screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

Title: Three times, ‘tis said, a sinking man comes up to face the skies
Fandom: Avengers
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Dickinson
Warnings: mentions of abuse/violence/death/Hydra being a fuckwad
Pairings: gen with MAJOR Steve/Bucky leanings (of course)
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 430
Point of view: second
Prompt: MCU, any, "If you say (any)'s name three times she/he/it'll turn up."

(  Someone, somewhere, is waiting for you to return, to sit in the chair, to submit, to sleep. Someone, somewhere, will die beneath your fists, your blades, your guns. Someone, somewhere, is panicking because you will not arrive in a timely manner. )


Title: It seems too much to hope
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Denise Levertov
Warnings: mentions of character death/violence/torture/brainwashing; spoilers for Captain America: Winter Soldier
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 255
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, If I'd known what we made would be gone like yesterday...--Goodbye by Glenn Morrison feat. Islove


( There is a world where Bucky never fell. )


Title: amongst the stars
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my character
Warnings: far in the future
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 90
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any SF/F fandom, Eldorado to the Moon, Michael Nesmith

( Humanity has come a long way. )


Title: tempest in a teacup (don’t wake the sleeping ones)
Original, gen, PG
515 words
Prompt: Any, any, not a bird in a cage

( There are some beasts so big no cage in the world could contain them. )


Title: end of an age
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: talk of violence/death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 295
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos, Meeting his younger self wouldn't be so bad except for how many younger selves he was so happy to leave behind.


( Methos has been many men. )

Title: footprints in the snow
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: So, this is a bit abstract, I think, with a very unreliable narrator who has no fucking clue what is going on inside his head or outside it, so, there's that. Mentions of violence/brainwashing/torture.
Pairings: none
Rating: PG13?
Wordcount: 515
Point of view: third
Prompt: Steve/Bucky, the reason Bucky rescued Steve from the Potomac wasn't because Bucky was remembering Steve or breaking through his programming. It was because all he knows is extreme cruelty from Pierce/Rumlow/etc., and he reacted to the small bit of kindness Steve showed him like an abused dog.

There is nothing inside the asset but falling snow.



Title: all we have to lay on the line
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Adrienne Rich
Warnings: suicidal ideation; mentions of death/violence/torture/brainwashing; codependence; grief
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 2440
Point of view: third
Prompt: During Steve's search for the Winter Soldier, everyone is constantly cautioning him not to get his hopes up, to remember that he's not really Bucky, that he's an assassin, that he's the enemy (never mind the 70 years of torture and brainwashing, not like that had anything to do with it, not like he should be considered Hydra's oldest and longest lasting victim or anything).

I just need someone, maybe one of the remaining SHIELD agents, maybe the new director, Phil or someone else, maybe Tony or Natasha or Clint or Sam, someone to say to Steve, "We need you to be aware that, if it comes to a point where a choice has to be made, we have to be prepared to do what's necessary."

And I need Steve to look them in the eye and say, "If it comes to the point where that choice needs to be made, you should be aware that I'm prepared to stop you."


Natasha called him a ghost. Steve has no idea how long it took Hydra to make him that way, but he’s repaying the debt with blood and fire, and he isn’t merciful.

Title: I seek some nobler hero’s name
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Lord Byron
Warnings: past abuse, identity issues, everything that Winter Soldier implies, takes place after Avengers 2 so they’re all a happy family at Avengers Tower, spoilers for Little Women
Pairings: Pepper/Tony, Jane/Thor
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1950
Point of view: third
Note: thanks to 5012allinarow for help with Tony Stark
Prompt: any, any, "You do know 'Oi, you!' is not my name, right?"


For months, he doesn't respond to his name. He's a ghost in the Tower, seen out the corners of people's eyes, there for a moment and then not.

Steve is the only one who calls him anything at all, and no one knows if that's wrong or not.

Warnings for discussion of paralysis, fear, pain, and bad language




MRI: unpleasant (I’ve had 3 or 4, I think. Maybe 5?)
MRA: fuck that shit, it felt like I was on fire (only the once, thank fuck)
CT scan: I don’t really remember it? Concussions suck. But I think it might have been cool. Aside from, you know, the concussion.
EEG: not too bad, though the hyperventilation exercise was creepy

I’d just really like my head to stop hurting, okay? Really. That’s all I want.

I had a small episode earlier this week, unlike anything I've ever experienced, and possibly the most physical pain I've ever experienced (including that time I fell of a galloping (cantering?) horse). But my aunt the nurse checked me over and all the readings were normal. But I've had an actualfax migraine since, and my left arm didn't feel right until today. I've gotten used to always having a headache, but it's been awhile since a migraine's lasted this long.

But the episode... god, it was terrifying. Just sudden pain all over my body, bright light in my eyes (brain?), and I couldn't move, and I didn't want to move, and it felt like I was shaking inside, and everything was loud and echoey, and I felt so far away from everything, so removed... and I just. It was hours before I felt semi-normal again, and I freaked my little sister the fuck out, and I couldn't concentrate. I felt so tired but I didn't want to sleep (and my little sister didn't want me to sleep either, scared I wouldn't wake up).

So, yeah. I called my neurologist the next morning. Possibly my migraines are upgrading? Best cast scenario, I think. But I am so tired of my head hurting. I can't even remember how it felt when my head didn't hurt. I've gotten almost no work done for my thesis, and I don't even care because I can barely concentrate half the time. I just... I want it to stop. That's all.

Title: a shadow ajar
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: post season 3; trauma; mindfuck
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 265
Point of view: third
Prompt: Teen Wolf, Stiles, I don’t just want your heart. I want your flesh, your skin and blood and bones, your voice, your thoughts, your pulse and most of all your fingerprints, everywhere.


(  He watches the fox crumble to dust, watches his own face collapse, and he knows -- it's not over yet. )



Title: the weapon with no name
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: Spoilers for Cap2. Mentions of torture/brainwashing/violence
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 625
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any vs any, the origin of a grudge



( There is a weapon with a title but no name, and he is a powerful weapon indeed. )



Title: the twilight kingdom
Original, gen, PG
720 words
Prompt: Author's choice, author's choice, kingdoms in the twilight, forests forever on the cusp of autumn

( She learned from Maleficent’s failure. There are no loopholes here. )



Title: that season of beginning
Original, gen, PG for mild language
500 words
Prompt: Any, any, anthropomorphic personification of autumn
Title from Truman Capote. Set in 2014.

( At the turn of the year, the four gather, as they always do, plotting out the next year’s weather. )


Title: the start
Original, PG, gen
130 words
Prompt: any, any, every book tells a story

( Once upon a time. )

Title: I would change for you but, babe, that doesn't mean I'm gonna be a better man
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from "Sleep All Summer"
Warnings: spoilers for Cap2
Pairings: gennish
Rating: PG
Wordcount:
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Steve/Bucky, sleep all summer.


( Bucky Barnes died when he fell. )



Title: Sunlight on a broken column
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my character; title from TS Eliot
Warnings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 95
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Mythos, I don't have the slightest clue when my birthday is


( Each of his identities has a different birthday, and a different way of celebrating it. )



Title: supplication of a dead man's hand
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; all quotes from the movies; title from TS Eliot
Warnings: spoilers for Cap2
Pairings: gennish with Steve/Bucky leanings
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 285
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, "don't go where I can't follow"



( He became a supersoldier, and he performed like a dancing monkey, and he thought he was 'doing his part' for the war, and he hated it. )


Title: all coming back to me now
Fandom: Avengers moveiverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from a song
Warnings: Spoilers for Cap2. All quotes from either it or First Avenger
Pairings: Definite Steve/Bucky leanings
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 180
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, it was lost long ago but it's all coming back to me now


( He does not remember Captain America. )




Title: slow to wake
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Ursula K. Le Guin
Warnings: AU for Half-Blood Prince
Rating: PG
Pairings: none
Wordcount: 380
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter, Draco (+/any), deny thy father and refuse thy name (Romeo and Juliet)
Note: The title is from this quote - The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.


( Father has told him all his life that Malfoys bow to no one. )

Title: the lost queen
Fandom: White Collar
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: fantasy AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 285
Point of view: third
Prompt: White Collar, Neal/El, the queen and a thief


( I heard you’re looking for a thief. )




Title: I loosed a dove
Fandom: Captain America movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Gilgamesh
Warnings: spoilers for Cap2: Winter Soldier
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 110
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, a visceral reaction to a fear he/she doesn't understand


( The asset is falling. )


Title: Your first words have yet to be said
Fandom: Captain America movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Elton John
Warnings: spoilers for Cap2: Winter Soldier; identity issues
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 255
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, "It's never too late to be who you might have been." - George Eliot


( James Buchanan Barnes was a good man. )


Title: the kind you stop
Fandom: Captain America movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Cap2
Warnings: spoilers for Cap 2
Pairings: gennish
Rating: PG
Wordcount:145
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, love means you risk getting burned.


( Director Fury, Natasha, Sam, Agent Hill – they all warn him that there might not be anything left of Bucky to save. )



Title: No color in the Rainbow perceive, when you are gone
Fandom: Captain America movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Dickenson
Warnings: Spoilers for Cap2. Suicidal thoughts. Steve has PTSD and is also probably clinically depressed.)
Pairings: Steve/Bucky leanings
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 185
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Steve, wrath is my sin

( He is so so so angry, and he doesn't know how not to be. )

Title: Judas
Fandom: The Bible
Written: sometime in 2006? 2005? Forever ago.
Note: At some point, this was posted here. I apparently deleted it. *shrugs* For awhile, I thought this to be one of my best works, but after rereading it… hmm. I don’t really think that anymore. Still, I do enjoy it and so I shall post it here again.

( Thirty pieces, for his soul. Thirty pieces, and they weren’t even gold. )

Title: not all those who wander are lost
Original, PG, gen
Title from Tolkien
263 words
Prompt: Author's choice, author's choice, cursed to wander the Earth, but for them it was never a curse

( She spends a year in Vienna, another in Rome, a year and a half in London, in Paris, in Tokyo. )



Title: into the woods
Original, PG, mentions of het
270 words
Prompt: Any, any female character, And I'm sorry, young man, I cannot be your friend/I don't believe in a fairytale end


( She doesn’t like this story. )


Title: the sound of God walking
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: mentions of violence/death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 340
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos/any, everyone dies


( Here's a spoiler for you: everyone dies at the end. )




Title: tell him we will meet as men, for with honor did I die
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU during season 2, character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 260
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, "I wish I was sorry, but I'm not."



( The paper is crumpled, dotted with blood, and left beneath the sheriff’s coffee mug. Stiles has been missing for six hours when he reads it. )


Title: a very distinctive (fill in the blank)
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)/Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: Takes place anytime for Leverage, but in a world where season 3 never happened for Teen Wolf
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 225
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage, Eliot, not many people know it, but Eliot Spencer is The Coolest Uncle Ever. Period.



( There can be none, ABSOLUTELY NO, werewolf shenanigans for the upcoming week. Okay? Okay. )

Title: rediscover in silence the part of me that was harder to leave behind than home
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Grace Bauer
Warnings: goes AU pre-series; implied violence; character death; mentions of canon underage sex/sexual abuse
Pairings: Laura Hale/OMC; mentions of Kate/Derek; Christ Argent/Victoria Argent; Allison Argent/Scott McCall
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 3750
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, protagonist journey to villain
Note: My headcanon is that Peter’s a lying liar who lies, so the Paige incident happened with him instead of Derek. Also, I don’t buy that whole killing a person turns werewolf eyes blue. Blue just means they’re born werewolves or a human born to werewolves who gets the bite. *firm nod*
Another note: I borrow the concept of mountain ash working against humans from “Burn Everything You Love, Then Burn the Ashes” by zoemathemata, which is AMAZING.
Also another note: for the record, this is Derek Hale at 14.

( After the fire, Laura decrees that they leave Uncle Peter to the hospital and flee. )




Title: rediscover in silence the part of me that was harder to leave behind than home
Fandom: Teen Wolf/Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Grace Bauer
Warnings: character death
Pairings: Laura Hale/OMC
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 660
Point of view: third
Notes: I decided Laura’s hacker friend in Miami was Alec Hardison. *shrugs* So, in this world, Leverage Nate Ford’s group of Robin Hoods has a different hacker because Laura has Hardison.

( It was through Nana that Alec ever met the werewolves. )




Title: rediscover in silence the part of me that was harder to leave behind than home
Fandom: Teen Wolf/Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Grace Bauer
Warnings: character death
Pairings: Laura Hale/OMC, Allison/Scott
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 980
Point of view: third
Notes: How did Stiles end up working at Silverbane Consulting? This is how.


( After the Hale fire, nothing really happened until Peter Hale disappeared. )