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

[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

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

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.

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

[ladyknightanka.livejournal.com]

Subtle, Dean, veeeery subtle, mister, but Gabriel saw through your ploy! Who cares about grades when you can get sweet candy kisses, right? ;D

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

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

Exactly! No points towards extra credit, though, I hope Dean realises that. ;]

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

[morganoconner.livejournal.com]

...oh my God. I should not have asked for this. Now I want the whole damn verse. *headdesk*

*flails at you* This was absolutely wonderful, sweetie, thank you!! :DDD

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

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

You're very welcome! I'm glad you liked it, I've been trying to imagine Gabriel being serious, but I think he'd just be an amusing lecturer who would bribe his students into paying attention with rewards of sweets through his classes.

I also love the thought of young!Dean at college, possibly hating most of it (until he finds Gabriel's class) and doing his best to ward Sam off all thoughts of college, without realising he only makes it sound more appealing. I love the ways those brothers are set apart.