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Eight Seconds Challenge Entry Post

Feb 06, 2009 15:50

The Eight Seconds Challenge is now open! Post your fic, video clips, art, and pic!spams here!

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The challenge is now closed!
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Fandom/Original, Characters/Pairing, Rating, Title, ( Read more... )

eight seconds, fic

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Original, PG13, "Nothing Mainstream About It", none anonymous February 6 2009, 22:38:27 UTC

I'm curently desperately hoping someone has got here before me and posted something fannish for you ( ... )

Re: Original, PG13, "Nothing Mainstream About It", none joyfulfeather February 6 2009, 23:17:09 UTC

*flail* Awww! That was wonderful! Absolutely fantastic, and a great way to start the challenge. *twirls you*

Re: Original, PG13, "Nothing Mainstream About It", none anonymous February 7 2009, 08:21:08 UTC

Thank you

Re: Original, PG13, "Nothing Mainstream About It", none draickinphoenix February 8 2009, 14:37:59 UTC

Wow...that is really amazing. There's a lot of power in these 8 seconds, and of all the reactions someone can anticipate, I think that one is the most important.

Beautifully done!

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Supernatural, Dean (mention of Sam), PG, no prompt lissa_ann February 7 2009, 01:55:09 UTC

It took exactly eight seconds for Dean’s world to fall to ash. This was the second time Dean has seen death take a person he loved and the second time that it had taken just eight seconds.

Eight seconds from watching Sam walk towards him to seeing Sam being stabbed in the back and falling to the ground.

Eight more seconds for Dean to feel the life leak out of Sam, all over Dean’s hand.

Eight more seconds after that, Dean realized that he was either going to die or trade places with Sam. Dean without Sam just…wasn’t an option.

Re: Supernatural, Dean (mention of Sam), PG, no prompt dragonsinger February 7 2009, 18:28:08 UTC

Beautiful.

Re: Supernatural, Dean (mention of Sam), PG, no prompt lissa_ann February 8 2009, 06:14:33 UTC

*smiles* Thank you so much. :)

Re: Supernatural, Dean (mention of Sam), PG, no prompt joyfulfeather February 8 2009, 05:37:10 UTC

MEEP. Yes! Lovely and well said. *hugs Dean*

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RPS - Major League Baseball, Jason Varitek, PG, no prompt lissa_ann February 7 2009, 01:56:03 UTC

8…7…

He had been staring at the paper for over an hour, sitting in his attorney’s office. Yes, he had started this, but now it was real. It was ending.

…6…5…

This wasn’t just an autograph for some wide-eyed little kid or some foolishly grinning pink hat.

This was the ending of eleven years of his life. Actually, more than that. It was legal for eleven years.

…4...3…

With a deep breath, he put the pen to paper.

…2…1…

With a few strokes of the pen, his wife was no longer his wife, his family together no longer together, and his heart forever broken. It was over.

Re: RPS - Major League Baseball, Jason Varitek, PG, no prompt astrum_presul February 8 2009, 17:05:52 UTC

Aww, poor Jason!

Re: RPS - Major League Baseball, Jason Varitek, PG, no prompt lissa_ann February 9 2009, 02:46:28 UTC

I know. The media reporting his divorce killed me. It's not bad enough he had a really bad year, but he had this to deal with on top of it.

Poor Jason. Let's hope he can put it behind him for this year.

Re: RPS - Major League Baseball, Jason Varitek, PG, no prompt joyfulfeather February 8 2009, 22:44:25 UTC

Ooo, that's so sad. :( I really like the line about how it wasn't just an autograph, for some reason. Nice ficlet.

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RPS, Jared/Jensen, PG, no prompt lissa_ann February 7 2009, 01:57:38 UTC

Maybe it would have been different if they had been drunk. An excuse they could use, that they could turn back to if this all went horribly wrong.

It was the longest eight seconds of Jared’s life. He couldn’t ever remember time moving so slowly.

Jensen had kissed him. He had kissed him. Without any warning.

For eight seconds (and yes, he counted), his mouth was warm against Jensen’s. Jensen’s tongue pressing softly at his lips. And then it was gone.

It was eight seconds Jared would never trade for the whole world. He hoped Jensen felt the same way.

RPS-MLB, Adam Wainwright, PG, "You're Getting Traded," no prompt drummergroupie February 7 2009, 02:07:39 UTC

"You're getting traded, Adam."

His mother was breathing heavily into the phone. Like she'd been crying. The smile had a hard time falling off of Adam's face. It twitched up, then down, then up, then finally down, but it was still a shadow, a shell of smile. The words almost didn't sink in. His processing was blocked off by his happiness. He just wanted to say, "Jenny said yes, Mom, she said yes," but this was more pressing. His voice wasn't working. He made a few gulping sounds into the receiver, half-words and garbled words, an accurate tangle of emotion in the moment, and his mom translated.

"To St. Louis. With Ray King and Jason Marquis for J.D. Drew and Eli Marrero." The shadow of his smile flickered away now. He could hear Jenny opening the door behind him. He closed his eyes so he didn't have to imagine the pleasant look on her face, the happy energy coming off her in sparks. But these were the words that sank in, that ended the split emotions. These were names, players, a cityThis was a real as the ring he'd slid on Jenny' ( ... )

Re: RPS-MLB, Adam Wainwright, PG, "You're Getting Traded," no prompt astrum_presul February 8 2009, 17:05:17 UTC

As someone who's spent her entire life in Atlanta and loves baseball, this really got me. Thanks for writing it.

Re: RPS-MLB, Adam Wainwright, PG, "You're Getting Traded," no prompt drummergroupie February 9 2009, 01:07:16 UTC

Aw, thanks. I'm glad!

Re: RPS-MLB, Adam Wainwright, PG, "You're Getting Traded," no prompt joyfulfeather February 8 2009, 22:42:35 UTC

Oh, wow. :( That was very moving! Beautifully done.

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