Monday: Collegiate Day!

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'Lo, peeps, it's once again my week to host (yes, you may run screaming now, but mind the cords, please) and today's theme is 'Collegiate'....

As always, please remember--only three posts per fandom, and five posts per day, unless/until one of yours is answered, in which case you may feel free to post another.

Also, no spoilers in your prompts for at least a week after airing; if your comment fic contains spoilers, please put a warning at the top and leave several spaces so that those of us who don't like being spoiled can safely pass.

And remember, our codemonkeys work hard for us, so please make their job as painless as possible--post your prompts in the correct format:


Supernatural/Chuck, Sam and Chuck, when the job turns into Old Home Week

NCIS, Tony/Ziva, his little assassin looked so cute in his Ohio State sweatshirt

Sarah Jane Adventures/Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Luke and Dawn (with everyone), overseas student exchange program families are supposed to be open-minded, right?

White Collar, Peter and El and Neal, finding evidence at the class reunion that Special Agent Burke wasn't always Special Agent Burke


Have fun, get crackin', and if the dining hall calls it Tuna Exotica... well, you have enough quarters for Taco Bell, and it's not like you were *actually* planning to do laundry, right? ;)

tag: theme=collegiate

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[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Stargate SG-1, Samantha Carter, Rodney McKay: MIT vs. CalTech

[mangacrack.livejournal.com]

Blood Ties, Vicki Nelson + Mike Celluci, the usual Chinese takeout

[tigriswolf]

Highlander/Sherlock (BBC), Methos (as Adam Bennison)/Sherlock, they knew each other at university

[cute-shinigami.livejournal.com]

Yami no Matsuei, college-aged!Muraki, getting roped into collegiate hijinks at Shion University

[mangacrack.livejournal.com]

any, any, working with Death is peculiar sometimes

The Numerous Problems of Reaping [Original, PG]

[narwhalseason.livejournal.com]

This is probably not what you had in mind at all but hopefully it's alright!

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“University,” Kora says flatly, shifting the scythe from one arm to the other and rubbing a spot on her elbow (she hopes that the skeleton is starting to come through there, it has to come through somewhere, after all.)

The skull of Death remains silent and staring… As skulls usually do, unfortunately.

“What am I supposed to do at university?” Very unfortunately for Kora, asking with raised eyebrow and continuation of the hopeful rubbing (one day she shall be a reaper like all the rest, with bones and hollow eyes instead of red hair and plump, the insult of it, skin), “sit through biology lectures and scare all fellow future corpses with my intimate knowledge of the graceful processes of death?”

The skull of Death still remains silent and staring… Perhaps she should just go to a gravestone instead, it’d be easier.

“Or maybe I should sit at my hall of residence, which needs to have a cafeteria by the way, and comment on what foods will slowly kill all unfortunate students to come into contact with them,” and so Kora is forced to tilt her head and consider. Which is, admittedly, a step up from the usual whining (she’s allowed to whine with flesh on her bones), “’today is Monday and the soup will shave nine days off your life.’”

The skull of Death is holding a monopoly on the silent and staring front… Honestly, so selfish of him.

…Her?

It, things are safer that way.

“What am I supposed to do?” Though, Kora has already decided with a flash of her terribly sharp mind, things would be a lot safer if Death’d just drop this, “Seriously, how am I supposed to act around humans? How am I supposed to listen to them? How am I supposed to go around and learn when every moment will be a battle not to tell them their death date and then laugh in their face?”

The skull of Death remains silent and staring.

…Honestly, you’d think that it wanted her to argue with it all night and all day and all night again.

[tigriswolf]

Sherlock (BBC)/3rd Rock from the Sun, Sherlock&Tommy, Sherlock's freshman roommate had been an American named Tom Solomon and nothing about him fit

[tigriswolf]

Gundam Wing Mobile Suit, 5 pilots, they stick together after EW and all go to the same college

A Different Kind of Fraternity

[anidawehi.livejournal.com]

If the president of Sanc's Memorial University had had any idea what she was getting her school into, she would have rejected the applications immediately... Possibly by setting them on fire and sending whatever poor idiot who informed the prospective students of their inadmissibility into deep, deep hiding with a shotgun and sincere prayers for his survival. Unfortunately she approved them as a personal favor to Ms Peacecraft and now she couldn't get rid of them.

Honestly, the only one that didn't cause chaos, tears, or destruction of property on a weekly basis was Quatre Winner, who was predictably pursuing a degree in inter-spacial business. Still, his radical ideas and sweet insistence that his professors were undereducated and close-minded had caused several to quit, one before the class even started.

And if the constant turn over of her business-studies staff wasn't bad enough, she had Wufei Chang literally terrorizing the Philosophy department. Dozens of students dropped out of classes they shared with him every semester and there were certain parts of campus where you couldn't say the word 'injustice' without people spontaneously bursting into tears. (The president shifted in discomfort when the memory of the head of the humanities department wailing like a child came to mind.)

Criminal Studies student, Heero Yuy had caused more problems with security than she even wanted to think about, half of which because he was pulling guns on people (And lets not get into the fact that he was carrying guns on campus in the first place) and the other half of which came from his matter of fact improvements to the current security program. His suggestion that they mount fifty caliber bean bag guns on turrets on the roof to deter student riots was carefully rejected but the head of campus security was almost humorously torn between wanting to hire the boy, and wanting to launch him into space with a giant catapult made of number two pencils and rubber bands.

Duo Maxwell was usually by his side, which made the mayhem exponentially worse, and if there was one student the president fervently wished would make up his mind on a major, it was Duo. At least then the damage would be confined to one section of the school... Unfortunately Duo wanted to know everything, and spent most of his time sprinting from one end of the school to the other, usually with smoke and explosions springing up in his wake. Fortunately the government was paying for all of the repairs, but at the rate that he was going, the president was sure they would end up rebuilding the entire school by the time he made up his mind and graduated.

For the first month after the boys had arrived the president thought that at very least Trowa Barton would be a nice, quiet student. After all, he was majoring in veterinary science and as a rule those students tended to spend more time communing with their animals than causing trouble. Unfortunately he was also taking some drama classes and once the assorted professors realized his talents in their respective realms of study, there was all out *war* between the departments. Usually she would appeal to the student in question to settle this kind of dispute, which wasn't completely unheard of, but the boy was just so terribly unnerving that she couldn't bring herself to suggest he do something about it. She was also convinced that he was the one who had taught the lab animals in the science department to bite and/or defecate on their handlers, but there was absolutely no evidence to support it except for the tiniest of smiles he got whenever he saw someone nursing a rat bite.

Yes, if she had known, the only fire on her campus would have been the applications going up in smoke, but now... Well the merits of early retirement became more and more clear to her everyday; she just couldn't take three and a half more years of this.

[tigriswolf]

Glee, Kurt/Puck or Sam or Karofsky, they randomly meet up during spring break one year and the timing is finally right

[tigriswolf]

Glee, Kurt, he got into a dozen colleges and his dad is scared he'll pick the one furthest from Lima just to make sure he gets out

revisions and gaps in history; hermione & dean; pg

[caitieness.livejournal.com]

It's strange, really. They weren't friends. Hermione only had three friends in school, after all. And Harry, Ron and Ginny weren't about to leave the wizarding world, not for anything and not even for Hermione. So it was strange when she met with Dean and suggested attending universities together. She knew very little about him. He was an artist. He dated Ginny but they fought a lot. He liked Quidditch but he also liked football. He hated the wizarding world just as much as he loved it. Just like Hermione.

And this is how they came together -- a war about Muggleborns meant something drastically different to both of them, however. Dean's father was a wizard. Hermione never knew that before. Sitting on the floor of his dorm room, Dean slowly unfolded a worn piece of parchment. You are something different. Don't ever be scared. It's all for you. She watched as Dean carefully ran his fingers over the page, obviously something he had done a million times before. "From my dad," he explained. "Mum gave it to me when I was nine. I didn't know what it meant then, of course, but it all made sense when my letter came." He folded it back up and placed it in a drawer in his desk. Hermione never knew. She never knew anything about Dean.

They tried not to talk about the wizarding world. Sometimes, Hermione's fingers itched for her wand that she no longer carried in her pocket. She stayed away from Latin classes because it reminded her too much of spells she no longer let herself use but she took everything else: Literature and Philosophy and European History and subjects she no longer knew much about. Every class was like learning something new.

Dean took a painting class. He would stand out on the green lawn between the cafeteria and the maths building with his canvas and paints, creating something magnificant that stayed put when it was finished. Hermione put out a blanket and a book next to him and did homework in a lined notebook with a ballpoint pen. They didn't talk then. They shared a secret about the world that no one else on their campus knew about. They were special. They had magic and they threw it all away.

Never good at making friends, Hermione didn't relate with a new group of Muggles. She didn't get the cultural references. She didn't know any of the popular movies or bands or books. She could only talk about her schoolwork. She never talked about her past and soon people stopped asking. Hermione was a strange girl, they said. Kind of a know-it-all. Kind of stuck up. Dean made out better. He was friendly and outgoing. His sisters were Muggles so he kept up with popular Muggle things. Dean was known.

"It will get better," he told her, sitting on the edge of her bed as she shuffled through some assignments. She huffed in response. "You're stuck in the past," he continued, his voice sad. She knew he was right. While Dean joined the football team and went to parties and made friends, Hermione sat alone in her room missing Ron and Harry and the Weasleys and magic. Because Hermione's life before Hogwarts was nice for an eleven year old. Her childhood was happy and ordinary. But her life in the wizarding world was everything she dreamed of.

"You're forgetting again," Dean reminded her, grabbing the notebook from her hands to force her to look at him. "You're forgetting everything -- only remembering the good parts."

She was quiet for what felt like a long time.

"But the good parts were worth it."

Dean didn't have an answer for that. He didn't agree with her but maybe his good memories weren't as powerful as hers. Maybe her friendships were stronger. Maybe her she was braver than he was. Maybe a lot of things.

Hermione didn't come back their sophomore year. But a couple weeks in, he did find an owl pecking on his window. He unrolled the parchment and in Hermione's neat handwriting it read, Sorry. Maybe you are stronger than I am. I can't forget but I can't stay away.

[hawk-dancing.livejournal.com]

Hawaii Five-0, Steve/Danny, "No, Steven you are NOT going with me to my High School reunion!"

Homecoming, Steve/Danny, Gen

[windycitygirly.livejournal.com]

"No, Steven you are NOT going with me to my high school reunion."

For one, the full name meant serious business. For another, said Steven was not thwarted. Final straw? It was that Kono and Chin overheard, and now it was a three to one fight on whether Steve got to go to a reunion in New Jersey.

Danny had a perfectly logical, rational reason why Steven couldn't come - more in the line of I'm not going to the fucking reunion, therefore you won't be going, but the barrage of but Steve will look awesome in a tiara, and you two could be the homecoming king and KING was endless.

Not for the first time, Danny wished for a yakuza turf war on the sandy beaches of Oahu.

[hawk-dancing.livejournal.com]

CM: Suspect Behavior, Mick/Prophet, going back to college to pick up classes (bonus if Mick trails along and rags about the age difference)

[mangacrack.livejournal.com]

NCIS, team, spending the night at the office

[wingstar102.livejournal.com]

Filled: NCIS, team, spending the night at the office

Ambling down into the bull pen from his office, Vance almost smiled. This late in the evening on a case going this long, it was bound to happen.

Tony was in his customary sleep pose. Feet on his desk, leaning back in his chair as far as he could. He wasn't snoring, but he was an odd snuffling noise with every other breath. Normal.

Looking to his left, Ziva was out with her head on her desk. Feet tucked close to the legs of the chair and hair scattered around her head in a tangled halo. Although Vance was pretty sure that she wasn't as deeply asleep as she seemed.

He really did smile when he saw the last two of the team. It was obvious just from looking at them, sitting in front of the plasma closest to Gibbs' desk, that they'd crashed in the middle of comparing notes.

It looked like both had dragged their chairs over, sitting side-by-side as they were. McGee even had the remote still clutched in his hand. They leaned against each other in sleep, Tim's head resting on Jethro's shoulder, whose cheek and nose were buried in the younger man's hair. Watching for only a few seconds more, during which Gibbs rubbed his cheek against McGee's hair to try and bury his nose further in it, Vance finally glanced around to make sure everything was where it should be before heading to the elevator.

The smile never left his face.

[hawk-dancing.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds/Covert Affairs, Reid/Auggie, two geeks in school with a much older crowd...things were bound to happen

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, they meet at Torchwood University

[meatball42.livejournal.com]

This was so much fun to write that I went over the limit. Hope you enjoy!
http://meatball42.livejournal.com/23211.html
Sorry for messy link, still haven't figured out how to do the other type in comments.

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

Sherlock (BBC), John/Sherlock, working on a case at a big college campus

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, Rory/Amy, study session

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

Twilight, Jasper/Bella, extra credit

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

Star Trek Reboot, Kirk/McCoy, "Stop pouting 'cause you didn't get an A! A B+ is just as good!"

[owleyes-arisen.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, Doctor/timelord!Amy/timelord!Rory. Gallifrey is gone; the TARDIS is their teacher. "Should we be calling you Professor, now?"

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Inception/Sherlock (BBC), Sherlock/Eames, a university fling

[ammcj062.livejournal.com]

No matter what Sam says, Dean’s increasingly frequent visits to Stanford have nothing to do with Sam’s totally hot religions professor. At least, not in the way Sam imagines. Castiel just happens to be exceedingly knowledgeable in things related to Dean’s cases, with the added bonus of being in the same city as Sam. His brother really shouldn’t be complaining when his visits (no matter the reason) result in more time for Dean to see him.

But that’s how younger brothers are. So Dean will ignore his short-sighted teasing and instead focus on Cas’s blue blue eyes and watch his lips mouthing silently as he helps Dean research and refrain from grabbing those hands that skip so lightly down the pages of books…

Yeah, he visits because Cas is such a great researcher. Dean hates research, so if he can bait his brother’s religion professor into doing it while they hang out together (because they’re friendly, that’s all) then why not? It’s not like there’s anything else going on.

Really.

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

Animorphs, Marco, (Post-54) being the ultimate frat boy who never attended college

[wendyr.livejournal.com]

Supernatural AU, John, Bobby, etc., Dr. John Winchester, expert in and professor of supernatural folklore, has absolutely no idea what has Dr. Singer over in the archaeology department so worked up, but he's pretty sure that if it's got Singer this upset, it can't be good.

[rattyjol.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, Rory, in nursing school he tried dating again, because it was clear that Amy his sort-of girlfriend was not interested, but no one fit