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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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
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
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.
Wall and Water (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: Unknown, F: The X-Files, Pairing: None, Rating: R
This story was posted with the permission of both Gizzie and Martha Little, authors of the Messenger/Time/Tercet universe. It deals with Langly’s alcoholism within that universe.
Muchas gracias to my beta, Nancy Floyd-Finch, also known as “Evil Mistress of Betas.” If this story has any merit, it’s because of her beta, and her re-beta, and her re-re-re-beta.
“It must be understood that neither by word nor deed
had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will.
I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face,
and he did not perceive that my smile NOW was at
the thought of his immolation.”
–E.A. Poe
Vandalized (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2003, F: Alias, Pairing: Slash, Rating: PG13
written for celli in the sarkfic secret santa 2003.
Weiss tries and fails, upon getting out of the taxi in front of the Radisson Hotel, to balance three bottles of wine and a plate of weird assorted deli cheeses. “Crap,” he grunts as the cheeses begin the inevitable slide onto the sidewalk.
Luckily Sydney is there to help. “Are you my official cheese-catcher?” he asks as she slides lightly out of the seat behind him and grabs the platter. She smiles.
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Where Steel & Water Collide (the Black-Eyed Daughter remix) (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2007, F: Veronica Mars, Pairing: Slash, Rating: PG13, Remixes
AU, post second season finale. written for remix redux (2007), remixing the story where steel and water collide, by soundingsea.
“Now keep good watch!” and they kissed her.
She heard the dead man say-
Look for me by moonlight;
Watch for me by moonlight;
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way!–Alfred Noyes
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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Treaty of Versailles (0)
Posted 13 July, 2007 in D: 2003, F: Everwood, Pairing: None, Rating: PG13
Bright is not stupid. He isn’t. He isn’t. Things just . . . have a way of slipping out of his head. Take history, for example. Columbus discovered America in 1492. In 2002, Bright Abbott rushed one hundred and forty yards in the second-to-last game of the season, adding insult to the other team’s injury, and helped bring about a spectacular, fiery win.
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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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