I Resist the Muses

Character: Celena Ducayne
Word Count: 249
open for roleplay or comments here

It's time to forget about the past
To wash away what happened last -- 30 Seconds To Mars

Muse: Eowyn
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Words: 132

Prompt #36

It's time to forget about the past
To wash away what happened last 
   - 30 Seconds To Mars

I once told McKay I try not to let things I can’t change bother me. I guess it applies to the past. While we shouldn't forget lessons learned, why dwell on the rest?


Prompt #34

"There are people I would take a bullet for and people I would like to put a bullet in." 
   -Benji (Good Charlotte)

I would take a bullet for Sheppard. For Teyla. Hell, even for McKay. Without hesitation. Come to think of it, I've pretty much already signed on to take a bullet for anyone on Atlantis... except Kavanagh. That sorry ass. He'll get what's coming to him.

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Muse: Ronon Dex
Fandom: SGA

Both are open, Both are 100 words.

Prompt 31 - What have you done that you wish you could apologize for?

Prompt 36 - It's time to forget about the past to wash away what happened last - 30 Seconds to Mars

It's time to forget about the past
To wash away what happened last
-- 30 Seconds To Mars

Oh, if only it was that simple.  I would give anything to be able to forget; when I wake in the night in a cold sweat of terror, reliving those days of torture in Angband, the days of grief following Findekano's death, the days when my sword was dead with the blood of those I'd killed; not just orcs but elves too.  To wash away the past is impossible because it happened and it cannot be un-done or unwound. I will never be able to wash that guilt and that blood from my memories, my heart.

I do my best to forget, or at least to try not to think about it any more. I live in a very different world now, this modern age. There are no orcs here, no battles, no Silmarils. The streets here do not run red with blood. But elves have long lives, and our very nature ensures that we do not completely forget.

"What were your findings?"

"X5-493 has been classified as mildly psychotic Sir."

"Can he been salvaged?"

"Yes Colonel Lydecker. Psy-Ops should fix him."

"Do it."

"Yes Sir. If it does not work Sir?"

"Then we harvest his organs and terminate the subject."

"Yes Sir."

Ben paced the room they had him in, he didn't want to be here. He hadn't wanted to go back and now here he was in the basement with the other Nomlies. He could hear them as they spoke. His brows creased at the words mildly psychotic. So he was really crazy but only mildly so? He shook his head not understanding them. How could that be? He didn't think he was crazy at all. He was doing what they trained him to do. They wanted him to be a predator, a hunter, a soldier. Now it seemed as if that was wrong. He frowned at that and gave a frustrated growl. He tried so hard to be a good soldier and now they were saying he failed.

Maybe Max had been right, maybe everyone was right. Maybe he was just broken, maybe he should be put down. A deep growl sounded from inside, no he wouldn't let them win. He'd play their games until he could get out then go and then he'd show Max he wasn't a Nomlie. He'd prove to everyone he was a good soldier.

That he wasn't a broken toy soldier.

Ben 'X5-493' // Dark Angel // 230 Words

It's time to forget about the past
To wash away what happened last
[30 Seconds To Mars]

Thirty seconds to... what? Mars as in, the god? Or the chocolate bar? I bought one the other day, at the cornershop. It was absurdly gooey. These things you keep bringing up... I'm almost led to believe that your intent is to make me miserable. To goad me into making a fool of myself again, a sobbing woman... But let me tell you, I have no taste for breastbeating. I would look good in rent and torn sackcloth, ashes in my hair, crawling to the cross, begging for forgiveness, yes, but as to the honesty of the gesture? Well. That is debatable.

And so is this whole business of "forgetting about the past and washing away what happened last". What's done... is done. A broken jug may be mended, but you will always see the cracks. And it will come apart again, at the same seams and cracks. Trust, once broken, will remain thus. A promise once given and then revoked - such is mancanza di fede, and shameless.

I know all about it because I'm guilty of it. Would I like to "forget", and "wash away", as if immersing myself in the Jordan and coming out clean? It can't be done, believe me. Pontius Pilatus tried and scrubbed his hands bloody, wearing his flesh down to the bone.

So it is better to learn to live with the things one can't rinse off. The stains will stay, but at least they'll pale.

Prompt #36

It's time to forget about the past
To wash away what happened last -- 30 Seconds To Mars

Er .. I don't think so. I mean I'm all for forgiving people but who was it that said "those that forget the past are doomed to repeat it"?

As much as my past was mostly fun, I'd rather move forward in life and keep my lessons learned, rather than blundering around like a yob. I mean, you can let the past go, if you like, but forget it? That don't make any sense.

Learn or get left, mate. And I have no intentions of getting left. I'm nicking them that's too stupid to learn their lessons.


Sgt. George Carter
The Sweeney

It's time to forget about the past
To wash away what happened last -- 30 Seconds To Mars