Oh, what the heck!

[grav_ity]

I guess we'll find out if brevity really is the soul of wit...

1) Give me a fandom (Sanctuary is probably your best bet, but I'm willing to throw it completely open) plus character/pairing, and FIVE one-word prompts
2) I'll see if I can write you five one-sentence ficlets based on them

At least I managed to hold off almost fifteen minutes.

Comments

[shadadukal]

Sanctuary, Nikola:
-homeland
-rest
-ceremony
-Helen
-friendship

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I'm totally cheating with yours!

1. John leaves him alone in the dark, in the of the woods. It doesn't matter. He wouldn't have recognized the countryside in daylight either.

2. Her voice, her hands, her concern...if not for her determination, he might have found some peace.

3. He lays the corkscrew on the tray next to the bottle, and sets two glasses on either side. It's not so pretentious as decanting port, but there's no reason to do it lightly either.

4. Any sensible woman would have worn black. This woman, this woman he needs to know.

5. Nikola throws the switch and James's chest heaves. He breathes a sigh of relief, but his smile dies when he sees the expression on Nigel's face. "Not even for you," it says, and Nikola knows better than to count it as a loss.

[shadadukal]

Why is that cheating?

1. *cries*

2. You are almost making me wish that Nikola had died. How do you do this?!?

3. HEE!

4. HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! (I still haven't understood which colour she was wearing.) I love that he wants to know her because she is crazy bold.

5. THEY BREAK MY HEART AND I LOVE THEM.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

2. I have to echo what shadadukal wrote: this ALMOST makes me wish Nikola had died. Unbelievable.

[jemster.livejournal.com]

Sanctuary, Declan/Kate

- Loss
- Apples
- Mountains
- Istanbul
- Memory

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

1. "It's not any easier, being the normal one, I mean, is it?" She doesn't expect an answer and isn't surprised when she doesn't get one.

2. "How do you like them apples?" Kate shouts after their fleeing attackers, and Declan decides he's going to poach her from Magnus at the first opportunity.

3. "You know," Declan says, very well aware that she might push him down the ravine but unable to resist the temptation to actually say the words out loud, "I did suggest we find a helicopter."

4. "I suggest we fly," Kate said. "On the basis that the sooner we get there, the sooner I'll get that stupid song out of my head."

5. He hesitates for just a fraction of a second too long before passing over the brandy, but she lets it slide.

[peanutbutterer.livejournal.com]

Castle - Ryan and Esposito
beer
pineapple
stealth
shenanigans
chair

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

For the record, I would have accepted "rolling chair" as one word. :)

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

1. "I'm telling you, they're not so bad once you start to read them," Ryan says, waving the book in Esposito's face and sloshing beer all over the coffee table.

2. "Well I was going to bring a jell-o salad," Esposito said, "but apparently those warnings about not using pineapple are actually printed on the box for a reason."

3. Esposito's fingers curl around the shoulder of his tac vest, solid and present, and ready for anything, so Ryan takes a breath and waits for the signal to move.

4. There's something about a tie, or possibly a tie-clip, and then a poker game and quite a bit of very good scotch and, honestly, it's probably for the best if they just never mention it again.

5. Next April Fool's Day, Javier very, very carefully takes out nearly all the screws.

[laura-josephsen.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, River and The Doctor

-haven
-found
-push
-change

Would 'flying lessons' constitute one word for fic purposes? ;)

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Yes. :)

Also: <a href="http://ek-johnston.dreamwidth.org/3920.html'>*coughs*</a>

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

1. Every time River hears the sound, that sound no one can describe or really properly duplicate, she knows she's coming home.

2. He pulls out the cot and blows the dust off of it; it was his, once, and now it's found a new owner.

3. She's not sure which planet, exactly, she should count as her first and which was, therefore, her first alien world, but she knows with certainty that he never had to push her out the door.

4. First kiss, he'd said, and hadn't thought what that meant to her, hadn't thought how, for her, everything had just changed.

5. She was born for it, for this, and his smile is so wide it lights up the console between them.

[yappichick]

Because I'm very predictable...LOL

Tangled, Rapunzel/Flynn:

sword
glow
laugh
chameleon
ruffians

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

1. He does learn proper sword fighting, of course, and so does she, but they always carry a frying pan, just in case.

2. When the baby is born, she sings the old song to her, and he watches as her eye glow more brightly than her hair ever had.

3. The queen stops outside the door, head tilted and smiling, and listens to her daughter's laugh from within.

4. He's spent so long being the man he thought he wanted to be that he was surprised to discover how much he liked being himself.

5. They never lose that brownish smell, not entirely anyway, but they never lose their charm either, so she considers it a win.

[lanna-kitty.livejournal.com]

hmmmm
Sanctuary, Helen
-Impossible
-Proper
-Science!
-Love
-Time

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

1. When she is eight and her governess tells her that the creature in her dream is impossible, Helen believes her, but only until the next day when she hears it roaring in the basement.

2. At first, Ashley is unsure, hands too small to really cover the grip and reach the trigger at the same time, but her mother's hands are secure around hers, and together they fire properly and find the centre of the target.

3. Helen holds the vial of blood in her hands, dark red clashing horribly with her pale blue gown, and she feels the siren call of science pulling her towards it.

4. From the parapet, she can see the whole house at the same time, and even when it's cold, she always feels at home.

5. For decades now, Helen hasn't really marked the years, but when she looks up at the baby James is holding out to her, she decides it's probably time to start keeping track again.

[lferion]

Sanctuary: James
1. Hiccup
2. Hedgehog
3. Vociferous
4. Distill
5. Declan

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

1. It's only after Gregory Magnus shakes his hand with decidedly more force than really necessary that James realizes that the esteemed doctor believes James to be courting his daughter.

2. "You never said they were projectile!" James sputters, and Helen goes to get the tweezers without pointing out that he never asked.

3. "I swear," he says to the baby in his arms, "You are worse than both your parents combined."

4. It comes to this, of course, this black moment of discovery and realization forever crystallized in his damnably near perfect mind.

5. It's his hair, James admits in quiet moments of personal reflection, his hair and his eyes and his willingness to not say anything and his calm; all these things, and especially the part where he's taken James as is and never once complained.

[oparu.livejournal.com]

Sanctuary, James/Declan

tea, feathers, hope, midnight, grapefruit

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

1. Declan wraps his still shaking fingers around the tea cup his boss has just handed him, and wonders if this is standard procedure for near death experiences or if it's just a special since it's his first day.

2. "You weren't particularly attached to that pillow, were you?" he asks, a bit nervous, but James only smirks and pulls him in again.

3. At the end of the job interview, when Declan hadn't reacted at all to the various outbursts of abnormal activities that were interspersed amongst questions like "How do you deal with a crisis?" and "Describe a time when you worked with a team to solve a problem?", James allows himself some small amount of hope.

4. "You're far too young for insomnia," James says, breath warm across his ear as the clock down the hall chimes midnight and Declan tells himself, once again, that this is not a dream.

5. Declan hates grapefruit, but when he sees the breakfast tray is made up for two, he eats his half with as much sugar as he can get away with and never says a word.

[m-nivalis.livejournal.com]

Sanctuary, yellow slime mold
- electricity
- past
- future
- reproduction
- kitten

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Best first post friending comment ever, y/y? ;)

1. For reasons James is not entirely comfortable speculating about, the creature never escapes when Tesla is visiting.

2. There was someone here, it can feel it, someone who was here before James, someone who kept this house and all the creatures in it, and the first time it sees her, it knows her on sight.

3. In space, no one can hear you eating their shoes.

4. "Do you think it mates?" Ashley said, one finger absently tapping on the glass as the creature undulated in time with the rhythm and Declan suppressed a shudder.

5. James sits in the arm chair with a tub of shoe polish in one hand and his newly scuffed shoe in the other, and tries to think on the bright side: if he had a kitten, it would have claws.

[colej55.livejournal.com]

Sanctuary: Helen/Nikola
Mortified
Volcano
Gramophone
Petrified
Mortician

[darthanne.livejournal.com]

Love these. Wonderful mix of emotion and character in such a short space/one sentence.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I spliced a lot of commas, but I think it was worth it. ;)