dollsome | an eerie, halloweenish, &/or generally autumnal comment ficathon

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I HAVE A COMMENT. BLESS THIS FICATHON BECAUSE I WAS JUST THINKING THAT THERE NEEDED TO BE A HALLOWEEN THEMED ONE.
I WILL MOST CERTAINLY BE BACK SOON TO PROMPT ALL THE THINGS.

Yayyyyyyy! ♥

I would like to second this. What an excellent idea!

OMG THANK YOU.

Are crossover prompts permitted?

Sure!

Sweet! :D

ERMAGAD WHAT FUN

Probably a terribly silly question, given that I am over a year late, but I didn't see anything about an end date one way or another, so: is the fest still open for fills, or did it close at some vaguely sensible point far in the past?

I figure that if any of the prompts speak to you, there's no reason not to write them! :)

Excellent! Thank you. :D

Post a link to filled prompts here!

Doctor Who - Amy/Rory - apple-picking in the fall (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15018751#t15018751)

merlin - gwen+morgana - if you weren't real, i would make you up (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15019263#t15019263)

disgrace bathes under full moon tonight (http://wolfgenes.livejournal.com/1860.html) | community. jeff + ensemble.

there's no escaping from this meant-to-be-ness (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15011839#t15028479), teen wolf, peter/lydia

A Song of Ice and Fire - Cersei - autumn is the Lannister season (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15030527#t15030527)

Xena - Xena/Gabrielle - A Trick or a Treat (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15009791#t15009791)

wreck me at sunset ; teen wolf ; peter/lydia. (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15036159#t15036159)

Supernatural - ensemble - The Least Wonderful Night of the Year (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15037183#t15037183) (for the prompt: they really, really hate Halloween)

doctor who - amy/eleven/rory - trick-or-treating (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15042559#t15042559)

Doctor Who - Amy/Rory - footsteps in the fog, smoke on the air (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15046655#t15046655)

Firefly - Jayne - Jayne's stomach knows when it's harvest back home (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15055871#t15055871)

30 Rock - Liz/Wesley -Trick-or-treating works differently in England. (Of course it does.) (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1837080.html)

Teen Wolf - ensemble - There's something supernatural loose in the town on Halloween. 1 (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15046143#t15046143) || 2 (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15046399#t15046399)

you're a wolf, boy, get out of this town (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15063295#t15063295) - hunger games - 74th tributes

Prompt: THE WORST WITCH. mildred (or ethel I don't mind I'd be amazed if anyone fills this tbh) something wicked this way comes

Link: http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15072255#t15072255

Prompt: Doctor Who - Rory Williams - a full-moon Friday the 13th is always the worst night shift
Link: http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15074303#t15074303

Supernatural - Sam, Dean & Cas - Hello darkness, my old friend (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15076863#t15076863)

Doctor Who, Amy/Rory, don't you know I'm not your ghost anymore, G, Spoilers for 7x05 (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15080447#t15080447)

Leverage, Hardison/Parker, friendly ghost AU

Prompt: Doctor Who - River Song/Jack Harkness - It's Halloween in Cardiff and River is dressed in her Melody Malone outfit when she meets Jack for the first time
Link: http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15110655#t15110655

Prompt: Once Upon A Time - Emma/Regina - Calling a truce to take Henry trick-or-treating
Link: http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15111679#t15111679

"Falling Leaves of Red and Gold" (http://dollsome.livejournal.com/1836031.html?thread=15770111#t15770111) [Merlin, Gwen/Morgana, for the prompt but I miss you most of all, my darling / when autumn leaves start to fall]

merlin - gwen/morgana - costume party!

I'm going to work on this tonight and hopefully post it tomorrow :)

Merlin - Gwen/Morgana - I'm not calling you a ghost, just stop haunting me

she's there again now, in her periphery of her vision.

gwen blinks and knows that she'll disappear, only to reappear the next day, at a different hour, when the light's not quite right.

sometimes, gwen will rub at her eyes with her fingers to make it stop. will try not to think much of it when her hand will be wet. won't think because she is the queen and queens stand tall and brave and decidedly do not think about girls in bright silk dresses, girls who are now haunted and haunting, hunted and hunting, have hurt and are hurting and hurting and hurting.

(and sometimes, gwen will blink, keep her eyes closed longer, keep the image there, think, please don't leave yet. you just came. you just--)

it's not like it makes a difference. she will always appear then disappear, with a blink of an eye, turn of the head, a split second of inattention, snapping back to attention.

and she's there like she was always there (never there), like she never left (was never there) to begin with.

Edited 2012-10-08 02:52 (UTC)

Wow that was very haunting and heartbreaking.
Lovely fill!

Gilmore Girls - Luke/Lorelai - couples' costume

New Girl - Ensemble - haunted house shenanigans

Community - pairing of your choice, or ensemble - Jeff Winger is a disgraced alpha werewolf in search of a new pack

Edited 2012-10-07 21:07 (UTC)

ogawd, i hope you don't hate it (http://wolfgenes.livejournal.com/1860.html).

Warehouse 13 - the Warehouse family celebrate Halloween. (Okay, guys, very funny, who brought the ghost Artifact.)

Doctor Who - Amy/Rory - apple-picking in the fall

"Are you quite sure you should be doing that?" Rory's hands were stuck in the pockets of his trousers as he glanced about, valiantly ignoring the sign nailed to a nearby fence imploring the customers not to climb the trees. He was just short of casual whistling.

Amy stretched her fingertips out and the parabolic curve of the apple, crimson red in the golden autumn sunlight, bobbed gently in the air just beyond her reach. "Yes," she said shortly, and blew back a bit of her hair which had come loose and was trying to stick itself to her mouth. "Of course I should be."

She dragged her body, hooked awkwardly around the branch, another scant inch forward, and the branch bowed gracefully under her, a little closer to the Earth.

"Oh, right, because I was thinking the sign said please climb our apple trees as much as possible, so what you're doing makes perfect sense."

"It's..." she bit her tongue as the skin of the apple brushed her fingers for the first time, "it's the perfect apple." She smiled as she finally connected, giving the stem a stern yank, and tossed the apple down to him. It hung suspended between them for a split-second, caught between the Earth and the sky, a planetary body in meager orbit.

Rory caught the apple one handed, neatly plucking it out of the air. Her husband, clad in a warm wool jumper with his hair a bit long and threatening to fall messily over his forehead like a boy's, and the only thing you might notice different about him is that he didn't look at his hand as he caught the apple. He glanced, instead, to each side, and with exaggerated nonchalance tossed the apple into the tote bag at his feet, as cool as a jewel thief.

Amy rotated about the branch, letting gravity swing her body downward like a sloth's, and untangled her legs to let her feet drag in the breeze. "Ready?" she asked, the bark biting into her hands and her arms stretched long.

"Always," he said.

Amy let go.

Ahhhh that's so perfect! So very Amy and Rory, and such lovely writing! I can just hear them saying this especially:

"Oh, right, because I was thinking the sign said please climb our apple trees as much as possible, so what you're doing makes perfect sense."

"It's..." she bit her tongue as the skin of the apple brushed her fingers for the first time, "it's the perfect apple."

Thank you! :D

Ah, I'm so glad you liked it! Thank you for such a perfect prompt. <3

Oh that's gorgeous! Perfectly in character.

Thank you!

awwwww *_*

Thanks! I just love the two of them together.

Your stories are always fun and bright and exactly what I need to cheer me up. :D

<3! I'm a sucker for a happy (or at least bittersweet) ending, so your comment means the world to me. :)

You had me at 'parabolic.' (Math major, ftw!) :D

I also was pretty much sold by "parabolic," as I am a math student as well. :P

BtVS - Buffy, other characters? - one of the unexpected novelties of Rome is that it has seasons.

Doctor Who - Any Doctor/Leela, "But, what is Halloween?"

The Graveyard Book - Bod, anyone else you like - the graveyard as the leaves turn.

Doctor Who - Amy/Rory - adventures in the spooky forests of upstate New York

.... I love your brain.

Haha, thanks! :P

Downton Abbey - Sarah/Cora or Mary/Anna or Edith/Hughes or Mary/Lavinia - A halloween party.

Downton Abbey, Cora/Sarah (Extra cookies for any Hughes/Edith moments!), A halloween ball goes drastically wrong...well, kinda?

Basically anything that ends up with Edith/Hughes locked in one room and Cora/Sarah in another.

Teen Wolf - ensemble - There's something supernatural loose in the town on Halloween.

Our faces painted white by midnight
PG, I guess?
973 words, unbeta'd
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The only sound Stiles could hear was his own footsteps over the crisp forest floor. The wolves just knew how to walk quietly, Allison was a predator in her own right and Lydia was too damn good at everything to make any noise.

Stiles clutched his baseball bat (well, Scott's baseball bat) closer as the entire group moved in one line, scouring the woods for any sign of anything amiss. The Alpha Pack had everyone on edge so as soon as a report of a creature sighting surfaced and reached Chris Argent's ears Derek's pack jumped in as soon as they could.

After another five minutes of near-dead silence Stiles stopped and let the end of his bat hit the ground. Everyone else went on high alert, expecting that Stiles saw something. When nothing happened they all turned to him expectantly.

"I thought supernatural boogeymen were supposed to take Halloween off," Stiles finally said. Everyone groaned and Stiles could feel Derek's heated stare boring into the back of his head. "I'm just saying!"

"That was on Buffy," Scott piped up, trying to he helpful.

"And it never worked out that way," Derek muttered. Stiles wheeled around, surprised.

"You watched Buffy? That's so... cool! What was your favorite episode? What did you think about Oz? Is that why you watched, because there was a were-"

"Stiles!"

"Right, sorry." Stiles shut up and made a motion of zipping his lips and tossing a key behind him. Derek just rolled his eyes and continued forward, prompting the rest of the group to continue as well. Five minutes later the only sound was once again Stiles crunching over leaves and fallen twigs. It was driving him crazy.

"What are we looking for again?" he finally asked aloud, prompting another grumble from the rest of the pack.

"We don't know," Derek replied between clenched teeth. "If you'd shut up we'd have a better chance of finding out, wouldn't we?"

"Nothing to go on at all?" Stiles pressed, unconcerned with Derek's tone.

"Something about a small animal hitting or destroying trees out here, going after other small animals--it was obviously enough to worry the Hunters," Derek added before Stiles could scoff.

"What, like a splintercat?" Stiles asked instead, surprising everyone.

"A what?" Scott asked.

"Splintercat. Native to the Pacific Northwest, goes after racoons and bees, oddly enough, throws itself at trees to break them open to get at the honey. Supposed to be pretty nasty."

"A splinter... cat?" Jackson repeated slowly. "Are you telling me we're out here on one of the biggest party nights of the year looking for a cat?"

Jackson rolled his eyes and mouthed a couple choice words while Lydia laid a hand on his shoulder and turned to Derek. "It does seem a little over reactionary, don't you think?"

"Yeah, come on Derek," Scott added. "Can't we wait to see if anything more concrete comes up and have a better idea of what we're looking for?"

Our faces painted white by midnight
PG, I guess?
973 words, unbeta'd
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Stiles could tell Derek was getting pissed off with everyone arguing with him so he backed up against the nearest tree to wait out the impending fight that would erupt and probably chase off anything that was in the area causing mischief.

Everyone's voices got louder until it was full fledged shouting, a second away from growling and Stiles could see proverbial and literal hackles were being raised. He checked his watch, timing how much longer it would go on. He figured he'd be back at his Jeep in fifteen minutes.

And then it jumped on him.

"AUUGHHH! GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!" Stiles screamed, flailing while the thing on his shoulder dug claws into his skin, holding on.

The group surrounded him, the wolves wolfing out while Allison hoisted her bow and Lydia dropped to the back with her self-igniting Molotov cocktail at the ready.

"KILL IT, KILL IT!" Stiles continued to yell, too scared to reach up to try to pull the creature off him. Finally Derek stepped forward and stilled Stiles with a hand on his arm, then reached out to grab what was on his shoulder.

Stiles stopped thrashing and looked at what attacked him.

"Meow?" The white and brown cat with a down turned mouth whined at him plaintively from where Derek held it by its scruff in midair.

"Oh. That's a cat," Stiles said, dumbly. Derek growled softly and shoved the cat back at him, forcing Stiles to cradle it in his arms. The cat butted its head against Stiles' chin and started purring agreeably once he settled it against his shoulder.

"Now that Caesar Milan over here has solved the case can we go?" Jackson asked, impatiently.

"Caesar Milan is for dogs," Allison replied before turning to Derek. "I agree, though, I need to go home and tell my dad the splintercat is just a cat."

Derek sighed and threw his hands up. "Fine, we're done. Go enjoy your Halloween."

Everyone else scattered but Derek kept pace with Stiles, and carried his baseball bat, who toted the cat with him happily.

"Are you going to keep that thing?" Derek asked, side-eyeing the animal that stared back at Derek placidly.

"I guess? I'll have to convince my dad, I suppose. Unless you want--"

"Not in a million years," Derek growled. "Do you know the first thing about cats?"

"Not really. I'll figure it out, I guess. Right, Grumpy Cat?"

"Grumpy Cat?"

"Named him after you, Sourwolf. Don't you think he looks like you?" Stiles held the cat up to him with a grin.

"No."

"You so do," Stiles whispered to the cat, settling it back on his shoulder. "Got any other plans? Want to come over and watch the Oz episodes of Buffy?"

"Will you re-name that cat?"

Stiles considered it. "Probably not."

Derek sighed. "Yeah, okay."

That was so adorable! I loved the interaction between Stiles and Derek! Your characterization of them is spot on too.
Thank you so much!

Yay, I'm glad you liked it! And thank you!

Downton Abbey - Mary/Lavinia - GHOST HUNTERS

Downton Abbey - Mary/Lavinia - the sexy vampiress AU

Doctor Who - Amy/Eleven/Rory - trick-or-treating

"Don't you think we're a little old for trick and treat?" Ventures Rory, ever the pragmatist. One day this will be his downfall but for now there is the Doctor in costume and the promise of Amy back in her policewoman outfit.

Speak of the devil, "It'll be fun." She grins, her hair brushed out and big and red.

"If you say so," he says, but he tries hard not to sound convinced.

The Doctor twirls around the console, "It's free sweets," he exclaims, "The one day of the year it's acceptable to knock on strangers doorsteps and ask for food."

Amy frowns, "You do that all the time."

"Do not."

"Do too."

He sighs, looks from one to the other and then down at himself, a centurion again. He wonders, perhaps, when the ache in his chest will lift, "So?" he asks, "Are we gonna go or what?"

Edited 2012-10-08 23:32 (UTC)

Oh, this is lovely. It would be an excuse for all Amy and the Doctor's favorite things, but poor Rory, all homebody and heartache.

thank you! haha yes, I can't see Rory really going for the whole halloween thing. To many opportunities to die.

Oh bless. This is lovely.

thank you! <3

You're welcome.

This was great! Exactly how I imagined how Rory would be in the situation.

oKAY AND ALSO I NEED TO COME CLEAN ON SOMETHING. I SENT YOU THAT ASK ON TUMBLR TO COME TO THIS FICATHON OKAY AND I MAY OR MAY NOT BE FASTERDOCTOR ON TUMBLR.

I AM SO AWKWARD GOD WHY DO I EXIST

awww yay thank you I'm so pleased you like it!

AHHHHH OMG IT WAS YOU GOD YOU'RE SO ADORABLE *squishes*

awwww <3

thank you! <3

Warehouse 13 - Myka/HG - Halloween costumes.

Downton Abbey - Crawley women - Vampires run in the family.

Xena: Warrior Princess - Xena/Gabrielle - of course trick-or-treating is a thing in ancient Greece!

Let's be real here--Xena and Gabrielle invented everything, and trick-or-treating should be no different. (Flagrant disregard for history, mythology, and sense, in the finest Xena tradition. I would say I'm sorry but I'm really not.)

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"I have a plan."

Since Xena doesn't have a plan to find the latest warlord they're chasing--at least, not one that Gabrielle won't whine her right out of, since it would involve destruction of property that belongs to good people--she (against her better judgment, she might add) asks. "What sort of plan?"

"We disguise ourselves, knock on all the doors in town, and ask for something ... a sweet, maybe." Xena knew it was a bad plan to miss lunch. "These are good people, and it's bad luck to refuse hospitality on the night before the seasons change, so if they don't give us something, we'll know they've got something to hide! We get a treat, or they get a trick. Great, right?"

Xena, with the sense of resignation she's come to recognize all too well since Gabrielle has started traveling with her, rests her head in her hand. "Disguise ourselves how, exactly?"

Gabrielle grins winsomely, and Xena knows she's really in trouble. "I know just the thing."

This isn't going to end well, but really, what on their travels does? Xena is willing to go along with it and see how it goes. After all, she knows a few ways she could turn these odds in their favor ...

XDDDDDDDD. Flagrant disregard for history, mythology, and sense, in the finest Xena tradition. So true.

I LOVED THIS SO MUCH! Xena will always my OTP to end all OTPs and I think you represented them pair well here. It felt so close to the show with Gabrielle's naive plans and Xena's perpetual eye roll before she willingly complies. Thanks for writing this. ♥

THIS IS THE MOST ADORABLE, AND ALSO THE MOST CANON. ♥ And now my heart is breaking a little bit that we never got exactly this Halloween episode. :D

YES. This. \o/

Cheers for this lovely little fill!

Don't Trust The B In Apartment 23 - Chloe/June - sexy zombies

Teen Wolf - Kate/Melissa - "Get away from my woman, you idiot ghoul!"

Downton Abbey - Thomas/OMC (or anyone you ship him with) - Halloween hauntings

an eerie, halloweenish, &/or generally autumnal comment ficathon

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