Five Acts Round II

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Five Acts Meme List!
INSTRUCTIONS
+ Post a list of your five favorite acts/kinks to read about. Check out this list if you need some inspiration. At the bottom, add what fandoms/pairings you're interested in.
+ Read other people's lists; the master list of lists is here.
+ Post comment-fic based off of other people's lists.

My Five Themes/Kinks
01. scars, tattoos, freckles, etc.
02. angst & dark themes, but not without some sweetness/hope/positivity
03. post apocalyptic/dystopias/etc.
04. travel, journeys, road trips and old motels, ghost towns, abandoned places, highways, trains, nomads
05. absence, denial or urgency leading to partially clothed, frantic, desperate, etc.


Pairings & Such

LOST jack/claire!, jack/sawyer/claire!, richard/alex!, sun/jack, sawyer/claire, saywer/jack, sun/michael, jin/michael, jin/michael/sun
BSG tucker/sam, sam/galen, ellen/sam!, kara/leoben, sam/leoben
CHUCK awesome/sarah [huh?]
GREY'S mark/owen!, owen/mark/lexie, arizona/alex, april/derek, april/jackson, jackson/cristina
FRINGE charlie/olivia!, olivia/other-charlie, charlie/peter
TSCC derek/allison!
DOLLHOUSE mag/zone!, alpha/echo!, priya/topher!, anthony/paul, topher/claire,
SGA ronon/sheppard!, elizabeth/rodney
HARPER'S henry/shane, abby/henry [no non-con/creepy henry please], shane/abby, sully/henry, shea/sully!, sully/shane
UGLY BETTY betty/daniel!
FIREFLY simon/mal!, river/simon, river/simon/mal
VERONICA MARS dick/logan, mac/dick!, veronica/dick
QaF [US] brian/michael, lindsay/brian
JERICHO jake/eric!
HAVEN duke/nathan
THE PACIFIC chuckler/leckie!, leckie/chuckler/stella!
TRUE BLOOD sookie/alcide



WRITTEN
tell us what's wrong [and what's right]; dollhouse, topher/priya; for faded_facade's forbidden prompt

RECEIVED
dollhouse; alpha/echo; for prompt tattoos & apocalypse; by toestastegood

Comments

I Liked My Memories As They Were, Abby/Henry, ghost town, PG

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As Abby stands on the marina for what she knows will be the last time, she remembers all those times as kids when she’d gone running down there, impatient for Henry’s arrival, knowing that the summer of the two of them was about to start. He was always first off the boat, ignoring JD’s whinging about being left with all the luggage, the two of them just so happy to see each other again. Jimmy had felt a bit weird about it the last couple of years, watching his girlfriend run to the marina to meet another man, but Abby had told him to get used to it. It was their summer ritual, after all.

How would things have been different, she wondered, if he’d never been told he was adopted, if he’d lived out the rest of his life believing the Dunns were his natural parents? Would all their friends, Nikki, Sully, Trish and all the rest of them, would they still be here? Or would Henry have fixated on her anyway? I wish we could live here forever, the two of us. Would that one obsession still have taken over his mind?

Just over there was where Henry had fallen and cut his knee, he must have been about nine years old or so, when he and Abby were running from Shane. He’d got into one of his many arguments with JD, who’d got away from him and Shane seemed to think we might know where he was. Abby had taken him home, she remembered, and her mother had taken care of Henry – her son – while Shane pounded on the door and her father made the usual remark about how the Pierce kid was nothing but trouble, and that sidekick of his, Jimmy (even though Jimmy hadn’t even been there). A nice sensible kid like Henry, that was the kind of friend Abby needed. A perfectly innocent scene, Abby had thought, but knowing what she knows now makes this take on a whole new light.

That was where they’d had their party on the beach, the one Abby had organised for Henry right before he went away to college. All their friends had been there, Henry’s schoolfriend Sully who was visiting, Trish and Shea, Nikki, Kelly, Jimmy, Trish’s friend Lucy. Henry and Trish had spent a lot of that evening together, talking about how they were going to make their relationship work once they were at different colleges. But towards the end of the night, Henry had taken Abby aside, pulled her into a bear hug. “Thanks for organising this for me, Abby,” he’d whispered. “It means a lot.”

There’s so many places like that on the island, like The Cannery, where they’d sat outside and talked about how they’d have their first legal drinks there one day, while Nikki had always said she was going to run the place. Neither of them had been surprised to hear it when she actually did. Or the house Henry’s family always took for the summer, where Abby had practically lived too as long as Henry was there.

Harper’s Island has been like a ghost town ever since the massacre, and Abby suspects it will remain that way for a long time. But these memories of Henry from before are the ones she wants to hold on to.