Title: phoenix ascending
Fandom: X-Men movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU somewhere between the first two movies
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 175
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's Choice, any/any, wildfires
( From the flames, he rises. )
Title: something inside trying to fly out
Fandom: Chuck
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: pre-series
Pairing: pre-Bryce/Chuck
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 215
Point of view: third
Prompt: Chuck, Bryce/Chuck, It was days like these, lying spread eagled on campus green, basking in the spring sun beside Chuck that Bryce could forget he'd been washing another man's blood off his hand last night.
( It's a quiet morning. )
Title: they sicken of the calm who know the storm
Fandom: Highlander/Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Dorothy Parker
Warnings: pre-series for both; a smidge AU for Supernatural; mentions of torture, character death, and slavery;
Pairings: implied Gabriel/Methos
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 635
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural/Highlander, Gabriel + Methos, five times Methos meet him and one time Gabriel told him he was an angel
( Methos just looks at him, at his toothy grin and the shadow of wings at his shoulder. )
Title: we strain to hold a bridge between them open
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Denise Levertov
Warnings: preseries
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 125
Point of view: third
Prompt: Sherlock BBC, Mycroft, why he got into government
( Mycroft knew from the first time Sherlock spoke a complete sentence that the world would never accept his brother. )
Title: the people's princess
Fandom: Cinderella
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for the fairy tale; a bit of fluff
Pairings: Prince/Cinderella
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 550
Point of view: third
Prompt: Fairy tales, Cinderella, life's not all balls and glass slippers.
( The people love her. )