Wednesday: 100 Words on Kids

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Hi! I’m brumeier, and this week we’re going to be filling themes using 100 words or any multiple of 100. Today’s theme is KIDS, anything and everything about being or raising a kid!

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, Any, an influx of refugee children floods Atlantis

+ Marvel Cinematic Universe, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes, finding a baby on their doorstep

+ Frasier, Frasier Crane + Frederick Crane, if Frederick had moved to Seattle with his father

+ Any, Any, adult child(ren) moving back in with parents

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 2016 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=100 words/kids

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[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, Any, an influx of refugee children floods Atlantis

Fill: Jack Benjamin!verse, SGA season 5 though

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Crying children spilled into the gate room. Wraith blaster fire exploded after them. AR-7 arrived on their heels, automatic weapons blazing.

The gate shut down.

“What are we going to do with them?” Woolsey asked.

Lorne tapped his radio. “Initiate the Annie Protocol.”

Woolsey turned to him. “What?”

“Like Little Orphan Annie,” Sheppard said.

Lorne barked orders, for Marines to arrange sleeping pallets in a common room, for chemists to get dish soap from the kitchen for a bubble gun.

Major Benjamin trotted up the steps, a toddler on his hip. “Where’s Torren? These kids could use a friendly face.”

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Marvel Cinematic Universe, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes, finding a baby on their doorstep

Fill

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

“Grab the paper, will you?” Steve is fixing breakfast.

Bucky, sleepy, kisses him hello and wanders out to the front step.

Steve almost has breakfast done when he realizes - Bucky never came back.

“Buck?”

Steve heads for the front step.

Bucky is holding a basket full of blankets - and a sleeping baby.

Bucky’s eyes are wide and terrified. “What do we do?”

Steve fumbles in the pocket of his robe for his Starkphone. “Friday, call - Clint.”

“Clint?” Bucky echoes.

“Clint has kids.”

“Shouldn’t we call the cops?”

“Clint first. We need to get her inside and make sure she’s okay.”

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Frasier, Frasier Crane + Frederick Crane, if Frederick had moved to Seattle with his father

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Any, Any, adult child(ren) moving back in with parents

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Gundam Wing, any pilot, children who are also soldiers

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Weiss Kreuz, Omi Tsukiyono + Nagi Naoe, child assassins

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Stargate SG-1, Jack O'Neill +/ any, facing the prospect of fathering another child

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds, Spencer Reid (+/any), finding a baby left in a basket on the steps of the FBI

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, Peter Kavanagh, unexpectedly adorable when de-aged to childhood

Fill (200)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

“I’ve experienced a lot of weird stuff since I came here,” Rodney said in a hushed voice. “But this is the most Twilight Zone thing of all time.”

“I know what you mean,” John murmured back.

At the other end of the conference room table was the universally reviled Peter Kavanagh. A run-in with some rogue Ancient tech had aged him down to about three years old and he was…well, he was adorable.

“That’s a great truck,” Lorne said approvingly. He was sitting next to tiny Kavanagh, having provided him with drawing paper and colored pencils.

Kavanagh beamed back up at him, brown hair hanging in his eyes, nothing but happiness on his usually pinched and angry face. “’ment t’uck.”

“Cement truck?” Lorne asked.

Kavanagh nodded and got back to it, tongue poked out between his lips.

“What do we do with him?” Elizabeth asked the room at large.

“Perhaps a better question,” Teyla said. “Is what happened to make him such an angry man when he was obviously a happy child.”

Rodney jabbed a finger at her. “I refuse to feel anything but annoyed by that man, so don’t –”

Tiny Kavanagh presented him with the drawing, smiling wide.

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, Rodney McKay, teaching his child to play piano

Fill

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

“What is this?” John stared at the piano.

Pieces of paint swatches had been cut out and painstakingly attached to all eight-eight keys.

“I’m teaching Merry Jo how to play piano.” Rodney had their three-year-old daughter on his lap, was helping her press the keys.

Evan had little cans of paint, brushes, and books of piano music spread out on the coffee table.

“Merry Jo doesn’t know letters or numbers,” John said.

“She can see and match colors.”

Merry Jo played the first few bars of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Rodney pressed a kiss to her hair. “That’s our girl.”

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

BBC Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes +/ John Watson, babysitting John's nephew/niece

Fill:

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

“Don’t worry, John, I can cope perfectly well, you know.”

“Are you sure? I can ask Mrs Hudson if she can help on my way out, if you like.”

“How hard can it be? Sophie’s only two, her mental ability cannot exceed mine. No, you go and spend a happy time at your clinic, Sophie and I will be fine together.”

Later, John returned to find Sophie and Sherlock both liberally coated in chocolate spread. Sherlock was reading “Where’s My Cow” for what John assumed was not the first time from Sherlock’s look of boredom. Sophie however looked totally enchanted.

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Marvel Cinematic Universe, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes, adoption

Fill: Sarah Rogers-Barnes

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Reporters are crowded at the doors of the courthouse, slavering for a photo of the Super Family, but in the courtroom it’s friends and family - the Avengers, Aunt May, the Bartons, Grandma Wilson, everyone who’s helped Steve and Bucky since day one.

The judge says, “I’m going to sign the decree of adoption, but before I do, I want to make sure her name is correct. Otherwise it’s complicated to change it after I sign.”

Steve and Bucky nod.

“Sarah with an ‘h’, Rogers-Barnes hyphenated?”

Steve and Bucky nod.

The judge smiles, bangs his gavel.

“Congratulations! You are officially fathers.”

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Any, any f/f, playing dress-up with their daughter

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tony Stark/Stephen Strange, charity work at a children's hospital

[katleept.livejournal.com]

Peter Pan, Peter+/Any, She/He never knew a child could be so evil.

Fill: Peter + Wendy

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Wendy is fixing tea when Peter returns. He ducks into their small house.

“Where have you been? Swimming with mermaids? Fighting pirates? Outraging fairies?”

“Some of the Lost Boys were growing up.” Peter shucks his cap, because Wendy has taught him some manners. “You know that’s against the rules.”

Wendy pretends she doesn’t notice the blood on Peter’s hands, blade, the soles of his shoes.

He holds her hand. “You’ll never grow up, will you?”

She hopes she never does. She hopes her brothers never do.

She presses a kiss to his cheek. “Never, Peter. After all, this is Neverland.”

[katleept.livejournal.com]

X-Men comics!verse, Jubilee + Shogo, She never would have guessed a kid could change her life so much . . . or make her want to live again.

[katleept.livejournal.com]

X-Men (prefer comics!verse but will take any), Logan + Any, anything to do with Wolvy and any of his many kids

[katleept.livejournal.com]

Aristocats, Thomas/Duchess + Kittens (Hope it's okay to use animal kids for this challenge.), The kittens were all a part of the reason why he loved her and this family so very much.

Not a fill

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Animal kids are most certainly welcome!

[katleept.livejournal.com]

Modern Family, Cam/Mitch + Lily, He might tease him about the way he catered to their daughter, but he loved watching him care for her.

[geckogirl89.livejournal.com]

Friends, Erica Bing + Jack Bing, “Being a twin is like being born with a best friend.” (Tricia Marrapodi)

[geckogirl89.livejournal.com]

Angel the series, Angel + Connor, “When You Dream” (https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/barenakedladies/whenyoudream.html) (Barenaked Ladies)

Fill x3

[katleept.livejournal.com]

When he dreams at night, he dreams of a man he barely knows, but whose lurking image he knows well. He’s seen him many times at night, standing out underneath the house, and something instinctively tells him, with each look, he is his real father. He’s come to love his adopted family, but he still wonders about his real dad and the woman he sees, sometimes, too, who possesses gentle hands and a musical laugh.

They are his real parents; yet, they stay away. He’s never once seen his mother since coming here, and his father . . . Well, the shadows wrap around him like they were made for him, but Connor believes one night he’ll come forward. One night he’ll come talk to him, if not take him away from here. He’s not sure he wants to go, but he’s equally uncertain he wants to stay with these people who are but are not his family.

There’s something about those shadows that call to him too. Are they his real home? What do they have to do with his life? Will his father ever come forward for him and take him away into them? What do they mean? He ponders each question every night he sees him watching him through his window. He never draws the curtain though he sometimes believes he should.

But when he dreams, he does more than see him. He knows him. He hears his and his mother’s laughter. He sees them holding hands, and sometimes he holds hands with him. Their world is bright and not full of shadows, and it’s his favorite place to be, sometimes the only place he really wants to stay. But after each dream, when he rises to look, his father’s always gone again. One night, Connor promises himself, he’ll stay.

The End

[geckogirl89.livejournal.com]

Any, any parent-child relationship,
I'll give you everything I have
I'll teach you everything I know
I promise I'll do better
I will always hold you close
But I will learn to let you go
I promise I'll do better
(Sleeping At Last, “Light”)

Fill: Stargate SG-1, Jack + Charlie

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

When Jack first held Charlie in his arms, he thought, I’ll give you everything I have.

Jack watched Charlie crawl and walk and talk and thought, I’ll teach you everything I know (except about war, never weapons, never violence).

When Charlie made a mistake and Jack yelled at him, he apologized. I promise I’ll do better. I will always hold you close.

Then he watched as Charlie’s casket was lowered into the ground.

But I will learn to let you go.

For every child after that, Skaara and Marrin and Cassie, he said to himself, I promise I’ll do better.

[geckogirl89.livejournal.com]

Any, any/any,
'Cause we were just kids when we fell in love
Not knowing what it was
I will not give you up this time
(Ed Sheeran, “Perfect”)

[geckogirl89.livejournal.com]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy Summers,
I'm just a kid, and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that it's not fair
(Simple Plan, "I'm Just A Kid")

Thinking about high school era, obviously.

[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

MCU/Hawkeye Comics, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson (+ Kate Bishop + Wanda Maximoff), "Hey, Phil, I kinda maybe adopted another kid" "Another archer?" "No, this one's a witch."