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the_rckTitle: What Weed and Thorn Have Understood
Fandom: Burn Notice/Leverage/Person of Interest
Rating: T
Length: 2618
Characters/Pairings: Sameen Shaw, Eliot Spencer, Sam Axe, Michael Westen
Tags: When Missions Collide, Spies & Secret Agents, Crossover, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Not Canon Compliant
Notes: Written for Crossworks 2021.
Summary:
The fourth photo was a man Sameen recognized, so she answered Finch's 'unknown number two' with, "Spencer, Eliot. Dangerous. Disappeared from the radar maybe seven years ago."
Reese reacted to Spencer's name. "Never met him, but I know the name. Mercenary." Reese looked directly at Sameen. His lips didn't move, but she knew the words he wanted to say.
Finch wasn't looking at Sameen, so she mouthed the words, "sniper rifle." Finch wouldn't approve, the Machine might or might not, but Spencer was bad news. Sameen might be able to take him, but she'd rather do it from a distance.
Reese's eyes flicked down then back up in a nod that Finch wouldn't notice.
Story on AO3.
Title: Referred Me to the Crickets
Fandom: Naruto/Pinocchio (1940)
Rating: T
Length: 1312
Characters/Pairings: Orochimaru, Jiminy Cricket
Tags: Crack Treated Seriously, Crossover, Magical Creatures, Wishes, Curses
Notes: I've had the idea for this on my hard drive for years. Battleship 2022 finally gave me the push I needed to finish it.
Summary:
Orochimaru acquires a conscience. He would like to return it.
Story on AO3.
Title: With the Patience of Vegetables and Saints
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia
Rating: G
Length: 1496
Characters/Pairings: Jill Pole, Peter Pevensie
Tags: Gardens & Gardening, Vignette
Notes: Written for We Die Like Fen: Morphogenetic Fields
Summary:
Jill frowned as she checked her tracings of pictures of the plants that were supposed to be in the garden in front of her. She didn't want to be the sort of helper who pulled up the wrong things, so she'd availed herself of the three books on plants in the Pevensie library. She wasn't sure how much it would help.
Story on AO3.
Title: Descendants of Root and Water
Fandom: Dreaming of Sunshine
Rating: G
Length: 1615
Characters/Pairings: Haku, Sai, Nara Shikako
Tags: Kidnapping, Future Fic, Rescue Missions, Covert Operations, Silver Queen's Dreaming of Sunshine Universe
Notes: Written for Exchange no Jutsu 2021.
Summary:
Haku didn't think what he was about to do was treason. He didn't think it was an act of war, either. He was slightly less certain how to classify Nara Shikako having called in a favor for... this.
Not that Haku didn't owe her ten times, a hundred times, as much. Not that Haku's Kage and Shisho and village didn't owe her equally much.
And, really, Isobu had been adamant. Isobu despised control seals
Story on AO3.
Title: Hour of Stars and Music
Fandom: Labyrinth (1986)
Rating: G
Length: 1357
Characters/Pairings: Sarah Williams, Hoggle, Sir Didymus, Ludo
Tags: Dream Logic, Stars, Friendship, Canon Typical Weirdness
Notes: Chapter 2 is entirely notes on various allusion and other things mentioned in passing. Knowledge of those things shouldn't be necessary for enjoying the story, but I thought some readers might be interested.
Summary:
Sarah thought there must be a reason why she met Hoggle some times and Ludo others. Sir Didymus, when he came at all, only came after one of the other two, never when she was alone.
She asked Hoggle about it once, and he looked sideways up at her. "The Labyrinth does as the Labyrinth does. A place for everything. A season for everything." He hummed under his breath.
Story on AO3.
Title: Kraken Twister
Fandom: Boku no Hero Academia
Rating: T
Length: 2467
Characters/Pairings: Shinsou Hitoshi, Hatsume Mei, Asui Tsuyu, Kaminari Denki, Yaoyorozu Momo
Tags: Time Travel Fix-It, Unspecified Apocalypse, Implied Past Character Death, Implied/Referenced Murder, Shinsou Hitoshi Has One for All Quirk
Notes: Written for Robot Rainbow 2022. For this exchange, we had a list of possible titles from which to choose, AI generated nail polish colors if I recall correctly.
Summary:
"It was Deku's plan," Momo told Hitoshi, cutting his protests off at the knees. "We'll send everybody if we can, but Mei has to go, and you have to go." She sighed, and, for a moment, her exhaustion showed. "He left this for you." She pulled out a glass vial with two green hairs in it. "One for now and the other for in the past, just in case the quirk doesn't go back with you. Assuming we can figurer out how to send things with you. He said you could leave a hair for someone for after you're-- In case nothing changes in this timeline. A split timeline ought to let someone else be Eleventh." Her free hand lifted a few millimeters off the table and waved minutely. "He thought that you being Tenth might go back with you even if it's just your mind doing the traveling."
Hitoshi raised his eyebrows. The last point was the only bit of this bullshit reasoning that he was currently willing to touch.
"Because you have a mental quirk," she said. "It might not work, but I don't think we lose anything by trying it."
Story on AO3.
Title: Giving the Bud (I Give the Flower)
Fandom: Brigadoon (1954)
Rating: T
Length: 3486
Characters/Pairings: Jeff Douglas, Tommy Albright, Mr. Lundie, Tommy Albright/Fiona Campbell
Tags: World War II References, Fae & Fairies, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, References to Canonical Character Death, Living at different temporal speeds
Notes: There's technically major character death because the 100 year time gap between Brigadoon's days. Written for Yuletide 2021.
Summary:
Jeff watches Tommy go and thinks hard about Brigadoon and his own choices. That's his part. Two days and two centuries later, Tommy gets married. As he more than a century dead, Jeff can't be there, but his last letter to Tommy is.
Story on AO3.
Title: Choice and Its Airless Shadow
Fandom: Chronicles of Amber
Rating: T
Length: 4059
Characters/Pairings: Corwin, Random
Tags: Sibling Relationship, Reunions, Reference to Canonical Incest, Reference to Canonical Murder, Politics and Intrigue
Notes: Set after the Merlin books but ignoring the short stories.
Summary:
Merlin had known damn all about the things I cared about as far as Amber was concerned. I'm not sure how the boy managed to survive because, as far as politics and intrigue went, he was--
He was curiously indifferent. As if none of it actually affected him or ever could. I had no idea if he was naturally that naive or if Dara and Mandor had deliberately raised him with lacunae in his perceptions.
Or, perhaps, he had simply lied to me about everything. I hoped he had because nothing in his autobiography led me to think he'd survive three days as king of anything, not on his own. Ghostwheel seemed a very insubstantial support in the face of political backbiting.
Story on AO3.
Title: Jubilees Dancing in the Shards
Fandom: Princess Tutu
Rating: T
Length: 1053
Characters/Pairings: Rue, Ahiru | Duck/Rue
Tags: Bittersweet, Time Loop, One-Sided Relationship, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Canon Compliant, Darker than Canon
Notes: I didn't need to change canon much to have Rue always have been in a time loop caused by plot tweaks and infinite rewrites. Written for Battleship 2022.
Summary:
Rue knows how the story goes. How could she not? She's been through this more than once, and she knows her choreography. The lines change. The casting changes. The choreography doesn't Rue is always the Raven's Daughter. Mytho is always the Prince. Fakir is always there, one way or another; he doesn't change much.
It's lonely being the only one who remembers, but Rue is glad that Mytho and Fakir don't. Their stories end in tragedy as much as hers does, and Rue isn't sure she could bear watching them struggle in the ways she used to struggle.
Story on AO3.
Title: Conscious of the Chasm
Fandom: Yami no Matsuei
Rating: T
Length: 4199 (chapter 2 is image heavy)
Characters/Pairings: Tatsumi Seiichirou/Watari Yutaka
Tags: Tarot Reading, Behind the Scenes, Research
Notes: Chapter 2 is photos of the tarot reading. Written for Fic In a Box 2021.
Summary:
"Tsuzuki hasn't seen this," Kurosaki said. "I don't think he should." He held a paper wrapped package in his hands. "I can feel the-- It's nasty even with the gloves on."
Yutaka recognized the gloves. He'd made them for Kurosaki as an experiment, and they'd worked unexpectedly well. "Magic or malice?"
Either would be fascinating.
Story on AO3.
Title: Bathysphere
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: M
Length: 1824
Characters/Pairings: Buffy Summers, Angelus/Buffy
Tags: Chose not to Use Archive Warnings, Time Loop, Dimension Travel, Anger, Bad Decisions, No Consequences, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-Con, Extremely Dubious Consent, Dubious Morality, Introspection, Character Study, Ambiguous/Open Ending, References to Angel/Buffy, Sexual Fantasy
Notes: This needs warnings, but I had no idea which ones properly applied, so please take it as a 'Here Be Dragons' type warning. This version of Buffy is in a mental/emotional dark place and doesn't expect to become a better person again. Written for Robot Rainbow 2022.
Summary:
Buffy opens her yes and wonders which flavor of today this one will be. She doesn't like any of them, but some are more disgusting than others, kind of like gravy on a smushed grapefruit. The better ones are usually closer to mint frosting on steak. Buffy can scrape the frosting off is she really wants tot. Hell, it's even usually water soluble with just a little oily residue, and the wet steak is sometimes--
That simile got away from her.
Anyway, the menu is limited and repeats. It's not a rotation because that would be too easy.
Still, she's got a list. It could be a blue-barrette-Willow day or a Mom-dropped-the-last-egg day or... Buffy has a mental list. Paper lists don't transfer, and she can't go properly off-script until she knows which script she'll be shredding. She's not trying to make things better any more.
Story on AO3.
Title: And Shut the Gates of Mercy
Fandom: MCU/Agents of SHIELD
Rating: M
Length: 1858
Characters/Pairings: Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Jemma Simmons, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark
Tags: Chose not to Use Archive Warnings, Dark, Alternate Universe, Character Study, Loyalty, Revenge, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Torture, Sadism, No Moral Compass; I'll Borrow Yours, Referenced Tony Stark/Other Characters, Potential Tony Stark/Grant Ward, Potential Pepper Potts/Tony Stark/Grant Ward
Notes: This version of Tony would alter the larger canon, but I'm not digging into the AU elements beyond the scope of this character study. Written for Battleship 2022
Summary:
Breaking Grant Ward was going to be a special favor for an organization that no longer-- quite-- existed. Dr Simmons had talked to Maria Hill who had talked to Pepper. All three women were in the observation room with Tony.
Tony wouldn't be there unless Pepper had already decided this was something Tony should do. Tony just didn't know yet if Ward was meant to survive or what Pepper, Hill, and Dr Simmons wanted from Ward
Story on AO3.
Title: When the Moon Was Looking Elsewhere
Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Rating: E
Length: 5545
Characters/Pairings: Brad Crawford/Kudoh Yohji/Schuldig
Tags: Rape/Non-Con, Power Imbalance, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Stockholm Syndrome, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Captivity
Notes: This is a sequel to another story of mine, one with a lot of the same warnings. The series is called Netted in the Shadows. Written for Battleship 2022.
Summary:
Crawford might join Schuldig when Yohji was on the floor, but he only watched when Schuldig had Yohji trapped on the couch. Crawford kept up conversation with Schuldig in a language Yohji didn't know but thought might be French. Crawford also laughed when Yohji squirmed.
Crawford always sounded amused in the way a normal person might be by a clever pet. Yohji understood that that was better than the way Crawford had laughed before. That had been an arsonist watching a city burn; that had been a promise of violence, vivisection, and death.
Yohji was Schuldig's pet much more than Crawford's, but Crawford was the one making sure that Yohji didn't die.
Story on AO3.
Title: Only in Service of My Dreams
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: E
Length: 4889
Characters/Pairings: Elizabeth Burke, Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Mozzie, Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
Tags: Rape/Non-Con, Dreams and Nightmares, Dream Sex, Dubious Consent, Succubus, Fae & Fairies, Urban Fantasy, Alternate Universe, Loyalty, Dark, Dragons, Rescue, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Pining, Dubious Ethics, Cat and Mouse, Dimension Travel
Notes: So, I took a mundane canon and made some of the characters predatory magical beings. Written for Battleship 2022
Summary:
El's toes lifted the cuff of Peter's right trouser leg and traced a line along his shin. She hummed with pleasure. "You were right, Peter. He's charming."
Peter turned his head so that he could see her face. The human features were much less expressive than her native form's features, but they'd both learned to work around that. He smiled, too, letting the expression show predatory anticipation. "And stubborn." He took El's hand and rubbed his thumb across the back of it. "He'll try to play us."
"Of course." El leaned over and kissed Peter's cheek. "He'll try to run, too, until he figures out that we can always reel him back in."
Story on AO3.
Fandom: Burn Notice/Leverage/Person of Interest
Rating: T
Length: 2618
Characters/Pairings: Sameen Shaw, Eliot Spencer, Sam Axe, Michael Westen
Tags: When Missions Collide, Spies & Secret Agents, Crossover, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Not Canon Compliant
Notes: Written for Crossworks 2021.
Summary:
The fourth photo was a man Sameen recognized, so she answered Finch's 'unknown number two' with, "Spencer, Eliot. Dangerous. Disappeared from the radar maybe seven years ago."
Reese reacted to Spencer's name. "Never met him, but I know the name. Mercenary." Reese looked directly at Sameen. His lips didn't move, but she knew the words he wanted to say.
Finch wasn't looking at Sameen, so she mouthed the words, "sniper rifle." Finch wouldn't approve, the Machine might or might not, but Spencer was bad news. Sameen might be able to take him, but she'd rather do it from a distance.
Reese's eyes flicked down then back up in a nod that Finch wouldn't notice.
Story on AO3.
Title: Referred Me to the Crickets
Fandom: Naruto/Pinocchio (1940)
Rating: T
Length: 1312
Characters/Pairings: Orochimaru, Jiminy Cricket
Tags: Crack Treated Seriously, Crossover, Magical Creatures, Wishes, Curses
Notes: I've had the idea for this on my hard drive for years. Battleship 2022 finally gave me the push I needed to finish it.
Summary:
Orochimaru acquires a conscience. He would like to return it.
Story on AO3.
Title: With the Patience of Vegetables and Saints
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia
Rating: G
Length: 1496
Characters/Pairings: Jill Pole, Peter Pevensie
Tags: Gardens & Gardening, Vignette
Notes: Written for We Die Like Fen: Morphogenetic Fields
Summary:
Jill frowned as she checked her tracings of pictures of the plants that were supposed to be in the garden in front of her. She didn't want to be the sort of helper who pulled up the wrong things, so she'd availed herself of the three books on plants in the Pevensie library. She wasn't sure how much it would help.
Story on AO3.
Title: Descendants of Root and Water
Fandom: Dreaming of Sunshine
Rating: G
Length: 1615
Characters/Pairings: Haku, Sai, Nara Shikako
Tags: Kidnapping, Future Fic, Rescue Missions, Covert Operations, Silver Queen's Dreaming of Sunshine Universe
Notes: Written for Exchange no Jutsu 2021.
Summary:
Haku didn't think what he was about to do was treason. He didn't think it was an act of war, either. He was slightly less certain how to classify Nara Shikako having called in a favor for... this.
Not that Haku didn't owe her ten times, a hundred times, as much. Not that Haku's Kage and Shisho and village didn't owe her equally much.
And, really, Isobu had been adamant. Isobu despised control seals
Story on AO3.
Title: Hour of Stars and Music
Fandom: Labyrinth (1986)
Rating: G
Length: 1357
Characters/Pairings: Sarah Williams, Hoggle, Sir Didymus, Ludo
Tags: Dream Logic, Stars, Friendship, Canon Typical Weirdness
Notes: Chapter 2 is entirely notes on various allusion and other things mentioned in passing. Knowledge of those things shouldn't be necessary for enjoying the story, but I thought some readers might be interested.
Summary:
Sarah thought there must be a reason why she met Hoggle some times and Ludo others. Sir Didymus, when he came at all, only came after one of the other two, never when she was alone.
She asked Hoggle about it once, and he looked sideways up at her. "The Labyrinth does as the Labyrinth does. A place for everything. A season for everything." He hummed under his breath.
Story on AO3.
Title: Kraken Twister
Fandom: Boku no Hero Academia
Rating: T
Length: 2467
Characters/Pairings: Shinsou Hitoshi, Hatsume Mei, Asui Tsuyu, Kaminari Denki, Yaoyorozu Momo
Tags: Time Travel Fix-It, Unspecified Apocalypse, Implied Past Character Death, Implied/Referenced Murder, Shinsou Hitoshi Has One for All Quirk
Notes: Written for Robot Rainbow 2022. For this exchange, we had a list of possible titles from which to choose, AI generated nail polish colors if I recall correctly.
Summary:
"It was Deku's plan," Momo told Hitoshi, cutting his protests off at the knees. "We'll send everybody if we can, but Mei has to go, and you have to go." She sighed, and, for a moment, her exhaustion showed. "He left this for you." She pulled out a glass vial with two green hairs in it. "One for now and the other for in the past, just in case the quirk doesn't go back with you. Assuming we can figurer out how to send things with you. He said you could leave a hair for someone for after you're-- In case nothing changes in this timeline. A split timeline ought to let someone else be Eleventh." Her free hand lifted a few millimeters off the table and waved minutely. "He thought that you being Tenth might go back with you even if it's just your mind doing the traveling."
Hitoshi raised his eyebrows. The last point was the only bit of this bullshit reasoning that he was currently willing to touch.
"Because you have a mental quirk," she said. "It might not work, but I don't think we lose anything by trying it."
Story on AO3.
Title: Giving the Bud (I Give the Flower)
Fandom: Brigadoon (1954)
Rating: T
Length: 3486
Characters/Pairings: Jeff Douglas, Tommy Albright, Mr. Lundie, Tommy Albright/Fiona Campbell
Tags: World War II References, Fae & Fairies, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, References to Canonical Character Death, Living at different temporal speeds
Notes: There's technically major character death because the 100 year time gap between Brigadoon's days. Written for Yuletide 2021.
Summary:
Jeff watches Tommy go and thinks hard about Brigadoon and his own choices. That's his part. Two days and two centuries later, Tommy gets married. As he more than a century dead, Jeff can't be there, but his last letter to Tommy is.
Story on AO3.
Title: Choice and Its Airless Shadow
Fandom: Chronicles of Amber
Rating: T
Length: 4059
Characters/Pairings: Corwin, Random
Tags: Sibling Relationship, Reunions, Reference to Canonical Incest, Reference to Canonical Murder, Politics and Intrigue
Notes: Set after the Merlin books but ignoring the short stories.
Summary:
Merlin had known damn all about the things I cared about as far as Amber was concerned. I'm not sure how the boy managed to survive because, as far as politics and intrigue went, he was--
He was curiously indifferent. As if none of it actually affected him or ever could. I had no idea if he was naturally that naive or if Dara and Mandor had deliberately raised him with lacunae in his perceptions.
Or, perhaps, he had simply lied to me about everything. I hoped he had because nothing in his autobiography led me to think he'd survive three days as king of anything, not on his own. Ghostwheel seemed a very insubstantial support in the face of political backbiting.
Story on AO3.
Title: Jubilees Dancing in the Shards
Fandom: Princess Tutu
Rating: T
Length: 1053
Characters/Pairings: Rue, Ahiru | Duck/Rue
Tags: Bittersweet, Time Loop, One-Sided Relationship, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Canon Compliant, Darker than Canon
Notes: I didn't need to change canon much to have Rue always have been in a time loop caused by plot tweaks and infinite rewrites. Written for Battleship 2022.
Summary:
Rue knows how the story goes. How could she not? She's been through this more than once, and she knows her choreography. The lines change. The casting changes. The choreography doesn't Rue is always the Raven's Daughter. Mytho is always the Prince. Fakir is always there, one way or another; he doesn't change much.
It's lonely being the only one who remembers, but Rue is glad that Mytho and Fakir don't. Their stories end in tragedy as much as hers does, and Rue isn't sure she could bear watching them struggle in the ways she used to struggle.
Story on AO3.
Title: Conscious of the Chasm
Fandom: Yami no Matsuei
Rating: T
Length: 4199 (chapter 2 is image heavy)
Characters/Pairings: Tatsumi Seiichirou/Watari Yutaka
Tags: Tarot Reading, Behind the Scenes, Research
Notes: Chapter 2 is photos of the tarot reading. Written for Fic In a Box 2021.
Summary:
"Tsuzuki hasn't seen this," Kurosaki said. "I don't think he should." He held a paper wrapped package in his hands. "I can feel the-- It's nasty even with the gloves on."
Yutaka recognized the gloves. He'd made them for Kurosaki as an experiment, and they'd worked unexpectedly well. "Magic or malice?"
Either would be fascinating.
Story on AO3.
Title: Bathysphere
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: M
Length: 1824
Characters/Pairings: Buffy Summers, Angelus/Buffy
Tags: Chose not to Use Archive Warnings, Time Loop, Dimension Travel, Anger, Bad Decisions, No Consequences, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-Con, Extremely Dubious Consent, Dubious Morality, Introspection, Character Study, Ambiguous/Open Ending, References to Angel/Buffy, Sexual Fantasy
Notes: This needs warnings, but I had no idea which ones properly applied, so please take it as a 'Here Be Dragons' type warning. This version of Buffy is in a mental/emotional dark place and doesn't expect to become a better person again. Written for Robot Rainbow 2022.
Summary:
Buffy opens her yes and wonders which flavor of today this one will be. She doesn't like any of them, but some are more disgusting than others, kind of like gravy on a smushed grapefruit. The better ones are usually closer to mint frosting on steak. Buffy can scrape the frosting off is she really wants tot. Hell, it's even usually water soluble with just a little oily residue, and the wet steak is sometimes--
That simile got away from her.
Anyway, the menu is limited and repeats. It's not a rotation because that would be too easy.
Still, she's got a list. It could be a blue-barrette-Willow day or a Mom-dropped-the-last-egg day or... Buffy has a mental list. Paper lists don't transfer, and she can't go properly off-script until she knows which script she'll be shredding. She's not trying to make things better any more.
Story on AO3.
Title: And Shut the Gates of Mercy
Fandom: MCU/Agents of SHIELD
Rating: M
Length: 1858
Characters/Pairings: Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Jemma Simmons, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark
Tags: Chose not to Use Archive Warnings, Dark, Alternate Universe, Character Study, Loyalty, Revenge, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Torture, Sadism, No Moral Compass; I'll Borrow Yours, Referenced Tony Stark/Other Characters, Potential Tony Stark/Grant Ward, Potential Pepper Potts/Tony Stark/Grant Ward
Notes: This version of Tony would alter the larger canon, but I'm not digging into the AU elements beyond the scope of this character study. Written for Battleship 2022
Summary:
Breaking Grant Ward was going to be a special favor for an organization that no longer-- quite-- existed. Dr Simmons had talked to Maria Hill who had talked to Pepper. All three women were in the observation room with Tony.
Tony wouldn't be there unless Pepper had already decided this was something Tony should do. Tony just didn't know yet if Ward was meant to survive or what Pepper, Hill, and Dr Simmons wanted from Ward
Story on AO3.
Title: When the Moon Was Looking Elsewhere
Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Rating: E
Length: 5545
Characters/Pairings: Brad Crawford/Kudoh Yohji/Schuldig
Tags: Rape/Non-Con, Power Imbalance, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Stockholm Syndrome, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Captivity
Notes: This is a sequel to another story of mine, one with a lot of the same warnings. The series is called Netted in the Shadows. Written for Battleship 2022.
Summary:
Crawford might join Schuldig when Yohji was on the floor, but he only watched when Schuldig had Yohji trapped on the couch. Crawford kept up conversation with Schuldig in a language Yohji didn't know but thought might be French. Crawford also laughed when Yohji squirmed.
Crawford always sounded amused in the way a normal person might be by a clever pet. Yohji understood that that was better than the way Crawford had laughed before. That had been an arsonist watching a city burn; that had been a promise of violence, vivisection, and death.
Yohji was Schuldig's pet much more than Crawford's, but Crawford was the one making sure that Yohji didn't die.
Story on AO3.
Title: Only in Service of My Dreams
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: E
Length: 4889
Characters/Pairings: Elizabeth Burke, Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Mozzie, Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
Tags: Rape/Non-Con, Dreams and Nightmares, Dream Sex, Dubious Consent, Succubus, Fae & Fairies, Urban Fantasy, Alternate Universe, Loyalty, Dark, Dragons, Rescue, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Pining, Dubious Ethics, Cat and Mouse, Dimension Travel
Notes: So, I took a mundane canon and made some of the characters predatory magical beings. Written for Battleship 2022
Summary:
El's toes lifted the cuff of Peter's right trouser leg and traced a line along his shin. She hummed with pleasure. "You were right, Peter. He's charming."
Peter turned his head so that he could see her face. The human features were much less expressive than her native form's features, but they'd both learned to work around that. He smiled, too, letting the expression show predatory anticipation. "And stubborn." He took El's hand and rubbed his thumb across the back of it. "He'll try to play us."
"Of course." El leaned over and kissed Peter's cheek. "He'll try to run, too, until he figures out that we can always reel him back in."
Story on AO3.
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Date: 2022-10-01 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-01 06:31 pm (UTC)The timeline between The Silver Chair and The Last Battle is kind of vague, but I thought that her visiting the Pevensies during the gap could work. I also thought that Peter was the Pevensie she was least likely to have interacted with much because he's so much older. This could also fit in an everybody-lives-nobody-dies AU, but it doesn't require that.