It's not about power.

Despite what you might think, it's not about fortune or fame, or the god damn worship of the crowd. It's not about the fear. Nor even about the sense of belonging.

It's about despair.

You see, all this - the trappings of the scientist, wearing the red and the black, two reflective discs ( Read more... )

Title: Surviving the treatment
Summary: In the New York Dollhouse, one of the Actives is being prepared for an engagement
Written for: 10_titles 10 Titles challenge
Rating/Warnings: PG-15
Word Count: 729
Fandom/Pairing: HIMYM: Gen, Barney
Spoilers: Set mid Season 3-ish
Note: This isn't a Doll!verse story. Just wipe that from your mind. Here, take a seat in this ( Read more... )

Title: Whiskey
Rating: PG in this part
Summary: The story so far: Robin (aka "Zulu") has been "wiped clean" by the dollhouse - she's basically in the tabula rasa state. But Ted and Marshall managed to rescue her from the LA Dollhouse and bring her back to NYC.
Barney is "missing". Adele sent him to the Manhattan Dollhouse after his doll state (aka " ( Read more... )

Firstly, thanks to Shanie (sbmshaneomaniac ) I have a wonderful new mood theme. I don't know why it took me this long to upload it.

Secondly, I am TRYING TO FINISH MY HIMYM/DOLLHOUSE STORY "Doll" and it is freaking my brain to PUDDING! I know what I want to say and where I want to go it's just I can't seem to get there. And Epitaph One really inspired me to GET  ( Read more... )

Okay, everyone reading part 1 has completely misinterpreted it. In my mind, Dollhouse is NOT Altrucell/GNB at all. Altrucell is their rival/enemy and Barney is a spy, working for the Dollhouse, assigned to an espionage engagement at Altrucell/GNB by Cobb (leader of the New York Dollhouse).

Now, given this, what should I do?

Poll What should I do with the Doll story

Whiskey - Part 1

Zulu sits on the red couch and wraps her arms around her. Bare arms, shift dress, knees bent under her and head rested on the brown cushion.

Everyone around her is talking.

The men, Marshall and Ted, are shouting, angry, and she flinches at every harsh word. The girl, the slim brunette, stares at her, ( Read more... )

Miracles

He's tied up: Left wrist crossed over right wrist, fixed above his head. There are handcuffs - the metal rattles as he moves his hands.

"Relax, James…" The voice says. James… James… he knows that name. There's a syringe on the bedside table, plunger depressed. There's a sting in the crook of his arm. But it's his name. ( Read more... )

Tag

Zulu is… dissatisfied.

When it is time for her to see Dr Saunders, Whiskey is there. And Whiskey isn't normal-Whiskey, he's Whiskey-in-the-white-coat, which makes her… uncomfortable. Because when she sees him, she feels… fluttery. She… there are images, in her mind… of Whiskey and Dr Saunders. And Zulu feels like ( Read more... )

Watching

"You hateful little man!"

Zulu looked up, craning her neck, noticing the raised voices and the commotion in one of the glass-fronted rooms above her.

"You hateful, hurtful little man!" Dr Saunders, who Zulu had never heard raise her voice above a gentle whisper, was shouting, crying. She was very upset.

( Read more... )

Closure

Everything is dark and muzzy. He doesn’t know who he is, where he is, which way's up, even. He cracks open one eyelid.

Doesn't help.

Except… he knows this place, this tiny basement full of shadows. Just like he knows his own name but he can't seem to find the actual words.

He's tied to a chair. He ( Read more... )