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

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

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

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.

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

[ladyknightanka.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor Adam! I think you so perfectly capture his feelings of unrequited love, the bitterness, the dejection, and the moment where Michael agreed, then walked off, was so heartbreaking, because Adam understood the magnitude of that casual reply more than he might an outright no, since it can easily be reflected against his own passionate feelings.

Poor baby, at least you did get a prom date who managed to worm into your Heaven, so it must have been memorable, right? THANKS FOR THE BRILLIANCE, YET AGAIN, MY LOVE! ♥

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

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

Thank you, love, I'm so glad this is what you were looking for, and to clarify any early morning confusion (I should not be allowed on the internet in the dark AM), I am ALWAYS happy for the opportunity to write you things. ♥!

It occurs to me that this is the second time I've written drunk-with-bad-outcome!Adam/Michael for you (though I get away with giving him alcohol because he was drinking at home), so I promise to cut down on the alcohol, or at least write it with a happier ending next time. ^^;