Happy Future Day!
Oct. 21st, 2011 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickOtherwise known as the day of poor Jennifer getting screwed around. Dragged off to the future in a time machine, knocked unconscious. left in an alley, taken to her future home by the police, discovered that her future life was kind of crappy, and then had a personal encounter with her future self that resulted in her fainting and hitting her head on the door.
-J: My only consolation is that Doc and Marty weren't exactly having a nice day either. Well, Marty certainly wasn't.-
-D: Even though I technically did none of that, allow me to apologize for my canon self's actions.-
-AJ: It's okay, Doc. I know it's not really your fault, but the Bobs.-
Indeed -- this is what happens when you suddenly have an extraneous character in the time machine at the beginning of the unplanned sequel.
In terms of honoring the day, I watched part of the future sequence of Part II over dinner (chicken noodle soup), and I wrote what I hoped to be a Drabbles88. However, I can't see my way to fitting it to a prompt. >.< This seems to happen to a lot of the things I write for the remaining Drabbles88 prompts.
-VD2: What are the remaining ones, anyway?-
6. Hours, 8. Weeks, 31. Snow, 33. Thunder, 69. Clock, 75. Solstice, 83. Green -- You'd think at least three of those would be easier to fill, but I'm not getting ideas that fit! I just --
Hang on.
-TD: What?-
I might be able to use one of those, if a slang variation fits. Just a sec.
Hmmm. Looking at the definitions for "to snow someone," such as "to burden them with something" or "to block someone or something in," Snow might fit this one. You tell me:
31. Snow
This was supposed to have been a simple plan. Something that would allow him to fix at least part of what had gone wrong in Marty’s life. Go back to 1985, pick up Marty, tell him about Marty Junior, have his teenage friend impersonate his own son to prevent said son from going to jail, bring him back home. Easy as that. Done in no more than a hour.
But things had gone wrong from the start. When he’d pulled up to Marty’s house, he hadn’t expected to catch the teen with his girlfriend. And when Marty had started going on about how he wanted to take a ride with Jennifer in his truck, Doc’s first instinct had been to say, “Bring her along!” After all, the twins were her children too – and, admittedly, Doc kind of wanted to show off his time machine to another person. What harm could it cause?
By the time they’d entered the future and Jennifer had started asking all those questions, though, Doc realized that he might have made a mistake. He wasn’t planning on staying here for long, and he really didn’t want to let his friends know too much about their own destiny. And the way Jennifer was acting, he wasn’t sure if he could get away with vague answers. The poor girl was just far too excited. So, he decided to knock her out. Just temporarily, of course – long enough for them to complete their business and go home. Marty would understand after he explained it, and he’d make it up to Jennifer later with a real time trip. With that in mind, he’d grabbed his sleep inducer, turned to strobe her –
And Marty had picked that moment to lean forward and ask, “Hey, what’s that?”
Now, hovering on the side of the skyway, staring at the unconscious Marty with Jennifer, Doc could only think of one thing to say.
“Well, shit.”
They've definitely got a burden there.
-M: *laugh* Doc just got snowed?-
LOL, yeah, exactly. The idea for the prompt -- in trying to sleep-induce Jennifer, Doc accidentally hits Marty -- has been around for a while, but I could never think of anything to do with it full story-wise. So I decided to go ahead and adapt it into a one-shot for today. And try to explain why Doc brought Jennifer along in the first place.
-VD: I know me. When I'm in a hurry, I don't think as well.-
Yeah, that's what I've always assumed. Good thing this didn't happen in the movie -- would have screwed everything up majorly.
-J2: On the other hand, we probably wouldn't have had to put up with Biff stealing the DeLorean. . . .-
Details, details. So, what do you guys think? Appropriate enough prompt to use? Or should it be a stand-alone oneshot?
And now, back to coming up with birthday presents for Doc's birthday tomorrow. I'm glad I switched to just "the most important people to the character give presents on-screen" format -- this gets tougher every year. *ponders*
-TTV: I think the real stress would come from knowing you have to come up with something appropriately incredible for Butterfly Boy.-
Actually, I think I've got him set -- for Clockwork, at least. He's gotta give something to his Doc too. . . .
-J: My only consolation is that Doc and Marty weren't exactly having a nice day either. Well, Marty certainly wasn't.-
-D: Even though I technically did none of that, allow me to apologize for my canon self's actions.-
-AJ: It's okay, Doc. I know it's not really your fault, but the Bobs.-
Indeed -- this is what happens when you suddenly have an extraneous character in the time machine at the beginning of the unplanned sequel.
In terms of honoring the day, I watched part of the future sequence of Part II over dinner (chicken noodle soup), and I wrote what I hoped to be a Drabbles88. However, I can't see my way to fitting it to a prompt. >.< This seems to happen to a lot of the things I write for the remaining Drabbles88 prompts.
-VD2: What are the remaining ones, anyway?-
6. Hours, 8. Weeks, 31. Snow, 33. Thunder, 69. Clock, 75. Solstice, 83. Green -- You'd think at least three of those would be easier to fill, but I'm not getting ideas that fit! I just --
Hang on.
-TD: What?-
I might be able to use one of those, if a slang variation fits. Just a sec.
Hmmm. Looking at the definitions for "to snow someone," such as "to burden them with something" or "to block someone or something in," Snow might fit this one. You tell me:
31. Snow
This was supposed to have been a simple plan. Something that would allow him to fix at least part of what had gone wrong in Marty’s life. Go back to 1985, pick up Marty, tell him about Marty Junior, have his teenage friend impersonate his own son to prevent said son from going to jail, bring him back home. Easy as that. Done in no more than a hour.
But things had gone wrong from the start. When he’d pulled up to Marty’s house, he hadn’t expected to catch the teen with his girlfriend. And when Marty had started going on about how he wanted to take a ride with Jennifer in his truck, Doc’s first instinct had been to say, “Bring her along!” After all, the twins were her children too – and, admittedly, Doc kind of wanted to show off his time machine to another person. What harm could it cause?
By the time they’d entered the future and Jennifer had started asking all those questions, though, Doc realized that he might have made a mistake. He wasn’t planning on staying here for long, and he really didn’t want to let his friends know too much about their own destiny. And the way Jennifer was acting, he wasn’t sure if he could get away with vague answers. The poor girl was just far too excited. So, he decided to knock her out. Just temporarily, of course – long enough for them to complete their business and go home. Marty would understand after he explained it, and he’d make it up to Jennifer later with a real time trip. With that in mind, he’d grabbed his sleep inducer, turned to strobe her –
And Marty had picked that moment to lean forward and ask, “Hey, what’s that?”
Now, hovering on the side of the skyway, staring at the unconscious Marty with Jennifer, Doc could only think of one thing to say.
“Well, shit.”
They've definitely got a burden there.
-M: *laugh* Doc just got snowed?-
LOL, yeah, exactly. The idea for the prompt -- in trying to sleep-induce Jennifer, Doc accidentally hits Marty -- has been around for a while, but I could never think of anything to do with it full story-wise. So I decided to go ahead and adapt it into a one-shot for today. And try to explain why Doc brought Jennifer along in the first place.
-VD: I know me. When I'm in a hurry, I don't think as well.-
Yeah, that's what I've always assumed. Good thing this didn't happen in the movie -- would have screwed everything up majorly.
-J2: On the other hand, we probably wouldn't have had to put up with Biff stealing the DeLorean. . . .-
Details, details. So, what do you guys think? Appropriate enough prompt to use? Or should it be a stand-alone oneshot?
And now, back to coming up with birthday presents for Doc's birthday tomorrow. I'm glad I switched to just "the most important people to the character give presents on-screen" format -- this gets tougher every year. *ponders*
-TTV: I think the real stress would come from knowing you have to come up with something appropriately incredible for Butterfly Boy.-
Actually, I think I've got him set -- for Clockwork, at least. He's gotta give something to his Doc too. . . .
