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

[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?”

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

[roachstar.livejournal.com]

Wow this is so powerful and amazing... seriously... wow.

Thank you for writing it for me! :D

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

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

I'm so glad it was what you were looking for, thank you! You gave me the excuse to visit the high school AU I started writing for them before I lost the story in last year's hard drive death, so thank you for that, too!