Middle Night Excerpt Meme

[browngirl]

I was going to wait on this for... no good reason, really. (If it's not a good reason at 1:35 AM it's not a good reason. The inverse, however, is not true.) Henceforth: Snagged from emiime, including her addendum.

Tell me about a story I never wrote, (eg, "The one where Chris Pike and Winona Kirk discover they had the same dream about George*.") and I'll write you a snippet from it. ETA my addition: from the rough draft. I contemplated writing these all and letting them sit a couple weeks like I usually do, and decided against it.

Snippets will be 100-500 words.

Rules:
1. One per person, please.
2. AUs and mirror!verse fics are okay.
3. As usual, het, slash, femmeslash, gen requests are all okay.
4. Your request should begin: "The one where..."

Standard rules apply, if you need to know if I know a fandom, just give me a shout and I'll let you know!

If you want something else, ask me about it, or just request it. If I'm not familiar with the fandom/characters you request, I'll ask you to prompt again!

Emi's addition: I make no guarantees that I will get to, or be inspired by, each and every prompt. But I'll try! ETA: Whee, okay, I really have enough now, thanks. ETAA: More polished versions here.

*: lomedet and tigerbright, this one's for you. Don't let me forget to include the making out.

Comments

Re: Your comment above gave me an idea -- I may do two for this

[spikeface.livejournal.com]

I really love all of these snippets you've been posting, although snippets is probably too small a word for these considering the punch they pack. Leah is amazing but what I expect: strong, exhausted, isolated and a good person despite that. It's Kirk that drives me crazy. I think I'd die if you ever did a fic from his POV, but figuring him out is such torture that I also don't want to give it up.

He's such a classic abuser, so human in that way, and maybe it's just that I don't understand those people either. I keep looking for flickers of humanity somewhere, and at first they seem like they're there to be found: the hand held out for hers, the kiss over her bruise, feeding her ice chips oh so gently. But there's something cold about this Kirk, that keeps Leah's fear so real. Other people have written mKirk as a man who's violent because he loves with no morals or boundaries, and he's frightening but strangely romantic in his obsession. Your Kirk... I think nuKirk loves, other mKirks obsess, and your Kirk just possesses. A Quaking Star has Kirk comparing Leah to the ship, and I think that's probably apt. He'll take her into port when she needs fixing, grin until he glows at her undercarriage, and drag her through Klingon fire without a second thought.

Ok, this got a bit rambly. In short: your Kirk frightens me, and I doubt I'll ever understand him, and I love that.

Re: Your comment above gave me an idea -- I may do two for this

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I LOVE your comments, you know that? You get right to the heart of my Kirk, who sees love as identical to possession (in part because he was once a toy himself, this vicious universe being what it is).

And I owe you and mardia a story from his POV, that I do. I know just the tale, too.

Re: Your comment above gave me an idea -- I may do two for this

[spikeface.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-)

Re: Kirk being a toy, I definitely got that sense with his reference to Pike in a Quaking Star, although I wouldn't be surprised if there were others. It seems like it would have to had have happened earlier and often to really sink in.

Re: Your comment above gave me an idea -- I may do two for this

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

My mental equivalent of the Bar Dare for this nuKirk: "I'll give you the weapon to kill your current master if you'll come work for me. You man enough, boy?" :D