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[iluvroadrunner6]

The rules are simple. I have a calendar of sorts. Each day has a word. A 100-200 word drabble will be written for that word on that day. If you would like to claim a specific pairing or combo for that particular word, feel free to comment below and tell me, and I will add it to my list.

Given how little I've actually written this year, I'm hoping to actually get this done. We'll see what happens, but these are set for September 2013.

01	02	03	04	05	06	07
Lapidary	Duende	Ustulation	Nedovtipa	Solecism	Effleurage	Ecophobia
08	09	10	11	12	13	14
Floccinaucinihilipilification	Kalopsia	Sturmfrei	Eesome	Sciamachy	Mooreeffoc	Meraki
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Susurrus	Micawber	Arcadian	Fanaa	Advesperascit	Sarang	Myötähäpeä
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
Kef	Eutony	Smultronstalle	Metanoia	Nubivagant	Puszipajtas	Estivate
29	30
Fuubutsushi	Oniochalasia

They don't have to be characters I actively write for, they can just be for anything in fandoms you know I know. I will note all claimed prompts in this general area, I'm just too lazy to make a set up right now. GO! Prompt! Win!

01. Stefan/Bo ~ for energybar
02. Dean & Diana ~ for diana_abel
03. Bela/Lana ~ for manorsuperman
04. Stiles/Cora ~ for colormyspoon
05. Steve/Peggy ~ for valuedstrength
06. Neal & Anna ~ for itswhoyouare
07. Stefan/Rebekah ~ for easily
08. Flack/Angell ~ for colormyspoon
09. Tess & Elektra ~ for likeatragedy
10. Alek & Ava ~ for dualism
11. Max/Dean ~ for colormyspoon
12. Don Flack ~ for expectedtheworld
13. Kol/Bonnie ~ for judgy
14. Bo/Tyler ~ for lockwood
15. Tyler/Caroline ~ for believable
16. Piper & Christopher ~ for cute_andviolent
17. Cassie & Cas ~ for starryeyed
18. Sam/Allison ~ for transferee
19. Alec McDowell ~ for believable
20. Charlie & Dylan ~ for inthistwilight
21. Maxwell & Lois ~ for othered
22. Dean/Christine ~ for hypospraying
23. Cora Hale ~ for beachland
24. Melinda & Penny ~ for just_acomplex
25. Isaac/Caroline ~ for claustrophobias
26. Dean & Tony ~ for ironism
27. Anna/Neal ~ for itswhoyouare
28. Cordelia & Elena ~ for advancedbosoms
29. Kara/Lana ~ for energybar
30. Stefan/Cordelia ~ for visiongirl

Word Count:
18,460 words

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[valuedstrength]

05- Steve/Peggy

09- Elektra + Tess... or Elektra/Tess. Don't let me limit you. /innocent whistling

solecism ~ marvel cinematic universe ~ 325 words

[straightshooter]

Peggy knows who Steve Rogers is from the beginning, mostly because she’s been with him since then. The small, polite man from Brooklyn doesn’t disappear when he receives the serum – it only makes him more so. Even in the months after the fact, when he’s a national hero and making a real difference in the war, he’s still the same. Still so polite, still so reserved and while there are hints of what he feels for her—the picture in the compass, the comments from the other members of the commandos—he’s far too focused and far too gentlemanly to ever cross that line.

In some ways, she’s glad. She’s worked hard to earn her reputation within the unit and while she’s sure that those who know them—those who egg him on at any given moment—would never see her any differently because of it, she knows the rest of the world won’t see it the same way. After having to claw tooth and nail for any sort of respect in the American army (and still not truly getting it, not in any real way), she is loathed to give it up over a simple matter of the heart. When the war was over and there is no enemy left to fight, maybe, but for right now she needs to focus on winning the war.

At the same time, she wishes that he would. That he would do the things that she can’t, that she wants to, if for no other reason than the fact that it was done. That, in some ways, is the curse of having a man who truly respects you. You can dress up, and put the hints out there, make it known that his interest wouldn’t be rejected, but he still wants to do things right. Only in their case, right means not at all.

After all, how can you when your first kiss is also a kiss goodbye?

kalopsia ~ post-paradisa ~ 891 words

[howruthless]

People assume that your loss is all the castle takes from you, that that is the price of admission, and after that you only lose what you don’t have the strength to hold on to. It’s very few that realize that with the price of admission, there’s also a price of release, a price to be paid by those who manage to escape the castle’s grasp and are launched out into the ether of it all. They lie in limbo waiting for the castle to decide that they’re ready for them again, that maybe now they’ll understand whatever twisted game it’s trying to play. When you give sentience to an building, something that just wants to reach out and hold on to things it’s hard to see the damage it really causes until it’s too plate.

In the end, the castle never really lets go of anything.

It always keeps its hooks in you, for better or for worse. Paradisa plays ping-pong with Tess’s life for years, even after the day she dies. After that, it’s out of the castle to points unknown, sending her somewhere where she’ll never be quite right. She’s whisked away to a world where everything is beautiful, even the things that are dark and see the world through a haze of blood and violence. Sometimes the most beautiful things are the things that hurt the most and this little corner of the multiverse that statement takes on a much more literal meaning.

But at least she’s not alone.

“I don’t think this path is taking us anywhere.”

Elektra’s voice is quiet, calm and lucid. She hasn’t been here as long as Tess has, and while there’s no Oliver to bind them in this end of the universe, they now have each other, even when Tess’s mind decides to stop making sense, the gaps forming in her memory being filled in by another life. The castle may decide to use that life one day, but only if she lets it take hold too strongly.

My name is Tess. “Paths usually only take us somewhere if we let them.” Tess Mercer, CEO of LuthorCorp. Daughter of Lionel Luther and Pamela Jenkins. “We shouldn’t stand still. Things that stand still for too long usually don’t start up again.”

Elektra’s eyebrows climb ever so slightly, but she defers to Tess’s experience regardless, and they start moving again. It’s one foot in front of the other, affirmations being repeated in her mind as she tries to not let the basics of who she is slip through the cracks. No one ever said surviving here was easy.

“How long do you think it will be before the castle picks us back up again?”

“I don’t know.” My name is Tess Mercer, CEO of LuthorCorp. Killed by Lex Luthor. Kidnapped to Paradisa. “I’ve been here … a while. It’s hard to know how much time has passed anyway.” She’s lost track of the days already, and she knows that’s only going to continue the more and more they walk.

“That’s not comforting.”

My name is Lutess— There’s something about that thought process that makes her pause, both in responding to Elektra and her constant mantra to reaffirm her sense of self. Lutessa. Lutessa Lena Luthor. Tess Mercer. There are too many names floating around her head and she shakes it off before finally responding to the woman in front of her. “Since when have you known Paradisa to ever be comforting.”

“Fair point.” The other woman studies her carefully, concern written clearly over her features. “Are you alright?”

“This place can make it hard to think straight, after a while.” She wouldn’t normally admit such a weakness, but she feels that Elektra understands her better than most. “I’ll be fine once we get some rest.”

Or maybe she’ll be worse. In the end it’s hard to really tell. My name is Tess Mercer. I am the CEO of LuthorCorp. My business partner is … The name slips through the cracks along with the face. All she can really gather is this sense of green and the smell of leather, the two of them not coming together to form a cohesive memory. She could try to claw to the surface but in the end she simply lets it drop.

It’s a memory she can probably come back for later.

“Let’s keep going then,” Elektra replies quietly, reaching out for her hand and gripping it firmly to help her keep up. There’s a feeling of security in that, of strength, and for a brief moment, she feels something more than the camaraderie of being stuck in this place together.

And a moment right after, when she can’t tell whether or not those feelings are supposed to be there.

***

They find a place to sleep, a small outcrop of a cave that kept them shielded from whatever dangers may be present, both outside and within the cave as well. When they sleep, the affirmations fall away and all that’s left is a malleable mind, free to be manipulated by dreams, turning fantasies into something more than what they were.

When she opens her eyes again, she is Lutessa and that is Elektra. All they have is each other. All they’ve always had is each other.

In the end, that’s all they really need.