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comment_ficHello again, Commentfic. I'm LMX for the last time this week and today's theme is something a little different:
Today the theme is 'Change One Thing'. I want you to suggest an alternate universe where *JUST ONE THING* is different, and then give your prompt following that suggestion. This is going to change the format of prompting slightly, so make sure you read the formatting guidelines below.
The thing you change can be huge (like the colour of Earth's sky), confusing (genderswap) or life-altering (like whether someone turned left or right), but the author of the fill gets to decide what repercussions this has on their fandom.
Don't forget the rules of the community:
- No more than one prompt in each post, three prompts per fandom or five prompts in total. If one of your prompts gets filled then you may post another.
- No prompts containing spoilers until at least one week has passed since it aired/was released. If your fill contains a spoiler, please label it clearly with the fandom/show/season and leave enough space for people to avoid reading it.
- Feed free to fill a prompts even if it has already been filled. More fic is always good to see!
For this one theme, the formatting will be as follows:
Fandom, character or pairing, ONE THING TO CHANGE, prompt
or for a crossover
Fandom/Fandom, Character or pairing, ONE THING TO CHANGE, prompt
For example:
Doctor Who, 9th Doctor, Earth's sky has always been orange, The doctor finds it difficult to return to his favourite planet after Gallifrey is gone
Leverage, Female!Eliot/Sophie/Nate, Female!Eliot, Nate shouldn't enjoy watching them fight so much
Burn Notice/Castle, Castle & Michael, Castle is a writer based in Miami, Author's choice
Chuck/White Collar, Chuck/Bryce!Neal, Bryce didn't die the second time around, He still left Chuck, though...
tag = change1thing
Today the theme is 'Change One Thing'. I want you to suggest an alternate universe where *JUST ONE THING* is different, and then give your prompt following that suggestion. This is going to change the format of prompting slightly, so make sure you read the formatting guidelines below.
The thing you change can be huge (like the colour of Earth's sky), confusing (genderswap) or life-altering (like whether someone turned left or right), but the author of the fill gets to decide what repercussions this has on their fandom.
Don't forget the rules of the community:
- No more than one prompt in each post, three prompts per fandom or five prompts in total. If one of your prompts gets filled then you may post another.
- No prompts containing spoilers until at least one week has passed since it aired/was released. If your fill contains a spoiler, please label it clearly with the fandom/show/season and leave enough space for people to avoid reading it.
- Feed free to fill a prompts even if it has already been filled. More fic is always good to see!
For this one theme, the formatting will be as follows:
Fandom, character or pairing, ONE THING TO CHANGE, prompt
or for a crossover
Fandom/Fandom, Character or pairing, ONE THING TO CHANGE, prompt
For example:
Doctor Who, 9th Doctor, Earth's sky has always been orange, The doctor finds it difficult to return to his favourite planet after Gallifrey is gone
Leverage, Female!Eliot/Sophie/Nate, Female!Eliot, Nate shouldn't enjoy watching them fight so much
Burn Notice/Castle, Castle & Michael, Castle is a writer based in Miami, Author's choice
Chuck/White Collar, Chuck/Bryce!Neal, Bryce didn't die the second time around, He still left Chuck, though...
tag = change1thing
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Date: 2011-07-14 06:53 am (UTC)Filled
Date: 2011-07-14 03:26 pm (UTC)There's a girl. Blond. It's been a long time since he had a friend in the TARDIS, and there is something about the sparkle in her eye that makes him grab her hand. "I'm Rose," she says.
"I'm the Doctor. Run!"
Plastic boyfriends, aliens, saving the day. Just like old times. It is not so bad when it is dark and the stars are out. The stars are different here, and there is no way he can confuse the lumps of human buildings with the spires of Gallifrey.
Inevitably, when dawn comes and the sky tints with orange light, he goes back to the TARDIS. He knows he does not want to come back. Too many memories.
"Come with me," he says.
"Sure. Okay. Where we going?"
"Do you want to see a blue sky? The Darradi have a blue sky. The sky over the great city of the Rixxi is green."
She pouts and says, "What's wrong with an orange sky?"
"Nothing is wrong with the sky."
She believes him, and they travel. For a long time. They come back to earth occasionally, but it changes. There are disasters. He wonders if there are things that he could have stopped. But, as Rose says the day they find her Mum's name on the memorial for the Dalek victims, it's only one planet in the sky.
He shows her the universe. If she realises that he is running from the orange sky of two planets, she never tells him.
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Date: 2011-07-14 08:06 am (UTC)Fill: Blank White Page (Pete/Myka)
Date: 2011-07-14 07:55 pm (UTC)It's one of the hardest things he's ever had to do.
He eventually fetches up in a small town in Illinois, and finds work as a football coach. It's better than nothing, to be sure, but often he finds himself thinking about what, and especially who, he's left behind. Thoughts of Artie and Claudia pop up in his mind from time to time, but it's Myka who occupies the majority of his thoughts.
It's two years later when his past catches up with him.
An artifact somehow makes its way to town, and Pete knows what he has to do. He picks up the phone and calls a number he knows by heart.
"Myka? It's Pete. I need your help."
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Date: 2011-07-14 08:32 am (UTC)like fireflies and stars - shades of Mal/Simon, PG, pre-BDM
Date: 2011-07-15 03:14 am (UTC)Even when River sleeps, her mind is never quiet. Maybe especially then; all the paths she walks while awake flow together in dreams, and she floats from sky to sky, living a thousand lives at once.
It is fascinating to watch, and Simon hovers at the edge, waiting. She always knows he's there, but when she notices, she holds out a hand.
Dance with me, Simon, she says.
He takes her hand and spins around with her, like fireflies and stars, and he soaks up some of her pain, some of her fear, some of her rage --
Every time she wakes up, she is more of the little sister who went to the Academy, not the war-torn girl he saved.
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Book's mind is peaceful. Simon knows he has secrets; he sees the tail-end of them. Book is a dangerous man, but not to them, not yet. Maybe not ever.
He leaves the shepherd to his sleep.
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Kaylee is beautiful, inside and out. Sometimes, Simon listens to her internal monologue when he needs a pick-me-up. She chatters to the ship, and it's soothing.
Whenever River's mind lashes out, Simon latches onto Kaylee, just to remember how to breathe.
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Simon went to Jayne's mind once. Just once.
There is more to the brute than he'd expected, but not enough to go back.
(A good man does hide inside the abrasive exterior. If Jayne will ever let him out is another matter entirely.)
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Wash is very much like Kaylee. He dreams about the sky, and his wife, and the children they’ll have some day, when life is safer.
Simon feels like an invader every time he goes to Wash’s mind.
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Inara’s dreams are surprisingly peaceful. Her mind is always calm and collected; a small pond and a cup of tea, few clouds and a gentle breeze. She’s usually planning things – her life after Serenity, most often. Where she’ll go, what she’ll do. Who she’ll be with.
Simon only goes to her when Kaylee’s mind is too loud.
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Zoe’s mind is dangerous, just like her. The first time he touched her, her entire body jerked, as if she’d been electrocuted. Her gaze shot around and he nearly panicked. He tried again, after he and River were allowed to stay aboard, and her eyes narrowed.
He hasn’t been back.
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And Mal. Mal is something else entirely. His psyche is scarred, same as his body. His dreams are never restful. Simon helps where he can, but Mal won’t ever take his hand.
Simon wishes he would. Wishes he could heal any part of Mal at all.
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Dance with me, Simon, River says.
He takes her hand, and they spin around, like fireflies and stars.
She’s more and more like his little sister every day.
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