Comments | alias500: AU Bingo ficlet: "The Cradle"

yahtzee63 in alias500

AU Bingo ficlet: "The Cradle"

Jan 26, 2011 22:36

The au_bingo prompt is "Kid Fic," which we were invited to interpret liberally. And thus we have this. Oriented in Season Four.

( The Cradle )

misc fic, author: yahtzee

Comments 30

butterflykiki January 27 2011, 04:54:23 UTC

*laughs until cries*

You know, Jack and I totally agree on Rambaldi. Way the hell more trouble than he's worth.

And Arvin is always all OOOOO SHINY. As if it can't destroy you if it's shiny.

Great child-characterization on Marshall and Dixon (heee!) and great Jack-voice.

yahtzee63 January 27 2011, 06:01:24 UTC

So glad you liked! Wee Arvin would indeed find it so shiny.

sunshine_queen January 27 2011, 05:41:46 UTC

I literally cannot even. This is so genius and crazy and darling and of course Jack wasn't around, he's not foolish enough to be involved in these kinds of shenanigans. (Also, I'm just picturing Vaughn and Syd walking around holding hands like Darla and Alfalfa and the preciousness gets stronger. AND TINY ARVIN OH MY GOD.)

yahtzee63 January 27 2011, 06:02:07 UTC

:D So glad you enjoyed it! You know Jack finds none of this cute. Well, Sydney. And maybe Nadia a little bit. But no more.

derevko_child January 27 2011, 06:26:27 UTC

HAHAHAHA! OMG. This is so cuuuuute. I can just imagine furrow-browed, 4-year-old Vaughn with smudges on his face. HEE. And Marshall! And everybody!

yahtzee63 January 27 2011, 17:45:36 UTC

Cute little spies! :)

mermaid88 January 27 2011, 07:22:21 UTC

"Jack had never understood Arvin’s fascination with Rambaldi artifacts - for many reasons, but among them was the fact that nobody ever seemed to understand precisely what one of the devices did until it was activated. What if the machine in question did something you didn’t want it to do?"

EXACTLY. i always thought, what if sloane's going gaga over getting the latest Rambaldi in order to build his doomsday device and then later its all built and stuff, then it turns out to be something completely lame, it just *looked* badass: 'now introducing the latest in Apple technology....The Rambaldi!!!! there's an app for that!'

yahtzee63 January 27 2011, 17:46:24 UTC

... now that you mention it, Apple and Rambaldi aren't that far apart, are they? And you'd keep on building the devices, just in case one of them is the iPhone.

cassi0pei4 January 27 2011, 14:09:59 UTC

Oh God this is adorable. At first I was thinking, "Oh, Marshall can fix this" but then, of course, Marshall was affected too! And poor Jack! The only adults he talks to (because we all know his friends outside of work are limited...or nonexistent) are now four. On the up side, if it can't be reversed, maybe Jack will be a better father to Sydney this time around.

Also, when I saw there was a new alias500 fic I had a near Pavlovian reaction of joy. :)

yahtzee63 January 27 2011, 17:47:21 UTC

Jack is now basically the unhappiest scouting troop leader of all time.