and i feel alive (prompts post)

[harborshore]

I went to mom's choir's Christmas concert today, and cried my way through at least six of the songs because, oh, one of the choir members did a sign language interpretation of "Silent Night" and one more song, and I can't get over her face, how expressive she was and how she was the very incarnation of joy and it was so beautiful, I can't adequately convey how beautiful it was. I'd never have thought you could recreate music with your hands, but she did. And I really liked the inclusiveness, obviously.

(Side note: when I was younger, they thought my hearing problem would get worse and I would have to learn sign language. It didn't, it went away instead and I put my hearing aids away at twelve, but I still--sign language is high on my list of things I want to learn.)



I feel like writing short-short things, so I thought I'd do one of these. It's been a while. I'll do the first five or six, depending on if my Yuletide grabs me again.

Prompt: a pairing, an AU or a crossover and a first kiss. Fandoms: BTVS, Panic, The Like, Bob, Brian, Mikey Way, Veronica Mars, DCU, Vampire Diaries, etc. You lot know what I write.

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[blindmouse.livejournal.com]

Mikey/Somebody-in-the-Veronica-Mars-world, first kiss with their eyes open.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Mikey thinks basketball is a stupid sport. He wouldn't tell Wallace that, sure, but he's pretty over the whole idea of shooting hoops. Except that when Wallace makes a three-pointer and looks really pleased, it makes Mikey want to smile. (He accidentally told Gabe that and got laughed out of the dorm. Then he told Pete, who promptly bought Mikey a really orange jersey. Which he's not wearing.)

After the game, he sticks around. Wallace and him, it's not a thing, it's really not, except that Veronica seems to think it is, which must mean something. Or might mean something.

Wallace comes over to say hi when his adoring fans have gone away. Mikey finishes replying to Pete's texted demand for dtls, mikeyway, ineed with an emphatic NO and looks up.

"Hey yourself," he says. Then, because it seems to be something you say, and Wallace really was, "you were pretty great out there."

Wallace grins. "Nah, you should've seen me last week."

Maybe Mikey should have, but he's pretty sure he was sleeping off last night when Wallace had the Saturday morning game.

"Anyway, thanks for coming," Wallace says.

"Sure," Mikey says. He's thinking he might go for it when Wallace is first to lean in. It's been a long time since Mikey didn't want to look away at all, so he keeps his eyes open.

Veronica makes fun of them all the way back to the dorm, but Mikey's pretty sure it's done with love.

[blindmouse.livejournal.com]

I think my favourite part of this is Pete :D

(I've missed your prompt posts!)

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

I'm now strangely intrigued by Mikey/Wallace. Hmm.

ETA: and thank you! They're a bit more complicated, these days.