five acts meme

[ndnickerson]

This is straight from the post:

Based on the community five_acts (check it out for more details!), we're going to have a week of indulging each other's favourite kinks, tropes, acts and pairings. Amazingly, we are up to Round Six. In a nutshell, what we do is:

+ Post a list of your five favorite acts/kinks to read about. Check out this list if you need some inspiration. At the bottom of your post, add what fandoms/pairings you're interested in.
+ Read other people's lists; the master list of lists is here.
+ Post comment-fic based off of other people's interests.

Once you've posted your list at your journal, post it in the comments on this post so other people can find it.




My favorite acts/kinks:

-Bonds of a mental nature/telepathy: I especially love this in fandoms where it would be AU. Or fandoms where it isn't. Hell, practically all fandoms.
-First times (first time between two individuals; losing virginity/cherry; first time doing a particular act)
-Hurt/comfort (emotional and/or physical, including torture of all kinds and degrees, and any form of caretaking)
-Emotional themes, emo-kink (angst; wallows; darkfic; emotional damage; psychological trauma; tragic pasts; broken characters; guilt and shame; mental instability; sadness and grief; abandonment or fear of same; characters who can't go home again; fear in general; nightmares; loneliness; broken-heartedness; failure; insecurity; self-hatred; self-mutilation such as secret cutting; suicide; see also Insanity)
-Protectiveness (physically or verbally defending someone; caretaking in general; bodyguard scenarios; mysterious benefactors or protectors)

My fandoms/pairings:

-Chuck - Chuck/Sarah
-Community - Jeff/Annie
-Jane Eyre - Jane/Rochester
-Justified - Raylan/Winona
-Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Goren/Eames
-Legend of the Seeker - Richard/Kahlan
-Lois & Clark - Lois Lane/Clark Kent
-Mad Men - Peggy/Father Gill, Don/Betty
-Nancy Drew - Nancy Drew/Ned Nickerson
-Perry Mason - Perry/Della
-Star Trek: The Next Generation - Riker/Troi
-Veronica Mars - Veronica/Duncan

Comments

Re: No Apologies (2/3) | Justified | Raylan/Winona - Protectiveness

[norgbelulah.livejournal.com]

The sound of the slap resounded through the room with a satisfying crack. Her hand stung, but she barely felt it. She raised her hand again.

This time, he stopped her easily, catching her wrist in an unyielding grip, looking at her like she was some kind of exotic animal on an unexplainable rampage. “You son of a bitch,” she spat, unable to tear her wrist away.

“Forgive me for relying on the traditional cliche by way of explanation for this behavior, Miss Hawkins,” he said quietly. She could sense anger in his eyes, but it didn’t show yet in his expression. “But I’m at a loss, save for a imbalance of hormones, as to what you are doing here or why you would strike me like that.”

Winona glared, feeling all the anger she’d taken to bed with her, that she’d let roil in her through the night, through fitful sleep and half-remembered dreams, rise up in her again. She heard someone cocking a weapon behind her. Funnily enough, she didn’t care at all in that moment.

“Oh, fuck you, Boyd,” she spat and found the strength to wrench her arm away. She backed up a step and glared at him. “You gonna let him point a weapon at a pregnant woman?”

“Put it away, Johnny,” Boyd looked over her shoulder like he’d just noticed. “She’s not armed. This woman,” he said meeting Winona’s eyes again, smirking like he knew her, “is the kind of woman, only carries a gun when someone puts it in her hands.”

Winona ground her teeth and made herself say what she came to. “You’re a fucking liar, Boyd Crowder.”

“That’s not the first accusation of that kind that’s been laid against me, Miss Hawkins. It won’t be the last.” He smiled as he said it and she wanted to kick his teeth in.

“You know what I’m talking about.”

Now he let his brows furrow for half a second, but he cleared them quickly and said, “Now, I’m sure this must be about Raylan, seeing as he’s your only tie to Harlan or any establishment such as mine, but--”

She’d had enough of his shit. “You said you were his friend, Boyd. You bastard. You-you worry about him--or you pretended to--about the goddamn gunshot wound and then you do something like that to him.” Winona spat at his feet and she saw his eyes go wide in tempered fury. “Might as well have stabbed him in the back.”

Boyd’s voice was soft as death when he spoke. “What did Raylan tell you?”

“What happened,” she returned. “He don’t know I ever met you, Boyd. Why would he try and make you out to be worse than you are? He told me what you did. Kept his father in your crew, made it look like his hands were dirty as yours, set that man after--”

Boyd moved forward then, grabbing at her arm and giving her a shake, like he didn’t know what else to do with her. His eyes were blazing, almost hypnotizing in their intensity. “I didn’t put that gun in Arlo’s hand,” Boyd hissed. “I didn’t want him anywhere near there.”

Re: No Apologies (3/3) | Justified | Raylan/Winona - Protectiveness

[norgbelulah.livejournal.com]

“Arlo didn’t know it wasn’t Raylan,” Winona said softly, not trying to pull away from him now. “Raylan said as much to me. He said Arlo told everyone he was protecting you. You put him in that position. You ingratiated yourself with a man who never did anything good for Raylan. Your friend--”

“I put him in prison, too,” Boyd cried, pushing her away. She fell into a table a step away, not hard, but enough they were both staring at each other with wide eyes, breathing hard. “That was a thing Raylan never managed to do.”

“But you call him family in the process? You tell Raylan the only father he’ll ever have, who never loved him, loves you enough to kill his own son? What kind of a monster are you?” Winona clutched at the table top, finding she needed its support. She had come here to upbraid Boyd, to shame him for what he’d done. But seeing it didn’t make her feel better, now all she had in her was Raylan’s sadness, that he wouldn’t ever let anyone share.

Boyd pulled out a chair, sat down on it in front of her like he’d been on his feet for a whole day. “I’m the kind of monster only comes out of Harlan County, Winona,” he said quietly.

She didn’t know what to say to that, so she sat down too.

He looked up at her and she wished his eyes didn’t look so honest. He leaned forward on his knees and clasped his hands together like some kind of philosopher, or priest. Winona didn’t trust herself not to believe whatever he was going to say.

“I said those things, regardless of whether I meant them, because they wouldn’t believe I hadn’t threatened Arlo, otherwise. They could still try me for murder. There’s more evidence against me than there is against him.” He paused and looked at her seriously, tilting his head and saying, “I seem to remember telling you that night, I’m Raylan’s friend when he will let me be and when circumstances allow. Yesterday and today, perhaps tomorrow as well, they do not.”

She sniffed indelicately and hated herself. She hated him too, though less now than she had this morning. She didn’t want to carry his sadness with her, as well as Raylan’s.

He smiled again, soft now, and rather lovely. “What are you doin’ away from him?” Boyd asked, not bothering to tell her how he’d even known. “You love him so much.”

Tears sprang to Winona’s eyes and she sucked up a breath of air. He looked at her, clearly astounded and about to say something like an apology, but she laughed brokenly and said, “Here’s your fuckin’ hormones, asshole.”

He was kind enough not to comfort her as she wept.

Re: No Apologies (3/3) | Justified | Raylan/Winona - Protectiveness

[ndnickerson.livejournal.com]

ooh, very nice. i do want to believe that despite everything else, winona would stand up for raylan... sigh. and your version of boyd is so calmly self-assured, too. just like the real one. ;)