Fiction Drabbles: 100-Word Challenge Community

So I haven't posted here in a while, and I feel the need to catch up. Here are a few drabbles I managed to squeeze out before school, all in the same 'verse, in varying degrees of quality. :B

Title: Regulations
Challenge/Prompt: #20 Shadow
Original Fiction
Characters/Pairings: Ted
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Mine.
Summary: It's in his Contract.
Author's Notes: Just trying to get a hang in writing this character. :/ Not entirely pleased with it.

( Regulations )


Title: Rules
Challenge/Prompt: #21 Orange
Original Fiction
Characters/Pairings: Ted, August, John
Rating: PG
Warnings: A little violence? Nothing graphic.
Disclaimer: Mine.
Summary: Ted and John get off to a great start.
Author's Notes: Hmm, I'm starting to like Ted's character, surprisingly enough. [:

( Rules )


Title: The elephant
Challenge/Prompt: #22 Weapon
Original Fiction
Characters/Pairings: August
Rating: Pg-13
Warnings: Implied M/M relations, violence
Disclaimer: Mine.
Summary: August doesn't raise Reapers.
Author's Notes: While I'm getting a better idea of what I want Ted to be like, I'm still iffy on August's character.

( The elephant )


Title: Desert
Challenge/Prompt: #23 Wind
Original Fiction
Characters/Pairings: Ted
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Mine.
Summary: Ted hates Reaping in the desert.
Author's Notes: I'm trying not to make Ted tragic, but after this I can tell I'm going to have a hard time. :/

( Desert )


Title: A Haunting
Challenge/Prompt: #24 Curtain
Original Fiction
Characters/Pairings: Evelyn, Ted
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Mine
Summary: When she wakes it's still dark.
Author's Notes: Sort of a companion to the first one in this batch.

( A Haunting )


Title: Caution
Challenge/Prompt: #25 Reflection
Original Fiction
Characters/Pairings: John
Rating: PG
Warnings: Implied M/M relations
Disclaimer: Mine.
Summary: It's never a good thing to go in unprepared.
Author's Notes: This... wrote itself, actually, and now I'm sitting here wondering if I should shift some plot points to accommodate it. :|

( Caution )

Title: Aging
Challenge/Prompt: #13 Boy
Original Fiction
Characters/Pairings: Jason, Santiago
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Mine.
Summary: The world doesn't shift on its axis the first time Jason hears the name Micah.
Author's Notes: Despite all the backstory/character outlines I've done for this verse, it surprises me that this is the first time I'm writing (mentioning, rather) anything about Micah. D:


"It'll be easy," Santiago says. "Just make sure he eats and sleeps and doesn't, like, die or something."

"You must be beyond dumb to think I could possibly take care of a child," Jason responds, snorting, putting the phone on speaker as he opens the fridge.

Santiago's laughter echoes in the kitchen. "He's seventeen, Jase, not some little boy."

"To me he is," Jason mutters, feeling older than twenty-eight, and debating the merits of drinking wine at 4:30.

"What was that?"

"Nothing," he answers, closing the fridge. "What's the boy's name?"

"Thank you Jason," Santiago says, his obvious relief making Jason smile. "His name is Micah."

Title: A spot of color
Challenge/Prompt: #9 Edge
Original Fiction
Characters/Pairings: Man, woman
Rating: G
Warnings: Er, death?
Disclaimer: Mine.
Summary: Till death.
Author's Notes: Am supposed to be working on something else. |: Will redo this later, I think, flesh it out more.


Not five seconds into the video and he can already tell she won't make it, won't be able to drag herself up and over onto to the roof. It's not so much in how she scrambles for a good hold, how her heels fall as she tries to climb the wall, but how her wedding dress flares out with the wind, catches on her feet, as if already preparing for the long descent.

Long after, he remembers the blinding white of her nail-polish, and how the tips of her fingers turned red from how tight she held onto the ledge.

Title: If wishes were stars
Challenge/Prompt: #8 Wish
Original Fiction
Characters/Pairings: Sarah
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: Mine.
Summary: The star hasn't fallen yet.
Author's Notes: In the same universe as this one.


There's a star in the sky that looks like it's about to fall, and Sarah wishes it hurry up already, she's been waiting for hours. She's laying outside in the backyard, and it reminds her of those rare weekends when she and her dad would go camping in the mountains.

In fact, it feels so much like those times that she calls out, absently: "Daddy!"

Joseph peeks out from between the glass doors of the patio. "What's up, Sarah?"

She looks at him, disappointment running through her like a cresting wave, growing stronger as it goes.

"Nothing," she says. "I wasn't asking for you."

Title: Ghostss
Challenge/Prompt: #6 Spirit
Original Fiction
Characters/Pairings: None
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Mine.
Summary: Sometimes ghosts and memories are the same thing.
Author's Notes: Just exploring the point of view of an original character from a previous story.


Sarah has a picture of her father hidden under her desk.

Maria finds it one day while cleaning, preparing for her daughter's departure to college and the unknown. It is a nice picture, in a nice frame. Andy is smiling in it, and his honey-colored eyes are shining. It makes her heart ache, and Maria has to grit her teeth and turn away from it, because the urge to burn his picture almost overwhelms her.

"Will I ever be free from you?" she whispers, and tries to remember a time when loving him had come as easily as her guilt.

Title: Fascinated
Prompt: #4, Drink
Fanfiction: Merlin
Characters/Pairings: Slight Arthur→Merlin
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: So not mine.
Summary: Arthur imagines a next time that will never happen.
Author's Notes: Um, first attempt at writing in the Merlin universe. Be gentle?


Merlin has very blue eyes, and Arthur thinks it's a shame he hadn't noticed them before, because they are indeed very pretty to look at, though it doesn't help that they keep distracting him.

"Maybe next time," Merlin is saying pointedly, frowning. Arthur thinks this is a habit he must break Merlin out of, as it's only serving to make his ears look bigger, really.

"Are you paying attention?" Merlin asks, scowling harder now, and his eyes flash for a second, angry and something else.

Arthur nods, feeling ridiculously disoriented and drunk, and imagines next times that will never happen.