Taming the Muse

Title: Homesick (Part 4/?)
Fandom; Pairings: Original; AU Selene/Ballari
Prompt: #255 - Jackhammer
Warnings: Allusions to violent sex.
Rating: R
Word Count: 2,152
Summary: Before she can plan her next job, Selene needs to clear her head at a dance club. Sadly, this means dealing with an entitled jerk.
Notes: I admit it. My inner twelve year old giggled when she saw the prompt and wouldn't let it go. And who better to use it as an insult than Selene? Uh, anyway, you'll realize that I've skipped part three, which hasn't been written yet. It's on my list, but first there's another piece I have to finish, so sorry about that! I'll let any interested parties know when it's written (and yes, that part will be NC-17).

After a full day of playing mistress and inventing new ways to torture and pleasure my pet, I wasn’t exactly in the mood to plan an assassination. My mind was too jumbled and my emotions too erratic to focus on such a detail oriented task. Though Ballari seemed to have accepted and even enjoyed discovering my dark side, I wasn’t foolish enough to believe she wouldn’t have a change of heart when it was all over. I thought it best I look for a way to unwind and clear my mind somewhere away from the beach house. That meant spending a few hours losing myself in the music at one of the local dance clubs.

( While perusing the long list of clubs near my location on John’s computer, Ballari staggered into the room to check on me. )

Title: Memories
Fandom; Pairings: World of Warcraft; None (OCs)
Prompt: #254 - From whence we came.
Warnings: None.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,242
Summary: Savitry knows she had a life before becoming a death knight, she's just not sure she wants to know what it was.
Notes: It's possible I've taken some liberties with the lore, though I don't believe any of it is outrageous or incongruent with WoW's setting. Savitry is just one of my alts and not anyone I currently have plans to role-play with, well except maybe with a friend as we quest together. Then again, I'll never say never to a new character potential. Anyway, this idea popped into my head days ago and wouldn't leave.

The blue sapphire spun slowly on its grime coated chain, the faceted surface sparkling like a star in the torchlight.

“What is it?”

“A necklace.”

“I can see that, but why are you showing it to me?”

“It’s yours.”

Savitry cocked her head and regarded the forsaken holding the jewelry in his outstretched hand with suspicion. “I don’t own any necklaces.”

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Title: Homesick (Part 2/?)
Fandom; Pairings: Original; AU Selene/Ballari
Prompt: #252 - Samurai
Warnings: Talk of murder, assassination.
Rating: R (Eventual NC-17)
Word Count: 2,117
Summary: John stops by the beach house with a job for Selene. Trouble is Ballari might not like what this job requires Selene to do. (You don't need to read part one to be able to understand what's happening here, but here's a link just in case.)
Notes: This is something I banged out this afternoon, and it is a set-up for some kinky smut in part three, which I don't think right now I can fit into next week's prompt (Any joke in a storm), but we'll see. Either way I will write a part three soon and do my best to fill next week's prompt even if it's not Selene/Ballari. And this is one of those things where I sat down with one thing in mind and what came out was totally different. However, I happen to like what I wrote and I felt like I was in the zone, and that I've got Selene's voice nailed back down.

ETA: Now with the proper version up here and less copy-paste fail on the part of the author!

Every day Ballari would wake up before dawn and go outside to run through her katas with the sunrise as her backdrop. It never seemed to matter how little sleep she got the night before or how sore she might be from training and sparring. As soon as the eastern sky began to lighten, she was on her feet repeating the same movements she’d probably started learning the day after she took her very first steps.

( Not being a morning person in any sense of the word, I usually slept in, rousing before noon most days. But sometimes I’d stagger out of bed to make coffee and watch her from the large bay window in the den. )

Title: Reunion
Fandom; Pairings: World of Warcraft; OCs (duh), mention of one NPC (Torian)
Prompt: #250 - Starry Night
Warnings: Parental angst.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,810
Summary: After receiving a strongly worded invitation, Folami returns to Sunstrider Isle to visit her father after a two-year separation. She learns that not only has a lot changed in her absence, her father is also aware of her current activities.
Notes: This is my first prompt in many months. I hope I'll be able to resume doing the weekly prompts now that my life seems to be settling down and my muses have returned. Oh, and this story does concern current role-play events within my guild.

Orgrimmar stank, literally and figuratively. The hot desert sun combined with a population for whom baths were few and far between made for a particularly nauseating bouquet of odors, especially to the delicate senses of a blood elf. Robes became implements of torture in the suffocating heat, making even the thinnest of fabrics seem like the wearer’s own personal oven. Then there was the orc soldiers’ unique way of creating camaraderie among those who swore allegiance with the Horde by making teasing remarks to those they deemed as being from weaker races.

( Yet Folami was feeling almost wistful for the great Horde city as she walked the familiar pathways leading to her childhood home in Sunstrider Isle. )

Title: "Dangerous Dates"
Fandom: Original
Prompt: #218 - Explosion
Warnings: Silliness.
Rating: PG
Summary: Dating is going to be the death of me, but in the interim it gives my friend Charlie a lot to laugh about.
Word Count: 785
Notes: I'm using the same characters I used for prompt #210 - Feral, but you don't have to read one to read the other. They're both stand alones.

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Title: Quiet
Fandom: Original
Prompt: #215 - As for those who disbelieved...
Warnings: None
Rating: PG
Summary: Jacob wonders if he truly is powerless against the obstacles in his path.
Word Count: 728
Notes: Same characters I used in Prompt #204.

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Title: Don't Say That
Fandom: Original
Prompt: #213 - Keeping Score
Warnings: Language
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Selene hates those three special words, and when Mick says them, she can't deal.
Word Count: 567
Notes: This is technically forty minutes late, but I just moved this past week and almost completely forgot about this. So, just for tonight, I'll say I'm on Central time rather than Eastern. *shifty eyes*

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Title: The Real Charity
Fandom: Original
Prompt: #211 - Abscond
Warnings: None.
Rating: G
Summary: Charity Davidshire is more complex than her exterior makes her seem.
Word Count: 592
Notes: This might serve as a basis for a new roleplay character for my boyfriend's campaign. So, this serves a dual purpose of getting me to tame my muse and help me get through the first bits of character creation. Also, this was rushed to make deadline. I got caught up in house/apartment hunting. It's going to be a challenge, albeit a fun one, to keep up my streak since the next couple of weeks will involve me moving.

Despite the implications of her appellation, Charity Davidshire was not terribly charitable. In fact, according to the denizens of the slums of T’nor, she was a force to be reckoned with—at least among those unfortunate enough to draw her ire. Slight of frame and voice, the half-elf didn’t offer much in the way of an imposing figure. Generally she blended into the background, remaining unnoticed unless she chose to be seen; however, when the need arose, she was capable of inspiring fear in the brawniest of men and women.

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Title: "The Marauders" (Oh, look at me being all original.)
Fandom: Original
Prompt: #209 - Marauders
Warnings: None except for some violent/disturbing imagery I guess.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A soldier fighting an army of the damned recalls his final battle as it happens.
Word Count: 718
Notes: I have no earthly idea what this is. My muse wanted dark and disturbing I guess. I think she did it pretty well.

(Under cover of night they come, a wave of warriors rolling over the land like the sea beating relentlessly against the shore.)

Title: The More Things Change
Fandom: Original
Prompt: #207 - Tuvalu
Warnings: None really, just two immature boys talking about breasts.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A glimpse into the lives of adolescent boys of the future.
Word Count: 665
Notes: I have no idea who these boys are, this is simply what my muse came up with this week. Also, from reading the Wikipedia entry so graciously provided by the mods, Tuvalu does not, in fact, have any nude beaches, nor is it a tropical paradise with loads of tourism.

(You want to go where?)