20 Caretaker Dialogue Prompts
1. “Hold on, we’re coming.”
2. “I won’t let you fall.”
3. “Hey, it’s me, it’s just me.”
4. “Oh god… what did they do to you?”
5. “Can you stay awake for me?”
6. “Who gave you permission to fall asleep?”
7. “I’m going to make that sick bastard suffer for what he did to you.”
8. “Don’t look” / “Look at me”
9. “Here, you might need something to bite on…”
10. “I thought I’d never get to see you again.”
11. “I know you can’t talk, but I just want you to know that I’m not going anywhere.”
12. “I’m not leaving you here!”
13. “Hold my hand.”
14. “You’re so cold…” / “You’re burning up”
15. “I know it hurts, I’m sorry.”
16. “I’ve got you.”
17. “Please be okay.”
18. “I’m sorry I failed you, I should’ve been there.”
19. “Just keep pressure on it.”
20. “Please don’t leave me, I can’t do this without you.”
Tag: fic meme
* sleep starters
- ‘ did you get any sleep last night? ’
- ‘ you need rest. ’
‘ you talk in your sleep. ’
‘ it’s four in the morning. why are you still up? ’
- ‘ i’ll be right here when you wake up. ’
‘ every time i close my eyes, i see it. over and over again. ’
‘ wake up! it’s only a dream! ’
- ‘ i have tea. will that help you sleep? ’
‘ i’m so tired… but i have to stay awake. ’
- ‘ it was just a dream? ’
‘ you need a nap. ’
- ‘ time for bed. no ifs, ands, or buts. ’
‘ it was just a dream. ’
‘ don’t worry. i’ll keep the monsters away tonight. ’
‘ if you don’t get some sleep soon, you’ll make yourself sick. ’
- ‘ you haven’t slept in days. do you want to talk about it? ’
- ‘ i had a bad dream. is it okay if i sleep in here? ’
- ‘ i’ll go to bed when i’m ready, so fuck off. ’
- ‘ i’m. not. sleepy. ’
‘ you’ll feel better after a good night’s sleep. ’
- ‘ could you stay with me – just until i fall asleep? ’
- ‘ there’s no one else here. it was all a bad dream. ’
- ‘ you’re spilling milk all over the table. ’
- ‘
c’mon, lazybones. you’ve slept enough. ’
ummmm for the fake title thing do ‘cold hearts brew colder songs’
God Idk I can’t help but think of a Rhack AU based on my icon (which is of snow king Jack) like maybe Rhys is just a young man working in a village, doing tasks outside in the woods and singing absently to himself, and snow king Jack ends up hearing the young man and is entranced by him, eventually kidnapping him to become his little songbird. But in the palace of ice and snow, Rhys won’t sing because he’s freezing and scared and wants to be back home, so Jack has to rethink his approach, get Rhys plenty of furs and comfortable bedding, and learn to treat him well if he wants to keep hearing Rhys sing….and of course they both end up growing fond of one another over time, Jack’s icy heart slowly starting to melt…
Fake story title: “And then he finally breathed”
Honestly the first thing that came to mind was like a scenario where Rhys is comatose or otherwise beyond medical help, completely insensate to the outside world and dead in almost every sense of the word. But of course there’s no way to tell someone like Handsome Jack that so he’s kept Rhys with machines breathing for him and cycling his blood and keeping him ostensibly “alive” just for the sake of Jack’s pride and memories.
Jack eventually has Rhys moved back into the penthouse, with all the machines and everything, and he busies himself with talking aloud to himself and pretending Rhys responds, as he makes sure the young man’s hair is cut the way he likes it, that it doesn’t get so long that Rhys doesn’t look like himself anymore. He cooks meals he knows Rhys won’t ever eat. No one comes by to check up on him because the only man who cared about him beyond slavish devotion, who could stand toe to toe with him atop Hyperion’s throne is lying still and silent in the bed.
And slowly Jack wastes away, mentally and physically, truly becoming the mad king he’d long been destined to be–until a miracle happens.
Until Rhys, without aid of machines, suddenly takes a breath.
Oh for the WIP guessing game how about… soft/softly?
The fic I posted from earlier where Jack is super high has one:
The internship program director was droning in his left ear, and the similarly sycophantic event coordinator was needling him on the right with a breathy tone that sounded like she was always on the verge of laughing. Jack swayed softly with the pulse of the colors running on the walls, eyes sweeping over the clustered tables of interns.
And two from “Forbidden Fruit”:
The colors were bizarre. The trees around them were long and fairly thin, streaked with various shades of green as if painted by an amateur artist. Blue leaves sprouted from their spiraling branches, which hung heavy with odd, bulbous looking shapes that dripped from the tree like huge droplets of sap. They glistening like soft amber, from some light source that seemed to come from all around above.
and:
They were bad little boys, for screwing around behind daddy’s back, but Jack would forgive them only because they looked so damn good doing it.
For a moment, Jack pretended he was Tim—easy as pie, considering they already shared a face, and the double belonged to him body and soul. He imagined burying himself deep into Rhys’ now-plump ass, digging his hands into his hips hard enough to leave marks as he fucked him into the soft grass of the forest floor.
*comes walking in* What about ‘blood’?
god there’s one for this OLD wip about a road trip w/ rhack that I badly still want to finish someday
For the first time since they stole away together, the difference in age between them feels solid, palpable to Rhys’ fingers and heavy on his tongue as it hangs in the air between them. Rhys cautiously moves through it like jelly when Jack beckons to him with the hand holding the knife. He sits in the shitty motel chair like a broken throne, backlight in a corona of flickering orange light. Rhys’ heart trembles every time the glow from the window flickers, never knowing which Jack sits before him now–the one he’d ran off with, their fingers laced full of promises, or the one who had days earlier vomited in the hot rain besides their car, the one who had swore violent to the skies and started the engine with the gouge on his face still dripping blood into his collar.
another segment from the same fic
The first thing Jack saw on the floor of the bathroom as he opened up the door were spots of red, flecked all over the flickering, off-white tiles. He creaks the door open wider to the reveal the sight of the sink—full of ice cubs and scattered needles striped in blood—and despite Jack’s buzz he feels his stomach plummet into his crotch, throwing open the door so hard that it cracks against the toilet.
“Rhys!”
Rhys was sitting up against the bathtub, knees drawn up to his chest and his arms thrown about his legs. Jack is already worked up into a panic at the sight and smell of blood, froth on his drunken lips as he hits the ground in front of Rhys, jeans smearing the red drops on the floor as he scrambles towards him, hands finding the man’s head and yanking it up to face him.
More from the AU where Rhys is kidnapped by bandits:
Jack wanted no survivors. He didn’t want to hear anything from their mouths aside from the gurgle of death as they choked on their own blood. He wanted them ground into savage dust. He wanted them strung up by their guts and hung around the compound like monstrous decorations. He wanted heads on pikes, limbs blown apart by explosive rounds. He wanted his rage splashed undeniable and unquenchable all over the smoking ruins of the filthy compound.
His forces blew through the buildings like a sandstorm of bullets, decimating flesh and fortress alike.
More from a future “Forbidden Fruit” installment:
Green blood sprayed up against Tim’s face as the creature collapsed, skidding to a halt on its side. He grimaced, wiping the fluid from his face into the beast’s fur before getting off of it and crouching down on his knees next to its flank. He flicked the knife, excess blood splattering against the ground. The creature was small, but still probably too heavy to carry back to the makeshift camp. Tim had eaten a couple of things on Elpis that he wasn’t proud of. So, he knew how to properly butcher a carcass.
The unpublished mob!AU fic also has plenty of blood (predictably enough):
The house is nice. The floor is fine and lacquered, hallways graced with portraits and paisley wallpaper.
He leaves it all bloody, stained with bodies in warning. The pleas of his target, the terror in his face does little to dispel the vile words and images now seared into Jack’s eyes. He blows the alpha’s skull out the back of his head to ensure Rhys never has to fear the advances of this monster ever again.
For the WIP meme: “Cold”
it appears in the first chapter of the potential longfic where Rhys gets kidnapped and badly tormented by bandits:
It had been brutal to wake up and go to bed each day with the sheets next to him cold, the mattress too light without the weight he’d grown used to. His dreams had been tormented by that last, final picture of Rhys, captured frozen in time in the security system’s camera. Looking over his shoulder, just an agonizing sliver of his face available. The thought that that could be the last he ever saw of his boyfriend’s face woke him from every scrap of sleep he managed to snatch from his pain and paranoia, leaving him a state staring up at the ceiling of his bedroom as if the flat shadows there held the balm to his suffering, the answers to where the hell Rhys was and, more importantly, who had taken him. What they had done to him.
But this morning, he’d woke from the horrific dreams that burned so bad he could feel it in his scar to the ECHO on his nightstand blaring.
The team he’d designated to comb Pandora for signs of Rhys’ had come up with something.
Also the BL3 speculative Rhysothy/Rhack/Jackothy fic where Tim and Rhys are working for Atlas on Promethea but are tempted by the AI remnants Rhys has clung onto:
Tim sees the ring from the very first time Rhys’ shakes his hand and welcomes him aboard Atlas.
He notices it idly, the way he notices the strands of hair on Rhys’ forehead that seem both unplanned and errant, the asymmetrical stripe of his pants, or the sharp intelligent curve of Rhys’ brow. Pieces of a whole new opportunity for him put together in the form of a lithe man who grins and welcomes him with little hesitation despite the undeniable face he still wears.
He feels something slightly cold against his palm and breaks eye contact with Rhys ever so briefly to look down at their joined hands, and that when he sees it for the first time—a silver band, inlaid with something circular and intricate and Tim swears, softly glowing blue, though perhaps that’s only in the cool light of the Atlas facility.
“It’s super great to have you on the team, Timothy,” Rhys brings his attention back up with the name, and Tim smiles, because it has been so long since he’s heard his name on anyone’s lips but his own.
There’s also this small fic with Jaxen and his parents that idk if I’ll finish, but here:
There was something oddly comforting about the cool, manufactured air that kissed Jaxen’s lips as soon as he exited the transport into the massive, echoing hangar.
Maybe it was just because the air on Tantalus was scorching and difficult and sometimes full of more sand than oxygen. Or maybe it was because Jaxen had spent eighteen years of his life breathing nothing but the re-circulated air humming through Helios and even if felt cold and artificial to others it breathed the warm feeling of home through the young omega’s body.
His parents hadn’t known that he was coming, and they hadn’t accidentally figured it out if the still screen of his ECHOcomm was any indication.
Lastly, an old mob!AU fic:
He and Rhys had spent the last several weeks carefully combing through and decrypting the majority of his father’s old files, scouring his computer and any errant drives they could find for information that the former boss may have hidden that may prove useful to consolidating and spreading Rhys’ power and influence. Rhys did his fair share, but the omega often went to bed earlier than his bodyguard, leaving Jack awake, trusting him to share anything interesting that he found in his father’s locked databases the next morning.
Jack swore this would be the only time he would break Rhys’ trust.
For the things he had found in a hidden file labeled “Suitors” held something that had sent shivers of horror and rage up the usually unflappable man’s spine. Waves of disgust and anger had twisted deep into his stomach, filling him with a pained, anxious energy that eventually drove him out into the cold with the resolute pressure of his pistols strapped beneath his coat.
SEND ME A SHIP AND A NUMBER AND I’LL WRITE A SHORT FIC
- soulmates au
- childhood best friends au
- teacher/student au
- teacher/single parent au
- one night stand and falling pregnant au
- meeting at a coffee shop au
- fake relationship au
- roommates au
- meeting online au
- high school popular kid/nerd au
- partners in crime au
- writer and editor au
- co-stars au
- lab partners au
- meeting in the E.R/A&E au
- brand new neighbours au
- meeting at a party whilst drunk au
- waking up with amnesia au
- parents meeting when they take their kids to class au
- dysfunctional relationship au
- best friends sibling au
- two miserable people meeting at a wedding au
- meeting on a train ride au
- literally bumping into each other au
- librarian/avid reader au
- sitting on the same park bench au
- meeting at a support group au
- knocking on the wrong door au
- going away to war au
- tourist/knowledgeable local au
- prostitute/client au
- doctor/companion au
- celebrity/fan au
- meeting at a masquerade ball au
- one of them trying to get the other one off of drugs au
- living in a society where their love is taboo au
- meeting in prison au
- cop/person getting a speeding ticket au
- long distance relationship au
- exes meeting again after not speaking for years au
- ghost/living person au
- star-crossed lovers au
- falling in love with their best friend’s partner au
- one of them being diagnosed with a terminal illness au
- pretending to hate each other au
- nanny/single parent au
- meeting at a festival au
- meeting again at a high school reunion au
- boss/intern au
- going through a divorce au
send me a pairing and a number and i’ll write you a drabble
- “Come over here and make me.”
- “Have you lost your damn mind!?”
- “Please, don’t leave.”
- “Do you…well…I mean…I could give you a massage?”
- “Wait a minute. Are you jealous?”
- “Is there a reason you’re naked in my bed?”
- “I almost lost you.”
- “Wanna bet?”
- “Don’t you ever do that again!”
- “Teach me how to play?”
- “Don’t you dare throw that snowba-, goddammit!”
- “I think we need to talk.”
- “Kiss me.”
- “Hey, I’m with you, okay? Always.”
- “So, I found this waterfall…”
- “It could be worse.”
- “Looks like we’ll be trapped for a while…”
- “This is without a doubt the stupidest plan you’ve ever had. Of course I’m in.”
- “The paint’s supposed to go where?”
- “You need to wake up because I can’t do this without you.”
- “We’re in the middle of a thunderstorm and you wanna stop and feel the rain?”
- “I’ve seen the way you look at me when you think I don’t notice.”
- “Just once.”
- “You’re the only one I trust to do this.”
- “I can’t believe you talked me into this.”
- “I got you a present.”
- “I’m pregnant.”
- “Marry me?”
- “I thought you were dead.”
- “It’s not what it looks like…”
- “You lied to me.”
- “I think I’m in love with you and I’m terrified.”
- “Please don’t do this.”
- “If you keep looking at me like that we won’t make it to a bed.”
- “You heard me. Take. It. Off.”
- “I wish I could hate you.”
- “Wanna dance?”
- “You fainted…straight into my arms. You know, if you wanted my attention you didn’t have to go to such extremes.”
- “Hey! I was gonna eat that!”
- “Have I entered an alternate universe or did you really just crack a smile for me?”
- “You did all of this for me?”
- “I swear it was an accident.”
- “YOU DID WHAT?!”
- “If you die, I’m gonna kill you.”
- “Tell me a secret.”
- “Hey, have you seen the..? Oh.”
- “No one needs to know.”
- “Boo.”
- “Well this is awkward…”
- Writer’s preference
Please send me prompts
NOW is the time xD I’ll regret this since I’m busy right now BUT THATS WHY IM DOING IT xD send me a pairing (or not or whatevs xD) number and let’s do this shit >_> it’ll give me a quick refresh and practice in being short and sweet 🙂 …I’ll try to do whatever pairing y’all send in but be forewarned, y’all know what I write and my comfort zones hahha
10, 11, 13, 14!
already answered the first two!
13. Has a fic ever made you cry?
God yeah definitely, the ones off the top of my head are:
- December Tragedies for Hetalia
- Red Sky at Dawn for Homestuck, which in retrospect isn’t that sad but it did make me cry like hell back when I read it (i was emotional atm)
- Radical for Nightvale, same as above in that it’s not too sad looking back but when I first red it i cried like someone died
- Warm Is Still the Air in the Garden for Borderlands, I’ve all but pushed this fic in people’s faces but I don’t care, it’s perfect and hits all the right angst buttons but also makes me hurt in the best of ways because it’s just so right for their relationship
14. What tropes/elements/scenarios get you the worst?
Character death but it has to be written in a certain cathartic way. All of the above fics aren’t just sad, they’re also somewhat introspective and tend to hint to something….more then just plain angst.