screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

Title: the magic of a wish
Original, PG, 445 words
Warnings: references to rape culture
Prompt: author's choice, any, Some stories tell of how to slay or even tame dragons, while others tell of how to become dragons.


( She listens to the legends. )



Untitled
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 200
Point of view: third
Prompt: Mcu, Bruce/Tony, fairy tale fusion

( There is a prince trapped in a tower and a monster that guards the steps. )


Title: you die awake
Fandom: Charmed
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: changed future; references to the unchanged one
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 200
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any. any. s(he) remembers the other timeline.

( He doesn't just suddenly remember one day, and he hasn't always remembered. )


Title: Brother, leave no man behind
Fandom: Marvel movie
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: post-Winter Soldier; ignores AoU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 185
Point of view: third
Prompts: any Whedonverse. any. lies can be better than the truth ; any Whedonverse. any. wrath

( Sometimes, telling the truth is pointless. )



Title: soulmate
Original, PG,
Prompt: any. any. I don't care if the world burns as long as...


( There are things they never tell you. )

You know what's frightening? My inheritance on my mother's side is brain tumors, leukemia, and being the medically interesting case.

Title: lonely for something to touch
Fandom: RPF
Disclaimer: they’re all real people so they belong to themselves; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: AU; violence/death
Pairings: Louis Tomlinson/Harry Styles, Liam Payne/Zayn Malik
Rating: PG13
Point of view: third
Wordcount: 2700+
Prompts: author's choice, any, Even a hit man deserves a second shot. (Grosse Pointe Blank) ; any, any/any, Together forever. Or else. (Fear) ; Author's choice, any/any, Cute Poison (Prison Break)

Notes: there's supposed to be three more parts of this coming; right now, there's only two chapters.


When he left home at eighteen, Louis fully expected to be a starving artist in London. That is not how things go.

Title: I try to picture me without you (but I can't)
Fandom: RPF(ish)
Disclaimer: … they’re sorta mine? in this incarnation, at least. title from Fall Out Boy
Warnings: references to canon character death, violence/battles
Pairings: Alexander/Hephaestion
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 670
Point of view: third
Prompt: Historical RPF. any. we will never be royals



( He dreams of deserts and elephants, of battles and blood, of a faceless man he loves more than life itself. )



Title: the quiet moments
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: takes place anytime after season 3; references to the terrible things Eliot did willingly for Moreau; violence/death
Pairings: Eliot/Hardison/Parker, past Moreau/Eliot
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 405
Point of view: third
Prompts: Leverage, Hardison/Parker/Eliot, they want to know about Eliot's past ; Leverage, Eliot/Hardison(/Parker) and past Eliot/Damien Moreau, how Eliot finally tells them about his past relationship with Damien

( Hardison and Parker never ask Eliot about his history with Moreau. )



Title: ascent
Written September 23, 2015
Author's choice (except Supernatural), any once-human creature, We can give you a new body, a new voice. You'll miss your parents, and the sun, but you could sing. (We all float down here)


( do you remember the sun? )


Title: mastermind
Fandom: Heroes
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU at some point
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 120
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, Life is never so bleak / that you can't turn things around / with a crime spree.


( Luke does mean it, when he says they’ll find Micah’s mom. )



Title: I know your look when I get there
Fandom: RPF
Disclaimer: they belong to themselves (or each other); title from Dido
Warnings: takes place in early 2011 but after February 1
Pairings: Louis Tomlinson/Harry Styles
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 233
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any/any, standing there with just a tan and a slow, shy smile


( He’s nervous, of course. )

Title: hope
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: pre-pilot
Pairings: John/Mary
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, John & Mary (Dean), they each had different expectations for their first born son


( hope is the most painful thing of all )





Title: ever after
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: ignores epilogue; future!fic; references to canon child endangerment and abuse
Pairings: Neville Longbottom/Luna Lovegood
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 235
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom/Luna Lovegood, 'accidental garden manpain'

( She thinks, sometimes, that she wouldn't mind lighting the extended Longbottom family on fire. )




Title: born to shine
Fandom: One Direction RPF
Disclaimer: they’re real people so they belong to themselves; title from Smash Cast
Warnings: takes place in both 2010 and 2015
Rating: PG
Pairings: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson
Wordcount: 500
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any +/ any

There are some in this world who have strength on their own
Never broken or in need of repair
But there are some born to shine who can't do it alone
So protect them and take special care
Take care
(Don't Forget Me by Smash Cast)


( there are some born to shine who can’t do it alone )



Title: Jeanne d'Arc
Originalish - RPF
Prompt: Historical RPF. any before the 20th century. If they'd been alive now.


( Joanna doesn't tell anyone when she begins to hear the voice. )



Title: the radio turns on, playing love songs
Fandom: One Direction RPF
Disclaimer: they’re real people so they belong to themselves; title & prompt from Gloria Trevi's 'Ángel de la Guarda'.
Warnings: MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH and mourning/grief
Pairings: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 260
Point of view: third
Prompt: any. any.


Strange things happen when you're home alone.
You hear my voice, saying, 'hey love'
And in the shower, someone soaps up your back,
and the radio turns on, playing love songs.


( He doesn’t sing anymore. )

This is just me ranting at the void, basically.

SO. Finally seeing an orthopedist on Wednesday. Saw a GP today who is training a baby doctor, and apparently, my left knee actually looks different than my right knee when moving around. Yay. Of course, the x-rays are completely normal, just the like the x-rays from March. However, the orthopedists at the clinic are first come, first serve, so I have to get there early.

Also, I’m back to waking up with migraines, even though I got a new splint for my jaw thing. The pain in my jaw itself goes away about an hour after I get up, but I’m still miserable for the rest of the day.

One of my classes has a major group project that’s basically a mini-thesis. This is a class you’re supposed to take in your first year of grad school. My advisor never mentioned that. Everything we’re learning? I learned the hard way. It’s hard to find motivation when I’m bitter and annoyed.

And to top everything off, my advisor is once again ignoring me. I’ve sent three emails (the third today) asking for a meeting so we can discuss one of the chapters of my thesis. We were supposed to meet last week, so I sent an email the week before. Then another last week. I finally texted her assistant, who I’ve had multiple classes with, and she suggested stopping by the office. Which I did last week and absolutely NO ONE was there, including all of the suitemates. So she then suggested sending another email because my advisor’s time is limited on campus.

Which is fucking A, isn’t it?

And in my other class, my final project is going to be another chapter of my thesis, and when I went over what I’m planning to do with the professor, she had all these revisions, so it’s another shit-ton of work that MY ADVISOR NEVER MENTIONED. But when the prof learned who my advisor is, she was like, “Oh, yeah, she’s awesome!”

Why is it that everyone else thinks this woman is amazing and I’m just over here, feeling like. Like shit. I’m not important. But when I’m actually in front of her, she’s all excited and so glad to see what I’ve done, and everything’s lovely. Is it out of sight, out of mind?

Title: The Last Master
Fandom: The Princess Bride/The Last Unicorn
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: pre-PB, way post-LU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 155
Point of view: third
Prompt: The Princess Bride/The Last Unicorn, Inigo+the Unicorn, He has learned from all the great masters, there's only one left to learn from.


( He seeks the creature in the lilac woods. )



Title: unintended consequences
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU during season 5
Pairings: John/Mary, Dean/Sam
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 380
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Sam/Dean, the cupids aftermath of meddling with John and Mary = Sam and Dean's erotic codependency


( Platonic soulmates are in fact a thing. )




Title: lord of the storm
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Gilgamesh
Warnings: references to death/violence
Pairings: implied Methos/Kronos
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 375
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, "Only one rule: we all die in the end."


( The first thing Methos teaches each of his students, from the first to the last, is how to die. )








Title: mending
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: major character death; AU during The Grave Danger Job
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 115
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage (Spoilers for The Grave Danger Job), Parker+any, Hardison doesn't survive the burial and Parker wants revenge.


( Nate begs them not to. )



Title: Happiness
Prompt: Author’s choice, any/any, happy
Finished September 20, 2015

( Who we were together isn’t who I want to be. )

I want to light things on fire

I want to light things on fire

I want to light things on fire

I want to sob until I can't breathe and LIGHT MORE THINGS ON FIRE

I don't know if I'm more angry or frustrated anymore

BUT I WANT THINGS TO BURN AND BLEED UNTIL I FEEL BETTER.

Title: smile
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU for season 3, death, sadness
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 310
Point of view: third
Prompt: SPN: Sam/Dean (Or Sam & Dean), the first and last time Dean saw his brother smile


( He doesn't look like much, Dean thinks, but he doesn't say it. )



Title: untitled
Original, gen, PG
Prompt: any, any, bad ending


( There’s so much blood. )



Title: I’m the lie living for you
Fandom: Fast & Furious
Disclaimer: Brian and Rome aren’t mine; title from Evanescence
Warnings: prejudice, depression, neglect of a child, mostly pre-canon
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Point of view: third
Prompt: any. any. shapeshifter

In this verse

( There’s a beast living inside her little boy. )


Title: I miss most, even now, his hands
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Carol Ann Duffy
Warnings: references to death and violence
Pairings: Methos/Byron, Methos/Duncan, Methos/Kronos,
Rating: PGish
Point of view: third
Wordcount: 200
Prompt: Highlander, Methos/Duncan or Caspian or Byron or OMC, a way with his hands


( Byron had lovely hands. )



Title: infinite
Fandom: Highlander/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to violence/death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 250
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander/Buffy, Methos and Dawn, You don't live for 5000 years and remain perfectly sane but Methos knows better than to say anything about the glowing green power that other people think is a girl.


( She moves like a slayer, he thinks. )

Title: Friday’s Child (works hard for a living)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: most of them are my characters, actually, but the ones you recognize aren’t
Warnings: references to violence and WW2; AU way pre-canon
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1070
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter, Tom Riddle, He never went to Hogwarts, he trained himself in magic

Note: pretend Tom Riddle is two years younger or else ignore that The Blitz happens at the wrong time

Another note: I started a second part to this, but it stalled.


( After the wizard leaves, Tom runs. )