screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

Title: Hearts with one purpose alone
Disclaimer: they’re real people who belong to themselves; title from W. B. Yeats
Warnings: canon compliant; possibly slightly AU, as I didn’t do exhaustive research
Pairings: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson, past-Stanley Lucas/Louis Tomlinson
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 3060
Point of view: third
Prompts: Any, Any(/Any), Although you will expect me to/I was wiser too than you had expected/For I knew all along you were mine (Dorothea Lasky); Author's choice (except Supernatural), any/any, HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,/Enwrought with golden and silver light,/The blue and the dim and the dark cloths/Of night and light and the half-light,/ I would spread the cloths under your feet: (He wishes for the cloths of heaven, W. B. Yeats); Author's choice, author's choice, Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream. (Easter 1916, W. B. Yeats)


( The thing of it is that Harry's been waiting for years by the time he trips into the toilet and sees the boy washing his hands. )

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: 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. )

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. )

Title: The snow drops its pieces of darkness
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sylvia Plath
Warnings: AU; character death
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 610
Point of view: third
Prompt: any. any/any. Rima XI, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

"I am ardent, I am dark,
I am the essence of passion;
with yearning for pleasure, my soul is full;
is it me you're seeking?"
"No, it isn't you."

"My skin is pale, my plaits golden,
I can give you sweetness without end;
My treasure is in tenderness;
is it me you're calling?"
"No, it isn't you."

"I am delusion, an impossible thing,
a vain phantom of mist and light;
I am unbodied, I am impalpable;
I cannot love you."
"Oh come, please come...!"





( Bucky Barnes died when he fell from a train in late 1944. )



Title: in the dark room putting bones into place
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: violence
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 905
point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Steve/Bucky, nobody realizes that Bucky is the only who really sees Steve's dark side


( Steve Rogers has always fought for the little guy, against bullies and tyranny and unfairness. Everyone knows that. )



Title: the greatest secret
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: none
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 175
Point of view: third
Highlander, Methos +/ Duncan, "I don't want to be the last. But I'm afraid I'll be."


( Here is the greatest of Methos’ uncountable secrets: he does not want to be the last. )



Title: to tame with kindness
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU during Avengers
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 370
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Loki, this won't hurt a bit


( The mortal takes down half of Loki’s men before Loki steps in, placing a gentle hand to his cheek. )



Title: hypothetical
Fandom: Animorphs
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to Tobias' unhappy home life
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 95
Point of view: third
Prompt: Animorphs, any, speed dial



( Red-tailed hawks that live in the woods don't have cell-phones, obviously. )

Title: hourly conceived and hourly born
Fandom: Once Upon a Time/Dracula/historical
Disclaimer: title from Milton; not my characters
Pairings: Dracula’s son/daughter in law; Jefferson/Grace’s mother; Grace's mother/OMC
Warnings: references to violence; goes AU at the end of season 1; mentions of abortion; maybe a smidge of implied dubcon (Jefferson is not involved); implied spousal abuse (Jefferson is not involved)
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 2960
Point of view: third
Prompts: Dracula/any, Dracula (+/) any, expanding into new territory. ; Once Upon a Time, Jefferson/Mad Hatter, One is painfully sane, the other is mad, bad and dangerous to know. ; any, any. "The Consequence of Desire" (Vampire Knight) ; Once Upon A Time. any. "The Truth Behind Truths" (FullMetal Alchemist) ; any, any, happy endings always start with hope


He spent three weeks with a new name in every village until he finally settled on Jefferson. Jefferson, the portal jumper, traveler and thief, charmer and rogue. Jefferson, ally of the Dark One and friend of the Evil Queen.

Title: the old year is ending in the frost
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Warnings: post-Cap2; talk of violence/torture
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 530
Point of view: third
Prompt: Avengers movieverse, Bucky/+any or gen, he knows it's impossible to tell a wolf from a man if he keeps his chin up and his teeth clean


( Steve tells him that the Winter Soldier is not who he is but what he was made to do. )




Title: I knew you before you were strong
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: post-Cap2; talk of violence; stream of consciousness
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 450
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, a superhero is just a monster aimed in a different direction


( Deep down, in the quiet place that screams at night when he can't sleep, Steve knows. )



Title: he knew who you were
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Linton Hopkins
Warnings: way post-Cap2; talk of violence/brainwashing; a mishmash of various backgrounds, but mainly movieverse
Pairings: Bucky/Clint/Natasha
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 520
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Clint + Bucky or Natasha, I feel like a monster

( Clint’s on the far side of 50 now. He’s getting to be an old man. )


Title: checkmate
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU?
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 150
Point of view: third
Prompt: Teen Wolf, void!Stiles/any, monsters are always hungry, darling
Note: All I know about season 4, I learned from tumblr.

( Chaos, strife, and pain. )



Title: it is your own soul you destroy
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: only "Matt" isn't mine; title from Denise Levertov
Warnings: very post-series
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 355
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, the worst monster is the one in the mirror


( Matt Bennison is weird. )

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Title: three meetings
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: mentions of animal abuse, bullying, violence
Pairings: pre-Bucky/Steve
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 280
Point of view: third
Prompt: Captain America, Steve + Bucky, first meeting


( James Barnes and Steve Rogers met on a cold winter day, when Steve was about to get pummeled into the ground by a bunch of boys who'd been tormenting a three-legged dog and Jimmy (not Bucky, not for two more months) shoved his way to the middle of the confrontation and stared down the ringleader. )




Title: Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun
Fandom: Supernatural/Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from WH Auden
Warnings: a fair bit of crack? AU. Picks up towards the end of season 5.
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 495
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural/Percy Jackson, Sam + Dean (+ Adam), Sam and Dean find out (or AU already knew) that they're sons of Hermes (bonus for Luke!Adam)



(  Mary Campbell's father was not Samuel Campbell. )



Title: how hard the wind was blowing that day
Fandom: Inception
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Ruark
Warnings: mentions of violence
Pairings: Arthur/Eames
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 360
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any/any, you don't need to agree with your partner about the things you love when you simply coincide in the things you both hate



( In the beginning, Arthur was a soldier betrayed by his country and Eames was a thief betrayed by his employer. )



Title: writing is hard
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: pre-series
Pairings: gen
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Chuck, how he decided to be a writer.



( Chuck can't remember a time when he wasn't a writer. )





Title: Your candle burned out
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Elton John
Warnings: character death/suicidal ideation; AU during season 3; a sociopathic, possessive fire elemental
Pairings: unrequited Karofsky/Kurt; Blaine/Kurt
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 735
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, "I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next." (Gladiator)


(  Kurt and Dad are Dave's only visitors . )

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Title: These times are past—our joys are gone
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Byron
Warnings: AU after season 3; spoilers for up to season 6
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 515
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Gabriel +or/ Sam, After Broward County and realizing Sam wasn't going to accept his lesson, Gabriel decides to go and help Sam when Dean goes to Hell.


(  He waits until the kid buries Dean. )


Title: This is the end of everything
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sylvia Plath
Warnings: AU during film; character death
Pairings: implied Loki/Clint
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 510
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any(/any), almost doesn't count


(  Clint almost didn't take the shot. )



Title: Three roads led to that death
Fandom: Norse mythology
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: mentions of violence
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 375
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, Any, Wolves In The Walls



(  There was nothing to be done for Nari; he was too far gone. )



Title: They killed once an inglorious man
Fandom: Merlin
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Donne
Warnings: AU; character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 265
Point of view: third
Prompt: Merlin, Merlin and other characters, Uther has the young wizard executed and his death has dire consequences.



( A spark is lit. )



Title: had you twenty lives for sale
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic; AUish; character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 130
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Sam or Dean, one of them dies, but they've both died and come back to life so many times that the other never stops waiting



(  Dean goes down, hits his head on the ground, and doesn't get up. )

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Title: here you come with a shield for a heart and a sword for a tongue
Fandom: Bourne Legacy (film)/Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Carol Ann Duffy
Warnings: spoilers for both films; mentions of bullying and bad things happening to children
Pairings: none
Rating: PGish
Wordcount: 1745
Point of view: third


(  Once upon a time, there were two little boys with identical faces but different smiles. )