Long time, no update, FF!
I log in my e-mail and find that people are subscribing to my stories and adding my writing to their alert lists even though I haven't been updating this account in quite a long time.
I honestly feel bad about not posting the updates you hope to see from me. =(
For the time being, I really can't update my long stories because my laptop (where all my writing drafts and WIPs are saved) has seemed to have finally given out on me. (And I do not have softcopy back-ups of all my stories; only handwritten notes and the outdated versions of stories published online.)
I'm not bothered by it though; as long as I have a back-up copy of my thesis saved somewhere else, I'm good. (^ ^) It's not like I don't remember what my stories were about or can't write them down when I have free time. I plan to overhaul "The Right Rewrite of Right" and "La Rottura di Omérta" to fit the canon and correct some plot f-ups when I have the time, but not right now.
Anyway, lessons learned. I'm posting drabbles for my new "No Speaking Rule" challenge here so I at least have another copy of the drabbles published somewhere else in the event that for I stupidly delete the LJ entry this drabble is first written in for any reason.
I had a lot of fun writing the first challenge, "Code of Silence" and thought to start a new one for another het pairing. (^_^)v
Following what I did for the previous No Speaking Rule, I'm writing the drabbles for "Our Thing" with a limit of one-hundred words only. As with the previous drabble challenge, my selected pairing are not allowed to say anything or have any dialogue.
Disclaimer: … I… don't… own… KHR…
Warning: OOC- ness, AU, thoughts on smoking
Our Thing
By: Satirical Juxtapose
Classified File 001: Agitation
Written: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 11:27:06 PM
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Location: Namimori Shopping District
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Archive Summary: Surveillance file on Tenth Vongola Guardian of Rain, Yamamoto Takeshi and civilian Miura Haru.
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This is probably the first time he ever envied Gokudera for having a bad habit of smoking; at least he had a quick and easy way of calming his nerves in awkward situations like first dates.
But he wasn't Gokudera and he wasn't too keen on poisoning himself just to keep his cool. He looked at his watch, wondering if he had arrived too early, too late, in the wrong place, under-dressed... Did he remember to brush his teeth? His hair...?
A tap on his shoulder made him turn and all worries seemed to dissipate when he saw her smiling.
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Author's Notes: ... for some reason, I'm starting to find writing two of what should be the simplest characters in the series to be far more difficult than two characters who (so far) barely interact with each other in canon... Or maybe I'm overestimating them... /sigh
"Our Thing": What the term cosa nostra loosely translates to. ("Code of Silence" is the translation of Omertà; I've decided to name all KHR-centric "No Speaking Rule" challenges with translations of mafia terms.)
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