From emeriin. :)

[ladyofleithian]

Give me a character or pairing and a poem (or a few lines of poetry - your own or someone else's and song lyrics totally count), and I will write you a ficlet based on it.




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[girlofavalon.livejournal.com]

Anakin; Lithium

Set in the RR-verse again, if that's okay. (1/2)

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Lithium- don't want to lock me up inside
lithium- don't want to forget how it feels without
lithium- I want to stay in love with my sorrow
oh but God I want to let it go

He could still feel his father's agony radiating through the Force. Even thinking about it was enough to make him near sick. If anything, he couldn't help but feel more than a little guilty

I must have made a mistake leaving him on Bespin

and even Jar-Jar's help

letting him hide out with him and Wedge and watch B-holos

didn't quite help. Not only that, but the emptiness was near-palpable. He'd lost more than his hand at Cloud City

though that was bad enough

he'd lost his innocence. Lost his soul.

He hated Vader sometimes. Honest to gods hated him. Vader had taken his hand, tortured his friends, killed innocents

killed my people...

killed Jedi

and yet, somehow, the more he learned about Vader, the more -- oddly -- sympathetic he felt towards him.

I shouldn't be feeling this way...

Anakin sighed, switched the lights off. Somehow, he doubted it could ever truly make sense. Jar-Jar and Wedge were sleeping soundly, damn them -- going to sleep was going to be a pain, to put it mildly.

Sleeping brought dreaming.

And dreaming brought agony. Vader's agony. Burning on Mustafar -- even if Lumiya had saved him from permanent physical injury

or worse

she'd still condemned him to a fate worse than death.



come to bed, don't make me sleep alone
couldn't hide the emptiness you let it show
never wanted it to be so cold
just didn't drink enough to say you love me

I can't hold on to me
wonder what's wrong with me


Did she love him? It was hard to think of the Empress as capable of love. And yet...

Anakin shut his eyes. To hell with the pain; at least in dreaming, he'd get some degree of peace. Some peace of mind from his racing heart and the feelings of guilt that threatened to eat away at him, eat him alive

Vader's son

what have you done, Anakin? what have you done?

And somehow, Anakin doubted he'd ever truly know what he'd done. Ever.

Re: Set in the RR-verse again, if that's okay. (2/2)

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

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Lithium- don't want to lock me up inside
lithium- don't want to forget how it feels without
lithium- I want to stay in love with my sorrow
oh...



Darth Vader felt sick.

It was another one of those dreams about Mara, about Han -- he couldn't remember the details, if only because the most prominent detail right now was the feeling of stabbing pain in his skull, the dizziness, the ache and need like a spice addict in withdrawal. Force, it hurt.

It was only when he'd managed to take a step out of Bast Castle, look at the night sky, that he realized what it was about. It was about Mara. Her trying to sway him away from the Dark Side. And the Dark Side, tugging him faster and deeper into its depths even as he tried to hold onto her. And Han and Anakin, trying to save him, trying to cut the bonds...

Vader had to suppress a sigh. Sweet mother of Corellia, I'm an idiot... It was after that that he realized another thing: he was painfully thirsty.

But even that didn't help. Still shaken by the dream, his body seemed to be trying to reject any semblance of nourishment, any semblance of hydration. It was only then that he sat on one of the comfortable chairs in Bast Castle, trying to reach into the Darkness, to draw the Dark Side deeper into himself, anything to make the noise and the nausea stop...


Don't want to let it lay me down this time
drown my will to fly
here in the darkness I know myself
can't break free until I let it go
let me go

And somehow, it worked. He continued to draw on his memories of slaughtering the Vong, of ridding the galaxy of their taint, of ridding the galaxy of its false deity that sought to enslave them

where are you now, Father? something deep in him taunted. where are you now?

of Lumiya. And finally, he managed to reach the memory of Anakin.



Darling, I forgive you after all
anything is better than to be alone
and in the end I guess I had to fall
always find my place among the ashes

I can't hold on to me
wonder what's wrong with me


Tried to picture the boy as his alone, ruling the galaxy with him. Teaching him, giving him the love he starved for

that they both starved for

and somehow...

Somehow, the memories of Anakin hurt

Force, they burned hotter than ever

but they no longer had the power to affect him.

In fact

oh Force

they felt good.

More than good.

They felt...wonderful.

I'll find you, Anakin. I'll find you. And together...we can wreak vengeance on those who have harmed us.



Lithium- don't want to lock me up inside
lithium- don't want to forget how it feels without
lithium stay in love you
oh I am gonna let it go

[luvjoi]

Critic No Fear

[wyncatastrophe.livejournal.com]

Memes that result in fic? Wyn Says Yes. And steals. And also, because I am kinda evil:

Choose either Mace Windu or Han Solo, and use these song lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/moody+blues/nights+in+white+satin_20095762.html

Okay, I'm totes off to steal this meme now …