screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

Title: Meanwhile, I keep dancing
Fandom: Animorphs
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Hillel
Warnings: future!fic; AUish, according to the wiki
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 280
Point of view: third
Prompt: Animorphs, Rachel, sometimes it's okay not to be brave.

( Rachel’s little sisters remember. )




Title: first meeting
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: Sam, Jessica, and ‘Brady’ aren’t mine
Warnings: spoilers through season 5
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 155
Prompt: Supernatural, Sam/Jessica, first meeting


( Studying on campus. )



Title: Uncomfortable
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to violence
Pairings: Buffy/Angel
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 170
Point of view: third
Prompt: BtVS, Xander and Buffy, his lie erected a bridge between them that neither could cross and only he knew about.


( It’s uncomfortable, when Buffy comes back. )



Title: historical figures
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: none
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 195
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any/any, meeting your favourite historical figure isn't all it's cracked up to be



( What would you really say? )


Title: untitled
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic
Pairings: Nate/Sophie
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 175
Prompt: Any, Any, funeral


( She’s attended her own funeral multiple times. )

My thesis revisions are done except for the fucking page numbers! Gotta print out all 118 pages and deliver to my advisor but IT IS DONE.

Title: heir of lightning
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic; implied primordial!Methos
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 375
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's choice; author's choice;

Words scribbled on the underside of an old envelope,
becoming everything inside.
Ink spilled on paper, but in a deeper sense,
several sentences blurred by tears
represented more sentiment,
more that was meaningful and real,
than the years that led to this crossroads.

I heard the door close -
not slamming, but slinking shut
in an unfortunate and unhappy desire to be undetected,
as if secrecy could lessen the pain.
(The Crüxshadows, "Fortress (Eyes to Heaven)")

Remix pov of this

( Selena is nineteen years old when the man who makes her head shiver first wanders into her family’s café. )




Title: untitled
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 145
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos, stuck in a plane for 12 hours with an unknown immortal somewhere behind him


( The trick is to not react. )





Title: Once (it was enough)
Fandom: Animorphs
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to violence and canon character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 175
Point of view: third
Prompt: Animorphs, Rachel, needing bigger and bigger hits of adrenaline

( Once… it was enough. )





Title: crimson cloth
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to violence; takes place in season 3
Pairings: Kurt/Blaine
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 175
Prompt: Glee, Kurt/Blaine - his new shirt stained red; from a distance, his boyfriend can't tell if it's slushie or blood

( Blaine's turning away from his locker and out the corner of his eye, he sees a flash of red. )





Title: I am not a smile
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Disclaimer: the ones you recognize aren’t mine; title from Sylvia Plath
Warnings: references to violence, death, and abuse; takes place post season 7 and ignores the comics
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 685
Point of view: third
Prompts: BTVS, Buffy, she used to be scared of the dark; Any, any, "If the world ends today I sure as all Hell am eating cheesecake for breakfast."

( She isn't a Slayer, this girl, or a Potential. )

Title: tempered in blood
Fandom: DCU cartoon/Under the Red Hood film
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Beowulf
Warnings: references to violence; AU
Pairings: possibly unrequited Jason/Bruce
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 345
Point of view: third
Prompt: Batman comics, Bruce Wayne/Jason Todd or /Dick Grayson,

in the interest of poetry
and the cowboy movie
that's you and me
i'm back on the horse now
and i'm riding
i am striding so effortlessly
what i mean is
it's late
much too late for us

( Jason is still desperate for Bruce’s approval. )



Title: through the ages
Fandom: mythology
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 310
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any/any, time in a bottle



( For all that the gods fade away when their worshipers do, across all pantheons certain gods remain. )



Title: family
Fandom: Harry Potter/Sherlock (BBC)
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: pre- and post-canon
Pairings: canon
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 575
Prompt: Harry Potter/Sherlock, Hermione Granger + Jim Moriarty, cousins

( Jim's never had much use for his family, but he does remember one of his cousins fondly. )



Title: the lie that has always been my name
Fandom: fairy tale
Disclaimer: not my characters; Christine Heppermann
Warnings: somewhat darkish
Pairings: Cinderella/prince
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 305
Prompt: Any, Any, A Hard Knock Life (Annie)

( Never has Jocelyn understood why her 'family' hate her so, but she understands that Madam is trying to break her and she refuses. )





Title: pretense
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: only Methos isn’t mine
Warnings: violence
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 565
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, goddamn right, you should be scared of me


( So far, Methos muses, hands in plain sight with the rest of the hostages, his life after Adam Pierson has not been that much fun. )

Title: The Worst Thing
Written: January 15, 2016
Prompt: any. any horror stories


( survival is perhaps not the worst thing. )



Title: lioness
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU, character death
Pairings: Lily/James
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 333
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter. any. One of Harry's parents survived.
Note: There may be more coming; if so, it’ll just be drabbles with no overarching plot.


( She mistranslated part of the ritual. )



Title: i could lie
Prompt: Any, Any/Any, If I lied and said what you want to hear, would you still leave me or would the lies make everything alright?
Written January 22, 2016

( I could tell you a thousand pretty things. )



Title: they share the same blood and the same blows
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: AU during book 5
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 265
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter, Harry Potter/Tom Riddle, Hidden secrets


( Why are you their hero? )



Title: Don't choose to live by the book
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU during season 5
Pairings: Kronos/Methos
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 370
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any,

I am your darkest side the one you keep in shadows too far to hide
Deep in your heart you can't deny
All of your fears keeping me alive
Waiting here for you to arrive
Don't choose to live by the book
Let's live by the hook
("Live by the Hook" from Finding Neverland)


( For three thousand years, Kronos has waited. )

Because of where I live, when I was younger and asked my mom who she voted for, she always said, “Mike the Tiger.” Of course, once I began voting, I’d say the same thing. (And apparently, it’s what her mother said, too.)

Now imagine Mike the Tiger and Donald Trump battling it out for the presidency. It gives me so much pleasure.

(Mike the Tiger is both an actual, real live tiger and a guy in a tiger suit. Either one of them would eat Donald Trump alive. Or possibly just kill him, if they didn’t want to get indigestion.)

So, I've decided to save links to all my stories on pinboard. Everything is there now.

It's here, if you want to check it out.

Title: You Already Know
Written December 12, 2015


( You wrote me a poem. )

Title: the opposite of indifference
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU during Deathly Hallows, implied child abuse of every kind
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG/13
Wordcount: 375
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter, Harry Potter/Voldemort, obsession is far more powerful than mere love

( What is love? )


Title: the sun at our backs
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU during the Horsemen arc
Pairings: Methos/Kronos
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 130
Point of view: third
Prompt: any. any. A different choice.


( Three thousand years haven’t changed Kronos at all. )



Title: ancient history
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to bad things
Pairings: inferred Methos/Kronos from the pov of a very unobservant person
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 295
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any rare pairing, Sometimes when two people love each other / [blank] / it's really unfortunate.

( Duncan researches the Horsemen, after. )




Title: They Do Not Speak of After
Written: November 26, 2015
Prompt: any, any, hidden princess

( They do not speak of after. )




Title: untitled
Original, gen
Prompt: any, any, this was a war they couldn't afford to lose, but they did


( They lose. )

Title: histories
Fandom: Inception
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to human sacrifice and violence; spoilers for Star Wars
Pairings: Mal/Dom, Arthur/Eames
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 670
Point of view: third
Prompt: Inception, Arthur/Eames (&Cobbs), "We're just friends" is the biggest lie he's ever told Cobbs


( They’ve never been friends. )




Title: untitled
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: takes place anytime after season 5, AUish, violence
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 250
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Dean/Castiel - a desperate situation, Cas promised to protect Sam over Dean... but when it comes down to it, that's not a promise he can keep.


( What he realizes, after, is that of course it would always come to this. )



Untitled
Warnings: depression, heartbreak
Prompt: Any, Any (+/Any) It's not the end of THE world, just the end of his (or hers).


( Every morning, she wakes and the sun is still shining. )


Title: harvesting
Original, gen, PG13
Warnings for violence/death, creepy as all get-out
Prompt: any, any, hoarding


( Time to harvest. )


Untitled
183 words, first person narration
Prompt: Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, she gets back her tail by ripping their throats open and letting their blood drain out into her sisters's waiting mouths.

( There won’t be no stories about pretty little fish-tailed princesses here. )