Author's Notes: Well, I've decided to use this idea for some writing inspiration, focusing on the game Prototype. Basically drabbles, with an OC and other such things. As usual, flames are welcomed, they tell me if I'm doing something to annoy someone.

Disclaimer: Don't own the company, don't own the idea, I'm just playing in the puddle. Suing me might net you a whole dollar, if you're lucky, since I am broke.

Just so you know, the basic rules of the challenge.

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!

4. Do ten of these, then post them.

Prototype: Test types

One: Love Story - Taylor Swift

Alex Mercer didn't believe in love, or at least the original one hadn't. Alex wasn't sure why. He loved Dana, and Pariah for all his bat shit antics for attention. The boy might be Greene's, but he was Alex's son in all that counted.

And then there was Adrian.

Alex watched the other man trying to teach Pariah the basics of some language, mangling it almost as badly as the boy and laughing at both their attempts. Scientist, humanitarian. Pacifist, murderer. Human, Blacklight Virus, second strain.

A study in contrasts. And warmth.

"Alex? Is that you?" He never knew how to handle Adrian, what he was thinking, when he wouldn't kill unless necessary. But he always knew how to answer this one question.

"Yes."

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Two: Slaying the Dreamer - Nightwish

Whiskey and smoke, cheap wine and cheaper vodka. It was one way to go, Adrian supposed.

Blacklight was loose, Mercer a Runner. The scientist in him said it was impossible. Greene created only daughters, to find her dreaming child. Never sons, she didn't want another son. Adrian knocked back another drink, determined to be insensible.

He was one of those who knew. He held Pariah's location in his alcohol fogged head, and Mercer wanted the child. And Mercer didn't know what mercy was. Adrian snorted in amusement, then gave the door a mildly annoyed look as it was violently kicked open.

"Mind coming back later, Alex? I'm not drunk enough to not notice when you fuckin' kill me yet." Adrian wasn't sure when he hit the wall, but he had, and Mercer had him pinned. Why wasn't he screaming his last? And then Mercer's tongue touched the blood coming out of his mouth, an intimate gesture.

And Adrian couldn't find it in him to be scared.

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Three: Crimson Rider - Masterplan

Blood, blood, everywhere blood, and the damned bastard Taggart trying to run like the coward he was. Alex was hungry. One more mind, one more death, it didn't matter to him anymore. He clung to what little of 'Alex' he could stand because it made him a little more then a monster.

Death was always seconds away in his life, a holy fire that burned maddeningly under his skin.

Alex. Zeus. Blacklight. All and none. And Taggart wasn't staying still, wasn't being where he could fucking tear him apart and soothe his rage with the man's still hot blood. He was too damned human, in some ways, he wanted revenge. Revenge for the city, revenge for Dana, for the innocents. And most of all, for himself. He couldn't kill the real Mercer, so Taggart would have to do. And there he went.

"Keep running, you bastard!"

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Four: Burn It To The Ground - Nickelback

It was midnight, and Pariah couldn't sleep. There was something in the air. Wild, uncontrolled. It wasn't like him, or like the one they called his Mother. Younger, but not innocent.

And there was all the screaming, like demons that got under the skin. And his door was opening. Pariah startled, and his ball bounced away, to land in the stranger's hands. Two strangers, both of them watching him.

"Can I…"

"Alex. Shut. Up." The brown stranger, as Pariah thought of him because of his hair, laid his hand on Pariah, smiling gently.

"It's time to leave, Pariah. All in and balls out." And Pariah saw the flames flickering behind them.

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Five: You belong with me - Taylor Swift

The phone slammed down, and Adrian looked back at Alex.

"Karen pissed again?"

"Yup. Why do I date bubblegum brains again?"

"Short skirts?" He reached over to flick Zombie rock up, and tossed Alex the other controller.

"Come on, you owe me a shot at beating you."

"Ain't gonna happen." After a few minutes, Alex stared at the screen in amazement.

"What did you randomly mash to kick my street fighter in the balls, stomach, and chin in one flawless move, Walker?" Adrian shrugged.

"Can't remember, but I'm gonna enjoy my victory. Pass the soda." He tilted his head at Alex. "Really gonna work for GENTEK?" Alex nodded.

"I want to learn, Walker. If what I do can help people, protect 'em, that's enough for me."

And yet, it never was.

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Six: Call Me When You're Sober - Evanescence

The machine picked up. Dana didn't need to look to know who was calling.

"Dana, it's me. I… I need to do this. Can't you see? I'm in too deep to back out." She didn't answer, she could tell by the slurring he was drunk. Adrian was drunk far too often these days. He felt shamed, like he should have stopped Alex, freed Pariah. And he drank, as if that would atone. She'd cared for him, but he never noticed her as more then the sister of his friend. He only wanted to talk to her because she was the last person who knew Alex, the real Alex. With a start, she realized the machine was still recording, and she could hear Adrian talking. And then the sound of a body hitting the wall.

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Seven: 1985 - Bowling For Soup

"Mercer, you never had it all, so why are you freaking now?" Cross, or what had been Cross, growling at him. Thinking it was better then him, because Greene had birthed it directly. He wasn't Greene's bastard, he was the spawn of the freakin' bastard who'd been crazy enough to drop Blacklight in Penn Station.

He barely had a life, but he sure as hell wasn't going to let the thing end him now. He lunged up, roaring. He hated time, hated memory.

MAKE IT STOP!

He wanted his life back, Mercer's life back, before the fuck up of Blacklight, way before it. He'd never go to GENTEK, never leave his sister, never date Karen.

He wanted it to be 1985 again.

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Eight: Follow You Home - Nickelback

"It followed me home, can I keep it?"

Adrian supposed Pariah hadn't had the best of educations, but this… he wasn't sure how to explain to the boy that barging into bedrooms was bad enough. He really didn't want to explain the ropes. And Alex looked about to blow his top about the Hunter that was drooling on the carpet.

It reminded Adrian of the night he'd 'died', bleeding out on the desert floor, a mistake. He'd acted without thinking, taken a blow Alex would have shrugged off to a frame still mostly human then. Alex had that same furious look. Adrian sighed, and did what he did best: distracted the death incarnate known as ZEUS.

"Alex, he needs a pet. Not that one," He amended, when Mercer gave him The Look. "We'll buy him a goldfish tomorrow." He gave Pariah a look. "Door was closed, Squirt, back out."

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Nine: Bleed no More - Evanescence

He should be hurting.

That he wasn't wasn't good at all. Adrian watched numbly the rage playing across Alex's face, then looked down. He felt the bile rise in his throat. Gray pink ropes, and a wash of blood. Disemboweled. No wonder he couldn't get up. He let his head loll back.

That THING, another of Greene's monsters, was sure making a pretty splatter across the ground, and Alex was holding him. How?

"You'll get better, Adrian, it's just like being sick." He smiled, feeling blood running out of his mouth.

"Which of me do you talk to, Alex? Adrian Walker, or the second Blacklight? Which of us do you love?"

And he closed his eyes.

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Ten: The Hand of God - Julia Ecklar

They stood between the fires, both regal, both casting shadows. Alex had never understood why Adrian didn't kill, that was what Nature had planned for them. But Adrian looked so sad, and Pariah stood next to him, while Dana sobbed quietly.

"No more, Alex. You've crossed the line, don't push me." Alex felt disquiet, and realized for the first time in months that he couldn't hear Adrian's thoughts. Their lives couldn't change this drastically, they weren't meant to change. Adrian shook his head.

"Enough, Alex. You're becoming what they think you are: a monster. There was no reason to do this." Slowly, as if waking from a dream, Alex looked, at the small town, ruined and burning, the ground strewn with salt, and then he collapsed. His hell, his punishment. He'd created this, for no other reason that he wanted to. Adrian's arms around him, lips brushing his cheek.

"You aren't a God, Alex. You're just… you. And I love you, not ZEUS."

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Well, tell me what you thought.