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A double drabble inspired by a discussion when looking at the first draft of scribblerfic's When Two Rights Make A Wrong: How did Chavez find out the Army unit he'd infiltrated was being sent to Jericho—and what did he think when he heard the news? Set during 1x22 Why We Fight. Fits into Awesome!Jakeverse, the shared post-season 2 verse being written by Scribbler (scribblesinink) and Tanaqui (tanaquific).

( Final Destination )

Inspired by a conversation with elena_tiriel about what attracted Smaug to Erebor.

( Eavesdropping )

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These were written for adlanth, who was a winning bidder on my offer of a series of five drabbles as part of help_pakistan. Thank you, adlanth, for your generous donation!

adlanth gave me the prompt I'd like the drabbles to be related and from The Silmarillion and/or LotR. Elrond (though not movie!Elrond) and Gil-galad, Maedhros and Maglor are favourites of mine. I like slash a great deal but canon het and gen are fine too.

Elrond and Gil-galad spoke to me, and I think these can be read as slash or gen, depending on the reader's preference.

Warnings: character death, violent imagery

( The memory of many things both glad and sorrowful )

These were written for celli, who was a winning bidder on my offer of a series of five drabbles as part of help_pakistan. Thank you, celli, for your generous donation!

celli and I share an interest in taxfic, and she asked for five taxfic drabbles in five fandoms.

( A Taxing Task – five taxfic drabbles written for Celli )

Heather’s ready to answer a question Jake’s asked her before. Two true drabbles written for the story_lottery prompt "a shadow".

( Better Late Than Never )

I was wondering if Johnston told Gail about what he heard of the conversation between Jake and Heather by the Roadrunner in Black Jack. Then I got the first line of this and had to write the rest.

( Fool For Love )

So scribblesinink pointed me towards the preview of the next Supernatural tie-in novel Bone Key written by Keith DeCandido, and issued a general challenge for people to remix it.

How could I resist producing a 100-word drabble that covered everything that was in the original - without the additional 2700 words of turgidly paced filler?

Bone Key – the drabble remix

"Yaphet?" Sam glanced at Bobby.

"Nut job." Bobby sipped the champagne they were using to toast New Year.

"Really? Sure, we'll check it out." Dean snapped their father's old phone closed. "Let's go, Sam!"

"You takin' that hippie burnout seriously?" Bobby stared incredulously.

Dean shrugged. "Bunch of hauntings, plus some girl got her throat slit and there was sulfur...."

Unexpectedly, Sam backed his brother. "If it’s a real job, we should go. If it isn’t, Dean gets to cut loose in Key West."

The thought that Dean had maybe less than a year to live hung unspoken in the air.

Drabbles for the first next couple of episodes. Mostly John-centric, but I couldn't resist drabbling about Dean's underwear. *g*

( 1x04: Phantom Traveler - Dispirited )

( 1x04: Phantom Traveler - Rock Bottom )

( 1x05: Bloody Mary - Only Skin Deep )

I was betaing a 1000-or-so-word SPN story for scribblesinink which is very charming but she admits herself has a rather slight plot. I remarked that it had made me realise that the reason I only write fic which is either 100 words or 5000+ words - and nothing in between - is that I'd drabble stuff that other people would make into a 1000-word story.

So scribblesinink challenged me to drabble her story. *g*

First go read The Gift, and then ( read this )