Writing meme (it looked pretty)

[thisbluespirit]

This probably really isn't the moment for this, but I'm kind of driving myself crazy today, so let's see... Taken from a_phoenixdragon:

Give me a pairing and pick a prompt from this list, and I'll write a drabble/ficlet based on that combination.

1. roaming the forest - Ian/Barbara (newmoonstar)
2. pretending to be married - Sam Briggs/Jamie McCrimmon (john_amend_all)
3. lowered lashes - Adam Adamant/Georgina Jones (liadtbunny)
4. a lost childhood memory
5. middle of the night in a castle - Brigadier/Liz Shaw (doreyg)
6. tell me a fable - Sapphire/Steel or Silver/Steel (spikesgirl58)
7. a drop of lilac
8. the dark things you fear - Doctor/Master (phoenixdragon)
9. entwined at dusk - Silver/Liz Shaw (Pers)
10. underwater
11. a long time ago - Doctor/TARDIS (Clocket)
12. blackest night - Avon/Cally (jaxomsride)
13. wraith
14. a cruel illusion
15. wicked truths

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Silver/Liz Shaw - 9: Entwined at dusk

[john_amend_all]

Jamie / Sam: 2. Pretending to be married

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

The Brig/Liz Shaw - 9?

[thisbluespirit]

Pers got to 9 first - do you want to choose another? (And please do, I adore Brig/Liz. ♥)

Silver/Liz Shaw, Entwined at dusk, 154 words

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! ♥ And here you go:

***

“And there’s a good reason why I have to stay here, is there?”

“Oh, yes,” said Silver, playing with a strand of her hair, “a very good reason.”

Liz sighed and didn’t argue again, though she did add, so that she wasn’t giving in too easily, “You know, I would have preferred on top of the bed rather than under it, but I’ll take what I can get. In the name of science, of course.”

“You’re not still thinking about dissecting me, are you?” asked Silver, suddenly wary.

“Can’t you tell?” Liz smiled at him, unsure whether it was wasted in the gloom or if Elements could see in the dark. Just another one of several hundred thousand things she didn’t know about Silver.

“I was trying to focus on… well… something else.”

“How flattering.”

Silver moved nearer and put a hand to her mouth. “Shh,” he said, and then added even as she heard a slight creaking from somewhere in the room. “Something rather nasty like that…”

***

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, 5 seems the most appropriate, then! :D

(And they really are so great. All the shipping!)

Jamie/Sam - Pretending to be married, 173 words

[thisbluespirit]

“So, why’d you tell yon fellow we were married?”

Sam pulled him into the room. “It’s called going undercover. Thought you’d know all about that, what with you and the Doctor investigating things all the time.”

“Oh, aye,” said Jamie, never wanting to look ignorant. Then he frowned. “But how does that help us stop Gathred and those wee angry thingies?”

Sam turned around. “Look, all it means is that someone comes in here, wanting to know what we’re doing in a hotel room, we don’t tell them that we got it for the balcony so we could watch the dodgy alien in the offices opposite. We –”

“Sir, madam?” said someone at the door.

Sam demonstrated her point by kissing Jamie long and enthusiastically.

“- Do that,” she said, once room service had beaten a hasty retreat.

Jamie nodded. “Aye. Right. Nice plan. Mrs McCrimmon.”

“Just to make it really convincing,” said Sam, with a worryingly thoughtful look on her face, “we should get in the bed next time, don’t you think?”

[thisbluespirit]

5 is perfect!

Re: Silver/Liz Shaw, Entwined at dusk, 154 words

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Wheee!!!

Fun!

Of course, you know what I'm gonna say next, don't you? MORE PLEASE!

Re: Silver/Liz Shaw, Entwined at dusk, 154 words

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! ♥

(And you know what I'll say, too - there is no more! For now, anyway... ;-p)

Re: Silver/Liz Shaw, Entwined at dusk, 154 words

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I had to ask, though!

Brig/Liz, middle of the night in a castle, 480 words

[thisbluespirit]

It went sort of plotty and not very shippy. This happens to me a lot. *sigh* (Still, it might be a long night! They might manage to even address each other by their first names at some point. Or kiss. And get interrupted by Sergeant Benton's surprise arrival.)

***

It was the middle of the night, and as far as Liz could see in the torchlight, they were still in the castle, except it was no longer ruined. It was fully furnished, and if the Doctor’s chronometer was reading correctly, then it was 1505.

“You’re saying we’re in the past?” said the Brigadier.

Liz swung around and glared at him. “Well, look around you, Brigadier! Draw your own conclusions! I think so, but I’m only a top Cambridge scientist with several degrees who’s now more than a bit ahead of her time!”

“Yes,” said the Brigadier, giving her a curious glance.

She reined in her temper. “I’m sorry, but I keep thinking – what if we don’t get back? It’ll be all right for you –”

He raised an eyebrow.

“Well, I don’t mean that,” she said. “But what am I supposed to do stuck well over four hundred years in the past? I’d probably be locked up or burnt at the stake for even trying to practise science. And what would be the point, anyway? I couldn’t make any progress, not without disrupting the Doctor’s precious web of time.”

“Miss Shaw,” said the Brigadier, “the Doctor will reverse the process, I’m sure.”

She stole a look up at him. “Are you?”

“Yes,” he said, surprising her. “He may be infuriating, but I don’t believe he’d strand us here. After all, as you say – think of the web of time.”

“It’s his malfunctioning contraption that caused this. I don’t think I can be so sure.”

The Brigadier edged nearer to her, this time addressing her in a low tone. “You know, Miss Shaw, there’s another odd thing, don’t you think?”

“I don’t care!” snapped Liz.

“If it’s 1505 and the castle is fully furnished,” said the Brigadier, refusing to be perturbed by her response. “Then where is everyone? Even if the family were away, there would still be servants here – someone, at any rate.”

Liz allowed herself to be distracted. “Then the distortion is widening, just as the Doctor feared. They’ve been taken through it, too.”

“Eh? To the present?” The Brigadier looked understandably alarmed at the idea of a group of lost sixteenth century aristocrats becoming UNIT’s problem.

Liz sat down on the nearby four-poster bed. “It may not be that simple.”

“We could end up in another time period? Good grief.”

Liz folded her arms. “It’s a possibility. But don’t worry, I don’t think it could make things much worse.”

“Miss Shaw,” said the Brigadier, evidently able to read between the lines, “if we are trapped here, you at least have my assurance that I won’t allow you to be burnt at the stake, or locked away, whatever experiments you try.”

She gave him a dark look. “Thank you. And how will you do that? Marry me?”

The Brigadier looked distinctly amused. “Miss Shaw, I thought you’d never ask…”

***

Re: Jamie/Sam - Pretending to be married, 173 words

[john_amend_all]

That was great! Sam = ♥

(And she's completely right in her final sentence, of course ☺ ).

Re: Jamie/Sam - Pretending to be married, 173 words

[thisbluespirit]

Glad you liked it! :-)

Re: Jamie/Sam - Pretending to be married, 173 words

[john_amend_all]

As I add prompts to the generator, Jamie/Sam is still my go-to couple for testing. The results are... varied.

330) The Odds Against - Margaret Pargeter
Ever since his fiancé the Second Doctor had walked out on him to marry someone else, Jamie McCrimmon had been a changed man, bitter and suspicious of all men - and Samantha Briggs, who had loved him for years, was very worried about him. Nevertheless, had she done the right thing in agreeing to marry him? It was obvious that, although he found her attractive - wanted her, in fact - Jamie didn't love her; not only that, he would go running back to Two if he ever got the chance! Could such a one-sided marriage possibly work?

382) Hot on Her Tail - Saskia Walker
It wasn’t the knee-high black leather boots or the skintight leather hotpants that grabbed her attention, but the padlocked slave collar he was wearing around his neck.
As he stepped out of the stolen vehicle she’d been chasing, Officer Samantha Briggs was thunderstruck by the alluring redhead in the provocative attire. Upon further investigation, it soon became clear that despite appearances, Jamie McCrimmon was not some crazy car thief dressed like a bondage slave from a porn movie. He was, in fact, the victim in some underhanded maneuvering by his vindictive ex.
Now it was up to Sam to help him out of this mess. But the electric attraction that blazed between them soon culminated in a night of explosive passion that would change Sam’s life forever.

(What do you mean, Jamie's not a redhead? I'm sure he was in one of the novelisations...)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

12. Blackest night Avon/ Cally

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Doctor/Master (any/any): #8

*CACKLES*

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Does it have to be a pairing? What about #4 for Ace McShane? :)

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Butting in to say I love your Dr. Crusher icon. :P

[clocketpatch]

Doctor/TARDIS 11 - a long time ago

[oonaseckar.livejournal.com]

Jamie and Jamie's mother, Homeward Bounders, 7.

[newmoonstar]

#1- Ian/Barbara

[thisbluespirit]

Yep, sorry, it does - it's just a little pairing meme. (It's not as if, say, I have ooh, about 200 or so other general prompts going, is it? *cough*) :-)

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! It is supposed to be pairings, sorry, & I'm not sure I'm up to Homeward Bounders stuff, not until I re-read it & this is a hasty little now-meme, unlike my other ongoing giant one. Sorry! Do you want to pick anybody else instead??

[thisbluespirit]

♥ Thanks! :-)