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[turps]

This is the last thing I should be doing as I have a stupid amount of comments to reply to, just as many emails and a BBB to finish. But at the same time, I love this kind of meme. The kind where I get to think of stories without the effort of actually writing them.

The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write AND give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, etc) or another time period (Ancient Rome, Regency England, etc). I will then explain the gist of the story I would write for that AU.

And man, I am the dumbest, I just realised it's type or time period. I thought a space opera set in ancient Rome was a strange combo.

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[sperrywink]

How about a telepathic spies AU?

[turps]

Love the prompt :D

When Gabe set up his spy agency he only recruited people who were 9 or up on the telepath scale. It means the team he does have is small but elite, but along with being elite comes problems.

So many high ranking telepaths together leads to issues of privacy, because though they've all got amazing control, it's impossible to hide every thought always. That's something that some can't deal with or else finds uncomfortable ( sometimes Gabe wishes he had a team full of Ways who share their every thought with each other, then he thinks of having multiple Ways and quickly changes his mind )

Some fine tuning and Gabe's ended up with people who don't mind leaking thoughts and are closer than close. It's how it has to be, if your worst secrets leak you need to be with someone who won't take advantage. It's why Gabe has a team who'd die for each other, and why sometimes he has a headache as he listens in to multiple minds chatting at one another.

The story begins when Gabe's contacted to infiltrate a police force and root out a cop that's gone bad. It's a job they've done before and as always he sends in his team under several guises. Bob wearing the uniform of a rookie officer, Spencer the janitor, Ryan in admin.

By rotating roles there's someone in the station at all times, passing on their observations as they read the minds of the people they pass.

But in the end it's Gabe that uncovers the bad guy. It's a chance thing, Gabe getting coffee when he feels the itch of anger at the back of his mind. Sending out feelers to his team, he quickly finds out its none of them, and he looks around, trying to see who's leaking so much anger.

Narrowing it down to a guy drinking coffee at one of the table, Gabe takes the next one, and carefully probes his mind, finding out that he's set a series of bombs in the police station, ones that are about to go off.

Mentally screaming a warning to those inside, he tells them to get out, even knowing they won't. It's why Gabe's running toward the station himself even as Spencer, Bob and Brendon are pulling the bombs locations out of Gabe's mind and running to disarm them.

[turlough]

Fun! Though now you've made me want a story about Gabe and a multitude of Ways :-D

[turps]

Fun! Though now you've made me want a story about Gabe and a multitude of Ways :-D

Obviously Gabe needs to be a scientist who due to bad maths ends up with multiple Way clones *g*

They would be everywhere! And when he goes to bed there would be a pile of Ways all around him.

[glitteryv]

This AU is so nifty I'm all shiny!eyed. Hee!

[turps]

This meme lead to a lot of nifty ideas, I wish I had the time to write them all.

And, thank you!