comment_fic | Thursday: Vacation

Hello, everyone. Once again, I’m

reeby10 and today's theme is vacation. Prompts can be anything about going on or planning a vacation, etc.

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...
+ Buzzfeed Unsolved RPF, Ryan Bergara/Shane Madej, Shane invites Ryan to Illinois to meet his family
+ Psych, Carlton Lassiter/Shawn Spencer, their vacation doesn't go as planned
+ High School Musical, Chad Danforth/Ryan Evans, spring break trip to Mexico

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 2018 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.

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reeby10.livejournal.com

Buzzfeed Unsolved RPF, Ryan Bergara/Shane Madej, Shane invites Ryan to Illinois to meet his family

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reeby10.livejournal.com

Psych, Carlton Lassiter/Shawn Spencer, their vacation doesn't go as planned

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reeby10.livejournal.com

Star Trek (any), any/any, going to a "pleasure planet"

Edited Date: 2018-04-19 02:11 pm (UTC)

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reeby10.livejournal.com

High School Musical, Chad Danforth/Ryan Evans, spring break trip to Mexico

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reeby10.livejournal.com

any, any/any, planning a vacation is stressful

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drabblewriter.livejournal.com

Any, any, needing a vacation from their vacation

From:

brumeier.livejournal.com

Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams, teenage summer vacation romance

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brumeier.livejournal.com

Stargate Multiverse, Any, summer camp

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brumeier.livejournal.com

Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, it takes a while for Rodney to get into vacation mode

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brumeier.livejournal.com

Marvel Cinematic Universe, Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers, planning a vacation is hard when Bucky has so many negative associations from his time as a Hydra assassin

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vanillafluffy.livejournal.com

Tony has offered to fly them anywhere they’d like to go for a vacation, so Steve and Bucky are poring over maps and atlases, trying to decide on a destination. “Tahiti?” Steve suggests. “Like Gaugin?”

Bucky looks horrified, so he tries again. “Bora Bora? Hawaii?”

Bucky’s head keeps moving from side-to-side like a wind-up toy and after a minute, he gives voice to his qualms. “Too many palm trees.”

Steve makes a last effort. “Key West? Miami?”

His friend shudders. “Palm trees. Do you know how many spiders there are in your average palm tree? Dozens. Hundreds. Doesn’t matter where the freakin’ palm tree is--Southeast Asia, Nicuragua, Havana? They’re all lousy with spiders. Great big hairy spiders the size of rats, some of ‘em.”

Some much for the tropics. But all things considered, there’s still a lot of the world he hasn’t visited, so Steve takes a deep breath and recalls one of their boyhood dreams. “How about the Wild West? Maybe see the Grand Canyon, the Petrified Forest, stuff like that?”

Steve finds pictures of Monument Valley, iconic site of Western movies since they were kids, and out of the corner of his eye, sees Bucky swallow hard. “Problem, Buck?”

“Sandstone.” Sandstone? “Like the Gobi. Or a lot of the Middle East. Or--”

“Got it. No deserts.” Steve manages not to sigh out loud.

Half an hour later, they still haven’t managed to find a destination that’s negotiable. It seems every time Steve mentions a city, Bucky has killed someone there. Or blown something up. Or just shivers and shakes his head--he’d turned the color of cauliflower when Steve suggested Paris--until Steve is tired, sad for his best friend, and frustrated. This is supposed to be a vacation, a vacation is supposed to be fun, but he’s starting to wonder if Bucky is even capable of having fun anymore.

The digital radio station playing in the background is tuned to big band sounds--there’s modern music they like, but this makes them both happy--and a familiar song comes on. They start singing along. Bucky has a pleasant baritone voice, and Steve is glad to see him relax after the stressful evening they’ve been having.

The song ends, and the idea hits them both at the same time.

“Want to go?” Steve asks. “No bad memories?”

“Sounds like fun,” Bucky agrees, teeth flashing in a gleeful grin.

They tell Tony face-to-face, just to see his expression, which is dumbfounded. “Wait a minute. I don’t think I heard you right. You can go anywhere you want, anywhere in the world--why the hell do you want to go to Kalamazoo?!”

…

From:

brumeier.livejournal.com

Aww! You did such a great job with this prompt! Poor Steve. I can see how he'd get frustrated pretty quick. The way you settled this was so funny, and so perfectly Steve and Bucky. Kalamazoo! LOL!

Thank you so much for this great fill!

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vanillafluffy.livejournal.com

You're welcome! I'm so glad you got the reference--it was kind of a coin toss; my folks listened to big band, so I grew up with it, but I was aware a younger audience might be as confused as Tony. And the title is a nod to all those old Bob Hope/Bing Crosby "Road" movies...I really am older than dirt, no wonder I love writing these guys--finally, somebody older than I am!

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brumeier.livejournal.com

LOL! Well, you did a great job!

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brumeier.livejournal.com

Any, any m/m, turning off all their electronics for a staycation

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evil-little-dog.livejournal.com

MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts(+Any), Neither of them actually know how to vacation.

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evil-little-dog.livejournal.com

Lucifer, Chloe Decker(+/Lucifer Morningstar)+Trixie Decker, Chloe and Trixie go camping - and Lucifer can't stand it.

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jdl71.livejournal.com

“Detective, there are bugs. Everywhere!” Lucifer whined at Chloe like a child as he slapped at a mosquito.

Chloe fought the urge to roll her eyes. She knew it wouldn’t be a good example for Trixie to see, even though it was physically causing her pain not to.

“What did you expect? We’re camping, outside, where the bugs are. It’s called nature,” Chloe shot back at him as she tossed him a can of bug spray. “Here, spray yourself.”

“Haven’t you ever been camping?” Trixie asked innocently as she looked up at Lucifer, a lopsided grin on her face.

“Well, yes. But it was in a five-star hotel . . .”

“That’s not camping, silly,” Trixie responded with a giggle.

“Was, too! There was a fire pit in the middle of the room and one of the walls had a waterfall . . .”

“Lucifer, that’s called ‘glamping’,” Chloe said as she used her fingers to make air quotes at the word glamping.

“Did you just air quote me, Detective?” Lucifer asked, shocked.

Shaking her head, Chloe turned away from Lucifer to help Trixie pitch their tent.

“What is that monstrosity?” Lucifer asked, horrified at seeing the tent being raised.

Chloe straightened up to look at Lucifer. “A tent. You did bring a tent . . .” She saw the look of terror on his face. “You didn’t bring a tent? Of course you didn’t.” She walked closer to him. “What did you bring for this camp out?”

Lucifer reached into his jacket and withdrew his flask. “This!”

“Lucifer, a flask is not going to help! Give me that,” she said as she grabbed at it. “No alcohol!”

“I thought we were supposed to be having fun?” Lucifer pouted at her.

“We are. We’re going to build a fire, cook over an open flame, roast marshmallows, tell ghost stories, look up at the night sky and count the stars.” Trixie said.

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jdl71.livejournal.com

“That sounds positively ghastly!” Lucifer said as he placed a hand over his chest in mock indignation. “That can’t possibly be fun.”

Trixie giggled and bounded off to get her backpack.

Chloe followed her. “Lucifer, where’s the cooler?” She stomped back to stand in front of him.

“The cooler?”

“Yes, the cooler, with the food I asked you to pick up. You know, when you asked if there was anything you could bring. I told you to pack a cooler with food for this weekend.” She raised her hands in exasperation.

“No, sorry. That doesn’t sound familiar.” He shook his head at her as he furrowed his eyebrows in thought.

“So, what are we supposed to eat?”

“We can have something delivered.” Lucifer said as he grinned at her and pulled out his cell phone. “Wait, I just need to get our location.”

“Lucifer, you can’t get food delivered out here. We don’t have an address!” Trixie said with a laugh as she ducked into the tent.

“This is just great! There’s no service. Detective, just where did you take us that I wouldn’t have service?”

“Uh! We’re in the wilderness, look around you.” She waved her hands wildly in the air as she spun around.

“Unbelievable. You act like this is my fault. Detective, you picked this place. Shouldn’t you have known there wouldn’t be service out here? I would have picked a much better location.”

Chloe’s mouth gaped open at him as she listened to his words. “What did you think this was going to be like? We’re camping, outside.”

“Mom, I’m kinda hungry,” Trixie called as she climbed out from the tent, cutting into their conversation.

“Okay, sweetie.” Chloe turned to Trixie, gave her a wide smile to assure her everything would be fine. She turned back to Lucifer, jabbed a finger at his chest. “Listen up, this is what’s going to happen. You and Trixie will go and gather some wood for a fire and build a fire pit. Trixie will show you what to do. I’m going to drive into town and get some food. Do I make myself clear?”

“Yes, but why don’t I do that and you stay here with Trixie? Why do I have to suffer through manual labor?”

“Because, you didn’t bring the cooler, the one packed with food for this weekend, that I asked you to bring. Then, we’ll figure out how the three of us will fit in that tent. You’re just lucky I’m not making you sleep out on the ground.”

Chloe turned back to Trixie. “Trixie, Lucifer would love to gather firewood and then learn how to make a fire pit with you. I need to drive into town because someone,” she said as she cast a withering look in Lucifer’s direction, “forgot to bring the cooler.”

“Okay,” Trixie said and extended a hand to Lucifer. “Come on. This will be fun.”

“We need to talk about your definition of fun,” Lucifer said as he took the little hand in his. “You mother forgot the food and is taking it out on me.”

“I heard that!” Chloe yelled as she made her way over to her car. As she got in she prayed that when she got back that the woods would still be standing. She wasn’t worried about Trixie, she knew she could take care of herself. She couldn’t say the same for Lucifer.

From:

evil-little-dog.livejournal.com

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, that is so very perfect! I love it! It's everything I was hoping for, Lucifer being annoying and out of place and confused by this whole idea of going out and Trixie and Chloe being perfectly fine out there.

Thank you so much!