The Last Word (0)

Posted 1 June, 2008 in D: 2006, F: The Office (US), Pairing: None, Rating: PG13

Written for nomad_shan in the Yankee Fic Swap, December 2006. At the time it was plausible, but now it’s basically an AU. *shrug*

Dwight isn’t as happy at Jim’s goodbye party as he thought he’d be. Now that he has a guaranteed spot as Michael’s number two man, it isn’t as fulfilling as he’d thought. Morosely, he downs two cups of punch before realizing that someone has spiked it. Then he tries to close off the punch bowl, but no one’s having that. Michael tells him to stop being such a party pooper; Stanley gives him a scowl and pushes past him unceremoniously. No one has respect for the law; they’re all going to slide off the road and die. Idiots.

It’s just another excuse to get mostly drunk and say stupid things to one another. Darryl tells Jim to have fun on his trip to Austria. Angela makes her excuses and leaves early, and Bob Vance comes to take Phyllis out to dinner. Most of the time, Jim stands off in a corner pretending not to stare at Pam, who is pretending not to stare at him. This party, thinks Dwight, is worse than the Saint Patrick’s Day party when Creed threw up green beer. Everyone seems to sense it eventually and finally, when the punch bowl is empty, even Meredith staggers outside. Michael takes one look at the mess and disappears. No one’s left but the cameramen, and they do not help. Dwight begins to clean everything up, and is surprised to see Jim picking up the decorations.
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World Tour (0)

Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2006, F: The Office (US), Pairing: None, Rating: G

Written for office_romances. Creed & Jim & musical pretentiousness.

One girl was called Jean Marie
Another little girl was called Felicity
Another little girl was Sally Joy
The other was me, and I’m a boy.
–The Who

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Tres Cher! (0)

Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2006, F: The Office (US), Pairing: None, Rating: PG

Written for office_romances, post season one.

Kelly is really and truly done crying over Ryan, and she knows it because she’s gone to the MAC counter at Nordstrom and bought herself a new lipgloss, and she didn’t think once about what Ryan would think when he saw her wearing it. It’s a frosted purply-plum called “Tres Cher!” It sounds like something a model would wear in a Vogue photoshoot, striking a pose in front of the Eiffel Tower.
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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 Time Difference (2)

Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2006, F: Friday Night Lights, Pairing: None, Rating: PG

Set post-s1 finale

At five a.m. three days after his football team takes the state championship, Matt Saracen gropes clumsily for the ringing phone. He knows who it is; it’s the only person who always, always, gets the time difference wrong between Texas and Iraq.

“H’lo! Hello!” he says into the phone as loudly as he can without waking his Grandma (who should be used to weird early morning calls but somehow isn’t, and has a tendency to get confused and sometimes cry, so Matt tries to answer the phone on the second ring and be as coherent as he can, be a man about the whole thing). “Dad! Hello!”
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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 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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Score (0)

Posted 12 July, 2007 in D: 2006, F: The Office (US), Pairing: Het, Pairing: Slash, Rating: PG

Phyllis & Bob Vance & Todd Packer :: Written for office_romances.

Phyllis brings Bob to the Dunder-Mifflin Mid-June Soccer Tournament And Barbecue. She feels like she ought to. She has no idea whether she loves Bob, or wants to bring him to more office functions. But it seems like that’s the thing to do, so she does it.
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