Thursday - Home Sweet Home

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Good morning and welcome to Thursday! I’m evil_little_dog, still filling in, and today's theme is the Comforts of Home. Prompts can be anything that evokes a homey feeling.

The rules still haven't changed:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
No spoilers in prompts.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space.

Prompts should be formatted as follows:
Fandom, Character+/Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
- Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward/Winry, cuddling in front of the fireplace
- BtVS, Buffy+Scoobies, They always christen each other's new place with the watching of a Bollywood movie
- Any fandom with animals, Any, It's not right unless there's a pet or two waiting for you

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Visit the lonely prompt archive and brighten someone’s day. For more recent prompts to write, you can also use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

Tag = Comforts of Home

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[daria234.livejournal.com]

Any, any/any male, he's an attractive guy but nothing is hotter than watching him cook

Fill, BtVS/AtS, Cooking For Two

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

"You can cook?" Buffy blinked at the sight of Angel in the kitchen, standing over the stove, tossing what had to be onions and some green herb that smelled amazing in the skillet over the fire.

"I've learned, over the years." The corner of his mouth quirked up. "I used to cook breakfast for my team."

She hesitated briefly at the thought of Angel, and his team, and how many of them had died. From the deep sorrow in his eyes, almost instantly masked, he thought of them, too, but he smiled at her. Buffy wondered how much it cost him. She wasn't about to ask.

There'd been too much bad blood since 1999, though they'd set aside their differences for a while, when Buffy's mother died, and again, when Angel'd brought her the amulet. Then Los Angeles had gone literally to hell, and there'd been a renegade Slayer, and Faith, and...a lot of things. Water under the bridge, Buffy tried to remind herself, but it was difficult. 'Bad blood' would be a better phrase, and it was harder to wash away.

None of that had anything to do with the sight of Angel, cooking breakfast. Buffy realized her mouth watered, and it wasn't just from the scent of the food. She'd always thought Angel was a Hotty McHotty. He'd starred in some amazing fantasies and wet dreams over the years, not that she'd want to share that information with him, or anyone but her diary - not that she kept one of those any more. But she'd never seen anyone cook like Angel was now, and it was amazing.

She pushed off the door frame, sitting at the table, waiting for her meal. Angel smiled at her over his shoulder, folding an omlette in half, sliding it onto a plate, bringing it to the table. The smell of roasted peppers, garlic, butter - all combined to make a heavenly scent. Buffy wiped her mouth with the supplied napkin, afraid she was drooling. "This looks great." She didn't even see her plate, too busy watching Angel.

"I hope it lives up to your expectations." If he noticed, he didn't say anything, but passed her a cup of coffee, while taking a mug of heated blood out of the microwave for himself. Angel didn't sit down across from her, instead, he leaned against the counter, sipping from the mug.

Buffy licked her lips and glanced at the plate. "I'm sure it will."

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Haven, Nathan/Duke(/Audrey), lazy Sunday morning lounging around the house

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Avengers, any/any, finding it amusing that he keeps 23 different types of cookies in his pantry

Fill: Natasha/Steve

[livingtolaugh.livejournal.com]

Mini Fill, hope you enjoy.

She shouldn't be surprised, and she shouldn't laugh.

She really shouldn't laugh.

But hell, she hadn't known there even was twenty three different types of cookie.

Steve blushes slightly, an amusing sight in and of itself, and meets her eyes.

"So I like cookies ..." he mutters timidly, and that does it. She bursts out laughing.

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Whedonverse (any), any, when you move around a lot, all you need to feel like home is _____

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward/Winry, cuddling in front of the fireplace

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

BtVS, Buffy+Scoobies, They always christen each other's new place with the watching of a Bollywood movie

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Any fandom with animals, Any, It's not right unless there's a pet or two waiting for you

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Leverage, Eliot/Parker/Hardison, Home isn't a place, it's the people waiting for you

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward/Winry+Alphonse(/any), No matter where the three of them go, Risembool is always home

[ran-dezvous.livejournal.com]

Detective Conan, Kogorou/Eri + Ran + Goro (the cat) + Conan (optional; depends on whether you think Kogorou and Eri will reconcile before Shinichi gets his body back), [learning to become] a happy family once again

[icarus-chained.livejournal.com]

Avengers, Steve Rogers (+ any), the little things that don't exist anymore, and the little things that do

Pros and Cons of Living in a 21st Century Home

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Pro: Steve likes answering machines.

The idea just makes sense. It's too easy to miss a phone call. He has a cell, but he also has a landline.

Because how can somebody not have a phone.

But he likes his landline and he likes his answering machine. Even if it's not like he gets all that many messages.

Not counting the ones from Tony. Who keeps leaving prank messages. That are obviously from Tony.

But prank calls were invented a long time ago. Steve knows how to make them too.

Which is why Tony was now convinced that that chess playing computer has a crush on JARVIS. And was becoming quite overprotective about it.

Steve told JARVIS before playing the prank of course -- no reason to lead the poor guy on. But JARVIS was amused enough to agree to go along with the prank. If artificial intelligences can be 'amused.'

Philosophical questions aside, Steve was pretty sure that Jarvis was very, very amused.


Con: Steve doesn't like refrigerators. Yes, they had them in Steve's time. Rich people had them.

Steve grew up using an icebox.

There were few things more satisfying than chiseling off big crooked chunks of ice to put in the biggest glass you could find, and filling it up with water from the tap on a sweltering hot day.

Getting ice cubes from the ice maker in the door was less hands-on. And louder. And often involved going into the mechanism to chip at the blocked passage.

Not nearly as fun.

Plus, Agent Hill told him that people drink bottled or filtered water these days, not the stuff from the tap.

Steve was glad when Natasha and Clint told him that that was crap.

Pro: Coffee makers. The kind that make really, really good coffee.

Steve's was a gift from Coulson.

It almost made Steve feel like a traitor, liking his coffee more than the swill at his favorite diners (then or now).

Almost. But not quite.

It really was damn good coffee.


Con: Steve complained once that he didn't like energy efficient light bulbs as much as the old fashioned kind. The glow was different, he claimed.

Tony scowled at him, and Steve didn't know why.

The next day, a large crate of Stark light bulbs showed up at Steve's apartment. Apparently Tony was quite offended that Steve tried a lesser brand over his.

Steve had to admit, though. The light shone like the old-fashioned kind.

He called Tony to thank him. Tony said "You're welcome" and proceeded to ask Steve advice on how to convey a sense of old-fashioned courtship rules to computers. Because he may have sowed his wild oats, but he didn't want his AIs to do the same.

Steve, with great effort, managed not to laugh.

Pro: Steve has a nicely decorated apartment. He has plenty of space all to himself.

Con: Steve sometimes looks around his spacious apartment and realizes: he's all by himself.

Pro/Con: Steve's teammates notice that he has plenty of room and take the opportunity to invite themselves over to watch football games, relax after missions, watch DVDs, or order pizza.

Steve finds it rather annoying but is too polite to say anything. He is very, very patient with his new teammates, trying hard to be the kind of leader that they all are happy to follow.

Eventually, it gets to the point that when no one on his team is around, the place feels too quiet.

At that point, Steve realizes how glad he is to have lots of space, lots of good coffee to offer his friends, and a refrigerator full of food his friends can pilfer.

It makes him like his new apartment much more.

[silver_sun]

Doctor Who/Torchwood, Jack Harkness/any, there have been so many places he's called home, so many people he's thought of as family.

[mtxref-fic.livejournal.com]

A colony on the Boeshane Peninsula, a seaside community on a spit of land jutting from a dusty supercontinent: he'd been born there, to a fisherman, his other father a drifter who'd left on the next cargo transport that came and went. His father's wife had given his father another son, whom young Jax had doted on, mischievously tormenting him and looking out for him and keeping him close by turns. Until that fateful day when in one blitz attack, when slavers in the service of a terrible horde had assaulted the colony, he lost father and brother. He had said goodbye to his step-mother and gone off in search of his brother.

The Time Agency's training center: They were his family now, teaching him what he needed to know to travel the universe in four dimensions. A new name, a new life and a new love who was wackier and wilder even than he was. And for a time, they had ended up playing at home making, when the same time storm had trapped them in its eye and they had three years on their hands. It had even seemed complete when Jack found he was expecting a little Jack, but time storms are no place for a newborn, and he swore he'd never do that again, if they ever got free of the storm.

Brooklyn, New York: A room above an Italian family's butcher shop. One bed, a few pictures, a pretty girl who liked to dry her hair on the fire escape across the airshaft, and a shyly passionate young man newly arrived from Italy, ready to conquer America and make it his own. He'd seen some of the sights already, and so he was more than happy to share them with his new young companion. As small as the space was and as short a time they had together, he was determined to make something of it, building up a good nest egg and setting it aside for Angelo to use, the day that Prohibition ended and the young man was released from prison.

((The rest can be read Here (http://mtxref-fic.livejournal.com/224973.html).))

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

BSC, Mary Anne, coming home to Tigger and Richard

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Emelan, Daja, her house is starting to feel like home

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

LotR, any hobbit, there's no place like the Shire for a pint of ale and a good feed

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Any, any gen, all the creature comforts

[adlanth.livejournal.com]

The Silmarillion, Anairë and/or Finarfin and/or Eärwen, They thought they were staying home, but home seems to have disappeared with their children.

[radondoran.livejournal.com]

Phineas and Ferb, Roger Doofenshmirtz, a diplomatic visit to Drusselstein

[tigriswolf]

author's choice, author's choice, home is where they'll judge you - but they won't turn you away

[tigriswolf]

author's choice, author's choice, home-made cookies, hot from the oven

[tigriswolf]

Inception, Arthur/Eames, the books in their home library

[tigriswolf]

Up/Despicable Me, Agnes/Russell, their dream home

[tigriswolf]

Glee, Kurt(/Blaine), the perfect night in

[hwficjournal.livejournal.com]

Person of Interest, Finch + John. John finds out that Finch has one of the rooms at the library converted into a bedroom for him. He is not too old for a sleepover. (And Finch will not admit it is because he knows that sometimes John has nightmares and he remembers what it's like to wake up in the night after one with no one there to tell you it's ok).

[hwficjournal.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Dean, Sam + Castiel. The boys have given up on hunting, got a house together and are trying to settle down. Castiel knows that it is a human custom to get them a house warming gift; he just has no idea what.