Crossover drabblememe

[jamjar]

Because I need a little distraction and I want to get a little writing practise even before I start railing against the Yuletide deadline:

From daegaer

Give me the premise for a crossover (example: someone in a fairytale meets the devil, who turn out to be Crowley), a fusion (example: Midsomer Murders and Weiss Kreuz fusion: the peaceful English countryside plus assassins - let's face it, it would explain a lot about the death rate . . .) or an AU (example: the Fenndom sci-fi AU - the Victorian British empire in Spaaaace!). I will write you one to three sentences* of fic based on that premise.

*Or, you know, more.

Good fandoms include (but are not limited to) Life, The Mentalist, Better Off Ted, The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, Bandom, Young Justice, Sherlock Holmes Vorkosignan series, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Chalion, Good Omens, Neverwhere, Discworld, Johnny Maxwell, M.A.S.H., Dianna Wynne Jones, Doctrine of Labynths, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, YYH, Petshop of Horrors, Crimson Hero, Dead Like Me, From Eroica with Love, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Highlander, Doctor Who, Merlin, fairy tales, Superboy, Neverwhere, D.E.B.S, Stick It, Ima Ai Ni Yukimasu,Star Trek IX, DS9, Temeraire

Comments

[petra]

I am making noises that mostly go "EEE! EEEEE! Heee heeeeee! WHEE ANNA!" over and over again.

I might possibly be grinning so hard my face hurts. Pirate!Darren snarking and *not* being thrown overboard even when he's ruining the mystique--yes! That!

ANNA. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 I love her having Adventures.

[jamjar]

In my head, Darren's backstory is that he's related to someone of immense wealth and power, the nephew of a queen or an imperial something or other, so, when he was on a ship the Wandering Bark attacked, they decided he was worth ransoming. They were quite relieved when they were able to send in their ransom demand, sure in the knowledge that the sheer affection Darren's imperial connection had for him was well known. This connection had let it be well known they would use their considerable influence to utterly destroy anyone that killed Darren, which is the only reason he wasn't murdered three times a day back at court.

Darren is a poet of some sort, and was quite taken with the Romance of it all, endlessly critical of everything the crew do. But they can't risk hurting him too much -not beyond what's still in Darren's idea of Suitable for Pirates- because they need him alive for the ransom, but also because if they killed him, the consequences would be dire. Geoffrey's crew are loyal in their silence, but there's a limit and just the rumour of it would be deadly.

What they got in reply was a letter from the husband of this connection, possibly the king of Spain, who made a counter offer. He would pay the ransom and an additionally yearly bonus and allow Geoffrey's ship and crew free use of his ports, so long as they kept Darren on ship.

It all works out in the end, or at least, they decide they're stuck so they might as well take the money.

[petra]

I keep rereading this and cackling joyfully. You're brilliant.