friday: the classical elements

[beckonade.livejournal.com]

Hey all. I am, for one final time, beckonade and today's theme is the classical elements, which are earth, water, air and fire. And also possibly, if you believe Aristotle, aether. Use the concepts or simply the words to inspire your Friday prompts.

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...

+ Orphan Black, Helena/Sarah, burning that much higher
+ Primeval, Helen, ice age
+ Arrow, Laurel/Sara, grounded

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 2016 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=classical elements

Comments

Fill 2/2: + Night World, Tag to Search & Rescue

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

But Rodney’s eyes were rolled back in his head and he was getting sucked too deep into Sheppard’s fear and pain. Evan slapped him across the face, hard.

Rodney came back to lucidity, and he was shaking again, pulse speedy and erratic, practically dripping terror from every pore.

“Lorne,” Rodney gasped, grabbing Evan’s arms, “we have to save John, we have to -”

The debris around them shook again, coupled with another spike of terror, and Evan realized. Rodney was doing it. Rodney had the ATA gene from Carson’s therapy. Rodney had magic.

“Rodney, look at me,” Evan said.

Rodney blinked at him dazedly. “What? Why?”

“Listen to me,” Evan said. “I need you to calm down. You have magic, and it’s freaking out because your soulmate is hurt. If you can’t get it under control, everything could collapse on us. You need to calm down.”

But Rodney was shaking apart in his hands, sobbing John’s name over and over again.

Evan made a decision. He stripped out of his tac vest, yanked off his boots even though jostling his leg was agony. And then, because he always wore combat leathers these days, he shifted. For one second he was painless, and then the pain in his leg was back and blazing as bad as ever, but Evan curled close to Rodney, nudged under his hand and licked.

Like a giant house cat.

It was humiliating as hell, but it worked. Rodney began petting Evan’s back compulsively, whispering, “It’s going to be fine. Everything will be fine.”

Evan nudged Rodney’s hand when he stopped petting, and Rodney kept petting, and his heart rate was slowing, his shaking subsided, but he was still crying. Evan let a purr rumble through him, and Rodney actually cracked a smile. Good.

And then Evan heard noise from above.

He hollered to Ronon, hoping Ronon could hear him.

Help is here!

And then, blessedly, he recognized Colonel Carter’s voice.

So he threw his head back and roared, and Carter said, “I think that was Major Lorne.”

Re: Fill 2/2: + Night World, Tag to Search & Rescue

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Not that deep? I demand a refund! ::grins::

Poor Rodney. As if his own fear isn't enough, now he's tuned in to John's. And poor Evan. Injured yet again, and having to deal with a fearful Rodney who can literally bring the ceiling crashing down on their head with his untrained magic.

There's a lot going on here, and I'm totally diggin' it. Evan doing housecat duties to keep Rodney calm? So awesome.

Thank you!

Re: Fill 2/2: + Night World, Tag to Search & Rescue

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Welcome! And thank you :) When I saw this prompt, I couldn't help but think of the scene where Lorne and Rodney are trapped under the rubble and Rodney's freaking out and Lorne's injured but still terribly sarcastic, and then I wondered what it would be like, with some Night World thrown in, and here's the Evan we all know and love, doing his best to make people feel better. It's taken him four seasons to get here, but finally he's being nice to Rodney.