Monday: Book Titles: Fantasy/SciFi

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Hi! I’m brumeier, and this week we’re going to be hitting the library shelves for some titles because I love me some books. Today’s theme is Book Titles: Fantasy/SciFi! Your prompts can be any book title that fits this theme, whether or not the actual book is in that genre.

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

Some examples to get the ball rolling...

+ Astro, Ensemble, Touched by Magic (Celine Jeanjean)

+ Stargate Atlantis, Any, The Atlantis Bloodline (C.A. Gray)

+ Any, Any, The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires (Molly Harper)

+ MI5|Spooks, Any, The Forbidden Zone (Tom Trott)

We use AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2016 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 1 (not very current), Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 2, or the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.

While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheets and LJ's advanced search options are available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching for in the future.

tag=book titles/fantasy/scifi

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[squidgiepdx]

Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett/Danny WIlliams, "Gravity is Heartless" (Sarah Lahey)

Fill: Task Force in Space AU

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Danny’s father passed away while he chasing a sat-hacker between Orion Station and Lunar Colony Miles-Peaceman. He hadn’t even known his dad was sick.

“I’m really sorry, Danno,” Steve said after Danny’s tear-filled vidscreen call with his mother.

“What are you apologizing for?” Danny snapped. “It’s not your fault I’m living on this god-forsaken space station, is it? No? I didn’t think so.”

He knew he was being irrational, but he was angry. And devastated. The person really at fault was Stan Edwards, and if he’d been in the room Danny would’ve happily punched him in the face. It was Stan who’d moved Grace off Earth, knowing full well Danny wouldn’t be able to leave his little girl.

“Danny,” Steve tried again, using his most placating tone.

“If they’d told me he was sick, I could’ve made arrangements.” Danny paced around Steve’s quarters. He felt like he might explode if he stopped moving. “I could’ve done the quarantine and the strength training and all that other bullshit. Why didn’t they tell me?”

Traveling Earthside wasn’t just a matter of hopping a shuttle. The artificial gravity on Orion Station wasn’t the same as Earth gravity, or the same as the gravity on the lunar stations. He would have had to plan at least a month ahead to make that trip. Now he wouldn’t even have time to get things sorted before the funeral.

“Do you think she’d leave now?” Steve asked, still maintaining a safe distance from Danny. He had his hands in his pockets.

“I don’t fucking know! She probably wouldn’t tell me if she was.” Danny kicked at Steve’s desk. “Dad was always against it. ‘I’m not a spaceman. My life is here on Earth.’ Except what kind of life has it been? Living like mole people because the temps are so high now?”

The next time he passed by Steve, one long monkey arm reached out and grabbed hold of Danny’s shoulder, stopping him in his tracks.

“Danny.”

“Why didn’t they come with me?” Danny whispered, his eyes filling with tears. “Why couldn’t they do for me what I did for Grace?”

Steve wrapped him up in a hug and Danny clutched him back, feeling like a little kid again instead of the grown man he was. His dad was gone and he never got the chance to say goodbye, or tell him how much he was loved. How Danny had always looked up to him, wanted to be like him.

He must’ve said some of that aloud, because Steve pressed a kiss to the side of Danny’s head.

“He knows. You have to believe that, Danno.”

Part of Danny wished for total weightlessness, so he could just float away from everything. But the larger part of him was grateful for Steve’s solid, warm body keeping him grounded. Steve was the only gravity that mattered.

“My dad would’ve loved you,” Danny said, his face still pressed against Steve’s chest. “He could be a crazy, heroic asshole too sometimes.”

“Sounds like a great guy.”

“He was.”

“Tell me,” Steve said.

Danny did, and by the time he was finished he felt husked out and tired, but much less angry. He was ready to break the news to Grace.

Re: Fill: Task Force in Space AU

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor Danny! So sad. Steve is so comforting, but still. Also fascinating to see a bit more of the world-building. You really are a master at world-building in brief.

Re: Fill: Task Force in Space AU

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Thank you! ::grins:: With that prompt I absolutely had to go to my space AU.

Re: Fill: Task Force in Space AU

[squidgiepdx]

Awwww :(

I mean, I knew what I was signing up for when I chose that prompt, but still... Oh, poor Danny. But Steve's there to help him, and that's all that matters.

That was damned good. Thank you!

Re: Fill: Task Force in Space AU

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased you liked it, thank you!