Stories Are Best Under Starlight

A little something to get me writing this morning.

The challenge:

1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn your music player on and set it to random.
3. Write a drabble/ficlet to each song that plays. You have only the length of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts and stop when it’s over. No lingering afterwards!
4. Do five and post them.

I did my original characters, Nicolas and Stella Willoughby. ...I also did 10, as I found these sort of addictive. Forgive the very eclectic music that popped up.

( Forget the wrong that I've done... )

Title: Interview
Fandom/original: original
Rating: G
A/N: A very particular Stella Willoughby AU. (One Ritter may have caught a glimpse of, in a dream.) As such... semi-canonical? Ish? The prompt "this is it" was from rougen. (This was a 15 minuter.)

( This is it, he thought. )

Title: Regrets
Fandom/original: original
Rating: PG
A/N: rougen has to work a crazy shift today, so as a present, here is the last of her ficlets that she prompted while I was on vacation. The prompt was "famous last words."

( Don't touch me )

Title: Heart to Heart
Fandom/original: original
Rating: PG
A/N: Another little Willoughby snippet.

( The door was closed. )

Title: Pandora
Fandom/original: original
Rating: G
A/N: Another little Stella snippet. Set just a little bit after rougen's Richer Than Gold.

( The journal was plain and businesslike )

Title: Last Chance
Fandom/original: original
Rating: PG-13
A/N: The title was the prompt from rougen. This scene was my immediate thought.

( You already knew how I would answer. )

Title: Asunder
Fandom/original: Original
Rating: PG
A/N: Loosely based on a prompt from forever ago, "snake in the garden." rougen's Company-verse again, yay.

( My father knew she was imprisoned.  )

Title: At First Sight
Fandom/original: original/game fic
Rating: G
A/N: The title was the prompt from rougen.

( She was so small. )

Title: Magic
Fandom/original: Original
Rating: G
A/N: The prompt (as usual, from rougen) was "every little thing." More AU, because I love it.


( She was a trapeze artist. )

Title: Intent
Fandom/original: Original
Rating: PG
A/N: rougen's prompt was "entendre." I don't know how well the final story fits - it kind of got away from me. Another AU, with a sideways reference to her lovely character.


( She checked herself quickly in the mirror )

Title: Substitution
Fandom/original: original
Rating: G
A/N: 10 minute flash fic. Prompt from rougen.

( It wasn't as if she could be replaced. )

Title: In Which Stella Willoughby Tells A Dozen Lies
Fandom/original: Original
Rating: PG
A/N: For rougen's prompt "Believe me, I'm a liar."

( Stella looked up at her mother squarely. )

Title: Promises
Fandom/original: Original
Rating: G
A/N: rougen's prompt was "null and void." A little, introspective drabble.

( A contract. )

Title: Should Have Known Better
Fandom/original: Original
Rating: PG
A/N: The prompt, from rougen, is the title.

( He had no reason to be nervous. )

Title: I Hate How Much I Love You
Fandom/original: Original
Characters: Stella Willoughby, Tonya Parker, Arthur Sloane
Rating: G
A/N: And another. Whee.

( Stella looked down into her tea. )

Title: Horseplay
Fandom/original: Original
Characters: Stella Willoughby, Rolf von Rabe
Rating: PG-13
A/N: Another prompt from rougen.

( It was snowing, slow, fat flakes. )

Title: Plots and Plans
Fandom/original: Original
Characters: Stella and Nicolas Willoughby
Rating: G-PGish
A/N: Just a little ficlet with the teenaged twins.

(  Well. Stella glanced over the papers. )

Title: The Haunting
Fandom/original: Original (with a sidelong reference to rougen's lovely character)
Characters: Stella Willoughby
Rating: G
Word count: 362

( Ficlet )

Title: Five Accidents
Fandom/original: Original
Rating: PG-13
AN: For rougen

( 5 Things )

Title: Flames
Fandom/original: Original
Characters: Nicolas and Stella Willoughby
Rating: G
Word count: 415

( Ficlet )

Title: Taking of Leave
Fandom: Original
Rating: PG

Author's Note: I think Nicolas and Stella want to become something longer, but I don't know. They've sort of hijacked the 15 minute fics, for the present.

( Ficlet )

Title: Sharing
Fandom: Original
Rating: G

( Ficlet )

Title: Au première temps de la waltz...
Fandom: Original (with Ravenloft overtones)
Rating: G

Author's Note: Man, writing 14 year old Nicolas is fun. I may have to do it more often.

( Ficlet. )

Title: Distraction
Fandom: Original
Rating: G

Author's Note: Short. Late. I want to fix it, and perhaps will later. But this is the unpolished, only-worked-on-for-15-minutes version.

( Ficlet. )

Ah, Sweeney fic is on the way, but not quite done yet. For Friday, I have a tiny little drabble, dedicated to karasukun, inspired by LOTR as well as the fact that I had to sing this frickin' song five times in two days last weekend. Forgive the repetitiveness. Heh.

For Saturday, I have an extra-long fic, so I'm giving you more than one LJ-cut to allow you to jump around or read it in more than one sitting. It was not, originally, going to be this long.

So...here you are.

Friday:

Title: Middle Earth's Twelve Days of Christmas
Fandom: LOTR
A/N: Dedicated to karasukun and to Eddie Izzard, whom I pictured going "FIVE GOOOOLD RINGS" every time I was forced to sing the song.

( A hobbit gave to me... )

Saturday:

Title: Silent Night
Fandom: Ravenloft
A/N: Dedicated heartily to plaidavenger, who suggested it.
Disclaimer: This is a bit more complicated than my usual fanfic disclaimer because this fic is based on an RPG campaign, rather than a movie or a book or whatnot. Therefore, to give credit where credit is due: Ravenloft is a setting used for the d20 RPG system. All the place names, nationalities, etc., as well as Alanik Ray, belong to them. The campaign this fic is based on was created by squirrelmadness and all events referred to, as well as the characters of Ambrose, Sophia, Oliver, Désirée, Shaoron, Lucia, Josef Masha, Theophilus, and Franz, belong to him. The characters Hollis, Eanokien, Eanoki, Carmen, Arkadiy, Borgoff, Luka, Elor, M. (Tydeus) Dardanos, Ren, Pepe, and Sindora are original PCs who are not mine. I beg the kind indulgence of these characters' creators in allowing me to play with them; this fic is meant in fun and I love all of your characters dearly.

The little bit that's left (specifically Anya, Fyedka, Nicolas, Stella, and the Kartaakans other than Hollis, as well as the plot) is mine. I let this thing run away with me, but in hindsight, I'm kind of glad I did, as I enjoyed it.

Yes, I'm aware that Christmas doesn't exist in the setting. Shut up.

( Part One )

( Part Two )