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Love Meme Answers 6: Jin/Jimmy, Autumn/Winter
For the meme I posted Wednesday night here and here (feel free to leave pairings now if you want; I’m having fun.
Jin waited patiently for Jimmy to come back to earth with Juniper. Of all the monsters in the world, Jimmy was probably the only one he could trust, completely, with his kid sister. Jimmy was probably the only one he thought of as a sibling.
The Smiths moving in next to them had been one of the best moments in Jin’s life. For the first time since he started thinking of his parents as separate people from himself, he had someone he trusted to watch his back, and, maybe more importantly, someone who trusted him to do the same
“Got me?”
“I have you.”
Autumn reached for the strands, feeling the twists and the knot where everything was going crazy. The knots were dangerous, the sort of chaos that could pull you in and twist your own lines all up, making as much a mess of you as this tangle of forest was becoming.
But with Winter holding her hand, Autumn didn’t have to worry. Not once had he ever let her fall. Not once in her life had his strength and order failed her.
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Love Meme Answers 5: Baram/Rozen, Ib/Baram, Fridmar/Delaney
For the meme I posted Wednesday night here and here (feel free to leave pairings now if you want; I’m having fun.
“Come on, man.” Rozen grabbed Baram by the arm. “Party tonight.”
“Party? It’s Tues…” He shut up, but not before he saw the look the bigger guy shot him. “Right. Party. Whose place?”
“Ardell’s. His Keptie seems to like cuddling with you.”
“No-one likes cuddling with me.”
“Hey, man, Annie’s not bad, and everyone knows you’re not as rough as you look.” Rozen punched his shoulder. “You’ll do fine. You always do.”
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(Year 2)
Shad and Meshach had Ib up against the wall and were doing their best to break every bone in his body one at a time. Every time he tried to get away, one of them muttered in his ear, and he found himself squirming in pain, his feet rooted to the ground.
“Say you’re hers and it’ll end,” the older of the two whispered. “All you gotta do is say you’re hers.”
“Luke ain’t gonna find you down here, and he hates you anyway, little bastard. Say you’re hers.”
“Trouble?” The rumbling voice was a new one – might be Baram. Ib couldn’t see.
“None of your concern, freak.”
Something happened. Ib was never sure what. But when he woke up, he was in the doctor’s office, Baram was looming in the doorway, and he didn’t belong to Liza.
(2040)
Agmund was hunting.
He’d been hunting for a long time. Other obligations kept getting in the way, but he came back to this one over and over again. This was his failure, this was his mistake. He would fix it.
Meshach had been his Student. Meshach had done this to his daughter. Everything since then – what Ardell had done, what being cy’Valerian had done, what being abandoned by the Thornes had done – came back to Fridmar’s failure as a Mentor and a father.
And now he would resolve that issue.
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Love Meme Answers 4: Junie/Jin, Carrot/Angua, Regine/Ambrus
For the meme I posted Wednesday night here and here
I chewed over the Pratchett one for a while. Fanfic makes me nervous to write.
Having a big brother was sometimes a pain. He would mess up her hair and steal her dinner and pick her up and swing her when she was trying to be serious.
But when she looked at the mean girls the day after her ride with Jimmy in the parking lot, and not a single one of them would say so much as Boo to her – except to tell her they thought her shoes were poker, which meant cool this week – Junie thought having an older brother, having Jin for an older brother – was the most awesome thing ever.
Dear Mom, and Dad…
Carrot turned and looked at Angua, sleeping across his bed. The moon was new tonight, and she was sprawled in human form, but he could see, in her lines, the wolf she was sometimes. He thought about her running beside him, about the way she looked when she came in sweaty and filthy after a day Defending the Peace. He thought about the rare moments when she was out of uniform and not wearing fur. He thought about the moment when he thought that, perhaps, she had died.
He looked back at the paper, and thought about trying to put all that into words.
I am, in Love.
Ambrus was asleep, and Regine was not.
This was a common occurrence; she slept very little, and found often that a tlacatl Working would do her far better than actual sleep. She did not, as a rule, enjoy her dreams.
She did enjoy his, however. She enjoyed most of how her Kept’s brain worked, but his dreams, his mind unfettered and free to do as it would, were a fascinating place full of vivid, if unlikely, magic and sensuality.
She wondered, sometimes, watching his dreams, what it said that she enjoyed his unfettered mind the most.
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Love Meme Answers 3: Porter/Arudnel, Rozen/Kai, Rin/Girey
For the meme I posted last night here and here
“I love you, man.”
Porter had been drinking. At least, Arundel hoped he’d been drinking – there’d been a dance. There were lots of things at Addergoole and more things at Addergoole dances that could make someone slur and wobble like that.
“I know you do.” Sylvia was already back in the suite; Arundel had gone looking for his friend.
“That girl, she said I should love her, but I said, don’t be silly. I’m not into… you know.”
“I know, buddy.” Yep, something other than booze. He’d have to tell Sylvia the succubi were trying again.
“But you’re my best friend.”
“Always will be. Here, open a Door?”
Later, he thought perhaps that hadn’t been the best thing to ask a soused and besotted Porter.
“It’s the Bond, you know.”
“I know.” She was humoring him, he was sure of it. He didn’t remember her doing that when they were younger. “The Bond re-writes your brain pathways and rewards and punishes behavior based on a very limited set of parameters. It can imitate love rather effectively.”
“I’m not in love with you. I want to fuck you, always have. I want to see what it takes to make you scream.”
“But you don’t love me.” She shrugged, and turned, finally, from her project to look at him directly. “This information is important to me why?”
Fifty years ago, he would have thought it was an exasperating side effect of her charming naivete. Now… now she was smirking at him. She knew he was full of shit.
“I wouldn’t want you to get your hopes up.” He wouldn’t want to get his own hopes up, either, would he?
Girey swung the toddler up in the air and back down to the ground like he’d been handling small children his whole life. “And wheeeeee! There goes the little child-one, there she goes.” He’d thickened his accent to a nearly incomprehensible mix of Bitrani grammar with Callenian vocabulary, and the children loved it, and him.
Rin scooped up one too small to know what was going on, and studied her captive, hiding her smile behind the baby. He was wonderful with children. He was, when he made the effort, generally wonderful with people.
Now if only she could get him to be wonderful with her.
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Love Meme Answers 2: Autumm/Weylan, Audrey/Sage, Taro/Kailani
For the meme I posted last night here and here
Autumn loved Weylan the way she’d never loved a guy trying to sleep with her.
Not just because she could relax around him, because there was none of the aggression of me-you-fuck-now or the competition she sometimes got with women. Not just because he told great jokes on the road, or because he’d saved her life more than once.
Not just because he was so clearly and utterly devoted to his family and still able to make room for friends.
But because, on top of all that, unlike the men she slept with, he seemed like an actually nice guy.
The night was dark as a coal cellar, and the power had gone out. Aud woke first, to the quite, panicked beeping of their electronics bereft of their lifeline, to the sleepy grumbles of their youngest, who could not sleep without his lullaby recording.
Sage woke moments later, lifting their son in his arms, and singing to him, a soft chanting that would have, in other circumstances, perhaps sounded ominous. But to Aud and to the sleepy boy, it sounded like heaven.
First week of Year 5:
“She’s gorgeous,” Taro told Conrad, who had heard it all already at least a hundred times. “Those eyes. Those legs. That hair. Gods, Con, I’ve got to have her.”
Second week of November, Year 5:
“She’s always questioning everything,” he muttered to Vlad, who didn’t really want to be listening. “And her kisses are like liquid gold. Was I really that much of an idiot? Did I really..?”
“You did. You were. Love the one you’re with, man.”
Last week of February, Year 5:
“She’s gorgeous,” Mea murmured, gesturing at Kai in her bridesmaid’s getup. “I can see why you’re in love with her.”
“I’m…”
“Honey, I’m cy’Linden. Love where you will, as long as you love me too.”
“I…”
Her kiss shut him up before he could come up with an answer that didn’t make him an idiot again.
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Love Meme Answers 1: Morrigan/Reid, Luke/Regine, Linden/Luke
For the meme I posted last night here and here, though I just realized I flipped the third one. Guess it’s a freebie!
Morrigan lay in bed, pressed up against Reid’s body, watching him sleep. When he slept, he didn’t pull away from her. When he truly slept, sometimes helped along by a nudge from their doctor, his body relaxed, and she could see how young he was.
She was going to keep him. She’d already known that when she hauled him into her van. She was going to keep him, because he was so strong, so brilliant, and so utterly vulnerable.
He made her want to take responsibility. He made her want to be a grown-up.
Shira watched them together, pouring over the new student lists. She wondered if Luke knew how his wings curled protectively over Regine. She wondered if Regine knew how she looked up to the older Ellehemaei, even when his opinion hurt, even when she stubbornly ignored everything he said.
Shira could see the echos of them, a hundred years past, a hundred years hence. She could see the moment Luke bent to comfort Regine, and the moment Regine learned how to be human for long enough to comfort Luke.
She wished her students, the ones who didn’t always understand friendship, could see this.
Summer. Finally. Mike saw the last of his Students off on vacation, spent one last evening with his favorite non-Mentored student, and braced herself to visit Luke.
He would glower, of course, and grumble. He’d invite her into his home because they were crew, and friends. He’d pour her a drink and have none himself, like he didn’t trust her. He’d refuse to touch her.
But in the end, he would hold out an arm, and hug her, and yell at her for an hour about being a better person. And when he was done, when she’d cried in apology and grumbled and yelled back at him, Mike always felt like she could be better, could be a nicer, more responsible person. Like he made her better.
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Love Meme
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Give me the names of two characters and I will tell you why character A loves character B. (Please chose characters from my settings, or from fandoms I have some knowledge of). I might answer with a drabble, a quick bit of meta, or a list, just to make things that tiny bit more interesting.
Note 1: The love may be agápe, éros, philía, or storgē. This part quoted from Morrigan. I might have to google that last term. /embarrassed/
Note 2: Warning, you may get incest if its canonical to the characters or fun for me to write.
Note 3: Name as many sets as you like *g*
Note 4: I get bored with these after a while. I might not ANSWER all your sets.
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