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tigriswolf Title: For now you are here, you are mine
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sandra Cisneros
Warnings: future!fic
Pairings: a smidge of implied Methos/Duncan
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 360
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos, college applications
He changes with the times. He masters technology and lingo and fully immerses himself. Duncan might say otherwise... but Duncan is a lifetime ago. Duncan met Adam Pierson, a shy scholar who lived in the stacks and knew nothing past the turn of the century. Duncan met Adam Pierson, a little boy in love with ghosts.
Kronos wanted his brother back, but Death is just like Doc Adams and Adam Pierson and a thousand others, ten thousand others, shades and shadows, created and discarded with care.
Fifteen generations ago, his many times great-grandmother was born in Baltimore and his many times great-grandfather hadn't crossed the Atlantic with his family yet.
Matt Bennison submits applications to all the major American colleges, with plans to pursue a chemical engineering degree. It's one of the new things he hasn't fully mastered yet. It won't be hard, though, and actually seems quite fun.
Matt Bennison is an orphan; he survived the house fire that killed his parents. His older sister committed suicide not long after. Both of his parents were only children, and his great aunt was too old to take in an angry and depressed teenager. Matt Bennison spent two years in the foster care system and is a success story: he turned his life around from his furious lashing out, realized he loved science and math, and is going to make a name for himself one day.
(He will die young, of course. Possibly in a car crash in the mountains. But that's at least a decade away and needn't be worried about now.)
Matt Bennison is accepted to every college he applies to and chooses MIT. He is a wide-eyed freshman, taken under the wings of a dozen different upperclassmen, and is excited for the first time since he left Duncan.
Title: like the blood her hand first knew
Fandom: NCIS
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Adrienne Rich
Warnings: AU; spoilers for up to season 6
Pairings: Hints of Gibbs/Tony, possibly some Abby/McGee, and a smidge of light Tony/Palmer
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 380
Point of view: third
Prompt: NCIS, Tony/Ziva, Ziva is Gibbs' quirky right-hand "man" and Tony is the former assassin who's just joined the team
Note: I asked if it was okay to write a slash fill. The prompter said yes.
Another note: I never say it in the story, but Ziva's mom came to the US when she was pregnant and when she was eighteen, Ziva enlisted. As for what happened to Tony... *smirks*
No one is entirely sure how Tony DiNozzo ended up on the team. When Abby and Tim go searching, they find his college history and nothing after it. He grew up a lonely rich boy – probably abused – in New York and went to Ohio State, graduating in four years. And then… he vanished. Fell off the face of the planet, until Gibbs showed up with a handsome shadow.
Ziva does not like him. At all. Abby tells her to quit acting like he stole her favorite toy. Ziva just glares even harder, the next time she sees him.
Ducky smiles at him, going on at length about places Abby has to look up, people Abby can't find in any database, and brands of knives.
Jimmy *eeps* anytime Tony looks at him and tries to sink into the floor. Tony grins broadly and gently flirts with him; eventually, Jimmy even works up the nerve to flirt back. Tony takes him for drinks that day.
Tony never asks about Kate. He doesn't take orders well, but he listens to Gibbs most of the time. No matter how she bugs them both, neither explains what happened, or where Tony came from – besides New York and Ohio – or the look in Tony's eyes, sometimes, when he has a gun in his grip or his hands on a suspect.
There is something dangerous about Tony. Tim cautions Abby to be careful when she's babbling at him, but Abby rolls her eyes. She's badgered Gibbs for years. His pretty shadow can't be any worse.
Ziva and Ducky warn her, too. She takes it more seriously after that.
And then comes the day when all the evidence points to Tony. Abby doesn't want to believe it…
Tony laughs, when the FBI demands to take him into custody. His eyes go to Abby's lab assistant, the little rodent who has finally been growing on her.
"As if I'd leave any trace," he says.
Three days later, Tony's released and her minion doesn't show up for work. Ever again.
Abby realizes, now, that she'll never know, and she should stop asking. Tony tells her, "Jet trusts me, Ms. Scuito. Do you really need to know more than that?"
She looks into his eyes. "No," she says. "I guess I don't."
Title: more things in Heaven and Earth
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: none
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 42
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage, Parker, "What is sexting?"
"Um." Alec's horrified gaze darts to Eliot, whose hand is frozen halfway to his mouth, the cracker crumbling in his grip.
"Parker." Eliot flicks his fingers to get rid of the crumbs. "Ask Nate."
"Okay!" she chirps, bouncing out of the room.
Title: warrior ascendant
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU for Prophecy Girl; character death
Pairings: mentions of Angel/Buffy and Xander/Buffy
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 200
Point of view: third
Prompt: Buffy, ensemble, what if Xander was the slayer?
He compresses and breathes and cusses and shouts and cries. Finally, the bloodsucker pulls him off Buffy, too still and so wet. She looks so very tiny.
"We have to go," the creep, the fucker, says. "The Master is loose."
Xander shrugs him off. When the cold hand touches his shoulder again, Xander lunges up, spins around, and shoves him away.
The vampire goes flying. All the way across the chamber, slams into the wall.
Xander stares at his palms. "What the fuck?"
Knowledge floods him, along with adrenaline and a slow, simmering rage. The Master is loose. Buffy is dead. Willow and Giles and the world are all in danger, and – for whatever reason – he's been chosen. He's been Chosen.
"Carry her," he orders Angel, stalking towards the tunnel out. He won't leave her here; after the Master is dead, and all his minions, Buffy will have a warrior's funeral.
He memorizes the Master's stench and doesn't look back at the vampire carrying the corpse of the woman they both love.
It is time to hunt. In the back of his mind, a hyena laughs and a very long dead girl bares in her teeth in a snarling smile.
Title: shaken and scarred
Fandom: Inception
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: crackish
Pairings: Eames/Arthur
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 80
Point of view: third
Prompt: Inception, Arthur/Eames + Dom, "Hypothetically speaking, if someone had ... let's say, shagged your pointman silly on that sofa right there... How would this someone go about tactfully disclosing that information?"
"Hypothetically speaking," Eames drawls, flipping a poker chip through his fingers, a smirk in his voice, "if someone had ... let's say, shagged your pointman silly on that sofa right there... How would this someone go about tactfully disclosing that information?"
Dom closes his eyes, letting his head fall forward and hit the table with a dull thump. "Not like that," he mutters into the scarred wood. Shit. He'll never get that image out of his mind now.
Eames laughs.
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Date: 2011-09-01 04:39 pm (UTC)Loved the Methos goes to college snippet as well - it's so interesting seeing how he completely submerges himself into a new man. And I shudder to think about the implications of Methos learning chemical engineering...
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Date: 2011-09-01 07:28 pm (UTC)Thanks for reading!
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Date: 2011-09-01 05:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-09-01 07:29 pm (UTC)Thank you for reading!
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Date: 2011-09-02 09:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-09-02 05:51 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2011-09-02 11:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-09-02 02:01 pm (UTC)And Eliot - marry me!
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Date: 2011-09-02 05:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-09-02 02:26 pm (UTC)*wants to hug her so hard*
Hehe, I'm sure Nate will explain it to her and then Elliot and Hardison won't have a moments peace. Poor boys - not :)
But actually I came here for the Methos one.
Poor Methos. While I can understand the fun of crafting a new persona, this one has such a very sad undertone it gives me the willies trying to figure out what might have happened.
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Date: 2011-09-02 05:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-09-02 08:36 pm (UTC)Haha! And why do I see Nate pointing Parker in Sophie's direction?
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Date: 2011-09-03 04:06 pm (UTC)Thanks for reading!
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Date: 2011-09-02 09:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-09-22 03:15 pm (UTC)Thanks for reading!
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Date: 2011-09-21 04:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-09-22 03:16 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2011-12-20 10:11 pm (UTC)I think that this new Tony would probably still divide the team and associates along the usual like of who trusts Gibbs the most, and who can see the decent man beneath the danger (instead of the canon prankster)-namely, Abby, Ducky, and likely Palmer on one side, with Ziva and McGee on the other. Kate would have been on the latter, if she were still alive.
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Date: 2011-12-21 05:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-02-27 01:56 am (UTC)Thank you for reading!