Thursday: Work

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Happy Thursday dear writers, after any celebration sooner or later you have to go back to what counts for normality and that's what we are doing today with the theme Work. Maybe someone get's a new job, gets fired or is just doing what needs to be done.

Just remember the rules!
* No more than three prompts from the same fandom
* No more than five prompts in a row
* If your prompt is answered you may leave a new one
* Spoiler, don't leave any in the prompts and if your fill containts one please warn accordingly. Wait a week before prompting something that might be considered spoilery (if you are wondering if it is, it probably is)

Exemples:
Leverage, Hardison/Eliot, The First Date Job

Firefly/Dr Who, Serenity-crew, The man in the bowtie was by far their strangest fare and he kept rambling about his box.

Comments

[tigriswolf]

DCU or Smallville, Lex Luthor, a lot of work goes into ruling the world

[tigriswolf]

Supernatural, Winchesters, the family business

[tigriswolf]

Inception, Arthur/Eames, Arthur tries to retire. The business doesn’t want to let him go.

[tigriswolf]

Highlander, Methos, he's the only living thing who remembers supervolcanoes; his life after Adam Pierson is a volcanologist

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

Any, any/any, their power dynamics on the job follow them into the bedroom

Home, Leverage, Eliot/Hardison/Parker

[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

Home is so many places. Home is Hardison's penthouse, where they can sprawl naked over his Batman sheets and the city watches them. Home is Eliot's place in the 'burbs, where the high fences hide them from the neighbor's prying eyes. Home is all of those places where Parker takes them, only if they promise never to say where it is. Home can even be the couch in Nate's apartment, when he's looking for hope in the bottom of a bottle or Sophie's pulled him into bed upstairs. Home is a thousand and one hotel rooms and airplane bathrooms and, once, a tent that still smelled like camel.

When they're Home, it's not always about sex. Eliot was pretty sure he'd feel like a dirty old man if that were true, even if Parker was closer to his age than Hardison's. Home was about being able to toss aside their professions and be themselves. They could be - Christ, at some point Eliot was going to kill Hardison for it - Rose and Jack and Mickey Baker. Eliot definitely needed to ask why they all had the same last name and why they all walked out of Doctor Who.

But, as months turned into years and Home became just having them nearby, Eliot began to understand why there were self-help books about learning to be yourself around your family. Not that he read them. But Parker hadn't showed them her warehouse and Hardison had some serious high tech merchandise and Eliot... he didn't always think about that. Safer that way. Probably why they hadn't told anyone else about him.

He wondered if Sophie and Nate had the same problems. Was Nate always a control freak, even in bed? Did Sophie feel the burning need to grift her way through their occasional secret date in the North End? Did they understand that the rest of them had forgotten how to be real people? Hardison less than him and Parker, but even then, he got lost so fast in his tech.

It wasn't all bad. Parker told him she got off faster when he growled and pinned them so hard they couldn't get up. And Parker was never more beautiful than when she wasn't there. And Hardison... Eliot couldn't deny the amazing things the internet had done for them or the fact that he slept better, knowing Hardison's security system was in place.


Eliot looked at the bruises on his wrists and Hardison in his bed, half curled around his fancy smart phone. The cold breeze from the window woke him up because Parker was already gone. Maybe bringing work home wasn't so bad.

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds, Hotch/Reid, rendezvous at the office

[tigriswolf]

White Collar, Peter/Neal, a consultant is someone who takes your watch away to tell you what time it is

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

Chuck, Chuck/Bryce, Chuck is really sexy when he's working

[argentum-ls.livejournal.com]

Teen Wolf, Melissa McCall + any, not your everyday ER admit

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

Chuck, Chuck/Bryce, Everytime they meet another couple they have to explain what they do for a living; it becomes a competition who can invent the zaniest cover careers for themselves.

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds/NCIS, Spencer/Abby, she won't stop signing dirty things at him when their teams work joint cases until Gibbs catches them at it

Not a fil, but....

[ladyjane]

...someone pleeeeeease write this!

[mangacrack.livejournal.com]

NCIS, any, working for Gibbs means Coffee

[clwilson2006.livejournal.com]

SGA, Lorne/Parrish, distracting Evan from paperwork

[rattyjol.livejournal.com]

BBC Sherlock, Sherlock, the Work is everything

[sidneyfireblood.livejournal.com]

Kamen Rider OOO, Ankh/Eiji, Ankh knows the moment Eiji leaves their room and goes into the resturant that horrible owner (Chiyoko) will have him work, and damn it, he needs sex.

[rattyjol.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, Rory, sometimes on the TARDIS he misses being a nurse

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Person of Interest, Finch, he has a day job because he's not sure what else to do with his days

[rattyjol.livejournal.com]

Animorphs, Rachel, Mom's been nagging her about a summer job (like she has time for that)

[rattyjol.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter, Marauders, what they wanted to be (and what they never could be)

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Highlander, Methos, Adam Pierson has a day job but sometimes Methos can't resist using skills that Adam doesn't have.

untitled, future!ficish, gen

[tigriswolf]

(I'm not sure this is what you meant. Also, I made the language stuff up. *shrugs*)



Adam Pierson is a thirty-four old doctor of linguistics. He's also a six year old immortal.

Adam Pierson can speak a dozen languages like they're his native English, is conversational in twenty more, and muddle his way through seven others. He can read all of the Indo-European languages with ease.

Adam Pierson is Duncan MacLeod's student, and he does not have MacLeod's fighting skill. He's been lucky, so far: he hasn't needed to fight. He's mediocre with a sword. If he gets in too close, he will die.

Adam Pierson's Watcher doesn't think he'll last long.

0o0

Dr. Pierson works at the British Museum. He’s translating a tablet (or, trying to; the language hasn’t been identified yet) and he was in a fight last night. His Watcher reported it: Pierson won his first challenge by the skin of his teeth. He defeated a two-century old drifter. He’s been odd this morning – short-tempered, cautious, nervous. His colleagues have asked him what’s wrong; he said family troubles and threw himself into his work.

Even the most senior of Pierson’s colleagues would require two lifetimes, maybe more, to translate the tablet. It is a language that died out over ten thousand years ago. It has no similarities to any language still in use.

It is, in fact, a prank played by the world’s oldest man. He carved the tablet three hundred years ago and left it by the megalith called Stonehenge, just to see what the baby-archeologists would make of it. They’re still scratching their heads, giving all the newbies this tablet to play with.

If Pierson actually was thirty-four, actually was six, he’d never know what this tablet said.

If he hadn’t written it himself, he’d have no idea.

He just finds it humorous that the joke is still funny.

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Suits/Highlander, Methos + Mike + Harvey, Of course Methos is also an attorney

[mangacrack.livejournal.com]

Highlander, Methos /& Duncan, Duncan is getting old and Methos knows it was hard work to get him this far.

Fill: Identity

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Methos is generally known, or rather, not known, as The Eldest.

Darius was The Priest.

Connor McLeod is The Highlander.

Coltec was The Evil Eater.

Amanda is The Thief.

Most immortals who survive for long enough to develop personal relationships with other immortals acquire titles. The titles stay with them even as names come and go.

Immortals change their identities regularly, at least once every generation and frequently more often than that. Names come and go with the time period, the geography, the culture. The titles are identifiers that allow friends and enemies to recognize an immortal, replacing their mortal name with an immortal identity.

But Duncan has kept his mortal name for 15 generations. His immortal identity is merely an echo of his teacher's.

That kind of retention of a simple mortal identity takes effort and cannot last forever. As idiotic as Methos thinks Duncan is being, he can't help but be impressed with the type of effort that went into keeping Duncan McLeod of the Clan McLeod alive and active. And he can't help but mourn the inevitable loss when Duncan starts getting old. Duncan McLeod is dated and anachronistic and it has been past time for him to be set aside.

Methos avoids other immortals to the best of his abilities, but he does wonder, when Duncan finally accepts his immortality, what title will he have?

[mangacrack.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, God & Angels, God may rested on the 7th day, but his children didn't

[shaitanah.livejournal.com]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dark Willow and/or Wishverse!Willow, mixing business with pleasure

[elfinmouse.livejournal.com]

Repo: The Genetic Opera, Any, Lungs and livers.