Prompt Me!
Jul. 4th, 2006 08:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
browncoat2x2Okay Flist... after a week away from fandom, I need some prompts to get back in the swing of things!
I'll either write a story, drabble, sentence, or synopsis, whatever comes to me from the prompt.
Help me out! :o)
I'll either write a story, drabble, sentence, or synopsis, whatever comes to me from the prompt.
Help me out! :o)
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Date: 2006-07-04 12:52 pm (UTC)Inara, River: automatism
Kaylee, Book: "Secret Ingredient"
Mal, Jayne: grace
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Date: 2006-07-04 12:53 pm (UTC)And I'm going to be a little evil here! Don't hate me!
Pairing: Jayne/Kaylee, Jayne/Inara
Prompt: honesty is the best policy (however much it hurts)
Hee! I can't even imagine where you could go with that, but you're clever and wonderful so I'm sure you'll think of something! *grins* Have fun!
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Date: 2006-07-05 03:18 pm (UTC)Sex was Inara's trade, before she left it all behind. The arrangement seemed a natural one, once she and Mal fell apart.
Jayne has always enjoyed the company of whores.
Inara enjoys it for the release it offers, and the fact that he doesn't expect anything from her, no Guild training, no comfort or compassion.
Just sex. Hard, fast, and attachment free.
The touching after, the cuddling, surprised her at first. She hadn't pegged him as the type. Jayne asks for nothing from her in return, just that she let him hold her, maybe play with her hair a bit.
She wonders if he has sisters, but never asks.
Lately, the touching has grown infrequent. Inara knows that Kaylee is the reason.
Kaylee and Simon are over.
Kaylee and Simon burned brighter even than Inara and Mal had, and though they lasted longer, they used up more of each other, too.
Too much.
Simon and River are leaving, and Jayne is happy. He is not a bright man, but he's smart enough not to let Kaylee know. But Inara does. They have always been honest with each other.
Jayne loves Kaylee. Inara loves Mal.
Mal's heart is empty at the loss of his albatross.
Jayne has won his heart's desire; Kaylee has turned to him. Inara knows that this arrangement between them will have to stop.
But it is Mal, not Jayne she turns away when he shows up at her shuttle door.
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Date: 2006-07-05 03:31 pm (UTC)And I'm glad she turned him away. I mean, it's one thing if it had been before, while things were still in limbo, but it's another if he only turns to her because there's noting else left.
Oh God. I want Inara to get the hell off that empty ship now. Move back to a Training House. Have a *life*.
Can't you use your magnificent powers for Good things? :D
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Date: 2006-07-05 09:27 pm (UTC)And SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! You said the magic word! "Bleak" That was EXACTLY the feeling I was going for! I could hug you! Hell, I WILL hug you! *HUGS*
And, well, there has to be balance, darlin'. A lot of what I've written lately has been fluffier and lighter... time to get back to the good ol' angst I'm known for *G*
I'm still thinking on your prompts, but they're proving frustratingly elusive, as is goldy's... :o/ It's been a bit of a slow start after the week away... brain needs to be cleaned out *G*
But, YAY FOR UTTERLY EVIL AND COOL! Bwahahaahahah!
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Date: 2006-07-06 12:28 pm (UTC)And SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! You said the magic word! "Bleak" That was EXACTLY the feeling I was going for! I could hug you! Hell, I WILL hug you! *HUGS*
I live to please. ;) But really, you couldn't have made it more bleak if you tried, so really... it wasn't a great feat to actually find the word. :D
Fine then. Be evil. Traumatize me. Be that way. *sigh* Just maybe.. with less bleak and more pulse-racing angstiness? :D Whatever you do, take your time until you feel ready. ;) *HUGS
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Date: 2006-07-06 01:53 pm (UTC)I'll try and make it less bleak for you, darlin'. Pulse-racing angstiness is a nice descriptor....hmmmm....
I'm at home today, which always seems to make it harder to write :o/ but I'll try...
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Date: 2006-07-04 02:21 pm (UTC)Little White Lies
Keywords... Jam/Puzzle/Chopstick.
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Date: 2006-07-05 03:20 pm (UTC)-2x2
He's lying to her.
She sees it in the way his eyes slide away from hers, the way he scratches his nose, the way he swallows, mouth filling with nervous saliva. All the signs fitting together like pieces of a puzzle.
He doesn't want to be here.
She wonders if it's the company or the environment that has him ill at ease. She hopes it's the latter, but she isn't sure yet.
It's always like this now, between them. Little white lies to keep the peace. He's so careful it drives her mad. She wants to push him, force an argument, force him to react. She doesn't.
There is the job to think of, and her role to play in it. More lies. He used to hate her ability to lie. Now, it's all he wants of her. He doesn't want to hear that she's worried or upset, doesn't want to know that she's often afraid and unhappy.
She plays the perfect escort to him, draws attention to herself when he makes a slight social faux pas, rescuing him from yet another jam, using her training and her beauty to distract and conciliate. She sees the anger in his eyes, lets her hand brush over his, and as he lifts his gaze to hers, her breath catches. He's there, staring out at her, her Mal, the one she hasn't seen in months. And then, just as sudden, he's gone again and he looks away, and it's all she can do not to cry.
She wants to leave, but they need the job – they can't survive on empty chopsticks - and she's not going to lose him another one. So she puts on her fake smile, one that is maybe less than it could be, but she's certain no one will notice.
Except he would, if he'd bother to look.
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Date: 2006-07-05 03:27 pm (UTC)You are so.... angsty.
*sniffle*
Leave, Inara! He's not worth it, the bastard!
And you, young lady? No more liquid evil before bedtime! We need to re-fluff you a little. This can't go on.
(Also, it's very compellingly written. Pretty writing, evil story! *G*)
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Date: 2006-07-05 09:33 pm (UTC)I'm the Mistress of Angst! I *have* to be angsty!!! It's who I am! *G*
You're not going to attack me with fluffy stuff again, are you? Cuz, that was pretty scary last time..
Hmmmm compellingly written, pretty writing, evil story.. all in one that woudl be a pretty compellingly evil story! ooorrrrr, a compellingly pretty evil story.. or maybe a compellingly evil pretty story ... well, either way, I like it! *EG*
thanks darlin' ;o>
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Date: 2006-07-05 03:39 pm (UTC)I had no idea where you might go with this challenge. I just wanted to get you back on the fan-fiction wagon in style. We missed you!
Beautifully written, as always.
Taya (patiently hanging on for 'choices')
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Date: 2006-07-05 09:36 pm (UTC)thank-you, thank-you... A bit slow getting back into it after a week away, but I'll try to keep at it *G*
And *hides under computer* Ai ya, Choices.... I'm working on it, I'm really trying... I feel SO bad for letting everyone down with that story. But I'm working through a few of the difficulties, and I'm getting some help from
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Date: 2006-07-04 11:35 pm (UTC)Keywords: Pre-Series, post-war.
'Cause... I haven't seen many fics taking place then. And... thank you! And... SQUEE. *hugs*
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Date: 2006-07-08 08:58 am (UTC)Pairing: Mal/Inara
Prompt: A dare