Writer's WIP meme

When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

Oooh, fun. :)

"You're attempting to bribe an officer of the law. That's a serious beef if I wanted to stick it."
"No," Taylor said. "No bribe. I've got you figured now, Detective, and I know you won't bite for that. I'm just asking now."
"You're asking me to neglect to report information that could be an important lead. That's withholding evidence. Anyone sniffs that and they could send me packing with no questions asked. Give me one reason I should stick my neck out like that for you and your girlfriends."
"Because it's quite possible you need help from someone involved in my boss's racket to crack this thing, but we're only willing to cooperate if you give us a safety jacket. And because this isn't just any case to you; it's more personal with you. You know it's got to be you who's going to find the son of a bitch who capped that kid because nobody else is going to care to go digging deep enough to solve some homocide."
"Why should I give a fuck if the kid was a swish?" Brian asked. "I didn't know him. He's just another number lying on a slab."
Taylor grinned knowingly, making him feel uncomfortable. "You know, I was only making small talk when I asked about your medal. I already knew how you got it. I know how your partner got shot. I know it was a while after that you got divorced. I know your son Gus is three years old now. We've done our research, Bird, and I know everything about you."
- "Out of Nowhere", a crime story set in Los Angeles in 1957 (Queer as Folk - Brian/Justin - AR)

"You're not just any woman to him," Theo presumed, as if he knew it for a fact. "But he don't like it to show. What happened? You didn't love him?"
Elizabeth realized a little slowly that he was looking over toward the helm at Jack, and she just felt frozen for a moment. Then she looked back at Theo.
"No. Not that Jack you see over there. Not Captain Jack Sparrow, the legend. But a couple times I did meet the real Jack. I would guess that you've met him, too."
Theo smiled understandingly, and nodded.
She nodded, too. "Some day, maybe I'll get to see him again. But loving one man who is hardly ever around is quite enough for me."
Theo glanced over at Jack again, still smiling. "Well. At least you an' me know he's in there somewhere."
- "The Voyage To Fiddler's Green" (Pirates of the Caribbean - Elizabeth/Jack)

Stephan turned and seemed to freeze up a moment when he saw Brian. "Well, fuck me. You're Brian?"
He grinned. "How's it going?"
Stephan looked at Justin with wide eyes. "Shit, dude."
"Uncle Goddamn," Luke sighed, pulling him back around to sit back down in his seat like he was a child. "You want to quit ogling him?"
"Sorry, it's just..." Steph glanced back at him in the rearview mirror. "You really don't...look thirty-six," he barely managed to finish before starting to giggle a little.
"Thanks," Brian said with a smirk.
"Steph!" Luke said seriously. "Eleanor fuckin' Rigby, shithead."
Steph looked at him in shock. "Oh, come on, I don't want to-"
Justin started to crack up laughing, hunching over and gripping his stomach, and then Luke started laughing, too.
"What the fuck?" Brian asked.
Justin motioned for him to lean over and he started to whisper something in his ear, but Steph saw them and said, "Oh, no, Justin! You can't tell him what our code word means!"
"Eleanor Rigby is a code word?" Brian said, smiling in amusement. "For what?"
- "Remember This", a sequel to "Precious" (Queer as Folk - Brian/Justin, OC/OC)

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