Friday: Superstitions

[badfalcon.livejournal.com]

And here we are at Friday. I'm still badfalcon and today is my last day as guest host - thanks for having me, it's been a blast! :)

Today, considering it's Friday 13th, it's time for a little superstition in our lives. From not walking under a ladder or throwing salt over your shoulder, to not putting a hat on a bed or holding your breath as you go past a cemetary.

While we want to have fun we have to remember the rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts from one fandom at a time.
No spoilers in your prompt until at least one week after the original airing/publication date. If there are spoilers in your fic, warn in bold and leave at least three spaces

To make it easier on our code monkies remember the following format:
fandom(s), character or pairing, prompt

Here a Few Examples:
Supernatural, wee!chesters, You must hold your breath while going past a cemetery or you will breathe in the spirit of someone who has recently died.
Bones/CSI, Angela, If 3 people are photographed together, the one in the middle will die first.

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Comments

[badfalcon.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, wee!chesters, You must hold your breath while going past a cemetery or you will breathe in the spirit of someone who has recently died.

[badfalcon.livejournal.com]

Bones/CSI, Angela, If 3 people are photographed together, the one in the middle will die first.

[mithrel.livejournal.com]

Any, any. It's bad luck to kill a ladybug.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist, Ed+/Winry, 'Sneezing means someone's talking about you.'

[mithrel.livejournal.com]

Suits, Mike/Harvey, "Married in White, you have chosen right; married in Grey, you will go far away; married in Black, you will wish yourself back; married in Red, you will wish yourself dead; married in Green, ashamed to be seen; married in Blue, you will always be true; married in Pearl, you will live in a whirl; married in Yellow, ashamed of your fellow; married in Brown, you will live in the town; married in Pink, you spirit will sink."

[dreamsofspike.livejournal.com]

White Collar, Peter/Neal - a broken mirror, and seven more years... but is that good luck or bad? :)

[dreamsofspike.livejournal.com]

Glee, Kurt/Blaine, when he told him "break a leg" he didn't mean it literally...

[clwilson2006.livejournal.com]

SGA, Lorne/Parrish, don't step on cracks in the pavement

[radondoran.livejournal.com]

Phineas and Ferb, lawn gnome!Heinz, protecting the garden from witches' spells and wood trolls

[sagaluthien.livejournal.com]

SPN, Dean/author's choice (but no Adam, please), 5 times it shows it is Frida the 13th and one time it isn't

[icarus-chained.livejournal.com]

Good Omens, any, "One for sorrow/Two for joy/Three for a girl/Four for a boy/Five for Heaven/Six for Hell/Seven's the Devil/His own self"

Filled

[dome_epais.livejournal.com]

"Oh, magpies in the park, that's nice," murmured an old half-blind lady. She was settled into the park bench like her coat was sown around the wooden slats. She had a bag of bread crumbs, squashed and half-full, dribbling onto the concrete.

Crowley was horribly, morbidly fascinated by her. She was so blissfully ignorant of anything but the birds flocking around her. Good Lo- Dear me, how does she go through her days so placidly, he wondered.

He said aloud, "Sorry, but I'm waiting for a friend, I think he'd like to sit there." He never was one to spare someone else an inconvenience.

The woman didn't seem to have heard him. "There's a rhyme about magpies, you know, dear," she tells him happily. "There's... three, four, oh, five here. That means Heaven."

"Does it," Crowley asked, not very interested. There was a minor miracle and another magpie fluttered down, hopping for the crumbs the old woman scattered a little farther out.

"Dearie me, six now. Hell," she pronounced.

Crowley smiled at the grey-clouded sky. "Much better."

Another magpie came down. The whole lot of them sorted themselves out of the pigeons and got into a neat line.

Crowley glared at them from behind his eyeglasses. He hadn't done that one.

"Seven! Oh, no, that's the Devil himself," the old lady clucked to herself. She made a superstitious sign and levered herself up, dumping out the rest of her crumbs. "I'm sorry, dearie, I hope that's not for you."

Crowley frowned at the magpies sternly and ignored the woman as her wandered off. For a bunch of stupid birds, they weren't much bothered when a long coat swept near them on the way to the bench.

Aziraphale sighed happily as he sank back onto the bench. He waved a hand and the magpies roared off in a flock. "Just one of my jokes, dear boy," he explained.

Crowley turned to transfer the glare onto him. "That isn't funny," he enunciated clearly. "There was every chance that You-Know-Who was about to interrupt one our meetings."

"Heaven forfend," Aziraphale said, almost too virtuously.

Grumpily, Crowley scuffed his shoes through the remnants of the crumbs, scattering the pigeons. "And you talk exactly like an ancient pigeon-feeding woman," he accused.

Aziraphale patted his hand and miracled himself up a bag of crumbs.

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

Grimm, Nick + Monroe, learning which superstitions are based on real Wessen fact and which are made up

[hobnailedboots.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Castiel and/or Gabriel, cats can see things that mere mortals cannot, i.e. Castiel is trying to observe the Winchesters or Gabriel is trying to perv on everyone but the wily cats keep somehow foiling their attempts.

[hobnailedboots.livejournal.com]

Merlin, any, saluting a magpie when you see one

Claim - but no fill yet

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

I'm working on it!

[dreamsofspike.livejournal.com]

Grimm, Nick/Monroe - when Monroe shows a bit of interest/attraction in someone else, Nick goes all dark and grrr and possessive, and Monroe begins to think maybe there's some truth to the things he's always believed about Grimms

Fill

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this is what you were looking for :p But hopefully you'll like it!

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[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

Glee, Cooper/Blain Supernatural!AU (The Anderson boys are hunters... Like the Winchesters but with more performance art!), lucky rabbit's foot

[lionessvalenti.livejournal.com]

Warehouse 13, any, in the Warehouse, superstitions are facts.

[drabblewriter.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, wee!chesters, "Don't step on a crack or you'll break your mother's back."

No fill but

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

What, did you *intend* to yank on my heartstrings here?!

[drabblewriter.livejournal.com]

Supernatural; Dean +/ any; when a dog howls, death is near

[drabblewriter.livejournal.com]

any; any/any; warm hands, cold heart - cold hands, warm heart

BBC Sherlock Sherlock+John

[anotherfngrl.livejournal.com]

He's always heard a saying about doctors: They've got cold hands, but warm hearts. The first time John checks him over when he's been hurt, gently manipulating his wrist before declaring that it's only sprained and wrapping it up, he's unsurprised to discover that the saying holds true for his blogger.

Sherlock is the opposite- his hands are always warm, but his heart is cold.

One day on a stake out, John begins rubbing his hands together, breathing on them, holding them under his armpits, anything to warm them up. Sherlock takes one of his blogger's hands in his own and rubs it until it's warm again, then repeats the procedure on the other. John smiles gratefully, and Sherlock is surprised to realize the old saying is true- his hands are cold now, but he's surprised to realize his heart has grown warm.

[drabblewriter.livejournal.com]

any, any,

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for his living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

[rattyjol.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Sam/Jess, it wasn't until they moved in together that she realized how superstitious he was

[rattyjol.livejournal.com]

Animorphs, main six, everyone thinks it's weird that Marco of all people is scared of Friday the 13ths; then someone counts back and realizes that his mother "died" on one

[rattyjol.livejournal.com]

Firefly, crew, old Earth-That-Was superstitions are long forgotten, except by River

Fill : Banish the Demons

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

I totally cheated and googled a bunch of superstitions here (http://www.ciao.co.uk/10_Most_Common_Superstitions__Review_5280950). Don't typically write for Firefly and I'm not completely happy with this, but I for sure owed you something for that triple-fill you did me!

The first time River starts throwing rice at their writhing bodies below from the metal rafters above, Kaylee thinks nothing of it; Simon's sister is full of odd notions, and at least this one is fairly harmless, which will be the last thing Simon will want to be once he stops blushing about what River caught them doing long enough to catch his erstwhile sibling.

It's odder still a few days later to find River has strung odd white bulbs around the galley after Serenity lifts off skyward from the arid planet of their most recent job, especially given how ever piece of River's mismatch clothing is inside out, and she's carefully spinning in circles and tossing precious salt over her shoulder- Mal will be furious- with apparent seriousness while counting upward in a lilting, child-like voice.

Time passes on, and River reacts strongly and mutters under her breath when Kaylee tries to lead those left of the crew in song following the consumption of a particularly strong home-brew traded  for on Ariel in exchange for precious off-world supplies, and flat out shrieks and flees the room nattering about demons coming to visit when Jayne accidentally knocks a full set of cleaned silverware off the battered corner; River narrowly missing knocking their precariously balanced, slightly inebriated captain off his reclined chair on the way.

They all sit a spell in stunned silence as the wet dishcloth slops from Jayne's fingers to join the battered metal utensils on the floor, then Mal swears creatively as Simon- once again- chases his younger sister down the hall.

Kaylee figures simply she will never completely understand that girl, and wishes Inara was still here to commiserate with.

[rattyjol.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, any, someone notices that the TARDIS lands on a disproportionate number of Friday the 13ths