prompts! because writing about friendship is always fun

[harborshore]

So I'm making soup, and that made me think about writing. (Shut up.) I haven't felt like working on any of my longer fics for a while (for those of you keeping track, the current priority order goes: 1. Brian getting hypothermia, 2. the Theatre Production, 3. Ray/Mikey college AU of awkward pining, 4. Big Bang sequel), but now I want to write short things. Tiny bits of warmth for the fall, if you will.

So here's what I want: give me a fandom or a crossover--bandom, BTVS, Veronica Mars, DCU, others if you feel like giving me a REALLY wacky crossover (hint: I love it), a pairing or character, and a prompt quote or picture. I want the prompt to have something to do with fall, friendship, or warmth, or all three. So if someone feels like linking to a soup recipe, that's totally okay.

♥

Comments

[giddy-london.livejournal.com]

I would really love something involving any or all of the MCR boys and this photo because you cannot go wrong with snuggly boys and duvets and cool weather and coffee, right?

Also, I really, really want #3 on your list up there, just so you know. :D

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

"Hey. Psst, hey."

Gerard groans and bats at whoever's enough of an asshole to come poking at him in the morning, then burrows deeper into his duvet.

"Gee, no, come on." And suddenly there's a weight in his bed and, what the fuck, someone, no, that's a dog, licking his face and Gerard can hear Mikey laughing like he almost never does, not that loudly.

"You gotta come see this," says Mikey, ignoring Gerard's yelps because the dog is just not giving up, dammit. "I have coffee," Mikey adds, and Gerard finally gives up the struggle and sits up, making gimme hands.

After draining half the cup in one go, he gets out of bed and roots around for a marginally clean shirt. Him and Mikey are back in Jersey for the week, because everyone needed a break from the album. Gerard had kind of thought that the 'break' part wouldn't mean he had to get up three hours before he normally did, though. Stupid little brothers, they never stop being obnoxious.

Mikey sighs at him impatiently when he takes too long and then tells him to put on a sweater.

Gerard is appalled. "Wait, you mean we're going outside? What the fuck, Mikey--"

"Yeah we are, just on the porch. Bring your blanket if you're going to be, like, a pussy about it."

And they do, they go outside, Gerard mutinously wrapped in his duvet and muttering about cold and people who have stupid ideas in the morning, and then, and then--

The trees in the back yard are bright red and yellow, blazing and burning and Gerard forgets about the cold in the air and just stares. He knows Mikey is smug as shit right now, but he doesn't care, he wants to draw, to paint, but he's going to just look for a while, just look until he knows he won't forget. Leaning against Mikey, keeping the cold away, he stands there until he feels like he's drowning in fire.

[giddy-london.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, my HEART. This is EXACTLY what I wanted! Grumbly Gerard snuggled in bed and demanding coffee and the brothers Way and their stupid brother-y goodness and Mikey laughing and the leaves! And the last line is absolutely perfect! Also, I am pretending the dog is Piglet even though I have my doubts that she ever leaves the sofa. :D Thank you so much for this bit of loveliness--I wish it would hurry up and be autumn where I live!

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

I'm so so glad you like it, darling--I love writing the Waybrothers so much and once I figured out I was writing them, this just wrote itself. *beams at you* I was thinking the dog was Winston, actually, but I was sort of deliberately unclear about how big it was because I have no idea what it's like to have that big of a dog get in bed with you. ♥ They are wonderful, those brothers, aren't they?

[turlough]

I love this! Your Gerard is so adorably grumpy at first and his and Mikey's relationship is so relaxed and comfortable, and the ending is just lovely! We had exactly that kind of autumn weather earlier this week and every morning I pulled up the blinds and saw the sunshine and the glorious colours I was completely mesmerized, just like your Gerard is.

(Btw, I saw the link to these in mahoni's journal just now and thought that I really ought to friend you AND RIGHT THEN I GOT THE NOTIFICATION THAT YOU'D ADDED ME, it was almost spooky :-)

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank you! Yeah, we've been having that kind of weather, and I've been wandering around looking and looking, and then I got the prompt, and, well. Someone who actually draws or paints must love those colors, right? And of course, writing the Waybrothers is kind of my favorite thing to do.

(Ha, I saw her post and her note about your icon and thought, self, you've been meaning to friend her forever, you're using her banner, do eeet. So I did. *grins*)

[turlough]

I didn't know you lived in Sweden! In which part? I used to live in Stockholm but moved to Småland a year and a half ago.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Stockholm, man! I've lived in the archipelago outside Stockholm, and six years in the US, too. :D And Småland is very pretty.

[turlough]

I love the archipelago! My mother grew up in Dalarö and when I was a teenager we'd a summer house on Ornö for a while. I've lived in various southern suburbs of Stockholm my whole life (I'm 50 now) so moving to Småland was quite a change to me, but I like it. It's very pretty as you say, and less people. Qnd the pace is different here, much more relaxed.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Relaxed is good. I miss that about the archipelago--we have a house on Väddö, where I go sometimes, and it's very very nice to see some sun and sky, you know?