screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

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Prompt: Any, Any,

I took it all for granted
But how was I to know
That you'd be letting go

Now it cuts like a knife

Written: June 15, 2016


( I held you so tightly )



Title: love like a knife
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to violence
Pairings: Kronos/Methos
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 200
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, Any, Our love is like a knife, it cuts both ways


( Methos knew, almost from the beginning, how it would end. )




Title: untitled
Fandom: DCU
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: mentions of canon character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 230
Point of view: third
Prompt: DCU, Dick Grayson, learning to fly


( He’s never not known the air. )



Title: untitled
Fandom: Animorphs
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: canon character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 125
Point of view: thrd
Prompt: Animorphs, Naomi & Rachel (post 53),

Well the hardest part,
Yeah it hurts so bad,
is when she spreads her wings,
but it'd be a selfish thing,
to try and hold her back,
but it don't work like that.

You just gotta watch it fly.
Stand there on the side line.
Wanna swallow up your pride.
Know it's gonna be alright.
Wishing when I close your eyes
like a kiss goodbye...
(Kiss Goodbye - Little Big Town)


( She misses her firstborn. )



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Selkie wife folktale
Warnings: references to dub-con at best, marital rape at worst; character death

Prompt: any fairytale, Prince Charming/any, "Hunter" by Dido

If you were a king up there on your throne
Would you be wise enough to let me go
For this queen you think you own
Wants to be a hunter again

Written June 17, 2016

( I’ll tell you a story. )

Title: masks
Fandom: Supernatural/Marvel movies
Warnings: pre-Avengers; anytime post season 5 Supernatural
Pairings: Natasha Romanova/Meg the demon
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 310
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural / Avengers Movie, Meg /& Natasha, “See you soon, baby. Hell is waiting for you.”


( Sometimes Natasha goes out to people watch. )



Title: Little Red
Fandom: Little Red Ridinghood
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to violence/death/sexual assault
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 590
Point of view: third
Prompt: Little Red Riding Hood, Red, the Wolf - Red knows how to make it look like the Wolf is the Villain in the story. ; Little Red Riding Hood, little red, learn to bend learn to swerve// learn to bend learn to butcher


( Later, they’ll blame it on the wolf. )



Title: unrequited
Fandom: NCIS
Disclaimer: not my characters (except for the boyfriend)
Warnings: takes place anytime after season 5
Pairings: Tony/OMC, references to Tony/women, unrequited Gibbs/Tony
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 310
Prompt: NCIS, Tony/any. Gibbs finds out Tony is dating a man and isn't sure how he feels about it. Bite sized bit of angst?



( It was different, when Tony was flirting with women. )





Title: nightmares
Fandom: Kings
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: talk of violence/death
Pairings: Jack/David
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Point of view: third
Prompt: Kings, Jack/David, there is a world where David never went after the captives; he sees it in his nightmares



( There is another world. )





Title: untitled
Fandom: Xena Warrior Princess
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: reincarnation
Pairings: Xena/Gabrielle
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Prompt: Xena: Warrior Princess, Xena/Gabrielle, maybe this time.



( Every few hundred years, they are reborn. )

Title: In the eye of a hurricane, there is quiet for just a moment—a yellow sky
fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Hamilton
Warnings: spoilers for Thor 2; references to torture
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 420
Point of view: third
Prompt: Avengers movieverse, any, The calm before the storm.

( He sits on his not-father's throne, wields his not-father's weapon, rules his not-father's people, and he does it well. )





Title: untitled
Fandom: Animorphs
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: pre-54
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 87
Point of view: third
Prompt: Animorphs, Jake + Rachel, history may hate to love us and love to hate us

( Rachel and Jake talk. )






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Warnings: modern-day Romeo&Juliet
Prompt: any, any/any, forbidden romance ends in a Vegas marriage



( They’ve been dating since high school—and their parents hate each other. )



Title: Let the wind chase you – I can’t do it anymore
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Trisha Yearwood
Warnings: AU; also, I haven’t seen anything since the end of season 3; references to violence/blood
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 455
Point of view: third
Prompt: Teen Wolf, Stiles, "God! Fine! I'm sorry, all right?"


( They’d been the best of friends, once. )



Title: personal growth
Written: March 24, 2016
Prompt: any. any(/any). You will insist that we talk, and you'll apologize, she a few tears and leave after all.

( Fine, sit down, share a drink with me. )

Title: The Worst Thing
Written: January 15, 2016
Prompt: any. any horror stories


( survival is perhaps not the worst thing. )



Title: lioness
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU, character death
Pairings: Lily/James
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 333
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter. any. One of Harry's parents survived.
Note: There may be more coming; if so, it’ll just be drabbles with no overarching plot.


( She mistranslated part of the ritual. )



Title: i could lie
Prompt: Any, Any/Any, If I lied and said what you want to hear, would you still leave me or would the lies make everything alright?
Written January 22, 2016

( I could tell you a thousand pretty things. )



Title: they share the same blood and the same blows
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: AU during book 5
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 265
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter, Harry Potter/Tom Riddle, Hidden secrets


( Why are you their hero? )



Title: Don't choose to live by the book
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU during season 5
Pairings: Kronos/Methos
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 370
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any,

I am your darkest side the one you keep in shadows too far to hide
Deep in your heart you can't deny
All of your fears keeping me alive
Waiting here for you to arrive
Don't choose to live by the book
Let's live by the hook
("Live by the Hook" from Finding Neverland)


( For three thousand years, Kronos has waited. )

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: 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: you mattered
Fandom: Animorphs
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from the series
Warnings: post-series
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 85
Point of view: third
Prompt: Animorphs, Jake/Cassie (and/or Tobias/Rachel), And never really had a chance / I had so many dreams / About you and me / Happy endings / Now I know / I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairy tale



( They saved the world but Cassie can’t call it a victory. )



Title: bless us that remember
Fandom: Animorphs
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Natasha Trethewey
Warnings: post series; canon character death
Pairings: canon
Rating: pg
Wordcount: 145
Point of view: third
Prompt: Animorphs, Cassie (post-#54), but somehow times keeps passing and it isn't long before the clamor and excitement everywhere she goes fades into an interested glance, a pointed finger, a whisper behind a hand, and the world moves on and soon she is forgotten



( She never was the exciting one. )



Title: colors come slowly
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Denise Levertov
Warnings: post-Cap2
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 490
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's choice; author's choice; the colors of the century are red, white, and black. (Thea Gilmore, "Red, White, and Black")

( Red in the ledger can never be wiped out. )





Title: The water below is as dark as the grave
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: takes place during Cap2
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 350
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, water is rising around one while the other watches


( I’m with ya till the end of the line. )




Title: lose the world for love
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from John Carey
Warnings: references to violence/death/torture
Pairings: post-Steve/Bucky, pre-Steve/ex-Winter Soldier
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 795
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, "The Fires of Pompeii."


( Steve has never before been this angry. )

Title: love is where yesterday is
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: violence/death/everything implied by the existence of an ex-Winter Soldier
Pairings: implied past-Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1215
Point of view: third
Prompt: It doesn't take Steve and Sam all that long to find Bucky. Mostly, because when they do find him, he's catatonic. Breathing and occasionally blinking, but nothing else. (Why, when, and where up to author.)

Steve...well, Steve doesn't handle this so well.

Bucky may not be able to be angry about what he's suffered at Hydra's hands, but Steve figures he's got enough anger for the both of them. So, he leaves Bucky in Bruce and Sam's capable hands and heads out.

This time, he takes no prisoners.

And after each mission, Steve makes sure to come back and resume his vigil at Bucky's bedside, and describes in great detail how many agents were still in the building when he collapsed it, who he killed personally because he saw their name in the Winter Soldier file, how many fewer people there are in the world who can ever hurt Bucky again.



“Cap, we could use your help,” Fury says.

“Please, come in,” Coulson requests.

“Hey, your boy smiled today,” Sam reports.

Steve speeds up the takedown and goes home to New York.

Title: what comes after
Fandom: Charmed
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: changed future
Pairings: Chris/Bianca
Rating: G
Wordcount: 390
Point of view: third
Prompt: Charmed, Chris/Bianca, their first meeting in the changed future.


( When Bianca is six years old, her life changes. )



Title: invitations
Fandom: fairy tales
Disclaimer: everyone’s mine except that one fairy
Rating: PG
Warnings:
Pairings: OC/OC
Wordcount: 100
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, like a picture book fairy tale


( Invitations are serious business. )



Title: where I reign king
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Milton
Warnings: AU; implied abuse
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 310
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter, Harry, the Dursleys were a lot more abusive than it's implied in the books, and as a result it's a very distrustful Harry that finally arrives at Hogwarts.


( Harry Potter trusts himself and no one else. )



Title: sigils and salt lines
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: pre-series AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 185
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Jo Harvelle/+Jessica Moore, Jess's new roommate is a little strange


( roommates, freshman year )




Title: let’s let a little be
Fandom: BtVS/AtS
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Adrienne Rich
Warnings: takes place just before Buffy’s first ep
Pairings: mentions of Buffy/Angel
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 395
Point of view: third
Prompt: BtVS/AtS, Future!Willow+Angel, She has news for him.


( She approaches on his second night in Sunnydale. )

Title: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: if you recognize the character, they are not mine. The original characters, however, are. Title from Langston Hughes. Some of the quotes are from either of the Cap movies; some I made up because they seemed like things Bucky might say.
Warnings: implied bad things happening to a child in the past; everything the presence of the Winter Soldier implies; talk of violence/death/roaring rampage of revenge; Steve is hella depressed.
Pairings: pre- and post-Steve/Bucky. Natasha/Clint, Pepper/Tony, Jane/Thor.
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 24000
Point of view: third
Note: This was written for a few prompts; each is mentioned at the top of the chapter.


In the aftermath of Project Insight, the ex-Winter Soldier finds a child. She adopts him so he adopts her right back. And so begins the healing process.