Title: Melodic Fantasies

By: Triple Pirouette

Category: General and Various

Rating: PG-13/T

Disclaimer: All recognizable characters are not mine, they belong to their respective creators.

Distribution: and my site. Anywhere else please ask first.

Summary: A collection of drabbles written to music on various topics, aka a "music meme". See the first chapter for complete details.

Feedback PLEASE at: Or just hit the little button there. I'd like to know if there are any that stand out or you'd like to see as full length stories.

A/N: After reading Antrozous by Dr. Fear-Toxin I was inspired to try my own hand at the "meme." The rules she supplied me with were the following:

MUSIC MEME

1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.

2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.

3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble. You start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards!

Do ten of these, then post them.

I started by doing ten at a time for the general Batman/Dark Knight universe, and have since just done a few whenever I have a few minutes. I've modified the "rules" a bit, here are my changes:

-It doesn't have to be ten songs :)

-I use my iPod or computer's iTunes shuffle. If I'm using my iPod I reshuffle after every song- it makes me feel less like I can skip the songs.

-I only skip/don't write to songs if they've been cut so that they're shorter than the song would normally be (that just doesn't seem fair) or if I've already used them.

-I allow myself to finish the sentence I'm writing, even if the song has ended.

-Before posting I allow basic editing for grammar, spelling, and typos. No major edits or changes to wording or sentence structure takes place.

You'll also notice that some are longer and some are shorter. I type much faster than I can write with pen and paper, so anything written by hand is simply shorter. Also, some ideas take longer to form…

I'm posting each "song" as it's own chapter because I feel that each is it's own, separate idea and thus should be read/viewed that way.

I've randomly decided that this "set" of memes is complete. Any future ones will be posted in a separate story set as the sequel.

Again- I'd love any feedback you have, and if you'd like to see any of these expanded, let me know. Onto the first…

Tattoo of the Sun- Third Eye Blind (4:16)

Written on 12/1/08 typed

Bruce Wayne walked down the busy Gotham street and nearly smiled. Every day seemed full of hope now. She'd come into his life. She was young, though not too young, but it filled her with idealism and energy; ideas for the future that he thought himself far too cynical to believe before. But not now. The sun on his face felt warm.

That night he fell though the glass window of her bedroom. He'd never intended to tell her who he was. At least not now. But the wound on his side... it was far too bad to try to get home, to try to get to Alfred. She jumped awake, flailing to the back of her bed. He pulled off his mask and she gasped. She ran to him, watching the warm red run into the carpet below him.

He felt ashamed the next day as he walked through the business district. She'd taken care of him. Called Alfred, and couldn't look at him when he left. The warm sun beat down on him. She'd never lied to him. He lied to her.