Friday: Lines From a Book

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone. As you may know, I am mahmfic and today is my last day of pinch-hitting for the week. You guys have been fantastic!

I hope you have fun with today's theme Lines from a book. All prompts should be quotes from novels. Pick up the closest book to you and flip to a random page, Google your favorite novel and find some quotes from it, go to Goodreads.com, search for a book and find a quote that strikes you from the novel. Though not required, it would be nice to include the source of the quote you used in your prompt for others to see.

Have a great weekend!

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above mentioned spoiler cut.


Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt


Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ Doctor Who, 12th Doctor/Missy, "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling)
+ Vikings (TV), Ragnar Lothbrok/Ahtelstan, "Is your modesty worth death?" (Irrevocable by Skye Callahan)
+ Cabin Pressure, Arthur/Any, "I love you above all things, even pie." (Fool by Christopher Moore)


We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2014 collection. See further notes on this new option here.


Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out the just created lonely prompt spreadsheet. 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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[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, 12th Doctor/Missy, "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling)

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

Vikings (TV), Ragnar Lothbrok/Ahtelstan, "Is your modesty worth death?" (Irrevocable by Skye Callahan)

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

Cabin Pressure, Arthur/Any, "I love you above all things, even pie." (Fool by Christopher Moore)

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

any, any, “I was his heartbeat. I was his fucking universe. Now I was, but soon I wouldn't be. I would miss that, miss being important. I would miss having someone.” (Dark Space by Lisa Henry)

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

any, any, “My role as your master is to debase you to the point of having no feelings, no emotions, no hopes or dreams.” (Tears of Tess by Pepper Winters)

[tigriswolf]

author's choice, author's choice, the songs about pain in our hearts are the first we learn [Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas]

[tigriswolf]

Avengers movieverse, ex-Winter Soldier, Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood. [Black Jewels series]

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[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Hah! I thought of the same line!

[tigriswolf]

Avengers movieverse, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes,

you will take good care of me because I’ve been honest.
you will let me be with you forever. [Psalm something or other]

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

MCU, Tony Stark+Any (or Tony/Pepper Potts), "Go nowhere on a horse that fades." (Tanith Lee, Tales from the Flat Earth

[falkner]

DCU, Bruce Wayne/Jason Todd, "Death ends a life, not a relationship." (Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie)

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[likewinning.livejournal.com]

You were dead for a while, but then, so was he. You know he'd use that as an excuse if you ever asked – those gaps in both of your timelines, pausing and then pressing play and both of you skipping a little, unsteady with what's gone on in your absence.

Bruce pretends like he's got a hang of it; like Batman doesn't have time to adjust being back, but you can see it when he looks at you, that little waver – Batman may have gotten the hang of the Red Hood, but Bruce hasn't quite adjusted to you.

So you figure, okay, it's over. Once you were this thing, the two of you, but time didn't just stop while you were buried, gone, presumed dead. Bruce's life didn't stop with yours, even if you think it should've.

So okay.

You don't remember being dead. If there's peace, or hellfire, you don't remember any of it – just the bomb going off, and then your eyes opening again.

So maybe there's nothing, or maybe death is just something where once you're back, you're not allowed to remember. 'Cause you're willing to bet you, dead you, wherever you ended up –

You're sure you were waiting around for him.

Killing time, as it were.

Some part of you is still doing that, even now. You make your own rules, fight your own battles, live your own life, but some part of you, the part with scars from before, memories of his hands on you and his half-smile and the laugh you haven't heard since you crawled out of your grave –

You're still waiting.

[falkner]

any, any, "This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today." (David Nicholls, One Day)

[tigriswolf]

Avengers movieverse, author's choice, your fame reaches from one end of the earth to the other [Psalm something or other]

[tigriswolf]

Teen Wolf (TV), Stiles Stilinski/Derek Hale, “I thought they’d killed you. I lost my temper.” [The Immortals - Emperor Mage]

[falkner]

DCU, Batfamily, "One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family." (Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated)

[falkner]

DCU, Batfamily, "Some people care too much. I think it's called love." (A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh)

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Legend of Korra, Korra(/Asami Sato), "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” (Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte)

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Batman: TAS, Poison Ivy/Harley Quinn + Any, “Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man" (The Odyssey by Homer)

[falkner]

MCU, Tony Stark/Clint Barton, "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?" (Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl)

[tieleen.livejournal.com]

"You know I'm falling in love with you, right?"

Tony heaves a deep breath. "Seriously," he says, long-suffering. "Can we just go to bed?"

"Actually," Clint goes on, undeterred, "It's possible I'm already in love with you and I just wasn't paying attention. That could explain why Nat's been rolling her eyes at me more than usual."

"You have no idea how important sleep is," Tony says. He sits down on the bed and starts unlacing his shoes. "I've read studies that say the average human needs to sleep eighteen hours a day to be fully functional. Let's try that."

"It could also explain why she left me here like this," Clint muses. "That wasn't like her."

Tony abandons his parallel conversation tactic in disgust. "What, unleashing chaos and destruction on unsuspecting teammates? That sounds exactly like her."

"Nah, Nat usually has my back," Clint says. "You know, sometimes I look at your hair and I think the word 'luscious', and then I want to put an arrow through my eye. I don't even know why I know that word."

"On the one hand, I feel very uncomfortable right now," Tony says. "On the other hand, you're going to feel very sad about all of this in the morning, and that makes me feel a little better."

"Oh, believe me, I feel very sad about this right now," Clint says. "I just can't stop."

"Hm," Tony says. He lies down, not bothering to remove his clothes, and pats the other side of the bed invitingly. "You know, maybe this isn't so bad. Tell me more about my hair."

"It's not as good as Thor's," Clint says. "Don't take advantage of the truth spell victim."

"Hey, I tried to avoid this," Tony says. "Blame Natasha. And your own inability to follow good advice. I suggested sleeping it off."

"And then you decided to just go for the cheap ego boost," Clint points out, laying down besides him. "Why is the bed tilted?"

"Considering you just told me," Tony says, "under the influence of a truth spell, that you're falling in love with me, I think my behavior's a credit to my name. I needed some parts this morning. How can you even tell? It's a four degree angle."

"I have excellent observation skills," Clint says. "Why does our bed have the kind of parts anyone would need for anything? How is your behavior ever a credit to anyone? Did you grab anything from the kitchen when we came in? I just realized I'm starving."

Tony gives him a side look. "Excellent observation skills, really."

"Sure," Clint says. "There's really nothing to eat up here?"

"We have an Our Bed and you just realized you may be in love with me," Tony says. "And people say I'm oblivious. It only took me four months."

"Huh," Clint says.

"There may still be some donuts in the bathroom," Tony says.

"Is that what you do when I'm on missions?" Clint says. He stands up, stretching carefully. "Eat donuts in the shower?"

"Tell me about my eyelashes," Tony says. "Are they luscious too?"

"They're pretty good," Clint says. "It could be they just seem long compared to how short you are."

Tony grins at the ceiling. "Well, work with what you've got."

"You've definitely -- okay, you know what, let's try this," Clint says. He spends the next half hour singing 80's rock hits, until Tony breaks down and promises not to ask anything else.

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, Twelve/Missy, “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” (Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

[scribblemyname]

Marvel Cinematic Universe, Natasha Romanoff or Bucky Barnes or Clint Barton (or all), I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again. Allegiant, Veronica Roth

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Batman: TAS, The Joker/Batman, “Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.” (Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery)

[scribblemyname]

Leverage, Parker, It is the curse of thieves and their right to fall to their deaths. The Queen of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner

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[marlex.livejournal.com]

Throughout her life, there was always those who saw Parker as being slow. If she actually cared for more than a fleeting moment to think about such things, she would probably accept that she was socially slow. Her mind, however, was anything but.

For her thoughts moved too quickly to stop and dwell on anything as meaningless as what people she didn't know thought of her.

Sure, there were rare moments when she had nothing to do and no distractions handy, but that was why she spent as much time with Hardison and Elliot as she did. Besides, when they were on a job, she only had to worry about her team and the mark.

And when on a job, her mind was, as Hardison would say with a smug look on his face, "overclocked to the max."

Which was why she had been able to speed through all of these seemingly random thoughts in the handful of milliseconds since she felt the harness begin to give way.

Just before, she and Hardison had been making their escape down the side of EnVid's corporate headquarters. As usual, the job hadn't gone exactly as planned, but they'd found the stolen computer files and Elliot, whose cover hadn't been blown, was currently making his was with them out of the building, as she would put it, the slow way.

When they been casing the facility and their mark, it hadn't seemed likely that this was a high-risk job, as the files they were after wouldn't cripple the company or its owner, but just restore the rightful owner's reputation and financial security.

But somebody apparently hadn't gotten the memo on that fact, since they were cutting through the harness' guide wire right now and would be through it in less than a second.

Since she felt the first twinge through the wire, she'd also thought about her team and how much she loved them. They were special. And Hardison was even more special, she had to admit.

Which was why she had, after quickly playing every possible scenario of events that could take place over the next two seconds and realizing there was none in which they both survived, she cut the cable connecting Hardison to her and the harness.

Hardison hadn't noticed anything else, but he did notice that. There wasn't time for a kiss, and she regretted it.

Instead, Parker kicked off from the building just enough to give her some momentum on the back swing--there wasn't enough time to perform a full arc before the rope was cut through, or they could have both made it out of this.

She dropped Hardison at the last moment, reaching up and kicking him as hard as she could in the chest as he fell away from her. The added force was just enough to break the window's glass as his back hit, allowing him to fall into the building.

The resulting force pushed her back away from the building just as she felt the rope give way. For the briefest of moments, she saw Hardison on the floor of some random conference room, looking back at her in both horror and confusion. He always looks so cute when he's confused, she thought, purposefully ignoring the other half of the expression.

And then he was gone, and was replaced by windows. She knew enough to know that this would hit Hardison hard. She hoped he would be alright. Elliot would have to look after him.

But those were sad thoughts and she knew they had been at around the twentieth floor when they cut the rope, so she had about 3.53 seconds left. Plenty of time to think about more positive things.

[scribblemyname]

any, any, "Rare the man whose gods answer him." The Queen of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner

[scribblemyname]

any, any, "The rain is as contrary as I ever was," she said. "It came because it knew I did not want it." The Secret Garden, Francis Hodgsen Burnett

[quitehopeless.livejournal.com]

Okay, so it's kind of odd, but it seemed to fit in the Queen and Hawkheart world, so it's there.

Excerpt: “So you play games with each other instead of giving that answer?” Virginia asked. “You are both as contrary as the rain.”

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3074030

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Star Trek: TNG, Data/Geordi La Forge, “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)