dollsome

Winter is coming; daylight is fleeting; for the students among us, end-of-semester hell is just about to rear its ugly head. What better way to combat such woes than with a super-cheerful comment ficathon?

Ergo:

The Rules Are Thus:

1. Cheerful prompts! I feel like there's not much regulation here in terms of pairings: almost every ship or pair of characters is capable of a fluffy/happy/silly moment, and if they're not in canon, then why can't they be in fic? However, any prompt involving, say, lyrics from Eminem and Rihanna's "Love The Way You Lie" is probably not appropriate in terms of tone. Unless it's the "guess that's why they call it WINDOW PANE" line, which will never stop being hilarious.

2. Prompt format should go thus:

Fandom -- Pairing or characters -- prompt

3. For the fic you've written, please put the following in your comment's subject line: 'Fandom -- pairing -- title.'

4. Be nice!

5. Spread the fun, if you are so inclined!

6. Go forth and have a merry happy good time. :)

MASTER LIST
(in rather sloppy chronological order;
this will probably be maintained rather poorly, my apologies!)

Merlin - Merlin/Morgana - it's not easy having yourself a good time by dollsome

30 Rock - Jack/Liz - How Jack Donaghy Got His Groove Back, With Whales by dollsome

How I Met Your Mother - Barney/Robin - Operation: Stake It To Ted by noteasilywon

BtVS/AtS - Buffy/Spike & Cordelia/Angel - Midnight in the Olive Garden of Good and Evil by angearia

Merlin - Arthur/Morgana - Well, this is awkward by copperiisulfate

The Mummy - Rick/Evie - Reading Is Sexy by vega_ofthe_lyre

Gilmore Girls - Rory/Jess - I'm Dreaming of a by miraxcorran

True Blood/BtVS - Franklin & Spike - An Abundance of Window Pane by dollsome

Glee - Rachel/Jesse - I'll Never Tell by lettersandliars

Supernatural - Sam/Jess - Darling, we'll go a-drowning by taintedlove

Doctor Who - Amy/Rory - Worker Bees by lettersandliars

Glee - Brittany/Santana - "I'm just mad for you, and I'll always be, but naturally--" by amazingly_me

Twin Peaks - Cooper/Audrey - Hey girl, you've got a fine laugh, and I think that I can get used to that by lyssie

Being Human - Annie, George, Mitchell - "Annie, you can't keep the kitten. What if George eats it?" by nonky

Sherlock - Sherlock/John - Less than Clandestine by amazingly_me

HIMYM - Marshall/Lily, cast - it's not what i thought it would be (but what really is?) by portland_rain

The Office - Michael & Toby - Don't Go Breakin' My Heart by firthgal

Supernatural - Castiel - Heaven wasn't always hell by oceansex

BtVS - Buffy/Angel - Love is forever, right? by angearia

Dollhouse - DeWitt/Dominic - We Slay Dragons Together by derevko_child

The West Wing - Toby, Sam, & Josh - A Distinct Lack of Gravitas by amazingly_me

Supernatural - Anna/Ruby - Devil Meaning Well by oceansex

Anne of Green Gables - Anne/Gilbert - We should have a breakfast nook! by taintedlove

Legend of the Seeker - Richard/Kahlan - Just for tonight, darling, let's get lost by dollsome

The Vampire Diaries - Tyler & Caroline - TOGETHER, THEY FIGHT CRIME by nonky

Community - Jeff/Annie - O brave new world by dollsome

Glee - Brittany/Santana - You don't know how far I'd go by anthimeriate

Angel - Fred & Cordelia - Of Friendship and Tacos by superkappa

The Office - Jim/Pam & CeCe - Everyone's a Critic by firthgal

Community - Britta/Troy (and the gang) - El tango de sexual tension by dollsome

Glee - Kurt & Finn - Life is too short for traffic by storypaint

The Vampire Diaries - Caroline & Stefan - The Pros and Cons of Sparkling by law_like_love

Dollhouse - Topher - Aced The Tests, Never Did The Homework by kay_obsessive

Glee - Rachel & Kurt - Detour a Bad Day by storypaint

Lost - Kate/Sawyer - Just Like New Times by fragmentedsky

Doctor Who - Eleven/Rose - Top Hats Optional by laeria

The Vampire Diaries - Caroline, Elena, & Bonnie - Slumber Party by dranime203

The Vampire Diaries - Stefan/Elena/Damon - They say it's your birthday by austen

Battlestar Galactica - Adama/Roslin - carpe astra by pocochina

Merlin - Arthur/Merlin - Just One Hug by niftywithan

Harry Potter - Harry/Hermione/Ron - every stone you stood upon shifted, except for me by mollivanders

Doctor Who - River/Doctor - You're very pretty, you know. You're very rare, you know. by lyssie

Alias - Jack/Irina - A Murder Free Dinner by derevko_child

BtVS/Veronica Mars - Buffy and Veronica - girls in a gun store by mollivanders

Veronica Mars - Wallace & Veronica - shooting some hoops by polychromic

Battlestar Galactica - Gaius/Caprica Six - What's in a name, anyway? by mini_miss

Friday Night Lights - Coach/Mrs. Coach - Lazy Saturday afternoon by mollivanders

Caprica - Lacy & Barnabas - Emergence by odyle

Merlin - Arthur/Morgana (+ kind of ot4) - Objectivity by fragmentedsky

Harry Potter - Remus/Sirius - The Old Fablemakers by amazingly_me

The West Wing - Josh and Donna - And Most Fools Do by amazingly_me

Community - Britta/Professor Duncan - Alternative Lifestyles in Modern Discourse by nonky

The Vampire Diaries - Tyler & Caroline - TOGETHER, THEY FIGHT CRIME by nonky

BtVS - Spike/Drusilla - Callooh, Callay by marketchippie

Secret Diary of a Call Girl - Ben/Hannah - Best Friends with Wandering Eyes by nonky

Pirates of the Caribbean - Jack/Elizabeth - Winning is worth it by bellonablack

Battlestar Galactica - Kara/Sam - I'll sleep when I'm dead by nonky

Castle - Castle/Beckett - The Serenade of Romantic Doom by nonky

Modern Family - Mitchell/Cameron - Two Approaches To Baby-Naming by polychromic

The Vampire Diaries - Salvatore brothers & co. - Surprise is Not Only for the Living by ohwaluvusbab

Pirates of the Caribbean - Anamaria - What shall we die for by caffeineandink

Batman - Harley Quinn/Batman - I have dreams of orca whales and owls by clockwork_jo

AtS - Angel/Cordy, Connor, the team - Icy Peril by museofspeed

The Vampire Diaries - Damon/Elena - The Timeless Taste of Cracker Jacks by amoenavi

The West Wing - Sam/Ainsley - Deep Fried And Extra Fatty by magisterequitum

Lost - Dan/Charlotte - Keeping still to move by valhalla37

Skins - Freddie, Emily - And I won't let you choke by clockwork_jo

BtVS - Buffy/Spike - Her Dark Place Is Also Quiet by ohwaluvusbab

HIMYM - Barney/Robin - I know you get me (so I let my walls come down) by dollsome

BtVS - Spike & Dawn - The Cons of Anarchy by ohwaluvusbab

HIMYM - Ted/Victoria - Social Networking by ceridweyn_lin

Harry Potter - Tom Riddle/Bellatrix Lestrange - All is loneliness before me by amazingly_me

The West Wing - Ainsley - Last Friday night, yeah we danced on tabletops by amazingly_me

Lilo & Stitch/Calvin & Hobbes - What I Did On My Summer Vacation by amazingly_me

Pushing Daisies - Ned/Chuck - Loophole by polychromic

Glee - Brittany & Finn - Hip-hop and Hippos by polychromic

The Vampire Diaries - Damon/Elena - Get Thee Behind Me, Temptation by redbrunja

The West Wing - Sam/Ainsley - Baby, it's cold outside by magisterequitum

ER - Ray/Neela - Edge of Desire by xmarisolx

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From:

dollsome.livejournal.com

Lost, Kate/Sawyer, bookstore

From:

fragmentedsky.livejournal.com

never written lost fanfic, but giving this a try anyway.

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All the paperwork is going to be a pain in the ass. And the press attention has been even worse - she’s now the survivor of two notorious plane crashes, and the time she spent back on the island was more than enough for every single fucking news outlet on the planet to figure out that five of the Oceanic Six were on that second plane, and that she’s the only one who came back.

She’s barely seen anyone but Claire since they landed. Claire, who clings to her like she actually knows what to expect and can handle it. I sucked at this world, Kate wants to tell her. I always kind of did. What makes you think I can help you?

In a way, she’s perpetually on edge when Claire is there. Not because the blonde woman tried to kill her, but because of what came before. She feels guilty for leaving Claire in the woods, and that kind of annoys her. What choice did she really have at the time?

Doesn’t she have enough to feel guilty about?

She wants some time alone, more than almost anything, but there’s this endless parade of consequences even though she’s locked up in the hospital while they fuss over her shoulder. She appreciates that they have clean gauze here and all, but the medical system had far less pointless bureaucratic nonsense on the island. Plus, the staff was cuter.

She winces, just a little, and pulls the over-starched white hospital sheets up to her chin. It hasn’t hit her that he’s gone, and the anticipation is grinding her gut like hamburger meat.

“Hey, Freckles.”

The nickname is back and for a tiny part of her, all the years are undone - he’s impossible and gorgeous and needs a shave and she kind of hates him and their biggest problem is polar bears. He’s standing in the doorway of her hospital room, glancing periodically back into the hallway, with that same look he had on his face when he asked her to play I Never back when they were hunting his bovine would-be stalker.

(She has the wild, momentary impulse to find somebody’s urine cup and dump it on one of his spare shirts, just to see if he remembers. The idea is laughably gross, but probably not as much as it should be.)

“What are you doing, Sawyer?”

He grins again. “Bustin’ you out. C’mon, there’s somewhere I wanna go.”

She knows, on some level, that he’s grown up so much in the time she spent away. That as her life was falling apart in the real world his was coming together and blooming on the island, and she wants to resent it but mostly she can only marvel at it. And lurking underneath is this ache; she can feel how he’s rubbed raw like a buzz under her skin, but he’s not ready to deal with it on top of the culture shock so in the meantime they just fall back to old habits, old times.

The responsible part of her (if there ever was one, without Aaron) tells her she should probably stay put. Fuck that. She sneaks over to where her duffle bag is, slips into a T-shirt and jeans. He makes a show of not looking, smirking to himself and shifting his weight playfully back and forth between his feet. As soon as she’s got shoes on he pulls her out of the room, down the back stairwell. They make a game of it, walking primly past the glass windows on the doors leading to each floor they pass and then thundering down the steps between.

From:

fragmentedsky.livejournal.com

He’s found a used bookstore two blocks down. She marvels at the fact that she didn’t just know, immediately, that this was where they were headed. She’d passed it a million times in her life between the island and the island. She’d never gone in.

But two days home and he goes straight for it, like a kid at Christmas. He disappears into the aisles as soon as they’re in the door, and Kate wanders on her own. She was never much of a reader; she runs her hands halfheartedly along the spines of the books, but only picks up one or two. He’s gone for at least forty-five minutes, and comes back with seven beaten paperbacks, looking more comfortable than she’s seen him since before she left him in that Dharma bed and then he left her in that doomed helicopter.

“What, Freckles, you can’t read?” He says, in high humor, nodding at her empty hands.

She can’t help but laugh and shake her head. “Apparently not. Why did you even bring me?”

He shrugs. He doesn’t know, but that doesn’t seem to bother him. There’s no nonsense about wanting to share this place with her, but all she’s wanted since she got home is some time to herself to not think at all, and he’s given it to her. She’d like to think there’s a unifying element to what they find here: life goes on. Even if it hasn’t yet, it will. And no matter how different they are, no matter how long it’s been or how much they’ve both lost, he’d rather have her there when it does.

From:

dollsome.livejournal.com

Oh, gosh, this is total them-shaped perfection. ♥ he’s impossible and gorgeous and needs a shave and she kind of hates him and their biggest problem is polar bears Wonderful.

From:

fragmentedsky.livejournal.com

I'm so glad you like it, because I found your stories 'Widow' and 'Heart Knows Calm' on ff.net ages ago, and they were/are basically my favorite Lost fics ever, so when I just went over to scour your master list I kind of had a heart attack and more than a little intimidation. ♥

From:

dollsome.livejournal.com

Aw, gosh, THANK YOU! ♥ And oh, man, I continue to love this MADLY. I particularly enjoyed the Kate voice, which was just so fun and awesome.

(Merlin/Morgana icon hurrah!)

From:

fragmentedsky.livejournal.com

I've since gone through much of your list and it's utterly destroying my ability to be productive (thanks a LOT, really :p), you're just so talented. So I'll just be over here, blushing madly at the idea that you enjoyed this.

(I ship Morgana with EVERYBODY, LJ has just decided to delete all my keywords so I'm limited until I decide to be less lazy and put them back in, hence why Sawyerland is my only Lost one.)

From:

softly-me.livejournal.com

Hey! You're here! And you have fic! Very good fic too.

She appreciates that they have clean gauze here and all, but the medical system had far less pointless bureaucratic nonsense on the island. Plus, the staff was cuter.

This bit made me giggle and aww over Jack being cuter because he totally is.

They make a game of it, walking primly past the glass windows on the doors leading to each floor they pass and then thundering down the steps between.

Oh, god, they would do this! They sooo would! Who cares about having to be all responsible and grown up!