A Lar by any other name

I've been writing my casestory story longhand in my notebook. Cathartic? Maybe.

My brain has been eaten by Don't Starve. Have you played this game? There's a demo that you can try out... of course, you might find that you can't do anything else if you start playing. I'm just hoping that I can someday get past Day 20 without being eaten by Hounds. *sigh*

Watching Veronica Mars season 1 and continually amazed by how many of the random NPCs each week were played by people who I now notice a lot more than I did when I first watched the show. I'm remembering all these little things that I've missed... like Mac being switched at birth! How did I not remember that?

And here you thought I'd forgot about writing something everyday in April. *sigh* No, I remember. It hangs over my head on the days when I don't write.

Title: The Story of Before
Fandom: SGA/SPN crossover
Characters: John Sheppard/Dean Winchester
Prompt: from wings128 Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same All At Once - Snow Patrol.

( ...it's always the person that walks away before we're satisfied that we remember the most... )

There was/is an impromptu three-sentence fic event going on at be_compromised and that's what I wrote yesterday. It didn't dawn on me that I hadn't posted it here until I was already in bed and it was too late to even think about getting up and posting.

Unless otherwise posted, all characters are Clint and Natasha (often as Clint/Natasha).

Title: Strapped
Prompt: weapons and their meaning to them
Story: There was always a knife strapped to his leg but she knew that it wasn't standard issue. After watching him draw and throw it, she knew it had different origins and felt compelled to ask him about it.

The tips of his ears grew red as he replied, "I've never told you what I did when I was a kid, have I?"

Title: Never a Good Idea to Stare
Prompt: Don't taunt the dinosaurs.
Story: She figured hanging from her ankle in the tallest tree in the area (or so it seemed from this abnormal vantage point) was what she deserved for going against order. When Clint finally got around to getting her down, she struggled valiantly not to hang her head at his pointed look.

"Your typical brontosaurus doesn't like to be stared at," was all he said.

Title: Next in the Lecture Series
Prompt: March Madness
Story: Clint tried to suppress his grin as Natasha settled next to Tony on the couch and said (in her best I'm ever so interested voice), "So explain this madness to me again."

For the sixth time, Tony began his History of Basketball in the Civilized World speech as she watched with what looked like interest. This was going to be fun to watch when the games started.

Title: Tea Party
Prompt: imaginary friend
Story: "You can't sit there," the diminutive Natasha informed Clint as he joined her at the kitchen table. Thirty-six hours in and she was still a six-year old but Bruce swore that he was close to a solution to Dr. Doom's little trick.

As he changed seats, she informed him, "That's where Coulson is sitting."

Title: Injury (warning: character injury)
Prompt: open your eyes
Story: "Tasha, I'm gonna need you to open your eyes for me because we need to get out of here but I can't even begin to think about it until I know you're conscious and I'm doubtful about it at the moment."

The rambling panic in Clint's voice was every bit as comforting as his death grip on her shoulders. As much as she knew she should do as he requested and open her eyes, she wanted to stay in this between existence where all that mattered was that he was nearby.

Title Pre-History
Prompt: a short history of nearly everything
Story: "They're assassins. What more do you need to know?"

Later, Maria wished she'd pushed a little harder for a more in-depth history on Clint and Natasha as she found herself often in the dark about what they were capable of and what she should be expecting of them.

Title: A Time for Us
Prompt: Budapest (it had to be done)
Story: Natasha catalogues their adventures together by the scars on Clint's body. She traces over a ridge of skin, silvered with time, and waits for him to shiver in remembrance.

"Budapest," he growls in return as she starts to melt.

Title: Visitation
Fandom: MCU
Characters: Steve/Darcy
Prompt: from allisnow - Steve, smile for the cameras

( Do you have to do that? )

Title: Over Coffee
Fandom: Avengers/MCU
Characters: Natasha, Bobbi
Prompt: a long time ago, ashen_key asked for MCU!Bobbi Morse and Natasha being AWESOME together, with no jealousy at all. And of course I broke my own rule and this is a few more than ten sentences.

( ...friends are made over time... )

I thought I'd work out the Sleeping Beauty ideas for writerverse prompt challenges.

Title: A Present Freely Given
Prompt: “Dangerous gifts are such mine to come” (Bjork) from writerverse
Word Count: 362
Rating: PG
Original/Fandom: Original - Stuck in the Dream 'verse
Pairings (if any) none
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con etc): none
Summary: Princess Tavia celebrates her coming-of-age and is rewarded with the one thing that could make her the happiest - a chance at freedom.

( Princess Tavbia surveyed the heap of presents weighing down the table... )

Title: For the Cost of a Nightmare
Fandom: Doctor Who (the Rose years)
Characters: Ten/Rose, mention of Captain Jack
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 6208
Author’s Note: In rewatching the shows with Rose and Ten, I came across the mention of Rose’s promise to always stay with the Doctor. She said it with such feeling that I felt there was a story behind when it was made. This starts out AU and goes heads back to normal canon. Rose had a lesson to learn and I think she learned it.

I would like to thank SaraJo for helping me find snippets of conversation that drove me forward and hufflepuffsneak for looking this over and giving me a shake at the very point when I needed it the most.

This is my first entry for longfic_bingo challenge, using prompts accidental marriage and tentacles (parallel lines).

Art by the ever incredible pentapus. This was done as part of her first Treehouse Reverse Bang.



At AO3

I thought I would start EARLY on my writerverse Table of Doom. Why start with the most challenging square first? So I wrote a Couplet Poem. Not just any old Couplet Poem but a Steve/Darcy poem over 500 words! I've bruised the part of my brain that rhymes!

Title: The Ad in the Sunday Paper
Prompt: format: couplet poem
Word Count: 762
Rating: PG
Original/Fandom: Avengers/Thor MCU
Pairings (if any): Steve/Darcy
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con/Underage): none
Summary: Darcy keeps hoping for an opening to tell Steve how she feels. This was not how she envisioned it happening.

( You click this at your own risk... there be rhymes here )

It dawns on me that I haven't ever posted my lone Valentine's Promptathon story. I have TWO more most of the way done but it's that last little bit that is KILLING ME SLOWLY! The muse fled for warmer weather or better shoe sales or something. I don't know. All I know is that I haven't been able to write anything coherent in about two weeks. Even though there's more sun in these parts of late, I've upped my Vitamin D and need to get myself on a better sleep schedule. Anything to get past this funk!

Title: Whatever It Takes
Fandom: Avengers movie!verse
Characters: Clint/Natasha
Rating: PG-13 (Teen and Up)
Warnings: some language, hospital situations
Author's Note: This is set pre-movie and is another of my attempts to explain Love is for Children. Many hugs to hufflepuffsneak for the beta!
Prompt: from the prompt given by icecream_junkie
Proof - by Emily Dickinson
That I did always love,
I bring thee proof:
That till I loved
I did not love enough.

That I shall love alway,
I offer thee
That love is life,
And life hath immortality.

This, dost thou doubt, sweet?
Then have I
Nothing to show
But Cavalry.

Here at AO3

Title: Close to Death
Fandom: The Avengers (movie'verse)
Characters: Natasha, Clint, Tony, Pepper, Steve, Bruce
Prompt: Poor Tasha has terrible food poisoning, laid out on the couch in her jammies. Everyone else offers home remedies for upset tummies at avengerkink - turns out, none of the characters in my mind had any home remedies!
Word Count: 1298
Summary: Natasha gets food poisoning and the team can't figure out what to do with her.

At AO3

The Stargate Persona challenge at stargatecountry



The Tale of Glennary Roth
(and how she came to be a Civilian Contractor on Atlantis)

( When Nary was fourteen... )