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To join the battle, all you need to do is pick a prompt from below (any prompt, even if it's your own) and write/vid/manip/icon/draw/whatever the most creative bit of whatever you can create! And remember - PLEASE feel free to vid or icon or manip or do something non-written. We love ALL kinds of creative output equally!

When you've written/painted/made it, paste it into the comments here. Once you've done that, you can post it wherever else you want.

You may enter as many times as you like, so long as each entry is completely separate (not a series of linked pieces). Also, please do not link to old work - this should be something new, produced for the challenge, based on one of the prompts.

THE RULES

1. It must fit in one comment, so the limit is 4,300 characters (there's no minimum limit). It can be part of a longer piece that you may post elsewhere, as long as it's something new and based on one of the prompts, but all we want here is the part that you are most proud of. If you make art, if it's larger than 350 px wide, please use a thumbnail linking directly to the piece (directly to the artwork, not a post or site). The thumbnail can be up to 350 px wide, and 300 px high, and should include as much of the art as possible. If it is a vidlet or something else requiring dowloading, like a fanmix, please post the link to where we can download. Feel free to post a teaser image, but please confine yourself to the artwork preview rules.

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The prompts using only one character were listed first, followed by the prompts for more than one character. ALL crossovers are under both fandoms, so you don't need to worry about looking in multiple places for your crossovers - those listed under Smallville are the same listed under Supernatural, if you are looking for prompts for a Smallville/Supernatural crossover.

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Thank you kindly!

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He should have taken an umbrella.

He should have taken an umbrella but he'd only remembered it was raining when he was half way to the exit and if he'd gone back it would have ruined the drama of the thing. You can't storm out and then storm back in thirty seconds later, it's just not done. So he's outside in his shirt-sleeves, light blue cotton slowly staining dark, hands shoved in pockets, stomping along the sidewalk with water dripping from the end of his nose. That's just one more thing to add to the shopping-list of annoyances that he's already feeling. Goddamn it, he doesn't even know where he's going. His wallet is snug and dry on the counter and it's too far to walk to his apartment. So he makes a left and then another left and then another one and he's circling the building like some kind of very irritated bird of prey. He wonders if he seethes enough the water will start to steam off his body. He really hopes so.

It's on his fifth lap of the building that he starts to feel the rain trickling down his leg inside his pants and admits that he's going to have to go back in and that Casey's somehow going to turn Dan's unpreparedness into capitulation. And that does not make him happy because it had been a reasonable request and Casey had just blanked him. Spun him off as if he was an autograph hunter in a bar.

"We should tell Charlie," Dan had said.

"No," said Casey and that, as far as he was concerned, was that.

Dan had laid out the arguments one by one, the length of time they'd been together, his own relationship with Charlie, Charlie's intelligence, the potential for damage that lies cause and to each Casey had just said, "No." He'd even refused to have a proper argument about it. No wonder Dan is so mad. He scowls at the memory and shoves his hands deeper into his pockets though they're as wet there now as they would be if he took them out.

Rounding the corner of the building as he completes his fifth circuit, Dan spies a lonely figure, red umbrella illuminated by the street light above. It's Casey. Of course, it's Casey. Dan halts and Casey comes towards him, proffering the jacket that he's been holding over his arm. He holds the umbrella over Dan, they have to stand close and Dan's dripping onto Casey but he doesn't seem to mind.

"You know," says Casey, "It takes you about four and a half minutes to get all the way round the building. You were a little faster the first time, but then I think the extra pounds the rain gave you slowed you down."

"You've been timing me?"

"Well I had to do something while I was making sure you didn't disappear on me, didn't I?"

"And you let me go round five times before you brought out the umbrella?"

"I thought you might need time to calm down."

"And you thought 'hell, why not get a wet t-shirt contest of one thrown in for free'?"

"That too." Casey leans his head back a little and leers affectionately at Dan's chest, the clinging shirt leaving nothing to the imagination. "Come up, Danny, we'll get you out of those wet clothes." He touches Dan's elbow.

"Aren't you supposed to say 'and into some dry ones'?"

"Now that would just be spoiling it." Casey smiles and Dan has to work hard to stop an answering one appearing on his face.

"I'm mad at you, Casey."

"I know. Come up."

"Really mad."

"I know. Come up."

"I'm not having sex with you."

"Whatever you say, Danny."

"This isn't over."

"It never is."

"Will you make me hot chocolate?"

"With marshmallows if you want."

Dan looks out from under the umbrella, sees the rain sheeting down, glinting silver in the light from the street lamp. He looks back at Casey whose lips are smiling but whose eyes are contrite and decides what the hell? It's not the first time they've had this not-fight and it won't be the last. He tucks his arm through Casey's and they head for the warm and dry.

"You have to pick out all the pink ones, they taste funky," he says and Casey clips him around the head with a wet slap as the door swings closed behind them.

Okay, that very nearly (but not quite) made me want to cry. I think the crying jag was only alleviated by the thought of Casey picking the pink marshmallows out of Dan's hot chocolate just so he would have to eat them.

*loves*

Oh dear, but also yay! Dan secretly thinks that Casey always puts more pink marshmallows in his hot chocolate than is strictly necessary because he is making some subtle comment about the fact that Dan is a woman. I think Dan is crediting Casey with too much intelligence and it's just the luck of the marshmallow draw.

Funk-eee. Funk-eh. Funk-eee. Funk-eh.

Ahem. Moving on.

This is so an argument that they'd have many times over. *hugs Danny* And while I get that Casey knows Dan well and knew to give him time to calm down, I think that at 4.5 mins/circuit, 2 or 3 trips around the building would have been sufficient, Casey. You'll be wishing you told Charlie when Dan DIES OF PNEUMONIA!! Thank goodness for the magical healing powers of non-pink marshmallows.

*hearts* This was a really great Dan/Casey moment.

*hearts Mac and Martin*

Casey is indeed a bad boy for leaving Dan out in the rain for so long. But Dan would suffer so beautifully with pneumonia it would almost be worth it. Or not.

Yay! Thank you.

I really liked this. Especially the "You can't storm out and then storm back in thirty seconds later, it's just not done" part, totally made me laugh.

Thank you! And I'm pleased that bit made you laugh - it made me giggle too. In fact the length of time you have to stay stormed is directly proportional to how self-righteous you were being and how loud you slammed the door. It's scientific fact.

I am so glad that someone took the time to test this empirically. It's always something I've wondered. What is the proper length of time to storm? How do you know when you've overstormed? Is there even such a thing? hee

Oh yes, overstorming is very much a thing - it's particularlyl a rookie mistake. Overstorming is missing the brief window of return when you don't look ridiculous and the person from whom you've stormed is so pleased that you're back that they apologise even if it's you in the wrong. Once that's gone your into rolling-eye territory and then it's all downhill from there. ^_^

I must confess, in my young, carefree, rookie storming days, I... well, I experienced the downhill. That's why a properly measured window of return is so important. I know that now.

I can't even fathom how you managed to say so much and do so much with this relationship in so few words. This is frustrating and sad and touching all at once, and I feel like I am turning over the paper to find the rest of the story, while also feeling that this slice is all I want or need to see.

Thank you! That's incredibly lovely feedback, not least because writing short is difficult for someone as given to verbal diarrhoea as me. ^_^

Deeeee-licious. Makes me wish it were raining. Though I suppose I could just make myself some hot chocolate anyway. You are so much brilliance. The marshmallow bit was perfect. Casey's got to do some penance.

Thank you! I'm very glad you liked it.

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