"I'm sixteen years old! I'm not a child!" -Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
This story was SUPPOSED to be called "Sweet Sixteen and Never Been Kissed", then I changed the title because I thought for sure it wouldn't be true anymore. Well, I guess I could have changed it back, hahaha, but I didn't. And your quote was about me being old, so this quote ties in with that one better.
I have not attempted to write a thing since early Jan 2015 (when my beebee was born, for any followers I have on here who might wonder why I dropped off the face of the earth lol. it's because mommying is a 25/8 job, requiring an extra hour and an extra day, and ain't nobody got time for writing too. BUT MY LOVELY TRISHY PIE IS THE BEST OF ALL THE REST (and a wonderful clone who continues the writing on (her account is The Hat Potato – if you miss my stuff, check out her stuff instead!) whilst I am on semi-permanent retirement (until I'm an empty nester :P )), and thus she shall get a birthday story collection in return for my birthday story collection.
Le rules, copied from her story:
OH NO JK FANFICTION WON'T LET ME COPY FROM IT? Fiiiine, ok
ay, the rules are:
I shall put my music library on shuffle and pair her top 10 ships with the first 10 songs. Each ship gets a story related to the song with decreasing times: ship #1 gets 10 min., ship #2 gets 9 min., ship #3 gets 8 min., etc. So ship #10 is a hot mess 1 min. panic attack.
And, like she said, you don't HAVE to listen to the song first...but you might want to. And author's notes are bolded.
So HAAPPPPPPPYYYYY BIRTHDAY to little Trishy, who is permanently 3 years old in my mind but actually is old enough to be a Disney Princess 3
(also, I'mma post these stories separately as well so someone dying to read an AngelaxDwight drabble doesn't have to search through Reylo to get to it hahaha)
1. Reylo (Star Wars) – "If I Had You" by Adam Lambert - 10 min. timer
OH EMAY HAY you have no idea how frustrating it's going to be to actually sort through all my music and accomplish this. BUT I DID, and, lolz, instead of getting the Little House on the Prairie theme song like I wanted, I got the song that you were JUST SAYING was a Reylo song. (also, I had terrible sleep last night, THANKS DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME and whatever sadistic person invented your existence, so not only is this the first thing I've written in six years, I'm also sleep deprived. this shall be wonderful)
"I did want to take you hand." She paused. "Ben's hand."
"Really?! You would marry me?" His hand shot out and grabbed...her lower arm, not quite her hand but maybe just as good.
"Um." She hadn't meant for this conversation to continue. She had meant to make a clean getaway. Leave him with time to think about-
"Okay!" He smiled like a giddy little boy and promptly chucked his lightsaber into the water. Then his eyes appeared troubled for a moment. "Please don't kill me? I don't have a weapon anymore."
He then proceeded to remove the multitude of black leather he was wearing, and – oh, Force – he was stripping.
"You-you would give all this up?" she choked.
He halted before he got to his shirt.
"Of course. None of this matters if I have you."
"But...the-the dark side-"
He waved his hand dismissively.
Dismissively?!
"There's such a thin line between the dark side and the light side."
Since when?
"I have too much light in me to truly be dark, and you have too much dark in you to truly be light. Instead…" The giddy grin was back, and it was contagious, and she couldn't help but start to smile back. "We'll be both selfish and selfless at the same time."
"Oh?" Her thought processes had come to an utter halt. She would let him do all the talking.
"We'll abandon absolutely everything that doesn't involve the two of us and instead focus solely on raising our babies."
Kriff, he was insane, he was mental, he was-
"Didn't you want to be Supreme Leader? Have a throne? Rule the galaxy?" she sputtered.
"The galaxy doesn't have pretty brown eyes."
Now she was blushing, something she didn't think herself capable of doing, and maybe he wasn't so crazy after all.
"Are you going to...to trash up the rooms of our house in a rage or something whenever you're upset?" She was only half-joking; maybe she could provoke him to anger again and get him back to normal.
He shook his head.
"No. If I had you, that would be the only thing I'd ever need."
OH, GOSH, I JUST REMEMBERED THE HARDEST PART OF WRITING, my upper arm is like pulsating in pain, this is a literal workout, why do I insist on handwriting everything first.
2. ChristinexErik (The Phantom of the Opera) – "Flea Market Montgomery" – 9 min. timer
You absolute Phantom illiterate, Erik is spelled with a K, not a C! Also...oh, no, I'd like to go back to the nice "This song is almost too relevant" thing from the last story! And I don't know if in the rules you expect me to listen to the song the entire time the story is being written, but I'm going to, 9 min. of constant living rooms, bedrooms, dinettes, oh, yeah!
"How did you get furniture down here?"
Her little voice piped up from the end of the long table. The table was dark and elaborately carved, and her chair was high-backed with a red velvet cushion.
He looked up at her from the other end of the table, a spoonful of soup halfway to his deformed lips.
She had been here for almost a week...well, a week and two days, because, yes, he was very much counting. She was certainly going to demand to be taken back to the surface imminently, and every passing day that she hadn't was a miracle.
She didn't talk very much, only nodded and ate and sang when he told her to.
She wanted to know about furniture?
"Magic," was all he said and finished his bite.
"Maybe you made it," she mused. "You do so many other things. Maybe you can make furniture too. Or…" She thought for a bit. He found it highly amusing. "I don't suppose you could have taken it down here by yourself?" She looked at him curiously.
He didn't like to have her gaze pointed at him, and he flinched slightly.
"Are you very strong?"
She had never thought about it before. It was hard to concentrate on anything that wasn't his face.
And then she...oh, no, she was coming towards him-
She put her little hands around his bicep, and he froze and almost groaned and almost pushed her away.
"Make a little muscle...you know-" And she made the motion herself which was highly amusing, and he might have laughed out loud if his heart hadn't been about to stop.
"It's hard to tell through your jacket. You have to make a muscle."
So he did. This was the most inane and most humiliating and most fantastic thing that had ever happened to him.
Oh, please, please, have her be impressed, years of pounding the keys, setting up traps, he could carry her, surely that made him slightly physically fit.
"Oh…!" She gave him an extra squeeze and then let him go and sat right next to him.
So, uh, the timer went off before I wrote the last sentence. She was impressed XP Also, piano playing and writing, oh, yeah, it'll give you killer biceps. Also also, I have zero idea what universe this takes place in, lol, I guess the book, some version where she stays for a few weeks, and he's hanging out without his mask. Also also also, because you asked which one was my favorite, this one is my favorite. It's such an absurd and adorable situation, but I can weirdly maybe see it happening, and I think his reaction would be hilarious. And I like the concept of, yeah, his face might be hideously deformed, but like, maybe she's into the rest of him, idk :P
3. ScarlettxRhett (Gone with the Wind) – "The Next Best Thing To Love" from A Class Act - 8 min. timer
This is from some random CD of just a plethora of assorted songs from musicals. I don't know a thing about this musical at all...but this song is pretty fitting, actually.
Scarlett sat by herself, just...sitting.
Sitting.
The house was very quiet.
It wasn't a rare occurrence – it was a very large house, and it was easy for it to be quiet.
But usually she knew that he was there somewhere doing something, and their daughter was playing happily away in her playroom.
Mammy and Pork and Prissy were somewhere, and she could have gone and asked Mammy for advice, but she had an uncomfortable feeling that she knew exactly what her advice would be, and she wasn't sure her pride could deal with it.
Mammy was always right.
He had taken Bonnie away to London and left her alone, and...well, she knew he'd be back, but it felt...just strange, just empty, just quiet without him there.
Not that having him there was great. They fought often (though she could never remember what about), and Mammy was probably a better conversationalist, if she was being honest.
He loved her, and it made things slightly awkward.
She was his wife, and she should love him too, she supposed.
She didn't. But still. It was very quiet without him in the house.
The state that he had left her in didn't make things easier. He was always something resembling passionate whenever he decided on a whim to bed her, but the last time, the time before he left, the time in the red dressing gown as the darkness at the top of the staircase swallowed them...well, she wouldn't let herself call it passionate, but she would let herself call it the best thing she had ever experienced with him.
And maybe it was the next best thing to love.
Something that might...might also be love.
(nah, that sex was great, and Scarlett knows it, lolol)
4. RosexThe Doctor (Doctor Who) – "Starlight" by MUSE – 7 min. timer
Um so fun fact I have no idea what this song is. But it's called "Starlight", so it's probably relevant.
The TARDIS, his beautiful, sexy ship, arguably the love of his life…
...he couldn't hold it very well. But it held him as it hurled him through space, hurled him away from her.
He was off to save the world, the galaxy, for people and beings that probably didn't care if he lived or died.
Because that was what he did. He did it because...it was what he did.
He couldn't hold saving the galaxy either.
He wasn't sure if it was worth it anymore.
All his grand plans and heroic missions...were they really just black holes? Oh, very big and impressive and kind of neat to look at but ultimately gaping, sucking voids of pointlessness.
She wasn't pointless.
She was real and warm and very holdable.
He had never actually done it. Not like he wanted to, anyway.
Maybe he should have. Maybe he could have. That was all that he had wanted to do at any rate.
Saving the galaxy with her was fun, yes, but the "with her" was the part that kept him going, not the saving.
And all he had wanted to do was hold her in his arms. Get rid of the saving part and just...just hold her.
What would she have done if he tried?
Held him back?
Something more?
Dare he hope?
Dare he even think of such a thing?
She was gone now, and he would consider saving all the pointless black holes in the pointless galaxy as his unholdable ship took him farther and farther away from her.
"Rose…" He allowed the name to escape from his tongue and linger for a few moments in the air.
And then he turned the ship around.
Oh, wow, this is a REALLY good RosexDoctor song. Maybe that's why I had it in the first place lol. I suggest obtaining it, it's a goodie. OH I HAD A DREAM LAST NIGHT THAT FINISHED THIS STORY (why I had the dream days after writing it, idk): he turned the ship around and decided to go back in time to some adventure he had had with her and then essentially steal her from himself. They were having a picnic (or something?), something where they were lying on a blanket in a field with other people similarly having picnics nearby. Old Him noticed and commented on her very short flowery skirt, but he was too "oh, I can't possibly do this" to make a move, so he just like lowkey shamed her for her short skirt and then left hahaha. Then New Him jumped out of the TARDIS in his eagerness to be with her, lol. But he could fly/float (?). He landed kind of hovering on the grass, and he felt so free and at peace knowing he finally was like, ah, yes, I do in fact love Rose, and I'm going to do something about it. But when he got over to her...all the other guys there had fallen in love with her! Everyone had a necklace for her, and it was this unspoken thing that whoever gave her the best necklace was going to get her. Some of them were made of flowery seashells, I remember that. I was really mad at my own subconscious, I was like, UGH, I thought they were just going to make out on the blanket, why did I invent an obstacle? Hahaha, anyway, luckily, New Doctor totally knew this was a thing, and he had a velvet necklace, and it hadn't gotten around to his turn to present his necklace yet, but you could tell he was going to be the winner. Then I suppose they were going to slurp on the blanket...but Noel slammed a door, and I woke up, the end!
5. HermionexRon (Harry Potter) – "Arabian Nights" from Aladdin - 6 min. timer
What...just what...I've got nothing, I've got absolutely nothing.
He had never been very good at magic in general. That wasn't true, he was average, but she was...something else.
And now, because they were in danger, because they had to flee, now they were in some strange, exotic country that she had said the name of, and he had promptly forgotten.
The name was irrelevant because there was only one thing memorable about the place – it was hot.
"Hermione…" he moaned, dragging the end of her name around the colorful tent she had placed them in. "It's hot."
She removed her jacket...then shirt...and he wondered if the little thin, sweat-soaked camisole was going to come off too when she snapped-
"Yes, it is, Ronald, but they're not going to find us here." She sighed. "It's just as hot at night too, and Harry won't be finished till at least tomorrow."
He almost told her that she could probably do some kind of air conditioning spell, but the sweat dripping down her neck and disappearing between her breasts was enough to make him want to endure the heat.
Till at least tomorrow…
He removed his shirt too, and he saw her gulp.
"What are you doing?"
"It's hot," was all he replied.
And he would not utter the next line that came to his mind, and then, suddenly, it was out.
"-we could make it hotter."
This ended too soon. I wanted to write out the whole scene XD Dang, these timers are getting too short!
6. TophxSokka (Avatar: The Last Airbender) – "If I Were A Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof - 5 min. timer
WHAT DID I TELL YOU. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF IS INEVITABLE. YOU CAN'T ESCAPE IT.
"Hey...Toph?"
Toph looked up from the discarded pile of Appa fur she had been lounging on with an uninterested – he thought – expression. Not that she could look at all.
She grunted by way of a response.
"Do you miss being rich?"
She lay back down.
"Hmm. No."
He shook his head.
"You're crazy. If I had been rich like you, I never would have left." His eyes began to glaze over as he thought about – "Ah, yes, the absolute extravagant excess! My rooms would have rooms, and my servants would have servants, and my wife would have all the meat in the world she wanted to eat-"
"Your wife?"
He shrugged.
"Or jewels. I don't know, I like meat, maybe she would like meat too."
"So who's the wife?"
She didn't sound very uninterested now.
"Well, not you, obviously, you hated being rich."
"I hated the people I was rich with."
"I'm pretty cool, right? You could handle being rich with me."
"Sure, Sokka. Just get me a betrothal necklace, and it's official." She rolled her eyes, an impressive feat, and rolled over before he could see her blush.
Man, I crammed TWO blind references in there, that's impressive. I feel like this conversation might actually happen though – I think he would think it was so weird that she gave up her masses of wealth (heck, maybe they have had this conversation, I have no idea, I only remember the Kataang moments :P ).
7. Marinette/LadybugxAdrien/Cat Noir (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) – "Superstar" by Sonic Youth - 4 min. timer
I don't know what this song is either, lol, it just came in the Juno soundtrack which I have because most of those songs are random hilariousness.
She smiled halfheartedly as Luka's mix CD played through her room and bounced off her pictures of Adrien.
Yes, he was a very talented guitar player.
And, yes, it was very nice that he made a song just for her.
And maybe just a little bit mean that he had made one about Adrien too, though he didn't know it.
She frowned at the pictures with the music on them.
It felt wrong.
She went over, reached out her hand to snatch the pictures down so the music could play its solo act like it deserved.
Her hand stopped, of course.
It came close, but then she was caressing the picture instead of tearing it.
She and her hamster named Loneliness would be much less lonely with Luka there too. But there would still be a hamster named Loneliness because this sad guitar without Adrien was just as lonely as Adrien posters with no guitar at all.
She turned the CD off.
Ugh, that was like, depressing and not at all the spicy Ladynoir fic I wanted to write :( But this song was literally about someone playing a guitar, blah, you gotta follow the will of the songs.
8. BellexBeast (Beauty and the Beast) – "Be A Star" from Life-Size - 3 min. timer
Uh...uh...I mean, they're both Disney?
Belle was absolutely deserving of her name.
Her sparkling gowns and shining face made his own hideousness stand out even more in stark comparison.
She would dance with him though. She would spend the whole night dancing, letting him twirl her and hold her as if he were worthy of touching such perfection.
"We're...we are friends, Belle, are we not?" he questioned once.
It was probably more than he could hope for.
"You're my very special friend," her perfect lips said back to him with a perfect smile.
He dared to hope – just a little bit more – as he extended his arm, and she willingly came into it, letting him lead her to the floor.
This was kind of cute lol. And definitely not in the Disney universe...like the Phantom fic, idk in what universe but another vague universe.
9. JeanniexAnthony (I Dream of Jeannie) – "More Than This" by One Direction - 2 min. timer
I also have no idea what this song is XD But according to some CD review I wrote, this was quote, "Beautiful Phantom to Christine song. Phantom can love her SO MUCH FREAKIN MORE than Raoul or anyone else." I can work with this.
It was so easy for her to be bubbly and perky, her blond ponytail flying as she crossed her arms, blinked, and fulfilled his desires.
It was a lie.
She was so broken.
The flock of women that paraded into and out of his home...none of them cared about him, and he didn't care about any of them.
She loved him so – so – much more than any other woman could possibly ever imagine doing.
All she could do was hope that one day he would notice.
Poor Jeannie D': This is kind of a sad show until they get married, lol.
10. AngelaxDwight (The Office) – "A Well Respected Man" by The Kinks – 1 min. timer
How in the universe did I get TWO obscure songs from the obscure Juno soundtrack?
Everyone in town thought he was a well-respected man.
She knew better.
He was a murderer.
Jim knew better.
So he killed him. Because it was a prank. You know.
Out of his corpse emerged his twin he had absorbed, holding an alive Sprinkles.
"Hello, Angela."
AHAHAHA, I did it, I hope you liked the story of The Creep Who Murdered Her Cat :D [note to everyone who isn't Trisha: this is the only one of these ships that I do not support lol]
And THAT CONCLUDES my strange little trip into the world of writing. I look forward to your next story on my next birthday with my next 10 favorite ships. I LOVE YOUR FACE AND THE REST OF YOU TOO AND HOPE YOUR BIRTHDAY WAS THE SWEETEST OF THE SIXTEENS :D