Prompt me!
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rsadelleAs I mentioned on Twitter the other day, I like to amuse myself on my morning walk (and while going to sleep) by giving myself prompts. These have included such things as:
But why should I have all the fun? This is your chance to join in! Leave me a prompt, and I'll write you something by Sunday night. I won't promise to write you a whole story, but I will write you something.
- Bandom, a fairy tale about the next generation
- Gabe and William in love, in space
- Gabe rescues Pete, in space
- Brendon/Spencer, in space
- Brendon/Spencer, chefs, first kiss
- Nick/De'Mar, with a Jonas brother
- Mike has one threesome but ends up in another one
- William rescues sex slave Mike, in space
- Five times Gabe Saporta had kinky sex
- Five people Gabe Saporta kissed
- Five times Victoria kissed Gabe, in space
- A story about Bronx, with a dragon
- Nate/Alex, cuddling
- Brendon/Spencer/Shane, pirates
But why should I have all the fun? This is your chance to join in! Leave me a prompt, and I'll write you something by Sunday night. I won't promise to write you a whole story, but I will write you something.
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Date: 2010-07-30 03:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-31 03:51 pm (UTC)Warning: slaves and all that implies, although it's fairly mild. Also, potential death of a child. Part of this originally posted here.
Mike is not the pretty, pampered kind of sex slave. He's the kind that people use when they don't want to worry about not leaving marks.
Somehow William finds him and rescues him. In my head, I've always glossed over this part because I don't know how it would go and it's not the part I'm interested in.
William is part of a network that rescues slaves. Pete is the leader (as he always is in this sort of slave AU), and they're headquartered on a planet. William takes Mike there, where Pete gives him the standard "we'll support you while you figure things out, but everyone here works. You'll get paid, of course," speech.
Eventually, they figure out that Mike likes being outside, and that he likes the gardens. William has to leave, because his job is finding slaves and bringing them in, but Mike stays. Even though he has the option to go somewhere else, to make his own life on another world, Mike stays. Pete sends William regular information packets, leads on places to find people who need to be safe, and he starts including pictures of Mike.
William finds a kid, Frankie, who he brings in and suggests Pete have help Mike in the gardens when he's not in school. He thinks Frankie would like spending time outside and that Mike would like Frankie.
It works. They become friends, and Pete sends pictures of Mike laughing and Mike and Frankie holding up carrots and grinning.
One time, when William comes home and is having dinner in the large dining room, across the table from Mike, Mike says about Frankie, "He should be with his family."
William goes looking for them because it's as close as Mike has ever come to asking for something. (He's tried looking for Mike's family, but it's been too long, and there aren't records.) He finds the mother first, then news of the father's death, then one, two, three brothers. William sends them home through the network, but brings the last one, a sullen, angry boy, home himself.
Frankie's happier than William's ever seen him, and Mike keeps smiling at Frankie.
Nick, the angry one, turns out to be determined as well, and he decides they need to leave, to forge a life not steeped in slavery. William's there to watch Mike say goodbye to Frankie, and he wants to cry even though neither one of them is.
Mike stops smiling entirely.
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Date: 2010-07-31 03:51 pm (UTC)Pete says, "Stop it. You did a good thing, and he knows he can be happy now."
William knows that finding Frankie's family was the right thing to do, but he has a hard time remembering it when they just took him away from Mike.
Butch brings in a guy named Michael who couldn't have been a slave for very long because he doesn't hide his delight in the garden.
By the time William leaves again, Mike and Michael are working side by side in the garden, and there's a hint of a smile around Mike's lips.
Pete's messages say, "You're being an idiot," and he keeps sending pictures. In the first one where Mike's smiling again, he's in a greenhouse with Michael.
William spirals in and out around home, but he has to come back sometimes, and the next time he does, Mike smiles at him and takes him out for a tour of the gardens.
There's a rose garden, and William stands in the middle of it and turns in a slow circle to absorb it all.
"It's beautiful."
Mike nods. "Michael's been a big help." He cuts one of the roses and strips the thorns from it with one of the tools on the belt he wears. They're not just a mark of his stewardship of the garden, but also that he's a free man, with the right to carry tools that can also be used as weapons to defend himself. He gives the rose to William.
William's breath catches, and his voice is barely a whisper when he says, "Thank you."
He leaves again. He has to. Pete sends him a packet of pictures, and there's a third figure in them now, a woman. "She's from Michael's home world," Pete's note says. "Smart money is on them marrying before the year is out."
William thinks he knows what Pete is trying to tell him, but he can't let himself even hope. Mike was a sex slave, hurt and hard used. William won't do anything more to hurt him.
There's a child, a girl, in a batch of slaves William rescues, who isn't well enough to be handed off. William brings them home himself, even knowing she probably won't live.
Pete meets him at the dock, solemn and worried, as they watch the medics take the girl away. He says, "You should go see Mike."
William shakes his head. He can't, not right now. He's feeling too raw. "I'll see him at dinner," he says, and he sets out through the compound to the quarters he keeps there.
He runs into Mike in a hallway. Mike smiles when he sees him, and then it hesitates and falls off his face as he comes closer.
William dredges up a smile for him, because Mike's smiles should never fade.
"I didn't know you were coming back," Mike says. "I never know if you're coming back."
William's tired and hurting and he wants to sleep and he wants to go back out there and save others from the things he's seen people do to each other.
"I'm always coming back," he promises, but he thinks some of what he's feeling has leaked into his words.
Mike's smile comes back, softer, and he holds out his hand. "Come see the gardens. The roses are blooming again."
William takes his hand and lets Mike remind him that there is still beauty in the world.
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Date: 2010-08-01 08:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-01 11:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-03 03:33 am (UTC)I could read about this Mike and William for days.
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Date: 2010-08-03 03:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-03 03:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-01 08:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-08-01 11:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-30 05:39 pm (UTC)Pete sets Jessica* up with a good dude (bonus points if it's Brian or Ray)
Kevin Jonas, protective older brother
Spencer/Travis, swimming, featuring Spencer's ridiculous pink trunks
*Jessica Simpson's not really fandom & I understand if you're not comfortable.
A Good Dude (1/2)
Date: 2010-08-01 11:43 pm (UTC)"Patrick can give you a ride home, right Patrick?"
Patrick shrugs. "Yeah, sure."
So Patrick gives Jess a ride home, and after Pete's closed the door behind them, Ashlee turns to him and says, "Honey, are you trying to set Jess up with Patrick?"
Pete tries not to look too guilty.
Ashlee laughs, but not meanly, and kisses his cheek. "Honey, no."
"But Patrick's a good dude!"
Ashlee puts her arms around him. "You know I love Patrick, but he's a workaholic who needs someone who understands that, and Jess needs someone who's going to be there and love her with his whole heart."
Pete wraps his arms around her too. She's his wonderful wife, and he's going to have to trust her on this one. "I just want them to be happy."
Ash kisses his cheek. "I know. That's why I love you."
*
Pete introduces Jess to a couple of friends over the next few months, and then he forgets about it because their nanny turns in her notice. She's nice enough not to actually leave for a month, but that means they go through about a million resumes and interviews and background checks. Neither of them are willing to turn Bronx over to someone they haven't checked out as thoroughly as humanly possible.
Their first pick is Kristy, a woman a couple of years older than Pete with short dark hair and subtle makeup. Her resume is impeccable, and she cheerfully sits on the floor and builds a block structure with Bronx that he promptly knocks down.
"There's one more thing," she says at the end of the interview. "I'm a lesbian."
Pete and Ashlee exchange a look, and then Pete says, "You can't have sex in front of Bronx, but that would be the rule if you were straight too."
Ashlee elbows him in the side but doesn't disagree.
Kristy laughs. "I didn't think it would be an issue for you, but I thought you should know."
They hire her, and she moves in. She's pretty clear about the boundaries of what her job is and is not, but she eats with them most nights, and takes a turn cooking every once in a while.
"I'm not into doing it every night," she says, "but it's fun sometimes."
*
Jessica dates yet another celebrity who breaks her heart. Pete's traveling at the time, and when he calls home (which isn't a specific place but wherever Ash and Bronx are), Ashlee says, "Kristy is a godsend. She's been working nonstop so I can stay with Jess."
When Pete gets home, they give Kristy a week off to make up for it and Jess doesn't need someone to be with her every moment, just comes over for dinner every night.
The first night she's back, Kristy takes over the kitchen. "I love my mom," she says, "but she wouldn't let me cook at all and I feel horribly guilty about it." She flashes them all a quick grin. "So you're reaping the benefits."
Kristy's a good cook, and she does well with vegan food. Pete and Ashlee go back and forth about it, but Jess has stuck it out for a while now.
When Kristy dishes up plates for them, she doesn't give Ash and Jess half of what she gives Pete, the way Tina and Joe do.
*
Pete's wandering through the living room, when he hears Kristy chuckle in the dining room.
"It's not any easier," she says.
Pete looks in on his way past. Kristy and Jess are at the table with Bronx. Bronx has a sippy cup and a small plate of apple slices. There's a second plate on the table between the two women.
"I think it's more about the person and the relationship." While Pete watches, Kristy nudges the plate towards Jess, who picks up a slice of apple without seeming to think about it.
Pete figures this isn't a conversation he's supposed to be part of and wanders away.
A Good Dude (2/2)
Date: 2010-08-01 11:43 pm (UTC)Pete tips his head back and kisses her chin, the only part he can really reach at that angle. "Trying to think of someone for Jess."
Ash comes around the chair and sits in his lap. "Maybe we need to leave Jess to Jess."
Pete settles his arms around Ashlee's waist. "I just want her to be happy."
"I know, baby." Ash rests her cheek on the top of his head. "I do too."
*
They're all out by the pool, Ash and Pete in the water with Bronx and Jess and Kristy lying on lounge chairs in the sun. All three women are in bikinis, and Pete's old enough that he's no longer overwhelmed by that much female skin, although every time he looks at Ash, he thinks about leaving Bronx with Kristy and dragging Ashlee to bed.
"I love that your pool is so private," Jess says. "I could never wear this in public."
"Sure you could," Kristy says. "You're beautiful."
Bronx splashes his arms hard enough that Pete gets a mouthful of water and starts laughing.
*
Pete gets in late one night. Ash is waiting up for him, in bed with a book in her lap. Pete crawls into bed with her without bothering to get undressed, pressing his mouth to hers and relaxing against her.
She has a secret little smile when she breaks away from the kiss. "You can stop scouring your address book."
It takes him a moment to figure out what she's saying. "Jess found a guy who's going to love her with his whole heart?"
"Not exactly." Ash twines her fingers with his. "She took Kristy out to dinner. I heard them pull up but they never came in, so I went to see what was up. They were kissing on the porch."
Pete blinks at her and then grins. "I told you I could find someone for her."
Ashlee laughs and pushes him over, following him down. "I get some credit here. We both interviewed Kristy."
"All right, all right," Pete concedes. "You had something to do with it too."
Ashlee kisses his words away.
Re: A Good Dude (2/2)
Date: 2010-08-03 03:40 am (UTC)Re: A Good Dude (2/2)
Date: 2010-08-03 03:57 am (UTC)Re: A Good Dude (2/2)
Date: 2010-08-03 06:04 pm (UTC)And Ashley being sensible but hopeful.
And Jess for trying again and trying something new.
And Kristy for being an OFC I don't hate.
And YOU for writing me this.
Yay!
Re: A Good Dude (2/2)
Date: 2010-08-04 03:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-31 12:14 am (UTC)eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Date: 2010-08-02 03:03 am (UTC)The fight goes on longer than it should. They kill most of the pirates. The ones they capture have some kind of kill switch on them; they're dead before they can be locked into the brig.
Captain Beckett sends them out in pairs to do a thorough sweep of the ship. Once they know it's clean, everyone gathers on the bridge.
A debate rages about whether they should search the pirates' ship or just blow it. Greta is firmly on the side of blowing it.
"It's too dangerous," Mike throws over his shoulder. "Blow it up." He comes over to Greta. "You're bleeding."
Greta glances down at her arm. One of the pirates must have gotten her with something sharp. There's a shallow slice across her bicep she hasn't noticed in all the excitement.
"Shit." She reaches for the med kit in his hand, but he doesn't give it up.
"You saved my life," he says. "This is the least I can do."
Greta pushes her sleeve up well above the cut. "I didn't know you noticed."
"I noticed." Mike cleans the cut and sprays sealant over it. He rests his hand on it, lightly, for a moment.
Greta looks at his hand, the knuckles standing out in sharp relief against the softer curve of her arm, then up at his face. There's something there that Greta thinks she's seen before. Interest, she thinks, hopes.
She wraps her fingers around Mike's and draws his hand away from her arm, then leans up while she pulls him down. She's sure about this, and she kisses him like that.
He makes a startled noise first, then pushes his free hand into her hair, takes the other out of hers to cup her face, and kisses her back, deeply enough that they're both panting for air when they stop to breathe.
He's touching her like he doesn't want to stop, but there's still something hesitant in the way he's watching her. "Is this because we almost died?"
"No." Greta reaches for him, wraps one arm around his neck, keeping the one he bandaged lower, around his back. "This is because you noticed."
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Date: 2010-08-03 03:28 am (UTC)Greta looks at his hand, the knuckles standing out in sharp relief against the softer curve of her arm, then up at his face. There's something there that Greta thinks she's seen before. Interest, she thinks, hopes.
This made my toes curl. It's like that scene in a romantic movie when the hero and heroine finally get together, except this is so much better because they both kick an epic amount of ass.
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Date: 2010-08-03 03:55 am (UTC)Yes! It's exactly that scene, with both of them kicking ass.