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This is my entry for Slackru’s September fluff challenge ( @slackru ). I decided to write about different situations in which our favorite couple ends up cuddling in S5. In the end, I settled on 12 drabbles.

I dedicate this to all the lovely people of the Kabby fandom and especially everyone who’s on the Kabbyfam Slack. I love you all <3

i. on  Clarke’s birthday

“Abby needs you.”

Marcus raises his head just as Niylah takes a seat across from him with a tray of food.

“I’m sorry?”

“Abby. She needs you,” the young woman explains while taking a sip of water.

Senses on high alert, Marcus tenses up before leaning closer.

“Why? Did something happen? Is she hurt? Is she okay?”

“Home in Your Arms” by @fire-of-the-sun

Artwork created for the @slackru Bunker Fluff Challenge

Only weeks after the Bunker doors close for six years, Marcus Kane finds an old music player among Cadogan’s things and imagines what it’d be like to dance with Abby Griffin.

He knows the thought is foolish, but - as was the case for some time now - the pull of his heart outweighed the uncertainty in his head. There is nothing more he wants than to help ease the sorrow that had taken root in her and to bridge the gap that had inadvertently grown between them and connect once more.

It begins with his outstretched hand - a wordless invitation to join him as the first notes of a half-forgotten melody fills the silence of their quarters, countering the pall of solemnity that had taken hold. It’s an offer to feel something else - something beyond the crushing burden of work and worry that he knows is weighing on her now more than ever. 

Her mind tells her the act of participating in something as self-indulgent as dancing was an almost ridiculous notion, especially in the wake of their circumstances. The world they lived in did not accommodate such frivolity. But she also knows his heart and recognizes the plea in his eyes that resonates in her as deeply as it always has. There’s a pain there that she wants to remedy just as much as he does for her and so, with some reservation, she takes his hand…

Fandom: The 100

Pairing: Kabby 

Word Count: 3326

(A/N: My entry for the @slackru Kabby fluff challenge! Hope you all enjoy! Comments and reblogs muchly appreciated! Cross posted on AO3.)

“This is… Maybe this isn’t a good idea. I mean, it’s probably too soon, right? The timing is… it might never be right. She might not want to do this again, and I’m not -”

“Kane.” Indra watched the man pace back and forth in the small, cramped hallway outside medical and wondered if he could even hear his own nervous babbling, but she wasn’t about to let him fall down into a pit of self doubt; in her opinion it would be insulting to both Abby and himself for Kane to question either of their devotion to each other. “Don’t be a fool, and don’t be a coward.”

Why did men always have to make such a fuss over things and blow them out of proportion? This was important, of course, but it was also simple.

“Right…” Kane murmured, mostly to himself, but he was still obviously tense and thrumming with anxiety. “I still don’t think she’ll go for the tattoo thing.”

Indra sighed: a fuss over nothing. “It is the custom of most clans to seal unions with ink.”

“But not all?”

“By all means, choose scarification instead. I believe that is the Azgeda way.” She still felt that deeply ingrained stab of disgust at saying their name. No matter how long she was forced to live with them, they would never be her people. She felt at least a little gratified when Kane winced minutely; he, at least, was as opposed to that suggestion as she was. “How was it done on the Ark?”

“An exchange of rings. Old Earth custom,” Kane replied, “Perhaps you remember the ring Abby wore?”

this is more happy angst than fluff but this is the most inspired i’ve been in like a year and IT COUNTS OKAY

okay so guess who has Major Social Anxiety and Does Not Know How To Approach A Fam In Any Way Without Coming Off Weird But Still Wants To Make Friends

(it me)

so i have been very awkward with the whole not-knowing-how-to-get-into-slack-slash-kabbyfam-thing but i’m trying!! and i’m getting back into writing fic, so i am contributing a Thing to the slackru fluff meme. please enjoy and also come talk to me because i have a load of opinions but also anxiety about things and i WANT TO TALK TO ALL OF YOU AHHHH

anyway enjoy lmao sorry about the rant

home; (slackru fluff meme)

Home.

It was a word, one of many, that had lost its Old Earth meaning over time. ‘Home’, on the Ark, was synonymous with ‘living place’, and, occasionally, with Earth. ‘Earth’ was the most abstract concept the word ‘home’ applied to. Linguistic evolution was an odd concept, rarely thought of, and with so few people on the Ark, no one really had the time or energy to investigate the usage of the word ‘home’ as something regarded with emotion, something you felt with a weight laden on your chest, something with memories and thoughts and images tied so closely to it that you couldn’t deny the disconnect between your house and your home.

Some people said Earth was home. Earth was the only thing they called home. The metal boxes where their beds weren’t their home. That was fair. That was justified. When these people thought of home, they thought of paradise, of a promised land waiting for their children. Something the blood in their bones longed for.

No one ever spoke of home as a person on the Ark. Maybe it was because there wasn’t the kind of love stories you could set to a background of sunsets and flowers on a metal ship orbiting above a burned planet. Maybe it was because everything seemed duller, greyer, as if the sun couldn’t quite touch the lovers. Or maybe, simply, it was because after nearly a hundred years without a home, people simply forgot what the word meant.

But then, of course, humanity went home. And the word found its way back into the common vernacular of the people from the sky.

Hello Kabbyfam, 

We’re back with another challenge and this time it’s all about Season 5 fluff because our favorite couple deserves all the fluff they can get! 

Basically, write the fluffiest bit of fluff you can imagine - just make sure to set in it Season 5! Give us Kabby spooning, Kabby teasing one another, Kabby nuzzling one another as the delinquents look  on with a grossed out ew-mom-and-dad-are-so-weird look on their faces – if it’s fluff, we want it!

We welcome both fic and art to this one, just make sure to tag your creation with #Slackrukabbyfluff so we can reblog it on Tumblr!

We’ve already created a collection on Ao3 where you can add your fic. That way we can have all that lovely fluff in one place for your reading pleasure! The name of the collection is the following: 

I will spend my whole life loving you (Kabby_September_Fluff_Challenge)

 As of now, the timeline is as follows:

Official start date: Sept. 11, so everyone can participate in all ten days of Abby Griffin appreciation from the 1-10!  

Please post your art and/or fic on Sept. 30th, on Ao3 (collection will be published on Oct. 1st) and/or on Tumblr (pls tag with #Slackrukabbyfluff)

If you post on Tumblr, please @Slackru so that we can reblog on that Tumblr. 

The deadline is Sept. 30th 11 pm PT (Pacific Time Zone)

Rules:

For both art/fic keep it fluffy and Season 5

Fic writers: there’s no word limit, but keep it as a one shot

Hello Kabbyfam, 

We’re back with another challenge and this time it’s all about Season 5 fluff because our favorite couple deserves all the fluff they can get! 

Basically, write the fluffiest bit of fluff you can imagine - just make sure to set in it Season 5! Give us Kabby spooning, Kabby teasing one another, Kabby nuzzling one another as the delinquents look  on with a grossed out ew-mom-and-dad-are-so-weird look on their faces – if it’s fluff, we want it!

We welcome both fic and art to this one, just make sure to tag your creation with #Slackrukabbyfluff so we can reblog it on Tumblr!

We’ve already created a collection on Ao3 where you can add your fic. That way we can have all that lovely fluff in one place for your reading pleasure! The name of the collection is the following: 

I will spend my whole life loving you (Kabby_September_Fluff_Challenge)

 As of now, the timeline is as follows:

Official start date: Sept. 11, so everyone can participate in all ten days of Abby Griffin appreciation from the 1-10!  

Please post your art and/or fic on Sept. 30th, on Ao3 (collection will be published on Oct. 1st) and/or on Tumblr (pls tag with #Slackrukabbyfluff)

If you post on Tumblr, please @Slackru so that we can reblog on that Tumblr. 

The deadline is Sept. 30th 11 pm PT (Pacific Time Zone)

Rules:

For both art/fic keep it fluffy and Season 5

Fic writers: there’s no word limit, but keep it as a one shot

Fandom: The 100

Pairing: Kabby

Word count: 2126

(My obligatory post-4x12 fic before hopefully canon gives us something more concrete. All the angst, but no one dies.)

Marcus sits and waits for Abby to wake. He strokes a hand over her hair and lets his world shrink down to the rise and fall of her chest, each pulse of her heart keeping his own beating. Everything surrounding him must be kept at bay. He can’t think about anything except the beloved contours of her face, the softness of her skin, the smell of her hair and the taste of her lips, because the thought of living in a world without these things, without her, freezes the breath in his lungs.

She stood in front of him and told him to pull out a name to replace her own. To give a future to someone else instead of the woman he loves. She told him she loved him and shattered his heart in the same breath. She walked away and all he could do was stand there whilst his world came crashing down, wondering when she’d decided they were no longer in this together.

How can she think he would have just let it happen? He loves her in a way that is all encompassing and terrifying in its limitlessness. It’s something he’s never felt before, it shakes him to his core, and he’s certain that losing her would tear him apart.

He watches Abby breathe but she is still slipping away. He’s never felt so helpless.

In order to match our artists and writers, we’re going to create a form that lists all the story summaries and ask the artists to choose their top three in which they are interested in creating art. So, writers - please submit a detailed summary and key words (think tumblr tags) for your big bang fic in the form linked above.