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“It could be the queen for all I care. Don’t respond.”
“It might be a case.”
“It could be a hundred cases. Don’t even look at your phone.”
“It’s a locked room triple homicide!”
“I told you not to look. Put the phone down.”
“But it’s a ten, John!”
“I don’t care if it’s an eleven. Drop the phone.”
“The scale only goes up to ten.”
“Sherlock, I am not going to ask you again. Drop the phone or I’m pulling out.”
“Fine. But this fuck had better be a ten.”
The OTW invited folks to create drabbles incorporating the number 10 on February 15th to celebrate the 10th annual International Fanworks Day. I spent 10 minutes on this little tidbit for you. It’s inspired by a scene from The Only One in the World, I Invented the Job by @apliddell.
I’m tagging some folks who might be interested. Please let me know if you’d like me to tag or untag you.
forever might be short (pricefield drabble collection)
Originally posted on AO3 as part of the International Fanworks Day challenge 2024.
Summary: Max saves Chloe and they leave the bay behind, but what happens after ten months? And ten years? And all the in betweens? Ten drabbles about love, loss, healing and learning how to navigate life together, in honor of International Fanworks Day 10th anniversary.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Category: F/F
Fandom: Life is Strange (Video Game)
Relationship: Maxine "Max" Caulfield/Chloe Price
1. ten months
They haven't lost the ability to smile, but they don't laugh the way they used to.
When it happens, ten months after the storm, it's random, spontaneous.
Max scrolls Netflix, Chloe is looking at her phone. Then, she reads something. Her eyes light up. She grins like an ass.
"Hey, Max?"
"Yeah?"
"What’s the difference between a casual dinner party and a pirate orgy? The first one you come as you are… The other you ARR as you come!"
When Ryan and Vanessa come home they find them rolling on the couch, kicking each other, eyes watery, breathless with laughter.
2. the fury in your head
Max lets Chloe die, but the storm still comes.
She's in the lighthouse, screaming at it.
"Didn't you get what you wanted?! I did what you asked of me! Why is this happening? What more do you want from me?!"
The hurricane roars and Max wakes up.
Chloe's arms engulf her in an instant, "It's okay. You're safe. We're in Seattle. I'm here."
Chloe never pushes her to share, she wants to spare her the pain. She imagines Max dreams about the innocent lives lost, the sorrow, the guilt.
But Max's nightmares are about one thing only: not choosing Chloe.
3. (finally see) what it means to be living
It takes them more than a year to find their footing, but it's bliss when it finally comes.
They get an apartment. Max goes back to school, and Chloe enrolls in an Associate in Computer Science program in community college.
They work most weekends, even though Ryan and Vanessa are helping them out. They even get a compensation from the Arcadia Bay Victims Relief Fund. Chloe calls it blood money. But they take it, because they need all the help they can get.
Still, their routine is hard. Seattle is always rainy. They study, they work, they get by. Together.
4. awake, dear heart…
They share a bed, so they technically sleep together, but they're not together.
There are lingering touches, light kisses and even pecks on the lips, but they haven't done anything else. They haven't talked about it. They're both just so utterly afraid of messing up what they have.
Max finds a note in Chloe's pocket when she's doing laundry. It reads: My offer still stands. Call me? Erika xoxo. There's a phone number. She folds it and then leaves it on Chloe's nightstand.
When Chloe finds it, she doesn't say anything, but Max watches her throw it in the trash.
5. ...awake
"Chloe? You know you don't have to stay with me, right? You don't owe me anything."
It's Christmas Eve. 11 AM. They agreed to sleep in before they drive to Max's parents.
Chloe immediately sits up on the bed and looks at her with so much concern you'd think Max's nose is bleeding.
"What the fuck? Where did that come from?"
Max grimaces, refrains the urge to cry, "It's just… sometimes… I wonder if—"
Chloe puts a finger over her lips, ever so gently. Then, she kisses her, deeply, intentionally. It's a statement.
When they part, Max wonders no more.
6. worship in the bedroom
They lie naked on a warm June morning, limbs intertwined, bodies sweating, hearts beating loudly.
"Damn, you're hardcore, Max," Chloe grins like an idiot.
"So I’ve been told," Max can't help a little proud smile.
They chuckle together, and enjoy the silence. It's not really silence – a Hozier song is coming from the speakers, and birds sing under their window.
"One of these days, Caulfield…" Chloe whispers absentmindedly.
"What?"
She doesn't answer. She pulls Max closer and replies only in her mind.
One of these days I'm gonna ask you to marry me. Not today, but one of these days.
7. (remember) to let her under your skin
They end up in New York because Max gets a scholarship there, thanks to her impressive portfolio. Her photos and her name are connected to Arcadia Bay and, painful as that is, it opens many doors for her. She wishes it wasn't like that, but… it's the blood money check situation all over again.
HBO did a documentary series, so everybody in class knows everything.
Well, not everything.
But they whisper — she hears words like survivor, so tragic, Jefferson...
It used to bother her. Yet, with each passing day coming home to Chloe, the pain seems to simply drift away.
8. the pleasure, the privilege is mine
It's Chloe's birthday.
Max plans the perfect party with their New York friends. They Skype Max's parents, David and Kate. Chloe drinks, laughs, cries. They eat cake. It's fun, and it ends with their apartment ruined.
Afterwards, they sit together on the couch, spent, heads touching.
"Thank you for today, babe," Chloe says softly as she looks at their intertwined hands. "For a girl that should be dead, turning 25 is kinda wild…"
Max gazes at her with sheer devotion, "I love you so much."
The smile that Chloe gives her might have the power to stop time, "I know."
9. this is now
After the pandemic (they'll always wonder if somewhere, someone was using some cursed, forbidden power), Chloe burns out. She quits her job as IT specialist in some big pharma company, and starts freelancing as a graphic designer. That year, Max hits 200k followers on Instagram. She signs a photobook deal. Chloe designs the cover. It's a wild success.
So Chloe spins Max in her arms one Friday afternoon, and blurts out, "Max, I think we're ready. We've been talking about it, let's just do it!"
Max laughs, nods.
They lock eyes, and yell it in unison, "Let's get a dog!"
10. ten years
Chloe's making spaghetti — her long, honey-blonde hair up in a messy bun, her arm tattoo covered in black ink. Max's watching her work, sitting at the kitchen island, playing with the white gold band in her ring finger. Deckard, their Labrador, sits at her feet.
They're talking about their day, complaining about shit, making plans.
There's three candles by the window: one for Rachel, one for Joyce, one for all the others. Today's the anniversary, but it doesn't get to them anymore.
Life's weird, thrilling, also boring at times.
It's good too.
They made it. And they will be okay.
THE END
author's notes:
Title from Emily Dickinson's 434:
To love thee Year by Year—
May less appear
Than sacrifice, and cease—
However, dear,
Forever might be short, I thought to show—
And so I pieced it, with a flower, now.
Chapter 2 title: Spanish Sahara by Foals
Chapter 3 title: Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
Chapter 4 & 5 reference: “Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.” (Prospero, Act 1, Scene 2) —The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Chapter 6 title: Take Me To Church by Hozier
Chapter 7 title: Hey, Jude by The Beatles
Chapter 8 title: There Is A Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths
Chapter 9: “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted." —Sylvia Plath
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Tlacey's ComfortUnit/Original Character
Characters: Tlacey's ComfortUnit (Murderbot Diaries), Original Female Human Character(s)
Additional Tags: Healing, Ficlet, Sexual Harassment, References to and Descriptions of Past Sex Abuse, The Corporation Rim Is Terrible (Murderbot Diaries), Hurt/Comfort, International Fanworks Day 2024, Violence
Summary:
After being freed, the ComfortUnit formerly belonging to Tlacey gets to live its life.
Got inspired for AO3's International Fanworks Day 2024 and the IFDrabble "10" theme, so I made a little series of 10 themed drabbles to go with my heist ficlet.
Mission Improbable series:
10-78(Request Assistance) aka The Mission Brief.
How It Went Down with The Avengers
How It Went Down with Thor
Thor's Speedy Messenger Service
Preparing the Perfect Elevator Pitch
Loki Reconnoiters the Objective
Heart-melting Bravado (heist ficlet chronologically follows this drabble)
Dishabille
Takeout, no movie, fooling around.
What's up, doc?
All drabbles are Rated G or T, and No Archive Warnings Apply.
Tony and Loki team up for a heist and get together.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: House M.D.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gregory House/James Wilson
Characters: Gregory House, James Wilson (House M.D.), Allison Cameron
Additional Tags: Valentine's Day, Fluff, Humor, Epistolary, International Fanworks Day 2024, Drabble, okay technically this is 10x longer than a drabble but at least I kept it to just 1k!
Summary:
Quise participar en el International Fanworks Day 2024 de Ao3 con esta ship preciosa
Para mí, Ineffable Bureaucracy es una ship con demasiado sentido, así que el tema de este año me ha caído perfecto
Beelzebub está bien con su vida en el infierno hasta que conoce al arcángel Gabriel, él lo hace sentirse de formas que antes no experimentó, y le regala experiencias que no conocía.
10 momentos que consiguieron que Beelzebub eligiera a Gabriel.
Yes, it's in spanish but use the translator. Kisses
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
So it’s the 10th International Fanworks Day today, and I saw that the OTW are doing a drabble fest with a theme of the number 10. And that just worked too perfectly in a fandom like Dark Matter where the characters are numbers. So I worked out three groups of three where the numbers add up to 10, and just… started writing, with absolutely no idea what was going to come out. This happened, and it’s probably one of my favourite things I’ve ever written xD Granted, it ended up a bit longer than a drabble, but hell it was too fun and I didn’t want to shorten it for the sake of it. It’s mostly gen but pre-slash if you squint ;)
So here’s a random silly slice of Raza life fic featuring all our favourites and a mystery to solve… what the hell happened between One and Three?
