the yay for friendship! comment ficathon
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copperiisulfate and I were talking yesterday about how ~sexy times~ tend to get more attention than friendship on TV and in fandom, and what a shame that can be. (Although a pretty delightful and understandable shame.) So I was thinking that maybe it would be fun to celebrate good old-fashioned friend time in a comment ficathon. Which will either be super jolly, or super super lame. I can't quite decide. But I figure it's worth a shot! And really, it's always just fun to have an excuse to make up prompts.Ergo ...
RULES, or whatever
1. Despite the general concept, I think the pairings this can apply to are pretty widespread. Friendship is an important component of romantic love, after all! I guess the bottom line is to focus the fic more on buddydom than makeouts & such? (Basically: this is your spinster aunt's comment ficathon. I'm
dollsome, I'm worse than everybody's aunt.)2. Prompts should basically have a 'Fandom -- pairing or characters -- prompt' format.
3. If you reply to a prompt, please put the fandom, pairing/characters, and title in your comment's subject line!
4. Be nice; have fun! :D
5. If you'd like to spread the word--
MASTERLIST OF RESPONSES ♥
Glee - Santana & Karofsky - Okay By Me in Lima, Ohio, America by
jesshelgaDoctor Who - Amy & Eleven, Amy/Rory - Space String by
copperiisulfateMerlin - Gwen & Morgana - I wish you would by
copperiisulfateDoctor Who - Eleven & Rory - Slape Diem by
magpieintheskyDoctor Who - Martha & Ten - It's all a bit Harry Potter by
commen_senseSherlock - Sherlock & John - The game is off by
copperiisulfateMerlin - Merlin & Gwen - HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? by
ityellsbackMerlin - Gwen & Morgana - sweet dreams are made of these by
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HOW DID THIS HAPPEN 1/3
Date: 2011-06-23 04:26 am (UTC)have some not-very-good but sorta entertaining cracky Merlin and Gwen banter. Er. Yes.
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Merlin's walking down a hallway carrying some sheets to be laundered when a hand darts out of an abandoned room and drags him inside, the door clicking shut behind them.
"AH! Oh, Gwen, it's just you. Haha. Hahaha. Uhm, yes, hi?"
"Has anyone asked you about it yet?" she snaps.
"Asked about...oooh. ooh. Uh, yeah, let's see, Johnathan and Alexander from the stables gave me highfives and asked how it was, Catherine from laundry asked how long I'd been seeing you, and Jamie told me to make an honest woman of you. Jamie is terrifying, Gwen, she brandished a saucepan at me."
"This is what you get for playing Truth or Dare with knights. Why did you even play if you were just going to pick dare every single time? How did you even drag me into it?"
Really, he'd begged Gwen to play until Arthur had looked up and, eyes playful, said, well, Guinevere? Join us? and at that point Arthur'd get pouty if she refused and it looked kind of fun anyway.
"How was I supposed to know they'd decide I was hiding something and come up with increasing ridiculous dares to try to get me to choose truth? And come on, Gwen, it wasn't that bad."
Gwen pauses, shifts her eyes and blushes, so he adds slightly desperately, "Wait. Gwen, it really wasn't that bad. Gwen. Was it?"
"Well, it was awful--" at Merlin's panicked eyes, she hastens to elaborate, "No, Merlin, I mean it wasn't good but it wasn't awful, I mean of course it wasn't awful, but you know I don't really think you that way, not to imply others wouldn't! I'm sure plenty of other people in the castle find you very attractive! You are attractive! But I don't mean, I'm not, uhm," and here she stops and looks meekly up at him, finally blushing properly. "What I mean is, it was awful Sebastian walked in on our, uhm, last minute in heaven. That was awful. Not Sebastian, though, he's lovely, and you're, uh, yes."
After accepting that blustered explanations were just Gwen's way after the first week of knowing her, Merlin just takes her monologue at face value of not awful, but getting walked in on sucked.
"Right, Gwen. And who'd know Sebastian would be such a gossip? He sees us kissing drunkenly in a closet and decides we must be madly in love. Who even thinks that?"
"Twelve year olds? Like Sebastian?" Gwen suggests tentatively.
"Well, sure. But...it's not an accurate...you know, never mind. Actually, where the hell was Gwaine, wasn't he supposed to be guarding the door?"
"He got distracted by Percival streaking."
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN 2/3
Date: 2011-06-23 04:30 am (UTC)**************************
"We missed that?--okay, right, back to the point. Why does this merit dragging me into a side room?"
"Because what are we going to do? Elyan heard it from Jonathan this morning when he got back from patrol and since Gwaine and Percival and Leon think it's so funny they haven't bothered to correct his assumption and he's about ready to give you the if you hurt my baby sister speech! That speech involves brandishing knives at you, Merlin!"
"Uh, he won't actually hurt me, will he?"
"I don't know, the only boy he ever gave the speech to never spoke to me again, so that's all I've got!"
"Uh...huh. Er, it can't be that bad. And, well, Gwen, maybe it's actually a good thing?"
"What?"
"I mean, I certainly know about your, uh, questionable relations, and I have my own...uh, that is, I have no romantic attachments at all. I just mean I'd like to help out a friend. Such as yourself. Who would benefit from uh, an undercover, uh,"
"I'm not fake dating you, Merlin! No one cares if I'm seeing Lancelot!"
"People care if you're seeing Ar--"
"Merlin! Do you actually have no idea how to be discreet? He's already kissed me in the courtyard just a few weeks after I nearly got exiled and God knows how he is around you," she punctuates this statement with a glare that clearly reads it's sad how noticeable you are.
"I have...no idea what you're implying," Merlin replies unsteadily.
"Are you aware that you're actually the worst liar? Really," she responds, "I've known forever, because come on. You guys are obvious."
"Wait, if we're both seeing him does that mean we're actually seeing each other anyway? Because, like, transitive property--not to mean I am seeing him! Because I'm not! Not romantically! At all!"
"Right. And no, it does not. Sometimes I wonder if he's right about your mental afflictions, you know. And this is all besides the point of the castle trying to plan our wedding and my brother maybe killing you."
"Uh. We could both get caught making out with other people? Because then we just seem like we enjoy makin' out in closets?"
"I'm pretty sure that would make the castle think we're sluts. I don't know if you understand, but having impugned honor would be really bad for me."
"Even though your future prospects are both aware you are not a slut?"
Re: HOW DID THIS HAPPEN 3/3
Date: 2011-06-23 04:33 am (UTC)**************************
"One of my future prospects is convinced he'll never be worthy of me and the other is in love with you! I'd say I'd like to keep my reputation of not a slut just in case Lancelot never comes around."
"Er, the castle kind of already thinks I'm--"
"I know very well what the castle thinks of you! Everyone in laundry today was asking why I would ever want to take up with such a ladies' man! Honestly, you, a ladies' man, it's ridiculous!"
"I have no idea where these things get started. We can just convince Gwaine to explain to Elyan because otherwise I'll die. And maybe if we don't talk about the rumors, they'll fizzle out. More interesting things will come up. I hear Vivian's coming back to court next week!"
"And she still likes Arthur so much, doesn't she? You'll have quite a time keeping her out of his room."
"As long as I don't have to keep him and his roses out of hers. That was horrible. At least she won't try to kill him."
"That's no guarantee for your safety. But you're probably right, the court'll loose interest soon enough, they forgot about thinking you were a cross dresser as soon as Vivian showed up the first time."
At this point, the door creaks open. It's not like Merlin and Gwen are doing anything, Merlin's sitting on the bed and Gwen is over near the window, but this is after last night. And of course all the servant boy who walks in says is,
"Ah! So it is true!"
before darting off down the hallway to Gwen and Merlin's cries of wait and this isn't even incriminating!
Re: HOW DID THIS HAPPEN 3/3
Date: 2011-06-23 06:54 pm (UTC)Re: HOW DID THIS HAPPEN 3/3
Date: 2011-06-23 09:37 pm (UTC)glad you are hosting such an utterly delightful comment fic thing :)
Re: HOW DID THIS HAPPEN 1/3
Date: 2011-06-23 06:35 pm (UTC)Uh. We could both get caught making out with other people? Because then we just seem like we enjoy makin' out in closets?"
OH, THESE TWO. I AM CRYING.
Re: HOW DID THIS HAPPEN 1/3
Date: 2011-06-23 09:36 pm (UTC)THANK YOU
I'M SO GLAD YOU LIKE THE DERPY BANTER
<3
ps that Morgana thing I was writing, I will put it up tonight or tomorrow, because it is FINALLY FINALLY done-ish. Even though it has very little to do with her now since it got away from me so much. BUT YES. TOMORROW.
Re: HOW DID THIS HAPPEN 1/3
Date: 2011-06-24 06:29 am (UTC)I AM EXCITED YO!