[meme] invent-a-ship!
From here.
[House, BtVS, SGA, WW, VMars, Sports Night, X-Men, Firefly; no serious spoilers except maybe S2 Sports Night?]
1. Gregory House and Rupert Giles - met once, a long time ago, under circumstances neither cares to remember, and got into a drinking competition that ended with both of them passed out on the floor and a very unhappy warlock named Ethan picking up the tab. When Lisa Cuddy arrived to fetch House the next morning, she was even madder than Ethan, which Ripper hadn't even thought possible.
2. Rodney McKay and Winifred Burkle - in the AU of happiness where Fred does her doctoral work under McKay instead of Sidell, he is snarky and frustrated and angry with her because she's so, so good and he feels intimidated but he comes to have a grudging respect for her and though she spends about three months going home in tears, something finally cracks between them and she smiles at something he says and then in a horrible, nauseous flash, Fred realizes she has a crush on this man who's been making her life miserable. So at a departmental Christmas party, Fred gets a little wasted and McKay remains stone-sober and sits in a corner sulking and then Fred comes over to him and starts flirting but he doesn't get it and she's his grad student and then she kisses him. YAY. And then they done sex.
3. Dana Whitaker and Lisa Cuddy - they get together with some other women from their alma mater once a month somewhere in North Jersey to get very drunk and complain about their jobs. Cuddy thinks Dana is a bit of a flake, and Dana thinks Cuddy is a bit of a bitch, but when Dana comes to the meeting in tears because her stupid dating plan has backfired, Cuddy's all sympathy, and when Cuddy arrives in battle mode because of something House said, Dana's all ready to head to the hospital with her and teach him a thing or two because no one messes with the girls.
4. Teyla and Inara - In an effort to prove that they really thought Teyla was just one of the guys, Ford, McKay, and Sheppard conspire to buy Teyla a night with a high-class whore. Teyla is not amused, and she and Inara spend the evening thinking of subtle and not-so-subtle ways that Teyla could get revenge on them.
5. Tara McClay and CJ Cregg - Her senior year in high school, Tara wins an essay contest about What Freedom Means To Me (look, it wasn't their idea, and Tara's essay was deeper than most, and incredibly well written, and more personal than anyone expected) and is invited to the White House as part of her prize, the rest of which is a scholarship that eventually lands her in UC-Sunnydale. In the meantime, Tara meets CJ at the White House and turns into this stammering mass of nerves that can't possibly be right because she knows she's gay but CJ is better than 40 and besides, what could they possibly have to talk about? But when she shakes CJ's hand and when CJ tells her that her essay really moved her, and the words don't sound glib but heartfelt, Tara's heart skips a little and she knows that whatever happens at college, this moment will define her forever.*
6. Jean Grey and River Tam - When Magneto travels through time and space to assemble an army of super-villains, the hearty X-Men must retaliate in kind! Hank McCoy (also known as Beast!) creates a time machine, and the X-Men prepare for their first mission to the future! But the machine breaks, abandoning our heroes in a deserted region of space... and monsterous cannibal aliens have spotted them! Just when things are at their most dire, help arrives in the form of Serenity, the sorriest-looking spaceship Wolverine has ever seen. Working together, the two teams manage to evade the Reavers... this time!
While Hank and shiny, starry-eyed Kaylee Frye work to repair the time machine and return the intrepid X-Men to the place now called Earth-That-Was, Jean Grey explores the ship, trying to find the source of the uncomfortable psychic reverberations that assail her! She discovers... a young mutant! River Tam is heavily sedated and in deep pain, unable to make sense of the constant assaults on her psyche from the emotions and thoughts of her fellow crew-members. Jean feels sympathy for the girl... could she be remembering another young psychic who didn't know how to control her powers?
When River awakes, Jean asks her brother's permission to help her explore her powers safely. Jean lets her way gently into River's brain, careful not to flinch at the memories of unspeakable horror that she encounters. Slowly, she blocks all external stimulii and let's River relax, finally, alone with her thoughts, scrambled as they are. If she can help River...
Suddenly the whole ship lurches -- impact! Jean snaps to attention and lets River's brain function normally -- the X-Men are on alert. What could be in store for our heroes???
7. Toby Ziegler and Nikki Wood - [I'm sure I'm frelling up the timelines, but I just wrote X-Men, so...] Toby was once in a playgroup with a bunch of other boys, Robin Wood included, and their moms took turns watching them play. Toby never interacted terribly well with any of the others, but for Robin he had a particular hatred. Though younger, Robin had a repose and arrogance that Toby envied and despised; worse, he could best Toby at any sports they tried. Once Robin took a whack at Toby, who ran to Nikki, supressing a sob, to tattle. Instead of the comfort he expected, Toby received a lecture, the crux of which was, "There won't always be someone to take care of you; you have to take care of yourself."
8. Winifred Burkle and Cindy Mackenzie - They are the two finalists in a robotics competition; while their robots duel it out, Fred and Mac drink milkshakes and discuss engineering. They become so absorbed in their conversation that they don't realize that Mac's robot has removed Fred's robot's heart, and they're deep in conversation about roller coaster construction -- with plans to test the examples California has to offer fully in place -- during the entire awards ceremony.
9. Lilly Kane and CJ Cregg - CJ was once, in her old life, forced to attend one of Aaron Echolls' parties, and Lilly, who'd snuck downstairs to snag more hooch, tried to seduce her.
10. Elizabeth Weir and Lisa Cuddy - They were college roommates, but they both spent so much time studying that they couldn't tell you the other's name, let alone what she looked like. When Weir tries to recruit House to Atlantis's medical team years later (not realizing his injury unsuits him for active duty), she encounters Cuddy again and can't believe that she lived in the same room as this woman for four years without once making a move on her. Definitely time to remedy that.
*I overshared, huh?
[and with that, I am off! Have a good week!
[House, BtVS, SGA, WW, VMars, Sports Night, X-Men, Firefly; no serious spoilers except maybe S2 Sports Night?]
1. Gregory House and Rupert Giles - met once, a long time ago, under circumstances neither cares to remember, and got into a drinking competition that ended with both of them passed out on the floor and a very unhappy warlock named Ethan picking up the tab. When Lisa Cuddy arrived to fetch House the next morning, she was even madder than Ethan, which Ripper hadn't even thought possible.
2. Rodney McKay and Winifred Burkle - in the AU of happiness where Fred does her doctoral work under McKay instead of Sidell, he is snarky and frustrated and angry with her because she's so, so good and he feels intimidated but he comes to have a grudging respect for her and though she spends about three months going home in tears, something finally cracks between them and she smiles at something he says and then in a horrible, nauseous flash, Fred realizes she has a crush on this man who's been making her life miserable. So at a departmental Christmas party, Fred gets a little wasted and McKay remains stone-sober and sits in a corner sulking and then Fred comes over to him and starts flirting but he doesn't get it and she's his grad student and then she kisses him. YAY. And then they done sex.
3. Dana Whitaker and Lisa Cuddy - they get together with some other women from their alma mater once a month somewhere in North Jersey to get very drunk and complain about their jobs. Cuddy thinks Dana is a bit of a flake, and Dana thinks Cuddy is a bit of a bitch, but when Dana comes to the meeting in tears because her stupid dating plan has backfired, Cuddy's all sympathy, and when Cuddy arrives in battle mode because of something House said, Dana's all ready to head to the hospital with her and teach him a thing or two because no one messes with the girls.
4. Teyla and Inara - In an effort to prove that they really thought Teyla was just one of the guys, Ford, McKay, and Sheppard conspire to buy Teyla a night with a high-class whore. Teyla is not amused, and she and Inara spend the evening thinking of subtle and not-so-subtle ways that Teyla could get revenge on them.
5. Tara McClay and CJ Cregg - Her senior year in high school, Tara wins an essay contest about What Freedom Means To Me (look, it wasn't their idea, and Tara's essay was deeper than most, and incredibly well written, and more personal than anyone expected) and is invited to the White House as part of her prize, the rest of which is a scholarship that eventually lands her in UC-Sunnydale. In the meantime, Tara meets CJ at the White House and turns into this stammering mass of nerves that can't possibly be right because she knows she's gay but CJ is better than 40 and besides, what could they possibly have to talk about? But when she shakes CJ's hand and when CJ tells her that her essay really moved her, and the words don't sound glib but heartfelt, Tara's heart skips a little and she knows that whatever happens at college, this moment will define her forever.*
6. Jean Grey and River Tam - When Magneto travels through time and space to assemble an army of super-villains, the hearty X-Men must retaliate in kind! Hank McCoy (also known as Beast!) creates a time machine, and the X-Men prepare for their first mission to the future! But the machine breaks, abandoning our heroes in a deserted region of space... and monsterous cannibal aliens have spotted them! Just when things are at their most dire, help arrives in the form of Serenity, the sorriest-looking spaceship Wolverine has ever seen. Working together, the two teams manage to evade the Reavers... this time!
While Hank and shiny, starry-eyed Kaylee Frye work to repair the time machine and return the intrepid X-Men to the place now called Earth-That-Was, Jean Grey explores the ship, trying to find the source of the uncomfortable psychic reverberations that assail her! She discovers... a young mutant! River Tam is heavily sedated and in deep pain, unable to make sense of the constant assaults on her psyche from the emotions and thoughts of her fellow crew-members. Jean feels sympathy for the girl... could she be remembering another young psychic who didn't know how to control her powers?
When River awakes, Jean asks her brother's permission to help her explore her powers safely. Jean lets her way gently into River's brain, careful not to flinch at the memories of unspeakable horror that she encounters. Slowly, she blocks all external stimulii and let's River relax, finally, alone with her thoughts, scrambled as they are. If she can help River...
Suddenly the whole ship lurches -- impact! Jean snaps to attention and lets River's brain function normally -- the X-Men are on alert. What could be in store for our heroes???
7. Toby Ziegler and Nikki Wood - [I'm sure I'm frelling up the timelines, but I just wrote X-Men, so...] Toby was once in a playgroup with a bunch of other boys, Robin Wood included, and their moms took turns watching them play. Toby never interacted terribly well with any of the others, but for Robin he had a particular hatred. Though younger, Robin had a repose and arrogance that Toby envied and despised; worse, he could best Toby at any sports they tried. Once Robin took a whack at Toby, who ran to Nikki, supressing a sob, to tattle. Instead of the comfort he expected, Toby received a lecture, the crux of which was, "There won't always be someone to take care of you; you have to take care of yourself."
8. Winifred Burkle and Cindy Mackenzie - They are the two finalists in a robotics competition; while their robots duel it out, Fred and Mac drink milkshakes and discuss engineering. They become so absorbed in their conversation that they don't realize that Mac's robot has removed Fred's robot's heart, and they're deep in conversation about roller coaster construction -- with plans to test the examples California has to offer fully in place -- during the entire awards ceremony.
9. Lilly Kane and CJ Cregg - CJ was once, in her old life, forced to attend one of Aaron Echolls' parties, and Lilly, who'd snuck downstairs to snag more hooch, tried to seduce her.
10. Elizabeth Weir and Lisa Cuddy - They were college roommates, but they both spent so much time studying that they couldn't tell you the other's name, let alone what she looked like. When Weir tries to recruit House to Atlantis's medical team years later (not realizing his injury unsuits him for active duty), she encounters Cuddy again and can't believe that she lived in the same room as this woman for four years without once making a move on her. Definitely time to remedy that.
*I overshared, huh?
[and with that, I am off! Have a good week!