Off-Topic += Meme and Q on Story Meta Etiquette

[blue_bells]

Borrowed from every snowflake and their friend this week:

THREE SENTENCE AU MEME
Give me pairings (or characters). Give me an AU setting. I will write you a three-sentence fic.

I will also finally be responding to comments and getting down to work on the draft of xmenbigbang this morning. I have a week (and a clear outline, thankfully). Stranger miracles have happened. ;P

The story will follow the Brotherhood after the end of X-Men: First Class with background Charles/Erik, Erik/Raven, Azazel/Riptide, and Alex/Hank/Sean, but they're incidental to the story.

What are people's opinions on listing background character relationships when the movement is primarily gen?


Three Sentence AU Meme Round-Up To-Date:
For zekkass: SPN, (Dean/)Castiel/Gabriel [PG]; MIB!AU, they’re the Men in Black (at Immigration Intake)
For morganoconner: SPN, Dean/Gabriel [PG]; College!AU, Gabriel is a professor and Dean is both his friend and student
For synnerxx: SPN, Gabriel/Michael/Lucifer/Raphael [PG]; Gabriel owns a candy shop
For roachstar: Castle; Ryan/Esposito, Castle/Beckett [PG]; High School!AU, Rick Castle is the new kid on the block and he's paying attention
For nights_fang: SPN, Lucifer/Adam/Michael [NC-17]; College!AU, Michael has a grudge against Dean, but he also has a plan
For cashay: SPN, Michael/Adam/Sam/Lucifer [PG]; Prison!AU, Maybe being in jail doesn't suck all that much
For ladyknightanka: SPN, Michael/Adam [PG]; High School!AU & Detective!AU, Adam wants to ask his brother's partner to the prom
For nights_fang: SPN, Lucifer/Adam [PG]; Teacher/Student!AU; Adam is not the model student they said he'd be
For nights_fang: SPN; Adam, Zachariah [PG]; Mafia!AU, "They started on you when you were ten."
For zekkass: SPN; younger-vessel!Zachariah/Dean [PG]; Office!AU, the first time they met
For zekkass: SPN; Gabriel, Raphael [PG]; CandyShop!AU (cont.), They try to teach Raphael not to terrify the customers

Comments

[synnerxx.livejournal.com]

I'd list them just so they're there, but make sure to note in your Author's Notes or the pairing list itself they're background pairings.

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

Seconding this.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bluebells/]

Clear and straightforward, I like it. Thanks for your thoughts! ^^

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

I'd like some Gabriel/Castiel in a 'verse where they're both MIB agents. 8D

(Dean/)Castiel/Gabriel; MIB!AU, they’re the Men in Black (at Immigration Intake)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bluebells/]

Hope you don't mind the bonus Dean! You can thank morganoconner because I kept seeing tweets about antennae!Jensen and it must have sunk in.

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“Cas, there’s more than one type of alien out there and they’re not all trying to destroy the planet or get in your pants,” Gabriel murmurs, but his partner ignores him, punishing the keyboard before shoving the passport back at their latest customer.

“Welcome to Earth, Mister Winchester,” Castiel says, perfectly polite, and Gabriel sees the way Winchester’s antennae twitch with interest when Gabriel spins and pockets his sidearm; a habit of boredom, but Winchester is watching him and Gabriel has made no secret of watching him, either, since Castiel yanked Gabriel back by his jacket with a glare after Gabriel’s suggestion he was going to lunch.

“Nice meeting you, Cas… Gabriel,” the alien says with a warm smile, and by the time he slings his bag over his shoulder, shooting a wink in farewell, Gabriel is smiling back; sometimes the immigrants did notice Gabriel’s fine specimen of a boyfriend and partner, and when the aliens were as hot as Dean Winchester, Gabriel was inclined to let them look (as long as it took for Castiel to sink his hands in Gabriel’s hair and pull him back to attention).

[morganoconner.livejournal.com]

My request:

Dean/Gabriel - AU where one or both is a college professor

:D?

Dean/Gabriel; College!AU, professor!Gabriel/student!Dean

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Gabriel is running on six hours of sleep over three days when Dean drops a bag of tootsie pops on the papers he’s trying to mark, and when the cup of coffee is set down by his hand, Gabriel knows it’s all over.

“So, how did we do?” Dean does a half-hearted imitation of subtlety when he glances at the red grades Gabriel has been penning, knowing his own result is somewhere among them, and Gabriel doesn’t have the energy to wait for Dean to lead up with some line about how quickly his tongue could get to the core of the candy he brought; Gabriel takes a gulp of the fresh cup of bliss and pulls Dean down to find his mouth, pushing the papers aside.

[synnerxx.livejournal.com]

AU meme: Gabriel/Michael/Lucifer/Raphael (or gen, idc) Gabriel owns a candy shop

Gabriel/Michael/Lucifer/Raphael; Gabriel owns a candy shop

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Gabriel may own the business, but he has no taste for management and since Michael took up the position, he barely leaves the back office, Raphael terrifies the customers, and Gabriel is thankful he has at least one ally in Lucifer to make their sales.

But nobody is manning the floor when Gabriel rings the front bell on Sunday morning, Raphael and Lucifer stumble out of Michael’s office a moment later, and Gabriel watches Raphael fix her hair as Lucifer reties the neck of her apron before nudging Gabriel towards that back office with a smirk.

“Your turn,” Lucifer says, familiar heat in his eyes, and – wait, is he serious – a glance at Raphael confirms Gabriel’s suspicions when she combs finger through her hair with an almost forgotten smile and Gabriel can’t wait to see the mess they’ve left of Michael across that desk.

[roachstar.livejournal.com]

Am I allowed to request

Ryan/Esposito - High School fic

? :)

Ryan/Esposito, Castle/Beckett; High School!AU

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bluebells/]

Of course! :D

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Rick almost fell in love at first sight with the fierce grace that was Kathleen (Kate) Beckett, but then he saw the quarterback at her arm, Javier Esposito, and the fond smile they shared like an old and precious in-joke; Rick stopped himself just in time for what he was sure would have been a futile heartache.

But then Rick’s science teacher paired him with the ‘uber goth’ (‘semi-goth’, Rick assessed when he met his lab partner, Kevin Ryan, face-to-face), and was graced with abruptly hostile introductions before the day's end from both Kate and Javier warning him – at different times – not to screw their friend over; Rick thought it was weird that Ryan never mentioned them.

Three weeks after Rick moved to his new school, he saw Ryan and Esposito beneath the goalposts: there was a dark glower in Ryan’s eyes when Esposito dropped the football that never left his hand and pushed the hair from Ryan’s eyes, but Ryan knocked his hand away and shook off the hold on his arm; that afternoon, Rick learned the true story of the three friends who had been inseparable since kindergarten – of the captain and her lieutenants – until high school came and they all learned how creatively cruel kids could be because Esposito thought he was entitled to touch Ryan in ways he had never touched Kate, and Rick was ashamed that his first thought was, “Wait, so, Kate’s single?”

[nights-fang.livejournal.com]

Lucifer/Adam/Michael - High School or College AU

Lucifer/Adam/Michael; College!AU, Michael has a grudge

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bluebells/]

I may be in love with you guys just a little bit for these prompts.

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It’s almost unfair to seek revenge on Dean this way, because they say Adam’s a sweet kid going on nineteen – the best of both his brothers – but whoever those people were had never gotten Adam Milligan down to his skin, and Michael leaves all sympathies behind after Lucifer knocks Michael’s unbound research journals from the desk.

Son of a bitch, Michael mourns for the strewn papers, it took almost a month to get all that thesis research together, and this was not the plan he and Lucifer discussed.

A quick glance at the bookshelf confirms the hidden camera is recording, but Michael catches Adam watching when he looks back, buried deep in Lucifer as the taller blond grinds back onto him (and Lucifer is laughing, then groaning, into the pages of Adam’s handwritten notes from the morning’s lecture on Michael’s desk); Adam only has to beckon with the tilt of his head before Michael is against his back, tasting his smile and the husky accent of his laughter; Michael feels like Adam’s the one who somehow got the drop on them and he hopes there’s a long battery life on Lucifer’s camera.

[cashay.livejournal.com]

Michael/Adam/Sam/Lucifer - maybe being in jail doesn't suck all that much

Michael/Adam/Sam/Lucifer; Jail!AU

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bluebells/]

As far as maximum security prisons went, there were right ways to do it: 1) make sure you already had family on the inside, 2) make sure that family had established connections with the right people, 3) hope to hell that family was feeling sentimental enough to extend that good favour to you when you were ‘lucky’ to be falsely accused and sentenced to the same facility.

Sam didn’t even have to wait for night to fall before the first gang decided to test him in the yard: Alastair, the guy’s name had been, but then the crowd parted like water and there was Adam with the same slouch of ease, looking as bored as the day they sentenced him to twenty-five years for being too swift with a razor when a businessman put his hands where they weren’t welcome; Adam appeared the same except for the new stripes of ink on his neck that Sam would later learn were the tips of wings he would also inherit.

A wide berth was assured wherever Adam walked and Sam followed him to meet the reason why his younger brother had reason to walk like he was on a Sunday stroll: seated on one of the yard tables, a scattershot of loyal inmates providing its protection, Lucifer’s gaze raked over Adam, heavy and familiar, but it was Michael who brushed the tattoo on Adam’s skin with equal measures of fondness and possession; the infamous Angelus brothers measured the length of Sam with a single glance (four life sentences each for the murders of almost their entire family in a mob feud; their father, the Godfather, was still missing), Sam sent up a brief prayer to whoever was listening, and Adam smiled, calm and glad, like now Sam was exactly where he was supposed to be.

[ladyknightanka.livejournal.com]

I agree with synnerxx's advice and, on a related note, OMG, YAY FOR STARTING WORK ON XBB! If you were anyone else, I'd worry about the closing deadline, but you're you, so my worries are obviously unfounded. ♥

As for my prompt: SPN, Michael/Adam. Adam's a senior in high school, almost eighteen, and he's had a crush on his oldest brother's detective partner for years. When prom rolls around, he finally musters up the courage to ask Michael. Because I think puppy love!Adam would be so adorable...

Michael/Adam, High School!AU & Detective!AU, Adam wants to ask his brother's partner to the prom

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YOU. I thought I'd knocked off all my ficlets for the night AND THEN THERE WAS YOU. ♥ Honestly, I'm not sure that this X-Men Big Bang is going to go ahead with everything else on my plate in RL, but I'm going to progress with the current expectation that it will ('til I'm proven otherwise). ^^

Also, sorry if this ficlet isn't very coherent. You caught me at almost 4am. ^^;

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Adam has been thinking about it for months, considering the options for weeks, but he never got to the actual planning for how he would ask Dean’s professional partner in crime to his prom (his high school prom – Sam and Dean would never let him live it down), so Adam's five beers in at dinner – he may have gulped down the first three when nobody was looking, just so his hands would stop shaking – and Michael’s on his way to watch the football in the den when Adam accidentally lets the question slip.

Michael stares at him for a long moment from the doorway and Adam’s stomach churns through the bitter alcohol, chest tight, as he watches Michael’s slow frown melt into an incredulous laugh, “What did you say?”

“Go to prom with me,” Adam says, not even an invitation anymore, because he doesn’t trust his voice to lift with the right question at the end, but when Michael shrugs, “Sure,” and wanders off to the source of the game echoing down the hall, it isn’t relief that curls through Adam’s air, because he doesn’t think Michael understood, Michael probably just thought Adam was making a drunken joke, another in a long line of things said only to make his family and friends smile, but none of those things mattered, not like Michael who gave Adam tunnel vision no matter who else was in the room, and Adam can’t even recite Michael’s badge number as he used to every time he needed to remember how to breathe – his gut clenches, he bolts, and makes it to the bathroom just in time to shut the door behind him to muffle the noise of him giving up his dinner.

[nights-fang.livejournal.com]

Okay I have no idea what's making me prompt this but

Lucifer/Adam Teacher/Student AU.

Lucifer/Adam; Teacher/Student!AU: Adam is not the model student they said he'd be

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bluebells/]

Well, far be it for me to stop you. ;]

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Adam Milligan is not the modest, well-mannered student Headmaster Joshua said he would be, and Lucifer wonders if the wrong person was transferred into his class, because Adam has been nothing but a back-talking menace since he sidled into Lucifer’s ancient history class a week ago and dropped his bag on the desk beside Jimmy Novak; every time Adam opens his mouth, Lucifer expects to see Dean Winchester when he turns to silence the kid's commentary.

When the red laser light refracts off different surfaces in the classroom that afternoon, it takes Lucifer half a second to stifle his awe at the rosy glow that fills the air, obscuring his lesson on the whiteboard, and he whirls just in time to see Adam pocket the laser pointer in his sleeve with a poorly hidden smile; “Milligan, detention after school today.”

The class rouses with a chorus of whoops and jeers, calling Adam out for finally getting caught, but Adam just sits back in his chair, his smile turning smug and conceited – challenge accepted – and Lucifer has to remind himself that Adam was just another stupid kid, so there was no reason to worry at that look.

[nights-fang.livejournal.com]

If I get obnoxious, please tell me to stop. I kind of really love the way you write AUs.

SPN Mafia AU?

Mafia!AU; Adam, Zachariah

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bluebells/]

And I kind of love the things you prompt, so fear not -- I already have a Big Mafia AU planned, but let's see what I can summarise in three sentences for you here wherein I break grammar rules for convenience.

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“They started on you when you were ten: two brothers, the football star and the prefect, Commissioner Daddy, and then there was you,” Zachariah hums with interest, leafing through the substantial manila file, “It says here that you told your fifth grade English teacher you wanted to be a doctor -- but instead your Dad had you shooting guns when you should have been shooting hoops, am I right?”

“It didn’t take,” Adam says, shrugging.

The medicine, he meant, though it’s a bald-faced lie that Zachariah easily side-steps and he gestures significantly with Adam’s razor, “I know.”

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

*chinhands* Can I have some younger-vessel!Zachariah/Dean in an AU of that episode where Dean meets him?

Office!AU, younger-vessel!Zachariah/Dean

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I had a free chunk of time this morning before heading out, though I'm not sure this is what you wanted; I hope you enjoy it! :D

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Dean is man enough to admit he has a problem with authority at the best of times, but he’s a professional – and his quarterly numbers show he gets the job done – he’d just like to know how someone five years his junior was promoted so quickly above him.

“Lunch at your desk,” Zachariah, his supervisor, explains the reality of what it will cost Dean to get the regional manager position Zachariah thinks he deserves (and Dean can’t deny the recognition feels… good), “And most nights will be challenging, but don’t worry: I’ll be by your side the whole way.”

Zachariah’s smile is a superior craft and Dean finally understands: Zachariah is young, but not condescending, he’s capable and that smile makes Dean wants to trust him; suddenly the prospect of burning the midnight oil with this guy at his shoulder (or splayed across his desk; in his chair) sounds even more appealing.

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

And since no one else has prompted it yet: Gabriel owns a candy shop AU, with someone trying to teach Raphael how not to terrify customers.

[nights-fang.livejournal.com]

asdfghjk Yes this. All of it!

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

More Candy Shop verse, with Lucifer trying his hand at making Raphael behave with customers this time. >3

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

Also, give me anal retentive Gabriel as a cop giving Dean a speeding ticket. Up to you if Gabriel's got magic Trickster/angel powers or not.