Monday: Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone

[havenward.livejournal.com]

Hey guys! This is havenward sliding in to cover for today. (Sorry, this week's host! Hope to hear from you tomorrow!)

They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but is that always true? Today's theme is about people being apart, or having to part ways for whatever reason. On the heart heavy side, maybe someone died. Maybe someone's trying to find who they are, or trying to get back to the ones they care about most. Maybe it's about love lost, or a reincarnation cycle that's skipped a beat. There's a lot of ways to do it, so let's see what you've got!


Just please remember to follow the usual rules.

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

No spoilers in your prompt for up to 1 week from the original air/publication date. If there's spoilers in the fic, please warn in bold and leave up to 3 spaces.

For the love of your code monkeys, please format your prompts. For example:

Firefly, Inara, the Guildhouse is solid and unmoving (and nothing close to Serenity)

Burn Notice/Leverage, Michael/Eliot, "Been a while." "Yeah, not since that thing in Venezuela with the running. And the guns."

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Happy prompting!

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[havenward.livejournal.com]

Firefly, Inara, the Guildhouse is solid and unmoving (and nothing close to Serenity)

you can't miss what you left behind (pg, hints of inara/mal)

[vixys.livejournal.com]

The girls treat her like she's something more, something other, because she spent so long on Serenity, in that warm belly of affection and strife. They look at her with awe (awe that's masked behind kohled eyes and heavy eyelids), and so they don't speak to her - they watch her, from afar.

Inara guides them. She is the shepherd to these little lambs. (She thinks Book might have liked the irony.)

It isn't home. It isn't Kaylee's bright den or Jayne's open lechery or Mal's brash intrusiveness (that's not intrusiveness, not really) - but it can be a home, she thinks (she hopes). This is her warm belly now, even though the walls are straight instead of curved and there is no warm engine-thrum beneath her feet.

[havenward.livejournal.com]

Burn Notice/Leverage, Michael/Eliot, "Been a while." "Yeah, not since that thing in Venezuela with the running. And the guns."

[delwyncole.livejournal.com]

Hey, I managed to work the prompt in word for word, but I did break the dialogue a little bit differently. Also, my brain just keeps going and going with this one, so there may be something much much longer at some point.


"Are you here for me?" Michael says in a soft, uninterested tone, as if he's not holding a gun to a man's head.

The body in front of him moves, lightning fast. Duck, spin, grab. "You always did like things a little too up close and personal." Eliot has successfully disarmed Michael, or at least taken away this gun, but he's managed to get himself locked into a pretty effective hold in the process.

"And you always were predictable with that spin move." Michael's grip tightens. "Are you here for me?" There's a cold edge to the voice now, not just the normal paranoia of a spy, but a different wariness born out of betrayal and rage.

"In a manner of speaking." Eliot says, soft and honey sweet, almost as if he has to counter Michael's tone with his own. "I'm not here to kill you, Michael."

Twist and shove, and they're apart again. Eliot keeps his distance. Michael's fingers twitch in the direction of his gun, but he leaves it on the floor where it fell.

"I'm not. I was offered that contract, but I turned it down."

Michael smirks. "Didn't think you could deliver?"

Eliot gives him a dark look in reply. "I don't kill my own."

"They tell you why I got burned?"

Eliot shrugs. "Showed me a file. If I'd believed you'd done any of it, you'd be dead by now. You're not that man."

Michael smiles then, and a little of the wariness leaves his posture. "Been a while."

"Yeah, not since that thing in Venezuela with the running."

"And the guns."

"I hate guns." There's real distaste in Eliot's voice as he says the words.

Michael laughs, and goes to his fridge, picking up the gun and laying it on the table as he does so.

He pulls a couple of beers out and hands one to Eliot. "I know you do." They drink in companionable silence for a moment, sitting side by side on the stacked mattresses that Michael calls a bed.

"So, if you aren't here to kill me, but you are here for me..."

Eliot ducks his head a bit, lets his hair fall forward to hide his face. It's the only gesture of nervousness that Michael has ever seen from him. He's always found it almost charming.

"I'm kinda working with a team these days. Nothing official, we just...we take care of things that the law can't or won't deal with. We've got a job, here in Miami. I heard you do some of the same sort of thing, and I thought maybe we could help each other out."

"I thought you worked alone."

"Things change, Michael." Eliot says, but he's still hiding behind that curtain of hair.

There's a spark between them, and Michael has felt it before. He hasn't had nearly enough beer to blame it on this time, but Michael can't resist the urge to push that hair back, out of Eliot's face. His hands remember this, remember the delicate planes of this man's cheekbones and jawline. His body remembers the inevitable slide forward into a kiss that is always softer than he expects it to be.

This isn't the time and he knows it, but he lets the kiss linger longer than he should. His voice is rough around the edges when he finally pulls away. "Tell me."

[samueljames]

Doctor Who, the Doctor, the TARDIS always seems so much bigger when he's travelling alone.

[alpha-orionis-v.livejournal.com]

No more companions. It was a hard decision to make, but he knew it was for the best. He loved his companions; loved that willing eagerness and will to survive that was ingrained in humans. He loved how emotional and driven they could be.

And that's why he knew that this decision had to be made. Because he loved them. His was a dangerous life, and he made no pretences about it. He never tried to hide this fact from anybody who ever followed him into the great expanse that was time and space. He told them in plain terms, as though posting a warning in 20-foot-tall neon letters, that it was Not Safe to come with him.

And still they followed. And every time, he'd grow attached, and love them. His wasn't a romantic love -- not the way humans use the words. It's more of a connection; a feeling of deep belonging. Almost as though he grew to need his companions near him to feel complete.

He knew, that with time, he could learn to live with the emptiness that came with travelling alone. He'd travelled solo for centuries and had become quite comfortable with it. And then he took on a companion, and when he saw how badly he had changed the poor girl, how badly she had suffered in the end, and how it at all been for him, he knew that his was no life for a human. Even with all the spirit and fire they posses, he recognised that they're still very fragile creatures, and he refused to be responsible for the suffering of the species he had come to fall in love with.

[cageyklio.livejournal.com]

Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, we'll meet again

[samueljames]

Star Trek, Chris Pike, missing George Kirk.

dead space. (pg, hints of chris/george/winona)

[vixys.livejournal.com]

It's not so much missing him, really. It's a hole, an empty space, (a space as empty as the blankness in Winona's eyes when he asks to hold her squalling baby,) a what-should-not-be.

(He never told him. That's the worst part - and he thinks Winona knows that, too.)

[phate-phoenix.livejournal.com]

Supernatural; Castiel/Dean;

So far away from where you are
I'm standing underneath the stars
And I wish you were here
~ From Where You Are, Lifehouse

[ltec.livejournal.com]

Castiel looks up at the sky and tries to ignore his brethren taking Anna away.

He knows Dean would not approve but those are his orders and if he wants to stay close to Dean he must follow them.

He watches the stars grown faint, the sunrise, the beauty of the World his Father made that normally filled him with such joy.

It now makes him feel empty and alone, for the only time he is truly happy now is when he is by Dean's side, no where else will do.

[cageyklio.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Sam/Castiel, cast out

Filled: Supernatural, Sam/Castiel, cast out - On the outside looking in

[hugglewolf.livejournal.com]

Even though he knows he deserves it, Sam still can’t quite believe it’s happening to him.

Even when Dean won’t come downstairs as Bobby helps him pack – giving him a spare gun and knife, some cash he kept in an old coffee tin at the back of the kitchen cupboard, and a book of Latin enchantments.

“Page 14,” he says sternly, and later, when Sam waits alone in the motel room, he sees there are two spells there written in Bobby’s lazy scrawl. One is for fighting off demonic influence, and Sam wishes he could call Bobby to thank him, but that door is closed to him now. The other makes him think thank you will never be enough, because that spell is as close to acceptance as he’ll ever get.

It’s a spell for summoning an angelic consort and keeping them safe and close.

Castiel comes when Sam works up the courage to call him, and holds him wordlessly. He can feel the anger in the angel’s body, thinks that maybe no one else on Earth right now can fully understand what’s he going through. After all, they’re both in the same boat now.

Later, with Castiel’s permission, he has the angel lie down and uses his finger to trace out the sigils he’ll put there later with his own blood. Once it’s clear of the taint – he won’t touch Castiel with it until he’s pure again.

[cageyklio.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Sam/Gabriel, locked away

[sexycazzy.livejournal.com]

NCIS, Tony/Gibbs, Gibbs starts to notice that his heart is aching for Tony while he (Gibbs) is in Mexcio.

[alpha-orionis-v.livejournal.com]

Friends, Monica/Chandler, Chandler in Tulsa.

[sexycazzy.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, Rodney & John, after Carson's death, Rodney admits to John that he wished he could tell Carson how much he loved him.

[smaragdbird.livejournal.com]

'We're all worried about you, Rodney.'
'Because I take morning walks? What a pointless waste of energy.'
'You haven't talked about it since Carson-'
'As if you talked about it to anyone.'
'You were a lot closer to him than me.'
'Three and a half year are going to take time. Nice of you to give me, what, four weeks for mourning?'
'It's not that. It's the way you behave since the funeral.'
'I saw Carson, okay.'
'You saw him?'
'Here on the pier. The morning after we returned from the funeral. He asked me...how it was, and ... that he didn't blame...'
'He was right to say that.'
'You don't understand. It wasn't a hallucination. A hallucination would come back but he doesn't....There's so many thigs I could've said...things I should've said....but I didn't. I mean how often do you get a goodbye granted by the universe, or a higher power or I don't what?'
'Never.'
'See! That's what I mean. I got this chance and I didn't tell him that I loved him. I never told him that I loved him, not in three years. I was the most horrible boyfriend you could imagine.'
'Carson was always happy to be with you.'
'I should have told.'
'You still can tell him.'
'No, I can't, because he's not here.'
'Yes, he is here. Right inside you. Tell him Rodney. Tell him.'
And John held his friend while he sobbed out how much he had loved the man that had died.

[sexycazzy.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis/NCIS, John/Tony, long distance relationships does really work.

[sexycazzy.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, Lorne/Radek, after being apart for six months, they find their way back to each other.

[sexycazzy.livejournal.com]

Friends, Chandler/Joey, Chandler is away in Tulsa and Joey misses him.

Teeny tiny drabble length fill

[samueljames]

They’d discussed it, agreed they could make it work but Joey really missed his boyfriend. Of course there was the phone and just two days ago they’d had phone sex but it wasn’t the same. He slept in Chandler’s room, thought of the smile he couldn’t see over the phone and how much he’d gotten used to Chandler’s arms around him at night.

Joey had a beer and switched on the tv prepared to spend the night wallowing when the phone rang. “Hey Chandler, miss you.”
“Me too, can’t wait to see you.”
Joey happily muted the tv to talk.

[samueljames]

CSI:NY, Danny/Don, Mac leaves them and they struggle to make things work as a couple because they each blame themselves for Mac leaving.

No fic...

[sexycazzy.livejournal.com]

...but that's an awesome prompt! ::))

[shiny-glor-chan.livejournal.com]

DCU, Tim Drake/Steph Brown, he was broken when she 'died,' but she came back early for him.

[shiny-glor-chan.livejournal.com]

DCU, Jason Todd/Donna Troy, they go back to their separate lives after...

[mokusan.livejournal.com]

Star Trek XI, main crew, their five year mission is over and it's time to say goodbye

[smaragdbird.livejournal.com]

They have their orders to come back to Earth. Their five year mission is done as soon as the Enterprise reaches the dock. It will be weird that after five years of seeing each other every day, often spending shore leave with each other, they will be pulled apart.
Some of them will stay together as they have already received their news orders.
Jim will stay captain of the Entreprise and Bones will stay too, mostly because Starfleet Command still believes that Jim Kirk needs someone who keeps an eye on him. Chapel, though, is promoted to Chief Senoir Medical Officer on the brand-new ship Indefatigable.
Scotty has offers from Starfleet's shipyard and many prestigious universities. He's keeping it a secret which offer he accepted.
The Surprise, a small scout ship, waits for her Captain Pavel Andreivich Chekov and her First Officer Hikaru Sulu. Of course, Starfleet would have been mad to separate those two.
Spock and Uhura will leave the active Starfleet for New Vulcan. The settlement needs every Vulcan alive and both of them are immensely valuable additions for the diplomatic branch of Starfleet.

The official passage ceremony has already been held and for the last minutes before they reach Earth it's just the eight of them on the bridge.
It's a strange mixture of sadness and hope when they sit and stand here and tell ancdotes with a teary and a laughing eye.
What happened to them, from their first, accidental mission where they saved Earth through all five years welded them together.
'Warp Zero. Earth.' Sulu announces. He carefully maneuvers the ship to the dock.
Earth shines blue and white and green in front of them.

Jim hugs everyone, even Spock, who raises an eyebrows but doesn't say anything. Then he teases Bones because Uhura gave him a goodbye kiss on the cheek.
Chekov begins something that could easily have been a speech until Sulu elbows him in the ribs and he stops and hugs everyone.
Chapel embraces everyone so tightly that Jim teasingly threatens to imprison her with attempted muder.
Scotty wipes some tears from his eyes and in a moment of significant history Spock and Bones shake hands and tell each other to take care.
They're the last one's to leave the ship. They stand in the dock and suddenly it's over.

[shiny-glor-chan.livejournal.com]

DCU/Marvel, Lian Harper + Young Avengers, she misses her daddy, but she'll get back to him someday.

No fic yet, but...

[dixid.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo, thanks for this prompt, I was stuck on the Lian-Marvel verse. *hugs*

[beth-soprano.livejournal.com]

Sanctuary, Will/Kate, "That's over seven thousand miles."

[shiny-glor-chan.livejournal.com]

DCU, Cass Cain/Steph Brown, it'd been a while, and they still knew each other

[shiny-glor-chan.livejournal.com]

Marvel, Bucky Barnes/Toro Raymond, death didn't keep them apart forever like they thought

[beth-soprano.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, Donna Noble & The Doctor (any) (or Donna/The Doctor), maybe I’ll pass your way again

[beth-soprano.livejournal.com]

When You Reach Me (by Rebecca Stead) (http://www.amazon.com/When-You-Reach-Rebecca-Stead/dp/0385737424/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268069306&sr=8-1), Marcus/Julia, "I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?"

[beth-soprano.livejournal.com]

Sanctuary, Kate, on her own again

[winslow-arizona.livejournal.com]

They've got Ashley back. They don't need her anymore. She tosses clothes haphazardly into the worn duffel, rushing because she's afraid somebody will come along before she can get out of here, away. Tears fill her eyes and she brushes them impatiently away; there'll be time enough for crying when she's somewhere that isn't where they are. When she's on her own, again.

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(short, sorry!)