The Unexpected: [Arnold/Helga], Choked Up: [Harold/Rhonda], and The Artist [Gen]
Title: The Unexpected
Author: heron_advocate
Rating: PG
Pairing(s): Arnold/Helga
Character(s): Arnold, Helga Pataki
Summary: A less-than-happy ending for Arnold and Helga.
Prompt(s): "cold water"
Word Count: 71
A/N: All of these drabbles are for ha_prompts. Everyone smokes in my older!Hey Arnold verse (except for Arnold, of course, 'cause he's so naive and innocent). I don't know why. I guess because SMOKING IS KEWL LOL.
It was like being doused with cold water.
That was the only sensation that even came close to this. He was shocked, his head was spinning...had Helga really just said that she didn't love him anymore?
"Helga, I--what?" he stammered, too confused to think of anything else to say.
"Don't make me say it again, Football Head," she said simply, crushing out her cigarette and heading back to the party.
Title: Choked Up
Author: heron_advocate
Rating: PG
Pairing(s): Harold/Rhonda
Character(s): Rhonda Wellington Lloyd, Harold Berman
Summary: Harold catches Rhonda off-guard.
Prompt(s): "I won't apologize."
Word Count: 143
"I won't apologize," he said stubbornly.
Rhonda glared across the table at Harold, chewing her food in what she thought was an intimidating fashion. Harold stared right back at her. Her cheek twitched in annoyance. She hated it when people stood up to her.
"Let me finish," he continued impatiently. He waited for her to interrupt, like she always did. When she didn't (only dabbed her lips delicately with a napkin--he knew better than to think of her as "delicate"), he went on.
"I won't apologize, because if I hadn't done it, you wouldn't be here with me."
Rhonda almost choked on the food she was chewing, but she was refined enough not to show it. She was also smart enough to know not to look up into his eyes; she didn't want him to see the tears that had formed there.
Title: The Artist
Author: heron_advocate
Rating: G
Pairing(s): None.
Character(s): Torvald
Summary: People asked him why he painted.
Prompt(s): "a picture paints a thousand words"
Word Count: 83
A/N: God, I love the episode with Torvald so much. YAY FOR RANDOM CHARACTERS THAT ONLY REALLY APPEAR IN ONE EPISODE! ;D Sadly, he's gone the way of Stoop Kid.
People asked him why he painted. What had inspired a troubled boy like him to become an artist? He told them he didn't know.
The truth was, he did know.
He painted because he couldn't write very well. He painted because math didn't come easy for him, and neither did science. He painted because he wanted to feel like he had something to contribute, something that was uniquely his.
But mostly, he painted because he wanted his mother to be proud of him.
Author: heron_advocate
Rating: PG
Pairing(s): Arnold/Helga
Character(s): Arnold, Helga Pataki
Summary: A less-than-happy ending for Arnold and Helga.
Prompt(s): "cold water"
Word Count: 71
A/N: All of these drabbles are for ha_prompts. Everyone smokes in my older!Hey Arnold verse (except for Arnold, of course, 'cause he's so naive and innocent). I don't know why. I guess because SMOKING IS KEWL LOL.
It was like being doused with cold water.
That was the only sensation that even came close to this. He was shocked, his head was spinning...had Helga really just said that she didn't love him anymore?
"Helga, I--what?" he stammered, too confused to think of anything else to say.
"Don't make me say it again, Football Head," she said simply, crushing out her cigarette and heading back to the party.
Title: Choked Up
Author: heron_advocate
Rating: PG
Pairing(s): Harold/Rhonda
Character(s): Rhonda Wellington Lloyd, Harold Berman
Summary: Harold catches Rhonda off-guard.
Prompt(s): "I won't apologize."
Word Count: 143
"I won't apologize," he said stubbornly.
Rhonda glared across the table at Harold, chewing her food in what she thought was an intimidating fashion. Harold stared right back at her. Her cheek twitched in annoyance. She hated it when people stood up to her.
"Let me finish," he continued impatiently. He waited for her to interrupt, like she always did. When she didn't (only dabbed her lips delicately with a napkin--he knew better than to think of her as "delicate"), he went on.
"I won't apologize, because if I hadn't done it, you wouldn't be here with me."
Rhonda almost choked on the food she was chewing, but she was refined enough not to show it. She was also smart enough to know not to look up into his eyes; she didn't want him to see the tears that had formed there.
Title: The Artist
Author: heron_advocate
Rating: G
Pairing(s): None.
Character(s): Torvald
Summary: People asked him why he painted.
Prompt(s): "a picture paints a thousand words"
Word Count: 83
A/N: God, I love the episode with Torvald so much. YAY FOR RANDOM CHARACTERS THAT ONLY REALLY APPEAR IN ONE EPISODE! ;D Sadly, he's gone the way of Stoop Kid.
People asked him why he painted. What had inspired a troubled boy like him to become an artist? He told them he didn't know.
The truth was, he did know.
He painted because he couldn't write very well. He painted because math didn't come easy for him, and neither did science. He painted because he wanted to feel like he had something to contribute, something that was uniquely his.
But mostly, he painted because he wanted his mother to be proud of him.