Trope meme

[ptahrrific]

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I’ll tell you something about the story I’d write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write):

space!AU
pretending to be married
mistletoe kiss
game night
handcuffed together
snowed-in
next-door neighbors AU
fantasy AU
day at the beach
celebratory kiss
apocalypse fic
sharing a bed
road trip
genderswap



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[ptahrrific]

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Hmmm.

I'm thinking the kind of spontaneous, pouncing, I'm-so-proud-of-you kiss -- which means it has to be Madoka initiating, because she's the one who can express sincere affection that way. Sayaka will glomp someone in a joking way (or if she can pretend it's a joking way), but keeps her actual emotions much more tightly clamped down.

So it has to be Sayaka who does something impressive. Not something puella magi related, either, because even at her most healthy she's so careful to making that look effortless; it would hurt her pride to think Madoka thought she needed encouragement the way Homura does.

How about this, then (possibly in a no-powers AU, because there's no way to cram it in the canon timeframe): Sayaka's spent so much time looking up stuff for Kyousuke and visiting Kyousuke and losing sleep worrying about Kyousuke that she fails a major test. Madoka offers to help her study for the make-up exam. So Sayaka ends up staying at her house on a regular basis, and she's a little suspicious that it's going to devolve into their usual snacks-and-movies routine, but Madoka turns out to be a surprisingly tough taskmaster for someone so adorable. She makes flash cards! She comes up with mnemonics! They set stuff to music! (That last one turns out to be Sayaka's secret weapon. Once you make it hummable, she has it down cold.)

Before going in to take the make-up exam, Sayaka gives Madoka a sincere, emotionally open hug for once. Madoka spends the whole time pacing outside the room, fretting like a worried mother hen.

At last the grade comes in the mail, and obviously Sayaka knows Madoka has to be there to see it. She opens the envelope...it's a nearly perfect grade. She cheers. Madoka claps, then pounces her and kisses her. "I'm so proud of you, Sayaka-chan!"

On some level Sayaka is baffled by this, because it isn't like she helped anyone by taking that test, she was doing it all for herself...but mostly she's distracted by the revelation that she gets to make out with Madoka now.

They don't pay much attention to the movies or snacks on their next sleepover, either :D