tigriswolf | Entries tagged with title: p

Title: patience and time
Fandom: Xena/Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: mostly takes place during Xena; references to violence/death. A bit of primordial Methos.
Pairings: none
Rating: PGish
Wordcount: 1500
Point of view: third
Note: title from this quote—The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. (Leo Tolstoy)

You have a gift, my dear, he tells her on a battlefield, her army on one side and his brothers on the other.

Title: untitled
Fandom: Peter Pan (2003)
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 85
Prompt: Peter Pan, Peter/Wendy, You can't marry anyone else.

( Don’t grow up. )

Title: pure as snow
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Disclaimer: not my characters, except for the daemon
Warnings: daemon AU; references to blood/death/violence
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 280
Point of view: third
Prompt: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Drusilla + Angelus, Drusilla's fate was sealed from the moment Angelus set eyes on her daemon, a unicorn

( In life, Drusilla had never been alone. )

Title: Selkie Wife
Fandom: folktale
Warnings: referenced marital rape

Part of this

Prompt: any, any,
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea
- e.e. cummings

( She’d always been drawn to the sea. )

Title: Lay Down (and sleep)
Written: April 6, 2016
Prompt: Any, Any, The "peace of the grave" is a lie.

( lay down your head and sleep. )

Untitled
Warnings: references to violence/death
Prompt: any. any. Family means inside squabbling, but always presenting an unified front.

( You can always call a sister. )

Title: newbie
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire/Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU where Sunnydale never fell in
Pairings: pre-Dawn Summers/Jo Harvelle
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 135
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural/BtVS, Jo Harvelle/any female character, if her mother knew she moved to a Hellmouth, she'd have a heart attack.

( Moving to a new place. )

Title: untitled
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU during season 3
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 130
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Victor Henriksen/Nancy Fitzgerald, they survive and become hunters

( We’re supposed to be dead. )

Title: I want to write you a song
Fandom: One Direction RPF
Disclaimer: they’re real people so they belong to themselves, and so does the title
Warnings: set during April 2015
Pairings: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 115
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, Acutely longing for one's family or home

( writing songs. )

Title: so in love it hurts
Fandom: One Direction RPF
Disclaimer: they all belong to themselves, being real live people and all
Warnings: set in 2015
Pairings: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 175
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, puppy love

( Surely we can’t have been that bad )

Title: prophesies that fulfill themselves
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for Thor2
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 115
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, "Echo of Yesterday" & "The Glass Cage" (both episodes from Mission: Impossible)

( Self-fulfilling prophecies. )

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. )

Untitled
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: I cannot love but one
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Disclaimer: only Arthur and Merlin aren’t mine; title from Lord Byron
Warnings: references to bad things happening to children
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Point of view: third
Wordcount: WIP
Prompts: Merlin, Arthur Pendragon/Merlin, We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other. ; any, any/any, there's death, rebirth and another meeting ; Merlin (BBC), Arthur/Merlin, the man who has the loyalty of a hurricane

He'd thought that Arthur, when he returned, would be as vibrant, as glorious, that figure of legend even he believes in now, a thousand years after he sent his king to the water.

Title: take time to catch your breath and choose your moment
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Dido
Warnings: AU during season 1; references to violence and canon character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 800
Point of view: third
Prompts: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy Summers, after the Battle of Sunnydale she was given the doubble-edged gift of sending her mind back to any point in her past, with all her memories and current powers intact. ; Prompt: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy Summers+Any, Psychological Warfare (Burn Notice)

( She coughs herself awake, wet and with aching ribs. Xander's crouched next to her, looking younger than she can remember, and Angel is lurking behind him. )

Title: Names Dripping with Blood
Written: March 15, 2015
Prompt: any, any, they used to shout my name, now they whisper it.

( Once, there was a princess beloved by all who knew her. )

Title: I cross so many brooks in the world
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Denise Levertov
Warnings: none
Rating: PG
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Point of view: third
Wordcount: 405
Prompt: Highlander, Duncan and Methos and Joe, old is a comparative term

Remix pov of this

( Old is all relative. )

Title: pretense
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: only Methos isn’t mine
Warnings: violence
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 265
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, goddamn right, you should be scared of me

Remix pov of this

( When the men burst in shouting, waving guns around, Taylor lunged for Mikey and dragged him to the floor with her. )

Title: tempered in blood
Fandom: DCU cartoon/Under the Red Hood film
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Beowulf
Warnings: references to violence; AU
Pairings: possibly unrequited Jason/Bruce
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 345
Point of view: third
Prompt: Batman comics, Bruce Wayne/Jason Todd or /Dick Grayson,

in the interest of poetry
and the cowboy movie
that's you and me
i'm back on the horse now
and i'm riding
i am striding so effortlessly
what i mean is
it's late
much too late for us

( Jason is still desperate for Bruce’s approval. )

Title: through the ages
Fandom: mythology
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 310
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any/any, time in a bottle

( For all that the gods fade away when their worshipers do, across all pantheons certain gods remain. )

Title: family
Fandom: Harry Potter/Sherlock (BBC)
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: pre- and post-canon
Pairings: canon
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 575
Prompt: Harry Potter/Sherlock, Hermione Granger + Jim Moriarty, cousins

( Jim's never had much use for his family, but he does remember one of his cousins fondly. )

Title: the lie that has always been my name
Fandom: fairy tale
Disclaimer: not my characters; Christine Heppermann
Warnings: somewhat darkish
Pairings: Cinderella/prince
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 305
Prompt: Any, Any, A Hard Knock Life (Annie)

( Never has Jocelyn understood why her 'family' hate her so, but she understands that Madam is trying to break her and she refuses. )

Title: pretense
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: only Methos isn’t mine
Warnings: violence
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 565
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, goddamn right, you should be scared of me

( So far, Methos muses, hands in plain sight with the rest of the hostages, his life after Adam Pierson has not been that much fun. )

Totally forgot I wrote this.

Title: past tense
Written: December 14, 2015

( You're a story that I read again and again. )

Title: begin again
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: violence/death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 430
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any/any, "Your definition of emergency and mine are vastly different."

( Once you've lived through the collapse of Rome, most things pale in comparison. )

Title: the rumors of my death
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: violence/death
Pairings: Parker/Hardison/Eliot
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 390
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage, ensemble, "I thought they'd killed you. I lost my temper."

( They send the video three days after they take Hardison. )

Title: power (the dark lord knows not)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AUish, death/violence, dark
Pairings: none
Rating: 365
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, "He'll kill you, and then he'll go to work on you."

( The second worst thing that ever happened in the world was that Harry Potter held all three Deathly Hallows at the same time, and that he walked to his death, knowingly and with acceptance. )

Title: The Worst of Us
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to violence/death
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 130
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any +/ any, The Worst of Us

( Which of the four was the worst? )

Title: snail mail
Written: November 23, 2015
Prompt: any. any. The empty house stands in silence.

( I checked the mail today. )

Current Music: still Wait for It

Title: welcome home
Fandom: RPF
Disclaimer: they belong to themselves (or each other)
Warnings: takes place in 2010, during the Live Shows
Pairings: Louis Tomlinson/Harry Styles
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 285
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, Any/Any Male,

I want to buy you flowers
It's such a shame you're a boy
But when you are not a girl
Nobody buys you flowers

I want to buy you flowers
And now I'm standing in the shop
I must confess I wonder
If you will like my flowers

( He's dreamed of finding his home in someone, of being that someone's home. )

Title: freedom’s flight
Written: October 28, 2015
Prompts: Greek mythology, releasing Pegasus ; Any, Feathers from Pegasus

( This is a story of a horse born of blood who danced across the sky. )

Title: Night
Written: October 28, 2015
Prompts: any. any. There are old tales of a yellow light in the sky. ; author's choice, any, I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky (The Rolling Stones, "Paint It, Black") ; any, any, looking up to the clear night sky and seeing no stars

( We have forgotten how it felt when warmth fell down from the sky. )

Title: The Quiet Ending
Written: October 28, 2015 ; October 30, 2015
Original, PG
Prompt: any. any/any. I can't remember what brought us to this.
Note: After I showed my mom the first half, she wanted the other perspective.

( Sometimes, endings aren’t explosive. )

Title: paths diverged
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from a Robert Frost poem
Warnings: references to violence
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 220
Point of view: third
Prompt: author's choice, any, what could've happened if Character A and Character B had never fought each other

( Methos dreams of might have been. )

Title: i'll be a hurricane when i grow up
Fandom: DCU animated
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to violence
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 160
Point of view: third
Prompt: DCU, Jason Todd/+any, i'll be a hurricane when i grow up, an ugly thunder. i'll be a forest fire about to flood over an empire.

( When he was a kid, Jason just wanted to be a hero. )

Title: soul-loss
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: daemon AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount:105
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander the Series, any, an Immortal recalls their first death--when they realized that they'd come back to life...but their daemon hadn't.

( He says 5000 years. )

Title: pining
Fandom: DCU animated
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: daemon AU
Pairings: pre-Wally/Bruce
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 55
Point of view: third
Prompt: Justice League Cartoon, Wally West/Bruce Wayne, daemon AU: Bruce has a panther, Wally has a dog

( Bruce’s daemon has advice. )

Untitled
Original, gen, pg, 85 words
Prompt: any, any, courage is always easier to muster up in daylight

( At night, she forgets. )

Title: freedom tastes like peppermint hot cocoa
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: adorableness
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 195
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, any/any, one person in the couple likes to text the other all day long with every little detail of what's happening that day, even if it's not important

( Now that he remembers, Bucky loves texting Steve <i>all the time</i>. )

Title: pacifism
Fandom: Shane
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: post-book, implied violence
Pairings: Joe/Marian
Rating: PG
Wordcount:
Point of view: third
Prompt: any book. any. I am a pacifist / and I will be a pacifist until I die / or someone threatens my mother

( When he is eighteen, Bob puts to use the advice Shane had given him about shooting. )

Title: a leftover rage I cannot undo
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: violence; references to the Winter Soldier’s backstory
Pairings: past Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 390
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Steve/Bucky, Bucky wants the whole world to bleed, but for Steve's sake he only aims at HYDRA

( What he never says is that he remembers everything. )

Title: in another life
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to violence; mostly pre-pilot
Pairings: Eliot/Damien Moreau, Maggie/Nate
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 500
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage, any, they're all gender-swapped

( in another life )

Title: a sunrise which was to put out all the stars
Fandom: Despicable Me
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic; the sequel never happened
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 625
Point of view: third
Prompt: Despicable Me; Agnes + everybody; It was the best day ever.

Follows this

( Agnes wants a unicorn. )

Title: Heaven or Hell
PG, 158 words
Prompt: Any fandoms, any, the characters you least expected to see here in Hell

( What they don't tell you, when you're scrabbling for a place on the planet and searching for meaning where none exists, is that in the after, you go where you think you deserve to. )

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: the light that lit and shadowed the faces of history
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Billy Collins
Warnings: future!fic; mentions of character death & violence
Pairings: implied Allison/Scott
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 645
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, your past is trash, throw it out
Note: So, I haven't actually seen season 2 yet but I've read A LOT of fic.

( He leaves Beacon Hills the day they bury his father and he never goes back. )

Title: red moon
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: mentions of violence
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 70
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, "How far are you willing to go?"

( There’s blood on the moon. )

Title: you mattered
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Disclaimer: Stiles and his pack aren’t mine. title is a reference to Animorphs
Warnings: character death, violence, stream of conscious
Rating: PG
Pairings: none
Wordcount: 275
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, death is never glorious

( He wants to think he's dying for something worthwhile. )

Title: that heartbeat after the lightning
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: implied violence and death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 145
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos, at the oddest times he remembers who he was and wonders who he'll be

( Two are left alive who remember. )

Title: pyre
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: character death, violence
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 350
Point of view: third
Prompt: Teen Wolf, Derek, "Oh.. no-n-n-n-n-no. Oh god... Oh god...No, not again!"
Note: I haven't seen season 2, but I've read a lot of fic.

( Fire is the one thing that never leaves him. )

Current Mood: sleepy

Title: thou be once there, thou mayst never more come here
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU during the film
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 330
Point of view: third
Prompt: The Avengers, Loki & team, What if, when Thor asked Loki on the top of Stark Tower to 'stop the nonsense', he tried to halt the Chitauri invasion?

( He looks at his brother. )

Title: a beautiful face without a name
Fandom: White Collar
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AUish
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 280
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, "truth" is in how and what you choose to present

( Neal Caffrey is a gentleman thief. )

Title: legends
Fandom: Highlander/mythology
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: none
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 150
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, a brief history of time

( The sun rises in the morning as a tiny little planet spins 'round, and the sun sets as the planet turns away. )

Title: untitled
Fandom: Original
Warnings: shifters&vampires; territoriality
Pairings: het and slash
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1030
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any canon with supernatural critters (except TrueBlood), any,
You can't hide from your demons
Feel 'em all lurkin' around
You're running scared 'cause y'know they're out there
They're waitin' for the sun to go down. "Bones", Little Big Town
Note: So, this is in a fantasy world with shifters&vampires&humans all living together, and humans sorta know about the others, but they never really talk about it, and the shifters&vampires police each other so there's no war with humanity. *hands* I don't even know, honestly. It just... happened.

( There’s a new kid at school. )

Title: pragmatism
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: discussion of cold-blooded murder
Pairings: implied Methos/Duncan
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 220
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos/Duncan, provoked

( There is no one, in any life, that Methos would die for. )

Title: If we wanted to tell you everything, we would leave more footprints in the snow or kiss you harder
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Richard Siken
Warnings: AU
Pairings: Methos/Richie
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 530
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Richie, "Young Offender" by the Pet Shop Boys

How graceful your movements
How bitter your scorn
I've been a teenager
since before you were born
And younger than some
I've only begun

( A hundred years. He feels so old, sometimes. Joe's long dead. Mac's been missing almost as long. )

Title: Tag, you're dead
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: Methos rambling
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 310
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, any, the only way to survive The Game even moderately sane is to play it like any other game

( Every immortal is a killer. Not always a murderer – self defense, after all, is not murder. )

Title: petals and jewels
Fandom: fairy tales (Diamonds and Toads)
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for the fairy tale
Pairings: mentions of het
Rating: PG
Point of view: third
Wordcount: 135
Prompt: Any, Any, They all think you're so lucky but you never tell them the gemstones and roses hurt when they fall from your lips.

( Her sister is cursed. Everyone knows it. )

Title: the man who is indifferent to everything
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: Methos is not mine; title from Johann K. Lavater
Warnings: mentions of torture/experimentation; character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 510
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's choice, any, "I have only one word of advice: run."

( Methos is a survivor. That means he survives. )

Title: if you're gonna play the game, boy, you gotta learn to play it
Fandom: White Collar/RED/Inception
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Kenny Rogers
Warnings: AU for White Collar; mentions of violence
Pairings: almost Peter/Neal, mentions of Arthur/Eames, Peter/Elizabeth
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 660
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, his/her lover tries to forget that he/she is a killer but ultimately can't
Note: in this ‘verse

( After meeting the brother and dad, Peter has trouble reconciling them with Neal. )

Title: a taste of lightning
Fandom: Thor movieverse/Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: takes place post-movie and post-series; implied failure on the part of parents in raising of offspring (seriously, consider the canon); primordial!Methos; possibly confusing use of pronouns
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 500
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's choice, any, he's born a liar and he'll die a liar.
Note: I chose the names for a reason, but I trusted internet sources since I have no knowledge of Old Norse at all.

( Lightning strikes, and catches, and the boy jolts in his grip, eyes flying open. )

Title: without hope of end
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Milton
Warnings: none
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 170
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos/ Duncan or Joe, Being friends with Methos is like a carnival: fun when it's not terrifying and all the games are rigged.

( Sometimes Joe forgets who Methos really is. )

Title: It's That Time
Fandom: SG-1/NCIS
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: takes place anytime in either series
Pairings: Tony DiNozzo/Daniel Jackson
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 115
Point of view: third
Prompt: Stargate SG-1, any, When (s)he started dating a member of the SGC (s)he had no idea how crazy his/her significant other's surrogate family was.

( If he meets Tony's family, then it's only fair Tony meet his. )

Title: perhaps I am secret
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my character; title from Milton
Warnings: none
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 135
Point of view: first
Prompt: Author's choice, any, I am the fabric of history, you are a fictional stain. (quote taken from Epic Rap Battles of History)

( Live long enough, little boy, and you'll learn a terrifying truth: nothing is a lie. )

Title: practice losing farther, losing faster
Fandom: Chuck
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Elizabeth Bishop
Warnings: heartbreak; AUish
Pairings: Chuck/Bryce
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 155
Point of view: third
Prompt: Chuck, Chuck/Bryce, The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

( Bryce wasn't the first thing he lost, or the last to come back. )

Title: phoenix ascending
Fandom: X-Men movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU somewhere between the first two movies
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 175
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's Choice, any/any, wildfires

( From the flames, he rises. )

Title: something inside trying to fly out
Fandom: Chuck
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: pre-series
Pairing: pre-Bryce/Chuck
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 215
Point of view: third
Prompt: Chuck, Bryce/Chuck, It was days like these, lying spread eagled on campus green, basking in the spring sun beside Chuck that Bryce could forget he'd been washing another man's blood off his hand last night.

( It's a quiet morning. )

Title: they sicken of the calm who know the storm
Fandom: Highlander/Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Dorothy Parker
Warnings: pre-series for both; a smidge AU for Supernatural; mentions of torture, character death, and slavery;
Pairings: implied Gabriel/Methos
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 635
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural/Highlander, Gabriel + Methos, five times Methos meet him and one time Gabriel told him he was an angel

( Methos just looks at him, at his toothy grin and the shadow of wings at his shoulder. )

Title: we strain to hold a bridge between them open
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Denise Levertov
Warnings: preseries
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 125
Point of view: third
Prompt: Sherlock BBC, Mycroft, why he got into government

( Mycroft knew from the first time Sherlock spoke a complete sentence that the world would never accept his brother. )

Title: the people's princess
Fandom: Cinderella
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for the fairy tale; a bit of fluff
Pairings: Prince/Cinderella
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 550
Point of view: third
Prompt: Fairy tales, Cinderella, life's not all balls and glass slippers.

( The people love her. )

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: Don't ask me when I learned love
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Adrienne Rich
Warnings: takes place during senior year; spoilers for season 2
Pairings: post-Kurt/Blaine; Kurt/Karofsky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 490
Point of view: third
Prompt: Glee, Kurt/Karofsky + Burt, meeting the parents (again)

( Burt knows that tone. )

Title: homebase
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 150
Point of view: third
Prompt: Glee, Kurt/Finn, Bear Hug

( Finn and Dad meet him at the airport. )

Title: one of these things
Fandom: DCU
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: a mix of Under the Red Hood and the cartoons and what I've learned through cultural osmosis
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 220
Point of view: third
Prompt: DCU, Jason Todd + the Bats, No matter what they say or do, he knows they'll never trust him completely. Whatever, it's not like he needs his family to trust him or anything.

( One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just isn't the same. )

Title: You were the wind and I the sea
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)/Firefly
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sara Teasdale
Warnings: spoilers for The Great Game; takes place half a year after Serenity
Pairings: implied Sherlock/John; Simon/Kaylee; post-Zoe/Wash
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 430
Point of view: third
Prompt: Sherlock (BBC)/Firefly, Sherlock + or / John, and Serenity's crew, Mal had no idea his latest cargo was smuggling one man's heart across the 'verse. This was déjà vu all over again.

( Watson's quiet, keeps to himself, and saves Mal's life dockside, halfway to their destination. )

Title: Pegasus goes free, unmounted yet
Fandom: Animorphs
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from C. Day-Lewis
Warnings: spoilers for everything
Pairings: gennish
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 190
Point of view: third
Prompt: Animorphs, Rachel, wild at heart

( riding the hurricane )

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. )

screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

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

fic: Xena/Highlander

comment_fic 1158 - 1162: Peter Pan, BtVS, folktale, original

comment_fic 1137 - 1141: SN/BtVS, SN, RPF, Marvel

comment_fic 1122-1126: Marvel, Animorphs, original, TW

comment_fic 1102 - 1106: Merlin, BtVS, original, HL

comment_fic 1197 - 1101: Batman, myth, HP/Sherlock, fairy tale, HL

poem: past tense

comment_fic 1176-1180: HL, Leverage, HP, original

comment_fic 1166 - 1170: RPF, original, HL

comment_fic 1085 - 1089: DCU animated, Highlander, Marvel movies

comment_fic 1054 - 1058: Shane, Marvel movies, Leverage, Despciable Me, original

comment_fic 821-825: Teen Wolf, Tangled/Sleeping Beauty, Die Hard/White House Down

comment_fic 796-800: Teen Wolf & Highlander

fic_promptly 1-5: Avengers, WC, HL/myth, original, HL

comment_fic 676-680: HL, fairy tale, WC/Inception/RED

comment_fic 646-650: HL/Thor, HL, SG1/NCIS, Chuck

comment_fic 621-625: X-Men, Chuck, SN/HL, Sherlock, fairy tale

comment_fic 616-620: Glee, SN, Leverage

comment_fic 571-575: Glee, DCU, Sherlock/Firefly, Animorphs

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

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