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Donatello ([personal profile] bostaff) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2013-11-08 08:31 am

The Shippy and/or Smutty Bodyguard Meme

the bodyguard meme
never let her out of your sight. never let your guard down.
You're a pop star, or a royal, or maybe even the last of your kind who will bring about the Earth's redemption. Whatever the case may be, you're in a position that may be a bit dicey if you attract the wrong kind of attention.

And you're a bodyguard, a soldier, a knight - a protector. Somehow, you've been roped into protecting this person. You'll be rewarded, of course. The work may be cut out for you, but just do your job, keep your head down, and it'll go smooth.

Except for when the two of you break the bounds of professionalism and feelings begin to flourish. Being in such close quarters may get you to see the other in a different light, and saving someone's life just may be the ultimate form of intimacy.

Could this be the real danger? To feel so strongly for the one you've sworn to protect...are you compromised?


How to Play
1. Comment with your character and preferences, being sure to put if you want to play the guard, the guarded, or either. Also, you may want to put if you prefer fluffy, angsty, or smutty interaction - or have no preference.
2. Comment to others.
3. There are no prompts, because there are so many potential options there could be a hundred. Feel free to play anything: the beginnings of the relationship, just meeting, getting used to each other/not getting along at first, the obligatory first time, a threat on the protected's life and how their protector responds, how the feelings between the two has changed the protection, etc. Your only limit is you.
never fall in love.
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[personal profile] screw_fate 2014-01-09 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)

Naturally, they were being watched; the whole purpose of this mission was a test. What good would it be if he were unobserved in his testing?

But that didn't mean the end of her hopes -- after all, what more proof than being able to slip something past his watchers? He hummed a noncommittal response, letting his gaze wander pointedly around the tearoom. "Are we not being watched, Yamanaka-san? Is that not precisely the eventually against which you hired me?"

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[personal profile] cosmostips 2014-02-02 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
She rolled one shoulder in a careless shrug, to all appearances completely unconcerned about the possibility. And she was, really. Who cared about who was watching right now? She didn't have anything to lose from failing to crack the ice prince. And as for her character?

"Then I'd get to see you in action." A smile over the rim of her teacup. "If we're being watched, maybe you should get rid of the people watching. That's the easiest way to do it, isn't it?"
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[personal profile] screw_fate 2014-02-04 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)

"It has complications," he countered simply. "It is always better to keep your enemies known. If it becomes necessary later to eliminate them..." Well. He was pretty sure their hidden watchers would spice the mission up if it proved to be going too well.

"Let me worry about such things," he added. "That is why you hired me. You just enjoy the journey."

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[personal profile] cosmostips 2014-03-14 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Her smile quirked up at the corners, quietly approving. A good answer.

All of it was, really, as disappointing as some of them were. Really, at this rate she'd have a hard time doing anything but give him a passing grade on her end (she wasn't nearly petty enough to fail him for not responding to her advances). Instead, she only sighed and tilted her head back to finish the last few sips of her tea before setting the cup down with a soft clunk.

"Then I suppose we'd better continue our journey, Neji-kun."
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[personal profile] screw_fate 2014-03-14 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)

"I suppose we should," he agreed. "At your pleasure, my lady." Polite, leaving the direction of the journey to the client -- but providing protection in the meantime.

Out on the road, he was alert to an ambush, moving with a grace like a hunting cat as he searched in all directions for their inevitable ambush.