comment_fic 61-65: SGA, PotC, Leverage, X-Men, DA

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Title: planet of the cute
Fandom: "Stargate Atlantis"
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: none
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 66
Point of view: third
Prompt: John/Rodney, puppies

 

It's a planet full of puppies. Rodney blinks, wipes at his eyes, blinks again, then looks back.

Yes. There are still puppies everywhere, of every breed and color he can imagine.

Teyla is glancing around with bemusement, while Ronon is wary. John is—

"Colonel!" Rodney hisses. "What are you doing?"

John stands back up, a wriggling golden retriever in his hands. "Cuddling," he says.

Rodney facepalms.

 

Title: seachild
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for AWE
Pairings: Will/Elizabeth
Rating: PGish
Wordcount: 50
Point of view: third
Prompt: Will/Elizabeth, blacksmith's hands
 

 

His hands are rough on her skin, calloused and strong. Not a nobleman's hands, not soft, but sometimes gentle, when she asks for it.

Otherwise, out on the wild sea as Pirate King and Dutchman's captain, they make good on their titles, as untamed as the waters they ride.

 

Title: job description
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: none
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 66
Point of view: third
Prompt: Nate/Eliot, Patching him up after a fight
 

"You know," he says calmly, pouring some alcohol onto a towel, "there's a reason I'm on the team."

"Yeah, well," Nate mutters, "you were down."

Eliot grits his teeth to keep his temper, hissing, "I was gettin' up." His anger doesn't translate to his hands as he gently dabs at the cut.

Nate doesn't apologize for jumping into things. Honestly, Eliot hadn't expected that he would.

 

Title: inferno
Fandom: X-Men movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU for X3
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 420
Point of view: third
Prompt: Pyro/Iceman, even after John's death things mysteriously catch fire

 

After The Battle, Bobby doesn't leave his room for three weeks. Kitty and Rogue take turns bringing him food, but he never acknowledges them and only eats a few bites before rushing to the bathroom to vomit.

Finally, Logan busts in and drags him to the shower, shoves him under the water, and forcibly cleans him.

Bobby just closes his eyes and endures.

o0o

Sometimes, Bobby can almost hear—. Thoughts in his head he knows he wouldn't think. Comments springing to his tongue that he has to bite his lip to not say.

He still barely eats and never speaks, but he leaves the room now.

o0o

The first fire happens two months after The Battle. Bobby is outside, staring at the sky, a shark-shaped lighter in his hand. He flicks it open and closed, holding his finger just above the flame.

Suddenly, the flame leaps past him, going to a bush. Bobby jerks his head up, an exclamation nearly bursting out of him before he bites down the sound.

Someone screams and runs around the bush, staring at him with horror, then rushing back to the school.

Bobby watches her go; he doesn't even know who she is. But he's glad she's gone.

The fire fades and Bobby almost hears laughter.

o0o

Ten more fires in a span of two weeks. They follow Bobby around, and they go after people who bother him or crowd him.

Bobby hasn't used his ice since The Battle and he knows he's not controlling the fire. A couple times, he wishes the Professor or Dr. Grey were still around, to explain it to him.

But he figures he's got a pretty good idea.

o0o

The night he leaves, it storms. Whether that's actually Storm or not, he doesn't know. Or care. It's not like he'll freeze to death, anyway.

He can't stay anymore. He barely could after Alkali Lake. At least then, the Professor told him—

Bobby leaves with no food or money, with only the clothes on his back and a shark-shaped lighter in his hand. He walks through rain and it almost seems like someone’s walking with him.

o0o

Logan finds him a few days after he runs away. Brings him back for burial. He’d wasted away, starving himself until his body collapsed..

Logan tells Storm that it seems like he just gave up.

Before they have a chance to put him in the ground, his body catches fire and even Storm can’t douse the flames until there’s nothing left but ashes.
 

 

Title: temples and storms
Fandom: Dark Angel
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: none
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 88
Point of view: third
Prompt: Alec/Ben, stuck outside in the rain

 

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You should head inside before you catch cold, the voice tells him.

He snorts, shivering. "Whatever."

It's my body, too. And a temple to Her. You should treat us with respect and go inside.

Wrapping his arms around himself and hunching down, he says, "Fuck off. You're not real, and neither is she."

Silence in his head and he sighs in relief, turning his face up to the sky and letting the rain cleanse him of his sins.

It doesn't work. He still feels blood coating his hands.