comment_fic 686-690: SN, HL, DCU, HP, Avengers

Title: He Who Is Like God
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU at the end of season 6
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 190
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Dean/Cas

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start
-"The Scientist", Coldplay

(  Castiel holds his head high, wings spread, hearing the voices inside him that make him Like God. )

Title: I share creation, Kings can do no more
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: none
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 185
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos + Richie, compared to him he's a newborn infant

(  Richie is young, and he has young problems.  )

Title: how can saplings bloom when covered deep in snow?
Fandom: Batman: Under the Red Hood
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Bertold Brecht
Warnings: implied child abuse/non-con
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 235
Point of view: third
Prompt: DCU, Jason Todd + Alfred Pennyworth, Jason was never a kid. Only Alfred ever seemed to realize that.


(  Sometimes Jason wakes up shaking in the middle of the night, sure the door just opened and he'll feel the bed dip any moment now. )

Title: where the future becomes present
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Whitman
Warnings: AU for whole thing
Pairings: maybe a smidge of Tom Riddle/Harry Potter implied
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 250
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter, Tom Riddle, if Albus Dumbledore would have given him the DADA job


(  Professor Riddle is Harry's favorite.  )

Title: brothers and battles
Fandom: Avengers movierse
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU for Thor film; semi-crack
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 195
Point of view: third
Prompt: Avengers, Thor, people notice that Thor has a Trickster as brother


(  When Thor is banished after attacking the jötnar, Loki follows him.  )

WIP paragraphs

Will Schuester has never quite known what to make of Kurt Hummel. Kurt was such an enigma – he appeared so fragile, but every time Will ever tried to help, Kurt looked at him with ice in his gaze. That was why Will started looking past the bullying.


“He has two now,” Mac tells him. “His little brothers, Evan and Gunther. Except, Evan is also Van and his son, and Gunther is Gunnar, and Van’s brother, but not Ashton’s son.” Mac sips his scotch, studying the patrons of the bar, while Joe tries to untangle that. He serves a few regulars and when he turns back to Mac, Mac continues, “Evan is a gifted warrior. He’s been exceedingly well trained. And Gunther – I saw the beginning of some kind of style, I think, but he prefers overwhelming by sheer strength, which he has in abundance.”


He never talked to Selvig about it. Or any of the others, those few who weren’t bought with promises of sitting beside Loki in the new world or the money Loki magicked out of thin air. He read the files, though. Read the files and wondered if they’d been lying to the shrinks, too.


Years pass. Harry Potter does not show up for First Year, Second, or Third. Dumbledore spun it the best way he could, but the people’s faith in him is wavering. Every year without their beloved Boy Who Lived unweaves another thread of his power over the populace.


“If I want to stay at Hogwarts. I probably won’t, but you never know.” He shrugged, rubbing at Gwaihir’s ear. His shifting accents were disconcerting. “It’ll give Da and Dad time to clean up some unfinished business if I’m hidden away for awhile, but it’ll be my choice at the end. Dad’s already taught me a lot, anyway.”


After the funeral, Loki goes to ground. He takes the form of a small child, the better to be underestimated, and lets himself be found by a librarian in upstate New York. She follows all procedures and Loki is inducted into the foster system. He does not speak to any of the humans who interact with him; they give him a new name, Vincent Gage, based on criteria he does not care about, and bandy about terms that have no meaning.