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[donutsweeper]

mad_jaks  and I recently were discussing fic titles and how sometimes two totally different stories in two totally different fandoms wind up with the same title, so she came up with a meme idea:

Give me a title and I shall write a snippet for it in several different fandoms of my choosing.

Come play!  You know you want to!

Comments

[snufflesdbear.livejournal.com]

The Cat in the Hat (since you already did Winnie the Pooh - unless you'd do a Poohish Torchwood???)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh, I meant for the title to be what the final story would be called, not for a crossover. I'll clarify in the original post.

[kaylashay81]

Here's four different ones that I accidently ended up with a theme for...

(1) Curiosity Killed The...
(2) It's Not the Fall that Kills You
(3) The Killer in Me
(4) Killing Time

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, this sounds like a fun one!

Like Swallowing Glass (Only Nicer)

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

Should I give you a bunch of song titles and see what you do with them? Or should I play nice and think of something random?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Whatever you like. I'll try to come up with several snippets for one of the titles

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

random snippets from different stories with the title "Killing Time":

NCIS (last three lines)

"We did it, Boss." Tony sighed, exhausted. "We got him."

"Yeah, we did," Gibbs agreed, grabbing the reports off the printer. "Make sure the i's are dotted and the t's crossed. He's not getting out of this one. Not this time."


Supernatural (first three lines)

"You find us a case yet, Sam?"

"Nope. Dude, it's weird. There's nothing out there, no demon activity, no unexplained animal attacks, not even a simple haunting. It's like it all just.. stopped."

"Well, that can't be good."

Highlander (a bit from the middle)

Duncan tested the bars again. The middle one seemed a little looser now. Another few weeks and he might just get out of here. With renewed vigor he began working on it again.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Okay, NCIS

Tony bit back the retort that was on the tip of his tongue. Petty Officer Third Class Tommy Jensen wouldn't respond, a Petty Officer probably wouldn't even think there was anything wrong. "Yes, Sir." He licked his lips. "Of course, Sir," he said before picking up the gun. Gibbs would be here before he'd have to use it. He was sure of it.


Torchwood

The rift monitors were screaming. "Talk to me, Tosh!" Jack called out over the din.

"I don't know what came through, but whatever it is, it's big!"

"Feed the coordinates through, when you get them!" Jack grabbed his coat. "Gwen, Owen, you're with me!"


Leverage

"It's a simple con," Nate explained, leaning on the back of the chair. "We just need to convince them there's no downside to their plan and we're willing to give them a hand."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute." Hardison held up a hand. "You want us to help them distribute weakened vaccinations?"

"Nate, you can't mean that!" Sophie jumped in.

"Did I say that?" Nate smiled.

[kaylashay81]

Oh Fun!

The one I want to know the most about from this now is poor Duncan! Is he all alone and trapped? Just in some old jail cell trying to get out? Or something more?? Maybe the Hunters captured him... Oh my!

And poor Dean and Sam... There's nothing supernatural for them... poor boys. And of course, that means it is hinky.

Gibbs. Tony. Just an average day at NCIS. Or was it? Just who did they catch? Hopefully the reason Duncan's trying to escape from behind bars wasn't because Tony and Gibbs dotted those i's and crossed those t's. :-)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I've never actually written HL before, but I did watch it (years ago)

It was fun writing them though, glad you liked them!

[kaylashay81]

I guess you could say that Highlander was my first fandom... I was hooked on the show until they killed Richie at the end of Season 5.

It was also the first show I read fanfiction for. I found Highlander stuff and then a Highlander/Buffy crossover and the rest is history after that because I found TTH and the wonderful world of crossovers which eventually led to NCIS via a Supernatural / Dark Angel crossover.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I never understood the reasons behind killing Richie off. Never.

Ah, crossovers. When done well they are the absolute best thing!

[kaylashay81]

I never understood it either...

The only other show that topped Highlander for me on the "senseless" death category was the last few episodes that ended Forever Knight. When they killed everyone but Lacroix by the time the show ended. *sigh*

Crossovers are my ultimate love, even if NCIS pure fic has taken up residence for me.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh god yes. I was just discussing Forever Knight with someone after I wrote a Janette drabble for halfamoon- just AUGH how could they do that?

[kaylashay81]

Here was my one FK fic that I crossed over with BtVS.

I hated the way FK wiped everyone out over a few eps. I was watching them as the originally aired... :-(

[kaylashay81]

And the link because I forgot to paste:
http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-11280

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Well, they did have a history of killing people *sighs over Schanke and Cohen's deaths in S2) but yes- HOW COULD THEY END THAT WAY

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*snickers mightily at fic*

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

OH HIghlander YAY!!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

:) for a snippet I can manage it. Not for a story though.

[kaylashay81]

You know... I hadn't looked at this since my NCIS addiction started and now this line begs for a follow-up:

“I know Will, but where else can I meet hot women cops who want to frisk me?” His mouth turned upwards as his family gave him playful hits and his family settled in for a night of bonding and holiday cheer.

The question is... should Ziva, Kate or, heck, even Tony be the one to frisk him... :-)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Ziva might be a bit too.. overenthusiastic for him

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Hmmm now I *know* we have radically different styles when it comes to titling things - and I'm tempted to give you some of my own more mathematical ones but that would just be mean...

Ooh I know

1) Getting Better
2) Not Waving but Drowning
3) Luck in the Shadows

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

oh poop!

[kaylashay81]

He might flashback to Anya with Ziva. :-)

Kate would be all professional while he stood there smirking from Tony's color commentary coming from the side.

Gibbs would probably head slap at the end and he would get an indignant look on his face and say, "I could file harassment charges for that you know." Gibbs would give him the "look" and he would back down and mumble, "Just saying..."

Tony would be talking the whole time. "Is that eye patch the real deal? Must have been some woman to take your eye with her."

"Wasn't a woman. The women in my life are more for evisceration than eye gouging. It was a priest."

"Must have been a hell of a confession. Care to share?"