Title: Birdcage
Birdcage is one of the names for an obscure dice game that I know nothing about other than you use three dice to play it. Seeing as this collection starts off with my dicefic challenge (story cubes + fandom + oodles of time in lockdown when the internet is being fought over for various education purposes and survival lies in pulling a Harry Potter - retreating to my room and pretending I don't exist), I thought it apt.
Chapter Title: Killer Queen
Prompt: skull
Pairing: Lara/Sam (mainly oblivious pre-relationship)
Chapter Summary: Lara is always looking for things. The truth behind rumours, secrets lost to history, an A on that test she swears she earned ... Sam can barely keep up.
And they were college roommates.
"Sam?"
"Yeah?"
"Sam?"
Sam lowers her textbook from its position five inches in front of her face - multitasking, studying in while also exercising her arms - to stare in vague irritation at the wall. "...What is it, Lara?"
"Has anyone seen Hamlet?" Anyone, in this case, being Sam. And, on the off chance one of them mentioned something to her, Sam's friends - who also for the most part double as Lara's source for a non-nerdy circle of friends. Since Sam is the only other person in the room ...
"Your goth phase key-chain? Or was someone at the frat successful last night?" Lara ignores the dig about her dating life. Always does. It's not like she's hard up for attention, she just doesn't do anything about it. It drives Sam up the wall. If she had half the everything - Lara interrupts that chain of thought.
"He's a miniature skull, not a key-chain. And you know very well I never had a goth phase, Samantha."
Sam huffs in amusement. Lara doesn't have a lot of buttons to push, but the ones she does have react beautifully. "I don't know, digging through bones is pretty morbid."
"Oh, so it's providing necessary enrichment if a jackal does it, but if I do, I'm suddenly a grave-robber?
Sam groans, letting the - actually pretty heavy, ow - book drop to cover her face from the world in which that just happened. "I regret introducing you to that meme so much."