Christmas Comment!fics [2011]

[soera]

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Last year, I offered comment!fic in a number of fandoms as a Christmas present to all you lovely folk out there. I got some wonderful prompts and really enjoyed myself writing ficlets for them, so I’ve decided to do the same this year. For those of you who don’t know how this works, let’s go over things:

How it works:

I’m taking prompts for ficlets in any of the fandoms listed below. Please have a look at what I will/won’t write for each fandom before making your requests.

Leave a comment in this post with the fandom, pairing (if applicable; I’ll do gen for all fandoms too) and prompt you’d like.

Prompts can be anything from random words for inspiration, to a scenario you’d like to see played out. They can be as specific or general as you like, and I’ll do my best to stick to them. Alternate universe/alternate canon prompts are welcome, as are prompts to do with any ‘verse I’ve written about before (i.e. it's fine to ask for something based on one of my posted fics).

ONE PROMPT per post. If you have multiple prompts (perfectly fine), I’ll do the first one first, then go back to the others after I’m done with prompts from other people. So put the one you most want to see done first!

Prompts don’t have to be Christmas/holiday-related, if that’s not your thing. Anything goes!

Porn and I have a love-hate relationship. Sometimes it comes easy; other times, it's hard. (Pun not intended.) Be warned that if you request smut, you may not actually get it – I can give you the prelude and possibly some sexiness, but that might be the best I'll manage.

Prompt-taking closes at midnight on Christmas where I am – that’s UTC+8. Or 24 hours (and 15ish minutes?) from the time of this post, if you want to count it off like that. I'll add a note at the end of this post once prompt-taking is closed.

I will NOT write:
Character bashing.

Character death (except as in canon).

Anything dark/unpleasant. It’s Christmas; let’s keep it happy in here. (This does not mean I won’t take sad/bittersweet/etc prompts – those are fine, but I won’t write, say, a character’s murderous rampage through London.)

Some fandoms also have a specific listing for things I won’t write (don’t break up my fandom OTPs please), so pay attention!

Note:
A slash denotes a pairing (e.g. Jack/Ianto), whereas a plus sign denotes friendship (e.g. Ianto+Tosh).

The latter doesn’t mean you can’t request friendship fics between people I haven’t listed; it just means that I’m particularly comfortable writing those two.

Simple enough, yes? Here are the fandoms I can write for, in alphabetical order:


Harry Potter:

CAVEAT: It’s been ages since I’ve written in this fandom, so any old fics you might have read are vastly out of date with my style now. … You might actually get better fics now than I used to write.
I much prefer writing friendship/gen to anything with pairings.

CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: The list is actually kind of endless, especially when it comes to pairing Harry up.

I WON’T WRITE: Harry/Draco, Harry/Ginny, Severus/Remus, Sirius/Remus. I would prefer not to write Draco at all.


Hawaii Five-0:

CAVEAT: I didn’t watch S2, and I didn’t particularly like the end of S1 (Danny!). Sticking with S1 is probably best.

CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Danny/Steve, Danny/Rachel (pre-divorce), ensemble cast

I WON’T WRITE: Anything pairing Danny or Steve up with others (unless it’s pre-H50). Go ahead and mix and match anyone else if you’d like.


Komatta Toki ni wa Hoshi ni Kike!:

CAVEAT: While I know the gist of the entire storyline, I’ve only read the scanlations up to Volume 15. I’ve not written extensively in this fandom, and what I do have, I haven’t posted. I think I’ve got a decently good grasp on the characters though, at least up to Vol. 15.

CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Kiyomine/Takara, ensemble cast

I WON’T WRITE: Anything pairing Kiyomine or Takara up with others. Go ahead and mix and match anyone else if you’d like.


Merlin:

CAVEAT: I’m really hesitant about putting this up because I’ve only just started watching it. It feels like the sort of thing I’d enjoy writing, though, so I’ve decided to just throw this out there anyway. Please just stick to S1, though – I know what happens in later seasons, but I haven’t seen them for myself. Also, I’ll probably be best at writing Arthur or Merlin, so request other characters at your own risk. =P
(I’m gonna repeat myself here because it seems particularly apt: remember that AU settings are perfectly fine to request *cough reincarnation fic cough*.)

CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Arthur/Merlin

I WON’T WRITE: Anything pairing Arthur or Merlin with others. Go ahead and mix and match anyone else if you’d like.


Naruto:

CAVEAT: I haven’t been keeping up with the latest updates (it’s been getting a bit ridiculous for me) so if you want something to do with a specific incident, give me details (at least chapter numbers so I can look it up).
I would prefer to write post-time-skip for anything with pairings (outside of canon crushes). If it’s gen, go ahead and request any time-frame. I’m most familiar with the Konoha characters and the Sand siblings, so request anyone else at your own risk. Also, it’s been ages since I’ve written in this fandom, but I think I’ve got an okay grasp on them.

CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Naruto/Kakashi, Naruto/Sakura (post-time-skip), Naruto+Kakashi+Sakura, Naruto+Tsunade

I WON’T WRITE: Anything with post-betrayal Sasuke (especially Naruto/Sasuke). I would in fact prefer to avoid writing Sasuke altogether.


Prince of Tennis:

CAVEAT: Only Seigaku members, please. I’m not really familiar with the other schools. Also, I have a tendency to ignore both the manga and anime endings because they both get ridiculous, so feel free to request something set in an AUish ending. I don’t know anything about the second manga series either, so I can’t write anything about that.

CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Tezuka/Ryoma, ensemble cast.

I WON’T WRITE: Anything pairing Tezuka or Ryoma up with others. Go ahead and mix and match anyone else if you’d like.


The Sentinel:

CAVEAT: I’ve not written extensively in this fandom, though I think my grasp on the characters has improved a little from the few I’ve posted. Still, request at your own risk.

CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Jim/Blair, ensemble cast

I WON’T WRITE: Anything pairing Jim or Blair up with others. Go ahead and mix and match anyone else if you’d like.


Sherlock (BBC):

CAVEAT: … Yeah, I got nothing.

CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: John/Sherlock, ensemble cast

I WON’T WRITE: Anything pairing John or Sherlock up with others. Go ahead and mix and match anyone else if you’d like.


Star Trek (TOS/2009):

CAVEAT: I’ve not written extensively in this fandom, and none of what I’ve written is posted online. Request at your own risk.
Specify if you want TOS or 2009!

CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Kirk/Spock, Bones+Kirk+Spock, ensemble cast

I WON’T WRITE: Anything pairing Kirk or Spock up with others. Go ahead and mix and match anyone else if you’d like.


Torchwood:

CAVEAT: I didn’t like S3, and didn’t watch S4. Stick to the first two seasons; I won’t be able to do anything from S3/4.

CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Jack/Ianto, Owen/Tosh, Gwen/Rhys, Ianto/Lisa (pre-Canary Wharf only), team-fic, Ianto+Tosh, Jack+Gwen, Ianto+Owen

I WON’T WRITE: Anything pairing Jack or Ianto up with others (other than pre-Jack Ianto/Lisa). You can mix and match anyone else, and I’ll give it a shot, though.



Enjoy!
(And yes, feel free to share this with any of your friends you think might appreciate this. It's open to absolutely anyone, even people I don't know. =D)

ETA: Prompt-taking is now CLOSED.

ETA 2: Done! Thanks for playing, everyone. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! =D

Comments

[trialanderror12.livejournal.com]

Aaand just because you said we could leave 2 prompts just in case, I'd love some angsty Steve/Danny hurt/comfort with a happy ending. : D Never get sick of reading that either, haha. <3

~T

[soera.livejournal.com]

[Um. Nooot quite sure this is what you were thinking when you requested h/c, but I hope it works for you anyway?]

like children, we never stop hoping

Danny’s always an odd mix of contradictions after Grace goes back to Rachel’s after the weekend. On the one hand, he’s still delighted from the time he recently spent with his daughter; on the other hand, he’s sullen that he won’t see her for another two weeks. He fluctuates wildly between these moods, but Steve’s gotten used to it. Danny being out of sorts on Mondays after Grace-weekends is normal.

This, though. This is strange even for Danny.

All day, Danny’s worked diligently. He hasn’t grumbled once about the paperwork, about having to creatively describe Steve’s less than sedate approach to law-keeping, or about the numerous ways in which Steve is directly responsible for Danny’s reduced life expectancy. He’d let Steve take away his malasadas without complaint and eaten his chicken salad without launching into an anecdote about Grace, even when Steve had given him the perfect lead-in (“You don’t want to make Grace worry about your cholesterol again, do you?”).

Actually, Danny hasn’t mentioned Grace at all today. Normally he can’t shut up about everything they’d done, and every little word that had come out of his princess’s mouth. Steve is suddenly positive that Danny’s Mood is related to Grace in some way or other.

Asking Danny will probably get him exactly nowhere, but Steve’s a SEAL. He’s used to being sneaky.

He kicks everyone out of the office early, accepts the jokes about the approaching apocalypse with grace and magnanimity, ensures that Danny’s going nowhere but home, then makes a call.

Rachel’s happy to talk to Steve, largely because Grace has also been out of sorts since Danny dropped her off. She won’t talk to Rachel or Stan, though, so they don’t know what’s happened. All that’s clear is that something has happened, and Danny and Grace are both miserable about it. It might, Rachel says cautiously, have been something to do with the apartment Danny lives in. Grace had told Rachel on Thursday that she didn’t much like it.

Steve thanks Rachel, hangs up, and thinks of Grace earnestly asking her father why he couldn’t move somewhere nicer. He thinks of how much Danny struggles to make ends meet. Moving to Hawaii hadn’t been easy or cheap, and Steve knows that Danny’s still paying off loans he can ill afford. Danny’s proud, though, and reluctant to accept help from any quarter. It’s only for Grace’s sake that he’ll give up his dignity and accept tickets to a hotel stay and dolphin show, or an invitation to a private beach. It’s been for Grace’s sake that Danny’s done everything he has, these past nine years. For Grace’s sake, Danny would be persuaded to move… except that he genuinely can’t afford to.

Steve finds himself knocking at Danny’s door, with no idea what he’s going to do afterwards. Danny opens the door, takes one look at Steve, then groans. Apparently, Steve’s not very good at hiding anything from Danny.

“Oh, god,” Danny says, but lets Steve in anyway.

“I don’t know what to do,” Steve says.

“Nothing you can do,” Danny says, turning his back on Steve. “I mean, I knew it was coming, okay, it’s not like I didn’t know, how could she possibly be happy here? It’s just –”

Steve wraps his arms around Danny, leans down and drags him backwards until they’re pressed together tightly, and then he holds on until Danny stops trying to get loose and just sinks back into Steve’s hold. “You’re a good dad,” Steve murmurs. “The best I’ve ever known. I didn’t know dads could be like that, like what you are.”

Danny tilts his head back, closes his eyes and breathes out a resigned sigh.

“She’ll see it too,” Steve tells Danny quietly. “Maybe not right off, but she’s a smart kid. She’ll see it.” He doesn’t think before he kisses the side of Danny’s forehead, and then the corner of his eye, and his cheek, and his lips, as Danny twists in his arms and holds on and lets himself forget.