10 Joan of Arcadia drabbles
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tommygirlThese are 10 drabbles of Joan of Arcadia bits and stuff.
1) challenge # 24 - Quotes
Title: Pondering Imagination
Summary: Joan. Pondering Adam.
Quote Used: "You have a very limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation." -Don Juan DeMarco
Why is it that anything involving Adam Rove removes my ability to think? I never planned to lack imagination. I’ve always thought I had plenty to go around. I mean, I talk to God. Hello. Doesn’t that scream creativity? Maybe insanity, but I prefer to believe that I possess an artistic soul.
While I’m not a genius like my brother, I’m not completely retarded. I should be able to think of a gift for my boyfriend without it leading to fights, tears or both. Just like I should’ve known how I felt about him and shouldn’t have destroyed his sculpture.
2) response to challenge # 25 - word soup
Title: Kisses
Characters: Joan
His kisses taste of lemons, Joan thinks, her eyes watering at the thought until she has to pull away. It's nothing like Adam's orange juice kisses that cause her lips to tingle from the sweet burn. She steps back, creating distance between them. How did she get here-hooking up with some guy at some random party? Was this what loss of faith did to a person?
Before she can leave, he pulls her back against him. Roughly, too rough for her liking. She reaches out for the nearest thing she can and brings a pair of scissors up between them. "Get out of my way, pervert."
3) response to challenge # 27 - crossover piece
Title: asylum
Characters: joan and jaye (wonderfalls)
A/N: I did my crossover with the short-lived but marvelous wonderfalls.
Joan always worried she would end up in a confined space filled with nutjobs. She wasn't crazy. She talked to God. It wasn't a figment of her imagination or early stages of schizophrenia and she didn't have ten personalities. But saying she talked to God made her appear that way.
She sat down, noticing another girl talking to a small monkey magnet. She dropped the magnet and said, "Stupid thing. I'm locked up and it's still giving me grief."
"The magnet talks to you?"
"I think it's God…probably the devil," she pauses, extending her hand, "I'm Jaye and I'm really not crazy."
"Joan. Me either."
4) response to challenge # 29 - sentence use
Title: Stuck
Characters: God and Joan
Sentence: It was stuck
It was stuck. The stupid door wouldn't budge, but Joan refused to accept it. She couldn't be stuck in the janitor's closet with God. She glared over at the Holy Pain and became even more furious when she noticed how calm He appeared. She'd be calm too if she were omnipotent and didn't suffer from claustrophobia because a certain older brother thought it would be funny to lock her in a trunk when she was little.
"Aren't you going to let us out?"
"I could."
"You won't?"
"You need time away from everyone."
"I'm thinking Hawaii, not the janitor's closet."
5) 2nd response to challenge # 29 - sentence use
Title: Stuck II
Characters: God and Joan
Sentence: It was stuck
It was stuck. Her stupid locker wouldn't open quickly enough and there it was for the entire world to see: Adam and Iris swapping spit in the hall. Ew. The urge to vomit was strong. Couldn't they get a room?
It wasn't like she wanted to watch them go at it, but it was the middle of the hall, her eyes had a mind of her own and the latch on her locker wouldn't budge. Her cheeks flushed as she wondered if this made her a stalker. Adam pulled away, eyes on her. Yeah, exactly what she needed before geometry.
6) response to challenge # 30 - picture
Title: Ominscience Ruins Everything
Characters: God and Joan
"Why are you making this harder on yourself?" He asked.
She kept walking, trying to keep the horrified expression from being too obvious on her face-Our Town auditions? He wanted her to act. What next? Would he run lines with her? Well, why not? He already appeared to have his own locker at school.
She stopped when he called out, "You're going to do it."
She complained, "It's not fair. This whole omniscience thing ruins the effect of me walking away."
"Omniscience has nothing to do with this."
"Then how-"
"You're still holding the pamphlet I gave you."
7) response to challenge # 31 - make up week
Title: Rent-A-Friend
Characters: Joan and God
A/N: Written for Challenge #6 - Dialogue.
"Would you stop following me around? I'm not going to do it."
"Joan, I've never forced you to do anything."
"Oh right. Because using the fear of hell looming all around me isn't force."
"I like to think people create their own hells better than I ever could."
"This whole thing is weird. I didn't like Iris when I had reason to and now you're commanding me to hang out with her?"
"Again, not commanding…recommending."
"Do I look like rent-a-friend? I barely have enough time to spend with the friends and boyfriend I do have what with your constant nuisances."
8) 2nd response to challenge # 31 - make up week
Title: The Necklace
Characters: Joan/Adam
A/N: Used Challenge # 1 - Something New.
Joan stared at the necklace and smiled, allowing her fingers to roam over it, imprinting it to her memory. Maybe she and Adam were still connected after all because it was as though he had stored up all this emotion, all these things she felt she lacked, and molded within the links of the necklace.
She leaned over and kissed him. He smiled and said, "So you like it?"
"I love it, Adam. It's perfect."
"Because I know things have been…"
"Tense? Weird? All of the above?"
"Yeah."
"It's some stuff I have to deal with, but-I love this."
9) response to challenge # 40 - make up week
Title: Beautiful Disaster
Written For: Challenge # 33 - 311 song titles
Characters: Joan/Adam
"This is a disaster," Adam complained, staring down at his sketchpad with an ominous look.
Joan shrugged. It looked okay to her. In fact, it looked better than okay. She rested her head on his shoulder. "I think it's beautiful."
"You're just saying that."
"Why would I do that?"
"You think you have to - you can be honest with me," Adam replied. He glanced from her to the drawing and added, "This isn't my type of art. I wish your mother would stop pestering me."
"Join the club."
He smiled, "You really like it?"
"It's beautiful. I swear."
"Beautiful disaster."
10) response to # 41 - Halloween
Title: Costume Talk
Characters: Joan and Grace
"What is that?"
"It's my costume."
"Are you sure? It looks more like a dead animal," Grace commented, running her fingers over the fur.
"I'm going to be a cat."
"A dead cat?"
Joan groaned, "No, not a dead cat. A cute, cuddly cat."
"That was run over by a mack truck."
"Grace!" Joan replied in exasperation. She glared in her direction and added, "So what are you dressing up as?"
"Have you hit your head on something, Girardi? I don't dress up."
"Grace…"
"Fine. I'm going to be a young woman who fights against the system."
"So nothing?"
"Nope."
1) challenge # 24 - Quotes
Title: Pondering Imagination
Summary: Joan. Pondering Adam.
Quote Used: "You have a very limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation." -Don Juan DeMarco
Why is it that anything involving Adam Rove removes my ability to think? I never planned to lack imagination. I’ve always thought I had plenty to go around. I mean, I talk to God. Hello. Doesn’t that scream creativity? Maybe insanity, but I prefer to believe that I possess an artistic soul.
While I’m not a genius like my brother, I’m not completely retarded. I should be able to think of a gift for my boyfriend without it leading to fights, tears or both. Just like I should’ve known how I felt about him and shouldn’t have destroyed his sculpture.
2) response to challenge # 25 - word soup
Title: Kisses
Characters: Joan
His kisses taste of lemons, Joan thinks, her eyes watering at the thought until she has to pull away. It's nothing like Adam's orange juice kisses that cause her lips to tingle from the sweet burn. She steps back, creating distance between them. How did she get here-hooking up with some guy at some random party? Was this what loss of faith did to a person?
Before she can leave, he pulls her back against him. Roughly, too rough for her liking. She reaches out for the nearest thing she can and brings a pair of scissors up between them. "Get out of my way, pervert."
3) response to challenge # 27 - crossover piece
Title: asylum
Characters: joan and jaye (wonderfalls)
A/N: I did my crossover with the short-lived but marvelous wonderfalls.
Joan always worried she would end up in a confined space filled with nutjobs. She wasn't crazy. She talked to God. It wasn't a figment of her imagination or early stages of schizophrenia and she didn't have ten personalities. But saying she talked to God made her appear that way.
She sat down, noticing another girl talking to a small monkey magnet. She dropped the magnet and said, "Stupid thing. I'm locked up and it's still giving me grief."
"The magnet talks to you?"
"I think it's God…probably the devil," she pauses, extending her hand, "I'm Jaye and I'm really not crazy."
"Joan. Me either."
4) response to challenge # 29 - sentence use
Title: Stuck
Characters: God and Joan
Sentence: It was stuck
It was stuck. The stupid door wouldn't budge, but Joan refused to accept it. She couldn't be stuck in the janitor's closet with God. She glared over at the Holy Pain and became even more furious when she noticed how calm He appeared. She'd be calm too if she were omnipotent and didn't suffer from claustrophobia because a certain older brother thought it would be funny to lock her in a trunk when she was little.
"Aren't you going to let us out?"
"I could."
"You won't?"
"You need time away from everyone."
"I'm thinking Hawaii, not the janitor's closet."
5) 2nd response to challenge # 29 - sentence use
Title: Stuck II
Characters: God and Joan
Sentence: It was stuck
It was stuck. Her stupid locker wouldn't open quickly enough and there it was for the entire world to see: Adam and Iris swapping spit in the hall. Ew. The urge to vomit was strong. Couldn't they get a room?
It wasn't like she wanted to watch them go at it, but it was the middle of the hall, her eyes had a mind of her own and the latch on her locker wouldn't budge. Her cheeks flushed as she wondered if this made her a stalker. Adam pulled away, eyes on her. Yeah, exactly what she needed before geometry.
6) response to challenge # 30 - picture
Title: Ominscience Ruins Everything
Characters: God and Joan
"Why are you making this harder on yourself?" He asked.
She kept walking, trying to keep the horrified expression from being too obvious on her face-Our Town auditions? He wanted her to act. What next? Would he run lines with her? Well, why not? He already appeared to have his own locker at school.
She stopped when he called out, "You're going to do it."
She complained, "It's not fair. This whole omniscience thing ruins the effect of me walking away."
"Omniscience has nothing to do with this."
"Then how-"
"You're still holding the pamphlet I gave you."
7) response to challenge # 31 - make up week
Title: Rent-A-Friend
Characters: Joan and God
A/N: Written for Challenge #6 - Dialogue.
"Would you stop following me around? I'm not going to do it."
"Joan, I've never forced you to do anything."
"Oh right. Because using the fear of hell looming all around me isn't force."
"I like to think people create their own hells better than I ever could."
"This whole thing is weird. I didn't like Iris when I had reason to and now you're commanding me to hang out with her?"
"Again, not commanding…recommending."
"Do I look like rent-a-friend? I barely have enough time to spend with the friends and boyfriend I do have what with your constant nuisances."
8) 2nd response to challenge # 31 - make up week
Title: The Necklace
Characters: Joan/Adam
A/N: Used Challenge # 1 - Something New.
Joan stared at the necklace and smiled, allowing her fingers to roam over it, imprinting it to her memory. Maybe she and Adam were still connected after all because it was as though he had stored up all this emotion, all these things she felt she lacked, and molded within the links of the necklace.
She leaned over and kissed him. He smiled and said, "So you like it?"
"I love it, Adam. It's perfect."
"Because I know things have been…"
"Tense? Weird? All of the above?"
"Yeah."
"It's some stuff I have to deal with, but-I love this."
9) response to challenge # 40 - make up week
Title: Beautiful Disaster
Written For: Challenge # 33 - 311 song titles
Characters: Joan/Adam
"This is a disaster," Adam complained, staring down at his sketchpad with an ominous look.
Joan shrugged. It looked okay to her. In fact, it looked better than okay. She rested her head on his shoulder. "I think it's beautiful."
"You're just saying that."
"Why would I do that?"
"You think you have to - you can be honest with me," Adam replied. He glanced from her to the drawing and added, "This isn't my type of art. I wish your mother would stop pestering me."
"Join the club."
He smiled, "You really like it?"
"It's beautiful. I swear."
"Beautiful disaster."
10) response to # 41 - Halloween
Title: Costume Talk
Characters: Joan and Grace
"What is that?"
"It's my costume."
"Are you sure? It looks more like a dead animal," Grace commented, running her fingers over the fur.
"I'm going to be a cat."
"A dead cat?"
Joan groaned, "No, not a dead cat. A cute, cuddly cat."
"That was run over by a mack truck."
"Grace!" Joan replied in exasperation. She glared in her direction and added, "So what are you dressing up as?"
"Have you hit your head on something, Girardi? I don't dress up."
"Grace…"
"Fine. I'm going to be a young woman who fights against the system."
"So nothing?"
"Nope."
