Liver 11, True Blue 24: Bellweather

[bookblather]

Author: Kat
Title: Bellweather
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Liver 11 (feet), true blue 24 (With friends like this, who needs enemies?), chartreuse 4 (Hélas! nous n'avons plus l'estomac de nos pères. / Alas! we don't have our fathers' stomachs anymore.) with subluxate's paint-by-numbers (Who knew about that food allergy?)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, seed beads, glue (Resist the temptation to criticize your friends now), glitter (discovery), oils (a domestic comedy), stickers (butterflies taste with their feet).
Word Count: 100.
Rating: G.
Summary: In which Duncan discovers yet another food allergy.
Warnings: none (thanks, Kelly!)
Notes: Duncan is allergic to shellfish, peanuts, tomatos, strawberries, bananas, apples, and citrus fruits, as well as being celiac. He discovered six of these seven allergies while sharing food with Ahava. Hence the title.


"Goddamnit, Ahava," Duncan said, and tossed back the Benadryl like a shot.

"Don't blame me," Ahava objected mildly, paying close attention to his breathing. It seemed fine, if a little raspy, and his foot was the only thing swelling, which was idiosyncratic and fucking hilarious.

"My shoes don't even fit anymore!" he said. "Goddamnit, why is it that whenever I eat something you give me I go into anaphylactic shock?"

"This isn't anaphylactic shock," she said, and rolled her eyes. "It's just a bad reaction. And hey, now you know not to eat shellfish."

Duncan's only response was extremely profane.

Comments

[subluxate]

Warnings: background violence, character death o.O

Oh, poor Duncan, man. Poor dude. But his FOOT, that IS hilarious!

[bookblather]

Fixed. *grumbles about templates*

That's actually based off a friend I had in college. He was allergic to strawberries and whenever he accidentally ate one, his foot would swell. Nothing else. Just his foot. He used to joke that he had gout.

[subluxate]

Do you copy-paste from your previous header for each new one?

That really is hilarious and probably not fatal. Not terribly good for his foot, I'm sure, but not bad for the rest of him, either.

[bookblather]

I do, yeah. I probably need to pay more attention.

Surprisingly, his foot has done nothing so far except hurt when his shoes are too tight. So whatever works.

[subluxate]

I was wondering because I keep a text doc for each story's header. So in my "In Progress" folder, there's "PF RF header", etc. For me, it's a lot easier.

[bookblather]

*nods* I probably should do that? Especially now that Word opens all the documents I had open automatically.

[subluxate]

It also means I don't, say, accidentally leave the title and summary and even prompts from the previous fic. Did that once on RATS. Oops. I think Sara was the only one who saw it, though.

[bookblather]

Hah, yeah. Though I'm not adverse to the occasional public embarrassment. I feel it makes me more approachable as a mod. :D

[subluxate]

Lol, agreed. It's like facepalm-worthy summaries or titles.

[isana]

Oh, God, poor guy. At least it's much better than anaphylactic shock by a long shot, but that does stink!

[bookblather]

It really, really, REALLY does. His life, Isana. His life.

[finch]

Really, of all possibly allergic reactions, that's probably the best. But still, poor Duncan. XD

[bookblather]

I know. XD His life. How is it so ridiculous.

[shipwreck_light]

Well, I have to agree with looking on the bright side here. It could have been a lot worse!

But, I still feel bad laughing at Duncan's pain.

*barely contained snickers here*

[bookblather]

Nah, laugh at it. It's that or cry.

Thanks!