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The K I D N A P P E D Meme

Has your character ever been spirited away against their will? Either dragged out for a night on the town by a friend, or forcibly tied up and stuffed into a duffle bag by a masked stranger and whisked away to a dark abandoned warehouse? No? Well now's your chance. Whether you want to play out something silly, fluffy, sexy, or even a little on the dark side, this is the meme for you!

The rules:

1) Post with your characters and put their names and fandoms in the subject line.

2) Reply to other characters and either roll with the RNG to pick a number, or if you'd prefer, just pick one that you really want to play out.

3) The person replying is now kidnapping the person who originally posted. Play out the scenario and have fun.

4) If there are any scenarios you don't want to do, make a note of it. If someone doesn't want to do a scenario that you really want to do, please respect their wishes.

5) Don't be shy! Try tagging with someone new!

The Scenarios:

1) Friendly Kidnap: Your friend has come around to take you out, and they're not taking no for an answer. Whether it's for a movie, drinks, or shopping you really don't seem to have much of a choice...

2) Romantic Kidnap: Similar to the above, but replace friend with lover. You've noticed your lover seems a bit down, or maybe you just want some time with them. In any case, go out and get them! It's not like they have anything better to do right?

3) Tough Love Kidnap: Your student/friend/lover/charge/random acquaintance has been ignoring their training/studies/duties and spending too much time monkeying about. Normally you can tolerate it, but today is the last straw. It's time to go out, haul them to where they actually need to be, and watch them like a hawk until they do what they need to. You may need to... restrain them to make sure they don't get away...

4) Kinky Kidnap: It's time to spice up your love life. You read somewhere that some couples enjoy kidnap fantasies with their lovers, especially those that enjoy bondage. So grab your fuzzy cuffs, silk blindfolds and riding crops, it's time for a sexy kidnapping. Either tell your lover, or leave it a surprise. OR, maybe this person isn't your lover at all, but someone you've admired from a distance and want to finally make yours whether they want it or not? Either way, have fun. NOTE: This scenario has a very high likelihood of going into NC-17 smut territory. If you don't want smut for your character, or if you'd rather not do this scenario altogether, please make a note of it.

5) Srs Bsns Kidnap: Time to put your ski mask and black leather gloves on, you're kidnapping this person for srs. Maybe they're from a rich family and you want the ransom money. Maybe you're kidnapping them for political reasons. Maybe they're your enemy and you're trying to get them out of the way. Maybe you're a psycho and want to kidnap them just cause. Or hell, maybe this is a college prank? Either way, get your burlap sack out and clean out the trunk of your car, you have some live merchandise to transport. NOTE: This scenario could potentially contain triggers for violence or mindfuck (or it could just as possibly be cracky and fun). If this is not your cup of tea, please make a note of it.

6) DIY Kidnap: Don't like any of these scenarios? Make your own!

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Immediately, she hides the container behind her back. Pretty ineffective, since he's already seen it. But it's instinctual.

"Uh." She's trying so hard not to laugh. She really is. But he makes such a hilarious picture. "I had no choice! You were being influenced by the artifact," she explains, pointing to the small, soaked coat. "Which you were also laying on. And you were threatening me with a knife! ..It's under the fridge now." DON'T. LAUGH.

He gets to his feet, neutralizer dripping from his sleeves and forming pools on the floor of Leena's (original) bed and breakfast and takes a step forward. "Right. And, um, it didn't occur to you that the most sensible course would have been to pour the neutralizer on it instead of on me?!"

Honestly, would it kill Claudia, once in a while, to think things through before she did them? This is exactly how she got into trouble with Tesla's coat!

"No, but, neutralizer doesn't work on all artifacts! So there's no way I could have been sure it would work. And this way, if it hadn't, you'd at least be at a disadvantage, see? I mean if you were to try and chase me right now you'd probably slip and fall." She can't help it any longer, not with the look on his face and the dripping goo and his beard all stained purple. "And on the positive side of things, look, you're finally wearing an actual color!"

He isn't in the mood to deal with her clothing commentary, particularly from a whippersnapper who can't even decide what color she wants her hair to be from one week to the next.

He stalks towards her and yanks off his glasses, which are still smeary nearly to the point of uselessness. He hands them to her with a scowl and his voice is flat. "Kitchen. Clean these. Then get a mop." While he takes care of the now-neutralized Artifact.

The laughter stops abruptly, and she takes the glasses handed to her, holding them carefully. "Right. Cleaning. Gotcha." She turns and takes the glasses to the sink, looking a bit crestfallen as she washes off the neutralizer.

Oh Artie, don't you know her teasing is just how she shows affection? And to be honest a certain amount of her glee had simply been because he was actually being Artie again. She really was worried that the neutralizer might not work. She's not sure what she'd have done if it hadn't. And she tries not to think about it as she dries the glasses off and hands them back to him, along with a small towel. "Here. I'll go find the mop."

The grumpy front holds up just until she's out of the room, and then he sinks into the nearest chair and puts his head into her hands. The memory of what he'd done came crashing back. He could have killed her. He would have killed her, to 'protect' her. If she hadn't been thinking so quickly...

He couldn't afford to make mistakes like this. They got people killed.

When she comes back with the mop and sees him like that, her heart breaks a little. She drops the mop onto the floor and runs over to him. She hugs him, despite the fact he's still soaked in neutralizer. She doesn't even care. "This is why you need to bring me along on missions. This never would have happened if I'd known more about the artifact. I would have been on guard!"

He makes grumpy indistinct noises at the hug, but he doesn't really protest seriously. He doesn't return the hug--he's not good at that kind of thing--but he lets her hug him.

She still sees the Warehouse as a game--a fun, exciting game (at least, he thinks she does). He's seen it kill, mutilate, or break so many good men and women, and sometimes? Times like this, he hates himself for bringing her into this world. Artie, the fact that he's been an agent so long and he's still alive and sane...that's the exception, not the rule.

Not a game. Not exactly. Or if it is a game to her, it's more like a game of chess. What she wants more than anything really is to impress Artie, to prove that she's an asset, that she's useful. After all, he's done so much for her already.

She pulls away from the hug and stands up, taking the silence (and the lack of a return hug) to mean he's disappointed in her. Maybe she didn't react to the whole ordeal the way he'd wanted her to. And honestly she'd thought she did pretty well. "Right. You want me to clean." She picks the mop up from where she dropped it, and begins cleaning the purple goo off of the floor.

Artie sighs and pulls himself to his feet, adjusting his glasses. He hesitates, and then reaches out to squeeze her shoulder gently. He's not...good at this kind of thing. And he gets scared. He panics, and when he panics, he snaps at people.

Artie had a complicated relationship with his own father, whom he could never really impress, so some people might think he'd understand that Claudia just wants to make him proud. Actually, he hasn't got the faintest clue.

Claudia looks back at him when he squeezes her shoulder, and smiles slightly. She resumes cleaning, but with a little more enthusiasm now. "So what was that artifact, anyway?"

Artie takes out gloves and picks it up. And by the way, don't ask how he got whammied in the first place. It could have happened to anybody, really.

"Uh, it belonged to a child named Bobby Dunbar." He pushes up his glasses. "He was a child who was kidnapped in 1912. They supposedly located him later, although there was always, uh, some question about whether he was actually the right child."

Hey, she didn't ask. And after the incident with the whole "Iron Shadow" thing, she tends to think some artifacts can just... find certain people to manipulate. (It was way too much of a coincidence that a comic book geek would just run into an artifact that would turn him into a superhero.)

"Huh. Considering it's now an artifact, I'd say probably not the right child. Too bad they didn't have paternity testing in 1912. Man, that must have been hard on the kid's real parents, though."

It was stupider than that. He...sort of slipped on a wet floor and fell into the coat. Not that he'll ever admit to doing something so stupid.

"Single mother, so yeah. It probably was."

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