Alex's This and That

Title: Without Excuse
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: August 2017 Drabble. Prompt: Shame
Summary: Watson simple wants to know why.

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WITHOUT EXCUSE

Watson knew he was angry at Holmes more often than not. The man had no shame when it came to getting his own way. He was enough to try the patience of a saint. And John knew he was no saint.

He had not imagined that Holmes would actually be jealous of Mary! And he had no problem showing it to both of them. He’d made excuses to Mary but, dammit, he would have an explanation!

Holmes was staring out the window when he arrived at 221B Baker Street.

“Why?” Watson asked him.

“Because I want you here. That’s why.”

Title: Rituals
Fandom: Babylon 5
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: August 2017 drabbles. Prompt: Cleansed.
Summary: The Minbari have a ritual for everything.

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RITUALS

John Sheridan was tired of rituals. Delenn’s people had more of them he could count. Courtship rituals, rebirth, eating, sleeping, praying, dying… you name it, the Minbari had a ritual for it. He loved ceremony as much as the next guy, but it got old.

He was having dinner with Delenn tonight so he send her a message that he needed to shower before they met in the Zocalo.

“I should come to your quarters,” she said.

“Why?”

“Your mind should be cleansed as well as your body and we have a ritual...”

“Fine,” he answered

His laughing puzzled her.

Title: A Decent Man
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: August Drabbles. Prompt: Decent
Summary: Dean’s never thought of himself that way.

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“Decent!? Did you hear that, Sammy? She said I was decent.”

Sam shrugged. “Sorry, Dean. I know it’s not what you want to hear, especially the way she looks but she’s right. You are a decent guy and I suspect she thought she was doing you a favor.”

“I’m a drunken wastrel!”

“No, you’re a drunken hunter, a man who puts his life on the line so regular people don’t have to know what’s out there. You’re willing to do what it takes, day in and day out. That makes you decent.”

“I am too good for her, ain’t I?”

Title: The Talcum Mystery
Fandom: Indiana Jones
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: August Drabbles. Prompt: Powder
Summary: Indy is really just an absent-minded professor.

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THE TALCUM MYSTERY

“What is that smell?” Indy said as he came into the bedroom.

Marion frowned as she fiddled with her earrings. “What smell?”

“Perfumey. Odd.”

Marian didn’t smell anything.

“You got any new powders? New perfumes?” Indy was sniffing like a bloodhound. When he sniffed close to her, she smelled it.

“It’s you!”

“Me?”

She sniffed his cheek. It was actually quite nice and manly.

“Where did you go today?” she asked.

“The barber—that’s it! The talcum powder that he used when he shaved me.”

“Oh! How nice. What’s the occasion?”

“Got a big date with my very best girl!”

Title: Damn Yankees
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe (Avengers)
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: An August Drabble
Summary: Bucky and Steve watch baseball.

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DAMN YANKEES

Steve and Bucky were watching the Yankees play baseball on TV.

“Remind me when they moved to California?”

“1957.”

“God, we’re old. Do the others seem like kids to you?”

“Yeah. With those damn phones and tablets. We were lucky to get to use a phone on the corner.”

Bucky laughed and punched Steve on the shoulder. “We sure are fun, aren’t we? My granny was livelier than we are.”

“Your granny was livelier than we were then, too, Buck!”

“Wanna order some pizza and watch a movie after the game?”

“Iron Man?”

Bucky laughed and nodded. “I’m not surprised!”

Title: A Hunk of Junk
Fandom: Star Wars
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: An August Drabble
Summary: Leia insults the Falcon.

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A HUNK OF JUNK

“I still think this ship is a hunk of junk,” Leia told Han.

“Even after all the rescues?” Han looked offended.

She shook her head. “Because of the rescues! I never know if we’re going to make it or not.”

“That’s part of the fun.”

She just sighed and looked out the viewport.

“Rather have Lando rescue you?”

“No! He’d come in this ship, too. He’d steal it back from you.”

“So you like me then?” He grinned that lopsided irresistible grin.

She leaned into his arms. “Of course I do, you silly man.”

“I knew you’d see reason eventually.”

Title: Find of a Lifetime
Fandom: Babylon 5
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: G
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: For August Drabbles
Summary: Zack Allen IV finds a treasure.

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FIND OF A LIFETIME

It sat in a museum, behind a climate controlled glass. It was dirty and ragged. After all, it had floated in space for at least a century before it had been found by Zack Allen, IV, a private security expert who was traveling to meet a client near Epsilon III, where the old Babylon 5 station had once been.

He’d showed it to his wife.

“Can it be the one?”

“It has to be. As far as I know, there was only one spaced.”

The bear with JS on it sold for a billion credits and Zack never worked again.

Title: Vote for…
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG-13
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: August Drabbles. Also no disrespect is meant to anyone. Well, maybe one butif you know me, you know how I feel anyhow.
Summary: It’s time to vote for president, but president of what?

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VOTE FOR…

“Sammy, are we voting this year?” Dean asked his brother as they sat at the table in the Men of Letters hideout. They were eating takeout burgers and drinking sugary Cokes.

“It’s an election year?”

“Yep. I don’t think they show The Apprentice that many times a day on tv, so they must be campaign ads.”

“You mean he is running for president?” Sammy asked.

Dean laughed. “Wonder if they know he works for Crowley?”

“No shit?” Sammy knew that Dean knew things about the King of Hell.

“Wait ‘til I tell you who the other one is working for!’

Title: Vacation
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: G
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: August 2016 drabble
Summary: Arwen is not a happy camper.

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VACATION

Arwen stood in the kitchen and stated at the woodstove. What was she supposed to do with it? She could make remedies and even still do a little magic, but she had no idea how to make dinner on this, this stove!

Why did Ellessar insist on coming to this little hut in the woods two or three times a year? They had everything they needed at home. He had no real need to hunt and fish and swim in that cold, cold pond.

The children loved coming here though. They followed their father everywhere.

He could bake the bread!

Title: Backward and Forward
Fandom: Firefly
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: G
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: For August 2016 drabbles.
Summary: Kaylee has questions.

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BACKWARD AND FORWARD

“Do you think it’s still there?” Kaylee asked Mal.

“What would that be, Kaylee?” Mal turned to look at her.

“Earth That Was.”

He thought a moment. “Probably is. Take away the folks and the animals and all you got is a rock. Pretty hard to destroy a rock that big.”

“Do you ever wish you could go there?” She asked.

“What’s got you so ponderous tonight?”

“Don’t know. Just thinkin’ about where we come from.”

“As opposed to where we’re going?”

Kaylee laughed. “I don’t have an answer for either of those. Do you?”

He shook his head. “Nope.”