Monday! Things That Are Bad For Me

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone. Crazy day at work, so I haven't got to a computer until now. It'll be better for the rest of the week, promise. I'm leni_ba and today's theme is Things That Are Bad For Me. It can be a pattern a character cannot break, a weakness they're tempted by. Or a bus heading their way.

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...

+ Buffyverse. any vampire. holy water.
+ Smallville. Clark/Lex. friendship without trust
+ any. any. Being read the riot act. Again.

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[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

Stargate SG-1, Sam/Jack, it would be so much easier if she could stop loving him

[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

Any, any(/any), a whole pint of ice cream

Fill. Supernatural, Sam/Gabriel, Dean/Castiel. AU.

[aivix.livejournal.com]

In the grand scheme of things, he could've been dead, so the fact that he was annoyingly and weirdly human wasn't too bad. There was all the traveling by car (which was just nine kinds of slow hell) and the need for sleep (which fucking useless if you asked him), but every meal was so much better when there was a food hunger to satisfy.

“Oh,” he groaned, “Oh, this is good,” and he licked the spoon with one long swipe of his tongue.

Sam swallowed before saying, “That's... yeah, we're glad for you, Gabriel, but...”

He licked the rim of the container this time, melted ice cream wetting his chin; a woman at the next table stared at him with her own spoon between her lips, clearly giving him a come-hither look that Dean was not having.

Sam evidently felt the same and snapped, “Mine!” at her.

She pouted at him, then glared when Gabriel jammed another spoonful in his mouth and even the Baskin Robbins guy started watching.

This was getting out of hand.

“You know, you eat all that and you'll get sick.”

Yes, sick. That'd work.

After all, the guy was a fallen-redeemed-killed(?)-resurrected Archangel. What could he possibly know about human digestion?

“I wasn't planning to eat all of it now, doofus. That'd be bad for me.” Gabriel's voice was sweet, conspiratorial. “I was planning to finish it later. At home. In bed.”

He winked at Castiel, who immediately colored.

Dean stopped for another pint of ice cream on the way out for himself and Cas.

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

DCU, Hal Jordan/Bruce Wayne, “a kiss can be deadly if you mean it.”

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Green Lantern (comics), Thaal Sinestro/Hal Jordan, they both make a habit of pushing each other that little too far

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Batman (comics), Edward Nygma/Bruce Wayne, OCD

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Superman: TAS, Lex Luthor/Clark Kent, 40 cakes

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Batman (comics), Damian Wayne/Jason Todd, being alive is bad for you

filled - (aged up Dami for reasons; let's say he's 15)

[oh-mcgee.livejournal.com]

"You tired of hearing it yet?" Jason asks, naked and sprawled out on top of his sheets, taking a drag from the cigarette in between his fingers as Damian searches for his jeans on the floor. Jason sees them across the room hanging from the closet doorknob, but he isn't going to say anything to ruin the view.

"Hearing what?" Damian asks and Jason may not know everything about him, not as much as Dick, but he knows that tone. He knows that Damian knows exactly what he's talking about.

"About how great it is that you're back," Jason says, scratching his chest with his free hand. "About how lucky you are."

Damian doesn't say anything until he finally finds his jeans and pulls them on. "My favorite," he says when he sits down on the end of the bed and starts lacing up his boots. "Is the one about second chances."

"Fuck," Jason breathes out. "That one's got Bruce written all over it."

Damian shrugs. "He doesn't get it. How can he?"

"No you're right," Jason says, putting out his cigarette in the ashtray next to the bed. "No one can. That's what this is about, isn't it?"

Damian sighs. "You don't look at me like..."

"You're a ghost?"

"Like I'm not," Damian spits out and fuck, Jason had some idea what this whole thing was about, but he apparently had no idea how deep it went.

"Kid," Jason says, putting his hand on Damian's shoulder. "Damian. You know you're not, right?"

Jason remembers the nights waking up in a cold sweat, digging the blunt tips of his fingernails into his skin until he bled just to make sure he still could, that he was fucking real.

"You're here," Jason says, curving his hand around Damian's throat, pushing his thumb against the pulse point. He hears Damian's breath catch, feels his pulse pick up beneath his thumb. "You're alive, I promise."

"Right," Damian says. "And when is that going to start sounding like a good thing?"

Jason laughs, bitter and painful. "You find out, let me know."

[tigriswolf]

Author’s choice, authors’ choice,



“Okay, scare him off and shoot over his head!”

“What’s that gonna do? I’m gonna shoot under its head!”

[tigriswolf]

Author’s choice, author’s choice, We gladly feast on those who would subdue us

Fill

[dreammaidenn.livejournal.com]

Hannibal

He uncorks the wine with deft fingers, with the same agility and ability with which they cut through flesh. The table set for a king. He toasts for the magnificent dinner he's about to have.

Some get what they deserve.

[tigriswolf]

Avengers movieverse, author’s choice, “Winter Soldier’s on the field,” [character] says and [pronoun’s] the only one smiling.

[tigriswolf]

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), team, all of their first responses are violence – except Peter, Peter tries to talk his way out of situations first. but everyone’s got a breaking point

Fill - We Need A Better Plan B (Peter Quill-centred, Guardians of the Galaxy gen) 1/1

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

PG-12, some swearing. Sorry it's come out more Peter-centric than intended.

~~~~

Coming up with a plan that does not involve destroying everything in their path is pretty much what he brings to the team. Peter doesn't blame the others, it worked for them before they met each other. Peter's pretty sure that the only reason he doesn't have that as his plan A is because after he'd been picked up by Yondu it had been ten years before he was even scarier than the ship's cat.

Peter wanted it noted that the ship's cat had been a Tarkalian lizard beast that came up to most men's rib-cages. They hadn't so much chosen it as it had come on board and no-one was quite sure how to get rid of it. It did mean that there were no space weevil infestations on-board though so the whole thing was pretty much a win, even if it meant that Peter knew his place and it was way lower than that damn cat.

Drax he could understand, and Gamorra too. She'd been brought up to be Princess Kill-Everything, so that was what she was going to do. Peter sometimes hoped Rocket would help him out on the planning front because Rocket was smart-clever when he put his mind to it, but Rocket just liked seeing shit blow up, so he was always going to be more in favour of the plans where that happened.

The main reason Peter would have liked the back-up on the non-violent plans front was that sometimes, he lost it too, and they could do with having a clearer head involved than Peter who decided that the quickest way of getting his Walkman back from the space pirates who'd crossed them was a full-on death or glory raid.

Peter had tried to reason with the pirates, begged and pleaded after that didn't work because no one was above that when it mattered, but they still refused to give him back his Walkman.

Groot, the only one of them who might have had the temperament to be a Communications Officer if it hadn't been for his vocabulary problem, was making it clear that he thought that this was a stupid idea, while Drax had decided it was a fine cause to die for, which really wasn't part of Peter's plan.

"No, it's not." That was Rocket.

"We've done more stupid things," was Drax's reply.

"Name six."

But Rocket still joined the rest of them (except Groot who was universally considered to be too young to be doing this, no matter how stridently he growled 'I am Groot', and therefore got left behind to pilot their ship) on the attack.

It was a terrible, easy, fight. It couldn't not have been, they were second rate pirates, who'd only got hold of Peter's Walkman because they'd been being attacked by a whole other space fleet at the time. Even if Peter had been on his own, he could probably have beaten them, and would have tried to, even if he hadn't been sure of that. But with the others by his side, it was barely even a fight.

Peter snatched the Walkman away from the head pirate, quickly checking it for damage. There is none. He turned to the head pirate, who was looking around at the destruction caused to his ship, "you should have given it back when I asked you to."

Peter was horrified by the damage they'd caused, he'd caused really, since they'd only come here to get his Walkman back, and he didn't think he'd ever be entirely okay with it and the violence, not that the others are, they just hid it better.

All of that was part of why Peter could have done with someone else to pull him back when he was the one that went blood-crazed, 'cause he didn't want the others to do things they didn't like doing just because between them none of them could come up with a way of avoiding it. Except, now that he was calmer and reassured that nothing had happened to the Walkman, he could see that the others had done their best to minimise casualties. The pirates's ship still worked, Rocket had hit it in places that produced fun explosions but nowhere that would destroy the whole ship, and yeah, all the crew were curled up in pain but nothing that couldn't be fixed and Gamorra was good enough at what she did that had to be deliberate.

Which made Peter feel better. He knew the guys would have his back even when he's not thinking straight, and that's a comfort in their world.

[tigriswolf]

author’s choice, author’s choice,



“It’s like there’s finally a light at the end of the tunnel, you know?”

“Yeah, that’s hellfire.”

[blue-sunflowers.livejournal.com]

Fandom: Supernatural

Dean just sighed. "Can't you be positive for once?"

Castiel glanced back, confused. "It's Hellfire. How can I make that positive?"

"I dunno," Sam, standing behind Dean, said sarcastically. "Maybe not have told us about it?"

Now the angel gave his standard puppy dog face. "But don't you want to know - "

"Dude," Dean interrupted, fed up. They've already spent six hours in this godforsaken hellhole already. This conversation was only going to make them spend more. "Let's just go get this over with. I'm hungry and want some pie."

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Buffyverse (BtVS and/or AtS). any vampire. holy water

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Smallville. Clark&Lex (or Clark/Lex). friendship without trust

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Veronica Mars. Veronica/Logan. It would be better this time.

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

any. any. "She's going to eat you up and spit you out. And you'll love every second of it."

Fill

[dreammaidenn.livejournal.com]

Penny Dreadful, Vanessa Ives/Ethan Chandler

"Miss Ives," Ethan greets.

"Mister Chandler."

Vanessa gracefully walks down the staircase, her smile wicked like she's the keeper of a secret he might never know, only if he's really lucky. Ethan wants to keep her close, listen to her breathing, count her heartbeats. Be acquainted with her in every possible way there is.

No matter how dangerous it might be. He wants her.

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

any. any. spending more money than you ought.

[fresh-brainss.livejournal.com]

How to Get Away with Murder, Annalise/Eve, "We need to stop meeting like this. It hurts too much."

Fill

[dreammaidenn.livejournal.com]

She's long limbs and fire. Her lips are soft and very close to her skin, and in the car there's little room to run, not that she'd want to, next to Eve is the calmest she's felt in the last few days. Annalise exhales as Eve runs a finger up her arm and leaves it there like a promise of more to come.

"We need to stop meeting like this. It hurts too much," Eve whispers, closing her eyes along with her words, like their weight is too much to bear.

Annalise takes a long look at her, there is something about Eve definitely, she has wondered what would happen if she were to run away and leave all and everyone behind. But so far she can't do it.

She wonders if it's a matter of can't or won't. If a part of her is resisting, since in this enclosed space getting warm together in a cold afternoon, Eve seems like the right choice.

"We do," she responds because a bit of honesty is what they deserve for a change.

Eve smiles.

Only if they could, maybe some other version of them can meet away from the murders, the lies, the doubts, withouth the blood on their hands. For now, the only time is the present.

[fresh-brainss.livejournal.com]

Gotham, Barbara/Renee, returning to bad habits.

[fresh-brainss.livejournal.com]

Hannibal, Alana/Margot, Margot wishes Alana would just abandon Hannibal once and for all, but they both know that's not possible.

[fresh-brainss.livejournal.com]

Once Upon a Time, Emma/Regina, avoiding temptation.

Fill, I'll take this up.

[vantiri.livejournal.com]

Spoiler for Once Upon A Time episode that aired on ABC on the 15th of November, 2015- the two-parter... sorry, I don't recall the name of the episode.





Title: Trying to convince the Dark One to avoid Temptation.
Summary: both Regina and Emma are intimately familiar with one of the typical Dark One temptations: lust, but it isn't for eachother, it's for guys in their lives. This is about avoiding or resisting general temptation, however, and they're friends.

Pairing: Regina/Emma
Setting: Season 5 after Emma becomes the Dark One, right about when Regina is trying to convince Emma to let go of the dark magic within her.

Chapter 1.): "I love you, my friend."

Regina was getting increasingly flustered with Emma's trying to dodge the question; ever since Emma had entered Storybrooke, thanks to their son- Regina's adopted son, that is- Emma and she had NOT gotten along, but now she knew what Emma Swan was going through: a massive orientation towards darkness and all things evil.

Regina was no alien to evil, she knew it rather intimately, thank you very much, and not in the physical sense; she had had many years of being a villainess, now their roles were reversed and she, Regina, the notorious Evil Queen had to redeem her ex-nemesis and now friend. The irony wasn't lost on Regina, not by a long-shot!

As Regina picked up the dagger to command Emma to tell her truthfully what had happened and why she was so reluctant to forego all this dark power for a real chance at the true love she had had with their son, again, in her anger she found herself falling into another type of temptation: enslaving Emma WASN'T in her game-plan! Regina pushed that thought to the back of her mind right now, she loved Emma because of all the good that Dame had done to and for her in their past, but now she had to repay the favor. Regina looked Emma directly in the eyes, and stated to her calmly "Because I love you, I command you to talk to me about what's troubling you."

Regina wasn't aware of how she was hurting her, so she found herself giving in. Incidentially she justified her actions to her Creator, whereever He may be, as an effort to save His daughter, and just as a precaution she mentally begged that her love of Emma and her inherrant respect for her be taken into account.

"You're not answering me." Regina said, kind of hurt that Emma was barring her friend from her heart, and told her again to answer truthfully about what scared her.

What she learned was a clue that they weren't that far apart to begin with- in terms of character. Like Regina, Emma was scared of hurting her loved ones, and now that these women were friends, Regina was counted in that circle.

"Fear can keep us as slaves, Emma, yes, I know what being a slave is... I have been one to the Darkness for most of my life, as was my mother. Killian, your boyfriend, loves you- and before you hurt him, I encourage you to let go of this dark magic addiction before it consumes you and makes YOU hurt him!" Regina begged Emma to return to her friends and family and leave her state of being a slave to the Darkness behind.

Finally, in disgust, Regina turned her back on Emma and stormed off, muttering "If you want to remain a slave, that's fine. I tried to save you, though, and I won't just give up on you!"
This was what finally got through to Emma that she had to resist, to save herself from her addiction to darkness. As she heard Regina storm off, she thought she heard tears, and through them she heard these words "Addiction is slavery, moreso than anything else, and far more subtle than any other means too..." said quietly and sadly.

As Regina well knew; the temptations of the Dark One were mainly on the side of the self-centered and the sadistic, and even with her feelings badly hurt by Emma's seeming rejection of her help, she was satisfied and happy that she hadn't abused Emma, but tried to save her, in this case from herself; when she had used the Dagger to control her.

"Regina, wait, I'm sorry." Emma began...

Possibility of continuation elsewhere, such as Fanfiction.Net and AO3.

Author's Notes End Chapter 1.) Regina and Emma's love for eachother is platonic here, there's no romance here, but I sincerely hope this is acceptable to the challenger who issued this prompt.

[fresh-brainss.livejournal.com]

The Walking Dead, Denise/Tara, Denise finds three Xanax tablets left in stock.

[oh-mcgee.livejournal.com]

Green Lantern, Hal Jordan/Bruce Wayne,  we're the thing that love destroys

[oh-mcgee.livejournal.com]

Batman, Jason Todd/Dick Grayson, us, we were pity sex, nothing more and nothing less

fill

[likewinning.livejournal.com]

Jason knows it's not anything real. Dick wasn't even around when he died, was barely there before that, Dick -

The only reason he's here, at all, is because Bruce is dead.

They still don't talk. They couldn't before; Jason was too harsh and Dick was too perfect, and they're not so far from any of that now. They shove each other against brick walls, they try to punch holes into each other, and Jason doesn't have any illusions that Dick actually wants him.

Not even when Dick says his name all breathlessly when Jason drops to his knees, not even when Dick pins him to the ground, holds his wrists tightly and pleads with his eyes.

Dick is - they're both - they're just using each other, replacing someone else, same way Bruce did when Dick left the first time. It's only Jason's got it figured out this time, so he doesn't have to tell himself it's something else.

Not even when Dick pulls him back to his feet, slings his arm around his shoulder and says, "Come on, Jay. Let's grab something to eat."

He makes excuses so Dick doesn't have to.

[oh-mcgee.livejournal.com]

Midnighter, Midnighter/Dick Grayson, but out of every pretty pretty miscalculation you have got to be my all-time favorite