dollsome | the WE COULD HAVE HAD IT A-A-ALL! comment ficathon

I'm bored, let's get our comment ficathon on!

+ The basic concept of this one: for all those times when you expected canon to give you something awesome, and then it didn't, or it gave you the potential for something to be awesome, and then it ~~killed it off with Spanish Influenza~~ didn't see it through all the way. Basically, this is a comment ficathon for those times when you felt like 'Wait! But! What about [really awesome thing]?' or 'Wait! But! I thought for sure [insert really awesome thing here] would happen! Weren't they leading up to [really awesome thing]?' or 'How can you cancel this when I'm sure that another season would bring us [really awesome thing]?' Or maybe even just those pensive times when you go 'Man, wouldn't this whole story have been much better if only [really awesome thing] would have happened at the get-go?' Or, hell, let's be real here: those times when your otp got punched in the face by the dread forces of canon. Let us thwart them all with the power of this ficathon!

Basically, this is really open-ended and subjective, with one common theme. And that common theme is, 'Canon haps, why you gotta make my soul feel like an Adele song?'

+ One prompt per comment, and please format your comment along the lines of: "[Fandom] - [Pairing or character(s)] - [prompt]." Feel free to submit as many prompt-comments as you'd like. The more the better!

+ If you respond to a prompt, include the pairing/character(s) and a title in the subject line of your comment if you are using a lj layout that has subject lines. If you're not, please put that same information at the top of your comment.

+ If your fic's got an R/NC-17 rating, please indicate as much in the comment subject line/top of your comment as well.

+ WRITE ON! :D

If you'd like to spread the word:

Masterlist of Responses
Robin Hood - Guy/Marian - "I may be dead, but I'm still pretty -- which is more than I can say for you." by

littledivinity

BtVS - Giles/Anya - "Why didn't you come to the wedding?" by

eilowyn

Harry Potter - Trio - Post-War by

bloodofpyke

Downton Abbey - Mary/Lavinia - there is thunder in our hearts by

dollsome

Merlin - Gwen/Morgana - with grace in your heart by

dollsome

Downton Abbey - Mary/Lavinia - for where you go I will go by

oltha_heri

Supernatural - Dean/Layla - He said he'd pray for her, and he did. by

bloodofpyke

Sherlock - Molly - She always has an alibi, and one or two to spare by

duh_i_read

Downton Abbey - Mary/Lavinia - Adventuring for Ladies by

oliveoyl

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“Am I not?” She grabs his hand then. He expects her to pass through him like the specter he knows her to be, but he doesn’t. Her hand is warm against his as she draws his to her breast, pressing his palm against the softness of the skin. “Do you not feel the beat of my heart, Sir Guy?”

He closes his eyes against it, trying to shut out the feel of her against his roughened palm, the sound of her unhurried breathing.

“Are you here to absolve me of my sins?” He asks, his voice hushed, barely above a whisper.
He feels the hitch of her chest as she huffs a small laugh, dropping his hand so that if falls with a thud to the wooden table top.

“Is that what you seek?” She asks him, sarcasm lacing her tone. “Absolution at the bottom of a whisky bottle?”

“I seek release,” he says, his fingers clenching at the rough-hewn wood. “I seek to escape this constant pain I feel burning at my soul.”

“Oh, Guy,” Marian says, her mouth drawing into a moue of mocking sadness. “What you seek,” she draws in a breath, a furrow forming between her eyebrows, “it is not something you can find, I fear.”

“I know that.”

He does, at that. He knows that there is nothing that shall ever make this go away, there is nothing that can be done to bring her back, to take the sword from her gut. But he would do it. He would do it a thousand times over. He would fall upon his own blade if he thought it would bring her back. He would even hand her over to Hood, gladly, now that he has seen the alternative, but he cannot.

“I believed you,” she says finally. “I believed you could be a better man. I had even begun to think that perhaps, the two of us.” She sighs, the sentence dying before completion. “When you saved me from the gallows, when I saw the caring in your eyes even after you knew the truth about me, I began to consider my life if you asked for my hand again.”

That makes him lean to the side, retching, spitting the burning mixture of bile and alcohol to the floor, wiping the back of his mouth with his hand.

“You have made your bed, Sir Guy,” she says, her voice not unkind, but neither is it easy. “You must lie in, and it seems you must do it alone. But I never hated you, and I believe – well, it does not matter now. But I was prepared to give you your second chance.”

She rises then, lifting his head from where it still hangs, brushing a lock of his mangled hair from his sweaty face.

He opens his mouth to say something, to apologize, to touch her and beg her and anything to keep her here. But then she is gone. Vanishing in the flickering of the candlelight and he is once again left alone to his own vices and voices.

TUNA, ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!! ♥ This is SO BEAUTIFUL, and so Marian, and really pangs my heart with just how much I miss her magnificent no-nonsense badassness. (Oh, God, could I bear a rewatch? Could anyone bear it?)

“You have made your bed, Sir Guy,” she says, her voice not unkind, but neither is it easy. “You must lie in, and it seems you must do it alone. But I never hated you, and I believe – well, it does not matter now. But I was prepared to give you your second chance.”

SO PERFECT.

Frankly, I think we should somehow con our old Guy and Mazz mates into doing a group rewatch. WE CAN ALL SHARE THE PAIN. Also, I should learn to read over for typos the morning after I write so that I have a chance in hell of actually catching them. Sigh. BUT ANYWAY.

My point is: I MISS THEMMMMMM.

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