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Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter Quill (+/Any), space rebels

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Green Lanterns, Jessica Cruz (+/Any), beyond the stars

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Any, Any, the universe is full of secrets

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"I'm going to have you removed from my chair." Mycroft told the leather-jacketed man with his feet up on Mycroft's desk.

"That's fine, it's stuffy in here. London, never enough windows, you lot are afraid of sunshine! I mean I know you hardly see any but-"

"Must you continue?" Mycroft asked archly.

"Rude. I think you need a vacation, Mr. Holmes."

"Vacations are for other people." Mycroft said, hitting send on a text to summon security. The Security Head was going to fry for letting this person get all the way into his inner sanctum.

"Yeah, so are manners and shoes that don't pinch,apparently. You need to lighten up, young man."

That stopped Mycroft."I am hardly a 'young man'" he snorted by reflex, but for the first time turned his attention to the man now seated on the front of his desk. Non descript clothing, leather jacket, sturdy books, dark, cheap, pants and shirt of a fiber he couldn't quite identify. The weathering around his eyes told Mycroft he was younger than himself but when the man met his eyes (sustained eye contact no problem, clearly comfortable with confrontations), something buzzed in his head that clashed with that deduction.

"You're a child, Mycroft Holmes. I've seen baby dragons older than you. And spikier. Got any tea?"

"Did my brother send you?"

"You have a brother? He as stuffy as you?" the leather jacked man said.

"He is of no concern to you. Nothing of mine is." Mycroft twitched minutely, invisibly to most stupid people.

The man didn't tilt his head, but Mycroft still felt the appeasing gaze all the same. "You like wearing secrets like I wear this." A shrug of leather-clad shoulder.

Mycroft was still, face impenetrable. "If that speeds your exit to my office..."

The man straightened, a slow curl of a smile widening into something a bit mad, something that reminded him of Sherlock when an interesting case dropped in his lap, something contrary and excited, and full of energy.

"The Universe is full of secrets, Mycroft." he said, by first name as if he knew that it would chafe, poking at the sore. "So many secrets even the brain you think so very massively quick couldn't contain them."

It was an insult and a challenge. Mycroft should just turn his back on this strange man who knew too much and didn't care, but then, for some reason, Mycroft wanted to answer that challenge, if only to set this insolence right.

"Oh? Pray tell." the edge of the words was understood, the implied invitation accepted, the bluff called.

And that's when south wall of Mycroft Holmes' office blew in with an unearthly metallic shriek, and the strange man grinned like the madman he was.

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AN: I don't know what just happened any more than you do...it just...jumped into my head. May not be quite what you had in mind....

Edited Date: 2017-01-11 07:19 pm (UTC)

RE: Fill (cracky?), Doctor Who/Sherlock, Nine+Mycroft Holmes, Secrets Start at Home

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Any, Any, Stargazing

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(A/N: Rachel and Joey never broke up. Set post-canon. Also based on this tumblr post (http://geckogirl89.tumblr.com/post/154460913230/inkskinned-there-are-people-who-you-can-sit-and).)

Joey and Rachel are sitting alone in Monica and Chandler's backyard at their patio table. Monica and Chandler just went back inside to put the twins to bed after they had dinner with Rachel and Joey, who were visiting them for the weekend.

A contemplative expression passes over Joey's face. "You know, I always pictured Monica getting married and living out in the suburbs."

Rachel looks at Joey curiously. "Really?"

"Yeah, but I always thought she'd have a pool." He grins at nothing in particular. He must be remembering some old conversation she wasn't a part of.

Rachel shrugs and looks over the expansive backyard. "Well, they've got enough room for one."

"Yeah." Joey pauses for a moment. "You know, I can't imagine living outside the city, but this is really nice."

Rachel nods. She tilts her head to look up at the sky. "You know, you can really see the stars out here." The last time Rachel saw so many stars was at the planetarium with Ross. That feels like a lifetime ago.

Joey glances upward. "Yeah, it's really pretty." He smirks and winks at Rachel. "Not nearly as pretty as you, though."

Rachel laughs, and a smile covers her face. It's amazing and kind of sweet how Joey still flirts with her after they've been together over a year.

"Hey, Rach, do you know any of the constellations?"

Rachel shakes her head. "Other than the Big Dipper? None."

"Yeah, I don't know any either. Want to make up some? It would be like finding stuff in the clouds."

Rachel gazes over at Joey, who is staring at her hopefully. She remembers how when she was a kid, she used to lay on the grass with Monica in the summer for hours as they pointed out images in the clouds. She's an adult now, but Joey always brings out her fun, playful inner child.

Rachel grins. "Yeah, let's do that." She squints upward, wondering what shapes she will discover.

A few minutes later, Joey is insisting that a particular group of stars resembles a pizza slice. Personally, Rachel doesn't see it. It just looks kind of like a triangle.

"That's the third food related constellation you've found. Are you still hungry or something? We just had dinner."

"Hey, you know how I like food. It's not any different than you and the Capri pants constellation. Which doesn't even make sense, because how would you know they look like Capri pants and not just regular pants?"

Rachel sighs. "It's the proportions, Joey."

Joey rolls his eyes. "Whatever." He looks back up at the sky, muttering under his breath that it "totally looks like pizza."

Rachel spots a new constellation. "Oh, look! It's a halter dress!" Well, maybe if you fudge a little.

Joey doesn't argue with her, but he barely looks at the constellation. "Like the one you wore in Barbados?" His voice is soft and filled with tenderness.

Rachel smiles fondly at Joey and shifts her chair to the side just a few inches until their chairs are practically touching. She holds out her hand, which Joey automatically takes, and gazes back at the stars. "Just like that," she says.

For a moment, she's lost in the memory of how their relationship began until Joey makes a confused noise.

"What is it?" she asks.

He points to a cluster of stars. "I thought that looked like a stick figure person, but it's either got three legs or a huge..."

Rachel looks over towards the stars and sees what Joey is referring to. She giggles so hard she snorts. The third appendage on that thing is preposterously gigantic.

"I hope that guy doesn't have a girlfriend, because she's gonna be sore. Yikes!"

Joey chuckles. "So, I guess size really isn't everything?"

"There's big, but that makes me want to cross my legs." Rachel does so and squints when she sees another stick figure in the sky. "I think I found big penis guy's girlfriend. See, look!" She points out the stick figure she sees, and she traces round circles with her index finger. "And those are her boobs."

Joey is throwing his head back in laughter. "They're bigger than her head!"

Rachel can barely breathe through her raucous laughter. "I know!"

Edited Date: 2017-01-11 05:44 pm (UTC)

Re: FILL: Friends, Joey Tribbiani/Rachel Green, background Chandler/Monica Pt 2/2

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DCU or MCU, any, Every day you play with the light of the universe.

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Galaxy Quest, ensemble, meeting aliens from Alexander Dane's supposed-to-be-fictional planet

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Dragon Age, anypair, moonlight and starlight

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Greek Myth, Hades/Persephone, she misses the stars when she's with her husband

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A handmaiden wrinkled her brows at Persephone, water sloshing in a vase as she stopped to ponder the question her Queen had asked her.

"Stars?" The handmaiden's soft eyes softened further, looking in deep into her memory. "I...can't remember stars. Are they bright and green and soft?"

Of course. The dead don't remember the sky. Persephone sighed, she should remember by now.

"No. They're like..." she stopped. "I can't explain it." she sighed and went for a walk. A cold path with stone that shined like marble was where her feet took her this...evening? She didn't even know if it was evening.

A wave of Otherness crested over her, as if often did her first few days back in the Underworld. The change of day, and especially of night, was what tugged at her heart the most lately. The deep white blue of a clouded night sky with full moon, the first pinpricks of stars against the deepening blue of late twilight...the stars, oh she missed the stars.

Her thoughts wandered above and her feet followed the path, unconsciously folowing the sound of river waters. It wasn't until her foot bumped a stone that she looked up, one of Hades' mighty rivers before her, gushing and flowing with their unearthly strength.

Though it was dark for a mortal here, there was plenty of light for one such as she, and following the crests and eddies of the river over she realized the water quite sparkled in it's own way. She stared at it, entranced for a few moments before becoming puzzled once again. Water sparkled because of reflections, but here there was no sun?

She surveyed the kingdom that was partially hers, curiosity and wonder perhaps still in her breast, though this was by no means her first year here as consort. Weary eyes quickly found their quarry: the ceiling high high above. The ceiling also shone from veins of something in the rocks that gave off a bright, bioluminescent light, far brighter than similar lights could be in the moral realm above.

Bright veins, glinting here and there, covered here and there by rock gnarls and bumps, glinted against the deep rock of the Underworld, so much deeper and darker than rock elsewhere. The effect was much like starlight in a dark sky, a tiny bit shrouded perhaps, for the light wasn't as clear, but they much reminded her of stars. Heartened, she sat by the river for long moments, heart lightening with the familiar sight melded with the soothing river noises.

She wondered if Hades ever came to this place to admire it.

If he did not, she resolved to bring him soon and remind him of the wonder in his own halls.

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Mass Effect Trilogy, Shepard/author's choice, that's a whole lot of galaxy for one person to look after

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Star Trek: TNG or DS9 or VOY, any, the stars look different from ________

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Star Trek AOS, James Kirk/Leonard McCoy, Being born premature in the black means Jim has a few issues to deal with while exploring.

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Stargate Multiverse, Steven Caldwell or Lindsey Novak, Sometimes Hermiod would drop them out of hyperspace to let the engines cool (or whatever reason you'd like) and it was always heart-stopping.

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Star Trek AOS, Jim Kirk, Just a little boy with a telescope, trying to find that spot where he was born.

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Star Trek AOS, George Kirk/Chris Pike/Winona Kirk, Getting settled on the Kelvin.

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