AU meme: Adam &/ Georgie

[john_amend_all]

Here's the second set of drabbles; thisbluespirit prompted for Adam / Georgina. Despite my best efforts, they came out more gen than shippy.

1. Wild West

The getaway car skidded to a halt, nearly sending Georgie through the front windscreen. She looked across at Melville, but it was plain that his gang had other things on her mind than her.

Standing in the middle of the street, facing down the car and its occupants, was a figure that she recognised instantly. To her captors, though, he must have seemed like a gunslinger out of legend, with his top hat, formal tailcoat, long boots, and twin revolvers holstered at his waist.

His hands inches from his pistols, Adam Adamant addressed one word to the bewildered robbers.

"Draw."

2. Coffee Shop

"That's it for me, isn't it?" Georgie said, looking tearfully at the shattered fragments of the saucer. "I'll be out on my ear now."

"Why'd you think that?" Simms asked, looking up from mopping the floor.

"That's how I got the sack from Sinoda's. One breakage and you're out."

"Fortunately Mr Adamant is more forgiving." Simms permitted himself a private smile. "Particularly when it's a pretty young lady.

"The boss always allows a retake,
"When it's down to an honest mistake.
"Just between me and you,
"There's not much he won't do
"To ensure that a girl's heart won't break."

3. Shapeshifters

"Sir Henry Thompson." Adam covered the face of the recumbent figure with his handkerchief. "A sad end to a life of public service."

Georgie paced, her brow knotted in thought. "But if that's Sir Henry, he couldn't have got here after Tuesday night, could he? But he was at the peace conference yesterday! He was on TV and everything!"

"Precisely. The Sir Henry at the peace conference must be an exact duplicate."

"That's impossible!"

"Miss Jones, you have heard me mention the Face?"

"Of course."

"Then I suggest you consider what abilities the owner of such a name might possess."

4. Fantasy/Fairy Tale

The castle was just as it had been in the stories Georgina's grandfather had told her. Slim and unarmoured, she had been able to slip through the hedge of thorns where many a knight had found himself trapped.

Touching nothing, she'd explored the castle, marvelling at the princess slumped over her spinning wheel, and the lords and servants caught in charmed sleep.

In the gatehouse, as she left, she caught sight of the captain of the guard. On an impulse, she knelt down and kissed the sleeping figure on the lips.

And suddenly found how real the stories could be.

5. . . . In SPACE!!

Transposing Adam's backstory to space basically gives you the premise of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (heroic captain betrayed by his closest friend, trapped in a time warp for 300 years, awakes to find the Universe changed beyond recognition). But then I had a better idea: Adam's obviously a hero from an older kind of setting:

"You can't bring the Federation down," Georgie said gloomily. "Not when there's only one of you."

"Entirely correct, Miss Jones. Therefore it is necessary that there be more than one. You say the Federation caused your grandfather's death. How many people can say something similar?"

"I still think it's impossible."

"Perhaps it is. But it is our best chance." He tapped the glittering bracelet on his wrist. "Besides, they are unaware of the Lens's capabilities."

Georgie gave him a long look. "Do Lensmen have any rules about marrying?"

"It's encouraged. Why?"

"Just curious," Georgie said, smiling for the first time.

6. Apocalypse

I did write a drabble for this. But it wanted to grow, so rather than the original drabble here's the expansion on AO3: Regrettable Day

7. Schoolfic

"Gosh, thanks for that," Georgie said, retrieving her scattered textbooks.

"Since she was wearing a School House tie, I presumed she was a member of that house, and thus subject to my jurisdiction as house prefect," Adam replied. "Though the idea of the weaker sex attending St Austin's still seems unlikely to me."

"Weaker sex!" Georgie repeated incredulously. "Margo Kane isn't the weaker anything. She's a frightful bully. You'll have to watch your back now."

"Then she must be taught the error of her ways." Adam shook his head sadly. "The quality of prefects has obviously declined since my day."

8. Police/Firefighters/Medical/any other emergency service I can think of

In this case, coastguards. What's the point of nitpicking that they should be included, if I don't make use of it myself?

"Come off it," Georgie said. "You can't expect to just jump on board the boat and pick up where you left off."

"I don't deny that your age has made many advances in science and technology," Adam said. "But I doubt that the mindset of the typical smuggling gang has changed overmuch."

"Well, maybe." Another body in the patrol boat wouldn't hurt, Georgie inwardly admitted. "But I don't think you'll need that cutlass." She stifled a giggle. "And you certainly won't need that pirate hat!"

"The hat," Adam said, setting the tricorn hat firmly on his head, "is not negotiable."

9. Supernatural

"Oh," Georgie said. "Well, I suppose it would explain why you wear that gear. And all that stuff about being a hundred years old. And... well, just about everything. But shouldn't you frazzle in sunlight?"

"That is a common misconception," Adam said. "The sun merely weakens my abilities. If I had taken the form of a bat..."

"Hang on, you can change into a bat?"

"I can."

"I want to see you do it. Please?"

Adam looked pained. "A problem would arise when I returned to my normal form."

"You mean no clothes?" Georgie grinned. "OK, this I must see."

10. Regency

At the opening of the door, Adam was instantly on the alert. A surge of relief ran through him as he realised that the young woman on the threshold was none other than Georgina Jones, her muslin dress damp with exertion.

"Miss Jones," he said, and bowed as much as his bonds would allow.

Georgina smiled triumphantly. "Might I remind you of our wager?"

"Very well." Adam sighed. "I accept that I was sadly mistaken in the character of Miss Hardwood."

"And?"

"And she is most likely identical with that vile highwayman, the Shadow. Would you now please untie me?"

Comments

[pedanther]

Fun!

[john_amend_all]

Thanks!