Prompt round one

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Round one of the Awesome Ladies of White Collar prompt fest is now open!

Before we begin, I just wanted to remind everybody to be respectful, fills for prompts should be posted as a reply to the prompt, or linked in a reply to the prompt.

For fics longer than one comment and vids, please use the following header:



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Much thanks to elrhiarhodan for the community layout.

sahiya  has set up a collection on AO3 for the fest.  Posting fills there is encouraged, but not required.

Please read the rules carefully, and post any questions you have here. And most importantly,

Have fun, everybody!

This round is now closed to new prompts.  (But not to new fills!)

MASTER LIST:

Fic:

15 Minutes out of Her Day by (leonie_alastair)
Prompt: Elizabeth, not messing around (yeomanrand)

Back Home by attackfish
Prompt: Diana - Diana and Jones spend a boring night in the van on surveillance, and end up swapping work-related stories and memories.(ozqueen)

Champagne on a Saturday Morning by sahiya
Prompt: Sara - a rainstorm, a bottle of wine, and Neal. (ozqueen)

Halls of Justice by attackfish
Prompt: Neal/Sara AU - he's the insurance investigator and she's the clever art thief who slipped through his fingers.(lionessvalenti)

Knife's Edge by yamx
Prompt: Elizabeth & Kate AU - Confrontation (and Kate has a pretty damn good excuse) (lionessvalenti)

Like Silk by aleanorblack
Prompt: Sara - silk. (ozqueen)

Remembering by destinyjadams
Prompt: Sara - What we know about Sara's backstory is pretty sad; her parents are dead and her sister disappeared years ago. I'd like to know more about where she came from and how she became who she is. Sara/Neal for preference, but it doesn't have to be shippy. (sahiya)

Spaces by attackfish
Prompt: Sara - Sara and Neal do domestic in their own way. (sahiya)

Stakes of the Game by daria234
Prompt: Elizabeth, Sarah, June, and Cindy, Girls' poker night gets cutthroat. (yeomanrand)

Tempered by attackfish
Prompt: Sara - silk. (ozqueen)

Untitled (Explicit) by daria234
Prompt: Sara, Alex: "Did you really think I'd prefer him over you?" (elrhiarhodan)

Untitled by destinyjadams
Prompt: June - the first pocket she ever picked (lionessvalenti)

Untitled by vesperwhisper
Prompt: Kate, June: Take care of him for me, please. (elrhiarhodan)

Untitled by vesperwhisper
Prompt: Kate - my makeup may be flaking (lionessvalenti)

The Way it Starts by attackfish
Prompt: Alex - Fast cars, money and sunshine. (ozqueen)

Comments

[sahiya.livejournal.com]

Sara - Sara and Neal do domestic in their own way.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I wanted to know if I could do this as a remix of "Something Comfortable"?

[sahiya.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! I'd love to read that.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Filled: Spaces

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

This is a remix of the prompter, sahiya's, fic, Something Comfortable (http://sahiya.livejournal.com/644835.html), that takes place a few hours after that ends. It probably won't make sense without reading her fic first.


Spaces


She woke up all at once, languid muscles contracting with tension. The light from the street lamps came pouring through the window, bluish and too bright. Neal had his back to her, and his face pressed into the pillow as he slept. The air conditioner hummed softly, and his hair ruffled, but he didn't move, and the hairs on her arms prickled, the cold rolling down her. "Neal!"

He didn't move. Sara's heart beat hard. "Neal!" She hissed his name louder, grabbing his shoulder.

He jerked awake. "Wha... Sara?"

"Oh good, you're awake." She almost said "alive" instead by mistake.

"You know..." he muttered sleepily. "The ER doctor said you didn't have to wake me."

"I know." The last of the unreasoning panic came out of her into those two words, and she felt herself soften, and the exhaustion return.

He smiled at her as he closed her eyes, and she picked up the sheet to tuck it in around him. It seemed like there was a warm haze around them, a disconnect from the way their lives were the rest of the time. She felt like a foreigner, living for those few days in someone else's life while they were living in someone else's house, someone else's bed. She contemplated for just a second asking Neal if it was easier for him, Neal who had many names the way some people had many houses.

He was smiling at her, a quiet smile, and she hated him. A few hours of sleep, and he was on again, on, and exhausted, and run down, and still on. When she was tired, she was herself, too worn out to be nice, too worn out to st op every idiosyncratic impulse and compulsion. It took a head wound before the man stopped it. She wondered if that was just who he was, if on was what he did when he was tired, and it took an effort to be honest for him, the way it took her effort to be nice.

She ran her fingers through his hair and let it slip through.

Re: Filled: Spaces

[sahiya.livejournal.com]

I loved this! Your Sara felt very real to me, especially this:

She wondered if that was just who he was, if on was what he did when he was tired, and it took an effort to be honest for him, the way it took her effort to be nice.

Really nice work. Thanks so much!

Re: Filled: Spaces

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm kinda like Sara that way, so I know the feeling.

Re: Filled: Spaces

[micheleeeex.livejournal.com]

This is fantastic!

Re: Filled: Spaces

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Thank you!