Wednesday: 100 Words on Love

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Hi! I’m brumeier, and this week we’re going to be filling themes inspired by Spring, using 100 words or any multiple of 100. Today’s theme is LOVE. You know that old turn of phrase: In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. (Tennyson) Let’s see those love-filled prompts, anything from new love to forever love to lost love. Anything your characters love!

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...
+ Marvel Cinematic Universe, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes,

I came to life when I first kissed you
The best me has his arms around you
You make me better than I was before
Thank God I'm yours
(Russell Dickerson)

+ Sherlock, Any, Love means never having to say…

+ Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, The ‘L’ Word (Major Dad)

+ Any, Any m/m, running into an old flame and making comparisons with the new flame

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.

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[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Marvel Cinematic Universe, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes,

I came to life when I first kissed you
The best me has his arms around you
You make me better than I was before
Thank God I'm yours
(Russell Dickerson)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Sherlock, Any, Love means never having to say…

Fill:

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Sherlock waved his hand vaguely in John’s direction, which was sufficient for John to find Sherlock’s phone behind the sofa cushions and pass it to him.

Sherlock waved his hand vaguely in John’s direction, and John showed the new client to a chair and began taking notes on the case they had brought.

Sherlock waved his hand vaguely in John’s direction, and shortly afterwards John returned with two mugs of tea, placing one of them beside Sherlock, plus a packet of biscuits which he opened and left on the table.

Love means never having to say anything at all, really!

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, The ‘L’ Word (Major Dad)

Fill: SGA, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay (100 words)

[angelus2hot]

“Are you going to tell him?”

He turned to face her with a look of confusion on his face. “What are you talking about?” Before she could answer he turned around to continue staring at Rodney.

“Maybe that you’re in love with him.”

There was that L word again. His confusion deepened. Was he in love? Just because Rodney was the first thing he thought of when he woke and the last thing before he fell asleep didn’t mean he was in...

He was in love with Rodney.

John swallowed hard as he took a determined step forward. “Rodney, I...”

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Any, Any m/m, running into an old flame and making comparisons with the new flame

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Marvel Cinematic Universe, Any,

My love, My love
My fearless love
I will not say goodbye..
(Claire Wyndham)

Fill: Clint Barton + Natasha Romanov

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Clint had never said goodbye to Natasha. She wasn’t truly gone. He and all the Avengers remembered her. His children remembered, celebrated Aunty Nat. They set out flowers for her birthday, lit small candles during Russian Orthodox Christmas.

Clint refused to say goodbye to Natasha, his fearless warrior, his best friend, the woman he’d trusted with his life. She’d always been worried about the red in her ledger. He’d only ever cared about her red hair.

When his first granddaughter was named Natasha, he knew he’d never have to say goodbye, and he knew the universe would remember her sacrifice.

[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, You ask me if there'll come a time / When I grow tired of you / Never my love / Never my love ("Never My Love", The Association)

[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

Any fandom without (much) magic, any/any, True Love's Kiss is real

Fill 200: SGA, McShep + Daniel Jackson

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

“Well?” John asked. “How are you going to get me out of here?”

Daniel sat back on his haunches. “I don’t think I can.”

“Then what the hell are you good for?” Rodney demanded.

Daniel glanced up at him. “I said I don’t think I can. Upi might be able to.”

Rodney stared at him. “You’re the Indiana Jones -”

“The inscription says true love’s kiss will break the barrier.”

Rodney closed his mouth so fast his teeth clicked.

Daniel rolled his eyes. “It’s not magic - it’s Ancient tech. The trigger is the psychological effect of the action.”

“What makes you think I’m John’s true love?” Rodney asked.

Daniel pushed himself to his feet. “Try to release him and find out.” He headed for the mouth of the tunnel.

Rodney watched him go. Then he turned to John, who was avoiding his gaze.

Rodney asked, “Do you have something to tell me?”

John said, “If you get me out of here, I won’t have to tell you anything you’re not supposed to ask.”

“I’m not part of your military. Am I your true love?”

John leaned as close to the invisible barrier as he could get. “Release me and find out.”

[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Castiel/Dean Winchester, Cas is the only person who will never be jealous of the love Dean has for his brother (and his car)

[sharpiesgal.livejournal.com]

Dean exited the Impala and gave it an affectionate pat on the roof. "Love you, baby," he whispered.

Cas smiled.

Dean pulled Sam into a fierce hug grateful to still have his brother with him after another difficult hunt. "Love you, Sammy."

"Love you to Dean," Sam replied before pulling away and going in search of a place for them to stay.

Cas smiled.

Dean found Cas standing outside their motel room studying the night sky. "Find anything interesting?" he asked as he pulled the angel into a gentle embrace.

"Just thanking God for you," Cas whispered.

"I love you, man," Dean whispered back.

"I know."

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Any, any, Men have died, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Any, any, I would do anything for love--but I won't do that.

Fill 200: Harry Potter, Severus Snape, pre-canon

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

If you love me, Lily had said, you would give up this foolish nonsense, stop believing the lies Lucius Malfoy and Regulus Black have been feeding you. Besides, you’re smarter than that.

Severus had said, I would do anything for love.

But he hadn’t stayed away from Malfoy and the younger Black, hadn’t abandoned his quest for power and respect - and vengeance upon the Muggle father who’d made his and his mother’s life hell (like Petunia Evans might have done, had she the power).

And now Lily was dead, and her stupid husband was dead, and her child was orphaned, and Severus could see she’d been right - Voldemort was a madman. Severus was willing to cut off his left arm in her name, as if it would bring her back. Severus was willing to do anything, even though nothing would have up for what he’d done, dooming his love and her family to their deaths.

Albus Dumbledore said, “Sacrifices for love are very powerful. Are you ready to make the sacrifice for your love?”

Severus bowed his head, trembling. “Yes.” He’d do anything.

“The next time Voldemort summons you, go to him. This is what you will say and do.”

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

MCU, Tony Stark/Stephen Strange, Forever love

Fill 400

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Everything good seems to be ending
In this unending night
What else would you lose
If nothing at all matters

Stephen’s hands shook with the weight of an ocean towering over him. This barrier had to hold - countless lives would be lost if this wave came crashing down on top of them all.

But even so, Stephen knew what would happen next. What needed to happen.

The only person who really mattered to him must die so that others may live. And a small, tortured inner voice from inside him whispered, let go. Nothing matters, will matter, if he’s gone.

Still, the barrier held.

And their eyes met, just like Stephen knew they would, and somehow - somehow, across a raging battlefield, on the brink of eternal darkness, Stephen Strange and Tony Stark came to an understanding, and said goodbye.

I love -

“I am...Iron Man.”

~

Stephen kept his distance at the funeral, glad to have Wong at his side so he might feel a little less alone. He watched, face carefully blank and emotionless, as Pepper and Morgan sent the small memorial out into the lake - proof that Tony Stark had a heart, after all.

Stephen couldn’t doubt that now.

Long after everyone else had dispersed, Stephen stood at the edge of the lake, watching the sun set.

“I’m going,” Wong said.

Stephen nodded. “I’ll be back shortly.”

Blessedly, Wong said nothing, and instead opened a portal back to Sanctum Sanctorum and disappeared through it.

“I know I told you there was only one way to make it right out of fourteen million,” Stephen spoke, his voice sonorous, but also wavering, “And that was true. This was the only way.”

Stephen paused, his chest constricting as he tried to contain the emotions threatening to spill out.

“But I saw a lot of things happen in fourteen million timelines, Tony. And I can’t forget some of them.”

A light breeze rustled the grass surrounding Stephen, and he watched as small waves rippled across the lake’s surface.

“I can’t - won’t - forget...how it felt to love you. Be loved by you. To -”

Stephen choked back a sob, took a deep breath. He felt his hands trembling at his sides. He took another breath, exhaled.

“You said...you said, ‘I got you,’ when I came back to reality on Titan, after I’d seen the truth. And you did have me. You do."

Forever.

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

MI-5/Spooks, Adam Carter/Lucas North, The Spy Who Loved Me

Fill:

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

“This is a bit of a cliché, walking hand in hand along the beach towards the sunset,” Lucas said.

“If you think that’s a cliché, just wait till we reach our destination,” Adam replied.

They made their way up the nearby wooden steps, rather slower now than when they had first met, and Adam led the way to a beach-front restaurant and a table he had booked earlier.

Waiting for them was a bottle of champagne.

“What are we celebrating?” Lucas asked.

“Thirty-five years of being together.” Adam raised his glass in a toast. “To the spy who loved me!”

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

MCU, Natasha Romanov or Bucky Barnes, From Russia With Love

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Stargate Multiverse, any doctor, Love in the Time of Cholera

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Any, any/any, Love Isn’t

Fill 1/2: pre-Rodney McKay/John Sheppard + Teyla Emmagan (900)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Rodney sat out on the pier, miserable and alone. He’d just had a huge fight with Jennifer, in the middle of the Mess hall no less, and now he was wishing he still had some beer to drown his sorrows with. Unfortunately, it was still a week out from the next Daedalus resupply.

When he heard someone behind him, Rodney assumed it was Sheppard. The pier was kind of their place, and sometimes he’d commiserate with Rodney about relationship stuff. But that’s not who it was.

“May I join you?” Teyla asked.

“Sure you want to be seen with me?” Rodney asked, hunching in on himself. “I’m a self-centered, condescending asshole, or didn’t you hear?”

Teyla sat next to him and let her legs dangle over the edge instead of sitting cross-legged like she usually did. “I believe everyone heard.”

“It’s not like she’s wrong,” Rodney said. “I swear I’ve been trying to do better, though! We’ve even been going to Dr. Ramesh for couples counseling.”

Rodney wasn’t a big fan of psychotherapy. That was the softest science of them all, as far as he was concerned, and he’d otherwise have nothing to do with it. But he really wanted to make things work with Jennifer. It wasn’t like he had young, intelligent, beautiful women throwing themselves at him.

“You must love her very much.”

“Oh. Well, I care for her, of course. A lot. I don’t know exactly how I’d quantify the level of affection on a –”

“Rodney.” Teyla put her hand on his arm. “All couples have disagreements. It is unreasonable to expect two very different people to agree on all matters.”

Rodney sighed. He appreciated the sentiment, but he didn’t think anyone argued more than he and Jennifer did. It reminded him of his parents, in the worst possible way. His whole childhood was made up of a patchwork of fights and disagreements and one knock-down drag-out argument that ended with a visit from the police.

“I’m a genius,” he said. “I should be able to figure this out. I always thought I’d be far superior at this than my parents, but it turns out I’m just the same. No matter how much I try I just can’t change.”

“Perhaps it is not my place to say, but in my experience love is not about change.”

Rodney snorted. “Yeah, right. Someone always has to change. Or else no-one would be together. Honestly, I don’t know why I even bother. I should just focus on the work, that’s more important anyway.”

“Life, as love, need balance,” Teyla said patiently. “A healthy relationship should enable both partners to evolve, to become better versions of themselves.”

“Right. Change.”

“Not change. There is nothing about you that needs changing, Rodney.”

Rodney gave her an incredulous look. “Have you even met me??”

[cozy-coffee.livejournal.com]

Any, any/any, i love you like the fat kid loves cake!

Fill 200: Mortal Instruments, unrequited Alec/Jayce

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Alec had heard the saying, I love you like a fat kid loves cake.

That was exactly how he loved Jayce - desperately, hungrily, furtively, with every fiber of his being, starving for attention and affection beyond being brothers-in-arms and parabatai, but knowing that if anyone knew, he’d be judged and mocked and shamed.

If he gave in to his love, declared his feelings, there’d be interventions, plans, cures. If he gave in, he’d be seen as weak, poisoning himself, an utter moral failure.

If he abstained, if he held himself back, he’d be praised for his fortitude. Anyone else would be seen as starving themselves, but if he withheld love from himself, he’d be better for it. As if he needed less love.

He was starving himself of the love and affection he craved, because it was better for him that way.

Everyone else got to - not even indulge. Simply partake in what every person needed. But Alec had to restrain himself, sideline himself, feel the burning hunger and never give in.

Jayce slung an arm around his shoulders. “I love you like a fat kid loves cake.”

Alec rolled his eyes and shoved him away. “I'm on a diet.”

[angelus2hot]

Any, any/any, I could love you like that.

Fill: SGA, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay (200)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

John tried his best to be a good friend, but it wasn’t always easy. Especially lately, with Rodney spending all his free time with Keller. They were a car wreck of a couple, he could see that. He was pretty sure everyone could see it but the couple themselves.

“I saved you a brownie,” John said, stopping by the lab. He set the napkin-wrapped brownie next to Rodney’s laptop.

“Oh. You did?” Rodney leaned over and sniffed at it. “That smells delicious.”

“You gonna smell it or eat it?”

Rodney’s mouth twisted. “Jen has me on a diet.”

John tamped down his annoyance. Everywhere he turned he encountered another one of Keller’s fix-its, like Rodney was a handyman’s special. If John wasn’t such a fucking coward, he’d lay it all on the line. There were so many things he wanted to say:

I would let you eat what you want. We fight space vampires. Who needs to die skinny?

You have every right to rant at your underlings. You’re only trying to keep them safe.

You deserve someone who loves you for who you are, for your sarcastic sense of humor and brilliant brain.

I could love you like that.

[angelus2hot]

Any, any/any, confessions of love.

SGA McLorne 500 feat. a Star Wars reference

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Rodney faded in and out of consciousness - brief, dizzying seconds full of pain, followed by hollow nothingness.

He catalogued thoughts as they came to him: wrists bound tight in metal clasps. Toes grazing a rough stone floor. Back pressed against an equally rough wall. Every single muscle in his body aching. Skin caked with a half-tacky substance. Forehead throbbing to the beat of his heart.

He opened his eyes and saw nothing but darkness. Blind, too.

Rodney had no idea how long he’d been shackled to this particular wall, and his short-term memory felt fuzzy at best. AR-1 and AR-2 out scouting. Ambushed. Hit in the head with a blunt object at some point.

Someone shouting his name. He heard it echoing again and again in his mind.

Rodney!

Someone worried for his safety? Unlikely. He cared for so few people and knew even fewer who cared for him. Who could it have been?

He thought of deep blue eyes, a dimpled smile, and biting wit. It dulled the pain for a few seconds. Rodney thought some more about the man who brought him coffee, never complained, and kept his favorite desserts in rotation at the mess hall.

Less pain, though Rodney doubted he’d see Major Lorne ever again.

Darkness.

Then suddenly, rustling. Someone probably coming to finish the job. They might as well, Rodney thought. There was no cavalry to save him.

“Rodney!”

The voice, again. His head wound was playing games with him now.

“Rodney. Can you hear me?”

His wrist shackles clicked open and Rodney slumped to the ground. His whole body was on fire but also screaming with relief.

“Who -” Rodney tried to speak, but his mouth and throat were bone dry. He coughed, licked his cracked lips and tried again.

“Who are you?”

After an eternity spent in darkness, the pressure closing in around Rodney’s head was finally relieved - he’d only been blindfolded. Rodney saw the dim light of a torch, and he blinked, trying to get his eyes to focus. Finally, the puzzle pieces of the world slid into place, and he could see -

Deep blue eyes, looking right at him.

“Someone who loves you.”

Lorne kissed Rodney on the mouth, his hands gently cradling the sides of Rodney’s face, and Rodney sank into the feeling.

“L...Lorne?”

“It’s Evan. Now come on, let’s get you home.”

~

The next time Rodney woke, he found himself lying in an Atlantis infirmary bed. His whole body ached. He scanned the room around him, until his eyes landed on a body slumped over in a chair next to his bed. Evan’s forehead was resting on the edge of the mattress, near Rodney’s hand. Using the little strength he’d regained, Rodney lifted his arm and rested his hand on Evan’s head, ran his fingers through Evan’s hair.

Evan’s body jerked and he looked up, Rodney’s hand sliding down to the side of Evan’s face in the process.

Rodney smiled. “It’s okay,” he whispered, “Just someone who loves you.”

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes + John Watson, unrequited love

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tony Stark/Stephen Strange, From Above (https://youtu.be/X5peqCDJi0A) by Ben Folds & Nick Hornby

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Any, any m/m,

And I'm gonna keep on lovin' you
'Cause it's the only thing I want to do
I don't want to sleep
I just want to keep on lovin' you
(REO Speedwagon)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Any, any m/m,

Come over, let me show you what he can't
'Cause he can only show you what love ain't
(Eli Young Band)

Not a Fill (Yet)

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

...but this is one of my favorite songs right now and it 110% fits one of my pairings. Payroll first, fic second.

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay,

I would be safer on my own
I didn't care
You were the most exciting thing
I'd ever known
(Zoey Van Goey)

Fill 200

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Scientists got good at science by spending a lot of time alone in a lab, not by being out with people. Scientists got good at being alone, because there was no other choice.

Rodney was good at being alone. Rodney was bad at being with people.

Rodney was a scientist because he was curious. The best way to learn things was to be on the front lines.

Then, for the first time, he wanted to be good at people, because John Sheppard was an enigma, military self-sacrifice, mathematical brilliance, inexplicable beauty in his wild hair and multi-colored eyes, skinny hips and sardonic brow.

Rodney should have wanted to stay on his own, but he joined John’s gate team, because John was the most exciting thing Rodney had ever known, more exciting than naquadah and stargates and wormholes and alien galaxies.

Rodney wanted to know more - like the way John would feel in his arms, how John would taste when they kissed, the roughness of John’s gun-callused hands on his skin.

So Rodney had to be brave.

One night, after team movie night, when John walked him back to his quarters, Rodney said, “Come in for some coffee?”

John said, “Yes.”

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Stargate Multiverse, Any,

Feel like running and dancing for joy
For I'm loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!
(West Side Story)

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Game of Thrones, Brienne of Tarth, All my tears have been used up on another love (Tom Odell)