Sam Coleman wasn’t quite sure what was happening, only that this pretty boy was berating John McClane like he hadn’t just saved sixteen hostages single-handedly, and John wasn’t punching him in the face.

One possible, early, informal briefing.

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.

Five drabbles for five nail polishes.

"Chicken egg?"

"Check."

"Cushioning Charm?"

Jo tapped the egg with her wand. "Check."

"Industrial epoxy?"

Sara would never do for John.

Eliot Spencer can kill you with a hatband, Peter!

Supernatural! This was written at the end of S4, which I think makes it much older than the others. I always liked the idea though. I hear Castiel really became an old school God of Vengeance, but by then I'd stopped watching. Called it, yo.

Adventures of the bronze dragonrider B'ton and his dragon Dieth

Ranma 1/2, any, what normal people think about all those weirdo martial artists

In the name of Lord God and of our saviour Jesus Christ, by the ordaining of divine providence, I, Patricia, prioress of the priory of Our Lady at Holmbay, judge that it is right that I devote an ear of mercy to the just and reasonable petitions of the servants of God. Wherefore we wish it to be known to all faithful men, present and future, that we grant to Stephen fitzJohn, knight, and also to Daniel, called le Norman, the manor of Chapel-le-Caster and of Howe with all their goods and appurtenances, to be held from this our priory.

And then we must ask ourselves, if Eiichi's karma is this bad with help, what the hell would he be attracting without?

This was all Kouchan's fault.

At the age of twelve, Conan had inherited Kogoro's standing invitation to the Halloween ghost ship-slash-casting call.

207: Kidnapping:
Code Three: Emergency response (lights and sirens):
*sshft*
"Dispatch, this is Unit Twenty-Four, we have a 207-Posse, repeat, we have a 207-Posse."
"Copy that, Twenty-Four. All available units, Code Three, repeat, Code Three, 207-Posse. Twenty-Four, is Posse-One in the 207?"
"Roger, Dispatch. Posse-One, Posse-Two, and Posse-Four are in the 207."
"Roger, Twenty-Four, fire department is on standby."

“Do you know why I am going to kill you?”

The Prince Regent was foxed. He knew he was foxed. He was pretty sure that someone had just threatened him, but here was the Duke of Foxmoor on his right, and Warthington on his left, and there was the young man with the gun in front of him…oh. Hmm.

April 4--Hawaii 5-0, Danny/Kono, trouble

The conclusion had seemed obvious: a mid-life crisis complicated by a predatory young woman.

Advanced Cosmetology, Suki/Sokka, 345 words,
Porcelain, Iroh, 145 words
Fine Feathers, Katara, dressmaking, 180 words
the strength of the sea, Katara (Katara/Aang), 205 words
Tea and Roses, 365 words, Toph and Iroh,
Baking for Beginners, Azula, Zuko, Iroh, 310 words
The Marriage Game, Azula, 150 words

Persona 4. Yosuke POV. Takes place early in the second playthrough, if you beat the game so you get to keep all your stats and money and stuff. Assumes you got a monster that my roommate flat-out refuses to take.

"We may have a problem," Nyota says when they finally break their kiss.

"I'm sorry," Jennifer said for what must have been the eighth or ninth time. "I have terrible timing."

Kairi's the only one there when the message comes from the Colesseium. Sora and Riku are off at Disney Castle again, talking to the King about the rumours of Nobody sightings in half a dozen worlds. She reads it twice before deciding that she doesn't need to tell them about this; it's not as if it's bad news and even if it were - Hades is one of the things that being a Princess of Heart works against so she'll be fine on her own.

She always found visiting Ursula a trial, but professional courtesies had to be maintained. There were so few witches still in the business, and it paid to have colleagues who could offer different perspectives. That didn't mean she had to like her, though.

How do you change when the world around you changes? Peter, Elizabeth, and Neal fall backwards through time.

Darkwing visits the Negaverse again.

Conan: And I do NOT appreciate chasing MY OWN SON around doing the same stupid stunts your father pulled when we were your age!

Sometimes, just like she knows how to nurture a plant into flowering, she knows not to go down this or that street, or to put on a hood to hide her face in shadows, or to walk stooped and giggle crazily so the roaming packs of bored young thugs and Shinra militia will look elsewhere for entertainment.

Sometimes, she doesn't.

This world has probably never shown up in a Quantum Mirror. This is just because the Narrative Gods of Comedy have yet to catch wind of it.

They're about two hours out of the city on back-roads before she leans forward, turns the music down and asks Calvin, "How did you know this was coming?"

"Ahhhh!" Zuko closed his eyes and covered them with his hands for good measure. "What are you doing! Where are your clothes?"

It's Guy's first full night of sleep after the events of "Blackest Night."

Yukina had just finished the diagnostic on a medical tricorder, when the Sickbay doors swished open and Crusher-sensei hauled a half-conscious man through.

For comment_fic prompt for cyberpunk!AU, bleeding blue. Hardison is fascinated by the cut on Eliot's arm.

This is a snippet about that Apple Rumluck, the heir to Ivy House and the northern third of the valley of Elsewhere proper.

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Apple & Blue
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I first met Apple Rumluck when she was three years old. She was the second cousin of my second cousin, Daphne Rumluck, and the two girls refused to be separated. Therefore, when Daphne's family came to visit my grandparents and the rest of the Turnagains, Apple tagged along. And for some reason I've never been able to fathom, she decided that I was fascinating and needed to be followed all day long.

Final Fantasy VII, "anyone/anyone, desecrating Hojo's lab".
Zack/Cloud, 651 words. Fixit fic! :D

The Dreamlands are, simultaneously, both the easiest of the otherworlds to get into and one of the hardest.

When you have a power ring, there's no point in having a cell phone, even if you don't live on a planet where most people don't even know what a cell phone is. Somehow, this doesn't stop Guy from sending Kyle dirty text messages.

"Neal is Kryptonian" fic snippet

“Let me guess,” says the escaped Cirque du Soleil performer, arms crossed in a fairly good imitation of Peter, disapproving pose no. 8., “Someone told you about Gotham but you decided it was an exaggeration.”

Peter carefully kept his eyeroll on the inside of his face. "Mr. Muñoz, you're aware that private detectives licensed out of state are not permi—"

Muñoz shook his head. "They're not exactly private detectives." Muñoz rolled his eyes. "You have to understand, this is not my idea. My cousin, he owns half the collection, and he insisted on hiring these, uh—."

Investigation into the effects of zat'ni'ktel fire on the common Peep, by Samantha Carter

This one features AOS Uhura and ENT Hoshi Sato (in main TOS canon, Sato apparently died at Tarsus, but in my take on AOS, the changes to the universe kept her on Earth, teaching at the Academy, so she lived.) The background pairings are Spock/Uhura and T'Pol/Tucker. And yes, it's extremely short, basically just a scene.

A familiar hand clapped down over Conan's mouth, an arm like an iron band scooping him off his feet to spin into the darkness. Padded metal clicked over his wrist, the watch snapping free and vanishing, then Conan's back thumped up against cold concrete and Kid shoved his other hand up to lock the handcuffs around it.

I whistled through my teeth--one of those habits Keeper'd tried to beat out of me and never managed--and looked at the two portraits, side by side, identical to the last blonde hair.

"The other bright star is called Rigel and it helps to form a constellation called Orion."

Mister Smith briefly closed his eyes and listened as she proceeded to tell him the size, brightness, distance, and composition of the stars in question. Even knowing what he did about the future generation that would rebuild the world, it was hard to believe that such knowledge could come from a six year old child.

What on earth were Snake's masters thinking? "Oh yes, shoot Kaitou Kid on live national television," Saguru muttered, flicking his gaze up past his hand in the direction of Kid's escape, though the glider had vanished into the night. "That'll keep us out of the public eye." He made a disdainful sound in his throat, pretended it didn't sound miserable. "Imbiciles..."

Ogino Chihiro/Haku, tanabata

Riku pushed forward, moving into Kairi slow and deep, making her pant in sharp little gasps that did very interesting things to his brain-- mostly making him want to do it again, so he did. He followed up with a sucking kiss to the side of her throat, and she scraped scrape blunt fingernails over his shoulders, urging him on.

The bed chose that moment to dip suddenly, making them both lurch to the side. From somewhere in that direction came Sora's disappointed voice. "Aw, man, you started without me?"

Zuko/Mai, silk and skin

Kid's dress is soaked through.

He doesn't really notice, at first, kneeling in the mud by the riverbank, empty-handed and watching the paramedics load Conan into the ambulance. Their pulsing lights mingle with those of the police, Conan's little cohort clamoring at the ambulance doors and officers circling like sharks. Even that doesn't dredge up his instinct to run, drowned -- bad word, bad word -- as it is in the twist in his stomach.

Figures. Soon as I go bemoaning my inability to write... bang! Fluff falls out of my head. We all remember Kiss Meme: Calculating, right? Jounouchi and Hakuba keep falling on each other mouth-first? Well, if you don't, here are Pts. 1-6 and Pt. 7.

So did I mention this fic has a bit of CCS on the sidelines? No? It does. (In case you didn't catch it, it's Kaiba's "inhumanly patient secretary".) And sadly, there is no Jounouchi/Hakuba in this part, nor is it what I've been trying to write as Pt. 8 for months. But how could I resist this opening line?
Pt. 8

Ping nods, and at this he's fast and nimble, and soon his stance is prepared, expression collected though his breathing still translates the nerves he feels.
A/N: Written for [info]springkink mulan, shang/ping/(mulan): swords, before the truth comes out

xxxHolic, Ame Warashi/Zashiki Warashi: looking out for her best interests - "That human's no good for you"
Word count: 335

Springkink prompt – July 10 #64 - Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yuugi/Yami Yuugi: Shy exhibitionist - Yuugi finger-fucks himself and Yami watches

Magician bounced down the stairs, repressing the urge to slide down the banister. Today was Saturday, Swordsman and Warrior were coming over, and all was right with the realm.

The pendant that bounced against his chest brought him back to the now-constant presence in the back of his mind. "Chaos?" asked Magician, "Is there anything you want to do today? I know the museum has a new Ancient Egyptian exhibition..."

//No, aibou,// replied his yami, mental voice sounding softly amused. //Flame Swordsman and Cyber Warrior are your friends, and I doubt they'd be interested in some musty museum. Perhaps another time.//

Open secrets.

The four white horses are fresh and eager to run; their hooves make a rhythmic pounding although their gait is gentle and kind. Perhaps it's the hypnotic sound, perhaps the effects of extreme blood loss, but as he rides into the night Inigo Montoya finds his thoughts wandering to odd places.

Games, so the legend said, were dangerous. Games were powerful. And a true king would not turn from a challenge.

the sun never sets

"Two months after their wedding and Sophie and Howl had not settled down into a more restrained version of domestic bliss..."

"How do you lose a bear?" demanded Helena. Opening night is stressful.

Dear Santa, I can explain, really. And none of it was my fault, not really.

"Scientific inquiry" left Tommy shirtless, and relatively docile beneath Merton's wandering fingertips.

Calvin encounters the Doctor.

June/Neal-ish, June POV

Neal entered his room; cheerful smile stretched across his face as he thought about the shocked look that crossed the face of the double-crossing bastard when he realized Neal wasn’t on his side. He twirled the fedora absently on one finger until it was snatched away.

2. What Neal wrote in the birthday cards he sent to Burke.

Fashion Sense
prompt:- Neal and Elizabeth become BFFs. Texts, shopping trips, lunch dates, swapping stories about Peter and generally palling around. While Peter watches and despairs.

Sesshoumaru as one of Vincent's demons.

Zack and Cloud are on the run from ShinRa

twisted fantasy AU of the Little House on the Prairie books

"what happens next" for City of a Thousand Wonders, Time Of Your Life, House of the Living, Moving On, Mastermind,
Synaesthesia, Duende, Eggplant, Room 20, #krisallenpornstar, crown of the summer court, Favorite, & Old Country.

"We'll have to wait until someone comes by," Doumeki says, leaning his bow in one corner of the room where he's just exorcised a particularly spiteful spirit. Spiteful enough to lock the door, anyway.

Draco stared at the Weasel twins in considerable horror, then turned on his boyfriend. "You. Did. WHAT?"

Harry, bloody Gryffindor that he was, didn't wilt properly under Draco's justified indignation. "I quoted Lucius' letter to them."