screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

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: 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: Red
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: the shadowfox is a creepy dude. Shades of implied non-con.
Pairings: gen
Rating: PG/13
Point of view: third
Wordcount: 200
Prompt: red



( The fox laughs. )





Title: Orange
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: mentions of multiple canon character deaths. AU.
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 640
Point of view: third
Prompt: orange

( Flames flicker in his memory even though the fire was only smoldering when he got there. )



Title: Yellow
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: canon character death; grief
Pairings: Claudia/Sheriff
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 440
Point of view: third
Prompt: yellow
Note: my headcanon 'real name' for Stiles is Allandros


( Stiles is pretty sure there’s never been a day he wasn’t afraid of something. )




Title: Green
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)/mythology
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: crossover with multiple mythologies; canon character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 800
Point of view: third
Prompt: green


( Allison gasped as her eyes opened to a bright blue sky. )



Title: Blue
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: mentions of canon character death; mind games; ambiguous ending
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 125
Point of view: third
Prompt: blue


( He dreams in shades of blue, in the after. )



Title: Indigo
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)/Supernatural
Warnings: mentions of child death; bad decisions due to grief; a history of family dying young; AU during Insatiable; possibly AUish for Supernatural (I really have no idea); also, when it comes to the shadowfox, I reject canon's reality and substitute my own. Still – unreliable narrator.
Pairings: Claudia/Sheriff, Claudia's parents
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1280
Point of view: third
Prompt: indigo
Note: until canon informs us otherwise, my headcanon has the sheriff's name as some form of Alexander.


( Claudia Stilinski could’ve been somebody extraordinary, someone remembered by more people than her childhood friends, her husband, and her son. )



Title: Violet
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: major (non-canonical) character death; grief
Pairings: Sheriff/Claudia
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 80
Point of view: third
Prompt: violet


( Purple is the color of royalty. )

Title: untitled
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for Gollum’s plotline; takes place during The Hobbit
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Point of view: third
Wordcount: 100
Prompt: Lord of the Rings, Gollum, the dark under the dark

( The precious whispers, down in the deep dark, away from the grasping goblins and the booming king. )




Title: untitled
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: Cooper exists
Pairings: Kurt/Blaine
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 39
Point of view: third
Prompt: Glee, Blaine, the 5 most important men in his life


( 5 men Blaine loves. )




Title: we shall thirst in Hades, in the blood of our children
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Denise Levertov
Warnings: violent imagery
Pairings: none
Rating: PGish
Wordcount: 275
Point of view: third
Prompt: SPN, Torture-Master Dean, being this bad shouldn’t feel so damn good


( It was easy. That's what haunts him later, out of the Pit and in a (soft) bed, listening to his brother snore, angel brand aching on his shoulder. )




Title: we dance the best we know (2)
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Kate Seredy
Warnings: Goes AU during Letharia Vulpina, and AUish for everything that came before.
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 545
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's choice, author's choice, "Death plays dice with a knucklebone, and the Devil cheats at cards. Ain't nobody sayin' what game God's playin', but it's goin' the whole nine yards."

Previously


( Stiles is quiet, in the aftermath. )




Title: we dance the best we know (3)
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Kate Seredy
Warnings: Goes AU during Letharia Vulpina, and AUish for everything that came before. Talk of death and violence.
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 985
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any,
Delicate in every way but one (the swordplay)
God knows we like archaic kinds of fun (the old way)
Chance is the only game I play with, baby
We let our battles choose us
- 'Glory and Gore' by Lorde


(  The next thing that comes to town is an alpha werewolf after Peter. )


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Title: we dance the best we know
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Kate Seredy
Warnings: Goes AU during Letharia Vulpina, and AUish for everything that came before.
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1960
Point of view: third



(  Deaton lands next to Kira on the floor. )

Title: Gorgomon
Fandom: Bones
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU (that could secretly be canon, you never know); mentions of violence/death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 430
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any + any, one of them is pretending to be a monster and the other is pretending not to be.



(  The apprentice is expendable. )



Title: those who wander
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Tolkien
Warnings: future!fic. ish. AUish? Look, it's really frickin' weird, okay?
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 550
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos, Renewed shall be the blade that was broken / the crownless again shall be king


(  Since the invention of the sword, Methos has never used another's. )




Title: fire in the blood
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters; idea and a line from 'The True Story Here' by Seanan McGuire.
Warnings: future!fic; magic!Stiles; mentions of violence
Pairings: implied Derek/Stiles
Rating: PGish
Wordcount: 290
Point of view: third
Prompt: Teen Wolf, Stiles, Roar

(  Blood burns like fire, he tells the wolf, and it always burns through. )




Title: give us a kiss
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AUish, maybe? Let's say Methos never put Kronos in the well
Pairings: Kronos/Methos
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 145
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos/Kronos, flirting



( Methos glances up at him through his eyelashes, tilting his head to the side. )


Title: A morning breaks without bread or fresh-poured milk
Fandom: White Collar
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Adrienne Rich
Warnings: AU; implied violence/bad things
Pairings: Peter/Elizabeth
Rating: PG13ish
Wordcount: 630
Point of view: third
Prompt: White Collar, Neal, he waits for the day he's free again. Peter thinks he has figured Neal out, but predators can be very patient.

( When Peter finally signals him, Neal carefully closes the magazine and sets it aside, flips his hat on, and saunters up the stairs. )

Title: I have been half in love with easeful death
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Keats
Warnings: AU during season 1; future!fic; blood&death
Pairings: pre-Peter/Stiles
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 575
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's Choice, Author' Choice, "When I was your age..."




( In a few months, when Peter's back from the dead and there's a new bad guy, Stiles will remember that moment, when Peter offered him strength, speed, and healing. )





Title: The wakeful trump of doom must thunder through the deep
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Milton
Warnings: AUish future!fic; I haven't seen any of season 3; talk of violence and murder
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 210
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's choice, any, any. I would appreciate something dark, though.

"I'm so tired
I must get up for air
But I can't find it
What's up or what's down out here
I'm caught in your undertow
Caught in your undertow"




( I need your help. )




Title: pretty little girl (growing up so mean)
Fandom: Tangled/Disney's Sleeping Beauty
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: DARK AU, sexual abuse of a child, character death, violence
Pairings: Gothel/Rapunzel
Rating: R
Wordcount: 700
Point of view: third
Prompt: Tangled, Rapuzel + Mother Gothel,

'Cause I was your angel
Talking a good game
The same one you taught me to play
You kept me in cages
With gilded spaces
Too small for me to stay
Now I'm falling away
Falling away now
And I'm sorry darling
But I've broken it down
And I need to see this through
-of Verona, The Enemy




( Gothel can use magic, but she is not magic. )




Title: shout down the sky
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AUish; I haven't seen any of season 3 yet.
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 345
Point of view: third
Prompt: Teen Wolf, any, Beware false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.



( Stiles talks a big game. )




Title: untitled
Fandom: White House Down/Die Hard movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for both
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 60
Point of view: third
Prompt: author’s choice (crossover), John + John, you get used to it


( How the hell is this happening again? )

Title: all in a twilight, you and I alike
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Browning
Warnings: killers killing and not being at all sorry; mentions of violence/blood/gore; mentions of dub-con and future dub-con; grief; characters mindfucking each other left, right, and center
Rating: PG
Pairings: Peter/Stiles, mentions of Kate/Derek, (mostly) onesided Derek/Stiles
Wordcount: 2050
Point of view: third
Prompt: Placebo’s ‘Second Sight’

previously



( They start with Chris Argent, out combing the woods in a bout of grief- and rage-filled insomnia. )

I'm writing this on a prompt-by-prompt basis or as the inspiration strikes me. WIP.






Title: all in a twilight, you and I alike
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Browning
Warnings: minor violence; mentions of minor character death; AU
Pairings: maybe sorta implied Peter/Stiles?
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1010
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, his/her twin in a parallel universe




( There is a world where Stiles’ dad caught Scott in the woods that night and Stiles fled in the opposite direction, knowing even as he kept running that it was possibly the stupidest thing he had ever done. )



Title: all in a twilight, you and I alike
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Browning
Warnings: mentions of violence and minor character death; AU
Pairings: maybe sorta implied pre-Peter/Stiles?
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 170
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, I want people to tell their children terrifying stories about the things we did for love.



( Adrian Harris is first. )



Title: all in a twilight, you and I alike
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Browning
Warnings: mentions of minor character death; AU; implied future dub-con and/or seduction at the behest of someone you can’t really say no to
Pairings: the Peter/Stiles is no longer implied
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 840
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any/any, someone ends up being turned into a werewolf or other supernatural creature, whereas in canon they were saved.



( Derek had a way with the pups, and he is a born beta. He’ll want to help you. )



Title: all in a twilight, you and I alike
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Browning
Warnings: mentions of minor character death; AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 110
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author’s choice, author’s choice,

99 bullet-riddled bodies on the wall
99 bullet-riddled bodies
98 bullet-riddled bodies on the wall
98 bullet-riddled bodies...




( Adrian Harris is the first person Stiles ever kills. )




Title: all in a twilight, you and I alike
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Browning
Warnings: mentions of major character death; AU; morality being flushed down the toilet; underage sexual shenanigans; an idiot boy being taken advantage of by a homicidal maniac and not quite realizing where the line is or even how to draw it, and then deciding there is no line after all
Pairings: Peter/Stiles, Scott/Allison
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 705
Point of view: third



( A part of Stiles feels guilty. )





Title: all in a twilight, you and I alike
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Browning
Warnings: character death, grief/mourning, panic attack/asthma attack (written by someone who has neither)
Pairings: Scott/Allison
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 500
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, "It's okay." "No it's not!"


( Scott looks at his phone, confused, because Stiles hasn't sounded hesitant since the last time he broke one of Scott's transformers and that was, like, a decade ago. )




Title: all in a twilight, you and I alike
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Browning
Warnings: blood, death, gore, AU, major character death, and a dumb kid rationalizing away everything
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 510
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, what you need is a good, old fashioned _____



( Stiles wakes up to a howl thrumming in his bones. )


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