AtS and Star Wars mini ficlets plus meme

[selenak]

I had a completely draining day involving a lot of mail. But my good twin artaxastra asked for drabbles, and lo, two came forth. (Well, very short ficlets slightly over 100 words, to be precise.) They start with sentences of hers, for she has reactivated the first line meme, which we did last year.

No spoilers beyond the third season of...

Comments

[artaxastra]

I love the Star Wars one! Oh yes! Doing something with the people who have walk ons seems to be a specialty of yours. I also like the Angel one, but since I don't watch Angel I don't get the full effect.

And of course the librarian must know that the records have been altered. That makes so much sense.

I just did your Vader one and I'm posting it!

[selenak]

I feel like such a geek, knowing the librarian's name when it's not once mentioned on screen.*g* The idea of her and Dooku and the alteration hit me when I read the script version where Obi-Wan looks at Dooku's portrait and she says something about what a unique man he was, and your line was just the perfect entry.*g*

Checking for Vader now...

[thewhiteowl]

Standing on a boat on a windy day in March, you feel the cold creeping up your fingers.

Yes, and down your collar, and up the legs of your trousers....

[selenak]

Oh, absolutely, but Arvin and me were being pretentious. He's that kind of character.*g*

[thewhiteowl]

It looks like it should be the start of an Afe-of-Sail fic, although then it ought to be in a boat....

[penknife]

XMM Rogue, at some hand-wavy future point that will probably be made impossible by X3:

Grieving ProcessLast night I got the news that my grandfather had died. It's not like it's really a shock. He was old, and as long as I can remember he took pills for his blood pressure

[selenak]

Beautiful. The sadness, and the weariness, and her being aware (correctly or not) that this invisible barrier will always be there.

She liked secrets (Alias drabble)

[alittlebriton]

She liked secrets. It was her trade, her training, her problem and her cure. It became her nature. When shrouded in a web of secrets, she felt safe and secure, a feeling she had never attained in the arms of a lover.

Until her husband, the fool. Her greatest secret, so she thought then, was that she kept her true feelings from him. He never knew what inspired her, where her true loyalties lay. Originally she felt amused when she was alone, dwelling on her deception. Month by month, though, her amusement died and she became the fake, the mask, and her secret drifted further away from her.

Now Irina knows her greatest secret is the love she bore for Jack, hidden away for so many years from everyone who knew her. Including him.

Re: She liked secrets (Alias drabble)

[selenak]

You know, the line originally came from an Alias story (not about Irina, though). Great drabble! Thank you.

Re: Angel double-drabble

[selenak]

A Darla (double-) drabble! Thank you. That was a treat.