never shuts up on a good day-and now this Booth guy.
I get stuck in a new life, just like Connor, except I can’t talk about it. Come on! Connor gets to commiserate with stoned art students over a latte. I get awful ties, a gambling addiction, frilly drinks, and a bad remake of Wolfram and Hart’s technology department. I swear, if any Knox-alike pops his head in here I’m ripping it off. I may not be a vampire, but I’m still buff.
Stupid geas. No one can know, and if I tell anyone, I get to go back to being dead.
Stupid Booth. What kind of name is Seeley Booth? And apparently I’m still Catholic. Da would be so proud. Argh!
And don’t even get me started on Bones. I can’t believe I was set up with her-the only scientist with a slayer complex.
Someone stake me now…
At least they could have reincarnated me into a guy who can dance.
Title: Flipside
Universe: Underworld x Firefly
Characters: Selene, Michael, River Tam
Prompt: Family
For: Sonya
Word Count: two 100 word drabbles
Part 1
In lives as long as hers, family was a lost luxury. Selene was lucky in Michael. More than family, he was the half she’d forgotten she lost.
Time stretched into the black and humanity took to the stars, but still Selene wished for something more. Someone to run through the sunlit corridors of her memories. Replacement for her slain sister, perhaps?
She never thought she’d actually find her, this child’s wish: a new sister of her soul.
Especially not that frail slip of a girl they tried to help, realizing too late that River Tam needed help from no one.
Part 2
They came from before, when Earth-that-was gleamed with promise. River saw the way they shone inside: sparkling shards of glass. She stretched out her hand, running her fingers gently down the other woman’s cheek, and began to cry.
“Are you hurt?” she asked.
River shook her head, “Not on the outside. But I’ve been looking for someone to play with, someone who understands.”
The trio looked at the carnage at their feet. The woman smiled, holding her gun like a lover’s hand.
“Yes, we know how to play the way you do.”
River smiled through her tears. “Family always does.”
Title: Territorial
Universes: Anita Blake/Underworld
Characters: Anita and Michael
Prompt: Understanding
For: Mhalachai
Word Count: 100
“We have an understanding then?” Anita shifted her grip on her beretta, though she wasn’t sure what she could do if attacked.
“Of course,” Michael said. The stress in his coiled hands gave lie to his soft voice. “We know the rules.”
“I am bolverk, I protect what is mine,” Anita gritted through her teeth.
Jean Claude was insane to allow these two time-bombs into St. Louis, but he did have a point: another shifter doctor would be welcome.
But it was what the doctor shifted into that made Anita wish she had a bigger gun.
A much bigger gun.
Title: Mistaken Identity
Universe: Angel/Highlander
Characters: Wesley and Methos
Prompt: Resurrection
For: Meri_Beth
Word Count:100
“This is fascinating,” Wesley said as the corpse he was investigating for Angel sat up on the table, looking dazed. “I wonder what makes it move. Possession, perhaps?”
The corpse looked at him, obviously annoyed. “I am not possessed.”
“But you’re no longer dead.” Wesley poked the other man’s side with a forceps. “And you were filled with lightning.”
“I’m not dead, I’m Death.” The man looked around with a sigh. “I’m naked, have a screaming migraine, and am having an atrocious day. Can I have my clothes back, now?”
Wesley stammered an apology as Death walked out his door.
Title: Happiness is a Warm Witch
Universes: HP/AB
Characters: Asher and Luna
Prompt: Success.
For: Emeraldswan
Word Count: 100
Asher couldn’t stop touching his face, the new skin smooth under his fingers. It was all so surreal, that a tiny slip of a witch’s love could make him whole once more.
She was watching him with hooded eyes, a small smile on her face. “You’re happy then?”
Asher moved faster than she could see, sweeping her up into his arms with a whoop. “Ma petite chou, you’ve given me the greatest gift in the history of the world. Happiness doesn’t even begin to describe it.”
She kissed his cheek, “No, happiness is the day you walked into my life.”
Title: Problem Solver
Universe: Fables
Characters: Gepetto and the Blue Fairy
Prompt: Promise
For: Empressvesica
Word Count: 100
It was the promise that Gepetto loved. The idea that his talent and vision could expand until all the world was his.
But no matter how great his craftsmanship, in the end it was just sticks of wood playing at living without her gift.
The Blue Fairy had potential swirling in her veins, liquid magic just out of reach. She thought him amusing, and played along for now. But it didn’t take a genius or a fortune teller to know that one day she wouldn’t want to play anymore.
And then?
Well, Gepetto had a plan for that as well.
Title: Teacher
Universe: HP/Highlander
Characters: Harry and Duncan
Prompt: Training
For: Jilltanith
Word Count: 100
Harry dropped his sword with a grunt, blood running down the side of his arm.
“Pick up it and try again.”
“This is stupid. Why can’t I just use magic?”
“Do you know a spell to slice an opponent’s head off?”
Harry responded with a sulky silence.
Methos was unimpressed. “I thought not. Now pick that sword back up and try again. And if you don’t get it right, I’m sending you back to Snape. See what he has to say. You know how much he loves his students.”
Harry blanched and gripped the sword tighter. Methos never played fair.
Title: Self-Justification on a Grand Scale
Universe: Battlestar Galactica
Characters: Baltar/Six
Prompt: Trust
For: Indigochild76
Word Count: 100
Intellectually, it was hard for Baltar to trust a figment of his imagination. Okay, so she was a delicious figment, in more ways than one, but still. It’s just that she was so authentic for a hallucination, and she really seemed to like him.
His darling was always right. His scientific training didn’t particularly like the idea that his mental instability was smarter than he was, but it was just easier to trust her, take what she says to be real.
Maybe his beloved science couldn’t explain everything, but as long as she kept coming to him, he didn’t care.
Title: Curses, Foiled Again
Universe: Bones/House
Characters: none given,
Prompt: none given,
For: Wildecate
Word Count: 100
Booth was curled on his side, staring at the wall, when Cameron came in.
“I have the results of tests. They’re … unusual. What did you say you were doing when this started?”
Booth stretched out his blue-spotted hands. They itched like fire. “Apparently, I was getting cursed.”
“There’s no such thing as curses,” she responded, lips pursed.
“Then how do you explain the oh-so-charming blue rash?”
Cameron had no answer. “Well, this doesn’t usually happen when someone tries to rescue a cat from roof.”
Booth glared. “It does when it’s the voodoo lady’s possessed cat. No curses, my ass.”
Title: Misery loves company
Fandom: AtS/Bones
Characters: Angel [and Booth and Angelus, sorta]
Prompt: geas
For: Booster17
Word Count: 200, double drabble
Of all the places to end up.
I finally get my shanshu.
Oh, yeah, I’m a real boy, all right. Except now there are three of us all tramping around inside my head: me, Angelus-who never shuts up on a good day-and now this Booth guy.
I get stuck in a new life, just like Connor, except I can’t talk about it. Come on! Connor gets to commiserate with stoned art students over a latte. I get awful ties, a gambling addiction, frilly drinks, and a bad remake of Wolfram and Hart’s technology department. I swear, if any Knox-alike pops his head in here I’m ripping it off. I may not be a vampire, but I’m still buff.
Stupid geas. No one can know, and if I tell anyone, I get to go back to being dead.
Stupid Booth. What kind of name is Seeley Booth? And apparently I’m still Catholic. Da would be so proud. Argh!
And don’t even get me started on Bones. I can’t believe I was set up with her-the only scientist with a slayer complex.
Someone stake me now…
At least they could have reincarnated me into a guy who can dance.
Title: Flipside
Universe: Underworld x Firefly
Characters: Selene, Michael, River Tam
Prompt: Family
For: Sonya
Word Count: two 100 word drabbles
Part 1
In lives as long as hers, family was a lost luxury. Selene was lucky in Michael. More than family, he was the half she’d forgotten she lost.
Time stretched into the black and humanity took to the stars, but still Selene wished for something more. Someone to run through the sunlit corridors of her memories. Replacement for her slain sister, perhaps?
She never thought she’d actually find her, this child’s wish: a new sister of her soul.
Especially not that frail slip of a girl they tried to help, realizing too late that River Tam needed help from no one.
Part 2
They came from before, when Earth-that-was gleamed with promise. River saw the way they shone inside: sparkling shards of glass. She stretched out her hand, running her fingers gently down the other woman’s cheek, and began to cry.
“Are you hurt?” she asked.
River shook her head, “Not on the outside. But I’ve been looking for someone to play with, someone who understands.”
The trio looked at the carnage at their feet. The woman smiled, holding her gun like a lover’s hand.
“Yes, we know how to play the way you do.”
River smiled through her tears. “Family always does.”