Bonus Round 2
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srs2013Bonus Round 1 is now closed, and Bonus Round 2 is now open!
This round, the theme is holidays/special occasions.
If you have an idea for something you'd like to see, please leave the ship, a holiday/special occasion, and any other details as a PROMPT below. After you've posted, read through everyone else's prompts, and leave a FILL for any which catch your eye. Fills can be in any media, and they need not be long, but please put a little effort in--if anyone starts spamming this post for points, we'll be able to tell.
This round, the theme is holidays/special occasions.
If you have an idea for something you'd like to see, please leave the ship, a holiday/special occasion, and any other details as a PROMPT below. After you've posted, read through everyone else's prompts, and leave a FILL for any which catch your eye. Fills can be in any media, and they need not be long, but please put a little effort in--if anyone starts spamming this post for points, we'll be able to tell.
You should place PROMPT/FILL, your current team affiliation and a brief summary in the comment title. Do not forget to change the title of the comment when posting a FILL as a reply to a PROMPT. NSFW prompts and fills should mention this in the summary or at the top of the post. Reminder that team names must be in alphabetical order (ie. Balthazar/Death, not Death/Balthazar) and that portmanteaus (ie. Lubriel, Annaby) are not allowed when identifying team affiliation.
You will be awarded five points per prompt for the first five prompts you leave. The first three fills posted for each prompt will receive 15 points, the next three 10 points, and the next three 5 points. Prompts with ten or more fills will no longer receive fill points.
You will be awarded five points per prompt for the first five prompts you leave. The first three fills posted for each prompt will receive 15 points, the next three 10 points, and the next three 5 points. Prompts with ten or more fills will no longer receive fill points.
Bonus rounds are still rarepair only, but you can post prompts or fills for any rare ship this round, including gen/platonic ones (which should be indicated with an & as above). Due to some unforeseen complication from last round, we have changed the rules. It is now 15 points per fill for the first three fills by three different people. So if someone does a fic for Fill 1 and a fanmix for Fill 2, then get 15 + 10 points, and then Person 2 does a fill and Person 3 does a fill, so even though those would be fills 3 and 4, they count as 15 and 15 points since they're fills by new people. You are still not permitted to fill your own prompt. We also encourage people not to fill prompts from their teammates, although the points will not be deducted if you do.
Bonus round fills can include links provided they are publicly viewable. Works can also be cross-posted to other websites, as there is no anonymity requirement in bonus rounds. However, works posted directly to comments will be limited to 16,000 characters by the Dreamwidth comment limit. Longer works should therefore be divided between multiple comments.
Bonus round fills can include links provided they are publicly viewable. Works can also be cross-posted to other websites, as there is no anonymity requirement in bonus rounds. However, works posted directly to comments will be limited to 16,000 characters by the Dreamwidth comment limit. Longer works should therefore be divided between multiple comments.
Remember, Team Chuck can participate in bonus rounds, and if you change teams, points earned will transfer with you until the end of the team shuffle period.
This round is now closed.
This round is now closed.
Prompt: Team Castiel/Lucifer, Halloween and Ghosts AU
Date: 2013-10-18 05:45 am (UTC)Fill, Team Balthazar/Castiel, Halloween and Ghosts AU
Date: 2013-10-18 10:42 am (UTC)Lucifer hates Halloween. But it’s the only day out of the damned 365 days a year that he gets to see his dear little brother Gabriel…who died in a fatal car crash years back. He misses Gabriel badly and each Halloween, he would make sure that he had up the sign on his gate, ‘No trick or treating here.’ He didn’t want stupid kids to come and interrupt his session with Gabriel after all he only had until midnight before the souls went back to Purgatory or moved on to the heavens.
This Halloween was no different as Lucifer went about drawing the curtains closed as he rolled out the carpet and searched for the Ouija board. He set it down on the carpet along with the planchette. He’d been doing this since Gabriel’s death. It was the only way they ever got to talk. Once he was done with setting up Lucifer took his a dinner out to the living room where he sat on the couch waiting for Gabriel to give him a sign.
Just as he was about to finish his food, the lights began to flicker.
“Gabe?” he questioned and the lights flickered again in response, “Just a second Gabriel,” Lucifer says, quickly finishing his food before he moves over to the Ouija board. He settles down on one side of the board, crossing his legs as he holds the planchette and places his hands on the board.
“Gabriel are you here?” he asks as usual.
Lucifer feels a cold rush up his arms as an unseen force guides the planchette to the ‘Yes’ followed by the letters that spelt the words ‘silly’. Lucifer smiled, feeling his eyes tearing up.
“I’ve missed you…” he says.
Once again he is guided to the letters, this time they form the sentence, ‘Me too Luc.’
“So how have you been?” Lucifer asks.
It’s always like this, the conversation between them is slow and tedious as the letters are spelt out to form words and the words put together into a meaningful sentence. But Lucifer is glad anyway because he knows that Gabriel is here, talking to him.
‘I’m fine. You know, Purgatory. It’s shit. But I’ve got good news.’
“Good news?” Lucifer asks. What could it possibly be? A way back to humanity?
He pieced together the letters again and his face fell.
‘I’m moving on to the heavens this year Luc. Finally.’
Lucifer froze. How was that good news?
‘Are you okay?’ Gabriel asked as he moved the planchette, feeling his brother’s fingers beneath his own. He could tell that Lucifer was not well at all from his facial expression.
“How is that good news Gabriel? Going to the heavens means I don’t get to see you anymore. Not even on every Halloween,” Lucifer was saying as he looked to him. Gabriel wished he had a substantial body…or at least something visible to Lucifer. He wanted his brother to see him.
‘I’m sorry.’ Gabriel spelt it out on the Ouija board. Lucifer had always been clever and the first time that he’d been released on Halloween, Gabriel had come to look for him. He had been unable to control himself at first. And he ended up blowing the lights or breaking mirrors when wanting to speak to Lucifer. He had no substantial form and he could only communicate on wavelengths. But Lucifer thought of the Ouija board through which they could communicate and faithfully they had done so for a long time. So long that Gabriel had seen Lucifer grow up from a young boy into a young man while he forever remained a spiritual entity. Unseen and unheard.
“Its not your fault is it? I’m happy for you.” Lucifer said as he took his hands off the planchette. Truth is he didn’t want Gabriel to go. He would be so alone. He shuddered now as he felt a coldness settle around him. “Gabriel what are you doing?” he asked of course there was no reply. He needed to put his hands back on the planchette for Gabriel to speak.
Gabriel hugged Lucifer to him. Before moving away. Lucifer placed his hands back on the planchette and this time Gabriel told him, ‘I was hugging you.’
He saw Lucifer smile and then his hand moved off the planchette again swiping quickly across his eyes, “That was a very cold hug,” he said to which Gabriel giggled and the lights in the room flickered.
“Are you laughing at me Gabe?” Lucifer asked upon seeing the flickering lights as he swallowed past the lump in his throat, trying to keep his emotions at bay. The planchette shifted to ‘Yes,’ and Lucifer shook his head, remembering the sound of Gabriel’s laughter. “God I miss you Gabriel. I don’t see mom and dad anymore; we’ve sort of drifted. I wish you were back here with me.”
‘Me too,’ the words spelt out again on the Ouija board.
Lucifer glanced to the clock now it was getting late and they had only said so little. “You won’t be able to visit any more once you’re in the heavens right?” he asked.
The planchette moved to, ‘No’.
“But I can still talk to you right?” Lucifer asked as he glanced back up at the clock 10 minutes to midnight.
This time the planchette moved to, ‘Maybe’.
How was that any comfort? Lucifer thought of what to ask next. But before he could the planchette was moving again.
I-L-O-V-E-Y-O-U-L-U-C-I-F-E-R
“I love you Lucifer,” he read under his breath and that was it for him he, came apart at those words, feeling his throat tighten up as he choked on a sob. Lucifer blinked quickly trying to hold back the tears but to no avail. They fell from his eyes down his cheeks. When Lucifer felt a coldness settle over him again he sobbed louder, remembering all the times he had hugged his dear little brother when he was still alive.
“Gabe…Gabriel…” he sobbed as he held his legs to himself. For as long as the cold was there he knew his brother was here. “I love you too Gabriel. I’ll never forget you. Never…” he whispers.
Gabriel’s ghost heart aches at the sight of his brother so broken and so alone as he sobs ‘never, never, never’. He wants to comfort him, he wishes that he could stay on Earth. But the consequences will be too great. With no one able to see you or hear you as in entity you would go mad and sooner or later wreck havoc as a lost soul. It would be better if he followed his set route and left for heaven. With his arms still around Lucifer, Gabriel waits out his time, watching as the hands of the clock tick and move ever closer to midnight. To a new day.
Long after the cold has left him, Lucifer sits there, still in front of the Ouija board. The planchette stuck on the letter ‘R’.
Gabriel was gone.