She thinks the difference is that SHIELD takes adults trained elsewhere. Red Room raised its own agents, and never quite moved past thinking of them as children. SHIELD takes adults who are soldiers and assassins and contractors and civilians; people who have come into their own and are competent enough to merit attention. Things go wrong more often with SHIELD.

But its agents are far more loyal.

--Natasha, a history

Wherein Natasha is turned into a kitten.

Darcy has been assigned to teach Captain Stephanie Rogers, or Steph, as she's told Darcy to call her, about the modern world and how to fit into it. This results in shenanigans, sassing Coulson, snarking with Natasha, Tony leering, movie dates and eventual makeouts.

At the cultured and refined Imperial Court of Heian Japan, Sei Shonagon considers Murasaki Shikibu her most bitter rival. But when an assassin strikes at her beloved Empress, Shonagon must work with her nemesis to bring the culprit to justice.

Dead girl, missing brother, father with bruises on his knuckles. DC Bailey, DC Scott and DCI Murray investigate.

Darcy comforts Natasha when she comes back from an undercover mission

Maybe she was shy. She obviously wasn't shy online; she was vivacious and flirty and fun, but Bailey had learned from her other interviews that someone's online life wasn't always reflected in how they were in the flesh-and-blood world. Maybe she didn't think she was pretty enough.

There's a case at a secondary school/University, some series of threats or string of bizarre murders that has the entire campus shaken. In the course of the investigation, Sherlock and John meet two students. One is well liked if not popular, athletic, intelligent without showing off, involved only because they were close to a victim or witnessed something important. The other is a loner with no regard for social norms, an insufferable genius, always in the chem lab, and involved because everyone, including teachers/professors, think they're behind everything.

Sherlock and John are responsible for these two meeting. And, because they both want to help with the investigation, they get to watch them become friends and fall a little in love. And that makes them feel things about themselves that they've been working very hard to not feel, thank you.

omfg it's novella-length Alien 4 femslash! WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

Isabela wants to get Merrill out of the house, but maybe what she's really looking for is inside.

You know the one about the lizard with the eight-foot tongue? No?

She chose the FBI knowing it still made her a showpiece. Her parents could still say, “Our Diana, she’s a Special Agent, you know?”

But she was a showpiece with a gun, a black belt and steel cuffs. When people started to small talk with her, she was allowed to walk away. She lived life on her own terms with the Agency behind her. She could have done it other ways, but this way had been easy—or, well, as easy as anything was going to be.

Shoshana Holmes, says the almost blank page in front of Joss Watson, cursor blinking at her mockingly.

It's almost blank because she doesn't know how to continue. She's not sure that she has the words to describe Shoshana.

Irina would like to be friends, as their mothers were; Emmy teaches her self-defense, and a bit more besides.

"So, Naoto-kun," she says, "have you already made plans to share your Christmas cake with someone?"

Jenny understands that people see what they expect to see.

They're so different that Tonks doesn't understand why it works, but somehow it does work.
Luna/Tonks

Paris outs herself and Rory during a televised argument with Michele Bachmann. Peskiest of all is the fact that Paris and Rory aren't actually dating. A documentary crew wants to make Paris And Rory: Love In Stars Hollow anyway. Meanwhile, Rory goes slowly and quietly nuts. (And doesn't like Paris like that -- why would you even suggest such a thing?? Not that ... anyone did.)

For the Porn Battle XII prompt: 'f!John Watson/f!Sherlock Holmes, 'experiment'

In which always-a-girl Johanna Watson really can't resist any suggestions from always-a-girl Sherlock Holmes, even though she's always thought of herself as straight and Sherlock's, well, a mystery. Unsubtle, unrepentant smut *g*

And she's holding onto my heart like a hand grenade, Lost Girl, Bo/Kenzi, protect

For Porn Battle XIII prompt: Catherine Bennett/Georgiana Darcy, 'hidden'

"Are you trying to tell me that you overslept because you were up too late masturbating?" Kurt asks. Her voice is high, caught between indignant and turned on.

Prompt, from [info]queer_fest: Beckett, Beckett quietly having a girlfriend the same way she quietly has boyfriends. Negotiating explaining her bisexuality to the others when the relationship comes to light.
Summary: Oh Castle, the things you don’t know about me could fill a book. ~“Vampire Weekend”

Kenzi is watching her unblinkingly, breathing very carefully, and the look in her eyes is... new.

And her sexual energy is definitely reading "INTERESTED".

Bo raises her eyebrows in silent query, as much amused as astonished. Kenzi smirks, a bit sheepishly, but holds Bo's gaze steadily; and when she tilts her head slightly it's an obvious dare.

It starts because of Sherlock (most things seem to). It's up to them to make it come to more than that. [Post 1.03, spoilers for that.]
Molly Hooper/Sally Donovan

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 is all the colors of fire, a spectrum ablaze.

For prompt "Esper Terra/any female Esper, Communion."

rating/warnings/pairing: 14A, getting queer all over a very het text, Beldaran/Andar/Nidera
notes: Garion suspects his daughter of making this arrangement JUST to make him uncomfortable.

Everyone said she was committed after her father was arrested, but Azula's back at school like nothing ever happened.

Digital Devil Saga - Argilla/Jinana - hurried sex, stimulation through clothing. by Anonymous

"It began, like so many Hogwarts traditions before it, as a joke."

Lauren has a bad run in with a spriggan in the Shoe Museum, Bo sorts her out. Kenzi observes, gracious and gorgeous, as always.

In which Chelsea Parker and the rest of the St Trinian's girls survive zombie attacks, hot air balloons, and missing magazine subscriptions. It's all a day in the life at St. Trinian's.

It's just another day in the lab at Gunnerkrigg Court

Jing'er was only a girl when she came to the palace.

A gambling den, a contested will, a mysterious encrypted letter, a hideous death-trap, and Nora (as usual) using way too many adjectives. It's Madelyn Mack, Detective, and Nora Noraker, plucky girl reporter. They fight crime!

Madelyn Mack had fully intended to leave her dear friend Nora Preston neé Noraker ensconced in the arms of matrimony. When threatening letters begin arriving at The Bugle, however, Madelyn, Nora, and Thorny find themselves drawn into yet another case.

Janet and Julia are studying abroad (with Klartch along for part of the ride), but something is rotten in the state of Caprona.

Twenty-five years after the Institute of Psychic Phenomena went public, Rolling Stone interviews Kate Welker, one of the Curtis Pharmaceuticals quartet and a long-time activist for both animal rights and the acceptance of the psychically gifted.

Nabooru is out of sorts as a Sage, and finds and unsympathetic ear in Impa. It'll take some frankness, and, perhaps a princess's intervention, to find common ground.

The package was sitting on Diana's desk when she walked through the glass doors of the White Collar unit. For this prompt at [info]wc_women_fest: Diana, Christmas; the tag reads, From Mozzie.

Dating, from what Adrianne understands, was a beta invention.
Adrianne Palicki/Genevieve Cortese

Laughing, Maria fell into Sarah Jane's arm. "It's good to see you! What are you doing here? Are you checking up on me?"

SOME OF OUR MORE IMAGINATIVE READERS INFORM US that the events of the past few days -- the grisly deaths, the tragic fire, the flying carriage that caused the egregious delays on the Metropolitan and District Railway -- are attributable to the fevered pursuit of a Chinese vampire, known in its native land as a jiang shi, by the adventuress detective Madame Vastra. These readers, whose persistent letters are beginning to become tiresome, claim that this is but one of many times Madame Vastra's unravelling of a mystery has saved all of an unknowing London.

Characters/Pairings: Hinata, Ino, Sakura, Sakura/Hinata, Tenten
Summary: The young women of Sakura's age cohort go out for a night of bonding, and this winds up with Sakura taking Hinata home with her.

Steve/Danny, Jenna/Kono, Chin/Malia.
Cupid goes undercover in Hawaii, under the name 'Jenna Kaye' ♥

After "I'm Your Boogie Man", Maura and Jane must deal with Hoyt's mind-games.

Rated: PG-13
Pairings: Steve/Tony, Hank/Jan, Carol/Wanda
Summary: Aliens have invaded earth, and the Avengers are scattered. While Steve leads the resistance, Tony once again finds himself playing captive scientist. In the midst of a violent alien regime, separated by seemingly insurmountable boundaries, Steve and Tony have nothing to keep themselves going but each other.

After returning from the Omega 4 relay, Shepard pays a visit to Liara, alone. This results in biotic-assisted lesbian sex. Liara tops, sort of.

For Science (and also for Toni's Ulterior Motives), the Avengers head up into space. Due to a combination of events, they get mixed up in the left over mess from an old galaxy-cruising sweet-talker, get slimed, and pick up an honorary Avenger along the way. Science never catches a break, and neither do Toni and Steph. Luckily, Wolverine used to be a Reverend. It's probably a Thursday.

Steph makes the mistake of asking, “What do you do for fun?” one afternoon when she and Tony are alone in the mansion, when they’re both sweaty and pleasantly sore from a couple hours spent sparring.

If birds evolved from dinosaurs, and humans from apes, homo-reptilia did not strain credulity over much. The job posting did mention reptiles and foreign travel.
[Madam Vastra & Jenny backstory]

Paris would like to make a proposal.

Post-game. Yukiko tells her parents about her relationship with Chie, and after the resulting fight, takes refuge in the Dojima residence.

Daniel is kidnapped and Sam and Vala masquerade as a married couple to find him.

female Commander Shepard/Aria T'Loak
Summary: “Omega has one rule,” Aria says. “Do I need to remind you what it is?”

"It's not the pain," she says. "It's the healing."

1500 words, Sailor Moon: Michiru/Haruka, extremely mild sexual something or other, takes place through ep. 110-111. A relationship in progress.

"Jesus," Danny said, slamming the shot glass back down on the bar. His face creased into a moue of disgust as he scraped at his tongue with his teeth. "Kono, what the hell did I just put in my mouth and was it even legal?"

Diana surprises Christie by being home one morning, waiting for her.

When Chelsea's mentor brings a newly discovered manuscript to the University, Chelsea is ecstatic. That is, until the manuscript is stolen and she is blamed.

Ginny/Luna

Marcone settled a knee between mine, insinuating herself like a snake. Into my space, into my life, into my head, and now into my freaking pants. Sometimes I swear it might have been easier to agree to be her pet wizardess all those years ago. Maybe she would have been satisfied with a little piece of me, instead of demanding everything.

. . . Nah.

Five times someone figured out Sam and Vala were a couple

Abby likes showing off her toys.

"Just enjoying some peace and quiet," Fang says. "Didn't feel like dancing with all of Oerba tonight."

Vanille leans down, and in the tree's shadow her teasing smile is barely visible. "You could at least dance with me."

Length: 4,548 words
Summary: Parker has another talent other than just being the best thief in the world.
Spoiler Warning: "The Fairy Godparents Job"

Just a bit of fun as our two lovely thieves come to an understanding.

Parker likes to take risks.

Parker woke up one day with wings; Sophie might be able to help her figure things out.

A conversation in the last phone booth in North America.