round up of mini_nanowrimo: week one

[dahlia_moon]

All the stuff I've written for mini_nanowrimo for my "hundred words a day" goal - except for the stuff that's written for sga_santa which I can't share yet.

Day 1

Elemental Differences; AtLA, Zuko/Katara (kinda, sort implied); 100 words exactly

Zuko never particularly liked water. It was antagonistic to his own element, but where fire could be controlled and directed toward something, water flowed freely; it was too unwieldy; too unpredictable. Some said fire was unpredictable but not in the way water was; water could either kill you or save you, with fire you knew which one you got; even a small amount could burn you (as Zuko could attest to it). Too much water and you could get burned too, yet in an entirely different way.

It was an act of balance and how one wielded their own element.

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DAY 2

Untitled Drabble #1; Greek Mythology, Eros/Psych, Aphrodite; 106 words

They called a semi-truce. Had to really. She had done all that Aphrodite had asked of her; she had proved her love, gone to hell and back, literally.

That didn’t mean Aphrodite had to like it – or welcome Psyche into her family just because she had seemed to be outnumbered.

Eros had hope – maybe futilely – that his mother would welcome his wife. He wasn’t foolish. Psyche hadn’t exactly endeared herself to Aphrodite from the get-go. It would take some time, of that Eros was sure. He was sure, though, that once Aphrodite saw Psyche’s faithfulness from then on, she’d have no reason to dislike the girl.

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DAY 3

Missed – fail is horrible. :(

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DAY 4

The One They Call Bayou Bob; The Vampire Diaries, Stefan, Damon; 239 words; post 2x08: Rose

Stefan finds him in the boat behind the shed. Why there is a boat in the shed in the first place does not bear thinking about at this juncture but the point is Stefan finds his brother lying down in it, arms crossed over his chest. In a weird way Damon looks serene, peaceful this way. As though there isn’t 145 years of history between them, as though they are normal boys once again.

Stefan would be lying if he said he didn’t wish he could go back to 1864, back before Katherine Pierce entered their lives and screwed them up, back before they even knew vampires existed, back to a time when they were just two brothers.

“I can hear you thinking from all the way there – stop it.”

Stefan comes closer, hands in his pockets, wanting to ask his brother why he’s in a boat, wanting to ask his brother a lot of things actually, but as Damon has alluded to earlier, he isn’t one for bonding. That search for the bond they lost is 145 years too late.

“I’m not thinking,” Stefan says just for the sake of talking but Damon will see through the lie. There is no one who knows Stefan better than Damon, not even Elena.

Which is why he’s determined to not let Damon’s love for Elena stand between them – again. They’ve been through that once already. And he’s tired of it.


(So it’s extremely hard to get Damon’s voice down (and Stefan’s to an extent as well). There’s just something both actors bring to the screen that gets lost when you try to write it down but I attempted it anyways mostly because I needed to write something.

Also the title is shamelessly stolen from the Disney channel show “The Suite Deck.” I dunno why but I imagined Damon lying in the boat and the episode where a character called Bayou Bob is mentioned suddenly came to mind.)

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Day 5

Began 218 words for sga_santa after writing and deleting a lot of beginnings (and ugh, it doesn't look like I'll be keeping this beginning either).

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Day 6

Missed, fail is utterly spectacular.

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Day 7

Untitled Drabble #2; The Vampire Diaries, Jeremy, Tyler; 337 words; season two spoilers

Jeremy awkwardly found Tyler at school bright and early and jabbing furiously at the buttons on his cell phone. Jeremy, sort of finding it nice that he and Tyler now at least tolerated each other, found it hard to walk on by and not inquire at least if Tyler was okay. Because he didn’t seem like he was okay.

“Just trying to get in touch with my uncle; he totally disappeared without even saying goodbye. I mean what’s up with that?” Tyler closed his phone, looking at it like if only he had it out, it’d ring.

Jeremy felt a sharp, uncomfortable pang. Oh yeah, Uncle Mason, the werewolf who had his heart ripped out by Damon – like literally.

Of course Jeremy couldn’t say that to Tyler. First off, he’d have to out the Salvatore brothers as being monsters too, and while he thought Tyler would have no trouble believing him, he kind of gathered that the less people that knew about Damon and Stefan the better. And secondly, there was that legend about werewolves and vampires being enemies. Jeremy didn’t want it to come to that – that is Tyler finding out about it and Damon having to kill him like he killed his uncle. If there was one thing Jeremy found out from being around Damon was there was no such thing as being too careful around the guy. And as true as the fact that he and Tyler weren’t friends was, they were still acquaintances at best, and Jeremy wouldn’t wish Damon coming after even his worst enemy.

Jeremy did want to tell Tyler everything. Especially about his uncle. But on the other hand, did he really want to be the one to tell someone he once considered his enemy that his uncle died while being tortured by a vampire and then getting his heart ripped out of his chest by said vampire?

He had no idea how Tyler would even react – if he’d believe him at all. There were some things better left unsaid.