Cheater -- PG

[Wind Fish]

At a different board I visit I saw a writing exercise with the following condition: Straight dialogue between two people where one person is out of place. Just for the hell of it I decided to try it. I ended up doing a couple of these and one happened to involve the series you're all at this board for. I'm not completely happy with it, the "one person is out of place" only fits loosely and I don't think I did a good job of making the characters' moods clear. But I don't think it's horrible and it's short so if you don't like it you only wasted a minute or two. For those reasons I'm posting it.

Because of the challenge right now there are no descriptions, just dialogue. If people seem to like the idea but not the execution I may go back and change that and clean it up a bit. Also, if I happened to make any contradictions to anything from the actual series, please point them out. This is based off early episodes and I'd like to know if I remembered things incorrectly. Thanks.


Characters: Connor and Jaime

Summary: Jaime comes to a realization. Set sometime after Secrets. I don't know when.

Words: 439

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"Hey, I just thought of something."

"What?"

"You've been cheating."

"Huh?"

"At our hockey games."

"How do you figure?"

"Your superpowers."

"Well, it's not like..."

"You knew of an unfair advantage you held over me without disclosing it. That's cheating."

"How exactly was I supposed to... never mind. So what do you want me to do about it?"

"Apologize."

"You're insane."

"And you're pathetic. A superhero taunting a regular nobody every time you scored."

"You're the one who would always go on about how you wouldn't lose to someone who's never seen ice. I needed to put you in your place."

"If I had your abilities I wouldn't lose. But since I don't, we need to make some new rules."

"This outta be fun."

"First, every goal I score is worth three."

"Since you can't score unless I let you, I don't think that'll help."

"Ha ha. Rule two: You can't shoot unless you're 50 feet away."

"I guess that's fair enough."

"Last rule: When you're the goalie you can't use a stick."

"That's it?"

"For now. I can't think of anything else at the moment."

"Alright, I'll agree to those. I'll just stop holding back."

"What?"

"You heard me. I'll try my hardest the next time we play."

"You can't mean..."

"I never use my powers, not like when I fight. If I hit the puck too hard I might hurt you. And the puck would probably just rip right through the net. So yeah, I hold back."

"I don't believe this."

"Sure, I still may have been at least a little faster and stronger due to my true heritage, but I wasn't exactly using vampire speed and strength against you either.

"Thanks. I finally am able to retrieve at least a small part of my self-esteem and you go and take it away. I hope you're happy."

"Sorry. But really, you're taking this way too seriously."

"In New York I was always one of the better players. Hockey was the one sport I could compete in. Then you come along and constantly wipe the floor with me. I never understood how. Now, I think knowing you never tried you're best, special circumstances or not, makes me feel worse."

"Crap, now you're making me feel bad."

"Good. Well, at least we can still always team up and humiliate others."

"Yeah, that's always fun."

"And I can still kick your ass at NHL 2005."

"Like hell you can!"

"Bring it on, Riley. Hook up the Playstation and..."

"Dammit!"

"What?"

"I forgot to tell you, we only have one working controller. Andrew broke the other one playing Star Trek: Shattered Universe. He couldn't save the Klingon Starbase from the Doomsday Machine and he took his frustrations out on our Dual Shock."

"Oh. So now what?"

"Uh... Tic-Tac-Toe. First one to five wins. Loser does the dishes."

"Give me X's and you're on."

"...I'll flip you for 'em."

[Emcee]

LOL! That's hilarious! Jamie and Connor are so competitive.

[Buffy8Fan]

This was a lot better than To Much To Handle. I loved this so much I fell out of my chair laughing. Especially at the line, "Like hell you can." Keep it up and please either make them this funny or tie them into the show's storylines (that is if you keep writing them; you seem to be the only one who is).

[Wind Fish]

I'm glad you two liked it. Because of the good responses to my stories so far I won't hesitate to keep writing if I have ideas. At least until you guys tell me you're sick of 'em.

I would like to try something more serious next time. But if I do a piece that ties into the main storylines, I'd be worried about contradicting the series down the road. I know (assuming the story is good) no one would care if I did since what I write isn't canon, but I'm weird like that. In addition, I'd rather write something that Emcee doesn't touch on. So we'll see.

I also need an idea. I'm fresh out.

I do have motivation for writing another TNP story though. I would like to try writing Salome at least once. She was supposed to be in my first story but she wrote herself out of it. Why does she have to be difficult?

And I just realized that in both of my stories Andrew has been linked to Star Trek. If he worms his way into the next one I'll have to give him another interest.

[Emcee]

I doubt I'll get sick of your stories. Every time you post another, I always run up to Pablo and go, "thewindfish wrote another fanfic! Wahoo!" Serious (well, maybe I don't say wahoo, but you know what I mean). I like that you feel my stuff is good enough to merit fanfic.

I think there's a lot of stuff I don't get to cover in canon-- such as silly stuff like the boys being competitive, so there's lots of room to do stuff that won't happen.

Surprisingly, Salome is one of the characters that comes easiest to me (for the record, Jamie is my most difficult). I guess it's just different writers.

If you *did* want to do a story with Salome that wouldn't interact with my canon, you could always write Connor and Salome patrolling (which happened much more frequently in canon than was shown). Or, if you were so inclined, Connor and Salome's first date (which I'm sure went just GREAT, considering their luck and intense desire to hide from Andrew). Just a thought. I know I won't be covering that stuff.

Andrew's also into Star Wars, X-Files, James Bond and Monty Python.

[Wind Fish]

You don't say wahoo? Aw, now I'm disappointed.

Surprisingly, Salome is one of the characters that comes easiest to me (for the record, Jamie is my most difficult). I guess it's just different writers.

When I sat down to write Too Hard to Handle, the first thing I did was determine each character's reaction to cleaning the new apartment. Salome's reaction was, "Well, good luck, guys. I'm off to see what Oni's up to. Later, Ace." So she was gone from the story before I even started.

But my biggest concern I've had with fanfic ideas is whether I'd be able to write the characters correctly. So when I actually wrote these two stories, I wasn't sure if I was true to who everyone was supposed to be or if I got their mannerisms down. I'm assuming at this point that I was close enough. Although they're both just short side stories so it's not like I had a lot of room to mess up.

I do think I have a good enough grasp on the three males. I am a little uncomfortable with writing each of their geekish sides, though. I'm afraid I'd screw that up if I went into any detail. Now if they liked football...

With Salome, the idea of writing her for more than a couple of lines just completely intimidates me. I have no idea why. Her personality is probably the one I relate to the most. So maybe once I actually start to write her it'll come easy. I just need an idea that she'll stick around for. Which leads me to...

Connor and Salome patrolling... Connor and Salome's first date

The wheels are starting to turn on both of these. We'll see if anything of substance comes from them. I'm already picturing their first date being something hilarious. It's what I do, turn everything into a comedy.

Andrew's also into Star Wars, X-Files, James Bond and Monty Python.

Andrew originally was going to have played a Star Wars game. But when I looked at the game list, that Star Trek game jumped out at me. I have no clue why. I even took the time to look up what mission he got stuck at. It was #8.


Also, can I post the other dialogue story I did? I'd guess that it could go into one of the two General sections (it's a really short original piece). But I'm not sure so I thought I'd ask first.

[Emcee]

Yeah. I don't say wahoo. But I DO report about it in my LJ.

Salome's reaction was, "Well, good luck, guys. I'm off to see what Oni's up to. Later, Ace." So she was gone from the story before I even started.

Well, that's EXACTLY how Salome would act.

I think you're handling the guys all right for the situations you're putting them in. So don't worry about it.

And yeah, Connor and Salome's first date would be humourous.

The other other dialogue fic you wrote is related to the Buffyverse, it goes in "Other Diversions", under Buffy and Angel (Deacon has posted her). If it's not Buffy related, post it in "Other interests" (under general).