Monday, Sweet Monday

[benebu.livejournal.com]

Hello, I'm benebu and I'll be your host for this week. I'm so excited! Today's theme is 5+1. Themes can be anything as long as they follow the 5+1 pattern.

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...
+ Hana Yori Dango, Tsukushi, 5 things she regretted saying, and 1 she shouldn't have kept to herself
+ any, any couple, 5 endearing habits of my significant other, and 1 I won't be able to endure much longer
+ any, any, 5 times they got lost, and 1 they didn't wish to be found

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.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.

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[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, Thomas Nightingale/Peter Grant, 5 times they almost kissed, and 1 time they did

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, Peter Grant/The Faceless Man, 5 dreams, and 1 reality

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Adventure Time, Marceline/Princess Bubblegum, 5 partings, and 1 reunion

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Any, Any, 5 days, and 1 night

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Peter Quill/Drax the Destroyer, 5 memories, and 1 prediction

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Iron Man, Tony/Pepper, Five times he didn't listen, one time he did.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward/Winry, Five times she baked an apple pie, one time Ed helped.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist, Alphonse+/Any(or multis - just pls no sibcest or Win/Al), Five experiences Al has with friends post-Promised Day + one with his family

[falkner]

Pokémon, any, 5 pokémon s/he's glad to have caught and 1 that maybe s/he shouldn't have

[tigriswolf]

Avengers movieverse, Tony Stark, 5 (canon) ways Tony could’ve taken over the world and 1 way he did

[tigriswolf]

Avengers movieverse, Steve(/Bucky), 5 times Steve almost talked about Bucky in the future and the one time he actually did (and then burnt down the government agency that had been using/torturing him for 70 years)

[tigriswolf]

Charmed, Chris/Wyatt & Chris/Bianca, 5 times he almost joined Wyatt and the 1 time he traveled back in time to save his brother

[ivotedforsaxon.livejournal.com]

X-Men (movieverse), John/Bobby, 5 times they almost kissed + 1 time they did.

[tigriswolf]

Avengers movieverse, Steve/Bucky, 5 times a Howling Commando realized why Steve Rogers saved their lives and the 1 time they all told Captain America it was a-okay with them

[ivotedforsaxon.livejournal.com]

Revolution, Miles/Bass, 5 people they almost told about their relationship + 1 they did.

[tigriswolf]

Enchanted Talking Chronicles, Kazul, 5 princesses she's had and the one who was finally exactly what she needed

Dealing with Princess 1/5

[canonisrelative.livejournal.com]

[I'm on vacation and these books apparently aren't even on kindle ?! so while I couldn't NOT write this it's all from memory and when I get home I swear I'm going to dig out my books and clean this up and repost but for now....omg DRAGONS! I love you for prompting this.]

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1. “Honestly,” Cimorene huffed, climbing down from the kitchen step-stool and pushing her hair back from her face. “This is the third pot dented just like this. How—“

She turned at the sound of a snorting, choking laugh as Kazul slid into the kitchen cave. “That was Sariana, one of my last princesses,” she explained. “Is there anything for tea?”

“There would be,” Cimorene said pointedly, “if I hadn’t spend the entire afternoon trying to find pots and pans that aren’t too dented to hold water.”

“Something cold with do,” Kazul smacked her lips and curled up out of the way, her scales grating against each other. “Sariana was a pretty young thing, but so shy she invariably hid from her suitors. Every time her parents invited a prince to come calling, it turned into a week-long search for their princess only to find she’d wedged herself behind a bookshelf in the third library behind the vanishing second door, that sort of thing. Why her parents thought that arranging for her to be carried off by me would do anything good for the poor girl’s constitution…well, kings and queens, you know as well as I how foolish they can be where their own interests are concerned.”

Cimorene nodded sagely, not looking up from slathering mayonnaise on a dragon-sized cucumber sandwich.

“Well, the girl and I got on well enough, all things considered.”

“She wasn’t terrified of you?” Cimorene served Kazul her sandwich and a bucket of gunpowder green tea.

“No,” the dragon swung her enormous head from side to side, minding her horns didn’t hit the overhead light. “She grew rather fond of me, truth be told. No, she was shy around other humans, but I didn’t scare her, poor thing, it was the knights and princes. Every time she heard one of them calling for her, she’d drop what she was holding and run. She took to hiding in that wardrobe of yours, you know the one, it was always very obliging and kept her hidden until they’d gone away again.”

Cimorene frowned. “So was she ever rescued?”

Kazul shrugged one massive shoulder, lifting her sandwich daintily in two claws before swallowing it whole. “In a manner of speaking. After she’d thoroughly dented all of my cookware and was starting in on my more valuable ornaments, I had to send her away. Dinner was always burned and she smashed my favorite vase and I could never find her to clean my scales, it simply wasn’t working for either of us.”

Cimorene gave Kazul a stern look. “So you sent her back to live with people who wanted to marry her off against her will?”

“No, no, princess, let me finish my story. I put word out that I was looking for a new position for a girl who liked peace and quiet and within a week, Morwen brought me a clipping from the Enchanted Forest Daily Chronicle. She works in the palace, now, in the royal menagerie. It’s a respectable position and the king of the Enchanted Forest has granted her immunity from ever having to marry anyone.”

Cimorene took a bite of her own sandwich and chewed thoughtfully. “Well, that was very good of you,” she said.”

“Yes,” Kazul grinned, baring her teeth, “it was.”

[amai-kaminari.livejournal.com]

Any; Any; 5 engagements, 1 wedding

Fill: Once Upon a Time In Wonderland, "Keep It Shiny For Me," Anastasia/Will, 1/1 + Link

[fresh-brainss.livejournal.com]

(Here's the first part of the 6 parts; I've added a link at the end to my AO3 with the rest)

1.
“Ella is gone,” Ana said, slumping down next to Will in the stables. She snagged the bottle of wine from his hand and took a noisy swig before clenching a handful of sweet hay in her fist, trying to keep control of her envy.

“What do you mean, she’s gone?” Will was already a little bleary-eyed from drink, his face ruddy. Ana hardly knew him, he was just a petty thief and a local charmer, someone good for a drink and laugh, and all Ana wanted was to not feel for a little while.

“Engaged to a prince.” Ana tried to keep the jealousy out of her voice and failed miserably, feeling every inch the wretch her mother always made her out to be. “Here one night, gone the next.”

“She’s a bloody servant girl, Ana. How the hell’d she snag a prince?” Will tilted a little, face turned up towards the sky to see the stars, and Ana inched away in case he emptied his stomach of wine.

“Oh, who knows,” Ana said bitterly. She knew—Ella was sweet, and kind, and sang like a bird. She was pretty and mild and always did as she was told, no matter what. And Ana was cruel; she knew she was cruel—a cruel, petty little girl in a pretty pink dress who wanted to be a princess.

“Well, to Ella, then,” Will said, and let out a belch instead of a toast. Ana let loose a laugh, despite her attempt at soreness, and Will smiled. “I have a feeling you’ll break many a prince’s heart in the future, Anastasia Tremaine.”

Parts 2-5 and +1 at my AO3, 1456 words total (http://archiveofourown.org/works/2123613)

[amai-kaminari.livejournal.com]

Any; Any; 5 pasts, 1 future

1/4: Avengers movieverse, Steve + Bucky, PGish

[tigriswolf]

(I'm not entirely sure this is what you're looking for? But it's five fights from the past + 1 fight in the future, so...

Also, in this 'verse.

Warnings for violence and everything involved with the existence of the Winter Soldier. Also, maybe a smidge of implied organized crime?)

...

6

"Hey, stop!" he hears from where he's curled up on the ground, covering his head with his arms. "Get outta here, all'a ya!"

The feet kicking him all stop, but he doesn't trust it, so he stays down.

And then, "Hey, kid, y'alright?" The voice sounds younger when it's softer. A hand nudges his back. "You alive in there?"

He uncurls carefully, wincing at the pain.

"C'mon," the voice says and he raises his head to see a boy about his age, maybe a little older, bigger, with dark hair and pale eyes, holding out a steady hand. "Let's get you home."


13

He actually didn't mean to this time, but it doesn't matter -- their pride is ruffled, the three Miller boys, and Steve’s still sore from that cough he had last week.

He fights back, of course, but it’s not long before he’s down, all curled up tight, and he’s glad Bucky’s not here, because even the smallest Miller boy is bigger than Bucky, but then he hears, “Leave him alone or I’ll make you, you hear me?!” and he wants to get up and help Bucky, but he can’t catch a full breath.

Finally, Bucky’s hand is on his back and he murmurs, “C’mon up, Steve, they’re gone.”

Bucky’s got a split lip and a black eye and Steve wishes he were bigger so that Bucky would stop getting hurt for him.


19

Ma’s been gone for three months and he still wakes up every day having forgotten until he thinks about what breakfast might be. Today is her birthday.

He nearly rolls over to go back to sleep but – he’s got work, actual work this week, and he needs to start paying Bucky back because he knows the money would be better spent on Bucky’s baby sisters than on him.

So he gets up, goes to work, works through lunch, and then purchases a single flower to take to Ma’s grave.

It’s on the way back that he gets into trouble.

Bucky had told him to avoid this street unless Bucky was with him, but didn’t want to explain why. It’s a shortcut from the cemetery to the apartment, and he thought it’d be fine at this time of day, but six toughs are circling him, looking angry, and he just. He’s so tired.

He fights, of course he fights, and then Bucky is there. Steve’s collapsed against the wall, watching as Bucky tears through the men, silent and cold as stone. After the first two go down, the rest flee, and then Bucky turns that glare on Steve.

“You are so fuckin’ stupid, Rogers!” he shouts, fists clenched. “I told ya, didn’t I, I told you to wait for me!”

“I just wanted to visit her grave,” Steve mumbles.

Bucky closes his eyes and rubs at his face before sighing. “I’m sorry, Stevie. You gotta be more careful, though.” He walks over and leans down, offering a hand. “Let’s get you home.”

[amai-kaminari.livejournal.com]

Any; Any; 5 heroes, 1 villain

1/4 - Avengers movieverse, post-WS, PG, talk of violence

[tigriswolf]

Avengers movieverse; in this 'verse; warnings for talk of violence/death/roaring rampage of revenge; discussion on the existence/creation of the Winter Soldier. Pairings include Steve/Bucky, Natasha/Clint, and Jane/Thor.

...


Natasha hands off the file and then goes to rescue Clint. She had no time to warn him and he’s in deep-cover – maybe a day before the cover is blown, and all the fail-safes provided by SHIELD are gone.

So she wishes Steve the best and leaves because Clint needs her now.

.

A month later, as Natia Collins, she breezes into Stark’s tower with Clint on her heels. They fall onto the nearest bed and sleep for nearly 16 hours.

Stark is waiting for them in the floor’s kitchen but he looks at Nat’s bruised face and Clint’s splinted arm, and bites back whatever smartass comment’s on the tip of his tongue to say, “So, heard the latest on our Capcicle?”

“No,” Clint says, perching on one of the stools at the counter. “Please, enlighten us.”

Apparently, and to no one’s surprise, while Nat was keeping Clint alive and (mostly) in one piece, Steve began a two-man crusade against Hydra. With Banner, Dr. Foster, Foster’s keeper Darcy, and Thor, Stark’s been stalking (“C’mon, isn’t stalking a bit harsh?”) him and diverting people who wish him ill, “but,” Stark says, “it’s damn exhausting. Like he’s got a death wish or something.”

Nat stares at him and blinks once.

“Oh, fuck me,” Stark groans. “Of course he’s got a death wish.”

…

When Jane accepts Stark’s offer of lab space and rent-free housing, she and Darcy move in immediately. Thor, of course, follows. As cozy as Jane’s apartment in London had been, there are numerous ways in which Stark’s tower is vastly superior – not the least of which is soundproofing.

Stark even has a new battle to fight: aiding Steve Rogers in finding his lost brother. Thor hopes that Rogers’ quest has a happier ending and determines that it, indeed, will.

After Stark, with some help from Banner, relates all that has happened with their band while Thor sojourned with Jane, Darcy demands, “Bucky Barnes has spent the last 70 years as Hydra’s pet killer?”

“Yup,” Stark answers.

Darcy grabs a pillow from the seat beside her and screams into it.

Jane asks hesitantly, “Darcy?” while Stark and Banner stare at her. Thor waits.

Darcy lowers the pillow, looks at Stark, and brings it back up to scream again. After, she drops the pillow and leans back in her seat, hands covering her eyes.

“Are we all better now?” Stark asks.

“Thor,” Darcy says, “you better lightning the shit out of those bastards. Bucky Barnes! Fuck.”

Everyone maintains silence for a moment. Thor then promises, “They will pay for what they have done to our friend’s brother, Darcy.” She peeks through her fingers. Thor says, “You have my word.”

“Good,” she says savagely, letting her hands fall. “Flaying alive would be too decent.”

.

[amai-kaminari.livejournal.com]

Any; Any; 5 moments of regret, 1 moment of hope

1/3: Avengers movieverse - PG, gen, post-WS, outside pov

[tigriswolf]

(Avengers movieverse; in this 'verse. Warnings for implied bad things happening to a child; minor character death; talk of a degenerative illness of some kind

----


One morning, Janelle doesn’t wake up. She sleeps all day, until Yasmin crawls into bed and shakes her arm, crying, “Mama, I’m hungry.”

Janelle rolls over, mostly still asleep. “Eat cereal, baby,” she mutters. “Mama’s so tired.”

It’s after midnight when she finally gets up and realizes, heart breaking, that she cannot take care of Yasmin anymore. It’s not safe. She can’t go to the clinic because they might take Yasmin away when they realize how bad a job Janelle’s doing (she’s so tired, had to quit both her jobs, barely ever has any food).

Yasmin’s asleep on the kitchen floor, curled around Janelle’s old Bucky Bear, and Janelle barely has the strength to pick her up and carry her to bed.

Julian, she thinks as she pulls the blanket up to Yasmin’s chin. Her brother’s in Baltimore – he’s got a steady job, an apartment. Surely she can leave Yasmin with him while she tries to get better.

.

Julian agrees to keep Yasmin for a few months, if necessary. Yasmin screams and cries, clinging to Janelle’s neck, begging her not to go, pleading to go with her. Finally, Janelle hands her to Julian, saying with tears pouring down her face, “I’ll be back, baby girl, I promise. But I’ve gotta get better for you.”

“Mama, no!” Yasmin shouts after her, but Janelle hurries back to her car (held together with duct tape and a prayer) and drives towards the setting sun.

She has all these plans in place, hopes and dreams and wishes for the wonderful woman her little girl will one day be – but she’s a state over, heading towards a free clinic, and she never sees the truck run the red light.

(She has no ID on her. No family is ever contacted.)

…

Vinny first notices them while he’s restocking the candy aisle – the little girl dumps three armfuls of chocolate – one of each kind, and then repeats – into the basket while the man smiles down at her. “Can I get more?” she asks and then she bounces her way back to the Hershey section after he nods.

The girl is adorable, wearing a Captain America shirt with her dark hair in a long braid. The guy – the guy is terrifying, and Vinny quickly averts his gaze when the guy glances at him.

What is a white guy, who looks a single step up from homeless, doing with such a cute little black girl? It’s – Vinny watches them head to the next aisle over and he wants – should he do something? Tell Mr. Turner, maybe, he’s supposed to report suspicious things, but the girl, wasn’t she too happy for –

“Vinny!” Marticia calls, leaning into the aisle for just a moment, “Finish up! They need you over in the deli for a clean-up.”

He nods and returns to his cart.

.

He sees them again as he rushes to the deli, the little girl and the scary man in the canned goods section, but he has to hurry so he doesn’t – it’s not his business, is it? The girl looks happy, and maybe the guy isn’t scary, maybe –

.

The last time, the guy is heading toward the front with two large bags in hand and his cold eyes pass over Vinny dismissively. He shudders.

.

When his shift is over, Vinny pauses, watching Mr. Turner glance through the upcoming schedule. He opens his mouth – but it’s too late. The guy is gone with the girl, and whatever happens…

“Yes?” Mr. Turner says without looking up.

“Goodnight,” Vinny says and walks out.

…

[wolfsong98.livejournal.com]

CSI:Miami, Horatio/Rick, 5 times they almost kissed and the one time they actually did.

[blythechild.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds, Reid/ or + Hotch, 5 times he ignored it and the 1 time he didn't.

Fill! - Five Times He Ignored It and The One time He Didn't

[rebak1tten.livejournal.com]

http://archiveofourown.org/works/2144415

[blythechild.livejournal.com]

Person of Interest, Finch/Reese, 5 coincidences and 1 undeniable fact.

[blythechild.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds, Hotch/ or + Prentiss, 5 days and 1 night to ruin everything.

[blythechild.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds, Reid + team, 5 hugs and 1 kiss.