OMG, snippet party...

[sweetprince]

I've been having so much trouble finishing my fics, so you know what that means? Gimme some prompts and I'll reply with snippets. Any fandom I've participated in, although only AU prompts for J2. You can even request bits from this crazy Gladiator fic that I will never finish below...

He’s Suione. The man in the ring. Tall, with his blond hair shorn short. Nate doesn’t understand anything about the games, but he knows the Suione is good. He clips the Baktrian fighter in the jaw with the hilt of his sword and then dumps him in the sand. The crowd roars and the Suione bends down and rips out his throat, raising up again with crimson stained fists. Nate drops his eyes, and when he raises them up again he finds the Suione staring right into his box, gaze arrowing straight through him.

“Is he looking at me?” Nate’s sister breathes, grabbing at his elbow. “He’s so strong and graceful in form.”

“Could be,” Nate says softly, unable to look away from Brad.

*

Nate agrees with great reluctance to go with his friends to the Ludus Magnus. He’s never had much stomach for gladiators, but Servillius and Clodius won’t stop badgering him until he agrees to come. Nate sighs, and allows himself to be dragged out.

The ludus is saturated with the smell of sweat. They’re quickly shown the gallery by a circumspect slave, and Clodius and Servillius laugh and joke with each other, wondering if the Barbarian’s even had the facility to speak. Nate’s only half paying attention, but he doesn’t know why he’s surprised to see the Suione, running through forms in the practice ring with a wooden sword. He stops, watching the way the Suione’s muscles bunch and shift under his oiled skin.

“I see that the Suione has caught the young tribune’s eye,” the master of the ludus says, he sticks his tongue in his cheek and turns to the slave, “Summon Brad.”

Nate colors. “No, please, I importune you not to…”

His protests fall on deaf ears.

-More Winery!AU for pjvilar (from this story Here)
-Horrible First Date (from FBI!Nate/Cop!Brad 'verse) for amberlynne
-More Gladiator!Brad and Tribune!Nate for alethialia
-Sci-Fi AU: AI Brad for oxoniensis
-Brad/Nate, hottest day of the year for soul_cake_duck
-High School AU, Brad in military school for strangie
-More Gladiator!AU for melloniel
-Winery!AU: Brad's History for bijoux
-Brad/Nate Pre-Kuwait, Pre-Slash for jujubinha
-Brad/Nate, Cuddly Bear for tikiaceae

Comments

[pjvilar.livejournal.com]

OK, either:

Nate/Brad + any, Model!AU, Nate reveals a little more of his backstory

or

Nate/Brad, Vineyard!AU, playing ball with the dogs

I got laid off today, really, anything will make me so very happy. You could write about Nate buying a pack of gum, whatever works.

[amberlynne.livejournal.com]

Not even going to pretend that I haven't been waiting patiently for another one of these so I could say:

The awesome (or horrible!) first date of cop!Brad and FBI!Nate!

Please :)

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

OMG GLADIATOR!BRAD! Yay! Also, poor Nate's gotta learn to keep a poker face. Bless.

You could...continue that, if you were inspired. Or the vineyard AU! We loves that. Or cop!Brad and FBI!Nate.

(Btw, I think you repeated the last two sentences of the first paragraph in this post.)

[oxoniensis.livejournal.com]

The vision of Brad as a gladiator! Guh. And oh, so love Nate as a young tribune!

Prompt: sci-fi Brad/Nate, in which Brad's an artificial intelligence, and Nate's in love with him!

[xtinethepirate.livejournal.com]

FIREFLY.

Mal and Jayne (or Mal/Jayne if you prefer). How Mal got that tattoo on his hip.

[soul_cake_duck]

Yay!

Um, Brad/Nate, stuck somewhere because of bad weather? Oooh, Brad (or Rays) thoughts on this!

[melloniel.livejournal.com]

fjweif;jsdlkfh;FKLDJSLA;KDF GLADIATOR FIC OH MY GODDDD. Amber sent me this way but you are my new favorite person EVER for that.

More please. *___*

[jujubinha.livejournal.com]

HOLY CRAP YOU WROTE ANCIENT ROME GK AU! With Gladiator!Brad and Tribune!Nate!

I love you. No, seriously. My love for anything and everything Ancient Rome knows no bound, I'm not even kidding.

I'd love to read anything from your GK!AUs. Maybe the vineyard? That was so interesting... Or the cops/feds. Or the models. OR ALL OF THE ABOVE. :P

[strangie.livejournal.com]

Generation Kill, Brad/Nate, Brad is sent to military school and meets Nate.

[bijoux.livejournal.com]

!!! for Gladiator AU.

Also, why do I have no ideas? *racks brain*

Erm, more Winery AU, but maybe they take a roadtrip somewhere/tour the fields and we get more Brad backstory? That or the winery is in financial trouble and Brad has difficulty leaning on others for help. (Random, but I'm wondering how painful/dirty it would be if they had sex outdoors in the vineyard... have you written this yet? I can't remember)

[2ndary-author.livejournal.com]

Ditto the model!verse request. It's so rare to see Nate as the one with the mystery background....

[kashmir1.livejournal.com]

Um, I'm always up for Brad/Nate genderfuck. I... really don't have more than that right now. Or maybe Brad and Nate BOTH get turned into girls/were always girls?

[starlurker.livejournal.com]

I hope you allow lurkers to play! Generation Kill with occupation switch: Lt. Brad Colbert and Sgt. Nate Fick in the first OIF.

[tikiaceae.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Brad/Nate, please! Where one of them looks after the other in small ways without that person realising it. Or tries to look after the other without being noticed. \o/

[snarkaddict.livejournal.com]

I second or third the call for Gladiator!Brad! ♥_♥ Also, I love that there's still this class divide between them in this AU.

[snglesrvngfrend.livejournal.com]

I was told I should totally come play!

Brad/Nate, after everything, Brad comes to a signing for Nate's book, and there's enough UST to choke a horse. Or a very healthy Marine.

[passionofmind.livejournal.com]

Late to the party as always, but I'm completely in ♥ with your GK model!AU. Any thing about Nate from that 'verse would be adored.

[aboutademongirl.livejournal.com]

Nate. Brad. Nate's cramming and Brad's not bitching at him to get back over here, the bed's getting cold. My imagination's run off with my brain, I have a categorically-refusing-to-bend-y spoon, and no one is running away with the moon.

[passionofmind.livejournal.com]

I really liked this. Like a lot.

hustler!Nate is hotlikefire.

[madgebettany.livejournal.com]

These snippets are incredible--as in I am incredulous that anyone could create so many different WORLDS simultaneously at such speed. Thanks for sharing your talents.

Love the fic

[sahaqiel-sky.livejournal.com]

I really enjoy your fanfics, especially this one, because I'm actually a Healdsburg native. I know it's dorky but I still get excited when I read a fic and go: "Hey, I know where that place is!" I used to love the Flying Goat when I was a kid. Anyway, thank you for making the world a better place with Nate/Brad fic goodness.

High School AU snippet is AWEsome

[(Anonymous)]

Brad in military school? Not gay but there just being something about Nate?
I love it!
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