Thursday: Coming & Going

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Hi! I’m brumeier, and this week we’re going to be looking at both sides of the coin, so to speak. Today’s theme is COMING & GOING. Could be travel-related, or someone coming into or leaving a job. Any interpretation of either is good!

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...

+ Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, going all out to make the big romantic gesture

+ Lethal Weapon (TV), Martin Riggs, mentally he always has one foot out the door

+ Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams, it was just supposed to be a romantic day trip

+ Any, Any, Character A has Character B so turned around they don’t know if they’re coming or going

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Comments

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, going all out to make the big romantic gesture

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Lethal Weapon (TV), Martin Riggs, mentally he always has one foot out the door

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams, it was just supposed to be a romantic day trip

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Any, Any, Character A has Character B so turned around they don’t know if they’re coming or going

[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

Any, any/any, I hate to see you leave, but I love to watch you go

[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

MCU/Hawkeye, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, they often come and go at different times

[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

Any, any/any, Tell me, darlin'/ We will never part/ I need you, darlin'/ So come go with me ("Come and Go With Me" by the Dell-Vikings)

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Any, any, There's nothing wrong with going nowhere, baby, but we should be going nowhere fast. --Jim Steinman

[tigriswolf]

Z Nation, Alvin Murphy + author’s choice, (I haven’t seen anything past season 3) it’s in the blood, come the end

[tigriswolf]

Z Nation, author’s choice, if Warren hadn’t taken over the Red Hand

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, any, going home on leave from Atlantis for the first time.

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Any law enforcement/military fandom, any/any, so hard to watch your lover go where you cannot follow.

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Almost Human, Dorian (+/any), going to sleep almost feels like dying every time.

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Almost Human or Battle Creek or Lethal Weapon, partners, one of them always threatens to leave the partnership but the other one knows it's a bluff

[daria234.livejournal.com]

MCU or Agents of SHIELD, any m/m, reunion sex (after being apart for a long time)

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Agents of SHIELD or MCU or Arrowverse, any m/m, one of them always leaves right after sex

[jdl71.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Sam Winchester/Gabriel Gabriel hates when he has to leave his human.

[jdl71.livejournal.com]

Supernatural Sam/Dean Winchester, Castiel, Cas hates when he's called away on angel business and has to leave his humans.

[jdl71.livejournal.com]

Lucifer, Lucifer Morningstar, Chloe Decker, Lucifer hates when Chloe leaves him to go home.

Hawaii Five-O Steve/Danny Romantic Trip?

[jdl71.livejournal.com]

It was supposed to be a romantic day trip. That's all it was supposed to be. They'd pack Steve's truck up with everything Danny thought they might possibly need. For Danny, that was a change of clothes or two - each, a cooler full of food, bug spray, sunscreen, phone charger and whatever else he'd managed to sneak in that Steve hadn't seen. Steve had stopped him at the satellite phone. Which he'd found stashed under the seat of his truck after he'd taken it away from Danny. He just shook his head and chose to put it back where he'd found it. Why tempt fate or Danny's anger? He wasn't stupid.

"Danny, do you think we'll really need all this? We're just going up the coast for a romantic day trip. We're not preparing for a zombie apocalypse."

"Do I need to remind you of all the times things have gone wrong? Stranded in the middle of the ocean? Or how about when we were stranded in the jungle?"

Steve gave a groan. "It wasn't a jungle."

"Seemed like it!" Danny shot back at him.

"We're going to be in civilization, cars, buildings with people all around us!" He gave up at that point when Danny holstered his loaded gun and deposited in the glove box. "Just get in so we can get going," Steve said with a shake of his head. He loved Danny so he was willing to overlook his little eccentricities. Plus, things always seemed to go south for them. How could he argue when deep down he knew Danny was right?

An hour into the drive, he looked over to see Danny dozing in his seat. He smiled, happy that Danny had relaxed and he felt himself beginning to relax as well. Danny meant well, always wanting to be prepared. How could he fault him? But, he was determined to not let anything ruin their day together.

The truck coming to a stop had Danny's eyes snapping open. He reached out to get his gun from the glove box only to feel a hand on his. "We're only stopped for gas," Steve said with a chuckle. "No need to grab your gun."

The shouting from inside the little store attached to the gas station had them both on alert. Steve didn't stop Danny this time when he went for his gun. Danny slid out from the truck, closed his door quietly and inched closer to the store, gun ready. Steve was right behind him. The yelling got louder.

"You son of a bitch! I'm going to kill you!" A woman's voice scream.

Together they entered the store, unnoticed as the yelling between a man and a woman continued.

"You're about to be real sorry!" The woman screamed, holding a gun in her hand.

"No please, don't." The man yelled back.

Danny stepped out, coming up behind them. "Put your hands where I can see them!"

Danny and Steve watched as the couple threw their hands up.

"Take whatever you want, just don't hurt us!" The man pleaded.

"Turn around," Steve said to the woman. He watched as a shaking teenage girl turned around hands in the air but one still held the gun. "Drop your gun." Steve ordered and watched as she let it fall to the ground cracking and breaking as it hit, a red substance splattering on the ground.

"Danny, put your gun down. It's only a plastic toy gun." Steve turned to look at the couple. "Sorry, Five-0, we thought you were going to do harm to each other."

The girl shook her head. "N-no, water gun f-filled with red food coloring. Ch-cheated on me." She stammered between hiccuped tears.

"Oh, God!" Danny said. "You see, something like this always happens. I swear we're cursed!" He said as he stormed out of the store, leaving Steve to apologize to the teenagers.

He came out to find Danny sitting in the truck. "Let's just go home," he muttered to Steve.

"Yeah, kind of a mood killer." Steve said and winced at the look Danny threw him. "I love you. And, at least we aren't stranded in the ocean or the jungle."

He watched as Danny smiled and began to laugh. "Kind of makes me wish we were!"

With a chuckle, Steve started the truck and reversed their direction, driving them back toward home. Taking Danny's hand and squeezing it he said a silent prayer that they'd get back home without another incident.

Fill -- Ramblin' Man

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

The thing Riggs likes best about L.A. is its perpetual hum of activity. The buzz of vehicles on the freeway, the motion of people out and about, doing their thing--it helps distract him from his own concerns--and when he tires of humanity, he can always retreat to the Tin Can, pop the top on a brewski and listen to the waves.

He never thinks of the city as home, though. That’s a word he’s rarely applied to his living situation; twice it’s been cut short by death, and he’s getting to where he doesn’t believe in it anymore.

After growing up land-locked, he digs watching the Pacific sweep the sands outside his door, but there’s plenty more ocean where that came from.

If things ever go bad, irreversibly, unredeemably bad, he thinks, he’ll head up the coast, maybe check out the streets of San Francisco. Yeah, that would be cool. Because, Bullitt--Steve McQueen as a lone detective tearing up the hills in hot pursuit of bad guys. Or Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry, totally righteous, totally badass…. Too bad there’s probably nowhere to park the Tin Can, and from what he’s heard, the cost of living there is worse than a Texas oilfield during a big boom.

Sight-seeing is a possibility, but he couldn’t stick around ‘Frisco for long. Maybe keep going up the coast, hit Seattle or Portland, someplace like that, where guys can get away with wearing boots and plaid flannel shirts without getting looked at funny. (Sometimes, the style obsession in L.A. is all it takes to set him off. Buncha damn yuppies in dress shirts and wingtips…polo shirts and loafers on the weekends…crazy. Just freaking crazy.) Apparently the zoning regs up there call for a coffee shop every thirty-five feet, which would be handy.

If the Pacific Northwest is a no go…coin toss--Alaska (although the Tin Can probably doesn’t have enough insulation for an Arctic winter), or points east. Way the hell east, because most of those states in the middle are Texas wannabes without the longhorns. Chicago sounds okay. No ocean, but a great lake, ha ha. At least they have decent steakhouses and pretty good pizza.

Forget New York. Scum of the Earth, unless news reports are deliberately lying to keep the tourists out. There’s nothing there Riggs wants to see that bad.

Florida has possibilities. Plenty of sandy beaches to camp on, from Daytona to Key West and back again. They’ve got NASCAR, NASA, alligators, and cats with six toes--Riggs might even check out the so-called “Happiest place on Earth”. And what the hell, Miami Vice couldn’t all be made up, right?

...

Re: Fill -- Ramblin' Man

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

OMGosh, this is so good! I could totally hear Riggs in my head thinking out loud about the relative merits of going here or there. Although I do take exception to his feelings about New York. ::grins::

Thank you so much for a great fill!

Re: Hawaii Five-O Steve/Danny Romantic Trip?

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much how I saw that going. LOL! Thank you so much for this fun fill!

Re: Fill -- Ramblin' Man

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Views expressed by the narrator are not necessarily those of the writer (who is originally from Staten Island). OTOH, I spent a lot of years in the South, and my mama was from Texas, so it's easy to channel Riggs's voice--at least for something like this where he's being introspective--or at least what passes for it for him. So glad you enjoyed it!

Re: Fill -- Ramblin' Man

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

::grins:: I always feel like I should put disclaimers up when I write Rodney McKay, who has dim views of religion and a million other things. "It's not me! I swear!"

Have I mentioned how much I love Riggs? And his trusty sidekick, Curly Hair Hanging in His Face?