Wednesday: One Word Prompts

[simply-aly.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone. I’m simply_aly and today's theme is One Word Prompts. This one's pretty simple, prompts can be anything, but they have to be only one word long.

The rules are the same as they've always been:
-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...
+ The Vampire Diaries, Damon/Elena, dream
+ Game of Thrones, Cersei Lannister, power
+ Supernatural, Dean Winchester, death

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=one word prompts

Comments

Re: Fill: The Hunger Games, gen, PG

[purple-cube.livejournal.com]

[Part 2]

“It’s just Katniss,” he says quickly but doesn’t think that she believes him until the younger woman appears at the entrance to the kitchen.

Their visitor hovers, confusion clouding her expression and clearly unsure of what she has just interrupted. And then her gaze settles on the hunched figure sat at his table, anxiety replaced first by curiosity, and then by recognition.

“Effie.” He knows her well enough to know that she isn’t displeased, but her quiet demeanor probably doesn’t come across as welcoming either. Effie confirms his suspicions, dropping her gaze that little bit lower.

He manages to exchange a glance with Katniss before she drops her bag and crosses the room, taking a seat beside their former escort.

“You look beautiful,” she tells her, managing to surprise them both.

Effie shakes her head profusely. “No.”

“You do,” Katniss insists, louder this time. “Your hair, it’s the same shade as Peeta’s, and the style really suits the shape of your face.”

Effie doesn’t say anything, but she at least stops shaking her head. He smiles at Katniss in encouragement, before remembering that the oven needs turning off. He’s still lifting out the tray of bread when Effie finally responds.

“Everyone does this in the Capitol now. At first it was only the vulnerable people, the ones who thought the rebels might seek retribution on them. But then, it became more popular to return to beauty base zero, and no one wanted to stand out from the crowd anymore. It was inevitable that I had to follow suit…but I feel so exposed.” Her last line is barely above a whisper.

“You really do look beautiful, Effie,” Peeta says with a smile as he turns.

She looks up for the first time since Katniss entered, taking them both in. And for the first time, she looks like Effie, so proud of her victors.

“I’m so sorry.”

Peeta shakes his head. “It wasn’t your fault.”

“I didn’t know, I didn’t know any of it.”

“We know, Effie.”

She looks at Katniss as if to say that she doesn’t get her point. Maybe he doesn’t either, because her next sentence surprises him. “But maybe if I had known, I could have helped. I could have stopped something…I could have helped,” she repeats meekly.

Does she think that she could have stopped what happened to him? He certainly doesn’t think so.

“We’re all still here, aren’t we?” Peeta asks gently. He looks from her to Katniss, and then back again. “They didn’t manage to break any of us.”

And maybe they means different things for Effie, but he’s sure that she understands the sentiment, all the same.

“Would you like to stay a few weeks, Effie?”

Her eyes flitter away. “I wouldn’t want to intrude,” she replies softly.

“You wouldn’t be,” Peeta says with a kind smile. She doesn’t see it though, so Katniss leans across the table to reach her. Gently, she places her hand on the older woman’s shoulder.

“We’d like you to stay, Effie.”

Re: Fill: The Hunger Games, gen, PG

[wolf-of-shadow.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful and just the right amount of sad.

Re: Fill: The Hunger Games, gen, PG

[purple-cube.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much, glad you liked it :) So many characters post-Mockingjay would have a lot of healing to do, and it's nice to think of them being able to do it together :)

Re: Fill: The Hunger Games, gen, PG

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

What a lovely story.

Re: Fill: The Hunger Games, gen, PG

[purple-cube.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much!

Re: Fill: The Hunger Games, gen, PG

[tigriswolf]

Thank you!