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The following was produced by [livejournal.com profile] prillalar's Valentine's Day drabble generator, using only vocabulary from Julius Caesar.

To Boldly Redress

Brutus and Cassius were celebrating a loving Valentine's Day together. Brutus had cooked a rude dinner and they ate to the Capitol by candlelight.

"My darling," Cassius said, stroking Brutus's eye, "I have something for you." He gave a box to Brutus. "It is but a great token of my just love."

Brutus opened the box. Inside was a noble ghost! He gazed at it quickly. Then he gazed at Cassius quickly. "It's true," Brutus said. "Come here and let me redress you."

Just then, a red crone sprang out of hiding and cackled dearer than Pluto's mine, richer than gold. "Your happiness will not last!" she said in a wise voice and dropped a piece of paper onto the dinner table.

Cassius read it. "It's a page from a diary. It says...it says that you're my brother."

They stared at each other dreadfully as the crone cackled some more. Brutus's thigh began to tremble. Then Cassius shrugged, pulled out a spark, and hit the crone on her hand. She fell over dead.

"Problem solved!" Brutus said and kissed Cassius strangely. "This is a stubborn Valentine's Day!"

They bravely burned the diary page in the candle and never told another soul.

And then they struck each other all night long.

end.

That was terrifyingly in-character.

Date: 2004-02-14 10:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dphearson.livejournal.com
*boggles*

Damn, that was in character.

Date: 2004-02-14 11:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threeoranges.livejournal.com
Replace "crone" with "irritating Poet" and it's practically Canon!! Thanks for that!

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Date: 2004-02-15 03:56 pm (UTC)
pauraque: patterned brown and white bird flying on a pale blue background (shakespeare)
From: [personal profile] pauraque
Bwah. So true.

Date: 2004-02-15 04:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] switchknife.livejournal.com
OMGTHATISSOCANON.

*laughs*

I think that's the best VD drabble I've seen thus far.

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Date: 2004-02-15 03:57 pm (UTC)
pauraque: patterned brown and white bird flying on a pale blue background (shakespeare)
From: [personal profile] pauraque
You'll probably appreciate my sentiment that Cassius is the sexiest character in Shakespeare. :)

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Date: 2004-02-15 04:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] switchknife.livejournal.com
Oh Gods yes.

I did base my LJ title on him, after all... :) There's something about 'lean and hungry' that makes me shiver.

Honestly, I don't know what he sees in Brutus. Although Brutus has a certain... appeal. If one likes simple-minded, hurried gropes from a nincompoop who doesn't realize how mad a certain someone is for him.

... Oh, hang on a second.

*sighs*

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Date: 2004-02-15 10:29 pm (UTC)
pauraque: patterned brown and white bird flying on a pale blue background (shakespeare)
From: [personal profile] pauraque
Hee! I was lucky enough to see a very good production last year where they really brought out the sexual tension. It was awesome.

I should finish that Brutus/Cassius fic I was working on...

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Date: 2004-02-16 01:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] switchknife.livejournal.com
*resists urge to... do something to Eodrakken*

Please please PLEASE. Brutus/Cassius. Yes. Fic. Yes. Write it now. YES.

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Date: 2004-02-16 09:55 pm (UTC)
pauraque: patterned brown and white bird flying on a pale blue background (shakespeare)
From: [personal profile] pauraque
Hee. I'm tryin'. Though sometimes I want to do Cassius/Caska, which always seemed like it would be interesting, given how Cassius channels his excitement over the conversation with Brutus towards Caska in the first half. Where they're talking in the storm... *shiver* In that slashy production I saw, Cassius actually kissed Caska at "there's a bargain made".

In the meantime, I knew there was a long thread where we talked about Brutus/Cassius, and here it is. The conversation turns to slash somewhere down in the comments.

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