Double Drabbles (Spirited Away, Torchwood, Utena)
Three more for 31_days_Exchnge, all double drabbles. Master list is here.
Broken Contract, prompt: 21. liars will have their tongues cut off
Yubaba's rage shook the bathhouse. Haku stood silently next to the witch as they watched the object of Yubaba's ire prostrate herself.
A servant girl had dared to accept a tip from a customer. Tips were not unusual, but everyone knew they were supposed to give almost all of the gold back to the bathhouse. This girl hadn't followed procedure, instead hiding the treasure away to keep.
Yubaba's hands reached up to tear up the girl's contract, and the girl wailed, begging to be given another chance. Yubaba snorted and twisted her fingers, magically silencing the girl for a moment.
Once, when Haku had been more merciful, he might have felt pity. Now all he could feel was contempt, because only an idiot didn't understand that Yubaba knew everything that took place within the bathhouse walls.
"You've broken the contract, you slime," Yubaba snapped. "Which means you've forfeited your name and place here."
The sound of paper ripping echoed through the room, and the girl screamed like she was being murdered. Haku knew death would be a kinder fate; the wailing spirit was now doomed to be forever nameless, and always a slave to Yubaba without a trace of hope.
How In Hell Do You Hit That?, prompt: 29. why, you're more handsome than a, uh...
While Owen had nothing against Jack's bisexual habits (hell, Owen swung both ways himself), he did think omnisexuality pushed things sometimes. As far as Owen could tell, as long as it had a hole, Jack would hit it. The idea of screwing a Dwkdjlkcmlkm (a species which hadn't discovered vowels) made him queasy. He didn't even want to contemplate how to put things together to reach the Big O.
Jack swore up and down Owen didn't know what he was missing. Owen replied that having sex with something that resembled Swiss cheese wasn't on his list to do before he died. Jack had smirked, and thankfully next time had shown up with two very hot (but human) twin acrobats. He figured Jack had made his point, and that was the end of the matter.
Owen underestimated Jack's horniness and willingness to experiment. A couple months later, Jack showed up at the bar with a Gulgan, a species which was comprised entirely of tentacles. As he introduced his "date" for the evening, Owen could only stare in horror.
"Trust me, you've not lived until you've seen what a Gulgan can do with its suction cups," Jack confided.
The tentacle-thing gurgled happily.
Of Witches, alternate theme 2: you call me a firestarter
She wasn't really much of a girl, which made her eventual fate all that more intriguing. Unlike most of those wound up in the play of Ohtori Academy, Mikage recognized that Tenjou Utena wasn't much of a hero.
She didn't fit into the archetype of a prince, and she sure as hell wouldn't work out as a princess, either. Someone needed to sit down and explain the way stories were supposed to work to the girl. Damsels could not wield swords, and a princess needed a man to rescue her. There was a way things were meant to be.
Maybe she should take the role of the witch, he thought. Her strangeness would certainly suit the role, and witches were, by nature, powerful women... who ultimately were defeated by princes, and the irony of that appealed to Mikage.
Just when fancy was about to carry him away, Mikage would rein himself in and let his more practical side win. If Tenjou Utena became a witch, he wouldn't be able to face her down. There was only one sure way to kill a witch; witches needed to burn.
But Mikage had seen more than enough fire to last him a lifetime.
Broken Contract, prompt: 21. liars will have their tongues cut off
Yubaba's rage shook the bathhouse. Haku stood silently next to the witch as they watched the object of Yubaba's ire prostrate herself.
A servant girl had dared to accept a tip from a customer. Tips were not unusual, but everyone knew they were supposed to give almost all of the gold back to the bathhouse. This girl hadn't followed procedure, instead hiding the treasure away to keep.
Yubaba's hands reached up to tear up the girl's contract, and the girl wailed, begging to be given another chance. Yubaba snorted and twisted her fingers, magically silencing the girl for a moment.
Once, when Haku had been more merciful, he might have felt pity. Now all he could feel was contempt, because only an idiot didn't understand that Yubaba knew everything that took place within the bathhouse walls.
"You've broken the contract, you slime," Yubaba snapped. "Which means you've forfeited your name and place here."
The sound of paper ripping echoed through the room, and the girl screamed like she was being murdered. Haku knew death would be a kinder fate; the wailing spirit was now doomed to be forever nameless, and always a slave to Yubaba without a trace of hope.
How In Hell Do You Hit That?, prompt: 29. why, you're more handsome than a, uh...
While Owen had nothing against Jack's bisexual habits (hell, Owen swung both ways himself), he did think omnisexuality pushed things sometimes. As far as Owen could tell, as long as it had a hole, Jack would hit it. The idea of screwing a Dwkdjlkcmlkm (a species which hadn't discovered vowels) made him queasy. He didn't even want to contemplate how to put things together to reach the Big O.
Jack swore up and down Owen didn't know what he was missing. Owen replied that having sex with something that resembled Swiss cheese wasn't on his list to do before he died. Jack had smirked, and thankfully next time had shown up with two very hot (but human) twin acrobats. He figured Jack had made his point, and that was the end of the matter.
Owen underestimated Jack's horniness and willingness to experiment. A couple months later, Jack showed up at the bar with a Gulgan, a species which was comprised entirely of tentacles. As he introduced his "date" for the evening, Owen could only stare in horror.
"Trust me, you've not lived until you've seen what a Gulgan can do with its suction cups," Jack confided.
The tentacle-thing gurgled happily.
Of Witches, alternate theme 2: you call me a firestarter
She wasn't really much of a girl, which made her eventual fate all that more intriguing. Unlike most of those wound up in the play of Ohtori Academy, Mikage recognized that Tenjou Utena wasn't much of a hero.
She didn't fit into the archetype of a prince, and she sure as hell wouldn't work out as a princess, either. Someone needed to sit down and explain the way stories were supposed to work to the girl. Damsels could not wield swords, and a princess needed a man to rescue her. There was a way things were meant to be.
Maybe she should take the role of the witch, he thought. Her strangeness would certainly suit the role, and witches were, by nature, powerful women... who ultimately were defeated by princes, and the irony of that appealed to Mikage.
Just when fancy was about to carry him away, Mikage would rein himself in and let his more practical side win. If Tenjou Utena became a witch, he wouldn't be able to face her down. There was only one sure way to kill a witch; witches needed to burn.
But Mikage had seen more than enough fire to last him a lifetime.