Word #41

[crazedturkey.livejournal.com]

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Today's word is: impose

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[colour-me-troll.livejournal.com]

Title:
Musical Theatre (http://colour-me-troll.livejournal.com/41155.html)
Fandom/original: Harry Potter
Characters: Albus Severus/Scorpius
Rating: G/PG
Word count: 230

[cookiemonsta.livejournal.com]

Title: Like a stringless puppet (http://ragingquiet26.livejournal.com/18784.html?mode=reply)
Fandom/original: Supernatural
Characters: Sam, Dean
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 419

[yunami.livejournal.com]

Title: Imposition
Fandom/original: Original
Characters: Original
Rating: G
Word count: 339

"I don't mean to impose," she muttered, shifting lightly from foot to foot in the sorority house's hallway. "I just...I can go somewhere else, if this is a bad time."

It wasn't the soft voice or the fidgeting that got to her--though those were utterly pathetic, and certainly enough to provoke pity in anyone with a heart not made of stone--but rather the air of complete dejection portrayed in the smaller girl's slumped shoulders and downcast eyes. She looked as though someone had just run over her dog.

"Honey? What's up?" She heard rustling behind her, and then Josh was standing at her shoulder, blinking sleepily, sheet wrapped loosely around his waist.

"Oh!" Amy blushed. "Sorry, I didn't know..." She turned to go, but, moved by her sister's defeated posture, Abby laid a hand on her shoulder.

"It's okay. Come on in."

--

"Why don't you go get a snack or something?" Abby murmured, kissing her boyfriend's cheek.

He nodded and made his way out, smiling kindly at Amy as he slid past her.

Abby grinned fondly at his retreating back for a moment before turning back to her distraught Little Sister, now perched on the end of her bed. "Okay, sweetie, what's wrong?"

Amy's hands clenched in her lap. "It's Eric...He's cheating on me."

Abby was startled. They seemed like such a good couple--she'd met Eric a few times, and thought he was a nice guy. He'd always been attentive and affectionate with Amy. "Oh, honey. Do you know this for a fact, or is it just a suspicion? I mean--"

"No, I--I caught him. A girl from our Chem class, He didn't even try to deny it." Tears spilled from her eyes, and she turned and buried her face in her friend's shoulder. "Why? I love him so much! Why would he do that to me?"

Abby had no answer to give. All she could do was to rock her weeping Little and stroke the girl's hair until she'd cried herself out.

[bilith.livejournal.com]

Title: You may not (http://bilith.livejournal.com/1264.html#cutid1)
Fandom/original: Weiss Kreuz
Characters: Brad Crawford, Schuldig
Rating: PG13
Word count: 242

[starlingthefool.livejournal.com]

Title: Landscape of Memory
Fandom/original: Original
Characters: 2 original
Rating: G
Word count: 212

When I remember you from before, you loom over me; as long and tall as the shadows in the afternoon. I am tiny, couldn’t touch your shoulders if I jumped, but I am complete in myself. Not afraid. This is the most comfortable I will ever feel in my own skin.

What I’ve tried so hard to forget is how diminished you were in your hospital bed. Your skin was sallow and loose on your bones, skin cool to touch, limbs thin in their long atrophy. They’d shaved your beard. It made your face look even emptier, not even the illusion that you were somewhere still in that shrunken body.

What I try to remember is that day on the beach, the first time I saw the ocean. You taught me how to swim in the waves, told me not to swallow the water or I’d get sick. I remember standing amidst the breaking waves, my hands holding on to your shoulders. A tiny child and her tiny father standing at the edge of the vast sea.

The wave took us both by surprise, knocked you off your feet, tossed us carelessly underneath the surface. I held on with both hands, confidant you’d bring both of us back into the light again.

[wishfics.livejournal.com]

Title: Planning of the Wolf (http://wishfics.livejournal.com/22483.html)
Fandom/original: Doctor Who
Characters: Bad Wolf, (Ninth) Doctor, Rose Tyler; implied Doctor x Rose
Rating: K+ / PG
Word count: 520

[hitokiri-black.livejournal.com]

Title: Imposter
Fandom/original: Rurouni Kenshin
Characters: Kenshin, Sanosuke, Kaoru
Rating: G
Word count: 280
AN: I don't think this is funny at all...however it's what I came up with and I'm going to use it as a learning experince.

Click (http://hitokiri-black.livejournal.com/23487.html#cutid1)