Hypothetical story meme

[resonant]

This is just the sort of thing I can't resist, and just the sort of thing that adds to my list of Stories That Will Probably Never Be Finished, but ... (taken from torch):

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write)

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. High School / College AU

I'll take any of the fandoms I've written in plus ... let's see, in the past year I've seen all three Men In Black movies, plus seasons 1-4 of Buffy and the first few eps of Angel (yeah, so late to the party that the house isn't even there any more).

Comments

[resonant]

Ooh! Nice one!

I'm going to say Bender and Allison, post-graduation. He has to have a wife to save him from some kind of trouble. I can't imagine what -- I'm picturing some chain of events that goes: going back to school to vandalize the property, not getting caught in the act but getting tracked down by evidence, offering as an alibi "I was down at city hall getting married, smart guy." And the world-weary sergeant says, "Right, well, you've got 24 hours to produce a wife or you're going to jail."

And he calls everybody he knows, and they all laugh in his face, and finally he calls the Breakfast Club, and they all laugh in his face, all but Allison, who's working as, like, a nanny or something. But even though she's the only one who's willing to help him, and she's saving him from jail, he's still treating her with utter contempt on the phone, being really shitty to her.

So she shows up next morning all dressed up in a nice suit (it's the 1980s, so there's a bow around the neck and the shoulders are a mile wide) with her makeup all tastefully understated and her hair pulled back, and he goes right on being a shithead.

She and Bender go down to the police station -- him smirking in triumph, her pretending to be happy -- and the sergeant sighs and says, "Young lady, I hope you know what you've gotten yourself into," and lets them go.

The minute they're in private, he says, "You know what, this is bullshit," and he yanks the bow out of the neck of her fashionable mauve office blouse and says, "This is bullshit, Allison. This is not what you look like. Get that fucking headband out of your hair. This is not what you look like." And she gets that little sort of sideways amused look she had in the movie and says, "You take it off me, then."

And he pulls the headband off and tosses it out a window or something. Puts his hands in her hair and fluffs it out the way it's supposed to be -- she's grinning for real now -- and he rids her of her big-shouldered jacket -- "Careful! It's my cousin's!" "Fuck your cousin and her shitty Casual Corner careerwear." -- but he slows way down, and then there's kissage, and probably sexage.

And afterwards she hands him an eye crayon and makes him do her eyes back the way they're supposed to be.

[resonant]

Is it really obvious how much I despised that makeover scene in The Breakfast Club?

[exceptinsects]

You know, at the time I was pretty young and just took the whole thing at face value, as you do in junior high, but OH MY GOD YOU ARE SO RIGHT it sucks.

I love this! Put that eyeliner back on, sister, and maybe put some on Bender for the hell of it.

[resonant]

and maybe put some on Bender for the hell of it.

A very sexy coda!