who wants a drabble?

[xparrot]

The past few weeks I was back visiting my parents and old friends; had a fantastic time, but now vacation's over and I've returned to Seattle to find a job. Oh joy! Meanwhile gnine has abandoned me and is setting off to London for grad school today. But I get the brother - hah! (right now we're alternating watching Futurama with Red Dwarf, which is somewhat brain-breaking (if not up to the Twin Peaks/Kodocha standard gnine and I set a few years back.) It's quite satisfying to finally see all of Futurama, and being one of the deprived who was never exposed to Red Dwarf at an early age, I am proud to report that I can now warble the theme song in the shower. I also flatly deny any allegations that I have been secretly googling for Lister/Rimmer because that would be WRONG and I would never do such a thing. Never. Nope.)

But that's neither here nor there. What is here is that I haven't written hardly a word in going on a month, and desperately need to get back in the writing saddle. So, for a limited time, it's open-drabble season - give me a fandom/characters/pairing (whichever, and it can be any series I know, whether or not I've fic'ed for it) and a prompt (single word, quote, sentence, whatever) and I will attempt to produce a drabble, ficlet, or other arrangement of words with a vague semblance of fic.

ETA: Until I say otherwise, requests are still open! No guarantees, but give it a go and I'll see what I can do...

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[jadeprince.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who - Jack Harkness and Any Doctor - Nothing but trouble... ah, but isn't it fun?

OR

One Piece - Zoro and Sanji- Take my hand, dammit!

Dunno if you wanna write for either of these series, but if either inspires you, great! :)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I'm still recovering from Children of Earth, so happy!Jack Harkness is right out, but I gave the ZoSan a spin - even if this is almost certainly not what you had in mind!



"Come on!"

It's a matter of pride that Zoro reaches out to no one, save Luffy; that his captain's intervention is the only law he will accept. But these islanders' bristling bronze spears are making a good point or thirty, and the silk webbing that their pet giant spiders sprayed on him have stuck his swords tightly enough in their sheaths that he can't present a counter-argument.

"Hurry up!"

Not to mention they've wrapped Luffy and Chopper and Brook and Robin in seastone shackles, and they knocked Frankie over the head with a rock the size of a canoe, and Usopp and Nami haven't yet managed to file through the iron bars of their cage. The giant pot over the bonfire has started bubbling ominously, and as hungry as Zoro is, he doesn't want to know what the first ingredients in their stew are going to be. Not unless he and his nakama can prove themselves.

"Get on with it, shitty marimo!"

If it were Luffy standing before him, he wouldn't hesitate. Or Nami or Robin, or even Brook--hell, if it were any other of his nakama--but why does it have to be the damn cook? "We would see the masters among you perform," the chief in the crazy hat had said--just because the islanders had seen him and the cook mid-fight, and assumed they were the crew's top talent.

Both Zoro and Sanji denied this assumption vehemently. "I was just sparring with the shitty swordsman," Sanji kept saying, "spar-ring, that's it, doesn't prove anything," while Zoro described the various amazing skills of their nakama, but all to no avail.

So now they stand here in the middle of the village, encircled by their enemies, with their nakama watching with desperate, sinking hopes.

"Take my hand, dammit," Sanji snaps, and Zoro has no choice.

Grabbing the damn cook's skinny fingers, he bites down hard on the rose stem between his teeth, and yanks his crewmate into the first steps of the ceremonial tango.

[jadeprince.livejournal.com]

:D I didn't really have any idea what I wanted to see with that prompt-- it was just the first phrase that came to mind. But this is HILARIOUS. I did not see where you were going with it until the last line. Ha! Oh Zoro. Now that image is burned into my brain. ::snickers:: Tango.

Thank you for the drabble! :D I always love your writing. <3<3

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Hee, thank you - so glad it worked for you! Still do love OP, even if I'm rusty writing it. The image of them dancing was the first thing I thought of when I read your prompt (yup, my brain worries me...)

[naye]

Oh, my. That is hysterical! XD And wonderful and wrong and beautiful and I absolutely love it.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

<3 ^__^

[gnine.livejournal.com]

BAHAHAHAHHAA! LOVE IT! Can so so picture it, too!

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

It was far too good a mental image for me to pass up! ^^

[stitcher2ficcer.livejournal.com]

**SNORT!!** Oh my god, you're keeping me up way too late laughing!

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Will try not to keep you up too late - but I do appreciate the laughter! ^^