I Resist the Muses

Character: Cesare Borgia
Fandom: Cantarella/history
Prompt: #16 – What moment from your life do you wish you could re-live again?
Rating: PG
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I cry you mercy; allow me not one, but two moments? They would depend on what version of my tale your prefer.

( The first... )

( As for the second, the real moment... )

( May I have a third? I'm known to be greedy. )

I never used to be. I used to believe that if I could see it and I could touch it that it was real. I didn't believe in a lot of the stories about curses and hauntings that I had heard. I studied them. I was fascinated by them. I traced their history. I never believed in them.

Then I met Imhotep.

Oh, all right, I accidentally brought him back to life after he had been sentenced to the Hyum Dai by the Medjai back in the time of Seti I. That was really an accident and I didn't mean to. You see I was reading the Book of the Dead and...

That would be another story for another time.

Anyway, in the time since then, I have become a believer in a great many things.

I don't always understand them, but I do always learn from them.

Whether Rick would rather I do or not.

Egyptian curses are more than superstions.

They're real. Believe me, I've lived them.


Muse: Evelyn O'Connell
Fandom: "The Mummy" movies
Words: 169

What moment from your life do you wish you could re-live again?

Are you kidding? Who'd want to relive anything? Maxie probably would. Something to do with Logan. What's the point? You can't change anything and if it's so great, you have the memory. I like to live in the moment. I don't think about the past or the future. I got Max for that.

[Locked Private]
Fine. If I was going to relive any moment it would be the time I spent with Rachel. Pick a moment any moment from then. It was the first time I felt human and not just a soldier for Manticore. It was the first time I felt.

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Well, if I was going to relive a moment, it would probably be the Volkovitch job in Kezmekistan and Lola. I would definitely relive the time with Lola.

What moment from your life do you wish you could re-live again?

If I could relive any moment in my life, it would be any time that my mom was still alive. God, just to be able to see her again for like a minute would be worth it. I don't even care when it would be, just any time that she was alive. I'd even take it when she was yelling at me.

It's strange that I would miss that, but I do. I miss having my mom yell at me for doing something stupid. I have Giles yelling at me, but it's not quite the same. No… you know what moment I'd pick. When it was just the two of us, but Dawn could be there, it was just before she came into our lives. Mom and I were curled up on the couch and we were watching some chick flick. That's the moment I'd relive. A quiet moment, just the two of us.

Character: Celena Ducayne
Fandom: Decay of Dreams; Original Character
Word Count: 206
open for roleplay or comments here

Character: Celena Ducayne
Fandom: Decay of Dreams; Original Character
Word Count: 180
open for roleplay or comments here

What moment from your life do you wish you could re-live again?

There are so many I could pick. I mean the first time Nathan asked me to marry him, the first time I gave a concert, James' birth, the second time Nathan proposed to me, the last time everyone was together. I've been lucky with the happy moments in my life to relive again.

I think though, if I had to only pick one moment to live over again, it would be hearing James' heartbeat in the ultrasound after I'd been hit by a car. I know that sounds strange to have that be the moment I would re-live, but I was so terrified that I'd lost the baby. Nothing compares to that relief I had. Nothing.

It was as if every prayer had been answered and I was listening to a miracle. The miracle of birth, is just that, a miracle. When you think you've lost your child and learn that he's healthy, however, nothing can top that in your life. That amazing emotion is what I want to live again.