Thursday: You put what, in where... with who?

[havenward.livejournal.com]

Happy Thursday everyone! The weekend is just around the corner. But first! Today's theme is Fill In The Blanks. All fandoms and characters are welcome today. But your prompt and responses will require a special format!


For the prompt, you need to have a phrase or sentence with words redacted. For example:

Your prompt would be:
Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a physicist!

Your prompt should now appear as:
Dammit, Jim, I'm a ____, not a ____!

This is just an example, obviously. Maybe you want to remove the name Jim instead, or only remove the word doctor. Whatever words you remove must be important verbs (must be an action verb -- not "is"), nouns or adjectives, and you must remove at least one word. Think of MAD LIBS.

For the fic response, you need to at least include the prompt in the subject line or at the beginning of your comment with how you're saying the blank slots should be filled in, and then you write your fic based on that prompt. For example:

The prompt appears as:
Dammit, Jim, I'm a ____, not a ____!

You're filling in the blanks as:
Dammit, Jim, I'm a secret agent, not a mad scientist!

Your interpretation of the prompt can be as serious, angsty, thrilling, literal, romantic, or cracky as you like!


Just please remember to follow our usual rules:

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

No spoilers in your prompts until at least 1 week after the original publication/air date. If your response includes spoilers, you need to warn in bold and leave at least 3 spaces.

Please format your prompts appropriately, and keep them to a reasonable length. Keep the theme's rules in mind! For example:

Star Wars, Han Solo/Chewbacca, they need to bring the ____ to ____ because otherwise ____ will ____ to ____
Community, Troy/Abed, "For GCTV this is Abed Nadir saying: Did you know you can ________ out of common ____ and ____?"

White Collar/Leverage, author's choices, when Neal steals the ____ it hurts the Leverage con
Highlander/BSG, Methos, _____ was always a Cylon and knows all too well that "All this has happened before"

Not finding a prompt to your liking? Feel free to peruse our lonely prompts. There's plenty of good prompts waiting for a friendly author to take them up!

Alrighty, guys, let's get cracking. :D


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[havenward.livejournal.com]

Star Wars, Han Solo/Chewbacca, they need to bring the ____ to ____ because otherwise ____ will ____ to ____

[havenward.livejournal.com]

Community, Troy/Abed, "For GCTV this is Abed Nadir saying: Did you know you can ________ out of common ____ and ____?"

[havenward.livejournal.com]

White Collar/Leverage, author's choices, when Neal steals the ____ it hurts the Leverage con

Nate's perspective

[daria234.livejournal.com]

The man wears a hat that looks like it's part of a costume, but it's not, and that's just the first reason Nate scowls at him.

But then it's clear that he's there for something, and his grifter grin spreads wide and threatening, and Nate likes him even less. And Sophie is just delighted that he's there, and if that makes Nate a little jealous, then Sophie doesn't mind. She tells herself that Nate deserves it, since they just fought, and since he's acted like a egotist and a bastard yet again. At least, Nate assumes she tells herself this as she laughs too loudly (and in Nate's direction) at Neal's jokes.

And Hardison and Eliot seem to like him too, for some strange reason. Parker is shy and awkward until she learns that Sophie's con artist friend is also a thief; and when the too-charming-for-his-own-good man finds out who Parker is, he gushes and asks for her autograph, which makes her happy and proud and makes Nate want to vomit.

And soon Sophie is off to do "a favor" for her old friend, who happens to be young and good looking and romantic and sentimental and charming and polite and sociable and not drunk, all of which apparently are things to be aspired to, at least according to the way Sophie bats her eyelashes at him. And Nate tries to explain that they are in the middle of a con, and that if Neal steals their grifter, it just hurts them all. But Hardison says that he's got it, and it's a routine job, and the only grifter they need is Eliot distracting a guard while Hardison sneaks into the mainframe room. And so everyone is quite content to let this man and his ridiculous smile and his even more ridiculous hat take Sophie wherever he wants.

Supposedly, Nate is grouchy the whole time she is gone. Parker whispers to Hardison and Eliot about "Mr. Crankypants," but she hasn't quite figured out that life is not like the movies, and people can actually hear it just fine when you whisper loudly three feet away from them. Hardison just leaves hints that Nate should tell Sophie how he feels if it bothers him that badly, but Nate doesn't need to take romantic advice from a 23-year-old whose idea of a stable relationship is a series of loud kinky threesomes with a hitter and whatever guy or girl they pick up for a night. For the same reason, Nate just snorts when Eliot offers his advice: "Yeah, man, I get it, you're pissed about Sophie, but the drink's not making you any more relaxed, so maybe you should just get laid."

Sophie does come back in a few days of course, all smiles and mystery. Nate asks but she doesn't tell exactly what her "old friend" needed her for. But for the next few cons, she suddenly has "friends" at the FBI, so Nate starts to put the pieces together, does a little more research, and learns that Sophie helped bring down one of her old enemies... legally.

No wonder she was embarrassed to admit it. It wasn't her style.

Nate is relieved then, but still, he wonders about Neal, and the bevy of would-be enemies around Neal - Mozzie and Peter and all the others Nate found in his research. And Nate wonders then if maybe their team wasn't the only ones in that wide gray area between law and justice, that no-man's land where good thieves and ruthless honest men ply their trades under the radar and maybe, just a little, over the edge.

And he finds that, against his better instincts, he hates Neal just a little bit less.

[havenward.livejournal.com]

Highlander/BSG, Methos, _____ was always a Cylon and knows all too well that "All this has happened before"

[havenward.livejournal.com]

Kane RPS, Chris/Steve, he lost his ____ then his ____, and now they want him to ____ without being able to ____ first!

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Castiel +/ Raphael, I don't want to _____ you.

[csi-vixen.livejournal.com]

White Collar, Neal can't believe ______ did this, he's never felt so _____ in his life.

[modestroad.livejournal.com]

DCU, Damian Wayne, what he _____ alone at _____

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

SPN, Dean/Castiel, "Damnit Dean! I'm a ____ not a _____!

[modestroad.livejournal.com]

DCU, Dinah/Barbara, ___ is not what ____ really ____

[modestroad.livejournal.com]

Morning Glories, any/any, "This ___ is ____ as ____!"

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

SPN, Dean/Uriel, The first time they _____, it was all Dean's fault.

[modestroad.livejournal.com]

Castle, Caskett, "____ murder is like bad ____."

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

SPN, Dean/Castiel, "You know what? ____ it, Cas!"

[cedara]

Hawaii Five-0, Steve/Danny, "Seriously? Why _______ what's in ______, Steven?!"

[lmx-v3point3.livejournal.com]

Leverage. Alec/any. ___, man, you're just not appreciating the ___ of my ___

[lmx-v3point3.livejournal.com]

Angel. Any. Look it's simple, you put ___ in ___ and wiggle it...

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Burn Notice, any, spies never _____ when they can do _____ instead

FILL: The Lie (1/1)

[rise-your-dead.livejournal.com]

The truth is a sticky thing. Every time a spy has the opportunity to tell it, he'll very carefully weigh his words, hesitate just slightly, just to make it all look very natural. That's why spies are the top consumer group for cigarettes. You need something to gesture with if you want to be a professional-looking liar.

When you want to be the world's best and most efficient liar, be sure to modulate your voice and keep your gaze level. A good spy lies like the ground he walks on but keeps his eyes fixed carefully on the faces of those he's lying to.

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Chuck, any/any, it's not what it looks like, I was just _____

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Firefly, Mal/Simon, Simon was more patient than anyone could expect him to be, but he lost it when Mal _______

[scarlet-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, Kavanagh & any, He hadn't expected to find an Ancient ______ when he was exploring ______ with _____.

[scarlet-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Riese: Kingdom Falling, Herrick, He only does ____ for two things: _____ and ____, not that he'd tell anyone.

[scarlet-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Warehouse 13, team, finding ____'s ____ in an unexpected place.

[scarlet-gryphon.livejournal.com]

A Very Potter Musical, any, "What do you mean, you don't want any _____ or ____?"

[samueljames]

Star Trek XI, Bones/Jim, 'you seriously expect me to _______'