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Aldi (aldiara) wrote in drabbleday,
@ 2021-05-30 13:54:00

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2021 prompt

Hour 15: Sacrifice and Poison
YOU GUYS OMG!!!

[what. what is happening.]

[we are not? we don't think?]

Doesn't matter, we're leaning into it! You get two prompts again, and they are SACRIFICE and POISON! Have fun!

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Hercules (Disney) - sorry, it's crack o'clock

aldiara
2021-05-30 02:19 am UTC (link)

The day has been all happy celebrations, but now they are alone in a bedchamber, Hercules seems weirdly reticent. More that mere nerves of virginity can explain, Megara thinks. He’s fiddling, beet-red and looking anywhere but at her when she slips out of her dress.

“Herc? What’s the matter?”

“It’s… just… uhm… well… oh gods.” He whips his loincloth off with one despairing motion.

Megara stares. “Oh. It’s. Uhm.”

“So tiny,” he groans. “I’m so sorry.”

Megara swallows a laugh. Given his overall proportions, she is a smidge relieved. “Trust me, Wonderboy, it’s not a sacrifice. These things are super-overrated.”

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	Re: Hercules (Disney) - sorry, it's crack o'clock lilithilien 2021-05-30 02:41 am UTC (link)
	BWAHAHAHAHHAHA. Oh that's hilarious. Just teach him other things, Megara, he'll be eager to overcompensate! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Hercules (Disney) - sorry, it's crack o'clock amo_amas_amat 2021-05-30 02:50 am UTC (link)
	Hahahaha oh Hercules! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Hercules (Disney) - sorry, it's crack o'clock notoriouslyuniq 2021-05-30 04:37 am UTC (link)
	TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Hercules (Disney) - sorry, it's crack o'clock amyriadfthings 2021-05-30 07:13 am UTC (link)
	trololol, sure, why not! I like crack o´clock! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Hercules (Disney) - sorry, it's crack o'clock giorgiakerr 2021-05-30 09:59 am UTC (link)
	omgggggggg i didn't know i needed this until it was here in front of me, crack o'clock is my favourite hour (Reply to this) (Parent)

lilithilien
2021-05-30 02:39 am UTC (link)

As they begin their descent toward JFK Airport, the first time she's been home since she died, Nile closes her eyes to hold in the tears.

Joe puts his hand on hers. "We've got some time before the mission," he says gently. "You could go see your family."

"I don't know," Nile says. "Booker said it wasn't a good idea."

Nicky leans across Joe. “What did he tell you exactly?”

"Just about his family, his sons. He said they couldn’t understand what had happened to him. How his immortality was like poison, and how my family would hate me, too."

*

Nicky's turned to stone beside him. Joe’s not sure which of them needs comforting most, but he knows Nicky would gladly sacrifice his own comfort for Nile's.

"That was Booker’s experience," he tells her, "but it doesn’t have to be yours. Your mother might be happy to know her child has a long life ahead of her. Mine was.”

Nile’s eyes go wide as moons, giving her an adorable expression that Joe can feel melting Nicky’s rigidity away. “Your mother knew?”

"She did." He squeezes his husband's hand tightly. "Toward the end of her life, Nicky persuaded me to visit her."

*

"What was it like?"

Nile's eyes are bright, eager for all the details, and Joe's glad his story can diffuse the poison of Booker's. "Well, I was nervous--she thought I’d died in Jerusalem, after all--but I shouldn’t have been."

"Was she happy to see you?"

"She was overjoyed. Couldn't have been happier, even after all those years, and even when I explained what had happened to me. And she was even happier to meet him." He nudges Nicky, and is himself overjoyed to see a smile curl his lips. "No al Kaysani could ever resist this man’s charms."

*

"Joe’s right"--Nicky shakes his head--"No, not about that, but about your family. For a time, they might need to believe that you’re gone, until you know your mind. But that doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice them forever."

"And remember"--his body eases back against Joe’s, bringing with it a sense of relief and rightness--"we’re your family now, too. We'll help you figure it out."

Nile grins. "I’ve always been the big sister. This is going to take some getting used to." She chuckles to herself as the plane glides toward the earth. "Guess I’ve got time."

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	aldiara 2021-05-30 02:52 am UTC (link)
	Oh my god, I'm dissolving in all these lovely feels. Such beautiful found family sentiments in this, and I love Joe's story about his mum so much! I also love that they're showing her she has options. Oh this gang! <33333333 (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lilithilien 2021-05-30 03:07 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, as I write these, I'm realizing that Nicky's got some repressed anger toward Booker. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	amo_amas_amat 2021-05-30 02:52 am UTC (link)
	Awwwwwwww this is so perfect, I love every detail - especially Joe and his Mum, and yes that makes so much sense about Nile having to adjust from big sister to little sister! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	notoriouslyuniq 2021-05-30 04:45 am UTC (link)
	Aww! I love stories about familial love. Too many plotlines focus only on romance that other kinds of love often go unexplored (Reply to this) (Parent)

	amyriadfthings 2021-05-30 07:12 am UTC (link)
	This is wonderful, Lil. (Reply to this) (Parent)

Vikings - Athelstan/Ragnar

amo_amas_amat
2021-05-30 02:49 am UTC (link)

(this is getting a bit creepy, but that's Ragnar for you)

The hotel room is a hotel suite. It has floor-to-ceiling windows and furniture that screams luxury. Athelstan hadn’t appreciated Newcastle could get this fancy. Ragnar’s clothes are strewn everywhere, like he’s been here weeks not 1 night.

“You must give your clothes in sacrifice,” Ragnar teases, his tone arch. “The rock gods are demanding, jealous, gods. They must be appeased. Your clothes may not be enough.”

He begins to strip Athelstan. FUBAR tour shirt from Stockholm 3 years ago. Skinny jeans, underwear. That’s it. Hardly enough to appease any gods and yet the only god present seems satisfied.

“Mmmm, beautiful.”

Athelstan finds himself being twirled, Ragnar’s hands turning him, an inspection that is also a dance. They come to a halt, face to face. “The gods are pleased.”

Ragnar leads Athelstan to the bed, crawls over him, “Sacrifice or not, you live here now.”

The kiss, when it finally comes, is all-consuming. There is no withstanding it. “You have loved me a long time, I think,” Ragnar says.

It’s true, he has. With his body he demonstrates his love, his gratitude at being noticed, distinguished. He can’t hold back.

“This is not the first time I’ve seen you,” Ragnar whispers.

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	Re: Vikings - Athelstan/Ragnar lilithilien 2021-05-30 03:09 am UTC (link)
	OMG Anna!! The band AU lives on!! LOL Ragnar, you are such a rockstar. Love this so much! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Vikings - Athelstan/Ragnar aldiara 2021-05-30 03:14 am UTC (link)
	Eeeeeeee, yes, that would be 100% Ragnar-appropriate creepiness, which is somehow also profound and endearing? Loving the sacrificial clothes, lol! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Vikings - Athelstan/Ragnar notoriouslyuniq 2021-05-30 04:48 am UTC (link)
	fans self these Vikings band AU fics are seriously messing with my oxygen levels! I love love love this line "Hardly enough to appease any gods and yet the only god present seems satisfied." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Vikings - Athelstan/Ragnar amyriadfthings 2021-05-30 07:10 am UTC (link)
	Anna, this is golden, and really Ragnar-levels appropriate of creepy, lolol! Their beautiful dance. So much love for these! (Reply to this) (Parent)

In Other Lands - Elliot/Luke

aldiara
2021-05-30 03:12 am UTC (link)

After crossing the border, Elliot just stood there for a moment, breathing deep. He knew technically, humans were at least making an effort these days to maybe not completely fuck their planet up, but the transition still left him dizzy, as if he’d not realised he was breathing poison.

By the time the familiar grounds came into view, he was running. Someone was outside, practising swordplay. Someone in leathers, hair glinting gold. Of-fucking-course.

Ignoring the supreme cliché-ness of it all, Elliot ran faster. “HEY LOSER, I’M HOME!”

A startled pause, and then a blur of arms and feathers caught him.

*

Luke was laughing and kissing his hair, babbling something ridiculous about Trigon and how they’d played some trolls who’d sacrificed a goat before the game. Elliot did not grace that with a response. He just clung tightly, breathing in the smell of Luke’s sun-warmed skin, burying his nose in Luke’s neck.

At length, Luke stopped rambling and hugged Elliot tight. “Elliot. What’s wrong?”

“Nothing. Just – take me flying?”

“Sure.” Luke was already securing his grip. “Where?”

“Don’t care. I just want to know we can.”

He heard Luke’s smile in his voice. “Okay.”

And hurled them into the brilliant sky.

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	Re: In Other Lands - Elliot/Luke notoriouslyuniq 2021-05-30 04:50 am UTC (link)
	<33333333333333 I wish I had an alternate dimension I can escape to! And I cackled loudly at the “HEY LOSER, I’M HOME!” (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: In Other Lands - Elliot/Luke amo_amas_amat 2021-05-30 06:56 am UTC (link)
	This drabble is actual sunshine!!!! Love the use of the poison prompt especially! And just EVERYTHING that came after that. Perfect reunion is perfect. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: In Other Lands - Elliot/Luke amyriadfthings 2021-05-30 07:06 am UTC (link)
	Aww, lovely feels taking me away wheee (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: In Other Lands - Elliot/Luke lilithilien 2021-05-30 05:53 pm UTC (link)
	What a perfect homecoming!!! (Reply to this) (Parent)

The Queen's Thief - Gen/Attolia

amo_amas_amat
2021-05-30 03:12 am UTC (link)

“The Queen ordered your majesty’s food be tasted by a guardsman before you eat it. The latest attempt on your life came too close to succeeding, your majesty.”

“Attempt on my life!” Eugenides objected, “It wasn’t poison, it was dodgy eggs that disagreed with me!”

Eugenides didn’t doubt he had been given the oldest eggs the cook could find. The kitchen staff expressed their displeasure at Attolia’s marriage by sabotaging his meals but they weren’t out to kill him.

Then he realised: his wife had poisoned him. Having a taster would certainly stop the cook crushing glass in his food.

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	Re: The Queen's Thief - Gen/Attolia aldiara 2021-05-30 04:45 am UTC (link)
	Oh dear, talk about living dangerously! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: The Queen's Thief - Gen/Attolia lilithilien 2021-05-30 05:54 pm UTC (link)
	What is this dysfunctional world? I think Gen might need to look carefully at his choices. (Reply to this) (Parent)

Lambs of God - Father Malachi

notoriouslyuniq
2021-05-30 04:36 am UTC (link)

Bishop Malone’s office door had been shut for hours, angry unintelligible voices drifting out occasionally. Malachi had no idea what was going on.
The Bishop had phoned him last night with instructions to cancel today’s tour. He sounded nervous and snapped at Malachi’s attempts at clarification.
Then this morning Father Ignatius showed up, wearing the brightest robes in Christendom. Malachi was so distracted that he didn’t even notice the hair at first. That glorious soft-looking golden mane that he spend so many days staring at and so many nights fantasizing about.
“Sacrificed to Saint Agnes” was the only explanation given.

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	Re: Lambs of God - Father Malachi aldiara 2021-05-30 04:47 am UTC (link)
	Poor distracted Malachi. No one can blame you really pats (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Lambs of God - Father Malachi amo_amas_amat 2021-05-30 06:57 am UTC (link)
	Hee hee, the brightest robes in Christendom you say? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Lambs of God - Father Malachi lilithilien 2021-05-30 05:55 pm UTC (link)
	Ahahahaha that should be explanation enough for anybody! (Reply to this) (Parent)

Magicians - Eliot & Margo

amyriadfthings
2021-05-30 07:04 am UTC (link)

Eliot has been walking the castle grounds for hours. His head is buzzing and he low-grade feels as if his skin is electrified. Maybe there´s magic in the air, or he hasn´t slept enough.

Margo calls him into the throne room when he passes it next. “El, you´re making me nervous, and I can´t be nervous, because one of us has to keep their wits together in this possibly momentous occasion.” She looks at him with a mixture of concern and admonishment.

“What if the fairies need a sacrifice, Margo? Have we considered our options?”

“For Quentin, we´ll consider anything.”

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	Re: Magicians - Eliot & Margo aldiara 2021-05-30 07:17 am UTC (link)
	waves Bring Back Quentin flag Yes! Love her togetherness. Whatever it takes! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Magicians - Eliot & Margo lilithilien 2021-05-30 05:57 pm UTC (link)
	Of course they'll demand a sacrifice, the greedy buggers. I love how Margo is so level-headed about this whole thing, giving El the space to fall to absolute pieces. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Magicians - Eliot & Margo amo_amas_amat 2021-06-03 08:20 pm UTC (link)
	Oh I love this description of Eliot feeling like his skin is electrified. And Margo holding it together for him as much as Q. <333 (Reply to this) (Parent)

Schitt´s Creek - Patrick/David

amyriadfthings
2021-05-30 07:28 am UTC (link)

“You look like I´m about to poison you, David. It´s just a picnic!”

They have parked the tandem and David has climbed off feeling a sting in his muscles. He must be looking stiff, too, after a ride on that thing (that they will have to ride back, oh dear).

Patrick has spread out a blanket under a tree and is unpacking the saddle bags David had not paid much attention to until now.

“And it´s lovely, darling, I´m sure.” David looks around and it actually is. Not a soul in sight, just a sunny spring day and his husband.

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	Re: Schitt´s Creek - Patrick/David aldiara 2021-05-30 08:03 am UTC (link)
	Aw, I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, but this is just sweet! I will very much take that <3 (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Schitt´s Creek - Patrick/David winterlover 2021-05-30 10:07 am UTC (link)
	Aww, all that David discovers to enjoy with Patrick! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Schitt´s Creek - Patrick/David lilithilien 2021-05-30 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	Picnic, yay!! You've nailed David perfectly here! And so glad that Patrick's able to pull him out. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Schitt´s Creek - Patrick/David amo_amas_amat 2021-06-03 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	Aw David you get nice things!!! (Reply to this) (Parent)

Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys - My Chemical Romance (Album) – Fun Ghoul

winterlover
2021-05-30 10:06 am UTC (link)

Everything was dangerous in Battery City: the pills made you weak, the rumors made you think, the loneliness turned you insane.

Everything also can be dangerous in the desert: the radioactive wind, the snakes, driving your motorbike too fast, the Dracs, the cold, the heat, hell, even some of the food.

But the one whose name is the most poisonous of all, whose hard look could almost kill, whose red hair warns to stay away even from a distance, he’s the one Ghoul can’t live without. The sweetest poison of all, nourishing, soothing and healing, and so very, very dangerous.

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	Re: Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys - My Chemical Romance (Album) – Fun Ghoul lilithilien 2021-05-30 06:00 pm UTC (link)
	Damn, this is some evocative writing here! I love it! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys - My Chemical Romance (Album) – Fun Ghoul aldiara 2021-05-31 12:21 pm UTC (link)
	Guh, I am here for this mix of danger and longing! Beautifully done. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys - My Chemical Romance (Album) – Fun Ghoul amyriadfthings 2021-06-01 02:57 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, you killed it again in this one! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys - My Chemical Romance (Album) – Fun Ghoul amo_amas_amat 2021-06-03 08:31 pm UTC (link)
	God this is gorgeous. It just builds and builds. (Reply to this) (Parent)

X-Files - Scully (sort of MSR?)

giorgiakerr
2021-05-30 11:07 am UTC (link)

She brought her fingers to her mouth, tasting herself, stimulant and poison as she pictured Mulder’s fingers replacing hers. She hated it, hated her own lack of control, but she was far gone enough to believe that it was harmless. That it wouldn’t affect anything, wouldn’t affect her; she could never shake the feeling that he knew, somehow, and she hated that, too. Fingers that were no longer hers trailed back down her body, leaving a cold, wet stripe. If she was brave enough to look, she’d be able to see it glistening in the dim light from her hallway.

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	Re: X-Files - Scully (sort of MSR?) lilithilien 2021-05-30 06:02 pm UTC (link)
	This all sounds very ominous. I love Scully's trepidation and awareness though. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: X-Files - Scully (sort of MSR?) aldiara 2021-05-31 12:22 pm UTC (link)
	This is very hot and sinister at once? I dig it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: X-Files - Scully (sort of MSR?) amo_amas_amat 2021-06-03 08:33 pm UTC (link)
	oooh boy the atmosphere on this! (Reply to this) (Parent)