due South snippet: "Tentacles" (Bob/Buck/Caroline)

[luzula]

Title: Tentacles
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Bob/Buck/Caroline
Rating: PG
Prompt: red
Length: 250 words
Summary: 1950's style sci-fi with a woman abducted in the arms of a tentacled alien! Except not.
Notes. This is kind of silly, I know. But I hadn't written a snippet since August, so I just decided to sit down and write one and this is what came out.

The alien was big, and red, and had tentacles in disconcerting places.

Caroline looked at it through the faceplate of her breather, and walked towards it slowly, with no sudden movements. She felt the alien tentacles envelop her hands, arms, torso. They were warm and dry and muscled, with the tips slightly moist.

"Careful," Bob's voice breathed into her headset.

"Who's the first contact specialist?" she muttered back.

Caroline held her breath and pressed the mechanism to release the scents that would communicate to the alien what they needed. The tentacles crowded round it, and released scents of its own that registered on the device. She glanced down at the screen for the translation.

"All right. It'll help us get the samples," she said, and disengaged slowly and carefully, feeling the tentacles slide over her skin.

"I thought it was going to carry you off in its arms at any moment," Buck said with a grin as she came back.

Caroline rolled her eyes. "What, and ravage me in its cave with its tentacles? This species happens to reproduce via parthenogenesis."

"Aww, don't spoil my fun."

"You can ravage me with your tentacle any time," Bob told Buck, waggling his eyebrow.

Caroline snorted, but smiled in spite of herself. "God. How do the men in my life have such terrible taste in puns?"

"You know you love us anyway," Bob said, still grinning.

"Yeah, I do, you doofus," Caroline said, bumping shoulders with him. "Come on, let's get those samples."

Comments

[seascribble]

Hee, Caroline the awesome first alien contact specialist! Bob and Buck with the ridiculous 12-year-old level dirty puns! That was great. :D

[luzula]

Thanks! It was fun to write something goofy and not too serious. : )

[jelazakazone]

I don't know the fandom at all, but this was adorable. I was surfing "network" :D

[luzula]

Hey, thanks! And hi, fellow podficcer. : )

Fandom knowledge is not really necessary for this, but canonically, Bob and Buck were Mountie partners in northern Canada in the 1950's and onwards. Caroline was Bob's wife, but canonically both of them were in love with her.

[sage]

D'awwww! :D

[luzula]

Thanks! : )

[hazelwho]

Aww, scientist!Caroline - I love it!! ♥

[luzula]

Thanks! It was fun to write.

[mergatrude]

I would watch this show/read this book!!!!

♥

[luzula]

Me too! I doubt I'll write more of it, though. It was fun, but I really have no plot for it other than the tentacle scene and the dirty pun. : )

[exbex]

And here I never thought anything could make me want to rewatch Forbidden Planet.

[luzula]

Hee. I still have not watched that, but I really should!

[scribe]

This is excellent!

[luzula]

Thank you! : )

[ride-4ever.livejournal.com]

Tentacles without tentacle!porn...this is "something different"!

I enjoyed seeing them in this setting. And I'm boggling at "red" having gotten them HERE.

[luzula]

Well, I admit I had the idea and then found a prompt that I could use for it. And yeah, it's fun to not do the expected thing!