26 Dialog prompts...

The snark... is apparently contagious. *glares at her fictives who don't bother to try and look innocent* Oh well.

1. "Almost time to leave." He watched the clock with the same slow pessimism he'd applied to everything else, and she was a heartbeat away from reducing things to a three-way split.

2. "Because I can, because I want to, because I already did and it's too late to change it now."

3. "Can't we work this out?" He dodged as a larger chunk of what-ever-it-had-been fell off with a wet thud. "You're being unreasonable!"

4. "Do you love me?"

5. "Everything dies, sooner or later, we just got it over with a bit earlier than most."

6. "Faith, Charity, Temperance-- people really need to stop naming their girls after virtues, it doesn't work."

7. "Greatness comes with time."
"And talent."
"Well, yes, 'and talent', but most of it's just dumb luck."

8. "How hard can it be?"

9. "I don't suppose you could be a tad quieter? Some of us are trying to kill things before they hear us coming."

10. "Just smile once in a while, I think-- okay, don't smile, definitely don't smile. Are those fangs??"

11. "Kindness is only ever repaid in traffic tickets and spilled coffees."

12. "Last one to the pool is a rotten egg!"
"Aren't those sulfur springs?"
"Yeah?"
"Then wouldn't it be the first one to the pool...?"

13. "Mostly we just sit around and play cards."

14. "Nothing could be further from the truth!"
"Seriously?"
"Okay, probably not, but it is pretty distant."

15. "On the other hand-- paw, whatever..."

16. "Penguins really don't make good watchdogs."

17. "'Queen'... hmm, I do like that, 'Queen'. Sound royal."
"Maybe because it is?"
"You're just jealous."
"I dunno, I sort of think 'official hanger on' is going to get less death threats."
"They haven't met you yet."

18. "Remember the- um, damn, what was the name again?"
"Alamo?"
"No, the other one."
"I don't think there was another one, um, Pearl Harbor?"
"No"
"D-day?"
"Nah, something with lost causes and spaceships."
"... Independence Day?"
"Independence Day!"
"Dude, that was a movie."

19. "Something's missing, I don't know what, I just--"
"Stop looking, just stop."
"Why?"
"Because I took it, alright?"

20. "Tomorrow, we go to war. Today-- today we give thanks for all the things we'll be dying for. Health to the company."
"Health to the company."

21. "Understanding comes in time, no one expects you to be perfect."
"I do."
"You don't count."

22. "Very nice, now next time if you could managed to just destroy the building we were aiming at, that would be peachy."

23. "Whatever will be, will be--"
"The future's not ours to see/Que sera, sera"
"Please don't sing at the oracle."
"She started it."

24. "Xylyl can't possibly be a word," she eyed the Scrabble letters accusingly, "besides you used both of the Y's and I'm pretty sure that's cheating."

25. "Yellow isn't your color."
"It's not yellow, it's goldenrod."
"Fine then, 'goldenrod' really isn't your color."
"Oh fuck off."

26. "Zounds!"
"Okay, that's not even a word."
"Zounds: interjection. Used to express anger, surprise, or indignation. Shortening and alteration of 'God's wounds!, circa 1590–1600."
"No court on earth would convict me." *hefts hammer*
"Zounds!!!" *flees*

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Random stabs at the sga_flashfic prompt

Stupid muses... *kicks*


1. "I didn't know Pegasus had fairy tales."
"Fairy tales?"
"Like Jack and Beanstalk, or Snow White, you know, didn't Kinsey bring Disney movies back with her last trip?"
"Ah, those."
"Yeah, shoulda figured there'd be some here too but I never really thought about it."
"They aren't fairy tales."
"Huh?"
"Fairy tales aren't real."


2. "True love's kiss?"
"Yup."
"You're kidding me, right?"
"Sadly, no. They actually programmed the computer only to respond to a certain combination of nerochemicals."
"What possible scientific reason can the Ancients have for playing Snow White in the middle of a lab?"
"Dunno, maybe it was more of a practical joke."


3. "Wait, wait, we have to put on a play? I don't know any plays!"
"Yeah, I don't really see us getting through Hamlet either."
"They aren't looking for Shakespeare guys, they just want a simple story acted out. Like a mummer's play. It's just an exchange of folk tales."
"Folk tales?"
"Fairy tales, fables, that sort of thing."
"Ah, well then, the Three Little Pigs it is!"


4. Once in my Father's Father's time, once in my Mother's Mother's days, there lived a house that flew.


5. It was in the dead of winter
In among the dark of winter
Hidden in the birch tree gardens
Planted, tended, long ago...

Because no one can have to much trochee (trochees?) ^_~