Ficlets: Duck!
Mar. 29th, 2011 06:38 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
haikuesque.livejournal.com posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
haikusocietyYou may have seen that in our drabble offer post, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
swedish_weirdo prompted us with 'rubber duck'.
What she should have called it was subversive bloody annoying stalker duck, because the duck took three tries to get into a format that actually worked at drabble length.
These are the ficlets that happened before – they're not long, but long enough that breaking them down to 100 words was imfuckingpossible.
*
Duck the first, Emoduck. Angst warning on this. We also thought this wasn't appropriate for a present, really.
Kame rings the bell of Jin's apartment. Just like that. Like before.
Friday to Sunday, Jin said, and it's Saturday, early evening, and Kame's not a coward. He brought a little box full of adorably cute things, the rubber duck sitting on top for decoration, staring around with slightly crazy eyes. Kame can empathize.
Jin shushes him as soon as the door opens. Of course.
"She's sleeping now," he whispers, showing the way. "But that's just a trick."
"I forgot her name," Kame says, and it just comes out soft, not weak.
"Ayumi," Jin says. Shrugs an awkard Jin shrug, the way he used to blush when Kame teased him.
"Ah."
"I didn't pick it."
Jin's baby is very pink, with adorably cute little hands and small huffy breaths. Jin has baby barf on his left shoulder and large circles under his eyes, and the most in love look on his face, and Kame didn't think you could actually feel it, your heart breaking, a thousand hot tiny pieces.
"She's beautiful," Kame says. Just like Jin.
"I know," Jin says, and his smile is a little wavering because he knows Kame, knows all the rest there was too. "Thank you for the present?" he says, and the total Jin tone of it makes Kame want to punch him and hug him at the same time.
"You're welcome," he says. "Least I could do."
233
*
Duck the second, Movershakerduck
"What is that?" Jin stares into the last of Kame's moving boxes, mesmerized. "Okay, I think I'll change my mind."
"What?" Kame asks, checking. "Oh, that's Walter."
Jin blinks at him, and back at the duck. Then he shakes his head very slowly. "I am not going to sleep while a madman has the keys to my house."
Kame thumps him and picks up Walter. Walter squeaks. Jin flinches.
"I've had a key for years, moron." He could have strangled Jin in his sleep lots of times. Not that he ever would, Jin flooding the bathroom with his endless showers notwithstanding. "If you keep bullying me, I might change my mind."
It's annoying that Jin wins all their wrestling matches, Kame thinks, but less annoying when Jin is kissing him like this against the wall. Even with Walter's rubber butt poking Kame in the back where Jin is holding his hands hostage.
"You won't," Jin says, very full of himself. But, well. For once he's right.
166
swedish_weirdo prompted us with 'rubber duck'. What she should have called it was subversive bloody annoying stalker duck, because the duck took three tries to get into a format that actually worked at drabble length.
These are the ficlets that happened before – they're not long, but long enough that breaking them down to 100 words was imfuckingpossible.
*
Duck the first, Emoduck. Angst warning on this. We also thought this wasn't appropriate for a present, really.
Kame rings the bell of Jin's apartment. Just like that. Like before.
Friday to Sunday, Jin said, and it's Saturday, early evening, and Kame's not a coward. He brought a little box full of adorably cute things, the rubber duck sitting on top for decoration, staring around with slightly crazy eyes. Kame can empathize.
Jin shushes him as soon as the door opens. Of course.
"She's sleeping now," he whispers, showing the way. "But that's just a trick."
"I forgot her name," Kame says, and it just comes out soft, not weak.
"Ayumi," Jin says. Shrugs an awkard Jin shrug, the way he used to blush when Kame teased him.
"Ah."
"I didn't pick it."
Jin's baby is very pink, with adorably cute little hands and small huffy breaths. Jin has baby barf on his left shoulder and large circles under his eyes, and the most in love look on his face, and Kame didn't think you could actually feel it, your heart breaking, a thousand hot tiny pieces.
"She's beautiful," Kame says. Just like Jin.
"I know," Jin says, and his smile is a little wavering because he knows Kame, knows all the rest there was too. "Thank you for the present?" he says, and the total Jin tone of it makes Kame want to punch him and hug him at the same time.
"You're welcome," he says. "Least I could do."
233
*
Duck the second, Movershakerduck
"What is that?" Jin stares into the last of Kame's moving boxes, mesmerized. "Okay, I think I'll change my mind."
"What?" Kame asks, checking. "Oh, that's Walter."
Jin blinks at him, and back at the duck. Then he shakes his head very slowly. "I am not going to sleep while a madman has the keys to my house."
Kame thumps him and picks up Walter. Walter squeaks. Jin flinches.
"I've had a key for years, moron." He could have strangled Jin in his sleep lots of times. Not that he ever would, Jin flooding the bathroom with his endless showers notwithstanding. "If you keep bullying me, I might change my mind."
It's annoying that Jin wins all their wrestling matches, Kame thinks, but less annoying when Jin is kissing him like this against the wall. Even with Walter's rubber butt poking Kame in the back where Jin is holding his hands hostage.
"You won't," Jin says, very full of himself. But, well. For once he's right.
166
(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-29 06:44 pm (UTC)Anyway, I loved these two as well *&hearts* The last one a bit less than the first one though since I'm not much for angst (unless there's a happy ending) but I still really liked this one &hearts
And Walter of all names there is? That is so adorkable and now I kind of want my own Walter the Rubber Duck XP
(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-30 08:39 pm (UTC)Sorry for the angst, but glad you liked anyway. *g* It was kind of an accident...
Walter is a very serious duck. Always serious about... the duck business.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-30 08:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-29 11:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-30 08:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-30 02:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-30 11:26 am (UTC)Angst is great except when it gets... angsty. (But she just calls me a wimp.) :D
(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-31 11:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-01 10:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-02 12:45 am (UTC)2. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
T_____________________________T + :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD = *_____________________________*
skdjfs ♥ ♥ ♥
(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-03 09:06 am (UTC)