[fic] Song Drabble Meme
Okay, so wolfalice did it first and best here (seriously, go read -- even if you're like me and know nothing about that particular fandom), but it seemed like a cool meme, so I stole it. XD.
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards!
4. Do ten of these then post them.
So...um, Anakin/Padmé + dysfunctionality, anyone? XD (PGish)
1. Inside a Rainbow - Free Fall
Saber training isn’t exactly like dancing, but the parallels are enough like it that when Anakin starts talking technical jargon, Padmé can nod and pretend that she knows what he’s talking about.
But she doesn’t - not really. She knows that Jedi train very hard to do what they do, but it’s so beyond her ability to comprehend.
So she doesn’t.
2. London - Patrick Wolf
He doesn’t remember killing her. He knows he did, doesn’t doubt it --
(--the sound of her gasps, her sweet sighs; more like she was on the verge of orgasm than --)
-- and even if he does remember it, it didn’t feel good when he did it.
3. Goodbye to You - Michelle Branch
She can’t quite say when she knew the war had destroyed him. She knew before he came back to Coruscant this last time, oh she knew. Knew it and didn’t want to admit it.
There had always been a hardness in him, something that refused to yield, but she had hoped - prayed, even, to the lost Naboo gods that only the gungans believed in.
Sometimes she wonders if she should have stepped away that morning in the garage, when he had admitted to killing the Sand People. Gotten away before the destruction had leapt from him to her.
Sometimes she wonders if he would have let her step away.
4. Bingo Massacre - Moloko
She’s still at some stupid Senate function. He’s not pleased.
5. I Want You to Want Me - Letters to Cleo
Bail Organa thought Padmé Amidala a brilliant woman in most respects, but he could not fathom the utter stupidity of her thinking when she let Anakin Skywalker get her pregnant.
It wasn’t that he thought Skywalker an unworthy fellow. He could hardly find fault with the Hero Without Fear, but he couldn’t understand how such a woman dedicated to serving her people would create such a scandal. Jedi weren’t to form attachments. He knew some Jedi did have children, but then - apparently - they were directed by the force.
Having seen Skywalker with Padmé, Bail could safely say it wasn’t the force that was directing the two of them. More like disaster.
6. Make Luv - Room 5
“Are you allowed to love?” She can’t believe she was asking that of him. But it was what everyone on Coruscant all wanted to know and never dared ask. Jedi were as inscrutable in matters of the heart as they were in everything else.
And he gives her such an answer, an answer designed to withstand a beating in the Senate, and she realizes she knows even less than she did before.
But it seems the time for talk is done as he’s turned back to his food. And it’s none of her business really, and so she turns back to hers as well.
7. Everytime We Touch - Cascada
Obi-wan tries to ignore it, but he’s not lying when he tells Anakin that every padawan in the Temple knows where Anakin spends his leave.
He can only hope that Anakin will take the hint.
But he knows Anakin won’t. Padmé Amidala is Anakin’s single greatest flaw. He knew it from the moment Anakin hit puberty, and even if Anakin’s shields have diminished the ability for other force sensitives to feel the depths of his longing, Anakin’s obsession hasn’t lessened in the slightest.
And it appears that Padmé Amidala is perfectly willing to pander to it.
Obi-wan may not be experienced in the ways of love (he was too young and Cersai too soon dead for there to be anything, and Siri and he pretended their love did not exist until it was too late), but he knows whatever Padmé and Anakin have, love isn’t it.
8. Love in Cold Blood - HIM
Anakin doesn’t like it when she wears make-up. He says it makes her look older, and he - ever touchy to any suggestion that he might be too young for her - refuses to listen to any of her arguments.
She tries them anyway: it’s traditional, it’s expected, and it’s part of her.
Anakin kicks at the sofa and grabs her hands in his.
“If you loved me, you wouldn’t wear it,” he says, and Padmé feels the cold twist of guilt in her heart.
“All right, Anakin,” she says, trying to cajole. “I’ll not wear it around you anymore.”
“At all,” he insists.
She closes her eyes. Tries not to worry about how she’s going to cover up the bruising on her wrists tomorrow. Nods. “All right, Anakin,” she repeats.
9. One Day - Hans Zimmer
Anakin knows he’s going to have her.
(He also knows she’s going to be his death, but that doesn’t bother him.)
He dreams of her beside him, dreams her into the long nights in his Temple quarters. He imagines her beside him at mealtimes, and thinks of what sort of answers she’d give to his instructors’ questions.
10. Get Up - Clara ft. Chamillionaire
She doesn’t want him to speak. She knows what he would say, and she’ll have no part in this. She’s four-and-twenty, twice a queen, and more than a woman grown.
She will not be responsible for a padawan’s downfall. Even she heard of Ferus Olin leaving the Order, what a scandal it was. It will not do to have a padawan as talented as Anakin - as important to the Order as Qui-Gon Jinn thought - to fall for something as stupid as a crush.
Of course, in her darker moments, she admits it’s more than a crush: it’s obsession. Anakin is dangerous: why can’t anyone else see it?
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards!
4. Do ten of these then post them.
So...um, Anakin/Padmé + dysfunctionality, anyone? XD (PGish)
1. Inside a Rainbow - Free Fall
Saber training isn’t exactly like dancing, but the parallels are enough like it that when Anakin starts talking technical jargon, Padmé can nod and pretend that she knows what he’s talking about.
But she doesn’t - not really. She knows that Jedi train very hard to do what they do, but it’s so beyond her ability to comprehend.
So she doesn’t.
2. London - Patrick Wolf
He doesn’t remember killing her. He knows he did, doesn’t doubt it --
(--the sound of her gasps, her sweet sighs; more like she was on the verge of orgasm than --)
-- and even if he does remember it, it didn’t feel good when he did it.
3. Goodbye to You - Michelle Branch
She can’t quite say when she knew the war had destroyed him. She knew before he came back to Coruscant this last time, oh she knew. Knew it and didn’t want to admit it.
There had always been a hardness in him, something that refused to yield, but she had hoped - prayed, even, to the lost Naboo gods that only the gungans believed in.
Sometimes she wonders if she should have stepped away that morning in the garage, when he had admitted to killing the Sand People. Gotten away before the destruction had leapt from him to her.
Sometimes she wonders if he would have let her step away.
4. Bingo Massacre - Moloko
She’s still at some stupid Senate function. He’s not pleased.
5. I Want You to Want Me - Letters to Cleo
Bail Organa thought Padmé Amidala a brilliant woman in most respects, but he could not fathom the utter stupidity of her thinking when she let Anakin Skywalker get her pregnant.
It wasn’t that he thought Skywalker an unworthy fellow. He could hardly find fault with the Hero Without Fear, but he couldn’t understand how such a woman dedicated to serving her people would create such a scandal. Jedi weren’t to form attachments. He knew some Jedi did have children, but then - apparently - they were directed by the force.
Having seen Skywalker with Padmé, Bail could safely say it wasn’t the force that was directing the two of them. More like disaster.
6. Make Luv - Room 5
“Are you allowed to love?” She can’t believe she was asking that of him. But it was what everyone on Coruscant all wanted to know and never dared ask. Jedi were as inscrutable in matters of the heart as they were in everything else.
And he gives her such an answer, an answer designed to withstand a beating in the Senate, and she realizes she knows even less than she did before.
But it seems the time for talk is done as he’s turned back to his food. And it’s none of her business really, and so she turns back to hers as well.
7. Everytime We Touch - Cascada
Obi-wan tries to ignore it, but he’s not lying when he tells Anakin that every padawan in the Temple knows where Anakin spends his leave.
He can only hope that Anakin will take the hint.
But he knows Anakin won’t. Padmé Amidala is Anakin’s single greatest flaw. He knew it from the moment Anakin hit puberty, and even if Anakin’s shields have diminished the ability for other force sensitives to feel the depths of his longing, Anakin’s obsession hasn’t lessened in the slightest.
And it appears that Padmé Amidala is perfectly willing to pander to it.
Obi-wan may not be experienced in the ways of love (he was too young and Cersai too soon dead for there to be anything, and Siri and he pretended their love did not exist until it was too late), but he knows whatever Padmé and Anakin have, love isn’t it.
8. Love in Cold Blood - HIM
Anakin doesn’t like it when she wears make-up. He says it makes her look older, and he - ever touchy to any suggestion that he might be too young for her - refuses to listen to any of her arguments.
She tries them anyway: it’s traditional, it’s expected, and it’s part of her.
Anakin kicks at the sofa and grabs her hands in his.
“If you loved me, you wouldn’t wear it,” he says, and Padmé feels the cold twist of guilt in her heart.
“All right, Anakin,” she says, trying to cajole. “I’ll not wear it around you anymore.”
“At all,” he insists.
She closes her eyes. Tries not to worry about how she’s going to cover up the bruising on her wrists tomorrow. Nods. “All right, Anakin,” she repeats.
9. One Day - Hans Zimmer
Anakin knows he’s going to have her.
(He also knows she’s going to be his death, but that doesn’t bother him.)
He dreams of her beside him, dreams her into the long nights in his Temple quarters. He imagines her beside him at mealtimes, and thinks of what sort of answers she’d give to his instructors’ questions.
10. Get Up - Clara ft. Chamillionaire
She doesn’t want him to speak. She knows what he would say, and she’ll have no part in this. She’s four-and-twenty, twice a queen, and more than a woman grown.
She will not be responsible for a padawan’s downfall. Even she heard of Ferus Olin leaving the Order, what a scandal it was. It will not do to have a padawan as talented as Anakin - as important to the Order as Qui-Gon Jinn thought - to fall for something as stupid as a crush.
Of course, in her darker moments, she admits it’s more than a crush: it’s obsession. Anakin is dangerous: why can’t anyone else see it?