Tosca's Kiss

Happy New Year everyone! Hope 2012 is a good one for you. Here's a couple of Weiss Kreuz drabbles to break in the new year:


2012

Sally and the children come back to the hotel to find their bags packed. At Sally’s white-faced expression Jei flicks a look towards the twins, says,
“Crawford declares Ireland’s won all the medals we’re getting. Thought we’d go home early, visit your nana on the way.”
Sally nods in understanding.

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The week before, Nagi receives an email:
“Rimouski meeting actually surprise birthday party. Blasting your minions through the walls would be ill-advised overreaction. Happy 30th.”

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The television clicks off, amidst election-result hysteria.
“Told you so.”
Schuldig sneers.
“Brad, someone with the precognition of a lead brick could have called that one.”


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1. London 2012 Olympics. Perfect terrorist attack target. eep.
2. Nagi turns 30 in 2012 according to canon. I doubt he’s pleased about it.
3. 2012 US Presidential elections.



Per Annum

New Year’s Eve they both have different traditions.

Crawford collects papers - brochures, catalogues, printouts - of upcoming important world events. He spends the day shuffling them hand-to-hand, slip-sliding them under his fingertips, casting his Talent further and further outward, a net to trap elusive fish. By daybreak and the dawn of a new annum, he knows the shape of his expectations for this next year.

Schuldig goes out to a random bar, fucks a random stranger, and gets completely hammered to celebrate surviving the year just past.

New Year’s Day however, they both share the misery of a debilitating headache.

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My Yuletide present this year was Information Received, a lovely little James Bond office story with Bond and Villiers, courtesy of girl_called_sun. Thank you again for my Yuletide gift.


My own contribution this year was for miss_elizabeth, in the The Mummy film series fandom, and was an afternoon of discoveries (danger, romance, etc) for Evie, Rick and Jonathan, set in the Carnavan's parents' attic back in England:

Past and Future
(The Mummy Series, Teen & Up, Rick/Evelyn, Jonathan)


I was having terrible trouble thinking up a name for the story that wasn't either a. misleading or b. giving the plot away entirely, so I just slapped the moniker "Past and Future" on it. It wasn't until the day after that I realized I'd committed a horrible scribal faux pas; my previous year's Yuletide story was called "Of Events Past and Future"! [blush]

Next year, expect to see a story entitled, "Future".

After talking with daegaer about our respective writer's block (by which I mean she wrote quite a bit of fun stuff in 2007 and I wrote zippedy-doodar, fun or otherwise), I have decided to make an effort to write this year. I already have a claim on fanfic100 for Brad Crawford/Schuldig of Weiß Kreuz which has been going very, very poorly. I'm going to try and wade through some more of it and have enrolled in weissday, so that's a start.

I'm also making a claim in the much smaller 10_cliche_fics and trying out a new fandom - James Bond. And what's more, James Bond with Villiers, M's Chief of Staff (the same actor also played Brutus in Rome). Yes, as rare as blue steak, but it should be fun I think (and hopefully someone will actually want to read it). I'm going for the Table 3: Generic Clichés option:

The darkest hour is just before the dawn	What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger	No time like the present
.	.	.
Every rose has its thorn	Better late than never	What goes around comes around
.	.	.
All's fair in love and war	All's well that ends well	Never judge a book by its cover
.	.	.
	Time heals all wounds

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