Challenge Prompts # 48, 50, 53, 57, 58, 59, 63
title: Hide-N-Seek
word count: 100
fandom: Dresden Files
challenge: #048 - Games
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: Season 7 for BtVS, it’s all game in the Dresden Files universe. (Jim Butcher Rocks!!!)
Word Count: 100
Prompt: #048 - Games
Banished outside while Buffy was talking business with the wizard? Annoying but normal. Losing a magical game of hide-n-seek? Embarrassing.
Dresden’s apprentice, Molly, had a flair for veils. She also happened to be the oldest of a gazillion kids, so she knew how to hide.
Willow had been trying to teach her how to use her ‘Keyness’ to see past magical illusions, but it was hard and Dawn was lazy.
Now Dawn needed to use the lessons to win. She had a feeling that Buffy was being sneaky with the training.
Dawn was not about to lose this child’s game.
*
title: The Unlikeliest of Emergency Vehicles
word count: 200
fandom: Dukes of Hazards
challenge: #050 - Going for a ride
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: Post Chosen for BtVS, nothing really for Dukes of Hazards. It’s hard to spoil something in a hundred words, ever notice that?
Word Count: 200
Prompt: #050 - Going for a ride
Sam Finn was stuck. Her car refused to start, an apocalypse was happening a hundred miles away and she was stuck in hillbilly country.
“Hi, little lady.”
Sam restrained a groan and turned around. A blond hillbilly bad boy was leaning out of the window of a bright orange classic car with a Confederate Flag painted atop. “I’m Bo Duke. You look like you need help.”
“I need to get to Macomb ASAP. Can you give me a ride?”
“Sure, climb on in.” Sam hurried to the passenger door. “Ah, you have to climb in the window.”
Sam sighed, stuck her legs through and slid inside. In the process, her shirt got caught and her sidearm was revealed. Sam settled inside and Bo was still staring at her. “That’s a big gun.”
“I know how to use it.”
“I don’t doubt that. ‘Round here, we expect our girls to know guns.”
“Can we go? And hurry. Something bad’s going to happen.”
“Sure thing.” Bo spun out and was soon speeding down a gravel path. Then he drove even faster off-roading.
“You’re a… faster driver than even a Slayer.”
“Why thank you. I aim to please. ‘Specially since it’s an emergency.”
*
title: Wicked in a Good Way
word count: 100
fandom: The Musical Wicked
challenge: #053 - Green
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: Post Chosen for BtVS, after the entire play ‘Wicked’
Word Count: 100
Prompt: #053 - Green
Elphaba didn’t want a ‘double date’ with the couple her lover had met. Seriously, a good vampire and a Slayer named Buffy? Eating with the Wicked Witch of the West and lover?
They’d have nothing in common.
She and Fiyero should socialize, but she wasn’t ready. Would she ever? Glinda had been Elphaba’s only friend but the Good Witch couldn’t know that she lived.
Elphaba was a little greener than normal as she waited.
Buffy was blonde. “Are you wicked?”
“I’ve always tried to do good.”
“’Kay. What do you know about talking animals?”
Elphaba forgot about green and blonde.
*
title: Aren't I Too Young For This?
word count: 100
fandom: HIghlander
challenge: #057 - Remembrance
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: Season 6-7 for BtVS (I’m not sure when we learned the name of the Slayer preceeding Buffy), and nothing much for Highlander
Word Count: 100
Prompt: #057 - Remembrance
Richie Ryan nearly fell out of his chair laughing when he realized what he was doing. How many times had Duncan or Adam gotten lost in a memory? Too many to count. So when Richie looked up at a clock and saw that an hour had passed, he had to chuckle.
In the end, Richie put the sword and the memory of the girl -not a damsel needing rescued- away in a locked box. The girl had saved his ass and then died a month later. She had sent Richie her sword. Why?
He also wondered what had killed India.
*
title: Arcade People
word count: 100
fandom: NUMB3RS
challenge: #058 - First impressions
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: None. After Chosen, Season 3 for NUMB3RS
Word Count: 100
Prompt: #058 - First impressions
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt was surprised to see anyone at his favorite game in the arcade. It was not nearly as new or graphically advanced as the others. The girl was playing it wasn’t the normal geek either, she wasn’t wearing pigtails though she was wearing all black. If Megan had asked for a surface impression, Larry would have had to admit that she was a ‘hot, biker chick.’
So what was she doing at his arcade game?
Larry peeked over her shoulder. His jaw dropped. His high score was no longer the highest by far.
Obviously, the stranger was winning.
*
title: Lover's Bones
word count: 100
fandom: BONES
challenge: #059 - Oops
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: Season 6-7 for BtVS, and nothing much for Bones
Word Count: 100
Rating: Higher than normal, PG-15? For my morbid sense of humor.
Prompt: #059 - Oops
Dr. Brennan, AKA Bones, stared at the deceased pair on the bed in confusion. The petite woman’s flesh had decomposed weeks ago. The peroxide-blond man might have died yesterday, perhaps of starvation. The male was hugging the female as if trying to follow her to eternity. There was desperation in his grip and his tightly closed eyes. They would separate them in the morgue.
Bones had the pair carried out into the sunlight. She turned to get a body bag. When she turned back, there were only the female’s bones and a smoking space where the man used to be.
*
title: Getting to Know You
word count: 100
fandom: SG1
challenge: #062 - Things that go BOOM
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: Post Chosen for BtVS, nothing really for SG1
Word Count: 100
Prompt: #062 - Things that go BOOM
Daniel was playing peacemaker between SG1 and the new ‘specialist’ team. No snarling at the moment, so… improvement. Daniel had mixed-up the two teams to make two new ones and they were playing Pyramid. The goal was to guess the category before the timer sounded. It was helping break the ice.
Teal’c and the Council’s Oz were definitely the best ones at the game. They were both cool, calm and had listened more than they had spoken in the last tense weeks.
“Buffy’s rocket launcher,” Oz said. “Our high school, any planet, asteroid, or star that gets in Carter’s way.”
*
word count: 100
fandom: Dresden Files
challenge: #048 - Games
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: Season 7 for BtVS, it’s all game in the Dresden Files universe. (Jim Butcher Rocks!!!)
Word Count: 100
Prompt: #048 - Games
Banished outside while Buffy was talking business with the wizard? Annoying but normal. Losing a magical game of hide-n-seek? Embarrassing.
Dresden’s apprentice, Molly, had a flair for veils. She also happened to be the oldest of a gazillion kids, so she knew how to hide.
Willow had been trying to teach her how to use her ‘Keyness’ to see past magical illusions, but it was hard and Dawn was lazy.
Now Dawn needed to use the lessons to win. She had a feeling that Buffy was being sneaky with the training.
Dawn was not about to lose this child’s game.
*
title: The Unlikeliest of Emergency Vehicles
word count: 200
fandom: Dukes of Hazards
challenge: #050 - Going for a ride
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: Post Chosen for BtVS, nothing really for Dukes of Hazards. It’s hard to spoil something in a hundred words, ever notice that?
Word Count: 200
Prompt: #050 - Going for a ride
Sam Finn was stuck. Her car refused to start, an apocalypse was happening a hundred miles away and she was stuck in hillbilly country.
“Hi, little lady.”
Sam restrained a groan and turned around. A blond hillbilly bad boy was leaning out of the window of a bright orange classic car with a Confederate Flag painted atop. “I’m Bo Duke. You look like you need help.”
“I need to get to Macomb ASAP. Can you give me a ride?”
“Sure, climb on in.” Sam hurried to the passenger door. “Ah, you have to climb in the window.”
Sam sighed, stuck her legs through and slid inside. In the process, her shirt got caught and her sidearm was revealed. Sam settled inside and Bo was still staring at her. “That’s a big gun.”
“I know how to use it.”
“I don’t doubt that. ‘Round here, we expect our girls to know guns.”
“Can we go? And hurry. Something bad’s going to happen.”
“Sure thing.” Bo spun out and was soon speeding down a gravel path. Then he drove even faster off-roading.
“You’re a… faster driver than even a Slayer.”
“Why thank you. I aim to please. ‘Specially since it’s an emergency.”
*
title: Wicked in a Good Way
word count: 100
fandom: The Musical Wicked
challenge: #053 - Green
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: Post Chosen for BtVS, after the entire play ‘Wicked’
Word Count: 100
Prompt: #053 - Green
Elphaba didn’t want a ‘double date’ with the couple her lover had met. Seriously, a good vampire and a Slayer named Buffy? Eating with the Wicked Witch of the West and lover?
They’d have nothing in common.
She and Fiyero should socialize, but she wasn’t ready. Would she ever? Glinda had been Elphaba’s only friend but the Good Witch couldn’t know that she lived.
Elphaba was a little greener than normal as she waited.
Buffy was blonde. “Are you wicked?”
“I’ve always tried to do good.”
“’Kay. What do you know about talking animals?”
Elphaba forgot about green and blonde.
*
title: Aren't I Too Young For This?
word count: 100
fandom: HIghlander
challenge: #057 - Remembrance
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: Season 6-7 for BtVS (I’m not sure when we learned the name of the Slayer preceeding Buffy), and nothing much for Highlander
Word Count: 100
Prompt: #057 - Remembrance
Richie Ryan nearly fell out of his chair laughing when he realized what he was doing. How many times had Duncan or Adam gotten lost in a memory? Too many to count. So when Richie looked up at a clock and saw that an hour had passed, he had to chuckle.
In the end, Richie put the sword and the memory of the girl -not a damsel needing rescued- away in a locked box. The girl had saved his ass and then died a month later. She had sent Richie her sword. Why?
He also wondered what had killed India.
*
title: Arcade People
word count: 100
fandom: NUMB3RS
challenge: #058 - First impressions
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: None. After Chosen, Season 3 for NUMB3RS
Word Count: 100
Prompt: #058 - First impressions
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt was surprised to see anyone at his favorite game in the arcade. It was not nearly as new or graphically advanced as the others. The girl was playing it wasn’t the normal geek either, she wasn’t wearing pigtails though she was wearing all black. If Megan had asked for a surface impression, Larry would have had to admit that she was a ‘hot, biker chick.’
So what was she doing at his arcade game?
Larry peeked over her shoulder. His jaw dropped. His high score was no longer the highest by far.
Obviously, the stranger was winning.
*
title: Lover's Bones
word count: 100
fandom: BONES
challenge: #059 - Oops
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: Season 6-7 for BtVS, and nothing much for Bones
Word Count: 100
Rating: Higher than normal, PG-15? For my morbid sense of humor.
Prompt: #059 - Oops
Dr. Brennan, AKA Bones, stared at the deceased pair on the bed in confusion. The petite woman’s flesh had decomposed weeks ago. The peroxide-blond man might have died yesterday, perhaps of starvation. The male was hugging the female as if trying to follow her to eternity. There was desperation in his grip and his tightly closed eyes. They would separate them in the morgue.
Bones had the pair carried out into the sunlight. She turned to get a body bag. When she turned back, there were only the female’s bones and a smoking space where the man used to be.
*
title: Getting to Know You
word count: 100
fandom: SG1
challenge: #062 - Things that go BOOM
By: PaBurke
Disclaimer: No infringement intended. I’m just playing, no profit involved. If you recognize the characters, they’re not mine.
Distribution: The Nook, tthdrabbles
Spoilers: Post Chosen for BtVS, nothing really for SG1
Word Count: 100
Prompt: #062 - Things that go BOOM
Daniel was playing peacemaker between SG1 and the new ‘specialist’ team. No snarling at the moment, so… improvement. Daniel had mixed-up the two teams to make two new ones and they were playing Pyramid. The goal was to guess the category before the timer sounded. It was helping break the ice.
Teal’c and the Council’s Oz were definitely the best ones at the game. They were both cool, calm and had listened more than they had spoken in the last tense weeks.
“Buffy’s rocket launcher,” Oz said. “Our high school, any planet, asteroid, or star that gets in Carter’s way.”
*