srs2012 | Bonus Round 1

You better promise me I’ll be back in time...

Welcome to our official bonus round one. Bonus Round 0 is now officially closed! Don’t worry, though – BR0.5 is open for one more week alongside this round. This time, the theme is historical settings.

If you have an idea for something you’d like to see, please leave a time period, the characters involved and any other details as a PROMPT below. Then read through everyone else’s prompts, and leave a FILL for any which catch your eye. Fills can be in any media, and they need not be long, but please put a little effort in – if anyone starts spamming this post for points, we’ll be able to tell.

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Remember, Team Chuck can participate in bonus rounds, and if you change teams, points earned will transfer with you until the end of the team shuffle period.

Edit: This round is now closed. You may still leave fills if you wish to, but no further points will be awarded.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

At the biggest dance of the season, someone is ruined and someone else elopes. London is delighted to have two such scandals on its hands.

(Not sure this is exactly what you wanted, but I hope you like it all the same.)

"Apparently, we are 'a symbol of the moral degradation of this age'."

Charlotte groans. This is not her first night sleeping on silk sheets, but she doesn't think she'll ever be accustomed to the feeling, and she'd like a few more moments to relish it before being dragged back into the world of gossip her other half so enjoys. "Are we now."

"Oh yes. 'Decadent'. 'Flagrantly sinful', even." There's a rustle of fabric, presumably from the extra swish Bela does when she crosses her legs when she's feeling particularly pleased with herself. Why she's wearing any clothes at all, Charlotte doesn't know.

She hears a fwip of paper turning, then, and after that a protracted silence, broken only by the sounds of the town below their window. That's not right. Bela should still be gloating, even if it means interrupting Charlotte's sleep. She sits up, pushing her hair away from her face, and turns to see her lover looking pale in the firelight, where earlier she had been rosy-cheeked, flushed with success.

Charlotte can only read a little, for all that Bela has tried to teach her (she does better with her hands, with locks and doors and dark places and secrets), but she can guess who the article's sympathies are being given to.

She stands, tamping down the rage that threatens to end in broken objects (probably the delicate vase on the bedside table, but it's Bela's aunt's, she mustn't, she must show respect here), and moves to kneel beside her. "What else does it say?"

"That he's been ruined. That he has nothing left, and that they hope the law finds me and returns to him everything that is rightfully his."

Charlotte's lips thin into a line. "They won't."

"No, of course not. The arm of the British government hardly extends as far as the Dordogne, not for a merchant without the money to pay them."

But the snap to her voice says otherwise. Charlotte knows better than to hold her, not when her father is the subject of conversation, even now they're here, but she does reach out a hand. It settles on Bela's shoulder, light as anything, and after several long moments, she reaches out to take the paper, too. Bela lets her, and she takes it as permission to throw the damned thing on the fire where it belongs.

"He is ruined," she tells her mistress, her lover, her everything as she moves to curl beside her once more. "And you are free."

Bela's exhale sounds almost like a sigh. It takes time- a long time- before she relaxes beneath Charlotte's touch, before she can be coaxed back under the sheets, but the smile on her face when she finally does lights up the room.

Bonus Round 1

PROMPT: Any, Regency AU (Team MotW)

FILL: Bela/Charlie, Regency AU (Team Castiel/Dean/Gabriel/Sam)