#bizarrebird

Rating: General (this chapter), Explicit for entire work

Ship: Locus/Caboose, previous Locus/Felix

Warnings: Angst, mentions of previous abuse, fluff

Locus is left to wonder when Caboose disappears.

Written for @bizarrebird as a belated birthday present!

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First lines meme! List the first lines of your last 20 15 10 stories. See if there are any patterns. Then tag 10 of your favorite authors!

Also!

Write down the first line of your WIP and tag as many people as there are words!

ok, rather than continue the feedback loop of tagging, I’m gonna merge these two memes and answer them all at once, and then not tag anyone

Gonna alternate between my AO3 and WIPs here

‘Oh, that is not fucking fair.' : Quod Cattus Respice In Trahebatur, 2017 Fluff Week prompt, outtake from the Cat!AU

(WIP) “Boss? I need to talk to you for a minute.” (I feel bad about this one, because normally I like the ship that’s upcoming, but this brain weasel will. not. go. away.)

“Wash! Dude! Where the hell have you been?” : Agent Washington, Chick Magnet, another fluff week prompt, and I am predictable XD

(WIP) It shouldn’t be reassuring, hearing meaningless rambling coming from a flash of orange just out of the corner of his eye. (little bit of Locus & Grif on their way to do a Big Damn Heroes)

“I’m sorry, Sam, but this is exactly why we put you down as an emergency contact.” : What Little Girls Are Made Of, 3rd Fluff Week prompt, in another Universe, Locus stays with the Wus (this one went a bit sideways XD)

(WIP) Emily Grey is a miracle, determined to save her friend. (ok, those of you who were in chat with me back in February might remember the moment when I first experienced “seeing red”. this is the fallout of that and, uh, is not happy. probably won’t get posted, but another brain weasel that won’t leave.)

Maryland knew the stages of dehydration and starving. : Poor Mary Is A-Weeping, 2017 Angst War prompt that went very sideways

(WIP) Locus stared at the cleaning bot in his hands. (Stabby the Space Roomba vs. Felix, aka Locus is a little shit)

He opens his eyes. : An Eye Opening Experience, other Angst War prompt, asking for Locus traveling back to the beginning of the CHorus Arc. (Have you noticed prompts tend to go sideways? XD)

(WIP) Wash muttered his way through every curse he knew as he strode over to the "Red Base" end of the canyon. trying to write Sarge teaching Wash to knit as stress-relief/therapy

Six paces from the bars to the back of the room. Spare Key, for the 2017 Bingo War (the next handful are all Bingo War XD), Medic square: trapped in a small space together. Locus and Tucker both get nabbed by Sangheili fanatics that hate the thought of a human with a Key, not realizing there are two of them now

(WIP)  “I’m not like him,” Tucker snapped. amusingly enough, the continuation of Spare Key

Donut sat back on his heels and stretched. Pine Nuts, Medic square: Mutual pining. Doc & Donut setting up their garden, and both being idiots in their own heads.

(WIP)  Sam let his pencil doodle idly as he skimmed through the book in front of him. College AU, Locus accidentally screws up a translation assignment and summons a Luck Demon (Felix), who won’t go away. (Somehow turned into “How many people can I hook Locus up with in 1 fic” when I wasn’t paying attention)

“Did Santa say ‘the people of this planet?’” Touch Me and You’ll Sink, Medic sqaure: Temple of Procreation (These two were willing to cooperate until I actually started writing. Assholes.)

(WIP) Samuel Ortez, codename: 'Locus', stood at parade rest before his superior. Black-ops AU, hand to god an exercise in A/B/O dynamics and the worldbuilding that would evolve around that

When the New Republic rebels attacked and managed to cut the power to the base, Wash was in Medical with Dr. Grey, having been unsuccessful in his attempts to avoid her. Elevator Music, another “Trapped in a small space together” fill. Locus & Donut stuck in a freight elevator, with a bit of Wash panicking over the concept.

(WIP) "Ummmm, ... sirs?" A collection of scenes from my ridiculous self-indulgent BS with an OC Freelancer. (favorite bits are any time she’s at breakfast with the mercs and brain-breaking the underlings. it makes sense in context. i hope.)

“Felix, are you sure this is a good idea?” La Petite Mort et La Grande, also for “Temple of Procreation”, wherein Felix turns on the ToP while on their way to the Purge, as a distraction. tag highlight: “holy fuck you guys ‘Felix being a dick’ doesn’t even begin to cover it”

(WIP) It wasn’t music. I couldn’t end this list without touching on HeartSong, my musical not-soulmates AU. Don’t expect this one any time soon, as I’m still trying to untangle the plot threads enough to see what goes where. (Next two sentences:  No one could agree on what exactly it was, but it wasn’t music. But until someone came up with a better description, most people called it music. )

So, I apparently have a tendency to start with dialog or action. :shrug: not sure if I want to stretch past that or not XD

who’s the werewolf and who’s the hunter

TEX is totally the werewolf and Kimball is the bound and determined hunter. 

who’s the mermaid and who’s the fisherman

Kimball is the mermaid and Tex is the very perplexed fisherman who does not understand why the pretty merlady is spending time with her. 

who’s the witch and who’s the familiar

Kimball the witch and Tex the asshole cat familiar? absolutely. 

who’s the barista and who’s the coffee addict

Tex is the best barista ever, Kimball has not slept in five days and needs coffee now

who’s the professor and who’s the TA

Kimball’s the professor and Tex is the TA? I guess? I kinda am squicked by this one tbh

who’s the knight and who’s the prince(ss)

Tex is the knight who’s sworn allegience to Princess Kimball. It’s all very romantic. especially when Kimball keeps stealing her sword to stab people. 

who’s the teacher and who’s the single parent

Kimball is the teacher simply because I can’t imagine Tex willingly dedicating herself to education. Not for that little money. 

who’s the writer and who’s the editor

Violets are Blue, August Burns Red, and Purple Hearts

That was a fun fic to write! I’m always fascinated by how events change in a few hundred years, and how that relates to our faves!

1: answered here!

7: longest completed fic you wrote this year

I’m going to also go with one I actually started this year and point to put your curse in reverse, at 8 thousand words. Although honorable mention goes to tread our little arcs upon our star, which, completed this year at 68,589 words clocks in a few hundred words shy of the longest fic i’ve ever written :D

12: favorite character to write about this year

oooooh. hmmmm. I had fun with Caboose in the last thing I did, but we know it could go away, but i’m circling back around to the bang fic that ate my life because writing Kimball’s parts was so. much. fun. Got to indulge my weird secret weakness for fictional politics and paperwork, as well as play around with obliviousness to a delightful degree. Plus, this was the fic that made me realize Kimball was a favorite character of mine, which is rare! So yes.