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First lot of 3 sentence ficathon fills.
Jan. 15th, 2025 09:15 pmThe Babysitters Club, AU, what if Jessi got the role of Peter Pan?
Jessi was Peter Pan, of course; let’s face it, she was the person at SMS with the most experience, the obvious choice, and everyone else’s lack of experience was really showing.
They weren’t even interested when she tried to tell them how they could do better, even Stacey and Dawn; Mr Cheney had reminded her a couple of times that he, not Jessi, was directing, and at one point Kristy had even defended Cokie Mason, saying that while she didn’t like her either, Jessi had been too harsh in her criticism of her!
It was seeing Jackie Rodowsky burst into tears when she’d yelled at him for forgetting his lines that had brought her back to her senses; she may have been playing Peter Pan, but that was the moment when Jessi Ramsey grew up.
any, any, "Those who hunt monsters should take care, lest they thereby become monsters themselves; for if you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss also stares into you." (From, Boyd)
Boyd understood now that maybe it would have been a better plan if he’d had a conversation with Randall about whether he’d ever noticed the creatures had any routines before trying to watch them from the bus and plan to tackle them himself; he regretted in the moment that he’d been prepared to sacrifice Randall to them in the moment even if he did think it was the only way he could get Tabitha, Jim and Henry to safety; he looked at the scars on Randall’s face and knew he bore responsibility, yet still he knew he had to continue.
He looked at Elgin, missing an eye, heard Sara’s explanation that she’d had to do it to find out where he’d hidden Fatima, that she felt it had to be her rather than him because she couldn’t let the town take his soul the way it had taken hers, and even then Boyd felt he had to continue.
After witnessing the rebirth of that smiley creature he’d already killed once, determined to find some way of taking him out again, he began to lose his way; Ellis confronted him once more, told him he’d become obsessed with those things, that he and Fatima needed him right now, the whole town needed him, it was starting to feel like the leadup to Abby’s death all over again, the old Boyd would never have sanctioned what happened to Elgin or Randall, and Boyd wondered if the town had already taken his soul after all.
Any, any, I will fall in love with you / Over and over again (From, Jade/Tabitha)
Jade remembered his previous life as Christopher, how he’d spent time with Miranda and her kids, trying to make them all laugh, how he’d found himself developing feelings for Miranda, but Miranda still talked of her hopes that once they had saved the children, she could return home to Henry.
He remembered a life where he’d become trapped in the town attempting to return to his wife from the American Civil War, only to fall for someone else, someone he now knew to be a former incarnation of Tabitha; he remembered the very first of their lives together, where they tried to save their daughter from the other townspeople’s determination to sacrifice the children.
Now that Jade knew who Tabitha was, he admitted to himself that he’d been falling for her all over again while they’d been trapped here, but he’d come to this realisation as Teacup had only just died; how could he raise it with her now?
any, any, that tarot card is not a warning (Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, Ethan)
Ethan’s tried to tell himself that it was a coincidence that Luca the psychic should have pulled the death card for him right after that strange lady on the plane predicted his death at age thirty, he’s Googled the meaning of the card and found that it means change, endings and beginnings, rather than actual death.
He can just hear what Harvey would have said if he’d been able to tell that story to him; “Guys like us don’t even go for tarot readings; that tarot card is not a warning”.
Except that would have been easier to believe had Luca not quoted one of Harvey’s sayings even though he didn’t know the guy, had the lady not given him that prediction and been proved right about those other passengers (even taking into account what Leo said in brushing off the deaths of the centenarian doctors from old age because that was a reasonable prediction anyway, Kayla Halfpenny’s accident was not so easy to explain).
any / any / tomorrow is now (Dark, Jonas, Bartosz, Martha)
They’d sat and talked about possible futures for themselves, Jonas, Bartosz and Martha; Bartosz had believed that he’d take over running the power plant like his father and his grandmother before him, Martha wanted to make it big in acting and get out of Winden, Jonas changed his mind practically every week.
Sometimes they’d speculate on the kind of technology that might exist in thirty years’ time, whether that would be flying cars, or the ability to live in space, but the one thing the three of them always agreed on was that they would still be friends in the future.
As Jonas finds himself in 2052, realises that their tomorrow has become his now, takes in the destroyed city that had been Winden, his friendship with Bartosz and Martha in tatters even if he could get back to 2019, he wishes for the tomorrow that they had talked of back then.
any, any, i found your journal (Yellowjackets, Shauna, Callie)
Shauna was finally beginning to feel that things were heading back to normal as she and Jeff headed back from Natalie’s funeral; she and Jeff were back on track, Saracusa had been…handled by Misty’s new man Walter so she was no longer worried about facing charges over Adam Martin.
As for Callie, there was still some way to go, and she still wasn’t sure she was ready to share too much about her time out there after the crash, but she knew the day was approaching when she was going to have to open up a bit more.
Except when she arrived home to find Callie brandishing a battered looking old notebook, saying “Hey, Mom, I found your journal”, Shauna knew that time had come sooner than expected.
The Baby-sitters Club, Dawn /& Kristy, hard to say I'm sorry
When Kristy gets a moment alone with Dawn before Dawn leaves for California, she apologises for having told Claudia that Dawn was leaving, for having created the situation where Mary Anne found out from Logan before Dawn had chance to tell her herself.
But there’s so much else that Kristy knows she should apologise for, for all the time she spent resenting Dawn when Dawn first arrived in Stoneybrook and she and Mary Anne became best friends and later stepsisters, even the stupid stuff like goading her in their shared cabin on the Bahamas trip.
There’s so much that she wants to say, but doesn’t know how to say it, but when Dawn looks at her, Kristy thinks she understands.
Jessi was Peter Pan, of course; let’s face it, she was the person at SMS with the most experience, the obvious choice, and everyone else’s lack of experience was really showing.
They weren’t even interested when she tried to tell them how they could do better, even Stacey and Dawn; Mr Cheney had reminded her a couple of times that he, not Jessi, was directing, and at one point Kristy had even defended Cokie Mason, saying that while she didn’t like her either, Jessi had been too harsh in her criticism of her!
It was seeing Jackie Rodowsky burst into tears when she’d yelled at him for forgetting his lines that had brought her back to her senses; she may have been playing Peter Pan, but that was the moment when Jessi Ramsey grew up.
any, any, "Those who hunt monsters should take care, lest they thereby become monsters themselves; for if you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss also stares into you." (From, Boyd)
Boyd understood now that maybe it would have been a better plan if he’d had a conversation with Randall about whether he’d ever noticed the creatures had any routines before trying to watch them from the bus and plan to tackle them himself; he regretted in the moment that he’d been prepared to sacrifice Randall to them in the moment even if he did think it was the only way he could get Tabitha, Jim and Henry to safety; he looked at the scars on Randall’s face and knew he bore responsibility, yet still he knew he had to continue.
He looked at Elgin, missing an eye, heard Sara’s explanation that she’d had to do it to find out where he’d hidden Fatima, that she felt it had to be her rather than him because she couldn’t let the town take his soul the way it had taken hers, and even then Boyd felt he had to continue.
After witnessing the rebirth of that smiley creature he’d already killed once, determined to find some way of taking him out again, he began to lose his way; Ellis confronted him once more, told him he’d become obsessed with those things, that he and Fatima needed him right now, the whole town needed him, it was starting to feel like the leadup to Abby’s death all over again, the old Boyd would never have sanctioned what happened to Elgin or Randall, and Boyd wondered if the town had already taken his soul after all.
Any, any, I will fall in love with you / Over and over again (From, Jade/Tabitha)
Jade remembered his previous life as Christopher, how he’d spent time with Miranda and her kids, trying to make them all laugh, how he’d found himself developing feelings for Miranda, but Miranda still talked of her hopes that once they had saved the children, she could return home to Henry.
He remembered a life where he’d become trapped in the town attempting to return to his wife from the American Civil War, only to fall for someone else, someone he now knew to be a former incarnation of Tabitha; he remembered the very first of their lives together, where they tried to save their daughter from the other townspeople’s determination to sacrifice the children.
Now that Jade knew who Tabitha was, he admitted to himself that he’d been falling for her all over again while they’d been trapped here, but he’d come to this realisation as Teacup had only just died; how could he raise it with her now?
any, any, that tarot card is not a warning (Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, Ethan)
Ethan’s tried to tell himself that it was a coincidence that Luca the psychic should have pulled the death card for him right after that strange lady on the plane predicted his death at age thirty, he’s Googled the meaning of the card and found that it means change, endings and beginnings, rather than actual death.
He can just hear what Harvey would have said if he’d been able to tell that story to him; “Guys like us don’t even go for tarot readings; that tarot card is not a warning”.
Except that would have been easier to believe had Luca not quoted one of Harvey’s sayings even though he didn’t know the guy, had the lady not given him that prediction and been proved right about those other passengers (even taking into account what Leo said in brushing off the deaths of the centenarian doctors from old age because that was a reasonable prediction anyway, Kayla Halfpenny’s accident was not so easy to explain).
any / any / tomorrow is now (Dark, Jonas, Bartosz, Martha)
They’d sat and talked about possible futures for themselves, Jonas, Bartosz and Martha; Bartosz had believed that he’d take over running the power plant like his father and his grandmother before him, Martha wanted to make it big in acting and get out of Winden, Jonas changed his mind practically every week.
Sometimes they’d speculate on the kind of technology that might exist in thirty years’ time, whether that would be flying cars, or the ability to live in space, but the one thing the three of them always agreed on was that they would still be friends in the future.
As Jonas finds himself in 2052, realises that their tomorrow has become his now, takes in the destroyed city that had been Winden, his friendship with Bartosz and Martha in tatters even if he could get back to 2019, he wishes for the tomorrow that they had talked of back then.
any, any, i found your journal (Yellowjackets, Shauna, Callie)
Shauna was finally beginning to feel that things were heading back to normal as she and Jeff headed back from Natalie’s funeral; she and Jeff were back on track, Saracusa had been…handled by Misty’s new man Walter so she was no longer worried about facing charges over Adam Martin.
As for Callie, there was still some way to go, and she still wasn’t sure she was ready to share too much about her time out there after the crash, but she knew the day was approaching when she was going to have to open up a bit more.
Except when she arrived home to find Callie brandishing a battered looking old notebook, saying “Hey, Mom, I found your journal”, Shauna knew that time had come sooner than expected.
The Baby-sitters Club, Dawn /& Kristy, hard to say I'm sorry
When Kristy gets a moment alone with Dawn before Dawn leaves for California, she apologises for having told Claudia that Dawn was leaving, for having created the situation where Mary Anne found out from Logan before Dawn had chance to tell her herself.
But there’s so much else that Kristy knows she should apologise for, for all the time she spent resenting Dawn when Dawn first arrived in Stoneybrook and she and Mary Anne became best friends and later stepsisters, even the stupid stuff like goading her in their shared cabin on the Bahamas trip.
There’s so much that she wants to say, but doesn’t know how to say it, but when Dawn looks at her, Kristy thinks she understands.
