tigriswolf | Entries tagged with actor: christian kane

Title: The world shall burn
Fandom: Avengers movieverse/Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Milton
Warnings: future!fic for Highlander; post-Avengers; primordial!Methos; very Loki friendly as he's my favorite
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 415
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, "Life is pain, [Highness]. Anyone who says differently is selling something." (Westley in The Princess Bride)

( He finds the boy in a cage. )

Title: a good man
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: temporary character death; violence/bullying
Pairings: implied Bucky/Steve
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 435
Point of view: third
Prompt: Avengers, Steve Rogers, The noblest question in the world is What good may I do in it?

( Jim Barnes was barely ten, but he was already gorgeous. )

Title: lightning strike
Fandom: Leverage/Greek mythology
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: minor language
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 155
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage, Eliot, "It's a very particular type of [insert storm characteristic here. Lightning? Thunder?]"

( Lightning flashes and Eliot flinches. )

Title: what you are in the dark
Fandom: Amazing Spider-Man (2012)/Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic; implied character death; dark; AUish
Pairings: Peter/Gwen
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 385
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's choice, author's choice, I'll weep all night, with stars I'll fight / The fray shall well become me.

( When he falls, it's hard. )

Title: on butterfly wings
Fandom: Kings
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for everything
Pairings: implied Jack/David
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 230
Point of view: third
Prompt: Kings, Jack Benjamin, once and future king

( He dreams of being king; of course he does. )

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Title: there but for the grace
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: post-season 7
Pairings: mentions of Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Xander, a smidge of maybe implied Xander/Jesse
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 130
Point of view: third
Prompt: BtVS, Xander, He played God when he told Buffy that lie in Becoming.

( Sometimes, he wishes he could regret it. )

Title: freezing persons, recollect the snow—first chill, then stupor, then the letting go
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Dickinson
Warnings: pre-series AU; character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 65
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Any,
In the sweetest child there's a vicious streak
In the strongest man there's a child so weak
In the whole wide world there's no magic place
So you might as well rise, put on your bravest face

( He's on his knees, hands on his belly, bleeding out. )

Title: we'll never be as bright as we are now
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: reincarnation!fic; modern-day
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 105
Point of view: third
Prompt: Merlin, Arthur/Merlin, Gold Forever lyrics by The Wanted
Cause we're
Butterflies, butterflies..we were meant to fly,
You and I, you and I..colors in the sky,
We could rule the world someday, somehow
But we'll never be as bright as we are now.
We're standing in a light that won't fade,
Tomorrow's coming but this won't change,
Cause some days stay gold forever.
The memory of being here with you,
Is one I'm gonna take my life through,
Cause some days stay gold forever.

( He remembers while standing in the rain. )

Title: the tongue, a sapphire of ash
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sylvia Plath
Warnings: AUish for the movie
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 375
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any (no incest please), If you're going to be stupid, you'd better be tough.

( Thor is the strongest warrior in Asgard. )

Title: when death comes with its hood we won't be polite
Fandom: Angel the Series/Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: takes place during AtS finale and pre-Leverage
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 90
Point of view: third
Prompt: Angel, Lindsey/author's choice, trust.

( When it all comes down to it, all you can count on is family. )

Title: the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; the painting mentioned is The Horse Fair by Rosa Bonheur; title from Helen Keller
Warnings: future!fic
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 425
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, a whiter shade of pale
Note: I have seen The Horse Fair in person. It is amazing. I want it for my own wall.

( Ben had never ridden a horse. )

Title: all I ever wanted (and more)
Fandom: Charmed
Disclaimer: the kids are mine
Warnings: changed future!fic
Pairings: Chris/Bianca
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 160
Pointofview: third
Prompt: Charmed, Chris, kids of his own make him appreciate his mother's patience.

( When Pippa and Matty's game of orb-and-seek ends up on the Golden Gate Bridge, Chris hangs onto his temper with clenched fingers and tersely orders them to their rooms. Th )

Title: look down, look down, sweet Jesus doesn't care
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Les Miserables
Warnings: depressing; mentions of character death; spoilers for the beginning of season 7
Pairings: implied Dean/Castiel
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 205
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Dean/Cas, he put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger / and finally drank away [his] memory / life is short, but this time it was bigger / than the strength he had to get up off his knees

( Drinking does nothing to dull the pain, or regret, or fury. But it's all Dean can do. )

Title: a hacker, a hitter, and a thief
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU; mentions of child abuse, character death, violence, and torture
Pairings: implied Eliot/Parker/Hardison
Rating: PG
Wordcount:
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage; Parker, Eliot, and Hardison (or threesome!); they're the villains of this story.

( Alec is a world-renowned hacker. Parker is considered one of the best thieves. And Eliot? He's the nightmare young hitters get warned about, the one few ever believe. )

Title: fire and ice
Fandom: X-Men
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU for X2
Pairings: implied Pyro/Iceman
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 65
Point of view: third
Prompt: X-Men, Pyro/Iceman, both are with Magneto

( John doesn't say the words. )

Title: tired of all the dead

Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: takes place in senior year
Pairings: implied unrequited Karofsky/Kurt
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 125
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's Choice, Author's Choice, Try to realise it's all within yourself/No one else can make you change/And to see you're really only very small/And life flows on within you and without you (Within You Without You)

( Kurt dreams about changing the world. Of course he does. Every kid does. He'll make everything better for his generation and every generation that follows. )

Title: I'm so proud to know that he is mine
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters; title paraphrased from The Beatles
Warnings: the fluffiest fluff that ever fluffed
Pairings: Kurt/Blaine
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 60
Point of view: third
Prompt: Glee, Kurt/Blaine, I feel good in a special way, I'm in love and it's a sunny day (Good Day Sunshine)

( Sometimes, Blaine just stops and stares and smiles. )

Title: Summer ends and we wonder where we are
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Dar Williams
Warnings: AU; takes place sometime in season 5 (I think)
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 215
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural; Meg/Dean; "Don't be a sissy, Dean. Do it like you mean it."

( He flinches. There is nothing of Alistair's star pupil left in him. He's just a broken man now. )

Title: stormy heart for stormy heart
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Gilgamesh
Warnings: AU
Pairings: pre-OT3
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 415
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage, Eliot/Hardison/Parker, Eliot confesses that he fights more than just people

( He's learning all kinds of things tonight. Too bad he'll die before he can do anything about it. )

Title: perching on the soul
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic
Pairings: Castiel/Dean
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 145
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Dean/Castiel, fledgling

( She looks up at him with bright hazel eyes. )

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

( Read more... )

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. )

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?"

( Few things horrify Eliot Spencer. )

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?

( Knowledge floods him, along with adrenaline and a slow, simmering rage. )

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?"

( Eames doesn't care about overshare or TMI. )

Title: Truth indeed came once into the world
Fandom: Highlander/Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Milton
Warnings: AUish; primordial!Methos
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1105
Point of view: third
Notes: this started out as me wanting to write a fic where Methos was older than vampires. It sorta got away from me.

( Methos had a Slayer of his own, once )

Title: dreamers have no place in war
Fandom: Inception
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: slightly dark
Pairings: Arthur/Ariadne
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 285
Point of view: third
Prompt: Inception, Ariadne/Arthur, she's not used to having enemies

( People have always been fond of Ariadne. She's tiny and cute, and she knows it. Most days, she even likes it. )

Title: Your kisses turbulent, unspent to warm me
Fandom: Inception
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Georgia Douglas Johnson
Warnings: takes place after movie; character death
Pairings: Arthur/Eames
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 385
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's Choice, Author's Choice, 'I want to die while you love me' (Poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson)

( Eames lives with a ferocity Arthur can't help but admire. )

Title: Of Ground, or Air, or Ought
Fandom: Inception
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Dickinson
Warnings: AU; crackish
Pairings: Arthur/Eames
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 260
Point of view: third
Prompt: Inception, Arthur/Eames, Superhero AU

( pigtail-pulling on the playground )

Title: lain sleepless with rage
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Adrienne Rich
Warnings: AUish; takes place during Mystery Spot; spoilers for season 5
Pairings: shades of Michael/Gabriel and Lucifer/Michael
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 135
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Gabriel/Michael, Mystery Spot was not about Sam. It was about Gabriel trying to kill Dean in order to make a fucking point and Michael reviving him every goddammed morning.

( Older brothers always ruin things. )

Title: in my mind's graveyard, I am laying flowers at your unmarked feet
Fandom: Leverage/Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Betsy Sholl
Warnings: spoilers for season 6; bitter AU
Pairings: past-Dean/Eliot; past-Dean/Lisa
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 560
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage/Supernatural, Team Leverage + Dean, AU after 5x22, Dean leaves Lisa's almost right away in spite of his promise to Sam, and the Leverage crew finds itself with an extra Hitter.

( There's nothing supernatural about it. No angels or demons or hellpits swallowing baby brothers. Just douchebags he can break all to pieces, and it feels so good. They just point him in the right direction and get out of his way, and he doesn't have to make decisions or ask questions. Just his fists, and knives, and every now and then a gun, because Eliot still hates them, but sometimes it's the only way out. )

Title: Out of the forest I come with my flowers, singing, all alone
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Carol Ann Duffy
Warnings: angsty
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 175
Point of view: third
Prompt: author's choice, the errors of the past are the wisdom of the future

( Duncan asks a thousand questions, not a single one he hasn't heard before. )

Title: Perhaps I was born kneeling
Fandom: The Losers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: AUish
Pairings: pre-Cougar/Jensen
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 235
Point of view: third
Prompt: The Losers, Jensen, team. They don't have a name for what he is.

( Jakob Jensen is not his name. Not the one he was born with, anyway. ).

Title: the crimson rags of war
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Shiloh
Warnings: AUish
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 170
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos, A fair fight is a sign of poor tactics

( Methos has died before; no one hunts for a dead man. And the truest of survivors will never fight fair. )

Title: here lie the also-rans
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic; character death
Pairings: Karofsky/Puck, unrequited Karofsky/Kurt, mentions of Kurt/OMC
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 605
Point of view: third
Prompt: Glee, any, "Tall Tales"

( Kurt Hummel is the most sucessful graduate McKinley High will ever have. )

Title: beckoning a rage within
Fandom: Leverage/Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Adrienne Rich
Warnings: slightly AUish for Supernatural
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 165
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage/Supernatural; Hardison /or& any; Alec was one of Azazel's special kids, and sometimes... sometimes it shows.

( The things Alec does with a computer are impossible. )

Title: the safe-kept memory of a lovely thing
Fandom: Inception/Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sara Teasdale
Warnings: AU; future!fic for Harry Potter
Pairings: implied Arthur/Eames
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 190
Point of view: third
Prompt: Inception/Harry Potter, anyone, extractors in the Wizarding World use Pensives rather than PASIVs

( Dumbledore is one of the easiest forges Eames has ever done. )

Title: wrung with the wounds which kill not, but ne'er heal
Fandom: Leverage/Angel
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Byron
Warnings: anytime for Leverage; post-series for Angel
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount:100
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage/Angel, Lindsey!Eliot/Any, (S)he's fairly sure Eliot's wrist is broken, but (s)he's seen him shake off much worse injuries and now he's just stood there, white as a sheet, staring at his hand.

( There is no way it's the worst injury Eliot has ever had. )

Title: the daylight is lit with more volatile light
Fandom: White Collar/X-Men
Disclaimer : not my characters; title from Whitman
Warnings: somewhat AU
Pairings: pre-Neal/Peter
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 320
Point of view: third
Prompt: White Collar/X-Men; Neal, Peter, Any; Neal's a mutant.

( There's a criminal. And there's an FBI Special Agent. And over there, in a fabulous hat, is another criminal who helps the FBI catch bad guys. )

Title: I'm bound to die, you said, someday
Fandom: Highlander/Star Trek reboot
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sandra Cisneros
Warnings: none
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 175
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander/Star Trek Reboot, Methos & Enterprise Crew; Methos gains a reputation for being the only red shirt able to go out on a mission with the main crew and come back relatively unscathed.

( He saves the captain, first officer, and CMO, and now people are noticing him. Being noticed never ends well. )

Title: four truths only
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for the Horsemen arc
Pairings: a smidge of past-Methos/Kronos
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 360
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, any, bite the lightning and tell me how it tastes (lyrics from Arctic Monkeys)

( Four truths only, and never his name. )

Title: myth is truer than history
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Cleanth Brooks
Warnings: pre-series
Pairings: Sam/Jessica; a smidge of implied Dean/Sam
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 240
Point of view: third
Prompt: pursuit

( Sam didn't play hard-to-get. )

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Title: Remembered, if outlived
Fandom: White Collar/Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Dickinson
Warnings: pre-series for White Collar; implied past child abuse
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 410
Point of view: third
Prompt: immortal

( As a kid, the boy who would be Neal Caffrey wanted what all kids want: to live forever. )

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Title: tyrants tend gardens
Fandom: Highlander/Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Betsy Sholl
Warnings: future!fic for both
Pairings: post-Methos/Eliot
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 355
Point of view: third
Prompt: irony

( A job goes south. )

Title: Pick-picking Heaven's gate
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AUish
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Castiel & Dean; somebody accidently left the keys of the Kingdom inside heaven, and now they're locked out of St. Peter's Gate. Castiel needs Dean's help breaking in.

( How is this Dean's life? )

Title: And I am the arrow, the dew that flies
Fandom: Inception
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sylvia Plath
Warnings: AUish, most likely
Pairings: Arthur/Eames
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 590
Point of view: third
Prompt: Inception, Arthur(/Dom or Eames), Tulpa

( Even a dream can dream. )

Title: only the summer was sweet
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: future!fic; character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 140
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, they used to be inseparable but now they only see each other once a year, always in winter

( There is no body. )

Title: Thou art thy mother's glass
Fandom: Matilda
Disclaimer: Mama Honey isn't mine; title from SHakespeare
Warnings: future!fic
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 220
Point of view: third
Prompt: Matilda, Matilda Wormwood, her children all have different powers

( Davey asks Mama Honey to tell them about when she found Mama, about the adventures she and Mama went on together. )

Title: They had not skill enough your worth to sing
Fandom: Highlander/Sherlock
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: character death
Pairings: John/Sherlock (ish)
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 110
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, our hearts are joined until Time slips its tired hand into our tired hands

( What's left without John? )

Title: heroic tendencies—who knew?
Fandom: Star Trek reboot
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 130
Point of view: third
Prompt: Star Trek Reboot, Jim Kirk. A completely different kind of man confronted Jim in that seedy Iowa bar, and instead of going off to the academy he becomes a space pirate. (kudos if he ends up saving earth anyways.)

( A pirate saved the Earth. )

Title: O golden child the world will kill and eat
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for early season 6; future!fic
Pairings: past-Dean/Lisa
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 290
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, any, daddy issues

( Ben Braedon grew up without a father. )

Title: let that season be only Spring
Fandom: Leverage/White Collar
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: takes place sometime after season 2 for both shows
Pairings: Eliot/Hardison
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 240
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage, Eliot/Hardison, Eliot tries to hide the panic he feels when Alec takes him home to meet his Nana.

( Nana promised him once that unless he did something unpalatably awful, like killing someone who didn't deserve it, she'd always bail him out. )

Title: Memory strives with Death
Fandom: White Collar/Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: no HL characters appear; takes place early in WC
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 210
Point of view: third
Prompt: White Collar; Neal; "May you find what you're looking for."

( The buzz hits while he's waiting in line for his coffee. )

Title: Ask the aged why they weep
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 265
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, any, the Watchers tell stories about old Joe Dawson.

( Joe Dawson is a legend, whether you agree with him or not. )

Title: the gods who do not die
Fandom: Angel the Series
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU
Pairings: pre-Lindsey/Angel
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 210
Point of view: third
Prompt: Angel, Angel/Lindsey, on my dying day, yours was the last face I wanted to see.

( Angel should have been the one to kill him, and they both know it. )

Title: the egg of the phoenix
Fandom: Chuck
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU
Pairings: pre-Chuck/Bryce
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 375
Point of view: third
Prompt: Chuck, Chuck/Bryce, When it's for Bryce, even Chuck can't maintain his aversion to killing forever.

( Bryce killed everyone else when he broke free, an hour before Chuck finally found him. )

Title: Next thing, the world
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU during season 4
Pairings: Methos/Alexa
Rating: PG
Wordcount:355
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos, the Hunters had gone after Alexa. Now they were all fair game.

( Death has not walked the world in a very long time. )

Title: Then he was legend
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic, character death, immortal origin story that may not make much sense
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount:325
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, any, Immortals are born to be warriors.

( As his last request, Joe asks for a story. )

Title: you don't love me in a way I understand
Fandom: DCU
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: may be out of character
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount:120
Point of view: third
Prompt: DCU, Jason Todd, his first night at the streets

( He'll say later he wasn't afraid, and only the really young or the really stupid will believe him. )

Title: You come with the dead who people my dreams
Fandom: Highlander/White Collar
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU; spoilers for the Horsemen arc; future!fic for Leverage; future!fic for Losers; mentions of Caspian; mentions of non-con&death
Pairings: mentions of Peter/Neal/Elizabeth; Caspian/Jensen; Methos/Neal; Kronos/Neal; Cougar/Jensen; Eliot/Hardison/Parker
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 1980
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander/White Collar/Leverage/The Losers. Methos, Neil, Elliot, and Jensen. Neil was student to War, Elliot to Pestilence, and Jensen to Famine.
Note: I didn't follow the prompt exactly; Neal and Eliot got flipped.

( Neal has pretended to be an infant for several hundred years. )part 6

Title: the seam of a cloud
Fandom: Chuck
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU
Pairings: Chuck/Bryce, Chuck/Sarah, Bryce/Sarah
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 175
Point of view: third
Prompt: Chuck/Bryce and Sarah, so obviously in love with their secret smiles, small touches and private jokes that it saddens Sarah to know that she never had that with either of them. Not very angsty or anything but more of a realisation of how good Chuck and Bryce are for each other.

( Bryce and Chuck had each other before she ever entered the picture )

Title: the stain of an old kiss
Fandom: NCIS
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: takes place in season 2
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 105
Point of view: third
Prompt: Tony&Kate, he has roses delivered to her without a note and watches her smile distractedly at them the rest of the day

( pink roses for friendship )

Title: burning for you
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU
Rating: PG
Pairings: none
Wordcount: 165
Point of view: third
Prompt: Alastair/Castiel; the limits of endurance.

( Castiel can no longer feel his wings. )

Title: lay me down
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic, utterly depressing
Pairings: implied pre-Parker/Hardison/Eliot
Rating: PG
Point of view: third
Wordcount: 465
Prompt: Hardison (/or& Eliot /or& Parker); when it becomes necessary, Hardison can be just as much of a monster as any of them.

( Eliot got worse today, and Parker's been gone for nearly two weeks. )

Title: blue-bleak embers
Fandom: Chuck/White Collar
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic; AU for Chuck
Pairings: OT3
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 445
Point of view: third
Prompt: Chuck/White Collar, Bryce!Neal +or/ any, Neal will maintain his cover through physical torture if he must - but when someone he loves is the one being tortured he'll risk everything

( And while Neal doesn't know, Bryce could find out. )

Title: I didn't want any flowers
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: character death
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 250
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage, Eliot + Team, well-meaning lies

( They told him to quit lying about how badly he's hurt, to stop hiding the blood and broken bones. )

Title: duet
Fandom: High School Musical
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: post-HSM 3
Pairings: Chad/Ryan
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 135
Point of view: third
Prompt: High School Musical, Chad/Ryan, listening to him singing in the shower

( The only place Chad sings is the shower. )

Title: Your hand found mine
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 110
Point of view: third
Prompt: Ben Braeden/Castiel, your father's son

( The child has his father's temperament, his father's anger, and his father's eyes. He also has his father's lack of luck in all matters legal. )

Title: love is where our summer was
Fandom: White Collar/Chuck
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: child abuse; implied sexual abuse
Pairings: implied OMC/Neal
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 445
Point of view: third
Prompt: White Collar/Chuck, Neal + Bryce, James Bond and James Bonds

( When they were young, Noah and Brendan Lafferty's favorite thing to do was watch old James Bond VHSs. )

Title: kill was tangled into her beginning
Fandom: Dark Angel
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: post-series, character death
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 210
Point of view: third
Prompt: Dark Angel, Alec/Max, Public Enemies

( They are the faces that the public sees, and they look human. )

Title: defining moments
Fandom: DCU
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: mish-mash of various DCU sources
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 200
Point of view: third
Prompt: DCU, Tim & Jason, no other choice

( Batman is out of town helping Dickie-boy with some catastrophe, so he's not here to swoop in and save this Robin like he didn't the last one. )

Title: stories and bloodlines
Fandom: Leverage/mythology
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic
Pairings: implied Hardison/Parker
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 335
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage; team; turns out everyone but Nate are actually mythological figures in disguise.
Notes: I looked up some myths to try and spread the pantheons around a little. Two might be very obscure; I don't want to give it away, so if you don't get 'em, just ask.
More notes: same 'verse as this

( Eliot simply bared his teeth in what couldn't ever be called a smile. )continues here

Title: like a house on fire
Fandom: NCIS/Chuck
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: at some indeterminate time during Chuck
Pairings: Gibbs/Tony, Tony/Tim, Ziva/Tony, Tim/Abby, and pre-Bryce/Tim
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 435
Point of view: third
Prompt: NCIS/Chuck, Tim/Bryce, Bryce fights like Ziva and teases like Tony and somehow seems to like Tim as much as Tim likes him

( And best of all? He not only doesn't mock Tim for being a geek, he's a geek, too. And he actually knows Klingon. )

Title: this is the murmur of yearning
Fandom: Chuck
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: anytime post-season 2
Pairings: implied Chuck/Bryce
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 170
Point of view: third
Prompt: Chuck/Bryce, I used to love a boy, but now he's two years dead... (Murder in My Heart - Sheryl Crow)

( Writing letters to dead people is a form of therapy. )

Title: between the north wind and the sun
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: the brothers aren't mine
Warnings: AU post-apocalyptic future!fic
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 325
Point of view: third
Prompt: Winchesters. Any sort of outsider POV (double kudos if it's about dangerous!Winchesters )

( They come in the fall, but not always. )

Title: a dream the world breathed sleeping and forgot
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic
Pairings: pre-Drusilla/Dawn
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 170
Point of view: third
Prompt: Drusilla/Dawn, the key is singing to Dru

( The Key would be safe from anyone else. )

Title: If you wanna be brave, reach for the top of the sky
Fandom: Disney princess canon
Disclaimer: only the parents are mine
Warnings: present-day AU
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 615
Point of view: third
Prompt: Disney, princesses, superheroes

( When Ariella discovered she could breathe underwater and understand all the sea-going animals, the first person she told was Rosalie. )

Title: a love gift utterly unasked for by a sky
Fandom: Leverage/White Collar
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU for Neal's backstory; mentions of child abuse and non-con
Pairings: thoughts about Eliot/Neal; mentions of OMC/Neal
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 650
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage/White Collar, Eliot/Neal, Neal didn't owe many people favors.

( Neal hates to owe favors, and there are three people in the world he knows he can never repay. )

Title: come touch a copy of you
Fandom: Dark Angel
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: fluctuating tenses; future!fic
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 390
Point of view: third
Prompt: Dark Angel, Max/Alec (friendship or more), "You don't know what you're talking about, Max"

( From the moment he walked into her cell, to when he asked about his dead twin brother, she has never understood him. )

Title: spirit of the sea
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: really weird; future!fic
Pairings: Jack/Black Pearl, Calypso/Jack
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 150
Point of view: third
Prompt: Pirates of the Caribbean, author's choice, S/he missed the waves

( ever ever waiting on the bottom of the sea )

Title: triple goddess
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AUish
Pairings: John/Mary
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 330
Point of view: third
Prompt: any; Maiden, Mother, Crone

( She meets John while in line at the movie theater. )

Title: a phoenix and a rose
Fandom: Sky High
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AUish; future!fic
Pairings: pre-Warren/Layla
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 165
Point of view: third
Prompt: Warren/Layla, Layla becomes Warren's sidekick

( through the phoenix and over the rose )

Title: They were of fame, and had been glorious in another day 2
Fandom: White Collar/Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Byron
Warnings: pre-series for both; spoilers for season 1 of both
Pairings: gennish
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 200
Point of view: third
Prompts: White Collar/Leverage; Neal/Eliot; A year after Neal started working for the FBI, he gets another letter
Note: follows this

( The front is as horrible as the last one. If possible, worse. )

Title: sleeping steel
Fandom: White Collar
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic; AU (shades of Dark Angel)
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount:190
Point of view: third
Prompt: Neal + Peter + Diana + Jones, they're in a situation where Neal has to fight their way out; no one expects that he can because he's... well, Neal, but he totally kicks ass

( So, Diana has a gun pointed at the boss of the bad guys and Peter's trying to hold Jones' guts in his body, and Neal's been disregarded by, oh, everybody. )

Title: echoes of another year
Fandom: White Collar/Chuck
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic
Pairings: Bryce!Neal/Chuck
Rating: PG
Wordcount:420
Point of view: third
Prompt: Chuck, Chuck/Bryce!Neal, He totally had Chuck going until the bad guys showed up; Chuck knows Bryce's fighting style.

( And while Neal Caffrey looks just like Bryce, he doesn't move like him. And he's charming, just like Bryce, but he doesn't know about Star Trek and he gives Chuck a politely confused expression when Chuck speaks Klingon, and even Sarah—who knew Bryce at least as well as Chuck did—says it can't be him. )

Title: Love was more than just a word
Fandom: White Collar
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Deanna Carter
Warnings: future!fic
Pairings: pre-Peter/Neal/Elizabeth
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 340
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any but SPN, any, "This is my soul, in paper and ink; see it stain your fingers, now tell me what you think."

( He smiled at them both, gave Satchmo a quick ear scratch, and held out two packages. )

Title: the fear of thunder and the sword
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Milton
Warnings: spoilers for the Horsemen arc
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 220
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, "I have walked through many lives, some of them my own / And I am not who I was"

( He has been a part of the history of every existing country, and many which no longer exist. )

Title: I scorn to change my state with kings
PG, 260 words
Prompt: Author's choice, Author's choice, "I've lived and died thousands of times. I've mourned hundreds of lovers, parents, children and friends. I've fought wars, delivered babies, been tortured and laughed til I cried. I'm not sheltered. I *read*."
Title from Shakespeare

( She said she's won a thousand games, run a thousand miles, all without leaving her favorite spot by the cherry tree. )

Title: They were of fame, and had been glorious in another day
Fandom: White Collar/Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Byron
Warnings: pre-series for both; spoilers for season 1 of both
Pairings: gennish
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 115
Point of view: third
Prompts: White Collar/Leverage; Eliot/Neal; A year into his prison sentence, Neal gets his first letter

( The front of the postcard is a fairly boring painting, a pastoral landscape that isn't even worth the cost of the brushes that painted it. )continues here

Title: stained and scarred
Fandom: Batman Under the Red Hood
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to a less-than-stellar childhood
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 265
Point of view: third
Prompt: DCU, Jason Todd, He isn't the animal everyone thinks he is; he just likes getting his hands dirty while he gets the job done.

( He knows that he's not the hero. )

screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

i'm awake, and i'm young, and i'm alive

fic_promptly 6-10: Avengers/HL, Avengers, Leverage/myth, Spider-Man/Avengers, Kings

comment_fic 696-700: BtVS, SN, Merlin, Avengers, AtS/Leverage

comment_fic 641-645: HL, Charmed, SN, Leverage, X-Men

comment_fic 616-620: Glee, SN, Leverage

comment_fic 606-610: HL, NCIS, Leverage, BtVS, Inception

HL/BtVS/AtS - AUish, PG, future!fic

comment_fic 566-570: Inception, Supernatural, Supernatural/Leverage

comment_fic 561-565: Highlander, The Losers, Glee, Leverage/Supernatural

comment_fic 546-550: Inception/HP, Leverage/AtS, WC/X-Men, HL/Trek reboot, HL

ficlets: SN, WC/HL, Leverage/HL

comment_fic 531-535: SN, Inception, Leverage, Matilda, HL/Sherlock

comment_fic 516-520: Trek reboot, SN, WC/Leverage, WC/HL, HL

comment_fic 511-515: Angel the Series, Chuck, Highlander, DCU

You come with the dead who people my dreams - WC/HL/Leverage/Losers

comment_fic 496-500: Chuck, NCIS, SN, Leverage, WC/Chuck

comment_fic 486-490: Leverage, HSM, SN, WC/Chuck, DA

comment_fic 481-485: DCU, Leverage/mythology, NCIS/Chuck, Chuck, SN

comment_fic 476-480: BtVS, Disney, Leverage/WC, DA, PotC

comment_fic 461-465: SN, Sky High, White Collar/Leverage, WC, WC/Chuck

comment_fic 456-460: WC, HL, original, WC/Leverage, Under the Red Hood

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