Tuesday: Second Chances

[marlex.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone. I’m marlex and it's day two of my guest hosting gig. Today's theme is second chances. Everyone had regrets or things they wish could have gone differently. Sometimes life, or fate or whatever else is out there gives us just that, a second chance to get it right. Today's prompts can be anything in which someone or something gets a second chance, whether it's is this life or the next. Have fun!

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.
If your prompt or fill contains anything that can be a trigger for the reader, please add a warning for that to give the reader the chance to decide if they want to read or not.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing. 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...
any, any/any, they are reincarnated lovers who have the chance to get it right this time
Forever, Henry/Jo, After Abigail, he never thought he would find somebody else.
any, any, using a time machine to fix a mistake

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 2015 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out the just created Lonely Prompts 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.

While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet and LJ's advanced search options are available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching for in the future.

Comments

[marlex.livejournal.com]

any, any/any, they are reincarnated lovers who have the chance to get it right this time

Fill - Original Fic

[icarus-chained.livejournal.com]

Um. This is more like the thousandth chance than the second, and them getting it 'right' is kind of questionable, but ...

Loved Not Wisely (http://icarus-chained.livejournal.com/480663.html) (on LJ or AO3 (http://archiveofourown.org/works/3381521))
There are such things as paired souls, drawn to each other across all the cycles of reincarnation. This is the story of one pair, whose love was so great that a god cursed them out of jealousy, so that they should always meet as enemies, and recognise each other only as they met their doom at each other's hands. (1803 words, original work)

[marlex.livejournal.com]

Forever, Henry/Jo, After Abigail, he never thought he would find somebody else.

[marlex.livejournal.com]

any, any, using a time machine to fix a mistake

[marlex.livejournal.com]

NCIS, Abby/McGee, “Don't you think we deserve a second chance?”

[marlex.livejournal.com]

MCU, Steve/Darcy, She makes his second chance at life worth it.

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Batman: TAS, Harley Quinn/Bruce Wayne, this time she's gonna be a superhero

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Superman: TAS, Lois Lane/Mercy Graves,

Walked in expecting you'd be late
But you got here early and you stand and wave
I walk to you

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

The Flash (TV), Barry Allen/Caitlin Snow,

I wish you knew that I'll never forget you as long as I live.
And I wish you were right here, right now, it's all good.
I wish you would

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Batman: TAS, Harley Quinn +/ Any,

Now I’m floating like a butterfly
Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
I went from zero, to my own hero

This is the day for Taylor Swift lyrics, apparently...

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Superman: TAS, Clark Kent/Lex Luthor,

This love is good, this love is bad
This love is alive back from the dead

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

The Flash, Barry Allen/Leonard Snart, he wakes up in a universe where he's the good guy... which would be hilarious, except Barry still loves him here. Maybe Leonard should give good a chance.

FILL: A Softer World [The Flash (TV), Leonard Snart/Barry Allen, PG]

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

(This isn't quite what you wanted, but...)

--

Apparently he’s a security contractor in this universe. Which is a little – a little - less hilarious than him being a cop, but only by the very narrowest of margins because please. Him a good guy? A straight flyer? A man who prevents crimes instead of causing them? Give him a break, he needs to figure his way out of this universe as quickly as possible or else go insane-

“Hey, sweetie!” A tight bit of ass, who somehow looks familiar, chirps as he enters the formerly empty apartment – gives him a deep kiss, and then trots away before he can do more than start confusedly at the ever so brief slip of tongue, “Not got dinner on yet? Good, because I’ve got reservations-“

…He blinks, slowly.

…Well, maybe finding his way out of this universe can wait a while.

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

Chuck, Chuck/Bryce, time travel to stop the man he loves from becoming the monster he is in the future

no fill yet

[tigriswolf]

Is this referencing anything that happens later in canon?

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds, Hotch/Reid, they had an affair while Hotch was still married; can they make it work this time, with a few more years and less guilt holding them back?

Fill

[blythechild.livejournal.com]

Posted over on AO3 (http://archiveofourown.org/works/3587226/chapters/7910664) because it's long.

[falkner]

DCU, Bruce Wayne+/Jason Todd, Bruce believes Jason didn't kill Felipe and doesn't ground him

[likewinning.livejournal.com]

A PROMPT AFTER MY OWN HEART.

...which is to say I'm coming back for this ;____;

[truthwritaslies.livejournal.com]

ST:TOS+ST:XI, Old!Spock/Any + Young!Spock/Any, In Old!Spock's timeline they never got together. In this new timeline, maybe he can save his younger self the same heartache.

[falkner]

DCU, Wally West+/Hunter Zolomon, Wally manages to get through Hunter and reason with him, but only after Linda loses her children

[falkner]

any videogame, any, New Game +

[falkner]

Shin Megami Tensei III, Hito-Shura/Futomimi, they meet again in a restored Tokyo

[truthwritaslies.livejournal.com]

Sleepy Hollow, Abby, Abby agrees with the plan of letting Katrina try to separate Abraham and Death instead of having Orion kill him right away.

[truthwritaslies.livejournal.com]

MCU, Steve +/ Bucky, He caught Bucky when Bucky was falling off the train. This isn't a good thing.

no fic (yet?)

[tigriswolf]

I'm not sure what you mean by it wasn't a good thing. Like, things go worse with a different WS? Or Steve doesn't tear his way into Hydra, or Zola doesn't give the plan up?

[falkner]

DCU, Tim Drake, Tim doesn't listen to Dick and uses the Lazarus Pit's water to get Superboy back, it doesn't go well

[katleept.livejournal.com]

X-Men comic!verse, Sean/Emma, Sean's the latest in a long line of heroes come back from the dead. This time, he's determined to get his life right, starting with earning the hand of the right woman.

[katleept.livejournal.com]

X-Men comic!verse, Piotr/Kitty, He didn't come back to life for this.

[katleept.livejournal.com]

X-Men comic!verse, Kurt/Ororo, This time, he's going to make certain she knows how much he loves her.

Fill: "Catch Me", Kurt/Ororo, G

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

Timing is everything. It is the one thing that Nightcrawler learned during his time as a circus acrobat. Take a leap a second too soon or too late and you fall, and there was not always a net to catch you.

It is the same with love. Ororo was always so close and yet just out of his reach. She seemingly saw him as nothing more than a friend or a “little brother” at best.

Yet, there were little moments, near catches and near misses, impromptu waltzes and light kisses on the hand, stolen glances and quiet nights watching the rain fall.

But the timing was never right. He was seeing someone else. And then he was gravely injured and Ororo was “dead”. Then they were in separate countries. And then they reunited, but then Ororo was married. And then Kurt was dead. And then he was alive again but she was in love with someone else who would also die. They were always swinging in the wrong direction, too far to leap before she was carried away with the wind.

There was never going to be the perfect time. There would just have to be “close enough”, a quiet moment that came rarely and passed too quickly to miss…

Kurt was given a second chance at life for a reason. So the daredevil in him told him to take a deep breath, reach out to Ororo and catch her in a kiss, and hope and pray that she did not hit him with a lightning bolt or the back of her knuckles.

And then he could exhale when she caught him tight in her arms, and return the kiss.

“What took you so long?” She whispered with a smile.

[katleept.livejournal.com]

Angel, Angel/Cordelia + any(/any), Cordy wakes up from the coma.