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Apple Sauce

Apple Sauce: Baloney, Nonsense [Slang, Informal; Early 20th Century]

[ii. 50/50: One hundred divided by two divided by two; a series of single-sentence prompt responses completed for LJ's 50foryou challenge. Pre- and Post-Series; there's even one set right after the clash with Locomon if you can spot it]

ii. 50/50

01) Program: Though the D-Reaper destroyed, it did so only because that was what it had been programmed to do - he, unfortunately, had no such excuse.

02) Ironic: ‘Sooo,’ he drawled, dropping bonelessly into the seat next to her as if they were in the midst of another lazy afternoon in the park and not Ai’s wedding reception, ‘Your brother and my Tamer, huh?’

03) Cerulean: Sometimes Jeri swore she could see flashes of blue in his eyes.

04) Rabble: Looking down on them from his tree, he couldn’t have told the chick with the sock puppet from the goofball with the stupid hat; brainless, gibbering pests, the lot of ‘em.

05) Hold: ‘Oh, I’m fine,’ she bleated, prying her fingernails out of his jacket, ‘Just … let me know the next time you take off like that.’

06) Sight: He’d know her a mile away at this point, green dress or no.

07) Farm: She didn’t resist when Beelzemon fell back to shepherd her and the twins out of range of the fight, if only because she knew it was her safety he was more concerned about than her being a liability.

08) Easy: "Piece o’ cake," he assured himself, right before she smiled at him and every coherent thought danced out of his head.

09) Control: Yes he was brave, he was strong and he was (mostly) true, but sometimes he made it hard not to crack blonde jokes.

10) Chick: ‘Hey I’m not the one with the feathers,’ she reminded him, and couldn’t but laugh at the look on his face.

11) Knot: He knew there was a name to the funny ball of tension in his stomach that seemed to develop whenever Takato held her hand, and it probably wasn’t Indigestion.

12) Fringe: ‘Beelzemon sure is funny sometimes,’ Calumon opined, but Jeri only smiled and tickled him under the chin with the end of a long dark plume.

13) Storm: ‘What am I, a tarp?’ he grumbled, adjusting his wings more securely over her head.

14) Neutral: He couldn’t change the past, he’d come to terms with that; and if the price of what he'd done was to live knowing he was a monster, he’d pay it ten times over, gladly.

15) Vision: Sometimes he still dreamt of frightened children and fallen warriors; those were usually the days when she’d find him sitting outside her window at odd hours.

16) Poniard: Jeri could never quite bring herself to tell him that, for all the pain it caused her, he might as well have just bypassed Leomon and run her through instead.

17) Trust: It was somewhere in between the casual encounters on the way home from cram school and a dozen or so cocky but nonetheless heroic displays that she realized the little terror had actually won her over.

18) Savage: Sometimes he wished he could just forget the confrontation outside the Southern Gate, but then he only had to look at the twins, at the Tamers - and one in particular - to know that’d be doing more than just himself a dishonour.

19) Murder: “Absorbed his data” was a little too vague for Beelzemon’s tastes.

20) Jeer: She didn’t have the heart to tease him after Behemoth got totalled for the third time in less than a year … although it was getting kind of funny at this point.

21) Bunch: When Calumon explained why he’d seen her laying flowers down by the fountain in the park, he kind of wished he hadn’t asked.

22) Chinchilla: It wasn’t until she started making yipping noises that it dawned on him it was supposed to be a dog.

23) Change: Two or ten feet tall, he was still a brat.

24) Hero: When she called Gallantmon off, she’d saved him in more ways than one, and he wasn’t ever about to forget that.

25) Beehive: The Wild Bunch sometimes used the term in reference to the D-Reaper’s occupation of the city, and he supposed it made sense, but then it made him think of unpleasant things like nests and swarms … and that wasn’t even touching on the queen trapped at the heart of the nightmare.

26) Exclude: Once, when the Tamers leapt into action, Impmon thought he recognised the expression that flickered across her face and it pained him, least of all because he knew what it was to feel left out.

27) Bow: ‘Kid, I’m gonna develop a hump here,’ he teased, but she wouldn’t let go of his helmet straps until she’d extracted his promise to come back in one piece.

28) Fur: It only really occurred to her that she’d reached out to fondle his ears comfortingly around about the same time he realized he was leaning into the contact, at which point it got kind of awkward.

29) Free: ‘Sorry pal,’ he gloated, trailing up the stairs behind her, ‘What we got here's a Creampuff-Free Zone.’

30) Miffed: Impmon did not appreciate being referred to as “cute” or “sweet” or “adorable” and she could understand that … but there were time when he made it awfully difficult not to.

31) Muscle: For all his obvious strength, he was so painstakingly careful when he opened his arms to the twins that it made her think of Leomon, and though it wasn’t without a pang still, Jeri was truly glad to see in them yet another assurance that his passing hadn’t been in vain.

32) Pan: It was one thing having Calumon poke his nose in when she was trying to make breakfast; a ten-foot-tall hell-for-leather type on wings was definitely incentive to overdo the eggs a little.

33) Prance: 'You don’t ...’ she gasped, adjusting as he eased his grip, ‘dance around these things, do you?’

34) Impatience: There was brash, there was hasty ... and then there was Beelzemon.

35) Ace: Jeri, he learned, possessed an almost frightening talent to read those around her; but whether he was more impressed or intimidated by this Impmon really couldn’t tell.

36) Brick: As much as telling Terriermon to watch his mouth was probably a glib move, Jeri was pretty sure telling Impmon to do so was about the verbal equivalent of bashing one’s head repeatedly against a brick wall.

37) Add: On the field she became as much his priority as Ai or Mako as far as he was concerned.

38) Sneer: To see him sprawled in the shade with Guilmon and the others, it was hard to recall a time when he turned his nose up at every friendly overture offered him.

39) Spice: Things did tend to get that much more interesting once he showed up, there was no arguing that.

40) Puny: The plan was relatively simple enough (open wings, fly) but the moment she clambered up into his arms he was so excruciatingly aware of how small she was that he barely knew what to do with himself.

41) Opposition: ‘Didn’t no one ever tell you it’s rude to interrupt when people are tryin’ to talk?’ he hissed, elbowing the little catalyst once Jeri had left the room, and then promptly had to clamp his hands over Calumon’s mouth before he got squealed on.

42) Ribbon: ‘I’m, ah … not too good at this whole birthday thing,’ Impmon mumbled gruffly, but the yellow ribbon was already in her hair before he’d finished speaking.

43) Princess: Okay a biker and a creampuff weren’t exactly your typical knights in shining armour, but heck if they weren’t storming that castle anyways.

44) Gentile: Impmon had an uncanny knack for doing nice things without drawing attention to the fact, she noticed.

45) Party: ‘I, heh, realize we might be kinda early,’ the Mega hedged, a grinning little girl in one arm and a sheepish looking lop-eared Rookie in the other.

46) Diligent: 'Stubborn, you mean,' Renamon deadpanned, and he did his best to ignore the amusement in Jeri's eyes, and the burning in his cheeks.

47) Inordinate: If he was ever a little less obnoxious, or a little more careful about what came out of his mouth when she was around, the Tamers were kind enough to keep their thoughts on this phenomenon to themselves.

48) Concave: ‘… Anybody home in there?’ Jeri smiled, rapping lightly on his crownspiece.

49) Pimple: ‘Well, Ai’s at a difficult age now,’ she commiserated … although if she were a fourteen year old Tamer and Impmon had had the audacity poke her in the chin and ask “Who’s your friend?” Jeri was pretty sure she would have thrown him out of the room as well.

50) Win: Walking away from the fight with Gallantmon wasn’t what hurt the most; it was more like the realization that, in the end, the only one who’d lost was an innocent little girl.

- fin -

A/N: ... lol What. If I think just the word "shepherd" is enough to meet a "Farm" prompt ... Ugh. I should really know better than to write at three in the morning at this point. XD