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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

Comments

[advancedbosoms]

Cordy and any of the following please!

- Dean
- Stefan
- Buffy
- Elena

Writer's choice!

estivate ~ the vampire diaries/buffyverse ~ 827 words

[braveandstupid]

The Chases always summer in Mystic Falls.

Elena never really paid much attention to it before, beyond the fact that there was a new girl hanging out with them and Tyler looked like he was twice as likely to punch things as he did previously. Elena actually likes her, though – not that it’s really hard for her to like anyone. Cordelia is blunt and to the point with absolutely no filter at all, but then again so is Caroline Forbes. She can’t dislike one just because she hasn’t known her since she was a baby.

That’s how Elena rolls.

It’s the summer that her parents died that she really notices for the first time why Cordelia and Caroline are not the same as they may think. Elena is mostly floating through the world on autopilot, trying not to let her own grief drown her as she keeps wondering why she survives over anything else. Her friends try to help – offering to go to the movies, or hang out at the Grill, but she can’t. Not now. Not when the world still feels like it’s going to crush in on her at any minute. She politely declines which is probably better than politely trying to struggle through a party when she’s not feeling it at all, but at the end of the day, she still winds up alone.

It’s that last week of summer, the day before school starts for the Mystic Falls kids and before Cordelia has to fly back to Sunnydale, and Cordelia and Tyler appear on her front door. Tyler’s probably here because his mom asked him to make an effort, to include the Gilberts “after all they’ve been through” but Tyler and Elena have never exactly been close, so this only makes this feel even more forced than it already is.

Especially given not too long ago, she broke up with his best friend.

“Hey, Elena,” he says, not even bothering to hide the awkward, because he really doesn’t care, and Elena appreciates that in her own strange way. “We’re having a sendoff party for Cordelia over at the house. Thought you and Jeremy might like to come.”

“I don’t know where Jeremy is,” Elena admits. She worries about that because it’s easier than worrying about herself, but she doesn’t really know what to do about it yet. He lost his parents too. It’s hard to see the line where grief becomes addiction or worse when things are slipping too far from her for her to pull her back in. Jeremy is all she has now. She just doesn’t know how to make sure she doesn’t eventually wind up with nothing at all. “And thanks for inviting me but I think I’m just gonna stay in. School and stuff tomorrow.”

“Whatever,” Tyler says with a shrug, clearly happy to just walk away with that answer. “See you tomorrow, Gilbert.”

“Oh, come on.”

Both Tyler and Elena snap their attention back on to Cordelia, eyes clearly surprised by the outburst. Elena suddenly feels defensive, for the first time in a really long time and it’s startling how a statement that simple can put her so much on guard.

“Come on what?”

“You’ve been sitting inside and moping all summer.” The other girl just challenges her right back and suddenly Tyler looks really uncomfortable with where this conversation is going. Whether it’s because he really didn’t want Elena there or the fact that Cordelia was treading in dangerous territory wasn’t really clear.

“Her parents died, Cor.”

“Yeah, and it sucks. I get that. But the rest of the world isn’t going to stop because of it and they’re not going to come back. Eventually you’re going to have to start moving on.”

It’s something she’s known for a while, but hearing it said it such a sharp way hits her hard. Cordelia’s a truth teller, she’s always known that. She just hasn’t been the one that needed the truth told to her before. (She usually had her Mom.)

“Wow,” Tyler turns to take Cordelia by the shoulders, starting to guide her off the porch. Because even if he doesn’t like her much at the moment, he at least still knows when there’s a line and that line comes with telling people to get over their dead parents. “I’m … sorry, and we’re just going to go.”

She stares at their retreating backs for a moment, almost as though she’s still trying to process the shock of it all. They’re about halfway down the stairs before she speaks up. “Tyler, wait!”

“Yeah?” There’s a hesitant look in his face, the kind of look people have been giving her all summer. A look like she’s going to break or fall apart, but in his case there’s a twinge of fear, because he’s not equipped to handle that kind of emotional reaction.

But, luckily for him, she doesn’t.

“What time does the party start?”

Time to stop being stuck.