Drabble, Double Drabble, and a Question
My open_on_sunday drabble. It was an open prompt, but I was inspired by #3 here and also by some dialogue in maquisleader's fic End of Days.
Title: A New Addiction
Characters: Angel
Timeline: Pre-series, late 1930s or 1940s
He moves with stealth from the abandoned areas backstage into the rows of seats. Dressed neatly, he nearly blends in, but there's something about him, something unspoken and invisible that makes other patrons shift uneasily, drawing closer to their companions.
Pointedly, he ignores their anxiety, and then all is swept away. Eyes wide, he watches in awe as life unfolds before him. Suns rise and set in technicolor glory, enveloping him in beauty he thought he'd lost forever.
It makes him forget. Who he is. What he is. Just for a while, an hour or two, but that is enough.
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This one is a double drabble. It refused to be whittled down. Inspired by #10 in the list above. I felt like trying to do something other than might be expected.
Title: A Meeting
Timeline: BtVS, Phases
She's seventeen today. Chem test tomorrow, and she should be studying, but she's Bronzing with friends instead. "What the hell," Rachel tells her, grinning. "Life's short and then you die, right?"
She's been watching him all night. Tall, lean, spiked hair, in silk and leather, and hiding in the shadows. Kinda familiar, but she doesn't know why. Last year's Spring Fling, maybe, though he's too old for SHS. College boy. Even better.
She jumps when his hooded gaze catches hers, and the chatter stops as her friends see him sauntering across the floor toward her, slipping through spaces in the crowd that seem to appear and disappear only for him. He smiles a smile that weakens her knees, and it takes several seconds before she realizes he’s asked her name.
“T-theresa,” she manages, cursing the tremor she hears in her voice.
But he doesn’t seem to notice. He flashes that smile again, dark eyes sparkling, and she is lost. He asks her to dance, and she doesn’t even register the coolness of his fingers as they curl around hers. He leads her away from her friends and the brightly lit table, and she willingly moves into the darkness with him.
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I mentioned in a comment in leni_ba's LJ that the 47 in my username in various places is a Voyager in joke, and she responded with a good question. All fandoms have in jokes and fandom-specific references, and she asked what I thought some BtVS/AtS ones were. I pretty much drew a blank. Between us, we came up with CWC, "gameface" and A(us). I'm sure there's a million more, and I just couldn't think of them.
So what do you guys think? What are some other Jossverse-specific references/in jokes? Maybe even some B/A ones?
Title: A New Addiction
Characters: Angel
Timeline: Pre-series, late 1930s or 1940s
He moves with stealth from the abandoned areas backstage into the rows of seats. Dressed neatly, he nearly blends in, but there's something about him, something unspoken and invisible that makes other patrons shift uneasily, drawing closer to their companions.
Pointedly, he ignores their anxiety, and then all is swept away. Eyes wide, he watches in awe as life unfolds before him. Suns rise and set in technicolor glory, enveloping him in beauty he thought he'd lost forever.
It makes him forget. Who he is. What he is. Just for a while, an hour or two, but that is enough.
* * *
This one is a double drabble. It refused to be whittled down. Inspired by #10 in the list above. I felt like trying to do something other than might be expected.
Title: A Meeting
Timeline: BtVS, Phases
She's seventeen today. Chem test tomorrow, and she should be studying, but she's Bronzing with friends instead. "What the hell," Rachel tells her, grinning. "Life's short and then you die, right?"
She's been watching him all night. Tall, lean, spiked hair, in silk and leather, and hiding in the shadows. Kinda familiar, but she doesn't know why. Last year's Spring Fling, maybe, though he's too old for SHS. College boy. Even better.
She jumps when his hooded gaze catches hers, and the chatter stops as her friends see him sauntering across the floor toward her, slipping through spaces in the crowd that seem to appear and disappear only for him. He smiles a smile that weakens her knees, and it takes several seconds before she realizes he’s asked her name.
“T-theresa,” she manages, cursing the tremor she hears in her voice.
But he doesn’t seem to notice. He flashes that smile again, dark eyes sparkling, and she is lost. He asks her to dance, and she doesn’t even register the coolness of his fingers as they curl around hers. He leads her away from her friends and the brightly lit table, and she willingly moves into the darkness with him.
* * *
I mentioned in a comment in leni_ba's LJ that the 47 in my username in various places is a Voyager in joke, and she responded with a good question. All fandoms have in jokes and fandom-specific references, and she asked what I thought some BtVS/AtS ones were. I pretty much drew a blank. Between us, we came up with CWC, "gameface" and A(us). I'm sure there's a million more, and I just couldn't think of them.
So what do you guys think? What are some other Jossverse-specific references/in jokes? Maybe even some B/A ones?