[fic] pomegranates (3/?)

[kwritten]

fic: pomegranates
fandom: btvs/tvd/mythology (lol) (LOL)
pairing: elena/dawn (hades/persephone); bonnie, caroline, jupiter/juno, buffy/tara
word count: 5,900
summary: Hades are born, they grow, are molded. Persephone are created, plucked from the air and then hidden away. Easy to find and easy to miss.Elena ends and therefore begins. On the edge

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[kwritten]

hihi

Elena/her 6 parents is so awful and beautiful and I'm so glad that you like where I went with them.
I'm also newly obsessed with the symmetry of them
Miranda/Grayson
Isobel/John
Jenna/Alaric --- the women all researchers and the men all hunters and I just *stars in my eyes* Elena was born of books and papers and stakes and sharp things.

wrt Elena/Career - I really hope you like what comes next. Probably the next chapter Bennett will start her on a kinda cool path (I hope) (the pacing of this story is shaping up to be so bizarre)

Dawn/Elena

ALSO DAWN THE ACTUAL SALTZMAN SITTING AT A DINNER TABLE WITH ISOBEL AND ALARIC AND LAUGHING AT THEM AND SAYING TERRIBLE THINGS
WHERE IS THAT TERRIBLE SLIGHTLY INCESTY AU AND HOW CAN I GET MY HANDS ON IT?
ELENA FALLING IN LOVE WITH THIS DERPY SPAZZY YOUNGER GIRL AND THEY DATE FOR A WHILE AND THEN ISOBEL IS LIKE O_o GUYS THERE IS SOMETHING YOU PROBABLY SHOULD KNOW
GIVE IT TO ME

MORTAL INSTRUMENTS AU WHERE ELENA IS JACE AND DAWN IS CLARY AND ISOBEL IS VALENTINE AND PROBABLY AMY POND IS SEBASTIAN BECAUSE WHY THE HELL NOT (OR DARK!ALLISON I WOULD SERIOUSLY KILL FOR SOME DARK!ALLISON SEDUCING HER SISTERS SHIT AND THE ANGST AND WOE! BECAUSE ELENA IS A BADASS SHADOWHUNTER AND DAWN IS THIS AMAZING MYSTICAL DAUGHTER OF ALARIC, LIVING ON THE RUN FOR ALL THIS TIME! AND THEN THEY MEET! AND FALL IN LOVE! AND ISOBEL HAS A HUGE LAUGH ABOUT THEM BEING SIBLINGS! AND THEN WE HAVE TWO AND A HALF BOOKS OF SHIT!DARN!SIBLINGS!-PROBLEMS WITH STARRY-EYED CUDDLES AND ELENA BROODING A LOT.

i'm a terrible person

o_O

WRITE IT FOR ME?

[kwritten]

^^^

I would just like to remind everyone (including myself) that I once wrote a perfectly respectable fic about Dawn Summers seducing a kpop idol in a Star Wars-AU.

So if there's anyone that can pull off an Allison/Dawn/Elena Saltzman Mortal Instruments-AU with any degree of grace, it's probably me.

so please don't encourage it for the love of moses

[fluffyfrolicker]

i just want to be clear on one thing:

from here on now, what happens is partially your fault.

[fluffyfrolicker]

There is a club she sometimes goes out to, when she likes to have fun or when she wants to be alone, and sometimes when she wants to do both. She always takes her best friend with her. That works if she wants to have fun or even if she's trying to be alone.

The club's called the Bronze, which is a silly name if you ask Dawn, because none of it is, in fact, made out of bronze. Spike agrees with her, or more like it, he smokes, and nods along, because she rambles on about bronze sometimes, but she knows well enough the face he makes when he's tuning her out sometimes, and knows he doesn't mean any harm by it, so she forgives herself for rambling and she forgives him for slightly ignoring her sometimes. Being best Friends Forever is hard work -- they've both the scars to prove that, from that one time she wanted to climb a tree and Spike told her not to, because she'd get them both injured somehow. She shrugged her shoulders and smiled and Spike rolled his eyes and he went up the tree with her anyway. The leaves were green and soft to the touch and it seemed to Dawn that nothing that bad could happen to them in nice leaves like that. But one of them slipped, they've told the tale so many times both ways, to anyone who's wanted to listen, women that Spike picks up sometimes and Alaric, they've told them to Alaric so many times, it's wonderful how Alaric still listens every time, unfailingly, unflinchingly. Dawn's not sure anymore, from the sheer number of times they've told the story both ways, that Spike even remembers it was her branch that broke off and not his, and Dawn, whose body then was even tinier, went towards the ground, and Spike's even then black painted nails scraped her skin trying to keep her up the tree, and failing. It's a story nowadays, and it's just words and pictures, even - the walls two years ago in Dawn's bedroom were covered with this story, panel after panel of all the versions of it, during daylight and nighttime and with a cloudy sky and the moon as full as ever and as red as blood.

The moon, it's as red as blood tonight as well, Dawn can see, standing in the line to get into the Bronze, with Spike smoking one cigarette after the other, tapping his foot and scanning the crowd.

The line moves. everyone around them is dressed up -- everyone's always dressed up for the bronze - there's not much else to go to in this town anyway. Leather jackets, black silk dresses, piercings, combat boots. There's all sorts of people here -- most of them dressed up a bit more than Dawn and slightly less than Spike. Spike's got more make-up on than she does, and it's a wonder to behold, as it should be, after all those make-up tutorials Spike has watched, propped up on Dawn's pillows and taking up her precious bed real estate, usually stopped only by Alaric knocking on the bedroom door, a bit tired, reading glasses on, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and really most workdays, stern but still kind, reminding them both it's a school night, and maybe Spike really should go home before his parents forget about him. (After a while, Spike and Dawn stop correcting Alaric when he says parents instead of adoptive parents.)

"You see anyone you like?" Dawn asks Spike once they've entered the Bronze, the stage to their left, still no musicians on it, but a pair of technicians carrying the instruments onto the stage.

[fluffyfrolicker]

As she's saying this, two girls catch her eye. The first thing she notices about them are their heights. The girls both seem like they'd be of average height usually, but right now, Dawn can vaguely see through the crowd, they're wearing impossibly high above-the-knees boots (seriously, showoffs, really) and impossible short black dresses. That's even more mean-looking than the average crowd here at the Bronze, and the average crowd at the Bronze is a lot meaner looking than most. But, truth be told, the mean vibe's probably coming from the way they're walking. Long, beautiful hair flowing out from underneath both their hoods -- hoods, those are weird too, for a club -- and the steady way in which they're walking where ever they may be headed. Much too calm and determined for the Bronze -- even this early in the night. One of them stops to signal something to the other, but Dawn can't see what it is, and then both of them make a turn right into the storage room, where just before them, a boy and a girl walked in. Right. Not suspicious at all. And then, one of the girls -- from somewhere, Dawn has no idea where -- pulls out a knife. A long one. A sharp looking one.

"Spike - " she shouts, though Spike's already a few feet from her, which means he can't hear her, no matter how much she shouts, so she goes after him, managing to close in on him enough to pull on his leather jacket sleeve.

"There's some girls. They have knives, and they went into the storage room," she points in the direction of the storage room door. "You should go get someone."

She only has a moment to contemplate that it might be sort of weird how no one other than her's noticed two hooded girls, one of them carrying a knife, casually walk into the club's storage room. But then, again, she's pretty sure no one sees her follow them in, anyway.

The door's open, which is a bit surprising -- if there was something really bad going on in there, well, they'd probably try to lock the door behind themselves somehow. Door closed behind her, Dawn takes a deep breathe, and finally, a look around the room. But, and this is weird - Dawn can't see a damn thing inside.

[kwritten]

o_O

I will cry forever. This is so beautiful!

WHO IS THE OTHER HUNTER?

SPIKE THE TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN!!!

DAWN THE PRECOCIOUS ASSHOLE.

ELENA THE HUNTER, BORN AND BRED, ABUSED AND LEFT BEHIND.

YOU ARE TOO GOOD TO MEEEEEEE!!!!

[fluffyfrolicker]

i felt so awful for a little while, like "what if kelsey wants to write this and now i have deterred her, noooooo"

but then i realized it was silly and that nothing could deter you from this if you wanted it, because you're kickass, but i might try to continue writing this anyway

LISTEN, I ACTUALLY HAVE ZERO IDEA WHO THE OTHER HUNTER IS. my mind's screaming rebekah occasionally, but dunno

SPIKE SPIKE SPIKE, BFFs, WITHOUT THE SILLY FALLING-IN-LOVE-WITH-HER PLOTLINE, JUST BFFs CLIMBING TREES AND CHECKING OUT GIRLS

DAWNIE DAWNIE DAWNIE

ELENA MY GIRL. I WANT HER TO BROOD SO MUCH.

I TRY.

i might have made a pact with myself to write at least a thousand words of this a day for a while at least, to see how it's going

i might have decided that dark!allison=sebastian is the best thing to have ever happened upon us

i need to include amy pond somehow

[kwritten]

I HOPE YOU CONTINUE WRITING THIS!!!

(if you want, we could switch off chapters and work on it together?)

LISTEN, I THOUGHT "WULL OFC IT'S CAROLINE" BUT THEN WHAT IF IT IS BONNIE!? WHAT IF BONNIE IS ISABELLE AND CAROLINE IS ALEC AND THEN

REBEKAH IS MAGNUS

SPIKE SPIKE SPIKE IS SO GREAT!

ELENA DESERVES TO BROOD. WE ALL DESERVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE HER BITTER AND BROODY.

(Listen what if Amy was Tessa and 11/Rory/Amy were Tessa/Jem/Will? BECAUSE THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE) ((and okay I know that Tessa isn't strictly involved in the TMI universe as much as she should be and mostly Jem just wanders around throwing temper tantrums about people not listening to Tessa, his most precious girlfriend, but if we were writing it, then Tessa could come into play earlier and it would make so much sense for Amy and Rory to be the Immortal Warriors who take the Shadowhunter world under their wings so much earlier and IDK STOP SOME OF THE RIDICULOUS THINGS FROM HAPPENING?!)

[fluffyfrolicker]

+ i need to brush up on my tMI memories/knowledge before i see about tessa=amy, i hardly remember tessa off the top of my head :(

ALSO ALSO I MEANT TO ASK YOU IF YOU WANTED TO COLLABORATE ON THIS. I MEAN, I WON'T TRY TO FORCE YOU OR ANYTHING, BUT IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, I'D LOVE IT

MY MIND KEEPS SWIRLING WITH CARO AND BONNIE AND REBEKAH AND REBEKAH AS MAGNUS WOULD WORK SO SO WELL, I THINK.

[kwritten]

Tessa is really from Infernal Devices she's... basically she's like a "normal girl" who finds out that she's actually a warlock and doomed to immortality AFTER FALLING IN LOVE WITH TWO SHADOWHUNTERS who both love her TO DEATH. (honestly doris this ot3 is disgusting AND CANON) and then... I won't spoil it because you should read it

But! Tessa appears in the later TMI books, and in the end is the one who saves the day. And JEM. Jem is the Silent Brother that Jace turns mortal. And you will ADORE him, okay? sass master extraordinaire.

YES LET'S COLLAB. HOW SHOULD WE DO THIS.

REBEKAH AS MAGNUS IS THE ONLY OPTION. (I hate how WHITE the cast of tvd is, tho.)

[fluffyfrolicker]

I SHALL READ IT

LET'S COLAB.

REBEKAH AS MAGNUS IT IS. though, i want to do something with her hair.

ALSO I MAY HAVE MADE A BANNER FOR THIS STORY THIS MORNING

I SHALL POST IT FOR YOU

ALSO

HOW TO COLAB

google docs, obviously, for starters :D

ALSO LOOK

[kwritten]

YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY MY FAVORITE THING IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE!!!!!!

Yes, let's collab. I'm so excited.

[fluffyfrolicker]

i spent an embarrassing amount of time picking out images for this banner

THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST.

i'm going to pm you my email address in case you don't have it, though you definitely have it due to the multigenfic exchanges.

ALSO OH THIS IS SO EXCITING

[rosaxx50]

I SHALL READ IT

And then the two of you will write me heartbreaking but lovely ot3 fic right.

[kwritten]

That's the ultimate goal, I think. We're dealing with some casting things behind the scenes, but once we get sorted who is who and how canon is going to change, it'll be a thing.

[rosaxx50]

It'd be nice to take my mind off from its current obsession with Shards of Hope. Though, honestly, I did this to myself. Every time I read a Psy-Changeling book I feel like rereading the entire series, and I've spent my past few days rereading bits of SoH, but also book 3 and 8 because they're my favs too.

(Though I completely missed the mention of 11/Amy/Rory. I'm just here from Jem/Will/Tessa vibes 150% of the time)