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Hello! It's me again. Everyone was fabulous yesterday - there were some pretty awesome prompts given and some good fics received.

Today's theme is, because I am an evil, evil person and intend on wasting your whole day, TVTropes. Yes, THAT TVTropes. Always wanted your favorite characters to enact your favorite trope? Have at it! The idea here being to give a fandom, character/pairing/leave it up to the author, and link to a specific trope to be included in the prompt.

Rules: No more than 5 prompts (3 per fandom). After that you may only put up prompts when someone answers one of your previous prompts. If none of the prompts today appeal to you, dig into the Lonely Prompts archive here! There are lots of beautiful prompts waiting for you to write them. The prompts format should be: Fandom, Character/Pairing, prompt.

Chronicles of Narnia, Peter/Susan, Battle Couple
Battlestar Galactica, Apollo/Starbuck, Kiss Kiss Slap
Supernatural, Dean & Sam, Arson Murder And Jaywalking

(Regarding formatting, hyperlinking code is <a href= "link here" >title here< /a> without the spaces.)

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SGA, Rodney, Crazy Enough to Work (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrazyEnoughToWork)

CSI:NY, Hawkes, Black and nerdy (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackAndNerdy)

seriously, he's a Doctor and loves physics and maths. And then the glasses. Hawkes is awesome!

Doctor Who/Supernatural, Sam, Dean, Castiel & Tenth Doctor, Weirdness Censor

The Dresden Files, Harry/Thomas, Depleted Phlebotinum Shells

Stargate Atlantis, Daniel Jackson/John Sheppard, It Runs On Nonsensoleum

Psych, Gus, BlackAndNerdy

Little Miss Sunshine, Frank/Dwayne, The Jail Bait Wait

Stargate Atlantis, Daniel Jackson/Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Snowed In

SGA, John/Rodney, John= Armoured Closet Gay (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArmouredClosetGay)

iCarly, Carly/Sam, Above Good and Evil (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AboveGoodAndEvil)

iCarly, Carly/Sam, Les Yay! (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HoYay?from=Main.LesYay)

House Md, House, A Minor Kidroduction (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AMinorKidroduction)

Leverage, Eliot, Heroic Spirit (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeroicSpirit)

Leverage, Eliot, What You Are in the Dark (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatYouAreInTheDark)

((This is such a good theme!

Uses my versions of Lancelot and Gawain, after Le Chevalier Mal Fet.

Also, please forgive me - I don't know as well as I should the correct fashions of the time of Camelot (and what I do know I pretty much ignored in order for them to looks pretty). I suspect, though, that things like masquerades and elaborate masks were popular quite a while after the reign of Arthur, so I suppose the rest of the costume may be excused as well.))

Gawain slid his mask onto his face, curling the hooks around his ears and studying himself in the mirror. He was dressed all in green - waistcoat of deep forest velvet, soft leather boots to match. His tunic was paler, the green of new spring, and he wore one yellow-green glove upon his right hand.

They were not his colors, not the russet and brown of his shield and sigil, but today he was remembering a lesson well taught. He slid his ungloved hand across the back of his neck, running the pads of his fingers across his long, thin scar.

As he bent his head, his dark curls fell across one eye of his mask, and he smiled at his reflection. The mask was a simple one, covering the top part of his face and leaving his lips and chin free. It was pale ivory, edged with gold leaf that ventured tendrils inwards, a bit like ivy and a bit like script. On one side the gold lines stretched from the edge of the mask to the eye of it, curled eyelashes like the rays of the sun.

Gawain fixed his cuffs and turned, looking for Lancelot.

He found him on the balcony, clutching the railing hard enough for his knuckles to go pale. He was dressed in blues and whites, his own colors, and on the railing in front of him sat his mask.

It was a whole-face affair, ivory like Gawain's, but much less ornate. There was no golden edging, no sun imagery, just pale cheekbones, lips painted blood-red, fine arched brows inked on with feather-like strokes. Gawain looked at it, and then up at Lancelot's face, lined and seamed as it was with his self-inflicted scars, and was tempted to knock the thing off the balcony, let it shatter against the ground.

"I cannot wear it." Lancelot said, not looking at him.

"It is likely meant to give you respite," Gawain said, inwardly cursing whoever had made such a mockery. "They know that for months you hid your face behind your helm, and they do not know that it is the face you hid and not the scars. They think only to give you a night's peace."

Lancelot turned to him, the moonlight catching his hair, silvering it. His eyes were blue, so blue and so sad. "What peace do I deserve, Gawain?" He asked, a little wild, and then stopped, because they would not have this argument, not again. "And what peace could this - thing give me? My old face, staring back at me in the mirror, but not flesh, no, but cold. Emotionless. Fake. Even if it were the scars that I hated - no."

Gawain picks up the mask, turning it over and over in his hands. It was a stirring likeness - pale, stylized, yes, but sculpted after the same lines as Lancelot's young, unblemished face. The lips were curled just slightly in a wondering smile, the brows tilted just so. His hands tightened at it's edges, and he had a strange, mad urge to take his knife to it, mark it up like Lancelot did his real face, make it fit the tortured soul it was meant to hide.

"You must, you know." He said, holding it out to his lover. "To not attend would spark more rumors that you plan to disappear again, as well as be a grave offense against Arthur...and your Queen."

Lancelot finally met his eyes. "Our Queen, Gawain." He said firmly, almost wearily. "I have no more claim on her than any subject, unless it be of mild friendship."

Gawain closed his lips, silent for a moment. "You could wear my mask," he offered, unhooking it from his ears. "I would wear your face rather than have you suffer it."

Lancelot caught his hands, and Gawain looked up at him, at the way the moonlight lit his eyes from within. He swallowed, his heart aching at the beauty and the worry there. "Do you hate her?" Lancelot asked softly.

Gawain averted his eyes. "I love her, as per my duty to her."

Lancelot took the mask from his hands and put it on the railing, one hand coming up to cup Gawain's cheek. "But do you hate her, Gawain? Does it twist up inside you like a snake, sometimes, like a cable too tight to hold, like something inside you will snap, bite, lunge? Because sometimes I do." His lips twisted. "Sometimes even as I feel myself falling into her eyes I hate her, for she and I will cause you so much pain."

Gawain could say nothing, only lean up and kiss him, on the lips, on the chin, feeling the press of his scars on his lips. It wasn't until they had joined the crowds, until he saw Lancelot sweep in and take Guenivere to dance that he knew the answer. Their faces were close together, as if they were speaking, Guenivere's mask that of a gorgeous, iridescent peacock, but Lancelot's lips didn't move. His mask hid his lips, hid his smile, hid the expressive dips at the corners of his mouth. It stared down at her with a sort of frozen wonderment, and she leaned into it, laughing softly.

No, he did not hate her. She could have the mask - his heart held on fast to what lay beneath.

DCU, Bart Allen, Gravity is a Harsh Mistress (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GravityIsAHarshMistress)

Heroes, Noah Gray/author's choice, Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NightmareFuelColoringBook)

Supernatural, Castiel/author's choice, Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu)

Marvel, Deadpool/author's choice, The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou)

Heroes, author's choice, Circus of Fear (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CircusOfFear)

Fringe/author's choice, author's choice, The Multiverse (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheMultiverse)

DC Comics, Cassie Sandsmark/Kara Zor-El, Has Two Mommies (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HasTwoMommies)

DC Comics, Cass Cain/Steph Brown, Temporary Blindness (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TemporaryBlindness)

Ultimate Spider-man, Jessica Drew/?, If It's You, It's Okay (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitles8ehi15xdv34)

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