Time for a Childish Wednesday

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Greetings my darlings, I'm still classics_lover and I'm still hosting this week. To get us over Hump Day, how about Childhood? Prompts and fills can de-age adult characters, focus on canon kids, go back in time to when the characters were kids or introduce kids to the characters/fandoms you love so well. Have fun with it!

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...
+ Iron Man movieverse, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, Tony is a surprisingly good babysitter, which gives Pepper ideas...

+ Assassin's Creed (Renaissance Trilogy), Ezio Auditore/Sofia Sartor + Flavia, Ezio is a doting Daddy

+ Author's choice, author's choice, "Well, it turned {pronoun} into (a) kid(s)." "How can you tell?" "If {pronoun} was/were adult(s) right now, {they}'d be really annoyed by that."

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[oh-mcgee.livejournal.com]

Avengers Universe, Bucky Barnes, children love him. He has no idea why.

no fic (yet)

[tigriswolf]

You want pre- or post-WS?

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

The Addams Family. Pugsley. Having a little sister.

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Once Upon A Time. Zelena and Regina. If they'd been raised together...

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Gone With The Wind. Bonnie (&Wade&Ella). play time

[ran-dezvous.livejournal.com]

Author's choice, author's choice, shrunk by APTX 4869 (http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/APTX_4869)

[ran-dezvous.livejournal.com]

Detective Conan, Rei Furuya + Elena Miyano, author's choice

[quitehopeless.livejournal.com]

Any. Any gen. The awkwardness of raising your clone as your child.

1/3: Marvel movies, Steve/ex-Winter Soldier

[tigriswolf]

(Okay, so, Steve's pov on this, where the ex-Winter Soldier found an infant clone of Captain America and decided to keep her.)

...

Three months after Ultron, a year after DC, Steve’s phone rings with unknown caller flashing on its screen.

He answers, of course, even though Natasha would probably roll her eyes at him, and says, “Hello?”

It’s the best phone call he’s ever gotten in his life (not that he’s gotten many) because Bucky’s on the other end, and Bucky says, “Steve, I need your help.”

.

Bucky found a baby in a Hydra base. No one except Steve wants him to keep her, this little blonde wisp of a thing, so damn tiny in Bucky’s hold. But the only one who could possibly take her from him was Steve, and Steve isn’t about to do that. He plants himself beside Bucky (Jim, he wants to be called Jim) and with a heavy sigh, Natasha goes to work, and Stark, and within three weeks, the Winter Soldier is dead and Jim Grant has a daughter named Abigail.

Abigail, Jim says, looks just like Steve. Steve doesn’t see it. But a few (painless, non-invasive) tests show that she is a 100% genetic match for Steve. Jarvis also finds evidence that there had been others before her, but she is the only one to ever survive.

He tells Jim the first part, but not the second. Jim knows Hydra better than Steve ever could, though, so Steve’s sure he already knew.

.

Jim refuses to join the Avengers or SHIELD. He refuses every government offer to join their program. He tells Steve, “I’m done fightin’ ‘cept as a last resort,” holding Abigail to his shoulder as he burps her.

Steve says, “Okay,” and goes to ask Tony for a favor.

.

In the beginning, there were some agencies clamoring for the Winter Soldier’s arrest and trial. Some agents were sent after him because their governments didn’t care about the trial.

Even if someone managed to catch him and hold him, it didn’t matter to Steve who had to tear apart to see him free again. And if anyone managed to kill him --

But Jim Grant is not the Winter Soldier. He’s not even Bucky Barnes. He’s a doting father who enjoys shows about baby sloths and interior decorating and teaches himself to bake ridiculous cakes. He’s still the love of Steve’s life.

On the six-month anniversary of Jim calling Steve, Jim puts Abigail down for her nap, pulls Steve into his arms, and they shuffle around the living room as Sam’s dance music playlist plays, and Jim murmurs, “Marry me, Stevie.”

.

They get married. After the third time Steve comes home from an Avengers mission barely alive, he retires. Director Coulson tries to blame Jim, but Jim had never asked him to quit, just silently held him or crooned assurances that he’d be better soon or blamed himself for not being there to watch Steve’s back the way he had when they were kids or during the war.

But Steve missed Abigail’s first step. First word. He missed Jim moving on from baking to full-on multi-course meals. Jim getting a job at Stark’s company as a tester for Stark’s inventions, and he also trains Stark’s security people and occasionally others who go through Pepper, and he’s also been taking classes, and Abigail is getting so big, when did that happen? She’s a stubborn little thing and Jim always laughs that’s the Rogers in her.

Except… Steve retires from SHIELD and then he goes to Pepper and he asks, “Is there a way to quietly drop the Rogers from my name?”

.

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

any book. any parent & child. lullabies

Fill, Christy, Christy Huddleston

[entireoranges.livejournal.com]

Blessings (http://entireoranges-creativity.tumblr.com/post/165741189361/blessings)

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

any. any. two children meeting for the first time.

[tigriswolf]

author's choice, author's choice, The only real thing wrong with you is that you're young. And that's somethin' time can always cure.

FILL: Not This Time - White Collar, Neal Caffrey

[sapphire2309]

Neal's been in a dance with time ever since he ran away from home. All the hurt, all the knowledge, all the inevitable by-products of accumulating days and months and years keep pulling at him, trying to make him older, wiser, more cynical, less naive, everything he doesn't want to be.

He wants to keep believing that there's always a way out. And if he grows up, he's terribly afraid that he'll suddenly decide that the risks aren't worth it and decide to stay trapped instead of leaving when he can.

He's weathered all the rocks he's been thrown up against, made an art of molding himself around jagged edges, pretended he was bruised when he was only bent, gave just a little, then snatched it all back.

But then time deposited him at Peter's side. Which may just be the most cruel tactic of all.

And now he doesn't know whether to give in or keep resisting, because when Peter says things like "Grow up," with the softest possible look in his warm brown eyes, he wants to. Peter's words work better than all the battering that time could inflict.

Or they would if he let them.

He's been letting them go with an almost aggressive passion, nodding along to words he's already forgotten, tossed them into the wind, easy as ever. Cynicism isn't a look that suits him. And he doesn't know who he'd be if he didn't believe that there was always a way out. Not himself, surely.

But it isn't easy to let Peter's words go when he cares so damn much. He cares about what Peter thinks in a way that's completely unfamiliar to him.

Time has started fighting dirty.

If he closes his eyes, he thinks he can feel himself being pulled away from the six year old child's mentality that he's worked so hard to hold on to. Worse still, he doesn't mind too much.

He's not going to topple over that easily. He knows how time works, he knows how to fight it.

But what happens when he wants to give in?



also posted here at my LJ.

[tigriswolf]

Avengers movieverse, Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers, high school AU where they meet in juvie

[tigriswolf]

Leverage, the team, Hogwarts AU – Nate and Sophie the Slytherins, Eliot the Hufflepuff, Hardison the Ravenclaw, and Parker the squib wandering around Hogwarts at her leisure

[tigriswolf]

Cinderella (Disney), Cinderella’s daughter and Anastasia’s son, the princess’s best friend/soulmate is the son of a baker

[tigriswolf]

Avengers movieverse, Steve Rogers + Bucky Barnes or Steve/Bucky, high school AU where Bucky’s parents wish he’d find someone else to hang with because that Steve Rogers is such a troublemaker

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

The Librarians, Flynn Carsen/Eve Baird + Jake, Cassandra & Ezekiel, Magic, most likely Dulaque, has turned Jake, Cassandra and Ezekiel into children leaving Flynn and Baird to raise them.

not a fill

[lasairfhiona.livejournal.com]

I so want to read this even though I'm not a huge fan of that pairing. but Jacob, Cassandra and Ezekiel as kids, oh yes!

SPOILERS IN PROMPT!

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

hopefully the spoiler tag works











The Librarians, Ezekiel + Cassandra + Jake, instead of gaining Santa's goodwill when Ezekiel puts on the hat, he turns into a kid

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Frasier, Martin Crane+Frasier Crane+Niles Crane, Childhood memories

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric, Winry Rockbell+Den; Playing a game of Tag

SPOILERS IN PROMPT!

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

another with spoilers in the prompt.










The Librarians, Eve Baird + Jake + Cassandra + Ezekiel, the magical door that Jenkins activates malfunctions when sending Baird, Jake, Cassandra, Ezekiel Boston, but de-ages them as well.

[daria234.livejournal.com]

DCU, Batfam, Bruce is de-aged to being a surly teenager around 15 and it's Jason's turn to keep an eye on him

fill

[likewinning.livejournal.com]

"Look, kid –"

"I'm not a kid. I'm fifteen. In some cultures I'm almost an adult."

"Yeah, heavy fucking emphasis on the almost." Bruce raises his eyebrows at Jason, and Jason adds, "Don't tell Alfred I swore around you."

Fifteen-year-old Bruce Wayne rolls his eyes. Jason gets a sudden urge to punch himself in the face, which isn't unusual every time he gets stuck with babysitting duty. It's just that things tend to go horribly wrong whenever he has to look after Bruce – like, for example, that time Bruce took off and got halfway to Metropolis before Jason tracked him down.

And of course Superman had to show up. Stupid nosy alien.

So, yeah, Jason usually tries to pawn guard duty off on Tim, or Dick, or even Babs – but everyone's busy today, including Alfred, so here he is, joy of joys, trying to make sure Bruce doesn't get himself killed and fighting with him in the process.

"I'm fifteen, Jason, I'm not five."

"I know. I just –" Jason sighs. When he was fifteen he'd already thought that he'd seen it all. When he was fifteen, he was a few months shy of dead, not that he knew it at the time.

"Look," Jason tries, "we're all just trying to look out for you while we figure out a way to get you back to…" Normal seems like the wrong word. "…the you you're supposed to be. Okay? Which means going out in the middle of the night –"

"You're always out in the middle of the night –"

"Yeah, but I'm bigger and stronger and these days you're a skinny little punk of a Wayne who Damian could toss like a pillow."

"Dick informs me that Damian is quite strong for his size, so that's a useless analogy."

"Oh my god." Jason puts his head in his hands. "You're closer to my age than you've ever been and you're still making me fucking crazy."

"You're the one putting all these rules on me." Bruce crosses his arms over his chest and slouches lower on the couch. "I don't need a bodyguard, Jason. I can take care of myself."

Jason opens his mouth to argue further, then thinks better of it. They have three hours until Alfred comes back, and if he can just make it until then without Bruce running off or setting the house on fire with one of his experiments, then Jason can bail.

He flops down on the couch next to Bruce. "Fine, k – Bruce," he corrects, with a glare from Bruce. Jason should've known Bruce was always scary. "Let's just watch some TV or something, okay?"

"Fine," Bruce says. Jason turns the TV on. "But not this," Bruce says.

"Okay, how about –"

"No."

"This?"

"No."

"What about –"

"Honestly, Jason, it's as if you have no culture whatsoever."

Jason hands over the remote. After this, he's leaving the country.

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Any, any, a magic spell that makes them all act like teenagers (like in Band Candy on Buffy)

[daria234.livejournal.com]

The Librarians/Leverage, any, the two teams meet to solve a de-aging case (Jake and Eliot are cousins with a striking family resemblance)

[daria234.livejournal.com]

MCU, due to time travel, Tony and Natasha and Clint and Bruce (and whoever) have to take care of a bunch of children from the early part of the century: kid!Peggy Carter, kid!Howard Stark, kid!Bucky Barnes, and kid!Steve Rogers

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Elementary, Irene Adler, Irene as a little girl

Highlander/Elementary - pre-Elementary, post-Highlander

[tigriswolf]

(follows this)


Uncle Johnny takes Jamie all over the world. He teaches her computers, weapons, hand-to-hand, how to charm and dazzle, how to lie so convincingly she herself nearly believes it. He teaches her to read the nuances of expressions, to turn a crowd of people against each other, to convince someone who hates her that they're best friends.

He teaches her that the world is a game and that she can win.

But he also takes her to ballet and opera, to summer blockbuster movies and rock concerts, to art galleries and museums. Once he figures out her favorite genre, he buys (or steals, it isn't clear) her an entire library's worth of books. She doesn't attend school, but he still puts up her attempts at art on the fridge wherever they're staying at the moment.

He assures her she is intelligent, clever, amazing, and beautiful. He teaches her how to use them all.

.

When Jamie is twelve, she realizes that Uncle John hasn't aged since the day they met. She formulates theories and tests them as subtly as she can, but Uncle John laughs at her.

"I'm immortal, dear," he says, cutting his thumb with the small pocketknife he always carries. She watches in awe as lightning shoots across the wound, clearing it away. "You aren't, though. It's a shame."

.

Uncle John lies when he tells Jamie he's barely two hundred. She doesn't call him on it, just raises an eyebrow so that he knows she knows.

.

When Jamie is fifteen, Uncle John asks her, "What is your long-term goal?"

She answers, "To become the most powerful person in the world."

He laughs, long and loud, and replies, "I once knew someone like you. If he'd been as clear-sighted, he might have even succeeded."

Jamie bites her lip, knowing that she must begin laying down the foundations for her empire now. She must also find someone to wear the mantle of Moriarty because few would respect a woman, much less a girl. "Will you help me?"

Uncle John stares down at her. His eyes are serious, as they so rarely are. His is the one mask left she cannot read.

"John Moriarty is going to die within the next ten years," he finally says. "But there are people I can give you, allies you'll sorely need. They will meet with you, but it is up to you to convince them you're worth the risk."

"Thank you, Uncle John," Jamie says, hugging him.

.

When Jamie Moriarty is twenty-three years old, her Uncle John dies in a car accident. His body is cremated.

Jamie has a phone number; if she is ever in such a tight spot she cannot work herself out of it, she is to dial the number.

Uncle John once told her that no matter how long they live, how strong they think they are, all of his children will always be young to him, even the ones who are immortal. It is not the only hint of his true age she ever gets, but perhaps the most telling.

When she has her own daughter (and for the girl's safety, gives her up), Jamie understands.

When her minion turns on her and threatens her daughter, Jamie Moriarty calls her Uncle John.

.

Few people who know Jamie Moriarty think she is capable of love. She sits in a park watching her Uncle John push a young girl on a swing, sketching a quick portrait of Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson, and she smiles.

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Ooh this is fabulous too!! thank you so much for this terrificness! Love these lines especially:


He teaches her that the world is a game and that she can win.

She doesn't call him on it, just raises an eyebrow so that he knows she knows.

"I once knew someone like you. If he'd been as clear-sighted, he might have even succeeded."

His eyes are serious, as they so rarely are. His is the one mask left she cannot read.

It is not the only hint of his true age she ever gets, but perhaps the most telling.