A trickster god does not go about acquiring power by brute force. AKA, the one where, instead of becoming a supervillain when he fell to Earth, Loki somehow ended up as Tony Stark's personal assistant.

Avengers movieverse, Tony/+Loki, Instead of becoming a supervillain when he fell to Earth Loki somehow ended up as Tony Stark's personal assistant.

|| Tony first found the kid because there was a wallet in his pocket.

Tony didn’t have a wallet. He had a famous face, a phone, and an assistant to take care of anything that might need a wallet and none of them messed up the lines of his suits.

Aka: The one where Saguru is NOT crushing on Kuroba (but might be crushing on the Kaitou Kid, just a little)

Saguru had begun to feel like the life of an internationally famous travelling teenage detective was... lacking in something.

Hoyden wrote this AMAZING AU where Derek's family is alive and well but living a few hours from Beacon Hills, where Derek is Sheriff Stilinski's newest deputy. Stiles, staying at home to save money while doing some consulting work, accidentally mistakes him for a stripper the first time they meet. It's understandable. FIVE.

Gard arrives a little late to the rescue-- and Harry, John and Ivy take an unexpected trip through the Nevernever.

An assassination attempt gone wrong sends Jill and Eustace off to solve the mystery behind the attacks, all while playing dead.
Post Silver Chair AU.

Yamamoto wants some captains back. Hirako doesn't trust him a bit. But there are other people who have a stake in the argument, and he has a harder time saying no to them. Alternate storyline, because if KT really intends to break them up, well I'm just not having with that.

Mall AU. Monroe works at Mad Marvin's Music while pining for the cute clerk of Cool Threads.

Nick and Monroe are dating before Nick founds out he is a grimm (Monroe is just really really good at the self control thing and Nick likes rough sex).

AU where Marie Kessler never made it to Porland. Nick and Monroe end up meeting in a slightly less dramatic fashion.

Thor is the only one who remembers the boy in the enchanted slumber, but one day he slips past the guards and brings Sif with him, to look.

"This is Loki. This is my brother," Thor insists. "You must remember Loki."

AU where Hap gets to stick around for a little while longer, and can't help noticing the ~vibes~ between his man Monroe and the catch-and-release Grimm.

"I think I met someone," John says at his next therapist's appointment. "A friend." "Really?" Ella asks. She sounds pleased, and also surprised. "What's his name?" John nods. "Really. His name's Sherlock. He -- he plays the same game as me, the online one. We party together."

Written for a prompt on the Dragon Age kink meme: "AU Hawke is so pretty that when Anders sees him near The Blooming Rose he mistakes him for a prostitute. This takes place the year after Hawke comes to Kirkwall. Rogueish rogue!Hawke doesn't move to hightown or become champion. (Hawke's family might go to live in Hightown though while Hawke continues to do shady, exciting things) Justice isn't inside Anders."

What if Duv had never joined the Imperial Service?

AU, gen. Sha’re got her gun.

It might not be the way Grimms traditionally did things – but Marie would do what she had to do to ensure her nephew had a chance to survive.

In a world where Derek lets Scott kill the Alpha and get the cure, he has to figure out how to rebuild his life, with help from Stiles.

Sam and Jess get an unexpected visit from the FBI about Dean.

Grace first meets Trudy Chacon on a shit day. "Everyone thinks they're dating" cliché fic I accidentally another movie rewrite = 75% grouchy pining, 0% porn, and significant AU elements starting about halfway through. Written for thelittlebang.

She's still waiting, but she'll be damned if that's all she's going to do.

A teaparty, a card game, a bank robbery and the last appearance of the Blue Hands. River and Jayne's relationship begins to take shape. Covers an alternate version of 'Serenity: Those Left Behind'. 3rd in the Horseshoe Nail series.

AU. Obi-Wan was never Qui-Gon's padawan. They meet for the first time shortly after Obi-Wan's knighting.

Six years after the Battle of Theed, a Jedi thought lost returns. This is not necessarily good news.

Nephrite lives AU

Wise is the man who heeds this warning – cross not the desert nor the Gentle Barbarian Queen of the North.

Written for the AU Big Bang 2011:

It's Christmas, and Harry has a lot he'd like to celebrate; a new relationship, a new Carpenter, and a respite in the White Court mobwar that grips Chicago. The last thing he wants is an eleventh-hour kidnapping case dropped into his lap--but he'd better solve this one fast. If he doesn't, it will ruin Christmas... and it might just be the end of the world.

Two years ago, Tseng of the Turks heard Tifa, the newly-hired waitress at the Turks' favorite slum bar, drop a tray of glass and start swearing in Wutaian. Half an hour later, she was looking him in the eye and telling him she grew up in Nibelheim -- and was there when Nibelheim went up in flames.

Since that moment, he's been doing everything he needs to do in order to get her and Rufus in the same room, because he knows she has answers to the questions that have been plaguing him and the man he's loyal to since the moment they heard of the town's destruction -- answers that might mean Shinra's destruction, or its salvation.

And perhaps unfortunately for Tseng, his plan is about to work.

An AU in which all the character development of part one gets its due: Kakashi finds another way, Sasuke does not leave the Leaf, Itachi remains a villain, no one is a carbon copy of a previous generation, Sakura grows up to be terrifying, Sasuke finds his way back to family, and Naruto wins all hearts. Featuring Team Seven fluff, filling in the time-skip, and a rather different second half. Drama, Angst, Romance, Fluff, Action, Occasional Porn.
Complete.

This is written in an alternate universe where Sarah and Adam are alive. If that doesn't interest you, read no further. I wanted a universe to explore the relationship between Vin and Sarah (NOT romantically) and Vin and Adam. Vin is a little younger here, although I have listed no ages. The meeting of the seven is completely different from the show, there are some plot lines carried over and others dismissed. Plain and simple - I just had fun with it. All are welcome to play along. Anyway, it's the K-girl's favorite, so this is for her.

Haldir survives the battle at Helm's Deep and is healed by a bond with Éomer.

One possible future. Follow Atlantis through twenty years of change and growth. Pairings include McKay/Sheppard, Parrish/Lorne, Beckett/Cadman, Weir/Zelenka, and various original characters. Mention of MPreg.

Instead of Loki committing suicide, Thor caught him and Odin pulled both of them up. In the palace Thor confronts his brother as Odin watches.

Susan made a different choice, years ago. Harry Dresden vanishes from Chicago. Somewhere else, somewhere secret, a wizard learns to be a father.

Years later, someone from Harry's old life manages to track him down and finds him with the daughter he's worked so hard to keep unknown and safe.
[AU, Gen fic, warning for character death ]

Instead of flailing around and begging like a fool (like that would ever work), Lily tries a last ditch spell that she expects to kill her, but has a small chance of sending Harry Potter somewhere else, thus ACTUALLY saving him from Voldemort rather than merely providing a Tragic Scene, being as unlike JRK Lily had not read the script. It doesn't work, but does mean she survives. Because she fully intended to sacrifice herself for her son, the charm still works just fine, and Harry is still the BWL, but instead of being blasted into atoms by the explosion of Voldemort dying, she appears on her sister's doorstep, missing a leg and passing out the moment Petunia opens the door.

"Vinnie," Pete said quietly, "look at me. Do you want to tell me this man's not worth saving?" (AU post The Prodigal Son)

Cowrite with Bard Linn; AU, ensemble, m/f m/m f/f. When a little blond boy awakens an old Turk from his long sleep, no one could've guessed how things would change. CH.40: "Things eventually settled into a routine again."

bingo kink is "uniforms/military fetish"
After a few weeks of trying to convince herself she doesn't want to trouble him, eventually she can't help herself, and she does ask, one afternoon when they've gone picnicking together: "Did you...did you keep your uniform?"

[AU - Al died during the original experiment. ] “So I hear the Demon kid killed a bunch of people in East,” Hughes said brightly over the phone. “Again.” “Yes,” Roy admitted, and tried hard not to hate Hughes. “I hear they had it coming. I hear they were evil thugs and without them half of the crime in South and East has dried up. Oh, and he saved a little girl from a burning building. And a kitten.” Hughes had phrased it that way on purpose to make Roy’s headache worse. “So, Roy!” he continued with unforgiveable glee. “Planning to head out and arrest him?” “I hate that kid,” Roy said fervently. “I hate that kid like poison.”

When Sha're first arrived on Earth and began to walk around in their world, the casual attitude towards the written word stunned her.

AU from Conversion, where John's mind is saved from the retrovirus but his body stays the same. Not long after that they lose contact with Earth and have to fend for themselves.
McShep, McDex, McKay/Sheppard/Ronon

Summer, 1998. Neal Caffrey robs the gallery where Elizabeth O'dell is working late, and comes away with a lot more than art. Agent Burke has no idea what's about to hit him.

Neal/Peter, background Peter/Elizabeth, Sam/Jess
Rating: PG-13
W/C: ~3,000
Summary: AU from original premise of SPN – Sam goes to law school and eventually joins the FBI, where he gets assigned as Peter’s probie, and the New York FBI office staff are amused, and eventually, slightly traumatized.

Iroh's son is dead, and his appeal to the spirits has failed. His grief is interrupted when he's called away from Ba Sing Se to deal with an insubordinate unit: the Rough Rhinos, who've been making sport of Earth Kingdom peasants. But what he finds in the mountain forests takes his life on an abrupt turn -- an orphaned boy named Jet, the only survivor of his village.

In another universe, Peter Burke went corporate. He wouldn't have met Neal Caffrey -- except Neal tried to rob his company. And Peter, naturally, caught him.

AU. Azazel offered Mary a choice, and she did what she had to do. She looked him in the eyes when he offered to bring her dead boyfriend back to life, and she told him no.

Fifteen years later, she's divorced, a single mom, and living in the sort of quaint small town she used to dream about raising her family in. Enter a strange woman with a mute little girl, a woman who cracks through Mary's barely stable facade of a normal life. Featuring five tequila shots, four threatening angels, three fatherless children (maybe), two kickass women, and a platter of peanut butter brownies.

It said something about Gai that Iruka was actually unsure whether that was a line.

Three years ago, Tony Vargassi died and left his flourishing criminal empire to his son Marco. Gang violence is rife in the streets, but Harry Dresden's concluded, reluctantly, that it isn't his kind of problem. He's about to find out that the real power behind Chicago's throne is a lot worse then a spoiled mobster's son -- and maybe more than he can handle.

John 'Johnny' Marcone is a mechanic with a bad limp and a bad history with Vargassi. He doesn't want to get back into the business of the Business; he barely escaped with his life before. But in Harry Dresden he sees enough raw power to save the city he loves. Will he risk it all to back his crazy friend against the powers that be?

And can Harry and his car survive what Chicago has in store for him, even with a full-time mechanic?

"This is getting out of hand. Now there are three of them!"

So, this was my Yuletide project. It's, ah, kind of long.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: post-apocalyptic angst, warped five-space physics, offscreen character death, and truly excessive amounts of Miles Vorkosigan.
Summary: To say it hasn't all been happily ever after for Miles Vorkosigan these last few years would be a severe understatement. After an astonishing series of personal cataclysms, he is once more on the run - with no authority, no friends, and no back-up. In a universe not of his own making he must survive by his wits alone.

The stakes are hellishly high, and he's playing against historical inevitability, the laws of physics, his own increasing infirmity, and himself. However, he's playing to win...

[An AU of sorts - post-Diplomatic Immunity, pre-Mirror Dance]

The Yellow Eyed Demon was a liiiiiiittle bit delayed in getting around to his psychic kids.

AU: Sateda never fell.

waterbender!Zuko AU

world: Renegotiations (Valdemar AU - see first on tag for details)
characters: Herald-Mage Vanyel, Royal Spy Tylendel, Companion Yfandes
rating: PG
notes: during the events set out in Magic's Price, when the kyree offer Vanyel refuge for recover

Jake Sully/Neytiri/Tsu'tey
Summary: "We are one in Eywa, all of us-- and only one when we are three," Neytiri finishes, the low melodic words making Jake's heart ache deep in his chest. "Eywa cares only for the balance, even when strange things must happen to preserve it."

"She knows that she was not the reason. Not nearly. Her mother has merely ensured that she is one of the benefits."

Summary: Braska's pilgrimage ends in the Calm Lands, when he defeats Sin with the Final Summoning. It doesn't end like this. (But it might have.)

An AU where Baron didn't intervene, and Haru did become a cat after all: making the best of a bad situation.

Miss Tupping is concerned about her favourite student. Remus/Sirius Raising Harry Ficathon, Challenge #7: Harry encounters problems at school (Muggle or Wizarding) because his guardians are a same-sex couple.

First part of the Identical Series. Lex loses everything, and finds something better. [This series is responsible for sucking me into this fandom. AU from early in the series]

In a timeline where the Vulcans never allowed Earth freedom from their oversight, Jim Kirk doesn't fit in. All he needs to get away is a fast ship and a crew as crazy as he is; luckily, some things are universal constants.

Summary: *from the prompt* Mary never died, but she couldn't run from hunting forever (bonus if everyone in the family survives in the AU 'verse)

The Sorting Hat has sorted thousands of students in the course of its life. If it makes a mistake or two, who's to say it's wrong? Certainly not Fred or George Weasley.
(Author Notes: Written for the [info]omniocular September challenge - The Harry Potter AU Extravaganza prompt 40 - A prank by Fred and George confuses the Sorting Hat in Harry's first year, resulting in horrible house mismatches.)

The story veers off from canon at the birth of Tom Riddle. What if his mother lived, the authors ask. And what if she eventually married Rubeus Hagrid's father?

The remains of Ichabod Crane dreamed sometimes, of a world where the Lady Archer's bullet did not pierce his heart but was caught between the pages of a book of spells.

A chance discovery in the Room of Requirement prompts an inter-House investigation into what turns out to be a very serious problem indeed.

An AU ending for 'What About Bob?' Events at the morgue take a wrong turning.
Warnings: Angst. Major character deaths.

Harry used a Time-turner to change his past. Cedric lived. Other key figures didn't. How can Harry and the Order fight Voldemort now?
GENRES: Suspense, mystery, romance, action-adventure
MAIN PAIRINGS: ADULT, radical AU

'The boy who almost died' has to figure out what it means that he didn't. Harry's tulmultous fifth year at Hogwarts is Cedric's seventh and final. Bound together by a shared trauma survived, both boys fall under Ministry suspicion and fire... [Hermione/Cedric]

Identity is a fragile balance between will and memory. Jack's clone may have lost the war.

Harry Potter was eight years old, and he had a wonderful secret.
[A Harry gets rescued from the Dursleys AU, continues up to mid year three.]

The gov. recruits Blair via blackmail.

Summary: A new side of Claude, a new family for Claire, a new job for Jessica, and a New York for Ando.
Notes: So, I decided, I'm boycotting the hiatus. I figure the only way to actually boycott a lack is to fill that lack with substance, and I'm blocked on my other writing. THUS. This fanfic picks up where episode eighteen left off, and will continue until the hiatus returns and we see how many of my wild and crazy theories come true. I'm asking your indulgence in a couple of things, and I know that -- but if you've read my fic before you know I can make things work when I get the chance. Believe me -- I plan to. *grins*