Drabble Me(me).

[ladyofjest]

I had to undergo four hours in the dentist's chair last Tuesday, which have left me rather sad in the mouth-department. Also much lighter in the pocket, ugh. It was all incredibly necessary work and involved a tooth extraction, so I've spent the week loving ice packs, soft foods, and vicodin. I also have major issues with my temporomandibular joint, which have no doubt complicated the recovery process.

I think this calls for distraction! So how about a drabble meme?

The first FIVE people to comment in this post get to request ~something~ of any pairing/character* of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal.** If you absolutely can't write, you can offer drawings or icons or something instead (meta? picspams? reasons why that character/pairing rocks/doesn't rock?).

* Note the first: Below, you will find a list of fandoms in which I'm reasonably to well conversant.

** Note the second: I actually don't care if you post this in your journal; you don't have to. If you do, though, let me know where so I can come and request something of you!

Fandom List (By No Means Exhaustive)

Television/Film
Angel the Series
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Burn Notice
Community
Dead Like Me
Doctor Who
Father Ted
Firefly
Glee
Harry Potter
Labyrinth
Legend
Lost
Pushing Daisies
She-Ra Princess of Power
Supernatural
The 10th Kingdom
The Big Bang Theory
The X-Files
True Blood
Warehouse 13
Wonderfalls

Comics
Fables
Freakangels
Jack of Fables
The Sandman

Books
A Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin)
Discworld (Terry Pratchett)
Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling)
Neil Gaiman - Any.
Shakespeare - Much, please query.
Sherlock Holmes. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Southern Vampire Mysteries. (Charlaine Harris)
The Mercy Thompson novels. (Patricia Briggs)



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[risskabob.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I don't read enough 10th Kingdom anymore!

Prompt: UST during the miniseries.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Donna Noble and any of the Endless (or another Sandman character if you prefer).

The Choice

[ladyofjest.livejournal.com]

She stood at a control panel with lights as bright as Christmas and a central column dark and silent as death. In her hands, a weathered pair of glasses - she tried them on, but they seemed meant for a thinner face. She ran her hand through floppy hair that wasn't there, trying to shake the cobwebs from her thoughts.





She didn't start - the sudden twin stars in the darkness were familiar, though she couldn't say why. Like in a dream, both haunting and intimate. Her vaguely snapped "What?!" was more habit than true irritation.



She could pick out the bone white of his face now, his hands, floating amidst the impossible blackness of him - his cloak, his shock of midnight hair.

She turned back to the center console, hands trailing restlessly across knobs and dials. She flipped a switch and the center column began to move, and the glorious sound of it vibrated in her bones. She could have crowed with delight: she dashed to and fro, manic, the need to run and feel and caper madly a fire in her blood, in her hearts.



She stopped short, whirling to face the spectral man who was both terribly alien and yet more at home in this sanctum than Donna could ever hope to be. Her vision blurred behind the glasses she didn't need as half-memories and shards of discarded dreams eddied through her sleeping mind. She snatched them off and glared at the Dream Lord.

"Don't be cheeky with me, mate!" When bewildered, go on the offensive. That was Donna Noble's creed. "Oh sure, we've been here before, but I don't know why your lordship Morpheus bothers!" The stars in the darkness winked out and, with them, Donna's cogency.

Roses and brilliance, all gone in the maelstrom of dying neurons.

Never mind. She'd gone somewhere, hadn't she? Piloted this impossible ship in an ecstatic dance, spun the T--. The T-- the craft out along some incomprehensible line of navigation. She shook her head sharply, shrugged off the stuttering in her mind and ignore the twin stars that dawned once more in the dark. She was on an adventure, and his cryptic cheek be damned! She blinked then, and found doors beneath her hands, the console untrod strides behind her.

Had they always been made of horn? She reached out, hesitant, and they swung away from her touch. Recognition shocked through her and her throat closed with a terror sharper than betrayal.

Beyond the ship's doors was no perceptible land. She saw instead-- almost felt-- red, fractured heat in a pattern that compelled and yet tortured the eye. Mauve and vermilion kaleidoscoped in broken lines, all drawing one to the heart of that terrible, beautiful pain - to alight upon a small dark figure in the non-place, ridiculously fragile, but with a smile so bright it almost eclipsed the ankh burning on her breast.

Donna knew, from her fringe to her toes, that the woman was waiting for her - waiting for everyone - at the end of all things. She turned back to catch something suspiciously like pity in the twisted shape of the Dream Lord's mouth.

Re: The Choice

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Oh, Donna! This is marvellously done, not the least because of the speech bubbles. Donna is drawn to those mighty beings, but her dreaming leads only to death. I was so angry at the end they gave Donna, and I hope that there is some way to integrate these great powers into her mortal life.

Re: The Choice

[ladyofjest.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad it worked for you! The prompt was inspired -- thank you! -- and I've been attacked by a number of ideas for DW/Sandman crossovers.

There's a bonus scene just after the above kicking around in my head, and I'm trying to finish it into something presentable for you... I hated Donna's ending as well and this bit of fannish indulgence brings me hope. Maybe it will to you, too. ;)

P.S. I could not resist being an over-achiever with the speech bubbles! No simple text speech for Dream.

[void-dragon.livejournal.com]

George/Jaye (Dead Like Me/Wonderfalls)