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[wizened_cynic]

Okay, people, BEST FIC MEME EVER.

1. Pick a card on someecards.com. Any card.

2. I will write something for you based on that e-card. I pick the pairing/characters, so you may end up with Alex/Lorelai, or you may end up with Ben babysitting drunk!Stephanie, or you may end up with CHAD. Isn't that delightful? (If anything with Chad can ever be delightful.)

Okay? DO IT DO IT DO IT.

I promise to actually write for the prompts this time.



Give me something to do while I wait for Canadian SVU and Parenthood?

ALSO, PLEASE VOTE FOR LORELAI GILMORE. I love Bones, but THERE IS NO CONTEST. A VOTE FOR LORELAI IS A VOTE FOR SHINY HAIR AND AWESOME BOOBS, WHICH I JUST REALIZED ALSO APPLIES TO BONES, BUT LET'S JUST OVERLOOK THAT FOR A MOMENT AND CONCENTRATE ON VOTING FOR LORELAI. KTHXBAI.

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[wizened-cynic.livejournal.com]

I really wanted to write Temperance Brennan for this, but then I remembered I really don't know how to write Temperance Brennan. (Side note: Temperance is starting to seem like a legit name to me after typing it so many times.) So instead, you get a future timestamp for the bun_in_oven universe. Did you even read that fic? I don't remember.

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Deep down, Alex knows that she and her daughter will never have what Lorelai and Rory have, and for the most part, she's fine with it. She believes in boundaries, a concept that unfortunately seems to elude everyone else in Stars Hollow, and that parents should be parents, not friends.

Still, it kills her a little that Gracie will always like Lorelai better.

"You're being irrational," Huang says, which is an obvious conclusion, evidenced by the very fact that she's talking to him about this. She doesn't have enough time to see a therapist, which is fine because she doesn't believe in therapy, and what little time she has she should be spending with her child anyway.

"Everyone likes Lorelai better." It sounds pettier when she says it out loud, but it's the truth.

What she doesn't say is that Lorelai has two kids, and Alex only has one. Alex carried Gracie for nine months and nursed her until her maternity leave ended. It should only be fair that Gracie likes Alex just as much, if not slightly more, than Lorelai.

"She's going to be the cool mom," Alex continues, ignoring the careful, analytical way Huang is studying her. "She's going to be the one Gracie wants to talk to. I'll just be the one who asks her if she's started studying for the SATs yet."

She doesn't want to be relegated to that position, but it seems inevitable. She's not good with babies or small children unless it involves prepping them for the stand or removing them to foster care. Alex doesn't even like kids; she likes her own, of course, but kids in general make her nervous.

"The relationship between parent and child is a complicated one."

Sometimes it frightens her how often Huang is called to be an expert witness.

"I'm sure you and your mother had a relationship that was different from the one you had with your father. Maybe there was something you two shared, or bonded over, that you didn't have with your father. It doesn't mean you love your father any less, and the same applies vice versa."

Huang might be the least helpful psychiatrist in the city, but Alex feels a little better hearing him say it.

"Don't overthink it, Alex," Huang says. "You're going to be a great mother."

Alex smiles, not believing him entirely.

That night she engages in the world's longest peek-a-boo session with Gracie, who gurgles happily whenever Alex appears behind the arm of the sofa. How did I end up like this, Alex wondered to herself, desperate for the attention of a tiny person who doesn't even have teeth?

"You don't have to like me better," she whispers to the baby as she picks her up for a fresh change of clothes. Excessive laughter in infants cause projectile vomiting. It's almost insulting that Alex is craving the approval of someone who has just demonstrated it.

"You just have to like me as much as you like her. I mean, I get it. I really like her too. She has her merits," she concedes as Gracie makes a grab for her glasses, "but I can get you to pass the bar on your first try."

[mayireadtoday.livejournal.com]

I love the baby-for-Bones episode of Bones. Why did they drop that plotline? To quote Angela: "That baby is going to be adorable."

"The relationship between parent and child is a complicated one."

Sometimes it frightens her how often Huang is called to be an expert witness."

This made grin like a demented monkey.

"You just have to like me as much as you like her. I mean, I get it. I really like her too. She has her merits," she concedes as Gracie makes a grab for her glasses, "but I can get you to pass the bar on your first try." -- Oh, Alex, I love you.

[wizened-cynic.livejournal.com]

That was such a great episode. Ugh, stupid writers. THEY NEED TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE BABIES. (My Bones/Booth shipper only comes out twice a year, I promise.)

Alex and BABIES are the best thing next to Brennan and babies.

[theagonyofblank.livejournal.com]

"but I can get you to pass the bar on your first try."

This made me grin. I love the interaction between Alex and Gracie.

[metalphoenix.livejournal.com]

Aww, don't be emo, Alex. You end up making poor decisions like actually going to Huang for advice :/

[annapie.livejournal.com]

Awww. And Huang snark!