sincere | Drabble Challenge cuz why not

Need to get cracking on my writing, Crysi made it look tempting, and, heck, I have way too much free time, what with the "can't find a job" thing. Challenge me!

Each person can ask for up to 3 drabbles, and you can ask for 1-3 people in each drabble. All genders and orientations welcome. Pairings are indicated by / and regular interaction with , -- but I'm Le Subtle and your pairing may or may not be nearly invisible.

I'm still on a KH kick, but you may also request: Tales of Symphonia/the Abyss, Suikoden I-III, Warcraft, Lost, Kyou Kara Maou, most of CLAMP, and Final Fantasy VI-XII (minus XI and VIII, although VIII characters may be requested in KH-verse, and plus Tactics). If you're really jonesing on something else, ask and I'll tell you. (In advance, I know nothing of Avatar.)

The format is Character/Character: prompt, as follows:

Luxord, Namine: fortune-telling
Marluxia/Zexion: politics are sexy
Balthier/Fran: the AU where he never took off the Judge costume

You can also request specific storylines, as follows:

Namine, Cid: the tea (AS)
Sora, Roxas, Xemnas: you know nothing (IXIII)

(No requests for NNK canon yet; there isn't enough of it to go around.)

Bonus points if you request at least one pairing that nobody I know writes.

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(I fail at keeping up, so no. Doumeki it is!)

"What do you know about Alice in Wonderland?" Watanuki forced out in a rush, hovering over that ungrateful bastard and glaring at him. It was a glare that warned him not to get the impression that they were friendly or to mistake this for some sort of request for aid. He was only saying it because it was driving him crazy!

Doumeki blinked at him, slowly. It's like talking to a wall! After perhaps fifteen seconds he said, "Why would you ask that?"

And he never answered questions! "Would you just tell me, what do you know about it?!"

"I read the books," Doumeki said, "so a lot. It would take a while to tell you. You're turning purple."

Watanuki reluctantly took a deep breath and sat down across from Doumeki. Glared at him some more. "I don't know anything about it." Except what was common cultural knowledge, which gave him the vague impression that Alice's life was somewhat like his own. "Yuuko-san said something about the White Rabbit today. What's the White Rabbit?"

Doumeki plucked the bento box from his hands -- damnit, what if that hadn't been for him?! Jerk! -- and said before Watanuki could snap at him, "Alice wound up in Wonderland because she followed the White Rabbit down the rabbit-hole. She continued to follow and search for him, although in the end he turned out to be the herald for the Queen of Hearts, who tried to have Alice killed."

"So." Uncomfortable, Watanuki shifted on his knees. "He was her enemy?"

Shrugging, the archer ate a slice of carrot. "You could put it that way." He shook off his chopsticks and glanced at Watanuki. "So?"

He hadn't even said anything, but he'd been humming too loud, and Yuuko had been hungover and nothing made her feel better so much as knocking him down a peg or two when he was in a good mood.

"There's Watanuki, preparing to chase after his white rabbit again," she'd said direly to Mokona. "No idea where he's going, just skipping blindly along."

"Do you have something you want to say?" he'd snapped. "Don't just sit there and comment on how doomed I am!"

"Oh? You want directions in Wonderland?" Yuuko had straightened to smirk at him. "Are you sure you're willing to pay the price for them?"

Of course he had stalked off, but hearing it from Doumeki was no better.

Himawari-san, he thought, crestfallen. She'd been so special to him for so long, and it seemed like everything was working against them, no matter how fervently he tried to deny it.

After a silent moment, Doumeki said indifferently, "Don't get like that. It makes you look like a starving dog."

"What?" Watanuki snapped.

"We all have our White Rabbits." Doumeki studied the bento box with that infuriatingly blank expression of his. "Even if we never catch up, the journey is worth something."

For a moment Watanuki was... "Do you really believe that?"

Doumeki looked up, shrugged. "We have to." Then, "Where's the umeboshi?"

"You have takuan! Eat it and love it and praise Kimihiro-sama's name!"

"I don't like daikon."

Un. grateful. bastard.

I liked this, it's like a missing piece of the canon. Thank you!

(You haven't met him yet, but trust me, you'll love Haruka when you see him)

Drabble Challenge cuz why not

Doumeki, Watanuki: "On Becoming Lost"

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