Free For All

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Now it's time for the free for all!

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Comments

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Babysitters Club, Stacey McGill & Charlotte Johanssen, getting lost in a big city

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Any, any, rediscovering their faith/religion

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Babysitters Club, Jessica Ramsey/Maritza Cruz, going to church together

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Babysitters Club (TV), Janine Kishi/Ashley Wyeth, *the way I love you*

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Babysitters Club, Jessica Ramsey & Maritza Cruz, a day off from rehearsals

[cozy-coffee.livejournal.com]

Any, any, lead me not into temptation, I can find it myself.

[cozy-coffee.livejournal.com]

Any, any & any, "are you hurt?"

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

Any, any female character, periods ruin everything

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

DC, Jessica Cruz, fight or flight or freeze

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

Any, any, needy pets

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins/Bofur, fishing

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

Disney, Raya/Namaari, role reversal AU

[3am-moonlight.livejournal.com]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy Summers, saving someone without there being a supernatural reason.

[apachefirecat.livejournal.com]

She doesn't even think when she sees it happening. She's in a new city, far from home, for an art exhibit for her mother. It's a rare thing for the Summers clan to actually be recognized, and her mother's never had such a honor before. At one time, a long, long time ago, or so it feels, when Buffy had been a little girl, she had wanted to see the lights of the Big Apple. She'd actually began to think that she would never see anything beyond California again after everything she'd endured as the Slayer -- she seemed, almost, to be trapped in Sunny Cali -- and then her mother had gotten this prestigious reward. Buffy had been thrilled, and not just for her mother's recognition.

She still is as she takes a flying leap into the purse snatcher who had decided he wanted more than the girl's purse. Buffy lands on her feet, hands balled into fists at the ready. The guy's still cursing when he shoves himself up off the cold, hard concrete. Behind them, his would be victim straightens her dress, grabs her purse, and runs -- without a word of thanks to Buffy. That doesn't bother her, though; she's accustomed, after all, to saving people and never being thanked.

Furthermore, her concentration is on the guy in front of her. "You're even prettier," he says, his grin making her skin crawl. He swipes his knife through the air. "Be even prettier when I'm done cutting you open."

A rapid succession of kicks lands him back on the ground, this time weaponless. His knife had slid under a car parked on the side of the road when she'd kicked it out of his hand. She sees him eye it and steps in between him and the car. "Uh huh. It's not nice to play with girls and sharp toys."

"Bitch," he snaps, but when he gets up this time, he runs.

She grins and calls at his retreating back, "Try having a nicer mouth, and maybe you'll get further with the women!"

But she's one to say something, isn't she? She's dating a rapist now, and she's dated worse. Was Angelus really worse? Buffy wonders but doesn't have an answer. She knows, deep down, Spike is no better for her than freeing Angelus from her first supposed love's curse had been. They were both mass murderers, rapists, and thieves. They had taken Faith's "Want. Take. Have." to a whole new meaning, one she wasn't at all certain Faith wouldn't have ended up following if she hadn't convinced her to lock herself away.

Buffy still wonders sometimes how she pulled that one off. She wonders where the girl is, how hard prison is being on her, and then finds herself thinking of her friends back home in Cali. As much as she would love to run away from her duties as a Slayer, she doesn't want to leave them. Maybe when they all graduate, they can leave together. If they even live that long.

Buffy snorts and considers calling Willow just to check on them. She's left them with very stern orders to lay low and stay safe, let Spike do any fighting that must be done, until she returns home, but she knows how seldom they follow her orders, and how easy it is to get into danger on the Hellmouth. This city isn't a Hellmouth, but that purse snatcher also isn't the first human she's stopped since she's been here. A place clearly doesn't have to be cursed to be ravaged with evil.

Shoving her hands into the pockets of her jeans, Buffy's just began walking again when her phone rings. She grabs it, glances at her cell, and is both dismayed and excited to see it's her mother calling her. "Mom?" she answers, and Joyce's voice bubbles happily and excitedly over the line. She smiles and turns to walk to meet her. New York may have its own evils, but maybe she can be a normal girl here, at least for a little while.

The End

[cozy-coffee.livejournal.com]

Great fic!!

[3am-moonlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the fill! :D

New city, non-demonic bad guy, and still no thank you's for Buffy. But Joyce got some kind of non-specific award! Yay!

[creepy_shetan]

author's choice, any, counting loose change

[creepy_shetan]

author's choice, any, the last of the coffee or tea

[creepy_shetan]

author's choice, any, watching [any wildlife] outside from a window

[momma-66.livejournal.com]

Any, Any & Any, "I wasn't built for the cold!"

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

any, any, buying something for a child's charity

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

any, any, the day after the nightmares

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

any, any, doesn't have the patience for standing in long lines

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Any (please no spn), any character with chronic illness (canon or fanon), crying at finally being taken seriously about their pain/fatigue/fog/other symptom(s)

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Star Trek, The Doctor + Data, they meet after Voyager returns home and bond over Starfleet's weird attitudes towards androids and holograms

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Leverage (but not Redemption please), ensemble, arguing about adulting

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Dragon Age, any, Modern au, one or two of the cast are YouTubers and others ship the weird dynamic (think One Topic At A Time and The Click)

No, I don't have anyone in mind with this heckin specific prompt...

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Tortall, Keladry of Mindelan + Lord Wyldon, Wyldon is amazed that Kel still wants to be like him after the way he treated her as a page