you won't make yourself a name if you follow the rules

Title: "Move Your Feet to the Marching Drum"
Rating: Am I allowed to say PG-13 when there's instances of "fuck"?
Summary: oxoniensis is running the Fall Fandom Free-For-All and woodstarling requested "Katie!Ruby and Castiel". This is not that story.

We've seen Ruby in what, four meatsuits? Katie, Genevieve, secretary, and hotel maid. We have at least a couple words of backstory on three of those. We have zilch on Katie. This isn't that story either.

The first duty of a captured soldier is to survive, and the second is to keep fighting for God and country. This is not that story either.

I didn't want to fight any wars. I still don't. But I met a column of engine smoke that poured itself down my throat and introduced itself as Ruby, and I got stuck in a war my folks don't know is real. My daddy's a soldier and my mama's a Buncombe County Mitchell, and I will not shame my family. This is that story.

For backstory on the Mitchell clan, try clan_mitchell.
Word Count: 1000

( fight until you die or drop / a force like ours is hard to stop )

This is all ivorygates's fault for writing Storming Heaven. Except for the bits that are staranise's for comments to the above, synecdochic's for Angel Blood, and siegeofangels's for Kiss the Sky. I'm a bit nervous that this comes across more like JD's PoV than Cammie, especially a Cammie who doesn't know JD, has any right to sound, but, well, *coin clink* "In the corner of my mind stands a jukebox, playing all my favorite memories..."


( with a broken wing she carries her dreams / man you ought to see her fly )

I blame the lingering sunstroke.

( deep in her heart the thunder rolls )