comment_fic 456-460: WC, HL, original, WC/Leverage, Under the Red Hood

Title: Love was more than just a word
Fandom: White Collar
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Deanna Carter
Warnings: future!fic
Pairings: pre-Peter/Neal/Elizabeth
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 340
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any but SPN, any, "This is my soul, in paper and ink; see it stain your fingers, now tell me what you think."

 

( He smiled at them both, gave Satchmo a quick ear scratch, and held out two packages. )

 

Title: the fear of thunder and the sword
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Milton
Warnings: spoilers for the Horsemen arc
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 220
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, "I have walked through many lives, some of them my own / And I am not who I was"

 

( He has been a part of the history of every existing country, and many which no longer exist. )

 

Title: I scorn to change my state with kings
PG, 260 words
Prompt: Author's choice, Author's choice, "I've lived and died thousands of times. I've mourned hundreds of lovers, parents, children and friends. I've fought wars, delivered babies, been tortured and laughed til I cried. I'm not sheltered. I *read*."
Title from Shakespeare

 

( She said she's won a thousand games, run a thousand miles, all without leaving her favorite spot by the cherry tree. )

 

Title: They were of fame, and had been glorious in another day
Fandom: White Collar/Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Byron
Warnings: pre-series for both; spoilers for season 1 of both
Pairings: gennish
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 115
Point of view: third
Prompts: White Collar/Leverage; Eliot/Neal; A year into his prison sentence, Neal gets his first letter
 

( The front of the postcard is a fairly boring painting, a pastoral landscape that isn't even worth the cost of the brushes that painted it. )

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Title: stained and scarred
Fandom: Batman Under the Red Hood
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to a less-than-stellar childhood
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 265
Point of view: third
Prompt: DCU, Jason Todd, He isn't the animal everyone thinks he is; he just likes getting his hands dirty while he gets the job done.

 

( He knows that he's not the hero.  )