Friday: Free For All

[havenward.livejournal.com]

Happy weekend, everyone! It's that time again - the Friday Free for All. That means all fandoms, pairings, and prompts are accepted.


All our usual rules apply, of course.

No more than 5 prompts in a row, and no more than 3 prompts per fandom. When someone answers your prompt, you can prompt again.

No spoilers in your prompts for at least one week after the original air/publication date. This is especially important now that shows are starting to come back from hiatus! If you have spoilers in the story, please warn in bold and leave at least 3 spaces.

Please remember to format your prompts appropriately. For example:

Firefly, Mal, in all these things we come undone

Burn Notice/Leverage, Mike/Tara, well that was entirely unexpected (... alright, maybe not)

So let's get things rolling! And don't forget, this weekend is one of our Lonely Prompt Challenges. Be sure to tune in. :)

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[havenward.livejournal.com]

Firefly, Mal, in all these things we come undone

[havenward.livejournal.com]

Burn Notice/Leverage, Mike/Tara, well that was entirely unexpected (... alright, maybe not)

[kawaiispinel.livejournal.com]

Dollhouse, Claire, "Like a Judas kiss, did my heart betray me?"

[chibifukurou]

Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom,killing Bellatrix Lestrange

[kawaiispinel.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, The Doctor, "Break me bind and undo me. Light the fires and renew me --
When the morning comes, I’ll rise to my reward."

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Anna/Crowley, "I yearn and I seek."

[myfloralbonnet.livejournal.com]

Sanctuary, Henry Foss, It goes ding when there's stuff. Also, it can boil an egg at 30 paces, whether you want it to or not, actually, so I've learned to stay away from hens. It's not pretty when they blow.

[kaitlia777.livejournal.com]

“So, this thing will detect the trail left behind by the Mindonka?” Will asked, holding a small, gun shaped gadget that he had just picked up off of Henry’s desk.

The Werewolf looked up from the bag he was currently stuffing with other equiptment. “Yeah. It goes ding when there's stuff. Also, it can boil an egg at 30 paces, whether you want it to or not, actually, so I've learned to stay away from hens. It's not pretty when they blow.”

Blinking, Will looked down at the device warily. “Boil an egg…You sure it’s safe to be near a person?”

“Sure,” Henry replied, then looked over at Will. “Though you might want to hold it away from your boys. If you want to have kids. If not, rock on.”

“Great,” Will muttered, walking out of the lab, the detector held as far away from his body as possible.

Once he was out of sight, Henry chuckled. Sometimes, messing with Will was too easy.

[myfloralbonnet.livejournal.com]

Merlin, Arthur & Merlin, "Why would I kidnap a llama?"
"I have no idea. You're the criminal mastermind, not me."
"What?"
"You're right. That's giving you way too much credit."

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

Dollhouse, Bennett, "Studies show intelligent girls are more depressed, because they know that the world can lie"

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Gabriel/Sam, "Now Love, the ineluctable, with bitter sweetness fills me, overwhelms me, and shakes my being"

[kawaiispinel.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Ruby, "I can’t promise to obey you. I can’t swear I won’t betray you,
Or that when the morning comes I won’t take flight."

No fic but...

[munnin-odanin.livejournal.com]

I love the prompt. Lyrics from a song?

[myfloralbonnet.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, Ten & Donna Noble, Maybe I'm just new to this whole rescuing thing, but this, to me, might be considered kind of a step backwards, wouldn't you say?

[morlockiness.livejournal.com]

Heroes/Lost, Isaac & Desmond, it's all relative

[myfloralbonnet.livejournal.com]

Merlin, Merlin/Morgana, You know, in my defense, your potions all look the same. You might wanna think about re-labelling some of them.

[morlockiness.livejournal.com]

Heroes/Star Trek XI, Mohinder Suresh/Nyota Uhura, living in competition (AU very much welcome)

[myfloralbonnet.livejournal.com]

Sanctuary, Kate Freelander/Will Zimmerman, "To days to come."
"All my love to long ago."

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

Dollhouse, any, "Everybody knows the boat is leaking - everybody knows the captain lied"

[beth-soprano.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, the Doctor (any regeneration), I'll love you forever or at least for a day

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Bobby/John, they never speak of what they do when the boys have gone to sleep.

[morlockiness.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, John/Ellen, no one like you

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

Dollhouse, Topher, "i am the pavlov dog disassembled and you are the electrical switch"

[beth-soprano.livejournal.com]

Sanctuary, Kate Freelander/Will Zimmerman, And it would help, it really would help if there wasn't some skinny idiot ranting in my face about every single thing that happens to be in front of him!

[measuringlife.livejournal.com]

Firefly, Simon/Author's choice, he accidentally calls out the wrong name while in bed with Kaylee.

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Kaylee had paused when he had said it. It's a horrible feeling, saying the wrong name, the name of his asshole ex, and it made him feel embarrassed and guilty and idiotic all at once. But she ignored it, then, kept going, and Simon wondered if maybe Kaylee was forgiving enough to forget it ever happened. Surely she knew that he hadn't meant to hurt her, that it was just a momentary lapse.

She said nothing about it in the morning either.

The next night he entered Kaylee's room quietly. They were long past knocking.

When he saw Jayne in bed next to her, her hands trailing along Jayne's stomach as she whispered in his ear, Simon felt a wave of anger and jealousy and hurt. He swallowed it.

Kaylee had her right to her revenge.

He smiled, not sincerely, and said, "Am I interrupting?"

She smiled back. "No, we were just waiting for you."

Jayne added, "It's about damn time, too. Startin' to feel left out."

Simon sighed. This had the makings of a very large disaster. If he had any sense at all, he'd say no.

But then, sense had never been his strong point.

[beth-soprano.livejournal.com]

Sanctuary, Ashley Magnus/Henry Foss, "I think you broke my nose." "Men are such babies."

[kawaiispinel.livejournal.com]

Torchwood, Jack/Anyone, "You can tell me I’m a liar -- I won’t question your desires,
I just wish I knew exactly what they are."

[storyinmypocket]

Suzie's only been on the job a week, and Captain "call me Jack" Harkness is watching her. She's pretending to be focused on repairing what she's ninety percent sure is some sort of alien video game, watching him watch her.

He gets up and moves closer, staring at the device over her shoulder, and Suzie realises then that he knows she's been watching, had probably known since she started.

"There's something you never told me," he says, leaning over her workbench, close enough that she can feel the heat of his body, but never quite touching. "What do you want here, Suzie?"

He's close enough for her to feel warm breath against her skin, close enough that she can smell him (and oh, he does smell good), and she almost laughs. It's a proposition, she knows -- or rather, something he's trying to make look like a proposition, just like weapons training, just like everything else he's done. He's feeling out her boundaries, and if she took him up on that offer, he'd be more than willing to follow through, she knows, but he'd also get another little piece of her.

"I want to finish putting this back together," she says. "Which I can't very well do with you standing over my shoulder, can I?"

He chuckles. "Lies of omission? We're not even on our first date."

She pulls a face. "Oh, sorry, were we dating? Here I thought you'd hired me. Though if that's what you're after,Jack, I'm sure there are a few women on any number of street corners that can do it better. Good luck getting any of them to fix an alien PlayStation, though."

She waves a screwdriver for emphasis, and Jack's chuckle turns into a full-throated laugh. "Hey, I'm new at this 'boss' thing. Really, though..."

"Really, I'd just like to do my job, o Captain."

"Your Captain?" he asks, finishing the quote with an expression of wide-eyed innocence.

"I suppose so," Suzie says. "I don't see anyone else laying claim, so I might as well. That's still no reason for you to get ideas." Her tone darkens a bit, a none-too-subtle reminder of what happened the last time it looked like he might get ideas, and how close they both came to losing something -- namely, his testicles, and her job.

It's not that she doesn't want him. She's not blind, and she's hardly a nun. But most men, in her experience, hide the desire for sex behind something else. With Jack, the desire for sex is the disguise, and it unsettles her. He's a smiling predator, all teeth and ego and sharp edges he thinks he's hiding. It's enough to reel her in, and enough to make her wary.

If she knew what he was after... Well. Things might be different, or they might not be. Ill-advised sex is one thing, but if it costs her this...

She loves this job. What she wants is to keep it.

"That's not an answer," he says, and she thinks she detects a hint of frustration in his voice. Good.

"No," she says. "It isn't."

"You know I'm just going to get the real answer out of you eventually," he tells her, tone just shy of petulant, but with a subtle implication that what she wants, obviously, is him.

"Will you?" She raises an eyebrow.

He has no answer for that, and it's just as well.