Loss Aversion (0)
Posted 18 February, 2008 in D: 2007, F: Casino Royale, Pairing: Het, Rating: PG13
loss aversion
This is how it might go:
James Bond adjusts his bow tie as he stands outside the casino. Cars whiz by on the road and expensively dressed people pass him on the left and right, seemingly unaware that they might get run over.
James looks at the casino and its bright lights. He remembers Solange, dead in the hammock, covered in sand, eyes open and staring. All her money and beauty hadn’t stopped her death. Death can’t be stopped. Perhaps the only alternative is to delay it awhile. Or to stop thinking about it.
“Sod it,” says James, pulls off his bowtie, and disappears. No one ever sees him again. Le Chiffre wins the poker game and Vesper Lynd lives. And that’s how it might have gone. If James had known the future, he might have given up $100 million to terrorists in order to save Vesper’s life. Or he might have tried something else. Like crawling onto Le Chiffre’s yacht and opening his guts out onto the deck. Then the whole point would have been moot. Death can’t be stopped. But if you’re James Bond, and you have your armor on, you can at least delay your own.
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In the backseat of a black jeep on a back street (0)
Posted 17 July, 2007 in D: 2007, F: Dark Angel, Pairing: Het, Rating: R
For winter_baby. Important note!: for the purposes of the story, “present day” is considered to be about a year after the events of “freak nation.”
Present Day.
They wake Alec up every hour on the hour for at least a week. Just as some kind of merciless clock in his brain calculates that it has been two weeks since he was captured, the same clock ticks off the minutes as he dozes – 58, 59, 60 – and then a guard rattles the bars or shoves a stick in his ribs and he stumbles to his feet. Sometimes they take him out for questioning – sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they shove a plate of food in under the bars. He gobbles it and then slumps back against the wall, trying to sleep, praying to God or Sandeman or whoever’s out there –
Please let Max come save me. Please.
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Wrapped Up Together (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: Unknown, F: Angel, Pairing: Het, Rating: R
sequel to 40 days of one night stands by jennyo.
Are we all wrapped up? Wrapped up together?
Are we all wrapped up, fit for the kill?
Ruby. Paraffin.
She looks at him with eyes that are, strangely, not blank, but electric. Over the table where he’s sprawled himself in a chair on one side and she’s leaned against the counter on the other. She has not bothered to put on any clothes — it is hotter than a lava pool in hell, and what does she have to be afraid of anyway? He’s seen it all. He put the bruises there.
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Bitter Warfare Is Dear To Us (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2000, F: The X-Files, Pairing: Het, Rating: R
Scully confronts Krycek after her sister’s killing.
Vielen, vielen Dank to ETo’J, who beta-read this and grinned knowingly. There’s a sociopath sitting on your couch, Evil Twin — and he’s got on leather gloves. I’ll get out the ice cream, shall I?
Wake up
Somethings you can’t get around
I’m in you
More so when they put me in the ground.
U2. Dirty Day.
Torches (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2006, F: Veronica Mars, Pairing: Het, Rating: R
Set pre-series.
Lilly is six years old and Duncan a bit younger. Dad takes them to Las Vegas to see the Cirque du Soleil. It’s amazing! Lilly loves the bareback rider and the sinuous, sparkling acrobats. She vows to her dad that she’s going to join the circus as soon as she’s old enough. He laughs and buys her another cotton candy.
In the middle of the show, a man stands in the center ring. He wears a top hat and a light shines down on him. He juggles swords and melons, firebrands, glass spheres as airy as bubbles. There is nothing to juggling, decides Lilly. You just have to keep all your torches in the air.
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The Two Roys (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2006, F: The Office (US), Pairing: Het, Rating: G
Set post s1, for office_romances: Roy & Toby.
Roy marries Pam in June, but by December she is gone; his safe, reliable girl morphed into a cold, unforgiving woman who packs up her clothes while he’s at the bar and leaves for parts unknown. No note, no nothing. He calls her parents and they tell him she’s in New York and that she doesn’t want to see him. In March, the divorce papers arrive. He signs them.
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The Right To Remain Silent (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2006, F: The Office (US), Pairing: Canon, Pairing: Het, Rating: R
set before 1×20, “Drug Testing,” when Dwight turns in his uniform.
The office is a hotbed of intrigue. Dwight knows that behind every corner and in every drawer, people are keeping secrets. He can feel it when he walks by; the whispers follow him everywhere. Secrets need to be made known. Secret-keepers need to be found out — just, not yet.
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The Night Watch (0)
Posted 12 July, 2007 in D: 2004, F: Bourne Supremacy, Pairing: Het, Rating: PG, Yuletide fics
Written for Silverdime in the Yuletide 2004 challenge.
There was once a girl who dressed in red tights and wanted to be a fashion designer. That girl grew up and got balls, though. Now she’s a hardass CIA director and she wears black suits. She’s had the same haircut for five years. The window of her office is scrupulously clean and overlooks roofs of other buildings. Her files are alphabetized.
That girl’s been all over the world and she hasn’t seen anyplace she wants to stay.
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The Amen Man (0)
Posted 12 July, 2007 in D: 2006, F: The Office (US), Pairing: Het, Rating: PG
Written for office_romances. Angela & Bob Vance.
2001. Scranton Marriott. Jesus Saves revival meeting.
Inside the conference room, the air is stifling and Angela fans herself with her hymnal just so she won’t fall over. Finally the minister has addressed something of concern to her, and she isn’t going to leave now.
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Take It Easy (Love Nothing) (2)
Posted 12 July, 2007 in D: 2006, F: Veronica Mars, Pairing: Het, Rating: R
For winter_baby.
That weatherman is a liar
He said it would be raining
but it is clear and blue as far as I can see
–Bright Eyes. “Take It Easy (Love Nothing)”
one.
Veronica Mars is twenty years old when her father has a heart attack at his desk. Lamb is the second on the scene, because Veronica is the one who finds Keith slumped over his files with the sunlight bloodying his face through the stained glass window. Yes, she does call him in to help. It’s not really flattering; he hears the panic in her voice. She has nowhere to go and no one to turn to. He can see it when the Echolls boy tries to hold her — the wall is completely built, the shell is constructed, Veronica is inside and not talking. Welcome to radio silence.
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