Prompt Me Meme - Just Because

[elrhiarhodan]

Stealing this from hoosierbitch and rabidchild67, the two most awesome ladies EVER:

Give me a prompt, and I will write a drabble for it. Provide pairing or central character, a scenario or starting line, and I shall give you WORDS! Probably about 100 or so. It's like a reverse promptfest.

So anyway, just prompt me. Hard or easy or anything in between.

Fandoms I'll write for: White Collar, Inspector Lewis, Grimm, Farscape, The West Wing, Sherlock Holmes (Granada or BBC, not Movieverse), XMFC.

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[kendermaus]

Inspector Lewis, after Life Born of Fire. pre-slash. Lewis waiting for James to wake up in the hospital

Or just some good Hurt/Comfort Lewis/Hathaway.

::grin::
km

[elrhiarhodan]

Okay - my first foray into Lewis fic - just a short ficlet on what you initially asked for. Robbie watching over James in hospital as he sleeps - recovering from the fire and the drugs Zoe gave him.

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Lewis scrubbed at his face. He was bone tired, weary beyond words. It wasn’t physical – or only partially so. Sitting here, keeping vigil brought back memories of other vigils, other times he spent waiting in hospital rooms. Some of those memories were good – when Lyn and Mark were born. Most were bad, though.

And this one may be the worst of them all. Not that James’ condition was serious – but that James was here because of his own blind stupidity. His anger, his selfish feelings of betrayal. If only he hadn’t turned his back on James, if only he’d listened. And now he couldn’t stop hearing the agony in his young sergeant’s pleas for him to just let him explain.

But he’d been too caught up in his own sense of ill use.

James was such a complex creature, he hid behind a smooth façade of clever snark and misdirection. Robbie was, for the most part, content to leave that façade alone. God – if it existed – knew that the wall was best left unscaled.

‘Til now. James’ flippant comment about Loaded and Yorkie bars versus shoes and show tunes was just another bit of misdirection. If nothing else had happened, he’d have been content to leave it there. After all, was there anything more ridiculous than a man pushing sixty chasing after a lad nearly half his age?

Robbie sighed. Morse would have laughed his arse off, calling this a tragedy of Shakespearian proportions, or maybe a comedy worthy of one of those ancient Greeks. More likely Benny Hill. Even if James preferred shoes and show tunes, as it were, he’d certainly not be interested in a broken down old widower with wrinkles and a sad paunch.

James stirred and let out a restless moan. Robbie got up to stand next to the bed. He didn’t want the lad to wake up alone, frightened. He reached out and put his fingers – just his fingers – on James’ hand, a gesture meant to soothe. James didn’t wake, but he seemed to quiet down at that simple, singular contact. Robbie was content to stand here, stand guard, watching out for James, keeping him safe, even from himself.

[ebeneezerdark]

You're EVIL... trying to seduce me into ANOTHER fandom!

::makes demon-banishing gestures::
Begone, foul temptress!!

[ebeneezerdark]

...and just so you know, you're part of why I've got an entire season of "Grimm" queue'd up on my DVR waiting 'til I've got a whole day of free TV-watching time... I do NOT need ANOTHER new fandom too!
::toddles off to check the PBS schedule for "Inspector Lewis"::

[elrhiarhodan]

If you have Netflix, the first three series are there.

:D

Evol grin of evolness

Got Netflix, but...

[ebeneezerdark]

I've got the cheapest, $4.99/month, 2-discs-per-month account... because we found that, between my schedule and my sweetie's, and having both of us in the mood to watch a particular movie at a time when we were both home and awake, we were averaging 2-3 per month once we'd run through the stuff that he wanted to watch and I didn't, and vice versa. That coincided with their trying to double the rates or else cut you to disc-only or download-only plans... so we said "screw 'em" and downgraded.

Have watched a couple of the "Inspector Morse" mysteries on PBS; isn't Lewis the guy who *was* Morse's #2 in that series? I thought he was (then) in his mid-30s, but you describe him here as much older... (Was "Morse" THAT long ago? I feel old...)

Re: Got Netflix, but...

[elrhiarhodan]

I had the 3 disc at a time plan, realized that I wasn't watching anything, and cancelled the whole kit and kaboodle. Then I got a free month trial for the streaming service, and rejoined. It's definitely worth it.

Inspector Lewis is, in fact, a sequel of sorts to the old Morse series, which was late 80s through the early 2000. You should watch, it's on the streaming service.

Re: Got Netflix, but...

[ebeneezerdark]

Well, to get streaming Netflix without jittery stop-&-go video, I'd have to pay about double what I now spend on my internet. :-(

At this point, I've got the first disc of "Chuck", so I can have some background for all those "White Collar" crossovers where Neal's (evil?) twin Bryce shows up... :-}