Thursday: Unrequited Love
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truthwritaslies and today's theme is Unrequited Love. Prompts can be any pairing, as long as it's unrequited.
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 spoiler cut.
If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
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...
Dr Who, Chip/Lady Cassandra, He was made for her (literally) and she's his whole world. If only she felt the same...
Jekyll, Hyde/Claire Jackman, He knows he frightens her, but he'd never hurt a hair on her or the boys' heads.
Any, Any/Any, Letting them down gently
We use 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 2017 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 1 (not very current), Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 2, or the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.
While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheets 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= Unrequited Love
truthwritaslies and today's theme is Unrequited Love. Prompts can be any pairing, as long as it's unrequited.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 spoiler cut.
If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
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...
Dr Who, Chip/Lady Cassandra, He was made for her (literally) and she's his whole world. If only she felt the same...
Jekyll, Hyde/Claire Jackman, He knows he frightens her, but he'd never hurt a hair on her or the boys' heads.
Any, Any/Any, Letting them down gently
We use 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 2017 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 1 (not very current), Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 2, or the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.
While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheets 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= Unrequited Love
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Date: 2017-06-08 08:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-06-08 08:32 am (UTC)Not a fill
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Date: 2017-06-08 08:33 am (UTC)The Last Performance, one-sided Erik/Julie
Date: 2025-07-17 11:14 am (UTC)Yet, it was excessive at times. Flowers accompanied by declarations of live, gifts filled with promises. She took it all because, how else would she be able to thank him?
He couldn't be living a lie, she had to let him down, for the first time.
How to tell him? How to tell a man with such a tender soul, who would crumple under sadness' weight?
As gently as possible.
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Date: 2017-06-08 10:24 am (UTC)Poor Tali came aboard the Normandy *right after* Shep and Kaidan got together ;__; in my first Trilogy run-through. And then there was the time I had forgotten that Shepard had romanced Liara in ME1 by the time we got around to ME3... I am a bad romancer of Mass Effect...
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Date: 2017-06-08 10:25 am (UTC)Dammit BioWare let me romance Varric!
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Date: 2017-06-08 08:36 pm (UTC)Fill: more early relationship, also: the evils of miscommunication
Date: 2017-06-09 01:35 am (UTC)"Last I checked, Mustang, I didn't work for you anymore." The boy's smirk is amused and wicked and eyes just as determine and playful as the first time they met. "And Fullmetal? Not my name anymore. Call me Ed."
Roy grits his teeth, molars collide into molars, scrape against each other, and his jaw twitches. Ed's smile grows sharper.
"Edward, then," He says, watching Ed's eyes light up and his smile grow teeth. The name come out like a puff of air, too easy, too slippery. Like he doesn't have enough control to twist the vowels to his own dialect, adjust them to his intentions: how he likes.
Roy swallows, dry and slow, and Ed watches.
Sun shines through the curtians on the windows, reflects off of golden hair and refracts through yellow eyes.
It's a waiting game, really. They're each waiting to see what the other will do; what he other has to say first. Ed's waiting for Roy to profess everything he's kept hidden for a year, the ins and outs and secrets and codes that he just can't crack, and Roy's waiting for Ed to give him a sign.
A sign that it's not all about gratitude. That maybe there's more there for him, for them, but he has to be sure. Has to know he has something to build on before he breaks them both down to their most basic elements. It's almost like a transmutation, he thinks, knowing Ed would enjoy the joke. And he wants to tell him, but he has to be sure first that he won't destroy them both for nothing. He has to be-
For one shockingly clear moment, the world stops spinning.
Roy sees it, faint as it is, clear as day. It's the collar of Ed's shirt that freezes his every fiber and leaves him cold: on the top corner, brushing his neck, lays a small collection of pink wax.
Lipstick, his mind fills in for him, it's lipstick.
(He swears he can hear something inside of him break.)
He stares for too long, because Ed's face grows confused and when he directs his gaze to where Roy is staring - pulling on his collar to get a better look - and his cheeks flame the color stained on his shirt.
(Roy wants to say so much. Say please don't let it be true. Please don't tell me I was too late, that I was wrong. That I was looking where I shouldn't have. That I read it all wrong. Oh please oh please oh please.)
"Ha, sorry," Ed rubs his neck, looks away. So this is what Edward Elric looks like when he's embarrassed, he thinks. But he's too cold now to enjoy it. "Winry got kinda carried away, it was um-" his blush darkens, "yeah."
It's the most silent his office has ever been with Ed inside of it and he feels like he's going to throw up. Empty out whatever remains of himself, until there is nothing left: nothing but the husk he already feels he is.
The silence carries and Ed begins to fidget in his seat - and he could destroy him with this. He could destroy this golden boy before him in so many ways. Have him begging for him in a second, begging for what they could be, for what they'll never know: for who they could have been. He could break him, like Ed has him, and easily at that. A dead mother he still blames himself for, a father who died to save him, a brother still so new to the body Ed believes he stole from him. He could break him with ease. But he won't. He can't and won't and maybe it should make him feel better, but it's doesn't. It only adds to the weight on his shoulders and ice freezing over his mind - before Roy forces on the most fake smile he ever has, and a hearty laugh to go with it.
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Date: 2017-06-09 01:37 am (UTC)Ed's eyes flare at the name and his lips turn up in a snarl, "What are you-"
But Roy cuts him off before he can go any further, "Now if you don't mind, Fullmetal, I do have a lunch date I am late for, so if you could see yourself out I would be very grateful."
Ed's expression falls from anger to confusion, confidence fades and lost reads across all of his features, and Roy almost wants to think he's made a mistake but he knows he hasn't. Not here anyway. He's too late and Ed's too far gone and he still feels the most empty he has in years.
"Go home, Fullmetal," he says, soft where he should be sharp- this boy has always been the one to steal his control when he needs it the most after all, "and please do give my regards to your brother."
Ed stares for a moment, before he turns and walks. When he leaves, the door slams closed behind him, and Roy sinks his head into his hands with a shaky breath, listening to the sound of mismatched footsteps echo down the hall.
Re: Fill: more early relationship, also: the evils of miscommunication
Date: 2017-06-09 01:54 am (UTC)Re: Fill: more early relationship, also: the evils of miscommunication
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Date: 2017-06-08 12:56 pm (UTC)Supernatural; Castiel; he Fell for Dean, gave up everything more than once - and Dean will always choose Sam
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Date: 2017-06-08 02:08 pm (UTC)Hawaii Five-O Rachel/Danny
Date: 2017-06-10 09:45 pm (UTC)They shared two great kids and when they were in synce, it was great. They had done this twice before. Maybe, the third time really was the charm. She'd heard from Grace that there wasn't currently a woman in his life. That was a good sign, wasn't it?
She watched as Danny bridged the short distance from his car to her. She stood, feeling the butterfly effect in her stomach. Her breath quickened and her palms began to sweat. She felt like a shy sixteen year old "crushing on" her first love. She reached out and drew him in for a hug. They stood, awkwardly looking at each other. She motioned for them to sit on the bench next to them.
Danny turned to her. "Is everything ok with the kids? Is Stan giving you any grief?" She shook her head no in response.
"The kids are fine. I wanted to talk to you about us."
Danny gave her a quizzical look. Not really understanding her statement. "Us?"
Rachel nodded and looked away. She folded her hands in her lap, trying to stall the shaking. She took a few deep breaths waiting for her courage to kick in.
Taking off her sunglasses, she turned to Danny. "I want to give us another try. I still have feelings for you. I think things could finally work for us. Besides, Grace told me you weren't seeing anyone." She felt lightheaded as the words left her lips. She placed a tentative hand on his knee. Her eyes looked at him, searching for a response.
Rachel's confession had caught him off guard. Panic rose in him and he looked anywhere but at Rachel. It took a few minutes for Danny to finally respond. He took the hand on his knee in his. He removed his sunglasses giving her the curtesy of seeing his full response.
"Rachel, I will always love you, as the mother of our children. But, the truth is, I've moved on, with someone else."
She'd started to interrupt him. "But, I thought. . ."
"The kids don't know. We're taking it slow."
Rachel looked away, feeling the tightness in her chest. "I hope she makes you happy. You deserve that."
Danny heaved a sigh. It was better to get this out in the open. People were going to find out eventually. "Steve, he makes me happy."
She looked at him, taking in what he'd just told her. She searched his eyes, thinking this was a joke. Only to realize the look that had been reserved for her was gone. He'd never look at her that way, That was all for Steve.
Re: Hawaii Five-O Rachel/Danny
Date: 2017-06-10 10:03 pm (UTC)Well done!
Re: Hawaii Five-O Rachel/Danny
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Date: 2017-06-08 03:48 pm (UTC)Supernatural, Benny Lafitte, he understands why Sam hates him so much - but it's obvious he was never much of a threat for Dean affection anyway
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Date: 2017-06-08 08:54 pm (UTC)fill
Date: 2017-06-19 03:41 pm (UTC)The closest he ever comes to admitting it is when they're in that cabin and don't yet know Dad is possessed with Yellow-Eyes, when Dean glances at his brother for a heartbeat before looking away and confessing, "What I'd do for you, it scares me." He immediately adds Dad to that list, of course, but he's known since he was a kid who he'd choose, if it came down to it.
It's the closest he ever comes to admitting it.
But he proves it over and over and over again, and even though he knows it's too much, what he does, knows the world and billions of innocents pay the price, he can't find it in him to care.
(He doesn't know it goes both ways, even as Sam proves it over and over and over again.)
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Date: 2017-06-24 07:35 pm (UTC)Re: fill
Date: 2017-06-25 11:57 am (UTC)Thank you so much!
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