a fic meme

[sophinisba]

A fic meme from rubynye and almostnever:

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

(Yes, I'm aware of all those requests from that other post. They're in progress. Really.)

Here is my fic index.

ETA: Okay, thank you for the ideas! I think I'll cut them off now and will try to do them all in drabbles.

Comments

[gentlehobbit.livejournal.com]

I would really like to see Not Yourself in, say, about 5 years time -- after the end of the story. Use the ending that has a little more (desperate) hope unless you'd prefer the original ending (which, as an ending, I found more powerful albeit depressing).

(I've just discovered your Firefly drabbles through your list. Squeeeee!)

[sophinisba]

This is an great request and I don't feel like I've done it justice at all, but I do mean to finish all of these in the next few days rather than let them drag on the way I usually do, so here's a drabble:



The Shire was to be left in peace, with the Travellers there to keep watch, but once they disappeared it was war. The winter of 1420 was bad, 1420 far worse, and by now there is no Shire, only the mark on the map of where it was, a few burnt marks on the land where hobbits are no more.

And Frodo thinks how it all could have been different, how the choice was in his hands and he let it go. At night Aragorn tells him there's still hope, but Frodo hasn't believed in a very long time.

[danachan.livejournal.com]

*gapes*

Okay, wow, that is just incredible. Please don't make me comment on what makes it incredible omg, only that it is.

[gentlehobbit.livejournal.com]

Desperate hope indeed! Desperate on the part of Aragorn, perhaps. None on the part of Frodo!

Oh my goodness. You've just about killed me with this (I do mean this in a positive way, I assure you!!)

Now I want to know more about Aragorn -- what makes him cling to this desperate hope. Frodo doesn't believe, and his people are gone. He cannot ever believe again because it's too late. But what makes Aragorn hang on to that last shred? What keeps him going in the face of such utter devastation?

Gah......!

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Brrrr! That's chilling. :-)

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

A year after Torn From a Map... :D

*is capable of doing nice things for Frodo from time to time*

[sophinisba]

Frodo's feet remember these streets from two years before, when he was learning to walk again after giving up all his strength, learning to trust Aragorn after their long separation. Spring and green have returned to the White City and Frodo goes out to walk in the sunshine every day, comes home every night to lie in the arms of the King.

I made this place mine, he thinks. Not like a king coming to claim his throne or an exile banishing Sackville-Bagginses from his hobbit-hole. It was believing and living and loving that made Minas Tirith his home.

[danachan.livejournal.com]

I am very glad you are capable of doing nice things for Frodo from time to time, because this is beautiful. And you will probably make up for it with angst in time. ♥

It was believing and living and loving that made Minas Tirith his home.

♥ Gorgeous, that is.

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[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm.....*floats away in bliss* This was purrrrrrrfect! :-)

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[shirebound]

Frodo goes out to walk in the sunshine every day, comes home every night to lie in the arms of the King.

*adores*

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[lilybaggins.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is lovely---I just adore feel-good drabbles showing a happy Frodo.

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[lovethosehobbit.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed, this more than shows your ability to make our Fro' warm and cozy now and again. Thanks for this!

[danachan.livejournal.com]

Either a couple of years after 'The Silent Street' (or a couple of days instead, since you wanted to write that story one day, and why not take a look at it now?); alternatively, a couple of years after 'He Came To Meet Me'. I am all about there being choice!

[sophinisba]

That reminds me that I still have the unfinished sequel to "He Came To Meet Me"! In the meantime, a drabble:

They went back to visit, a few years after that, and couldn't much stand to breathe the close air at North Tunnels, but walking up to the edge of the Valley felt as familiar to Diamond as falling into dreams.

Tolly said it hadn't been fair of her to leave so sudden-like, that the sheep had missed her terribly. And Heather said never mind the sheep, that she'd been the loneliest when Diamond went away.

"You left me without warning too," said Diamond, "when you went off to fight. So I had to be free to go off to love."

[slightlytookish]

I'll give you a vague nudge to continue with the Odd and Even series you wrote for Dana because I want to read more! I say "vague" because I know you said there would be more, but I'm not sure if you meant that the timeline would span days, months, years, etc. So how about, er, a day? A week?

Cousins, yay! :D

[sophinisba]

Sure, that one has a whole big timeline planned out that goes through the quest and after, but it shouldn't be a problem to do a drabble for the next day. :)

[sophinisba]

Pippin thought at first (when he woke up squeeed in between his two best friends and cousins, all of them naked and warm and still just a little bit sticky) that it would be odd after that, going back to their normal life in the daytime, mundane tasks like cooking and eating, walking and talking and making conversation.

On the other hand, he didn't want to put off eating any longer than he had to.

And it was odd, but he soon realized he didn't mind. There was no "going back", but he was happy enough to be going forward.

[lilybaggins.livejournal.com]

Oooo... I'd like some more "Not Here," please, for old times sake. Either just before the story ends or just before it begins---your call!

[sophinisba]

Okay, I should be able to handle 100 words in five days. :)

[sophinisba]

"I think you made the table too high on purpose so that I couldn't climb up myself and you'd have to lift me."

"There's only one examination table, Frodo. It's designed for women..."

"Right, good, so you won't be expecting me to fit into these, er..."

"The stirrups have been adjusted already. You should be fine."

"Er..."

"Here, start by lying down. Good, now scoot forward. Bring your bottom down to the edge of the table."

"Enough?"

"A little farther."

"But I'm already at the edge!"

"Just a few inches more."

"I'll fall off, Aragorn."

"You won't. I'll hold you."

[layne67.livejournal.com]

'Lasting Effects' - 1 yr later, and hopefully they've gotten to the NC17 stage by then :DDDDD

[sophinisba]

Ha!

[sophinisba]

Oh hell I have so much of that fic that I haven't done anything with. Can I cheat and post a chapter that takes place a year earlier instead?

[estelanui.livejournal.com]

I love your young and wise Pippin with his way to live new experience.
Perfect!

[sophinisba]

Thank you! I loved writing that fic and making things as good for Pippin as I could!