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Gakked from jade_plume: the Five Things Ficlet Request Meme!

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in my comments section (examples: "5 Reasons Jayne Loves River" or "5 books that Bree Van de Kamp can read and read again forever " or "5 Pickup Lines That Worked for Sawyer"). Then, I'll post the answers to all your Top 5 ideas, according to me. Serious or fun! Then you post this offer in your own journal, if the mood takes you.

The fandoms I'll write about:

1. Firefly
2. Doctor Who (not old school, sorry, don't know it well enough - unless it's Turlough related, have at it and I'll do my best)
3. A Knight's Tale
4. BtVS/Angel
5. The Lord of the Rings
6. Pirates of the Caribbean
7. Good Omens
8. Lost
9. Alias
10. Carnivàle
11. Shakespeare in Love
12. Boy Meets Boy
13. Queer As Folk UK
14. Rent
15. Profit
(And OP if you girls want! I'll even write it in French! ;) )

EDIT: Add The Authority to that list. If anybody's interested. I wanna try!

Come on, people. Wake up my muses!

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Firely: Five things Wash did with his plastic dinosaurs.

1. "Zoe Alleyn and Hoban Washburn -"

"Just Wash."

"...and Wash, today you celebrate one of life's greatest moments and give recognition to the worth and beauty of love, as you join together in vows of marriage."

The bride and groom exchanged a look full of all the love they bore each other, which was plentyful and true.

"Wash, do you take Zoe Alleyn to be your wife? Do you promise to love, honor, cherish and protect her, forsaking all others and holding only unto her?"

"I do."

"Zoe, do you take Wash to be your husband? Do you promise to love, honor, cherish and protect him, forsaking all -"

"Honey," Zoe's voice was full of amusement as she walked into the cockpit. "Are you rehearsing our wedding ceremony with your dinosaurs?"

Wash fumbled with Philip and Spencer, the lucky stegosaurus and triceratops that had been about to be joined in holy matrimony by Jude the T-rex turned town official. "I might be?"

"Come on, sky's clear. Let's go rehearse the wedding night instead." Her fingers coiled in the material of his jumpsuit, pulled him out of his chair. "Leave the dinosaurs."

2. Serenity was bucking under him, and that was just every shade of wrong in the 'verse. Not only that, but it was also every bit dangerous as they were nearing atmo. Wash's arms tensed hard as he struggled to pull her up.

"Kaylee, what's going on with Serenity?"

"Power couplings got shot!" came the answer over the comm. "Y'need to steady her so's I can work on her!"

That was cause for a little Chinese, really, because Serenity sure wasn't letting him steady her. He extended his arms towards the switch to flip over to the backup system, but he couldn't reach it, braced backwards as he was in a desperate attempt not to let her hit atmo at the wrong angle. He wasn't really looking to let her turn them all into a rain of shooting stars in Persephone's sky.

His eyes landed on his dinosaurs - Jude was the longest - grabbed the T-rex, straining the muscles of his one arm to keep Serenity above atmo, and used Jude's head to flip the switch.

A few seconds, and Serenity smoothed out beneath him. Jude was put back with his fellow dinosaurs and Wash put a little distance between them and atmo, waiting for Kaylee to be done with the repairs to try reentry. "Good girl," he congratulated Serenity in Chinese, hands stroking her. He glanced at Jude with a smile. "Good job, copilot."

3. Zoe's ass was perfection, absolute perfection. Round, firm, gorgeous, smooth, everything a man could want. Or a dinosaur.

Philip made it to the top of the hill, Jude close on his heels. "This is a wondrous land and we will thrive. Dips and hills like no dinosaur has ever dreamed of seeing! We will rule over this land and we will call it... This Land!"

Jude turned to him, villainy clear in his voice. "I think we should call it your grave!"

Philip's cry of betrayal was cut short when an earthquake shook their precious land: Zoe was laughing. "Wash, baby, can we please not have the dinosaur bloodbath happen on my ass?"

He smiled, curled up around her legs, and gave her left cheek an apologetic kiss.

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4. "This game is anachronistic."

Wash looked up from playing with his dinosaurs, turned around in his pilot's chair to find River framed in the doorway. "Sheme?"

"They don't belong together," she developped, and stepped over the threshold.

Wash vaguely wondered if he shouldn't shoo her out of the cockpit, but decided he could well suffer Mal's wrath if the captain found out he hadn't. More like he could do with pushing Mal's buttons.

River pointed at one of them. "He's from the Jurassic, and she's from the Triassic, and he never even existed."

Wash looked down at his toys, back up at River. "How did you know Tracey was a she?" River shrugged, looking away at the switches lining the wall by his chair. Wash looked at her for a few seconds, then back down at his dinosaurs. Up at her with a tentative smile. "Wanna play with me? Anachronisms can be fun."

River blinked at him. And then she beamed. After they had been playing for five minutes, she pushed at his knee with her hand, caught his eyes. "Your anachronisms. They make me feel a kid again." And she smiled again, and he couldn't not smile back.

Completely crazy or not, she was just a kid.

5. Simon had done an amazing job, Zoe critically told herself. Wash would have looked asleep, if she hadn't known better, but even in his sleep his face never looked this... blank. If she had had any more tears to cry, she would have shed them here, as her fingers traced the cold line of his jaw.

"I'm sorry," she told him, emotions muted in her voice. "We're keeping the others. Some in the cockpit..." She trailed off, closed her eyes for a moment. "The rest for me."

Rigor mortis was gone, and she had very little trouble wrapping his hands around George and Spencer. She let her fingers trail over his knuckles, wondered if she could not find one last tear, for him. She bent over and kissed his forehead. "Rest in peace, my love."

The words seemed so unlike her, but she meant every one of them.

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That was great. *big grin of grinitude*

I loved number three and number five just made me *meep*

OT: parkour? Is that the right spelling? (thinking of Authority Jack and his jumping off buildings tendencies)

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Hee! Yay! Sorry for the wordiness, but give me Wash and his dinosaurs and I just cannot write just a little, clearly.

And yes, that's the right spelling. I'd never even thought of associating him with that! But yes, yes, completely.

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I am a wordy person. I cannot use one word when four would do nicely. :-)

I'm probably going to write a Quick And Dirty Guide to the Authority to go with the Jack and Jenny thing... so, that... well, I have one of the annual stories in tpb and there he spends the entire story parkour-ing, with the added fun of doors.

Jack Hawksmore does not like Cardiff.

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Ha! No, I don't usually go for wordiness... depending on characters, really. Wash would get me far more wordy than Zoe.

Yeah, I read that story! "I run," right? Great one. Brilliantly written. Which, actually, somehow makes me think to ask - Midnighter remembering some of his past by opposition to Apollo and the others, is that canon? And if so where from, because I don't think I've read that?

Is it the time rift that's being all unpleasant? Or is she just not a nice city?

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Wash would get much more wordy and occasionally come to being as opaque as River.

Yes, "I run" was fantastic. I'm not sure if it is canon; I got to the end of vol2, but haven't bought "human on the inside" or "coup d'etat". As a student, my comics budget only went so far.

Actually, it's more that Jack finds it small and uncomfortable.

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Mmmriver. I love this character like crazy. She's the only one I don't mind having fly Serenity now that Wash is dead.

Oh, I hear you. I don't actually own any of them - I've borrowed the whole lot from a friend of mine. They actually got pushed at me as he went, "you'll see, there's a gay couple, they actually adopt a kid, you'll love it." And it turned out that I loved far more than the gay couple about it.

Ha! Good point. He's used to actual super-sized cities. ...now I wanna put him in Manchester just to see what he thinks. Which won't be much.

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Oh, I hear you. I don't actually own any of them - I've borrowed the whole lot from a friend of mine. They actually got pushed at me...

I do this to RL friends all the time. I pushed the Authority at shadowkitty with "it has huge quantities of ultra-violence, you'll love it". Oh, and see if your friend has Planetary and is willing to poke it at you. Planetary is in the same "universe" as the Authority and is like a smarter conspiracy hunting sister. (Plus, Jenny and Elijah slept together in the 1930s and aren't telling anybody)

Hum, Manchester's still pretty big. I'd rather give him a Durham or a Canterbury (for eighteen years Canterbury was my idea of a city, it's not all that big). But then, you'd be missing all that fun with Canal Street, wouldn't you?

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I will definitely ask after Planetary! For the moment, I just keep reading and rereading the four issues he left with me. *LOVES*

Precisely, yes. Jack should really experience Canal Street. ;) But I'd just love to know how he gets on with Manchester. Seeing as how I'm in love with it. Aaaanyway. For a while Reims - aka Canterbury's French twin city - was my idea of a city, so I hear you.