Snowflake Challenge 13

[turps]

In your own space, create a fanwork. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I was wondering when this one would turn up.

I'm just going to copy what I've done for other snowflakes which is to offer drabbles, and give myself some slack with double drabbles if I want to write more.

So, give me a pairing and prompt and I'll write you something with exactly 100 or 200 words. Any fandom I know is fair game.

Responses may not be immediate as I'm a bit behind online atm, but I will get them done.

Comments

[turps]

Excellent prompt. Hope you don't mind I twisted it a bit.

~*~*~*~

Poison’s huddled in tight, tucked into the scant shade from the Trans Am. There’s dust in his mouth and sand gritting his eyes as he watches Kobra, who’s standing staring off into the distance.

“Sometimes I let myself remember.” Kobra takes a careful step forward, millimetres away from liquid lava that laps at his feet. “About cold salty water and not liquid fire.”

“You hated the beach.” Poison remembers sand that didn’t sting and a previous life that’s turned blurry and brittle with age. “You cried when you first saw the ocean.”

“It was cold… I think.” Kobra rubs at his eyes, steam whisping around his ankles as the lava splutters and burns. “I can’t remember.”

“It was fucking freezing.” Poison pushes himself to his feet, squinting against the relentless glare of the sun as he forces back memories of cool water and childish innocence to a place they won’t hurt. “We should go.”

“I know,” Kobra agrees, but makes no effort to move until, suddenly, never looking at Poison. “I miss it, Gee.”

And the name is a cool drop of water in the vast expanse of the desert, painful and bewitching at once.

Poison simply says, “Me too.”

[cold_clarity]

yes hello??? i love this??? it's so good. <333

[turps]

Thank you!

I enjoyed dipping my toes into the Killjoys universe again. I've missed them.

[frausorge]

The contrasting principles in this are fantastic, heat and cold, past and present. I'm really taken with the image of the lava waves rolling in, and the impact of "a cool drop of water" in the middle of that mental landscape! Fantastic.

[turps]

When I saw Turlough's prompt I started to think of what a Killjoys verse beach would look like, so I'm glad the sense of heat came over.

Thank you for such a lovely comment <3

[turlough]

This is lovely! Beautiful and sad and painful.

[turps]

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you for the prompt <3

[wenchpixie]

Oh my heart, so perfect

[turps]

Again, thank you <3