The Ramblings Of A Creature Of Hobbit

Any, any, a suitcase of memories (From, Victor)

As Victor takes one last look at his suitcase before preparing to bury it one last time, he thinks back to the first time he buried it, when it contained mementoes of the people who had been there at the same time as his mother, as Eloise, as Christopher.

The curse trapping them all in town was broken now, and most people have taken the opportunity to return to their lives; for Victor, having been stuck there since 1978, there was nothing out there for him; he couldn’t see how he could adjust to the outside world as the others had described it, so he had made the decision to remain,

Now his suitcase contains mementoes of a new group of people; the drone that Randall had been going to give to his nephew for his birthday, Ethan’s Cromenockle book, Jade’s T shirt with cats on, Sara and Nathan’s old ceramic ornament, Tabitha’s bracelet.



The Vampire Diaries universe, any, the Merge (Caroline, Josie, Lizzie)

It’s Lizzie and Josie’s 22nd birthday; Caroline smiles to herself as she sits with Lizzie listening to her talking to Josie on Facetime about their plans, Lizzie having dinner with MG, Josie having just come back from a date with Penelope Park, who she’d reconnected with after arriving in Belgium (to Lizzie’s disapproval at first, although Lizzie and Penelope are making more effort with each other now).

Josie and Penelope are supposed to be arriving the next day for a birthday party Hope’s organising for both twins; Jed and Ben are coming back for it, Elena and Damon, Bonnie, Kaleb, MG, Wade, Finch and Cleo will be there.

As Lizzie starts talking about the people who can’t be there to celebrate with them, Rafael, Landon and Ethan, Caroline thinks all over again about how lucky they are that this event can actually take place with both twins without being marred by the Merge; being a vampire wasn’t necessarily what she would have hoped for Lizzie, but it meant that she still got to keep both girls, that they’d have many more birthdays past their 22nd, and the Merge would never have to take place.



any, any, you say the whole world's ending it already did (Dark, Magnus)

As recently as a week earlier, Magnus would have laughed off any stories about the supposed apocalypse that was meant to be happening in Winden. Yet faced with this man, apparently an older version of his childhood friend Jonas, saying he’s there to save them from it, and knowing that time travel exists, at this point he can believe anything.

As Magnus thinks back over the last year and how the world as he had always known it had been turned upside down, his father and younger brother missing (trapped in the past, he now knows, where he can never see them again) and his mother largely absent, he wonders why he should fear this apocalypse when the world as he had known it had ended months ago for him.



Any fandom, any canon character/any of your OCs, firsts and lasts (Dark, Bartosz/Silja)

The first time Bartosz meets Silja, he doesn’t know who she is; at this point he thinks she really is from 1890, completely separate from the insanity that is the time travel, Sic Mundus, his former best friend Jonas who’s just full of shit, and that she could represent a fresh start for him.

He thinks the last time he sees her is the day she dies giving birth to Agnes; the real last time he sees her is the first time she sees him, when she arrives as a six year old child, recognisable by the scar on her face, accompanied by Hannah, her mother.

Realising that Silja was part of the time travel loop after all, Hannah’s daughter, Jonas’s sister, Bartosz finds himself questioning their whole relationship; did Silja know who he was all along even as he had avoided all talk of the 2000s, had their whole relationship been a plan by Adam that she was complicit in, had she ever loved him at all?


any, any, I know I could have loved you / But you would not let me (Dark, Hannah/Michael)

“I could have loved you,” Hannah thinks as she sits by Michael’s grave, “but you never let me get to know you properly”. Months later, when the older version of their son explained Michael’s time travel history to her, Hannah understood why her husband had never been able to open up, knew she wouldn’t have believed him even if he had tried, but wondered if there could have been any way of them forming a closer connection.

“I could have loved you,” Michael had thought, “but I saw the way you always looked at Ulrich – my father – when you thought no one was looking, and I saw other people noticing, and I knew I would never be anything but second best to you.”


yellowjackets, any f/f, no death will tear us apart (Taissa/Van)

She’d only just reunited with Van; how was Taissa supposed to react to the fact that any reunion could only ever be brief due to Van’s cancer diagnosis, to the fact that Van had told her that they couldn’t even try?

Taissa had gone into politics to get things done, to make a change, now she was finding herself with something she couldn’t do anything about; but she wasn’t going to give up, she was determined that she’d be there for Van every step of the way.

Then Van came to her, said the doctors couldn’t understand it but she seemed to be in remission, and Taissa thought of Lottie’s comments about how the wilderness had wanted something; she still wasn’t sure how far she could believe that, but she had her miracle, nothing needed to tear her and Van apart after all.



Any, any, the antagonist time travels back to the start (Lost, Esau the smokey git)

Jacob won’t recognise him if he does happen to see him, neither will that woman who dared to call herself his mother; he’s wearing the face of John Locke, still yet to be born, not the face they would be familiar with.

If he’s correct, he’s landed in the days immediately before his village was burned by his so-called mother, in the days when he was making his plans to leave the island; it’s now or never for him to do what he has to do.

If he kills her now, before she has chance to thwart his plans to leave the island, then she and Jacob won’t be able to succeed in trapping him here, the last two thousand years of his life will never have happened, he’ll get to go home.



Any fandom, any characters, reverse amnesia: everyone else forgets you. (Lost, Kate)

With no one remembering who she is, Kate’s no longer a wanted woman; in the eyes of the world, Wayne Janssen’s death was caused by a genuine accidental gas explosion, and they’re not looking for anyone else in connection with it.

Diane doesn’t know who she is when Kate sees her in the hospital, she seems confused but at least she isn’t yelling for help; Kate’ll take that, it’s not as if she and Diane have had a close mother-daughter relationship for years anyway.

What’s harder is when she bumps into Jack, or Hurley or Sayid, who had been the most important people in her life for those few months, and now they don’t even know who she is.



any, any, deleted comment (Yellowjackets, Taissa)

Taissa always tried to ignore it when she got deleted comments on her official campaign social media pages; probably they were trolls, or Bathurst supporters, just leaving insults or nonsense which her campaign team were deleting before she saw them. And after the incidents where Bathurst had dropped hints about cannibalism during the time Taissa had spent out there in the wilderness post-plane crash, she was glad of it; those kinds of comments weren’t anything she wanted to see.

She tries not to wonder if any of the comments could have been left by Van, wanting to reach out to her, wish her luck and then thinking better of it and deleting her comments; Van’s part of her past now, Taissa’s married to Simone now, she knows she shouldn’t be thinking about her even as part of her wishes that at least one of those comments had come from Van.



any, any a parrot, a donkey, a dog, a bone / some of us never had a home / and if we did we left it long ago / and didn't know we were loved (Bodies, Elias)

Elias Mannix had never really felt he had a home; abandoned by his biological parents, raised by an adoptive family who knew it was only temporary, they may have claimed they wanted Elias to fulfil his destiny, but this had never made him feel loved; his mantra in 2053 may have been “know you are loved”, but he knew nothing of the kind.

In the 1890s, he was accepted into society, with the Harker name and the backing of the real Julian Harker’s mother, yet he always knew deep down that there was nothing real here; he knew he was not loved by Lady Agatha Harker.

In the moment now where Sarah Mannix finally accepted Elias as her son, as she embraced him his final thought before being erased from existence was that he was loved after all, maybe even had been long ago although he had never known it.



any, any, begging for death (Dark, Ulrich)

It had been the visit from Hannah in late 1987 that had done it, taunting him about the fact that she was carrying Egon Tiedemann’s child as though that was going to mean anything to him; it had been over thirty years now, Hannah had been nothing to Ulrich for a long time.

It had been Katharina he had hoped would walk through the door, ever since that day when she had come back to him, promised she would come back and help him get out of there, get Mikkel, get them both back home; something had to have happened to her, Katharina was not like Hannah, it would not have been like her to leave him trapped on this ward that had been his home since he’d first got stuck in 1953.

The future with Katharina was gone, he was never going to get the chance to see Mikkel again, or Magnus, or Martha, and Hannah’s visit had only served to remind him of all that was lost to him; Ulrich had come to the conclusion that death could only bring him relief from the pain.



Riverdale | Alice Cooper/FP Jones | prom night

As Alice walked into the prom, she briefly caught FP’s eye before he turned away and made a big point of talking to Fred and Mary. Fred and FP’s band were supporting the main band at the prom; even if Alice had been FP’s date, she wouldn’t have got to spend as much time with him as she would have liked, but at least Mary was good company, the two of them could have hung out while they waited for their dates.

Instead, Alice is going with Hal, she knows she’ll have his undivided attention tonight, yet as she pretends to laugh at his stupid joke, she looks over his shoulder at FP again and thinks that even with the limited amount of time he’d have been able to spend with her, she’d still have had a better time with him as her date.

Any, any, "Now I need some brain bleach!" (Larry the Cat)

Larry the Cat always knew he was the most important figure in Downing Street, not whichever fool of a housemate happened to be living there with him at the present time, but it was always nice to have it confirmed, he thought as he approached the laptop.

Googling himself, Larry purred at the sight of fan pages for him and Facebook groups in his honour, then came to a page called AO3…Boris Johnson/Liz Truss pegging, Boris Johnson/Donald Trump?

He thought he’d seen it all after the parties, but after reading that, Larry needed some brain bleach.


any, any, "I still wake up with things to tell you." (Yellowjackets, Shauna)

Whenever Shauna and Jackie would go downstairs for breakfast after their slumber parties, Shauna’s mother would always ask them how it was possible that they’d stayed up so late talking and yet still had so much to say to each other in the morning.

Shauna thought of that again every morning in the cabin when she woke up and realised Jackie was no longer next to her, yet still had so many things she wanted to say to her every day.

She’d told Taissa she’d moved on after Natalie had buried what was left of Jackie, and sure, she had to some extent, she wasn’t having imaginary conversations with Jackie any more, but that didn’t mean she didn’t wake up wanting to tell Jackie something new every day.



any, any, i'll show him that a cadillac is not a car to scorn (Sweet Valley High, Kris Lynch)

Kris Lynch had seen Todd Wilkins sniggering at his Cadillac as he’d walked past it with Peggy Abbot. Any other time, that might have bothered him, but as he watched Todd and Peggy talking, as Todd cringed when Peggy did her donkey laugh again, he thought to himself that actually, he had the upper hand. Todd wouldn’t be laughing when he was stuck with Peggy at the dance while Elizabeth Wakefield was being driven past him in Kris’s pink Cadillac.


Any, any, the start of the end of the world feels like any other day (Dark, Regina)

It had seemed like the end of the world to Regina the day she heard that Mads, her only real friend at the time, had gone missing, once again the day she had come home from a sleepover to find her grandfather dead and her mother missing, and again the day she received her cancer diagnosis. Yet on each occasion, the day had started out feeling like any other day, with no indication of what was to come.

The day of the actual Winden apocalypse had also started out like any other; she had had no idea that that would be the last time she would ever see Bartosz, that her illusions about Aleksander were to be shattered before he died, that her mother would appear again not having aged a day; Winden may have been practically destroyed in the nuclear apocalypse, yet these things destroyed Regina more.


any, any, last words (Dark, Bartosz)

Bartosz is still haunted by the last words he spoke to Regina; when he’d told her he’d be back later, he’d genuinely meant it, believed that he would return home to his mother.

Trapped in 1888 with no means of returning to 2020, he’d kept imagining Regina waiting for him, wondering why he never returned home, but felt unable to talk about it since Magnus was grieving his version of Martha, Franziska was facing never seeing her own family again either, and Jonas…well, considering that this whole situation was that asshole’s fault in the first place, he was the last person Bartosz wanted to talk to.

While he hadn’t technically lied to Regina, just been unable to keep his promise, he still felt as bad as if he had lied, and knowing what he now knows about the Winden apocalypse, he knows he won’t get the chance to make it up to her.


Any, any, sleepless nights. (Lost, Desmond/Sayid)

Sayid was awakened more than once during the first night on the freighter; Desmond was having a recurring nightmare where he was having visions of Charlie’s death, trying desperately to save him but unable to.

He could relate, flashing back to his own first nights on the island where he had his own nightmares of the death of Essam Tasir, waking and asking himself all over again what he could have done differently in order that Essam could have been saved.

By the end of their time on the freighter, the only thing that was helping Desmond to sleep undisturbed by the nightmare was having Sayid there holding him through the night, and Sayid found that this helped him too.


any, any, When Mom asks me how my day at school was, I always just say "fine" and change the subject. (13 Reasons Why, Hannah)

It was easier for Hannah to just nod, smile, say school had been fine whenever her mother asked how it had gone. Her mother had been so determined that Liberty High would be a fresh start after Ridgeview; Hannah wasn’t going to talk about how her friendship with Jessica had imploded, about Alex’s stupid list, about the names she was getting called after Bryce Walker forwarded those photos to the whole class.

Yet even as Hannah would start talking about something totally random, a part of her sometimes wished her mother would push the issue, would realise that school hadn’t been fine, would open up the conversation where Hannah could explain.