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cabinpres_fic) wrote2012-02-03 07:49 am
cabinpres_fic) wrote2012-02-03 07:49 am
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PROMPT POST PART III
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(updated 6 June)
Welcome everybody. How you got here I have no idea but thank you for coming and welcome again, nonetheless . As you may have gathered this is a Fic Prompting Meme dedicated solely to the hilarious and oh-so-addictive BBC Radio 4 sitcom - Cabin Pressure. I'm aiming for this to be pretty anything goes - but in order for everything to run smoothly, there are a few guidelines. Don't worry - they're not too restrictive.
FILLING GUIDELINES
As you probably all know - our meme now has it's very own database created and maintained by the great Enigel. It both catalogues each and every prompt that we post and provides links to fills. You can find it here: Google Spreadsheet
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Fill: LGBTQRSTUV
(Anonymous) 2012-03-01 01:05 am (UTC)(link)[click of a phone hanging up]
CAROLYN: These people would inspect a rainbow to make sure it wasn't making Indigo feel left out.
DOUGLAS: Oh, are we flying a group of Leprechauns up to check the state of their bank accounts?
CAROLYN: Funny. Listen up, you three – that was a campaign manager.
DOUGLAS: Goodness! We are coming up in the world.
CAROLYN: Douglas, be quiet for five minutes. It's some politician in a little town in America nobody's heard of –
MARTIN: What town?
CAROLYN: Windorsly.
ARTHUR: I've heard of that.
CAROLYN: Well, maybe they'll give you a vote. Anyway, apparently, if this place was ever made notorious for anything, it would be the rigorous background checks they put their politicians through. Oh, you know how Americans are. This candidate, Royson, has been running a campaign based largely on his claims of tolerance and open-mindedness, and promises of equality for all, etc., etc. His manager has been searching high and low – pun very much not intended, thank you; I can do better than that – for an airline that's up to snuff.
DOUGLAS: Come fly the culturally diverse skies.
CAROLYN: Exactly. They gave us a call when they saw that I was the CEO. Apparently, I fill at least one of their requirements –
DOUGLAS: Yes, it is a tough world out there for Carolyns, isn't it?
CAROLYN: – by being female. I don't know whether to feel proud or objectified.
MARTIN: They – are paying customers.
CAROLYN: Proud it is, then. Speaking of which – the reason they're late is that Royson came up with another requirement at the last second, and his ridiculously overworked-sounding campaign manager was just calling to ask if we had any members of the LGBTQRSTUV or some such nonsense acronym community on the crew.
ARTHUR: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, tuhhhh...ransgender...? I've never really known what the 'Q' meant.
MARTIN: Queer or questioning, I think. An 'A' is sometimes added, for Allies. After that I lose track a bit, I'm afraid.
CAROLYN: Yes, well. I'm glad you're so well-informed, Martin, because for the next ten hours, you are a recently-out gay man who doesn't like to talk about it but will, if pressed.
MARTIN: Carolyn – ! Why me?
CAROLYN: Because Douglas's reputation has a better chance of rearing its very-much-heterosexual head. Congratulations, Martin Crieff – you are now the face of MJN's tolerance and diversity.
MARTIN: Well – why can't Arthur do it?
DOUGLAS: Because it would be spectacularly unwise to make Arthur the face of MJN's anything.
ARTHUR: Hey!
CAROLYN: Exactly.
ARTHUR: Hey!
DOUGLAS: Except, perhaps, a hitherto unmentioned Daycare at 20,000 Feet service.
ARTHUR: Ooh, that would be fun.
[pause]
MARTIN: Um. C-Carolyn... Does it – do I have to be – to be gay, or – or can I... Can we tell them I'm – bisexual?
CAROLYN: I suppose. Why?
MARTIN: Uhhhhm...
CAROLYN: Don't tell me you still want to be able to flirt with the female passengers, because you never do, because they'd jump. And then we'd have to buy a new parachute, on the off-chance that they bothered with one.
MARTIN: No, it's just – um – never, never – nevermind.
CAROLYN: Nevermind – what?
MARTIN: Nothing! Nothing. Just, um, remembered, I have to – I'm just going to – to – check – something, on the flight deck.
[rapid footsteps, door opening and closing]
[pause]
ARTHUR: Skip looked a bit... grey.
DOUGLAS: He did bare a certain resemblance to a cat who has just realized that it's been run over, yes.
CAROLYN: [sigh] Go and take care of it, Douglas. The clients will be here in twenty minutes.
DOUGLAS: Perhaps the daycare wouldn't be a bad idea.
CAROLYN: Douglas.
DOUGLAS: Yes, all right...
[Flight deck. Sound of Martin breathing shallowly. Door opens.]
DOUGLAS: Martin, I know you're... you, but this is a bit early for pre-flight checks, don't you think?
MARTIN: ...I feel a bit stupid now.
DOUGLAS: Yes, I have that effect on people. I must admit I had thought you were immune.
MARTIN: No, just – what... in the cabin, just now; I – …
DOUGLAS: To be fair, Martin, you haven't exactly failed to meet any expectations we might have had regarding your reaction to unexpected challenges popping up. With the notable exception of bird strikes and cross winds, you do tend to –
MARTIN: Douglas, I'm bisexual.
[pause]
DOUGLAS: Ah.
MARTIN: I – I mean, that is – I – [breathing is getting shallower and more panicky]
DOUGLAS: I would congratulate you on having twice the chance to pick someone up, but let's be honest here. ...Martin, breathe.
MARTIN: [gasping for air, nearly hyperventilating]
[sounds of people moving, someone sits heavily in a chair. Martin's breathing evens out but his voice takes a few lines to steady]
DOUGLAS: All right?
MARTIN: Yes. Yes. Sorry. Just. Um. Haven't... Haven't had a very good experience with – with people finding out...
DOUGLAS: …People "finding out." Not "you telling them"?
MARTIN: No.
DOUGLAS: I see.
MARTIN: I mean, obviously, I told the – the m- the men I've d-dated. Which, no, before you say anything, is not many.
DOUGLAS: I wasn't going to say anything. Today.
MARTIN: But... When I was younger, I told... a couple of people, friends – well, I – I thought... people I thought I could trust, and, as it turned out, I... couldn't.
[pause]
MARTIN: My family found out.
DOUGLAS: Ah.
MARTIN: Caitlin was embarrassed – the kids at school would tease her about her brother being a shirt-lifter, and it... I suppose it was easier to be angry at me than at them. We've, um. We're – we're okay, now, I – I think. We talk... occasionally.
DOUGLAS: That's good.
MARTIN: My mother didn't mind.
DOUGLAS: Really? Well, that's –
MARTIN: As long as I got it out of my system while I was young and then grew up and married a nice girl so I could give her lots of grandchildren.
DOUGLAS: Ah.
MARTIN: I... try not to think about it. We don't talk about it. I think she realizes now that that... really, really – hurt, but it's just... easier. To ignore it.
DOUGLAS: One of the oldest and most sacred of English coping mechanisms, second only to drowning oneself in tea.
MARTIN: Yes. Well. Simon... Simon was the worst. Started all kinds of rumours about me. Followed me everywhere to make sure I didn't get a date with anybody, male or female. Made all sorts of... jokes... I suppose they were terribly funny, but I never saw it.
DOUGLAS: There is a very fine line between 'funny' and 'petty.'
MARTIN: Yes. You would know, wouldn't you? At any rate, I preferred the jokes to the...
DOUGLAS: To the what?
MARTIN: ...Nothing, just – you know, you've – you've got a brother, you know how... boys... roughhouse.
DOUGLAS: Martin...
MARTIN: It wasn't – really a big deal when his friends joined in.
DOUGLAS: Martin.
MARTIN: I mean, the – the push down the stairs was a bit much, but...
DOUGLAS: Martin.
MARTIN: Yes?
DOUGLAS: That's not roughhousing. That's not even bullying. That's –
MARTIN: Yes, I... I know. Denial's more fun.
DOUGLAS: I see.
MARTIN: I don't talk to Simon much anymore.
DOUGLAS: Possibly the most sensible decision you've ever made.
MARTIN: Yeah. Anyway. My – my dad...
DOUGLAS: Yes?
MARTIN: He... said not to worry about what people said, because it was... [swallows, and continues a bit thickly, voice unsteady again] ...it was obviously just a phase, and once I'd grown out of it, grown up a bit and – and figured myself out properly, everyone would be happy to put it behind them.
DOUGLAS: How old were you?
MARTIN: Sixteen.
[pause. Sounds of movement. Another pause.]
MARTIN: Douglas.
DOUGLAS: Yes.
MARTIN: I – th-thank you.
DOUGLAS: It's that kicked puppy look you've got going.
MARTIN: What about it?
DOUGLAS: Well, just then it was less 'kicked puppy' and more 'kicked sixteen-year-old boy who happens to be a friend of mine,' and as nobody was available for punching, I thought a hug might be the next best thing.
MARTIN: ...Thank you.
DOUGLAS: Yes, you've said that.
MARTIN: I suppose... [angry with himself] I – I suddenly just - wanted you all to know, and I suppose I was trying to be brave and get it over with, and of course I...
DOUGLAS: You still can. You're one third of the way there, after all.
MARTIN: But Carolyn... What would she – I – I've been fired, before, when people found out – just, from stupid jobs I had when I was a kid, but –
DOUGLAS: Martin, I'm reasonably certain Carolyn won't toss you out on your ear – for two reasons. One: She'd never be able to find another half-decent pilot willing to work for in-flight meals.
MARTIN: And... two...?
DOUGLAS: In the time that I've worked here, Arthur has four times interrupted his string of clueless but charming young women with a clueless but charming young man.
MARTIN: ...What?
DOUGLAS: Well. A couple of the girls – and one of the men – were actually the approximate opposite of charming once they showed their true colours, but we sent them packing quickly enough.
MARTIN: [weakly] Arthur?
DOUGLAS: Martin, it's a well-established fact that Arthur loves everyone and everything, with few exceptions. Surely this tendency turning out to be more literal than one might first suppose isn't much of a revelation?
MARTIN: No, just – I never really... thought of Arthur. In that sense.
DOUGLAS: I try not to myself.
MARTIN: No – no, I mean – Arthur loves... polar bears, and motorway services, and... clouds. The thought of... It's just a little – startling.
DOUGLAS: Ah. Yes. Bit like walking in on your kid brother.
MARTIN: You don't have a kid brother.
DOUGLAS: No, but I am one.
[pause]
DOUGLAS: Right. Well. Would you care to come out of the flight deck, and then out of –
MARTIN: Douglas, please, as a personal favour, don't finish that sentence.
DOUGLAS: Quite right, Captain.
[pause]
MARTIN: But... yes.
[door opening and closing]
Re: Fill: LGBTQRSTUV
*grinning*
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