The Walking Dead, any, coffee-shop AU: shambling hordes of city workers, desperate for caffeine; Rick, who's trying to keep this coffee shop alive and independent, despite the interest of ruthless larger businesses...take this prompt anywhere you'd like.
Harry Potter, author’s choice, the world where Sirius Black escaped sooner, wasn’t quite so mad, hid in plain sight (magically, of course), and became Harry’s favorite professor
Hope this is ok. I haven't written Walking Ded for a while ...
It's one am. About the time any civilised person should be sleeping. Or at least, cuddled up in their lovers arms. Isn't that the way those songs put it? Fast asleep, or satisfied, at home, in bed, with everything wonderful.
Instead, he's here. At this stupid little cafe, at the corner of whatever and whatjimacallit, trying to pull a sensible order out of some stoned, drunk redneck and his little brother. And trying, desperately, not to throw them both out.
Not that he minds. Hell, this is quiet. He could be next door, with the bored, kinda hot blonde lady, who's name he's never asked, trying to tell people they really can't have that last drink. Or down the street, with the old guy, trying to stop kids vandalizing his van.
Hell, he could be Shane, tending bar down the street to pay rent. Shane, coming home with bruises and cuts, and one time bite, from rowdy customers.
But he's Rick. With a girlfriend at home, and a baby on the way, praying to God he'll have the money to support them all.
He's Rick, with a shitty job and no prospects and the drunk or tired or both ordering coffee off him at stupid'0'clock to make them feel alive.
He's the walking dead, dealing with the walking dead, and the money ain't even all that great. But if the drunk, stoned redneck and his little brother would just go home, and if Lori is still there when he gets home, he can deal with it.
Haven, Evi, she and Duke didn't split up (or just haven't yet) and he brought her back to Haven with him. (Would love to see a focus on Nathan trying to deal with her.)
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Date: 2013-05-20 10:37 pm (UTC)Star Trek reboot/Teen Wolf (TV), author’s choice, Stiles grew up on Tarsus IV
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Date: 2013-05-20 10:38 pm (UTC)Star Trek reboot, author’s choice, Jim Kirk died on Tarsus IV.
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Date: 2013-05-20 10:39 pm (UTC)Star Trek Into Darkness, John Harrison + Jim Kirk, they meet on Tarsus IV when the governor loses his mind and his greatest weapon
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Date: 2013-05-20 10:39 pm (UTC)Harry Potter, author’s choice, the world where Sirius Black escaped sooner, wasn’t quite so mad, hid in plain sight (magically, of course), and became Harry’s favorite professor
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Date: 2013-05-20 10:39 pm (UTC)Justice League Cartoon, Batman/Flash or gen, Rise of the Guardians AU where Flash is Jack Frost and everyone else is author’s choice
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Date: 2013-05-20 10:50 pm (UTC)It's one am. About the time any civilised person should be sleeping. Or at least, cuddled up in their lovers arms. Isn't that the way those songs put it? Fast asleep, or satisfied, at home, in bed, with everything wonderful.
Instead, he's here. At this stupid little cafe, at the corner of whatever and whatjimacallit, trying to pull a sensible order out of some stoned, drunk redneck and his little brother. And trying, desperately, not to throw them both out.
Not that he minds. Hell, this is quiet. He could be next door, with the bored, kinda hot blonde lady, who's name he's never asked, trying to tell people they really can't have that last drink. Or down the street, with the old guy, trying to stop kids vandalizing his van.
Hell, he could be Shane, tending bar down the street to pay rent. Shane, coming home with bruises and cuts, and one time bite, from rowdy customers.
But he's Rick. With a girlfriend at home, and a baby on the way, praying to God he'll have the money to support them all.
He's Rick, with a shitty job and no prospects and the drunk or tired or both ordering coffee off him at stupid'0'clock to make them feel alive.
He's the walking dead, dealing with the walking dead, and the money ain't even all that great. But if the drunk, stoned redneck and his little brother would just go home, and if Lori is still there when he gets home, he can deal with it.
Hope, again, that it's ok ...
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Date: 2013-05-20 11:01 pm (UTC)I need this fic in my life!
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Date: 2013-05-20 11:04 pm (UTC)Love that you managed to include nearly everyone, and the title drop was nicely done. Thanks again!
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