Welcome to the Three Sentence Fic-A-Thon:

[caramelsilver]

This is a challenge where you answer a prompt with a fic consisting of only three sentences. It's open to all fandoms and you can post and answer as many prompts as you like. Only one prompt per comment please.

When posting a prompt please format it this way:

fandom, character/pairing, prompt word/sentence.

Lastly, please pimp this to your flist, I'd like as many as possible to come and participate!

Have fun!

If you have any questions ask them to the first comment.

Edit December 10th: Thanks to the brilliant grim_lupine we now have a delicious account. So head on over there to find some unfilled prompts: three_sentence_ficathon's delicious bookmarks.

A small note from grim_lupine who's organizing the delicious archive: "So I'm not familiar with all the fandoms here; sometimes when people post a ficlet they abbreviate a fandom and sometimes they don't (like BSG versus Battlestar Galactica, but I know that one) so I might have it listed twice in the delicious tags. If someone notices something messed up they can comment below." -- So do that, and when requesting something new, please use the fandom's whole name.

Comments

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Chronicles of Narnia, Jadis, queen forever and never

[lizzie-marie-23.livejournal.com]

Forever - such a frail human word, useless and ignorant. She was queen forever once, on Charn, and it got boring very quickly - nothing lasts.

In fact, Nothing is the only thing that does last, and Never doesn't end.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Merlin/Chronicles of Narnia, Morgana/Susan, we remain

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

"It's no coincidence, you know," Morgana says suddenly, face half-shadowed and forbidding in the flickering firelight, and she waits for a moment during which Susan says nothing, before she continues, "it's no coincidence that we are the ones that remain; they all thought they could reconcile two worlds--either the world of magic and the world without, or your world in which you ruled and the world into which you were thrust back."

Susan swallows, and doesn't think about her siblings who were full of idealism--where has that idealism led them now?; "The only thing you can do is accept who you are and live for the place you are in," she agrees quietly with more than a little bitterness.

Morgana leans into her side slowly, still staring into the depths of the fire, and she says, "You have to be practical," and her voice cracks ever-so-slightly on the last word; Susan closes her eyes and wonders why practicality always seems to lead to loneliness.

(Er. Not sure if this something like what you wanted, hope it is! These two are similar in many ways, and fascinating to write. :D)

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Merlin/Chronicles of Narnia, Morgana/Susan, how we hold the world together

[notoriousreign.livejournal.com]

Morgana smiled excitedly, linking Susan's arm tightly as they strolled down the road together. She couldn't help drawling, "What would this silly world do without us Susan darling?"
Susan smirked back, giving Morgana's hand a squeeze back, as she replied with "Nothing at all."

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Chronicles of Narnia, Susan, all that I know is nothing

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

School is a wash. Susan sits behind her desk, tracing idle patterns in her notebook, and ignores the teacher, making a mental list of everything that she's learned in the past fifteen years that's utterly useless here. It's a very long list.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Merlin, Arthur, meadows

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Chronicles of Narnia, Lucy, to hide behind the stars

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

There is a moment of what Lucy can only explain as sheer madness, when Caspian says that he means to press on into the utter east, that Lucy wonders if she and Edmund and Eustace (well, maybe not Eustace) can all stay behind on Ramandu's island. Maybe Aslan can't touch them here, in this place, and she's certain that if they keep going, they'll never come back. But then she remembers that she is a queen of Narnia, and a queen of Narnia hides from no one.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Avatar: the Last Airbender, Suki, warrior

[fiendlikethee.livejournal.com]

In the Boiling Rock, there are days when Suki wants nothing more than to curl into a ball and cry. She misses her home, her Kyoshi sisters, the days when war seemed so far away.

She never sheds a tear; she's a warrior and warriors don't cry.

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

Sherlock Holmes movie, Holmes/Watson, it's ridiculous how lost they are without each other

1a: Watson

[alder-knight.livejournal.com]

They're on holiday in the countryside - it's lovely this far out from the bustle and grime of London, green and blooming and buzzing, and she looks like a picture postcard with her bonnet and parasol, both blue as the sky, eyes flashing as she hums softly and lies back onto their picnic blanket beneath the trees. Watson can't help but notice the bent stalks of grass that make a faint path out of the meadow and into the woods between the cottages; he puzzles over it, and starts, out of habit, to get up and follow the trail, but Mary catches his sleeve and looks up at him with an inquiring smile.

"Just... stretching a bit," he says, and he pats her hand fondly to set her mind at ease, even if his own is, at present, approximately two hundred fifteen miles away.

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

Criminal Minds, Reid/Morgan, not as innocent as he looks

(Oh my god, you guys, I've written 100 ficlets over here. I'm torn between doing a victory dance and bemoaning the fact that I apparently have no other life. :D)

not-fic

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

Victory dance, definitely. Meanwhile I'm gonna keep telling myself that having like two-thirds of the SPN stuff on here being either prompts I filled or prompts I left is a good thing.

[lizzie-marie-23.livejournal.com]

Jane Eyre, Helen/Jane, building up her self-esteem

[kaitimcgill.livejournal.com]

"Helen.... how do you do it... well, I mean... take all that punishment when you know you don't deserve it, when you know it's wrong?"

"Well, Jane, because I always know that God will take care of me whenever I return to him so I am never afraid of that journey coming... fear would be disrespectful to my god... a sign of distrust, you can be the same way too Jane, strong in your convictions; just know that God is always watching over you and you can face down the entire world if you have to."

As Jane's friend drifted off to sleep the young girl thought about Helen's words, all she had to do was trust in God and nothing could make her afraid ever again, not the girls that ridiculed her or the adults that punished her... maybe she would be okay if she could just trust.

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, author's choice, poltergeist in Amherst

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, author's choice, Devil's Gates in Clifton

[alder-knight.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, author's choice, "We can't stop here! This is bat country!"

the comma-heavy and plot-deficient bat-fic

[lizzie-marie-23.livejournal.com]

As a new recruit for Torchwood, she needs to stay fit, so she takes up spelunking, because it gives her a major adrenaline kick and is slightly less dangerous than sky-diving.

As she crawls through the tunnel to the cave with millions of bats (okay, it's probably only several hundred, but whatever, it's a whole bunch) she thinks of something she once told the Doctor - that she thought the teachers lived in the school - and how it turned out that they actually did and they were bat-people intent on taking over the universe.

Thanks to her, school's out for summer and the Doctor's out of her reach forever.

[alder-knight.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, Wilf, mixed blessings.

[redsilverchains.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Adam Milligan, what could have been

[vampyreranger.livejournal.com]

Adam could have been normal, could have been safe. He could have been a doctor, a lawyer, and astronaut. If he hadn't been born to John Winchester.

[redsilverchains.livejournal.com]

His Dark Materials/Dark is Rising, Lyra/Will Stanton, she has to remind herself of who he isn't

[lizzie-marie-23.livejournal.com]

biblical, Joshua, the day the Earth stood still

[fiendlikethee.livejournal.com]

Joshua has always trusted in the Lord, and in His mercy, the Lord has always provided for him. He has no doubts about the power of his God.

Then in the heat of battle he cries, "O sun, stand still over Gibeon; O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!" and, for all his faith, he is as shaken as the Amorites when his wish is granted.

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Chuck, Chuck/Awesome, sweet

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Heroes/Prison Break, Sylar/T-Bag, in prison together

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Leverage/Buffy, Eliot/Faith, train

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Terminator:SCC, Derek/John, not wanting to think about what futureJohn would say

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Literary RPS, Huxley/Orwell, bleakness contest

[fiendlikethee.livejournal.com]

"I've got constant revision of the past to suit the present's needs," Orwell says after a long silence.

"Yeah, well, I've got electrocuted babies," Huxley retorts. And when Orwell makes a noncommittal noise, he repeats, "Electrocuted babies."

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, anyone outside the continental US, hunting

OFC in Chennai, India

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

Kalpana was born to a family of strong, proud men--her mother died when she was small, and her father and three older brothers raised her with the help of too many nosy, well-meaning aunties; she loves her father, who is a tall, commanding man, but unfailingly gentle with her, and she loves her brothers who dote upon her and baby her, but what she loves most about them is that they have taught her that she can be as strong as any of them.

She kills her first werewolf when she is fifteen, and throws up over the body; her father holds her hair back and tells her gently My good girl, chellam*, you did well; by eighteen she has hit her full height, taller than her second-oldest brother, Mani (something which he scowls about anytime any of them remind him of it), and she's so fast with a knife that almost nothing can ever see her coming.

She still wears saris and wakes up early to offer prayers, she still learns how to make a perfect dosai**, but she only does those things because she wants to; she is a woman, strong and proud like her father and brothers taught her, and the only one who can dictate the direction of her life is her.

* a Tamil endearment
** Indian dish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosa)

(ilu for giving a prompt that let me write about Chennai. :D)

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, anyone outside of the continental US, the hunter's network

Texts

[redsilverchains.livejournal.com]

a text exchange between two Filipino Hunters*:

MESSAGE RECEIVED: Kuya, tapos na…the manananggal was no match against Ralph; I still can’t believe how brilliant that guy can fight, just armed with a buntot pagi (even Father Andrew looked seriously impressed)—Ralph tore into the mananaggal’s upper half in no time, and I’m proud to brag that Karen and I helped him rip it to shreds (though I really think we should work more with the guns and less with the itaks next time—we are not our lolos anymore, you know?) and then we salted and garlicked the lower half and burned the thing… Father Andrew said all the incantations, and as usual, he also prayed for everyone else currently on hunt...speaking of which, what’s up with you guys?

REPLY: Tol, we’re dealing with another crazy kapre, is all—I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get it’s damn smell off my clothes—and Alex has been asking around town and we think it’s befriended a tikbalang and that they’re getting a kick out of messing with the townspeople’s heads —seriously, I can’t wait to get back to the ghost hunts after we’re done with all these freaky elementals…oh yeah, did Dad text you about the dead nuns acting up in that school?

MESSAGE RECEIVED: Yeah, I did—it’s your usual centuries-old Spanish-era school…but then we heard that there’s an aswang skulking around next town, so Ralph and his little brother are the ones going after the nuns (Dad and Father Andrew think it sounds like a good first hunt for the kid) and Karen and me are joining up with her sister because they’ve both been longing for an aswang hunt —maybe you and Alex can join us later, if you aren’t sick of elementals yet…hey, you two stay safe over there, all right?

***

Kuya- older brother
Tapos na- it’s over
Tol- affectionate slang term for ‘sibling’
Lolo- grandfather
Itak- machete-like weapon, sometimes used in Filipino martial arts
Buntot pagi- stingray’s tail used as a whip

Elementals:
Manananggal- winged monster that can separate into two halves
Aswang- generic term that can refer to ghouls or vampires
Kapre- tobacco smoking giant, is a prankster
Tikbalang- humanoid creature with a horse’s head, likes getting people lost in the woods

*Trust me, if Hunters existed in the Philippines, they’d get word around via text messages ; )

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, anyone outside of the continental US, angels

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

(this will make no sense if you are unfamiliar with Neon Genesis Evangelion, but I can't make my brain go anywhere else just now—skimming this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_%28Neon_Genesis_Evangelion%29) should get you up to speed, though)

When the spirit arrives, shaking the ground with it voice, Midori thinks it's an earthquake, one mild enough to ignore, so she does. Later, when the voice resolves into sensible language, she hears the spirit out: shito and tenshi and in need of her help. Midori thanks the spirit for its interest in her and asks it to leave: if there are angels, there must also be their opponents, and on the whole Midori would prefer to be Asuka.