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canonical_insanity) wrote2007-06-23 08:31 pm
canonical_insanity) wrote2007-06-23 08:31 pm
Three fics in one, because I'm in a good mood...
TITLE: Prayer
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rushikayu13
FANDOM: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
CHARACTER/PAIRING/TRIAD: Andrew Wells
GENRE: Gen.
TABLE: Dark
PROMPT: #3 -Despair.
RATING: PG/PG-13 (12 for UK)
WORD COUNT: 122 words.
SUMMARY: A look at what Wishverse! Andrew might be like.
WARNINGS: Moderately unhappy ending, mentions of violence and death.
DISCLAIMER: Joss Whedon owns the Buffy-verse, as well as Firefly. While I would enjoy having both, it unfortunately isn't going to happen.
Since he found out about the Hellmouth beneath the school -and more importantly, what was massing on top of it- Andrew has regularly visited the church near his home. Sometimes, he goes because he's ran out of holy water.
Sometimes he just prays.
It doesn't matter if anyone's listening -why would he listen, this God that allowed the demons to take over? It doesn't make sense anymore- but it's nice to just get away from the screaming and the fighting, the terror and the despair and above all, to get away from the death.
Not to pray for a better world tomorrow. He's not that naive anymore.
He's praying for any tomorrow just as long as he's alive to see it.
TITLE: Liars
AUTHOR:rushikayu13
FANDOM: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
CHARACTER/PAIRING/TRIAD: Warren Mears
GENRE: Gen.
TABLE: Dark
PROMPT: #11 -Lies.
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 196 words.
SUMMARY: Warren reflects on himself.
WARNINGS: None.
DISCLAIMER: Joss Whedon owns the Buffy-verse, as well as Firefly. While I would enjoy having both, it unfortunately isn't going to happen.
There's more than one way to lie.
Most people can perfect the skill of lying with their voices.
It's easy. Parents are experts at it by design, telling their kids that they're attractive, that they love them or -in his parents case- that the girl next door died from being stabbed in the neck, when he knew -or thought that he did, at least- that those marks weren't stab wounds.
There are many people that can lie with their eyes. It's said that the eyes are the windows to the soul, but some people put blinds on the inside. Andrew's even better than him at that, in a weird way. People look at Andrew and only see the wide eyes and pop-culture obsession. They don't see the masochistic streak that runs beneath the surface.
But the rarest of all liars are the ones that, while knowing the truth, can still lie to the world -and themselves- successfully. Jonathan calls it the 'doublethink' effect. He calls it people that can lie with their souls.
He's actually good at that. He can make the world think he's a misogynistic sociopath. Only problem is, now he believes it too.
TITLE: Prejudice
AUTHOR:rushikayu13
FANDOM: Harry Potter
CHARACTER/PAIRING/TRIAD: Theodore Nott
GENRE: Gen.
TABLE: Dark
PROMPT: #1 -Hatred
RATING: PG-13 (15 for UK)
WORD COUNT: 347 words.
SUMMARY: A possible answer to why Theodore could see the Thestrals in book 5.
WARNINGS: Character death.
DISCLAIMER: JKR owns the Harry Potter fandom, not me. I'm just doing the literary equivalent of plying them with drink in order to take advantage of them. :D
When he was younger, Theodore had asked his father a question that he thought was well thought out, considered and completely relevant.
"How can you hate someone without even knowing them?"
It had certainly gotten his father's attention. He had lain in bed for days while the bruises went down. Later, his mother had given him a proper answer.
"Your father," and she never referred to him as her husband, or even by his name, "believes that if someone has different ideas and opinions to him, they are not human at all. And that -in his eyes- makes it alright for him to hate them. Because he's too narrow-minded to think that anyone else could ever be right."
That had been his last conversation with her. That night his parents got into an argument about his future and -because he was inquisitive and curious- he had opened the door a little and listened to some of it.
"You are not forcing Theodore to fight your hopeless crusade! Not a chance! If he's going to take the mark of Voldemort, he's going to do it because he chooses to, not for some idiotic blood war!"
"You will not speak of the Dark Lord that way!" His father was growing even louder and angrier. In contrast, his mother was a glacier to his volcano.
"Wrong. You can't stop me from speaking. Not this time. So, what kind of credible Dark Lord can be defeated by a child, anyway?"
That was the last straw. His father knocked into her, kicked her wand to the floor and hit her again and again. She screamed for what seemed like hours and then she stopped, suddenly.
But he didn't. He hit her until he was sure that she was dead and then for a few times afterwards.
Because he didn't think she was human.
And it was at this point, even before coming to Hogwarts, that Theodore learned an important lesson about life. While you can dislike someone without knowing them personally, true hatred is reserved for the people that you do know.
AUTHOR:
rushikayu13FANDOM: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
CHARACTER/PAIRING/TRIAD: Andrew Wells
GENRE: Gen.
TABLE: Dark
PROMPT: #3 -Despair.
RATING: PG/PG-13 (12 for UK)
WORD COUNT: 122 words.
SUMMARY: A look at what Wishverse! Andrew might be like.
WARNINGS: Moderately unhappy ending, mentions of violence and death.
DISCLAIMER: Joss Whedon owns the Buffy-verse, as well as Firefly. While I would enjoy having both, it unfortunately isn't going to happen.
Since he found out about the Hellmouth beneath the school -and more importantly, what was massing on top of it- Andrew has regularly visited the church near his home. Sometimes, he goes because he's ran out of holy water.
Sometimes he just prays.
It doesn't matter if anyone's listening -why would he listen, this God that allowed the demons to take over? It doesn't make sense anymore- but it's nice to just get away from the screaming and the fighting, the terror and the despair and above all, to get away from the death.
Not to pray for a better world tomorrow. He's not that naive anymore.
He's praying for any tomorrow just as long as he's alive to see it.
TITLE: Liars
AUTHOR:
rushikayu13FANDOM: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
CHARACTER/PAIRING/TRIAD: Warren Mears
GENRE: Gen.
TABLE: Dark
PROMPT: #11 -Lies.
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 196 words.
SUMMARY: Warren reflects on himself.
WARNINGS: None.
DISCLAIMER: Joss Whedon owns the Buffy-verse, as well as Firefly. While I would enjoy having both, it unfortunately isn't going to happen.
There's more than one way to lie.
Most people can perfect the skill of lying with their voices.
It's easy. Parents are experts at it by design, telling their kids that they're attractive, that they love them or -in his parents case- that the girl next door died from being stabbed in the neck, when he knew -or thought that he did, at least- that those marks weren't stab wounds.
There are many people that can lie with their eyes. It's said that the eyes are the windows to the soul, but some people put blinds on the inside. Andrew's even better than him at that, in a weird way. People look at Andrew and only see the wide eyes and pop-culture obsession. They don't see the masochistic streak that runs beneath the surface.
But the rarest of all liars are the ones that, while knowing the truth, can still lie to the world -and themselves- successfully. Jonathan calls it the 'doublethink' effect. He calls it people that can lie with their souls.
He's actually good at that. He can make the world think he's a misogynistic sociopath. Only problem is, now he believes it too.
TITLE: Prejudice
AUTHOR:
rushikayu13FANDOM: Harry Potter
CHARACTER/PAIRING/TRIAD: Theodore Nott
GENRE: Gen.
TABLE: Dark
PROMPT: #1 -Hatred
RATING: PG-13 (15 for UK)
WORD COUNT: 347 words.
SUMMARY: A possible answer to why Theodore could see the Thestrals in book 5.
WARNINGS: Character death.
DISCLAIMER: JKR owns the Harry Potter fandom, not me. I'm just doing the literary equivalent of plying them with drink in order to take advantage of them. :D
When he was younger, Theodore had asked his father a question that he thought was well thought out, considered and completely relevant.
"How can you hate someone without even knowing them?"
It had certainly gotten his father's attention. He had lain in bed for days while the bruises went down. Later, his mother had given him a proper answer.
"Your father," and she never referred to him as her husband, or even by his name, "believes that if someone has different ideas and opinions to him, they are not human at all. And that -in his eyes- makes it alright for him to hate them. Because he's too narrow-minded to think that anyone else could ever be right."
That had been his last conversation with her. That night his parents got into an argument about his future and -because he was inquisitive and curious- he had opened the door a little and listened to some of it.
"You are not forcing Theodore to fight your hopeless crusade! Not a chance! If he's going to take the mark of Voldemort, he's going to do it because he chooses to, not for some idiotic blood war!"
"You will not speak of the Dark Lord that way!" His father was growing even louder and angrier. In contrast, his mother was a glacier to his volcano.
"Wrong. You can't stop me from speaking. Not this time. So, what kind of credible Dark Lord can be defeated by a child, anyway?"
That was the last straw. His father knocked into her, kicked her wand to the floor and hit her again and again. She screamed for what seemed like hours and then she stopped, suddenly.
But he didn't. He hit her until he was sure that she was dead and then for a few times afterwards.
Because he didn't think she was human.
And it was at this point, even before coming to Hogwarts, that Theodore learned an important lesson about life. While you can dislike someone without knowing them personally, true hatred is reserved for the people that you do know.