Discovered in a Haunting...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It's that time of year again - the nights draw in, the breeze rustles leaves and scratches at our windows... It's October - and the night at the end of the month is of course All Hallow's Eve. There is even extra spookiness this year, because October 31st is the end of Daylight Savings here - an hour lost between Midnight and Non-existence, and all manner of things lurk in times that never were...

So it seemed a good opportunity to think about things that haunt us - or haunt the lads, at least... *g* It could be anything - literal ghosts and goblins and things that go grrr in the night, their past, each other's past, futures that still may never have been, things that should never have been said... that little noise that they thought was coming from behind the fridge... *g*

If you would like to join in, it would be lovely if you'd comment to let us know, or else simply post your story/vid/art/review/rambling/wondering/puzzling - anything at all that you've been inspired to by the idea of the lads and a-haunting - anytime up until midnight on the 31st of October in your part of the world (even if you pop over to Pago Pago to do it... *g*). Instructions on how to post/use the trailer etc are on the User Info page - and do feel free to ask if you're not sure about anything.

There are also prompts for anyone who'd like them - just ask in a comment below... Happy October... *g*

Comments

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I've never done an All Hallow's Eve challenge before but when you said that little noise that they thought was coming from behind the fridge... it made me giggle. I will play! And can I have a prompt please? Although the fridge thing is already giving me ideas. I love the lads in the kitchen :D

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh yeay! And yeay lads in the kitchen - I was just reading Doyle-peeling-potatoes this morning... *g* But if you'd like something else too, how about this from Emily Dickinson...

SOME, too fragile for winter winds,
The thoughtful grave encloses,—
Tenderly tucking them in from frost
Before their feet are cold.

Never the treasures in her nest
The cautious grave exposes,
Building where schoolboy dare not look
And sportsman is not bold.

This covert have all the children
Early aged, and often cold,—
Sparrows unnoticed by the Father;
Lambs for whom time had not a fold.

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

I love my prompt so muuuuch... and I even have an idea to do with children and cold feet and frost and graves. But there is no way I'll do it by 31st. It's definitely a scaryish idea too so I can't even morph it into a Christmas fic (well, unless I went a bit Dickens). Anyway, blahblahblah what I'm trying to say is that I fail :)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a shame, I'd've loved Jojo fic for halloween... but hey-ho, life happens... Actually I only just today managed to get going on mine, which will only be short anyway if it comes to anything else, which it might not, which... Shall we cross fingers that others manage to do better?!

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

If it's okay that my entire knowledge of The Professionals is from fandom, so this might not work in the end, then - I'd like to try a prompt, pleeze ~

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hello and welcome! There are lots of people who started writing Pros without seeing the eps, but if you'd like a glimpse of the lads, and how they walk and talk and all, there's a clip from one of my favourite episodes here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ8ai6q73u8) and some gorgeous vids via these links here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS0miW_h8V0&feature=related) and some gorgeous vids by Crimson here (http://crimson.archive.nu/)... just to give you an idea... *g*

And a prompt... How's this?

“I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.”

ETA - and sorry for bad coding! *g*
ETA - which is apparently something I should not be trying to do before a second cup of coffee... *headdesk*

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Oooh - shiny! And I've even got some plot bunnies forming (though I have to figure out the canon version of how B & D originally came together).

Thanks! and no prob with the coding, I didn't even see it. :^D

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

There's no canon about how the lads originally came together. There's a vague timeline - in Close Quarters Doyle says that he and Bodie have been partnered for two years and three months, but that's all we know. And Bodie came to CI5 via the SAS (to which he was seconded from the Paras, and before that he was a mercenary - The Rack) and Doyle was a Detective Constable before he was chosen for CI5 (you don't apply, they choose you) and he was involved in a case that sent a number of corrupt police to prison (Hunter/Hunted). But they never tell us how the lads met, which leaves all sorts of imaginings open... *g*

Do you know The Hatstand's transcript page (http://hatstand.slashcity.net/eps.html) yet? Ever so good for when you want to check what happened in an ep - presuming you can remember which ep it's all in, of course! *g* There's some really good Writer's Resources at the Hatstand site (http://hatstand.slashcity.net/) as well, if you've not found them yet (scroll down the page). Oh, and a list of people happy to beta and/or Brit check over on the user info page at ci5hq... *g*

[roven75.livejournal.com]

Been thinking about this all weekend, I'd like to start something new and participate, and Halloween is such an interesting theme, but I seriously don't have any ideas >

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Excellent - do participate! Sounds like you'd better have a prompt to help you along... *g* How about...an actual ghost story?

Location: NW3 - Holly Bush Inn, Holly Mount
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: A waitress - seen and spoken to several times by customers who have given their orders to her, they later find out that a girl matching that description has never worked for the pub.

[roven75.livejournal.com]

I'd like to read this, I'm no good at writing though. :D
Sooo... what things come to your mind first when you think of Halloween?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hmmn... well, when I think of haunting I think of old decrepit houses, or I think of memories of things from the past... is that any good?

[roven75.livejournal.com]

Yes, that sounds good. I still don't have any ideas but I like the direction! Hopefully something will come to mind. Thank you! :)

[foreverfoxcat.livejournal.com]

Cool challenge! Go on then, gizza prompt please. :D I'll do my very best to come up with something worthy.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeay! Right...

“It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.” (James Douglas)