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I LOVE THIS IDEA!! #4

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Ok upping the ante hehe 🙂 Thank you!

Your songs are:
– Bring Me to Life
– Captain America
– Presidente
– If I Never See Your Face Again

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Captain America was a comic book legend; a super-soldier turned superhero who threw his trusty shield and always stood up for what was right. Mulan had been one of the few who hadn’t laughed when they’d been handpicked for a new elite unit. They were the best of the best; and the government hoped they’d be even better with the new experimental serum.

Mulan was the only survivor of those experiments. The serum made her stronger, and faster, and she shrugged off injuries easier. One soldier doesn’t make a unit so Mulan recruited her own, to make a team of five: Philip Prince, Ruby Lucas, Belle French and Merida Dunbroch. The President hadn’t been thrilled at the ratio of men and women, in his opinion the 4:1 should have been the other way round, but Mulan had picked the best and not even the commander in chief could argue with that.

They had laughed about being a comic book team, the super-soldier and her Howling Commandos. However truthfully Mulan hadn’t expected to have anything in common with Steve Rogers except for the serum. That was until she’d gone into the ice … and survived.

When Mulan was pulled out and revived she was cold inside. It was a chill she just couldn’t shake. People started whispering that the ice had frozen her, and Mulan wasn’t sure she disagreed. She was quieter than normal, had few smiles to share, nothing but darkness in her eyes. She trained, barely slept, ate mechanically and then trained some more. She was technically alive but she’d lost herself out there.

“That’s it!” Merida exclaimed, throwing up her hands dramatically as she strode into the training room. “You and me are out of here.”

“I have to finish training,” Mulan argued.

Merida snorted. “You’ve done enough training for a lifetime. Now, let’s go.”

Mulan felt Merida grab her arm and she tensed for half a second. People had learned not to touch her but this was Merida, and so Mulan relaxed and let herself be dragged along. She still didn’t want to go but Merida was stubborn, she’d hound her night and day until she gave in anyway. Besides it was Merida, her oldest and best friend.

“I thought we were going somewhere,” Mulan said mildly, an hour later after Merida pulled off the road into a small forest clearing.

“We are, here,” Merida answered. “Middle of nowhere. Best place.”

“For what?” Mulan said doubtfully.

“Ach I dinnae want to be overheard. You know what me brothers are like, they’d never let me hear the end of it,” Merida exclaimed. “You were gone for two years! Two!”

“Lucky it wasn’t seventy,” Mulan said dryly.

Merida gave her a dirty look. “Now’s not the time for jokes. We could have lost you! I could have lost you! When I thought I would never see your face again I knew … I knew … oh dammit it all to hell.”

The next thing Mulan knew Merida had grabbed her again, but this time it wasn’t to drag her somewhere, not unless closer together counted. Merida’s lips pressed against hers, and Mulan froze. Then a beat later her arms moved, to wrap around Merida, as she kissed her back. Merida’s hand curled round her neck, lightly scratching her nape. Mulan pulled back, taking a shuddering breath.

For the first time since the ice warmth was flooding through her. It was flowing from her lips, and her neck, and everywhere Merida had touched. Merida was almost literally bringing her back to life.

“Alright?” Merida asked awkwardly.

Mulan gave a genuine smile, another first since the ice. “Kiss me again, it’s working.”

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A/N: Should I be sorry for stealing the Rumbelle line? Probably. It’s just it was perfect *hides*

Sorry to hear that you’ve had some bad days. ::hugs:: Hope that your weekend is better. Anyway, Shuffle Challenge: #3 for Rumbelle. :~)

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*hugs back* thank you so much!

Ok your songs are:
– Jedi Rocks
– Everyday is a Holiday
– Do You Want To

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“No absolutely not,” Rumple said firmly but the pleading eyes didn’t relent. He squirmed and sighed. “Fine, one tube but no pudding with dinner.”

“Thanks papa!” Gideon called over his shoulder as he sprinted back over to the concession stall.

Belle chuckled. “You know he’s crazy for anything Star Wars related. The second he saw those limited edition candies …”

“Jedi Rocks,” Rumple grumbled. “Just pure sugar and E numbers.”

“We are are on holiday Rumple,” Belle teased, looping her arm through his.

“Technically everyday is a holiday,” Rumple pointed out, unwilling to concede the point. Belle raised both of her eyebrows, her eyes gaining intensity, it was the exact look she gave him when she wasn’t impressed with his showboating. “This is your fault for saying ask your father.”

“What’s your fault papa?” Gideon asked brightly, his eyes sparkling. He ripped open the tube and crunched one of the rocks, his smile practically splitting his face, and Rumple’s heart melted.

“Nothing son. Your mother was just teasing me,” Rumple told him.

Gideon nodded, chewing on another candy. Rumple glanced around the amusement park. They’d left Storybrooke over a year ago intending to take a two week vacation. That had been extended over and over again as they’d just not gone back home. There was always somewhere new to see and Gideon was the perfect age for such a long trip. He was old enough to remember but young enough that he’d still have time to learn everything he’d need for his exams.

Although, today’s amusement park excursion aside, their vacation was extremely educational. Gideon was getting to see historical locations in person, to immerse himself in different cultures and learn the language. It was the experience of a lifetime.

“Papa,” Gideon started.

Rumple winced, that was the ‘I want something’ tone. “Yes Gideon?”

“Do you want to ride the coaster?”

“Erm …” Rumple glanced over towards the rapidly moving car that was careening upside-down along the track. “Ask your mother.”

For the song prompt thing- how about a 3 to get you going? :)

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Ooooh thank you! I know it’s a probably a weird prompt meme thing but I got a bit tired of reblogging the same 50 sentences. So this is just something a bit different 🙂

Right your songs are:
– Club Foot
– Everlasting Love
– Inflate My Ego

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“If I can’t have you,” James snarled. “Then no-one will!”

Belle shuddered at the menacing tone. Gold frowned and grabbed the remote, hitting pause on the movie. Belle was laying back against his chest, his arms wrapped around her, just another typical night at home. He’d been warm, comfortable, drowsy; Belle was in his arms and all was right with the world, until he’d felt her distress. Now their position wasn’t comfortable because he couldn’t see her expression.

“Sweetheart?” Gold shifted and with obvious reluctance Belle moved, curling her legs up against her and wrapping her arms around herself. “Hey?”

Gold put a finger under her chin and very gently pressed, encouraging her to look at him. Belle did for half a second before her eyes dropped.

“It’s stupid,” Belle muttered.

“Nothing you feel could ever be stupid,” Gold quoted, and Belle’s lips quirked in amusement, as he repeated the same phrase she often said firmly to him.

Belle shrugged and sighed. “I was half asleep really. So comfortable and warm, I was with you.” She smiled and reached for his hand. “It was the tone more than the words. If I hadn’t been half-asleep it probably wouldn’t have registered. You know me, I don’t scare easily …”

Gold laughed. “You my love are practically fearless.”

“Exactly.” Belle nodded once in acceptance. “But that night I felt a flash of pure terror … and then you saved me.”

“I think you saved me actually,” Gold disagreed.

“You don’t need to inflate my ego.” Belle rolled her eyes but she was smiling now at least.

Gold would compliment her all night if it brought light to her eyes, and besides he was telling the truth. He would have been fish food if Belle hadn’t been there. The fact that he might have possibly saved her first was irrelevant. As far as he was concerned, she was his hero.

“Oh I thought that was part of my job description as your husband?” Gold arched an eyebrow, a smile playing across his face.

“No the only criteria for that Mr Gold is everlasting love,” Belle said tartly. “Anything else is just like a gift of a rose.”

“Anything else?” Gold questioned with a glint in his eyes.

Belle bit her lip thoughtfully and then smirked, and turned to press up against him once more. She lowered her lips to within an inch of his. “Well maybe just one or two things …”

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A/N: Club Foot is about loving something so much and then having to kill it, at least I think. I had to look that one up as the lyrics weren’t clear and the title wasn’t easy either. I managed to get the other two titles in there though! 🙂

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I’m having a bad few days. Somebody save me from playing yet more video games and focus me on writing again. Yeah please hit up my askbox!

I thought of this one the other day which I thought would be cool.

SEND ME A NUMBER BETWEEN 1-5. I WILL PUT ITUNES ON SHUFFLE AND THE CHALLENGE IS TO WRITE A FICLET USING THOSE SONGS/SONG TITLES AS THE PROMPTS. ALL OF THEM HAVE TO BE INCLUDED SO THE HIGHER THE NUMBER, THE HARDER IT GETS.

I have nearly 14,500 songs. So there’s a fair bit of variety in there.

Go on! Challenge me 🙂

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It occurs to me that as most people probably follow me for Once Upon a Time I should apologize for all the Stargate spam today. It’s a special occasion. The 20th anniversary of when SG1 first aired.

Once Upon a Time reblogging will resume tomorrow 🙂 I have a lot of feelings about Stargate today!

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If anyone’s seen Leverage in season four I think there are two episodes – The Boys Night Out/The Girls Night Out. In which as you might guess the first focuses on the male characters, the second on the female characters. Events happen on the same night and there’s a tiny bit of crossover when one character calls another, but apart from that they are separate adventures.

I was just randomly thinking what if they did that with the marvel movies? Like packed off all the male heroes to Asgard or somewhere else out of the way, maybe Tony and Pepper are getting married and it’s a stag/hen night situation (I know that sucks but the setup isn’t what matters).

So we have all the cool amazing ladies on Earth (or maybe they go somewhere but setting is immaterial) – basically it’s a team-up thing. All the ladies are together. I’m talking Pepper, Lady Sif, Maria Hill, Natasha Romanoff, Wanda Maximoff, Jane Foster, Hope van Dyne, characters from Black Panther that I don’t know the names of yet, Darcy Lewis, hey could even invite Gamora. Basically any significant female characters from the movies (this is me hoping I haven’t forgotten anyone important).

Then something happens – duh duh duh – and the ladies have to save the world. Pepper could don the Rescue armor, Hope is obviously the Wasp. Jane and Darcy could help run back-end/science saves the day and everyone else is badass in a fight. Actually Darcy is badass in a fight, give that girl a taser. Anyway, what I’m saying is all-female team-up.

Yes this is just because I want more of all these amazing women. You’ve seen my tags, I’m constantly lamenting that I want more Maria Hill, Lady Sif etc. Well Marvel make it happen! I can’t be the only one that would watch the hell out of this. I mean I just rewatched The Avengers, Cap: Winter Soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron purely for Maria Hill. Give me more Marvel!

I know this will never happen but it’s a fun dream 🙂

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@rumbelleluv I just read your tags on that gifset about why the portal looks different? A ring of fire rather than a green swirl that destroys the road. I have a theory about that!

Henry isn’t going to a realm within our reality – he’s going to another realm where the same stories play out differently. So the portal looks different because he’s not just travelling to another realm, he’s crossing reality.

Why do I think this? Well the portal reminded me of a Doctor Strange portal (also seen used by Ghost Rider in Agents of Shield) which crosses dimensions. Disney has the rights to Marvel which is why we’ve had the comic books shown on the show, they are never going to have the Avengers show up but that could be a nice little nod. Hello reality portal.

Also this ties into my theory as to how Henry got to be 28 but Regina and Hook haven’t aged – time isn’t consistent between realities. I mean that kinda makes sense with time being relative because of the storybook thing anyway. I mean the versions they’ve used on the show were â€œwritten down by the author Walt Disney” long before the events technically happened.

I mean the first Dark Curse created Storybrooke in 1983. Walt Disney died (and Isaac was recruited) in 1966. So if the Enchanted Forest and the Land Without Magic had time operating concurrently, that wouldn’t be possible. I mean the tale of Snow White was written long before Snow was actually born.

I know time was acting concurrently once the curse happened but maybe that’s why it was such a dark curse. It connected the realms in a way that wasn’t usual. Perhaps that’s why Isaac never aged from 1966 to present day, but Henry has got older while he’s been gone.

Just a couple of thoughts 🙂

Your RCIJ is on my to-read list; can’t wait to get started on it. So, I’m going to have to wait until next week to ask about it. Anyway, I’m going to have to ask you something else for TMI. Is there a movie, TV show, or novel that reminds you of Rumbelle? (other than Beauty and the Beast). :~)

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Sorry I know I shouldn’t laugh. It’s just that’s a really awesome question and it’s also incredibly funny. I see Rumbelle everywhere, in everything! I swear sometimes I could probably Rumbelle anything. I try not to think on it too hard because the plot bunnies wind up multiplying exponentially but oops happens quite often anyway 🙂

Anyway, the amazingly talented and wonderful @worryinglyinnocent was my RCIJ Santa. The prompt I gave them was for a movie AU – No Reservations. That movie just screamed Rumbelle to me and while I’m still only three chapters into their fic (damn obligations, I want to read and not be busy!) it’s an absolutely incredible adaptation. Go, read, enjoy! It’ll be great I know it!

I’d be here all day if I listed off everything that ever reminded me of Rumbelle. Unlike the example I gave above, which was absolutely perfect in pretty much every way, most things are only partly perfect. Which unfortunately makes the plot bunnies even worse. I can see the changes I’d make which would then be perfect Rumbelle and oops. Rumbelle, rumbelle, everywhere heh.

Where do you think Gideon and Chin went on their first date? And as Gideon was growing up, was Rumple the more overprotective “I want to know where you are, where you’re going, who you’re with, what time you’ll be home” parent? Or was that Belle?

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Gideon: It’s hard to pin down our first date to be honest. I’d dated before, inviting the guys I liked out for hamburgers or to get a drink, but with Chin it just didn’t happen like that. We met in the library study hall, when he sat down opposite me, and we just clicked. He became my best friend, I invited him home for Christmas so he didn’t have to spend it in the dorms, and after we’d been there a couple of days mom asked how long we’d been together.

I told her that we weren’t! But the idea wouldn’t leave me alone and I started paying more attention. When we spent evenings watching movies we’d curl up together, when we cooked we worked in sync because we knew what the other needed. It’s like we’d become a couple and kinda skipped the dating part.

So would our first date be one of the hundreds of things we did together since we met? Or would it be what we did the night I screwed up my courage and kissed him? I was so terrified of losing his friendship. I called papa and he told me not to wait because I would regret it. That no matter what happened it would be the right thing. That the important thing was to be honest, a lesson he’d learned the hard way and tried never to forget.

Anyway we went out for dinner – hamburgers for good luck – and I kissed him. He kissed me back, I admitted I’d been nervous, he admitted that if I hadn’t made a move soon then he would have, and the rest as they say is history.

*****

Belle: *glances at Rumple with amusement* It was me, much to my surprise. I couldn’t understand why Rumple was so laid back, well until Gideon and Nadia started dating and then I had to have a stern word, but then …

Rumple: *winces* Sweetheart …

Belle: Not now darling, I think they should know don’t you? *Rumple shakes his head and Belle’s smile deepens* It’s really not all that bad. My husband the sorcerer just placed a couple of charms on them. They weren’t invasive. One was a health monitor which would detect if they were hurt or unwell. Another would detect if they were in danger. There was a locator charm but that only activated if either the health or danger monitor triggered. It wasn’t spying because he couldn’t check where they were at will; he was just making sure they were safe when they were on their own. The only mistake he made was … what was it Rumple?

Rumple: I didn’t talk with you about it first, and I didn’t explain it to Gideon and Nadia. Placing spells on anyone other than an enemy without asking permission isn’t allowed.

Belle: And what happened when we talked with them?

Rumple: *whispers* They agreed to the charms. Gideon’s condition was that we placed the same monitors on the two of us, and that both he and I were keyed into them. He has magic too and we all care for one another.

Belle: Exactly. *kisses him lovingly* See it all worked out. Your intention wasn’t wrong but …

Rumple: What we had was a failure to communicate.

TMI Tuesday

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Ask me about the show. Ask me anything about my fics, ask my characters anything. You can send me a word and if it’s in my WIP doc then I’ll post a teaser snippet. I accept prompts for any of my existing verses.

This week I posted:
– True Love Ways (RCIJ)

Ask Box

Masterlist

You could also ask me a question off any of these lists.

I actually posted something! I know don’t all faint in shock at once heh 🙂 It’s been a rollercoaster few months. I feel terrible about my WIP’s. Please rest assured I haven’t forgotten them. Nothing is going quite as planned at the moment. Anyway, please blow up my inbox if you feel like it. It’s fun 🙂