100 drabbles 31-40

[jedi_of_urth]

Title: The Long Shadow
Author: jedi_of_urth
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters/Ship: Martha, Doctor/Rose
Rating: PG
Notes/Spoilers: general s3 spoilers, Martha living in Rose’s shadow
Disclaimer:
Prompt #31: shade

Martha doesn’t know what Rose looks like, doesn’t know the sound of her voice, or if she’s even human (although she sounds human). There are three people in the TARDIS, but one of them is only a shadow Martha can’t actually see.

She doesn’t want details, so she just pretends she doesn’t see the way the Doctor’s eyes glaze over when he’s consumed with someone Martha can’t see. Sometimes she knows it’s wrong to be angry with someone she’s never met, and never will meet, but it’s easier to be angry with the shadow than drag it into the light.



Title: Sweet Moments
Author: jedi_of_urth
Fandom: Firefly
Characters/Ship: Simon, others
Rating: G
Notes/Spoilers: no specific spoilers, Simon thinks about the changes in his life
Disclaimer: Firefly isn’t mine
Prompt #32: watermelon

Simon had never wanted for anything growing up. Well, besides freedom and parents who gave a damn and River to come home safely. But most anything he needed or wanted had been available to him.

Out in the Black though, wants had to be put aside for needs that couldn’t always be met either. He missed fresh fruit more than he would have expected. It didn’t keep long on ship, even if he could have afforded it. Food was the most precious commodity the frontier worlds had.

Knowing that made the watermelon Kaylee found for River’s birthday all the sweeter.



Title: Regrets Enough to Drown In
Author: jedi_of_urth
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters/Ship: Eleven, Amy, others mentioned
Rating: PG
Notes/Spoilers: late s5 spoilers, Amy asks an inconvenient question
Disclaimer: When the show adds half a dozen Rose mentions per episode again I’ll start wondering if I secretly do have control over the show.
Prompt #33: swim

He should have expected the question one day, but he would never have expected Amy to ask it while they were treading water outside the bopping TARDIS. “You never talk about anyone traveling with you before me, what were they like?”

She can’t even remember Rory, Donna can’t remember him, Jack’s cursed, and even if he doesn’t feel as guilty about Martha as he used to it’s still there. And then there’s Rose... And that’s just the last few years of his record.

“You’d like them Pond,” is all he says in answer before he dives under the waves again.



Title: Not In Us
Author: jedi_of_urth
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Ship: Hermione, Harry, H/Hr subtext
Rating: PG
Notes/Spoilers: movie-verse fic, DH1 spoilers, the idea of building a life together
Disclaimer: Harry Potter (book or movie franchise) does not belong to me
Prompt #34: war

She feels bad as soon as the words are out of her mouth. They could just stay here, spend their lives pretending away Voldemort, build a life on that lie. A dream of another life.

Harry wouldn’t do that, and neither would she; but just once she couldn’t help but say it. That if they weren’t themselves they could leave the war to other people and live a quiet life, just the two of them.

It wasn’t right to say it though, they couldn’t have those thoughts, those doubts, not now. In reality they still had a war to fight.



Title: Quiet Rebellion
Author: jedi_of_urth
Fandom: Doctor Who (could be for crossover world but not directly so)
Characters/Ship: Rose
Rating: PG
Notes/Spoilers: At least post ‘Doomsday’, but any time after that; Rose’s feet rebel against conformity
Disclaimer: Doctor Who doesn’t belong to me
Prompt #35: sandals

Rose often painted her toenails bright colors, although she didn’t often get to show her toes off. It was a private rebellion against the rigid conformity of her environment. Although they were usually encased in heavy shoes she knew that wore a rainbow of colors where no one could see.

But when she actually could show off her toes she carefully took the time to paint them all the same bright color before carefully slipping on her sandals. Those days she tried to draw attention.

She didn’t used to like her feet so much, until nobody ever saw them anymore.



Title: Breath of Life
Author: jedi_of_urth
Fandom: Firefly
Characters/Ship: Mal, Kaylee, Serenity
Rating: G
Notes/Spoilers: “Out of Gas” spoilers, Mal gets that Kaylee gets their ship
Disclaimer: Joss is boss here
Prompt #36: boat

Bester had come highly recommended by a friend of Zoe’s but Mal had never taken to the man. He did a decent enough job, when he actually did his job, and Serenity needed a genius mechanic to get her in the air, and Bester was the only genius mechanic they could find. So Mal bit his lip and went about hiring himself a crew.

But then he met Kaylee, no one recommended her, but she was just as bright as Bester pretended to be. Soon after sounds of life had filled the boat. Kaylee breathed life into everything she touched.



Title: The Feel of Home
Author: jedi_of_urth
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia
Characters/Ship: Susan
Rating: PG
Notes/Spoilers: Susan’s feelings on Narnia, during the missing years of LWW, but written with TLB in mind
Disclaimer: Another universe that doesn’t belong to me
Prompt #37: surf

Susan often traveled to other places, and she loved doing that, but she was always happy to come home to Narnia. And when she came home, from long travels or short trips, she would slip off her shoes and stockings and walk through the surf outside Cair Paravel. She would let the feel of the land and sea slip between her toes as the air gently caressed her face.

She always sighed with pleasure as the feelings of home washed across her and filled her senses, the feelings of right, and being right where she belonged, and she felt whole.



Title: Full Words for Empty Spaces
Author: jedi_of_urth
Fandom: Robin Hood (2006)
Characters/Ship: Guy, Guy/Marian
Rating: PG-13
Notes/Spoilers: Post season 2, Guy sees Marian’s spirit
Disclaimer: I own very little and none of it this legend or show
Prompt #38: mirage

He knew she wasn’t there, knew that the air where he saw her standing was an empty as ever, but still he stared. It was some spell, some witchcraft, but he didn’t care; for this moment Marian stood before him, and whether it was real didn’t matter.

There were so much he might have said:

I’m sorry. (So very sorry)

Forgive me. (He didn’t deserve it)

Come back to me. (She couldn’t)

I love you. (He always would)

But the words that slipped between his lips were “Stay, please.” Even a faded ghost of her spirit was better than nothing.



Title: Vows of the North
Author: jedi_of_urth
Fandom: ASOIAF
Characters/Ship: Osha, Rickon
Rating: PG
Notes/Spoilers: post-ACoK, Osha and Rickon’s journey
Disclaimer: GRRM’s world
Prompt #39: hike

Osha knew Rickon was as fierce as any wildling child could be; if somehow one could fail to see that about him his wolf made matters very clear. She’d seen the way the boy attacked the obstacles along their journey, seen in him a ferocity that outmatched her own at times.

But at other times he was a small boy who clung to her in the night, afraid that she would disappear as everyone else in his life had done. She couldn’t promise him she would always be with him, only southerners made those promises, but she would try anyway.



Title: The Long Night
Author: jedi_of_urth
Fandom: Doctor Who / Stargate SG-1
Characters/Ship: Rose, Daniel, Rose/Daniel
Rating: PG-13
Notes/Spoilers: ‘Meridian’ in crossover world
Disclaimer: The characters and situations here don’t belong to me, I am responsible for sticking them together like this though
Prompt #40: solstice

He was beyond help now, beyond knowing about the world around him, but Rose stayed at his side; watching as his life-signs steadily weakened. Janet said he would be gone by morning; it was the longest night of Rose’s life, and she didn’t want it to end.

She tried to stay strong as long as she could, vowing that she would stay strong as long as he clung to life. Even if he was beyond knowing she didn’t want her tears the last thing he saw before he died. Not that she could hide all the tears that would come.