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Thursday's Episode
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classics_lover, and I continue to be your host for the week. Today's theme is Episode Titles, prompts have to take the form of the title of an episode of something (from the same fandom, or from a different fandom, you decide!)
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...
☺ Iron Man movies, Tony/Pepper, The One With The Princess Leia Fantasy
☻ Author's choice, any rarepair, An Affair to Forget
☺ Star Trek (TOS), any +/ any, Platonish
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.
tag=episode titles
classics_lover, and I continue to be your host for the week. Today's theme is Episode Titles, prompts have to take the form of the title of an episode of something (from the same fandom, or from a different fandom, you decide!)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...
☺ Iron Man movies, Tony/Pepper, The One With The Princess Leia Fantasy
☻ Author's choice, any rarepair, An Affair to Forget
☺ Star Trek (TOS), any +/ any, Platonish
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.
tag=episode titles
1/2: RPF - Zayn Malik/Liam Payne
(Follows this. One Direction RPF, Zayn Malik/Liam Payne & Louis Tomlinson/Harry Styles. References to death/violence.)
Zayn's family believe he is a poet. He is, actually; he's had five volumes published under his name, so that his parents can brag about him, or his sisters can laugh, so that he has a cover if he ever meets someone he wants to keep.
He enjoys the poetry but it could never give him the lifestyle he wants.
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Zayn meets Louis in a classic meet-cute: they're both in the same coffee shop when it gets robbed. Zayn is 22; he doesn't know how old Louis is, at the time, just that the man next to him isn't panicking, which keeps his own panic at bay.
The man next to him sighs, muttering, "Fucker's makin' me late," and Zayn looks at him instead of at the angry man waving a knife around.
One of the other customers decides to be a hero, tackling the guy with the knife; he gets sliced across the chest and it's the worst thing Zayn has ever seen in person. Most everyone else screams or cries, if they haven't been already.
Zayn stares at the blood and watches in - shock, he'll tell the police officer later. But it's awe that keeps his eyes glued to the man who takes the knife from the attempted-thief, kicks him in the head, and then crouches down to try to save the would-be hero bleeding out.
He meets Zayn's gaze as they wait for the emergency services to arrive. "Can you get me napkins or somethin', love?" he asks.
When it's all over, Zayn, Louis, and William (the would-be hero) are given headlines in the paper, but quickly forgotten about.
Saving a life together would be the start of a wonderful love story - except that Louis smirks at Zayn, blood still coating both of their hands, and asks, "Up for a little more excitement?"
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Zayn doesn’t like guns all that much; he finds them inelegant. He prefers knives or poison. If you kill with a gun, he explains to Louis more than once, it’s obvious. But poison? Poison can be disguised as so many things.
He also doesn’t like Nick that much, so though he takes the training eagerly, he only does so many jobs for Nick’s company before branching out on his own. He’s very selective of his clients, and doesn’t choose the messy ones to work for.
His first volume of poetry is written in an adrenaline haze after his first solo job, and he submits it only at Louis’ prodding to an old friend from university. It’s published locally and doesn’t make any sort of splash, and the paycheck from it doesn’t compare at all to the money he makes from killing.
.
He partners with Louis sometimes, only because he actually trusts Louis, the way he trusts no one else in their business. He knows Louis trusts him, too, because he’s met Louis’ family, same as Louis met his. Safaa had been convinced they were dating, but though they’ve fucked a few times (always after a job), he thinks of Louis as his best mate and could never be in love with him. Louis isn’t the staying kind, he thinks once, in the midst of a mad poetry-writing session. It becomes a poem in his second volume, a sort of an ode to the love-that-never-was.
He knows when Louis reads it because of a post-card from Orlando, Florida, with fuck you very much scrawled on it.
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He meets Liam at a club. Liam is sweet, the way none of his flings ever have been. He’s funny and fumbles the lines he tries on Zayn, solid and strong. He’s also a music teacher at a local primary school who volunteers at a teen detention facility during the weekend.
The night they meet, Zayn is still on the high from a double-assassination staged as a murder-suicide. Perhaps he should feel guilty for touching Liam with hands so stained but instead it only makes everything so much more thrilling.
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2/2: RPF - Zayn Malik/Liam Payne
Liam loves it when Zayn recites poetry, pressing the words into Liam’s skin as he bites his way down Liam’s torso. He charms Mum and all three of Zayn’s sisters, and discusses policy and politics with Zayn’s father. He doesn’t seem to like Louis that much, but then, Louis loves poking at him, so Zayn figures that’s alright.
Zany never once considers telling Liam what he actually does. Half of his fifth volume is written for Liam, and on their two-year anniversary, he even thinks about proposing. He discusses it with Louis and finally decides not to. It’d be a marriage built on a lie, and that’s worse than simply dating, innit?
He doesn’t pray much, since following Louis into this life. He’s bought his parents a new house with money he earned through murder, given his sisters all they could ever ask for, and he sleeps easily at night, anywhere in the world.
His sixth volume is called Shadows, and he pours all of his fears and regrets into it, so that he can let them go.
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When Zayn is thirty years old, he goes to work for Louis. Publically, Louis is a private investigator; he is, in truth, an assassin who took over his teacher’s company. Nick had employed a half dozen agents and Louis keeps four of them.
Zayn doesn’t ask what happened to Justin or Eleanor, and assumes Louis gave them to his new – pet.
Louis had asked, how do you feel about serial killers? and Zayn had answered, better than mass murderers yeah? because he thought it was rhetorical. Instead, Louis falls head over heels in lust (Zayn dreads it being love) with an honest-to-Allah serial killer. Because he’s on the road to being a serial killer himself.
It’s… dangerous is the best-case scenario. He talks with Niall about it, once he realizes what Louis is doing, and again, after Nick’s untimely and unlamented death. Niall seems too bright and bubbly for this work, and maybe that’s why Louis keeps him around. It’s not like the rest of them have consciences worth mentioning.
Zany keeps Liam away from Harry Styles, and makes sure that Louis knows he is to never mention Zayn’s family to the man.
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Curled up in Liam’s arms, back from an ‘inspiration trip’ to Los Angeles, Zayn plans. He hopes to never need it, because he truly never wants to have to go against Louis. But Harry Styles is something that contingencies are needed for, whether Louis admits it or not.
Zayn takes pride in his craft but he doesn’t kill for the pleasure of it. It is a transaction, work that is necessary because someone will do it. He can charge exorbitant sums for it. He can take care of his family.
He will watch carefully in the coming months and decide if the contingency should be implemented or not. As he told Louis, more than once, poisons can be hidden as so many things.