Apricity

the warmth of the sun in winter

(These prompts are from Laora, originally for the video game The Last Story)

181. Pepper (Supernatural crossover)

"Oh come on!" Danny huffed with a hint of a grin as he picked himself off from the ground and shook the granules of salt the two hard faced, denim-clad hunters had just shot at him out of his hair, "what's next, the pepper?"

182. Fluffy

"It's…" Sam trailed off as she stared helplessly at the thing in Danny's hands; "A gigantic fluffy panda thingy," he said, holding it out and dropping his eyes to the ground, "and I got it for you."

183. Dragon (TP: Dragon)

"Dude," Tucker panted with a grin as he rested his hands on his knees and picked up his head from drooping between his legs, "you realize that we're the only people in the world who can claim that they've fought a dragon!"

184. Chains

Jazz said that he should go off to college somewhere, anywhere but here, and he knew she meant well but she, like everyone else, couldn't see the invisible chains keeping him tied to Amity Park; he would never be able to leave.

185. Resurrection ("Phantom Planet")

"Vlad?" Danny yelled incredulously, not yet daring to believe his eyes as he rolled off of his bed and into a crouch to face the figure that had appeared in front of him out of thin air, "I thought you were dead; how are you here?"

186. Thief ("Boxed Up Fury")

"Stealing from Pandora?" Skulker asks of the Box Ghost blankly as he thinks back to every single one of his wild and harebrained schemes of his first few centuries in the Ghost Zone, "That's not wise."

187. Protect

He didn't understand it… that older sisters were supposed to protect little brothers… not the other way around.

188. Shadow ("The Ultimate Enemy")

The new-born hybrid rose from its transformation and continued rising until it seemed impossible and then it continued coming—sharp black claws outstretched, white hair flaming above bloodshot eyes, long forked tongue slithering out from between fanged teeth—casting a long black shadow over the now unnecessary shell of the human it had once been a part of.

189. Children

The adults thought they knew best, they set the rules and curfews and tried to keep their children out of harm's way since the ghosts and attacks were something that was hard for even them to handle, but, at the end of the day, Amity Park was saved time and time again by a few residents who were really nothing more than children.

*190. Xenophobia

It is human nature to hate and fear whatever it does not understand, and he knows this but he had hoped, fruitlessly he now finds, that it might understand the things they are destined to become when they die.

*191. Echo

Sam remembered the sound until the day she died, the way his screams reverberated through the long, metal tunnel because she had thought that it would be fun to see what was on the other side.

192. New

The week after the accident, Danny confided to his best friend that he was scared to death of what he could do and that he hated what his life had become even when he wasn't falling through the floor, but Tucker couldn't do anything but smile sadly and clap him on the shoulder as he said, "Welcome to your new normal, man."

193. Family

Danny nodded shakily at the ultimatum— because it wasn't as if he hadn't been expecting it ever since he'd considered telling his parents about what the accident had really done to him even though he had hoped from the very core of his being that they would somehow be able to accept him— and slowly went to his room to grab the duffel bag that was already packed and waiting to be taken to someone who could be a real family.

194. Shoot

He froze the first time he held a gun up to see a human on the other end of the barrel because this was all wrong and he could fight ghosts but he was supposed to save people, and he didn't even wait for his supervisor to recommend his transfer to a different unit, or better yet, a desk job; he had already decided that law enforcement was not the way he could best exercise his hero-complex or help his town and wordlessly handed in his resignation with still shaking hands as soon as he got back to the station.

195. Rebellion (Nerves)

She would show them that she was the best ghost fighting recruit they had ever laid eyes on, Valerie decided as she walked into the Ghosthunters' compound, and there was no way she was letting Maddie turn her away just because she was a kid.

196. Remember (Silence)

Jazz never tells Danny about how much his deepening voice freaks her out, because she knows he's already dealing with the same issues as he thinks back to a time that never was and a monster he never turned into, but still sounded more and more like with every passing day.

197. Ancestors ("The time traveling episode")

The Fentons had been hunting ghosts for well over 400 years now, even before they settled in the American wilderness before it was colonized, so if you thought that you had some crazy stories in your family history, let me tell you now that you've got nothing on them.

198. Open

They made sure to keep the radio channels open in case he needed backup, but after hours of being glued to the set, he hadn't returned and there was still nothing but static coming from across the line.

199. Prepare

They learned a long time ago (in an incident involving glittering pink splattered goo from a ghost that Sam made well sure they never ever ever saw on this plane of existence again) that ghosts honestly couldn't care less about their regularly scheduled lives and they had to be prepared to send one back to the Ghost Zone no matter what time of day it was or what they had been planning to do instead.

200. Damnation (#36 Faith, Down the Road)

"You realized," he said hesitantly (as if he hadn't already been able to figure this much out already and the tall, soft spoken man wanted to break the news gently), "that when you said yes to the woman who appeared in the portal (you mean my guardian angel?) that everything was going to be different… didn't you?"

*190 Xenophobia is the fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.

*191 There are a couple words doubled between our lists, so for the most part, Laora and I have been switching them out, but I had a second idea for this one, so it's echo 2.0.