Requested Drabbles, part 1

[winter]

(Snape and Magrat, for bekithewitch, 300 words)

AN UNEXPECTED CONNECTION


"I'm sure we can send you back, and if not, Granny knows wizards in Ankh-Morpork who make holes in the time-space continuum all the time."

Snape did his best to tune out the witch's chatter. Garlick was the most agreeable of the local coven, but that was only because she neither reminded him of Voldemort or ogled his arse (and he still didn't know how that Ogg woman had managed it through three layers of robes). Otherwise, he would have to check whether Lockhart had ever gotten Trelawney pregnant.

"Do you want some soothing herbal tea?"

Great, now she was threatening to cook. "What's in it?"

"St Ungulant's Wort, dance-in-the-fog, goatcouncil and powdered Counting Pine bark."

Snape frowned. "That's... wait. Did you gather the goatcouncil at midnight with a silver-handled knife tempered in mountain spring water?"

"Oh, not at all. If you use your left hand and hold it blade-down, you can use an ebony-handled one. It doesn't get scratched so easily." Magrat lifted the knife to demonstrate. The blade was easily a foot long.

Snape noticed other things in the dark corner where the herbs hung. Cauldrons, mortars, stirrers, vials...

"You know," he said slowly, "you could add a pinch of beetle root to that tea..."

He'd call Magrat's smile innocent if he didn't know she was a Ramtop witch. "And mandrake infusion?"

"And pixie wings."

"I'm vegetarian."

"Amanita?"

"Please."


x o x o x o x o x o x

Some people tell of the cave troll. Others recall Sirius Black loose in the halls. But all agree neither of those incidents holds a candle to the night Severus Snape stumbled out of the Great Hall fireplace with a witch-queen on one arm and a many-tentacled creature from the Dungeon Dimensions on the other, singing "The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All".

~FINIS~

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(Juubei/Kazuki for sakura_no_prey, double demi-drabble - two times 50 words)


LIMITS

Change demands adaptation.

Juubei learns to follow strings with his hands as they lead him through the rooms. Knots tell him where he is. Bells on doors and windows let him know of movement, be it air or enemy.

Kazuki defines Juubei's world. That, at least, has not changed.


CHAINS

Change demands adaptation.

Kazuki learns the name of every ophthalmologist in Japan. When he looks at things, he describes them in his head for unseeing eyes. He has no time of his own now, not without purpose.

Juubei's blindness has put chains around Kazuki's hands. They only hurt sometimes.

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I'm still taking drabble requests. Any fandom I'm familiar with - give me a character, pairing, prompt, missing scene, idea.

Fandoms I'm especially interested in drabbling right now: Chronicles of Narnia, CLAMP's Wish, FAKE, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (manga), Van Helsing, Phantom of the Opera, any Guy Gavriel Kay book.

Comments

[bekijane.livejournal.com]

I'm crying with laughter, oh godz that was good. You could make a whole fic out of that.

I didn't do yours justice - although it was a brilliant writing excersise for me. Thank you.

[winter]

Oh, I liked yours a lot, I'm just waiting for a moment of free brain-space to comment :) I'm spending today running between lectures, so that'll probably be in the evening...

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

A post-movie Gabriel/Dracula fic? With some kind of semi-happy ending? Or am I asking too much?^_~

[winter]

Hmmm.

Going off from the end of Quintile okay?

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

It would be more than okay^_^

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

BTW, I posted this same meme a while ago. Feel free to ask a drabble of me as well^^

[winter]

I will, once the flu stops filling my brain with wool :S

[shoiryu.livejournal.com]

Gabriel/Vladislaus... angelically! (I'm so predicatable.)

[winter]

Angelically and demonically, I should hope. Will do :D

[gisho.livejournal.com]

Second one: oooohh. nice - very strong imagery.

[winter]

Why thank you :) At first I only wanted to write the Juubei part, but he didn't want to say more than 50 words. Then I had the title of the second part, and went on from that - I've been re-reading Sandman, so the "desire and despair twinned" motif is big in my brain right now.

[trixie-chick.livejournal.com]

*loves on limits and chains* that's very nice, a taste of what their life became. purr. ^_^

[winter]

I always thought the hot springs episode just screamed "co-dependency" ;)

[sakura-no-prey.livejournal.com]

oooh clings to fics...and stares at mention of Chronicles of Narnia...I really need to reread that series...i loved the first book but i can't really remember the rest.....

[ciciaye.livejournal.com]

That Magrat/Severus one was excellent!
CCA

[ajnastarheart.livejournal.com]

Very good drabble indeed. Brought the corner of my lips up in what could be considered a smile...

[winter]

Why thank you :)

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I just found this one... Snape and Magrat. Oh my. On the other hand, once you get past her uber-soppy manner, Magrat is quite impressive. Snape would like her if only for her experimentation.

[winter]

Snape's quite adept at looking past the surface if he wants to, and he's bound to like someone who does Potions, just on principle. Granny, on the other hand, would have reminded him way too much of himself for comfort ;)

Oh, and I'm friending you back :)

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Granny, on the other hand, would have reminded him way too much of himself for comfort ;)

Hmmm... maybe. I'm not sure that Severus is that self-aware, to notice the similiarities between himself and Granny. And he's not as good at knowing Right and Wrong, the way Granny is. Severus might mature into something like Granny, but he might not.