Thursday - Failures

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Sup everyone, still firefox1490 ending my round of hosting duties. Ending out my duties with some less than happy decisions and/or outcomes, today's theme is:

Failures, you know that thing you were suppose to do that ended up being a total FUBAR. Failures are failures no matter how big or small. The real question is do we regret them.

Please forget the rules:
* Three prompts per fandom, and no more than five total. If one of your prompts is filled, you may post another.
* No spoilers for new shows/seasons until at least one week after airing.
* If your fill do contains spoilers, please warn accordingly and leave enough space for people to pass by.

To help the hardworking codemonekys please format your prompts as such:

Inception, Arthur, How he missed that Fisher was militarized was eating him up on the inside.
House MD, Wilson, Three ex wives, two dead girlfriends and enough UST to choke on with his best friend, where did he go wrong?
Sailor Moon, Usagi, It wasn't suppose to be this way.

If nothing strikes your fancy feel free to check out the lonely prompts, they always need a bit more love.

[tag: failures]

Comments

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

Chuck, Chuck/Bryce, Bryce returns and sees that Chuck, in many ways, has become the spy Bryce tried so hard to stop him from becoming.

[hugglewolf.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Meg, Castiel, Sam. She thinks the angel would make an excellent pet, he'd break so prettily. She forgets Sam knows her well, can tell what she thinks when she looks at Castiel. He's not about to let that happen.

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

Chuck, Chuck/Casey (during Chuck vs. The Aisle of Terror) or Chuck/Awesome (during Chuck vs. Operation Awesome), he couldn’t save him.

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

Angel, Wes(/any), 5 times Wes failed + the one time he succeeded

[hugglewolf.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Dean, Castiel - failure to communicate.

[badgerling.livejournal.com]

Stargate SG-1, Black Team!Daniel/Black Team!Cameron (from Ripple Effect), you try living with fact your world is about to end because it was your plan that failed

[hugglewolf.livejournal.com]

Sherlock (BBC), John, Sherlock - Sherlock tries to convince John his limp is psychosomatic, like he does in the pilot - he fails because he's wrong and it's so very real (and the least of the wounds he suffered as Sherlock's about to find out).

Wrong - Sherlock (BBC), Sherlock, John, PG-13

[jaune-chat.livejournal.com]

Sherlock had urged him to run, cracking the whip of danger, need, responsibility, and adventure. And John had gone with him, dashing down streets, running up and down stairs, hurling himself across rooftops. And Sherlock had been immensely smug when he'd heard John behind him every step of the way.

The smugness came to an abrupt and unpalatable end when John almost collapsed on the damp London pavement in the aftermath of the chase.

It hadn't just been a shoulder wound. The limp had not been primarily psychosomatic. What Sherlock hadn't been able to deduce in the aftermath of John's collapse he'd quickly figured out at the hospital. The Afghan bullet had fragmented and gone deep, nicking spinal nerves, ruining muscle pathways, and causing constant real pain. It had taken months of therapy just for John to walk again the first time.

It would take weeks now to repair the damage Sherlock had so wantonly provoked John into doing to himself. Weeks in which John would be in constant agony, partially in a wheelchair, hobbling along with his cane for only a few steps at a time. And even then John hadn't said it was his fault.

His fault. Sherlock's own careless fault for trying to dismiss weakness and urge mind over matter. Even when that matter was shredded and torn. For the first time, in a long time, Sherlock Holmes felt what it was like to be wrong.

[hugglewolf.livejournal.com]

Resident Evil 4 - Leon fails to remove the parasite but with Ada's help he learns to control it. It gives him an extra edge in his work and the fight against Umbrella.

[badgerling.livejournal.com]

X-Men, Pete Wisdom/Kitty Pryde, Pete Wisdom doesn't believe in failure or regrets, except where Kitty's concerned

[myconstant.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds, Hotch/Prentiss, rewind

[badgerling.livejournal.com]

Stargate SG-1, Jack(/any), five times Jack O'Neill didn't arrive in the nick of time

[truthwritaslies.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds, Reid, Everytime he craves another hit he feels like a failure... despite having been clean for three years.

My mind turned off, the truth turned on, Spencer, G

[windycitygirly.livejournal.com]

Truth to be told, it was never too far from his mind.

When a case is particularly close he finds himself in need of it Because it's the only thing that will ease the mind, let him focus on something other than the "what if" or "how else". It was just a matter of finding the right combination of booze and mind numbing entertainment that dulled the senses. It worked. Most times.

But it's a lie if he ever says to the group that he's clean.

Truth is, he didn't want to be.

Spoilers for Serenity

[straydog733.livejournal.com]

Firefly, Zoe, I didn't get him. Maybe, somehow, I could have done something. I know I had bigger issues to deal with. But the uncertainty keeps me up at night.

[katla-frej.livejournal.com]

SPN, Girl!Sam + John(+Dean), he wonders where he went wrong

[saavikam77.livejournal.com]

DCU, Bruce Wayne, He should've been there for Jason; he knows that now, and no one will ever convince him it wasn't his fault.

[l3petitemort.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds, Elle & Reid (or Elle/Reid), he should have seen it coming

[l3petitemort.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds, Hotch/Haley, the one thing he couldn't do

[l3petitemort.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds, Elle/Reid, making sure he passes his qualification this time

[rockerbaby423.livejournal.com]

Leverage, Eliot, his job leaves no room for failure

[owleyes-arisen.livejournal.com]

Any, Any. "If you're egotistical enough to take the blame for everything, I've got some bridges I'd like you to buy."

[ivotedforsaxon.livejournal.com]

Glee, any(/any), "How does someone fail Study Hall?"

replace an empty mind (Glee, Santana/Brittany, spoilers for S2, G)

[pleonasm]

"San, I think I'm in trouble," Brittany said. Santana couldn't see her expression over the phone, but she knew the look Brittany was wearing. It was that one that Santana couldn't resist, the sad, lip-trembling gaze that always ended with Santana doing whatever Brittany wanted.

"I'll come over," Santana answered, with hardly a hesitation. Brittany sniffled.

"Thanks, S," she said.

*

Santana pulled up not five minutes later. Speed limits happened to other people. There wasn't anyone home at the Pierce household, which was just fine with Santana. Brittany's parents were as bubble-headed as their daughter; holding a conversation with all of them at once always made Santana talk in one-syllable words for hours afterward.

When Brittany opened the door, her eyes were red-rimmed, and Santana's throat burned. She couldn't stand it when Brittany cried. Brittany thrust an envelope at Santana and Santana took it, looking down at it as a reprieve from Brittany's expression. She pulled out a sheet of paper and studied it.

"Britt, how did you fail study hall?" she asked in amazement. She'd failed everything else -- straight F's down the line of grades, but Santana didn't even know you got graded for study hall.

"I think it's because I kept forgetting that you're supposed to sit still. Mr. Weidner kept yelling," Brittany said. "I don't know what to do, Santana! You know that Ms. Sylvester used to fix the grades for all the Cheerios, but... we're not Cheerios anymore. I can't fail. I don't want to repeat this year. I'd know what was supposed to happen and everyone would think I was psychic."

Santana shook her head. She reached out with fingers that hardly trembled at all, and brushed a stray lock of hair back from Brittany's face. Artie and Brittany were broken up now, sure, but things were still weird between the two of them. Santana wished that she hadn't said anything to start with. She knew this would happen. It was like they had to rebuild their friendship. And Santana was the vulnerable one this time. She hated being the vulnerable one.

"Why didn't you ask Artie to fix your grades?" she asked, knowing how defensive she sounded. Brittany shook her head.

"He'd just say I deserved it. I can't help it. Math is hard. And English. And hysterectomy."

"History, B," Santana corrected absently. She looked down at the paper again. Then she looked up at Brittany and smiled a little. "Don't worry. I can fix this. Coach taught me how to hack the system last year when she tried to fail Schue as a teacher. I bet Figgins hasn't changed his passwords."

Brittany's face lit up like a sun, and Santana drank in her joy. She'd do much harder things to see Brittany smile like that. She had done them. And it was always worth it in the end.

"You're my best friend ever," Brittany said, pulling Santana into a hug, and Santana shut her eyes and hugged back. When they pulled apart, Santana grinned.

"Let's do this," she said. "You can thank me later."

"Lord Tubbington better not be on Myspace again," Brittany said, grabbing Santana's hand and pulling her up the stairs behind her, as if Santana didn't know this house as well as her own. Still, Santana didn't let go of her hand.

"Yeah," Santana said. "He really should switch to Facebook. Behind on the times."

"That's exactly what I told him," Brittany said solemnly, and Santana smiled, just a little.

This was totally worth it.

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Crowley/Dean, they both kinda fail at talking to each other about emotions

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

Illbleed, any, do not try to apply sanity here, you will fail

[clwilson2006.livejournal.com]

SGA, Lorne/Parrish, He failed to see this coming?

[clwilson2006.livejournal.com]

SGA, McKay, failed to get a nobel, again