Wednesday: Dialogue
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reeby10 and today's theme is dialogue. Prompts should be a line of dialogue, whether it’s from the book/movie/show/etc. you're prompting from, another book/movie/show/etc., or made up.
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...
+ Person of Interest, Harold Finch/John Reese, "That's very mercenary of you, Finch, I think I like it."
+ any, any, "Only one rule: we all die in the end."
+ Young Justice, Roy Harper/Wally West, "Today's the day."
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.
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reeby10 and today's theme is dialogue. Prompts should be a line of dialogue, whether it’s from the book/movie/show/etc. you're prompting from, another book/movie/show/etc., or made up.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...
+ Person of Interest, Harold Finch/John Reese, "That's very mercenary of you, Finch, I think I like it."
+ any, any, "Only one rule: we all die in the end."
+ Young Justice, Roy Harper/Wally West, "Today's the day."
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.
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Date: 2015-09-02 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-02 02:22 pm (UTC)Highlander - gennish, PG
Date: 2015-09-02 05:25 pm (UTC)The first thing Methos teaches each of his students, from the first to the last, is how to die.
After that, he shows them how to live.
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He spaces them out across centuries, keeps them until he's sure they can survive, and then checks in from time to time. He loves them neither more nor less than the mortal children he raises, and none of them ever know the name he's been assigned by the Watchers, the name that means oldest of us all.
Well, none of them but one. Kronos is the exception to so many of his rules.
Despite how it ends, he only regrets a single thing about his years with Kronos: how Kronos never learned to adapt.
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In the end, so many of the dead cry, there can be only one.
It's such a stupid thing. Not even he knows where it came from.
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They all fall, as time marches on. Every child he has ever loved and left. They all fall.
He promises, listening to Byron's last piece, that he'll never take on another student.
Of course, he's promised that before.
.
When he's not annoyed at Methos, MacLeod does ask about the wisdom learned over so many centuries. There is so much Methos could teach, if he chose to.
Methos smiles at him, the ghosts of Kronos and Byron, even of Caspian, standing around them both, here in Joe's bar.
"You're not my student," he says, swirling his beer in the bottle. "You don't learn, anyway."
MacLeod pouts at him.
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The first thing Methos ever teaches his students is how to die.
Joe asks him, just once, if he's got any nemeses the way MacLeod seems to. MacLeod's killed more of their kind than most headhunters manage, ever so honorable and noble. He's a child, not even half a millennium yet. He's killed more of their kind than Methos has.
"I don't do nemeses, Joe," Methos says, wondering how Joe will explain the Chronicle that Methos isn't supposed to know he's writing.
Methos does not leave threats at his back. And if Joe doesn't figure out the warning, well. He's getting old, for a mortal. And for all that Methos likes him -
Well, he'd loved Kronos for three thousand years.
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Date: 2015-09-02 05:09 pm (UTC)1 sentence, Highlander
Date: 2015-11-19 05:55 pm (UTC)He smiles at their efforts, these children who think themselves the most advanced that have ever been, and he remembers Alexandria, Atlantis, all that was once and lost, and what he never says is, Of course it can.
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Date: 2015-09-02 06:03 pm (UTC)LOL IDK.
Date: 2015-09-03 05:03 am (UTC)"Don't," Roy says. "He only found that one because you bitched at him about the wings."
"No," Jason says, pointing a screwdriver at Roy. "Don't say wings like that was normal. I'm within my fucking rights to call out an employee for dressing like fuckin' Tinkerbell."
"Yeah," Roy says, a little breathlessly. "That was a good day."
"Freak," Jason says. "I'm going to say something. Skirts don't actually get shorter than that. It's -"
"Distracting, right?" Roy asks, with the kind of knowing smirk that makes Jason want to hurt him.
"Unprofessional," Jason tries, and Roy laughs, runs his hand through the blue streaks in Jason's hair.
"Uh-huh," Roy says. "So, since you're all professional, does that mean once we finish this you don't wanna take a break, get baked and fuck around?"
Jason glares at him, but it's not no. "I'm going to -"
"Jay, come on, look at him. He's reading Camus."
"So?" Jason asks.
"In the original French."
"So?" Jason asks again.
Instead of answering, Roy starts reciting passages in French until Jason gives up on the shelf, drags Roy into the back room. When they come back out, Tim's already put the shelf up himself.
"Hm," Roy says, stepping up to him. "Looks like you need a break."
"Yeah," Tim says. "Wanna go terrorize Zee at the Disney Store?"
"Roy," Jason starts, but Roy doesn't listen, just walks out of the place with Tim and leaves Jason to man the store himself just as a huge rush comes through.
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Date: 2015-09-02 06:06 pm (UTC)"Old enough to kick your butt through your skull and splatter your brains on the wall."
I'LL CHEAT ON WHATEVER PROMPT I WANT. :p
Date: 2015-09-04 04:04 am (UTC)"Old enough to kick your ass," the kid says, and Roy actually snorts.
"You can't hold me," the kid says. "I'm underage. The worst anyone will do is give me a slap on the wrist."
Jason kind of wants to slap the shit out of this kid. Luckily, Dick's here to put things back on track.
"You're probably right," he says. "But we can still call your parents. In fact, we have to do that. So maybe if you cooperate, we just tell them that you stole some buttons, not that you tried to make off with almost a hundred bucks worth of merchandise."
The kid's scowl deepens, but then he spits out, "Fine," and rattles off his dad's number.
*
The kid's name is Damian, and Jason's sure there's never been a more appropriate name for this devil-child. Jason's the only one left by the time Damian's dad shows up; everyone else bailed to check out the new bar where Kori's working, promising to have a couple of drinks in his honor. Jason doesn't know how he got stuck with this shit; Dick's the fucking manager.
"Yeah," Dick agreed, scratching his head. "But as your manager I'm assigning this one to you. Besides, I think he likes you."
So yeah, Jason's pretty much hoping that all of his friends get alcohol poisoning just about the time Damian says, "That's him," and Jason -
Well, he doesn't hate Dick so much, anymore.
Jason pushes himself off the counter and goes to meet the guy. Dick's the one who talked to him on the phone, so when the guy says, "Hello, you must be -"
"Jason," Jason finishes for him, a little breathlessly.
"Bruce Wayne," the guy says, holding out his hand, and Jason is instantly conscious of the fact that Tim painted his nails orange today.
"Look," Jason says. "I'm sorry about all this, but -"
"Don't apologize," Bruce says. "I should be apologizing to you." He looks over at Damian, asks, "Damian, do I have to have Alfred come in the mall with you next time?" he asks, and Jason sees Damian blush.
"No need for that," Jason says. "He gets on our shoplifter wall of fame, so the next time we seem him -"
Most of the time, when they deal with kids' parents after something like this, the parents start screaming at their kid, or insisting to them that their kid didn't do anything wrong.
Bruce laughs. Bruce laughs, and Jason kind of forgets what else is even going on, that he's supposed to be sending Bruce and his little demon child on their way, that -
"Excuse me," Damian says. "But I'd like to go home now, if I'm not under arrest or whatever. All I've had to eat in hours is that garbage -"
"Mall food," Jason explains when Bruce looks puzzled. "What are you doing to this kid that he's never had a Cinnabon?"
"Well, I suppose he is a bit sheltered," Bruce admits. "Perhaps we should both come back sometime soon, and…"
"Experience a little mall culture?" Jason teases. "I'd be happy to be your guide."
This time Bruce blushes.
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"Where the hell have you been?" Roy asks him when he finally shows up at the bar. "Tim and I were starting to worry that little Lucifer might've killed you."
"Nah," Jason says. He leans over the bar to give Kori a kiss hello, but Roy's still staring at him when he sits down.
"Something's weird," Roy says.
"You're weird, yeah," Jason agrees.
"No," Roy says. "Something happened."
Jason feels himself blushing, but he doesn't want to talk about it, not with Roy and not at the bar, so he says, "Just - do some shots with me, okay?" and luckily Roy is that easily distracted.
Re: I'LL CHEAT ON WHATEVER PROMPT I WANT. :p
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Date: 2015-09-03 12:37 am (UTC)(i'm gonna write the fuck out of this at some point)
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