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

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

Ocean's Eleven, Linus and Danny and Rusty, confidence is catching

Can't do this the justice it deserves but here's my attempt

[samueljames]

Attention to detail is important, it's how he picks his moments and can rob someone without them even noticing it but he wants to be involved more, prove he can do it all except some skills aren't about repeating an action till it's just right. Danny and Rusty possess this easy charm with charisma and confidence oozing from them that makes people want to be around them and gets people to tell them secrets they never intended divulging. After he's studied them a little more he sees that even behaviour can be practiced, spots the way they interact with people, flirting as a distraction or using false praise to flatter, he asks Rusty to help him because he likes being around them and if he can learn enough they'll never ask him to leave.

Re: Can't do this the justice it deserves but here's my attempt

[grim-lupine.livejournal.com]

This is fabulous! Thank you so much! This really captures Linus for me--it makes me think of this one O11 fic I read where Linus is thinking about how his dad told him he was technically one of the best thieves in the world, but incredibly boring to watch. I feel like that's what Linus wants to learn--how to have that effortless charisma that Danny and Rusty have, and you've written that perfectly. And that last bit! if he can learn enough they'll never ask him to leave

It's like a surprise look at his insecurities, and I love it. Thank you so much! :D

Re: Can't do this the justice it deserves but here's my attempt

[samueljames]

Thanks, I'm so relieved you liked it. I wanted to write him more confident because I know you like that but I was thinking about his dad and how he's learned more from Danny and Rusty than he ever did from his dad. In his head I have him thinking that the more skills he knows the more useful he'll be to the group because they've given him a sense of belonging. Yeah I probably analyse too much :)