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Gabriel’s life is definitely changed by the fact that he doesn’t die. (Thanks Sam!) Whether it’s technically an AU or not is perhaps debatable.

Bingo square #8: "Alternate History: personal life of a character changed"
(All prompts from au_bingo ~ custom card.)

( Back in Time )

This was going to be a much harsher story, but I read something terrifyingly depressing right before I started it writing it and I knew then that the werewolf AU would have to be super fluffy to make up for it. The practical upshot of this is that instead of fighting at the beginning, they fight at the end.

Unrelatedly, the angels were supposed to represent a third gender in this story, but I couldn’t find room to make it matter to the plot.

Bingo square #6: "Fantasy & Supernatural, werewolves"
(All prompts from au_bingo ~ custom card.)

( Double Lines of Dominance )

You know how sometimes you just start typing, and word by word it’s as much of a mystery as if you were reading it off the page with everyone else? That’s how I felt about this story. Luckily, marcicat was there to laugh at me, put up with holiday music, and exclaim over how happy Jess and Sam actually looked.

Bingo square #4: "Fantasy & Supernatural, ghosts"
(All prompts from au_bingo ~ custom card.)

( Beginning to Look a Lot Like Something )

Much of the dialogue in this was taken directly from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Because in 1986, it was the best Star Trek movie ever made. Also, plus credit to marcicat, who wants to know if they had an "autobeam" set for that one part of the park.

Bingo square #2: "Future, in space!"
(All prompts from au_bingo ~ custom card.)

( The One with the Whales )

Note to self: the paragraph breaks at 750 words don't transfer well. Also, okay, some things really should be edited. This includes anything that I write with my eyes closed. Oh, and! I might have guessed the Mickey Mouse bear was a real thing!



Thanks Mouse Planet!

This, I think, will be my last post-sky trilogy snippet before attempting a completely made-up, unofficial, not-for-points au_bingo blackout card. The entire card will take place in the sky!verse (thanks marcicat ♥) starting probably a few hours after this story ends.

( My Charade Is the Event of the Season ~ 2293 )

This is my bizarre amalgamation of an amnesia!fic and "Dean and Cas have a cute baby girl for no explicable reason." Because there are some stories that everyone should write at least once, and that was the kind of day I had yesterday. (You know how toaster ovens say "If contents ignite, keep door closed and unplug oven"? Yeah, here's a hint for you. If contents ignite, keep door closed.)

This is set after the Sky trilogy, but probably all you need to know about this story is that the tall ships are in port for Memorial Day weekend and I saw this picture in the paper:



( The Wayward Ones - 2631 )

This is the eighth story in steering you home, and actually sort of pre-Boston wtf. There will probably be eating in the next one, because this is me and RPM and that's how we go, but then Boston after that? ::ponders:: Like, actual Boston, not post-apocalyptic Boston. I'm getting enough apocalypse from Supernatural fic right now ♥

( 8. solved )

This is the sixth story in steering you home, and it takes place the night after "Prisoners" ♥ I was going to make some icons of the last RPM episode too, but I couldn't figure out how to contain it in one-inch by one-inch form. So if you want some silly "And... Action!" screencaps, I posted a few here at the_morphin_grid* and also the tale of the action sofa at my own journal.

*I just typo'd this as "the morphin grin," which is so awesome.

( 6. the one in the know )

"I'm out of control like a runaway train
With the wheels barely touching the rails
I'm in a tornado, in a hurricane, got a tiger by the tail"
--Susan Ashton, "Breathless"

YAY I FINISHED TEAM BUILDING! I literally cheered when I finished this epilogue! A lot, actually. I didn't really mean to write this story in the first place, but I always thought it was important, so I'm glad PRAU came along and was all inspirational. Grand credi and muchos gracias to everyone who cheered and loved this story on! ::hearts::

(1. Though the Dragon Waits, 2. The Seduction of Schuyler Tate, 3. Team Building with Jack Landors. If you want to read Team Building alone, easy: Sky and Jack are dating, A Squad is in rehab, and when Jack gave up his B Squad position to Sky, he took Charlie's A Squad morpher instead and filled in temporary replacements for the rest of her team.)

Extra note: if you read the prompts below from top to bottom, paying no attention to the way the cut tags are numbered, they will be in the right order. (Following against all odds.)

( 47. parents )
( 45. attitude )
( 36. destruction )
( 50. robot )
( 43. deaf )
( 41. hopelessness )
( 42. blind )
( 44. reluctant hero )
( 48. life )
( 46. what has gone before )
( 49. leaving it all behind )

There are, of course, fifty more prompts in the complete prompt table. It is not impossible that I will come back and write the second half of the table into a follow-up story; I just have some other things to do first. A thirty-first century revolution to plot, a novel to finish, that sort of thing. In the meantime, it seems only appropriate to wish you a happy holiday! Ithabise!

So, in Team Building with Jack Landors, the original members of A Squad were released from containment on Cruger's order and are undergoing voluntary rehabilitation. Charlie has refused reassignment as A Squad Red unless her entire team comes with her. Rose and Don have both asked to return, but Des' family wants him to resign and Miguel has gone back to his home planet indefinitely.

This scene follows missing (in which Jack is accidentally caught in a base-wide lockdown), and the full PRAU prompt table is here. (Other references: why Japan and when they're going.) ♥

( 38. against all odds )