screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

Title: untitled
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: mentions of character death; very sad; mourning
Pairings: Rachel/Finn
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 110
Point of view: third
Prompt: Glee, Rachel/Finn, Presence.



( When she can't sleep, she traces the ink of his name with a fingertip, remembering. )




Title: faded stone
Original, PG, 285 words
Warnings: mentions of spousal abuse, murder
Prompt: Author's choice, the names on the gravestones eventually fade

(  She stands in silence for a few moments, eyes following the words engraved on the stone. )




Title: untitled
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount:
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Death, he has already been there for the end of so many worlds, so what is one more, really?



( All worlds end, just as all worlds, once, began. )



Title: evolution
Fandom: Harry Potter
Warnings: mentions of character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 52
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter, any, Hedwig


( Hedwig. )



Title: the slow waking of sleeping giants
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic; mentions of destruction
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 180
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, a friendship so strong that when one is seriously hurt/in danger, the other completely loses it


( They take Joe.  )

Title: endless (and the rain keeps on)
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: talk of the apocalypse and civil war
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 285
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any,

Oh simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need someone to rely on


(  In a thousand years, after the end has come and gone, still, he will be there standing. )



Title: A cold wind's whispering
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from The Civil Wars
Warnings: AU during season 2; major character death; violence; an epic backstory I barely go into; I haven't seen any of season 3
Pairings: Peter/Stiles, Mama Stilinski/Sheriff, mentions of Allison/Scott, onesided Peter/Mama Stilinski
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 1805
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any,

Don't you fret my dear
It'll all be over soon
I'll be waiting here
For you
(Kingdom Come, The Civil Wars)

(  The wolf growls and growls, but the boy never stops smiling. )



Title: garden-born
Original, gen, PG
150 words
Prompt: Any, any, sometimes, people are worse than demons



( the serpent and the sin )




Title: out of the sun
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: pre-apocalyptic; AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 280
Prompt: Highlander, Methos, Like most things it started in a bar



(  Like most things, it started in a bar. )



Title: and this is just right
Disclaimer: my characters in a world that is not
Warnings: creepy; mentions of blood and violence
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 210
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, any demon, picking out a meatsuit




(  Mustn't be too old, or too short, or too pretty, or too hideous. )

Title: the dream was marvelous but the terror was great
Fandom: White Collar/Inception/RED
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Gilgamesh
Warnings: pre-canon for all three; mentions of blood/injury
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 410
Point of view: third
Prompt: any. any. First time in real trouble

( Arthur is out of contact due to some sort of military hullaballoo, and Neal really doesn't want to call his dad. )




Title: crying wolf
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: mentions of violence/torture/cold-blooded and calculated murder
Pairings: a smidge of implied Stiles/Peter Hale
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 710
Pint of view: third
Prompt: any, any, "Your enemies are precious to you. They teach you what your friends cannot."
Note: the alpha pack is not a thing. My headcanon, until canon states otherwise, is that Stiles' birthname is Allandros.


( Peter Hale taught Stiles a lot. Gerard Argent taught him even more. )




Title: a child's forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother through the parables of sunlight
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Dylan Thomas
Warnings: mentions of death due to cancer/degenerative illness; implied violence
Pairings: mentions of Sheriff/Mama Stilinski
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 260
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, "Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." George Iles


( Every week for months, Stiles shows up at crime scenes and acts guilty. )



Title: like the sea in a jar
Fandom: White Collar/Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: AU for both fandoms, but not a lot. Just taking advantage of two characters with the same last name; mentions of violence; timelines that don't really mesh but I'm handwaving; implied unfaithfulness
Pairings: Eliot/Neal, mentions of Neal/Kate, Peter/Elizabeth, maybe some implied Peter/Neal
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1080
Point of view: third
Prompt: White Collar/Burn Notice or Chuck or Leverage, any, Peter hates it when Neal's old friend comes to town



( The first time Peter sees him, Neal has just said goodbye, kissed him, and waved as he walked away. )





Title: I've heard the breathless beat of angels' wings when the bullets fly and the sabers swing
Fandom: Supernatural/Highlander/mythology
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from John Popper
Warnings: spoilers for SN season 5
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 305
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any/any,

So many things that I wanted to say
Forever left untold
I still remember the tears that you shed
Over someone else (HAMMERFALL, "The Fallen One")



( They meet up every few hundred years, beside a stream or in a tavern or walking down a road that doesn't exist. )

Title: by the pale light of the blooded moon
Fandom: Supernatural/Highlander/Arthurian legend
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: takes place season 2/early season 3 of Supernatural; AUish for Supernatural
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 320
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, any hunter(s) + any supernatural creature, "Burn me? That's your answer... Burn anything you're afraid of. Burn anything you can't control."



( He laughs, softly at first, but it rises, cold and sharp as a knife. )



Title: the death of faith
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: pre-series
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 38
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Dean, I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was 4 years old



( The Christmas after the fire, all Dean asked Santa for was Mommy. )




Title: code-switching
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AUish
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 105
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Loki +/ Thor, they play the hero-villain game very often and in every new world, they switch


( heya )




Title: and beats high mountain down
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from The Hobbit by Tolkien.
Warnings: implied character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 75
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos,
Deathwish without a prayer
End of hope
End of love
End of time
The rest is silence


( In the end, there is one. )




Title: mask undone
Fandom: White Collar
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic; AU
Pairings: Peter/Elizabeth
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 190
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any,
You can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold,
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold.


( Neal is a thief. )

Title: one day
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: bullying/violence; pre-series
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Point of view: third
Prompt: Glee, Kurt + bullies, "Mean" (Taylor Swift)


( Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city and all you're ever gonna be is mean )



Title: Xander's type
Fandom: Supernatural/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU for both series; post-BtVS and I know nothing of the comics
Pairings: pre-Jo/Xander
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 85
Point of view: third
Prompt: Buffy/Supernatural, Xander/Jo, the need to fight evil things.


( Xander's type is girls not even half his size who can kick his ass. )





Title: moonbright
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU pre-series
Pairings: Remus/Sirius, James/Lily
Rating: PG(13)
Wordcount: 515
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter, Remus/Sirius, Remus was the Potters' secret-keeper


( He takes the secret and he runs. )


Title: dessert
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: fluff; future!fic
Pairings: Kurt/Blaine
Rating: PG
Wordcount:100
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, comfort food
Note: if I'd been allowed more than a hundred words, they'd have been turned into serial killers.



( Kurt's mom used to make chocolate cupcakes that she'd ice with a peanut butter glaze. )


Title: daring the sea
Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: future!fic AU; movieverse
Pairings: Luke/Percy
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 220
Point of view: third
Prompt: Percy Jackson & the Olympians (movieverse or AU), Luke/Percy (&others), when he said "I'd turn to the dark side for you," he never dreamed he'd ever be faced with the choice


( Percy is given a choice. )

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Title: much too far out all her life
Fandom: original
Warnings: suicide
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 380
Prompt: Any, any, not waving but drowning
Note: the title is an intentional misquote from "Not Waving, But Drowning" by Stevie Smith, which is also where the prompt came from. Also, shades of "Richard Corey" by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

( Helena Callows lived a charmed life. Everyone said so. )




Title: where the west wind goes
Fandom: originalish
Warnings: mentions of mythology and extinctions
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 180
Prompt: Any, any,

A world of made
is not a world of born


( There is a place, somewhere, out in the deepest dark, of magic. )




Title: Satan smitten with amazement fell
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Milton
Warnings: AU early in season 5
Pairings: implied Lucifer/Michael
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 365
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Gabriel+Lucifer, Gabriel offers his big brother some surprisingly helpful relationship advice

( Lucifer's eyes burn, and Gabriel can see the end of things in them, but his oldest brother's voice is so soft, so gentle. )


Title: in the wet mild wind they swing toward spring
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Denise Levertov
Warnings: AU; blood and violence
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 245
Point of view: third
Prompt: Criminal Minds, Reid, trigger-happy


( In another world, Spencer controlled his temper, became both a doctor and a federal agent, and saved a lot of lives. )



Title: You drive an angel from your door
Fandom: Avengers/Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from William Blake
Warnings: post-Avengers; primordial!Methos; mentions of violence/gore
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 820
Point of view: third
Prompt: Avengers/Highlander, Odin + Methos, villains are those who oppose you
Note: Valföðr means father of the slain


( He is the All-Father, the most powerful warrior and sorcerer in nine realms. )

Title: one angel in another’s hell
Fandom: Supernatural/Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Shakespeare
Warnings: spoilers for Avengers; future!fic for Supernatural; possibly AUish for Clint’s backstory; character death; mentions of violence and child abuse; mentions of substance abuse
Pairings: unrequited Clint/Coulson
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1005
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural / Avengers Movie, Crowley & Hawkeye, “We both know that you will go to hell, when you are done up here.”


( They’re all dead except for Clint, standing in front of a demon, moon high in the sky at midnight. )

Title: Mother, I'm frightened of this thunder and lightning
Fandom: Supernatural/Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Leonard Cohen
Warnings: future!fic for Avengers movieverse; AU mishmash for Supernatural (I've seen maybe five minutes of season 7); I gleefully resurrected a dead Supernatural character
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1040
Point of view: third
Prompt: Avengers/Supernatural, Loki+Crowley, "I can give you the world. All it will cost is your soul."

( He finds the godling perched on a mountaintop, gazing out across the horizon. Everyone who's anyone in their business had felt him the moment he materialized in their speck of the cosmos. The amount of chaos coiled in him is breathtaking. Crowley is truly envious of the brat. )

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Title: take the sky, and everything else
Fandom: Supernatural/Norse mythology
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Rebecca Wolff
Warnings: AU for SN; spoilers for season 6; inaccurate Norse mythology
Pairings: Loki/John Winchester, implied Dean/Castiel
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 285
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural/Norse Myth, Gabriel/John, the fate of Gabriel/Loki's children


(  They can only help one of them - the wolf, bound in magical chains.  )



Title: These children of the sun
Fandom: Chuck/Inception/White Collar
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from John Clare
Warnings: AU for White Collar; mentions of character death
Pairings: Arthur/Eames, past Bryce/Chuck, implied Neal/Peter
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 450
Point of view: third
Prompt: Chuck/Inception/White Collar, Chuck + Arthur, (Arthur and Bryce!Neal are brothers) Arthur doesn't know anything about Chuck except that Bryce/Neal fell in love with him in college, he's a spy like Arthur's brother, and he was there when Bryce/Neal died. Arthur tracks him down but their meeting doesn't go like Arthur expected.


(  Arthur gives out his notice responsibly before disappearing: he lets everyone know he'll be out of contact for at least a month, and won't even be accepting calls for emergencies. He's taking personal time, and will not be bothered, and that includes Eames. )



Title: each dewdrop mirrored a star, his riding star, his universe while on the moonlit flowers at his side Pegasus grazed
Fandom: White Collar/Percy Jackson movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from C. Day-Lewis.
Warnings: AU for both
Pairings: Neal!Percy/Luke
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 560
Point of view: third
Prompt: White Collar/Percy Jackson, Neal(Percy)+All, If you didn't already know who Percy's father was, you'd swear he was actually the son of Hermes, instead he's just a criminal.


(  Luke laughs about it every time he visits.  )




Title: rend me and redeem
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU during season 5; character death
Pairings: Dean/Castiel
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 215
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Dean/Castiel,
You know the way Jesus
rips open his shirt
to show us his heart, all flaming and thorny,
the way he points to it.
He wants to save me
but we disagree from what.
My version of hell
is someone ripping open his shirt
and saying, Look what I did for you.
(Nick Flynn, "Emptying Town")


(  Gabriel finds him. He says it's an ex-angel thing, and he puts a gentle hand on Castiel's skull. )



Title: The blossoms we wear in our hats are the growth of two thousand years
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Whitman
Warnings: AU; mentions of violence and character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 655
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Adam Pierson/Methos + MacLeod, Adam is a young immortal who just couldn't resist nodding when Mac asked if he was Methos



(  Adam Pierson is not his name. )

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.  )