In Odessa, there’s a black box on the table Arthur’s claimed as his own. It wasn’t there yesterday. Arthur stares at it for a moment. No note. It rests on top of Arthur’s reports on the city’s raions. He lets it sit there through the morning and no one says anything about it.

On the plus side, marriage is bound to be easier than proposing.

Title: Never Tear Us Apart Music: "Never Tear Us Apart" by Beck Record Club (featuring St. Vincent) Pairing: Erik/Charles (X-Men: First Class) Length: 3:23 Rating: PG Warnings: Angsty emo manpain Summary: We could live for a thousand years...

There are people who believe that romantic connections are the province of fate and destiny, the result of an alignment of constellations and conditions that bring two people together. Others tend to discuss falling in love as the product of rational decisions that acknowledge attraction and compatibility. Some people, however, seem to think these two seemingly-opposite perspectives are really just two sides of the same coin. Sometimes, after all, destiny just requires that two people make a single choice.

A modern/AU Pride & Prejudice.

Also, and this is maybe where the week starts to become less normal, Mark finds out that his mom thought he and Eduardo were dating. Like, not currently, obviously, because that would make even less sense, but in the past, like, back when they were still friends, before he’d...before Eduardo had sued him for 600 million dollars and then never spoken to him again.

Hilarious graphic fic - great drawing, funny and sweet story.

If it ain't broke, fix it anyway.

Charlie ducks his head into Lincoln's office. He quirks an eyebrow at them. "Hey kiddos, enough with the foreplay. Astrid's got a lock on the shifter."

"I love it when you patronize me, Charlie. Gets me so hot," Lincoln quips, his hand leaving her leg and reaching for the gun resting on top of a pile of paper work, sliding it into the holster attached to his belt.

The grin Charlie shoots Lincoln is the sort that only he can get away with: a little shiteater, a little playful. "I know you supervisor types. You like to be topped."

Lincoln blows him a kiss.

You laugh. You've missed this.

Dean laughs. "Well, she has had to do all the baby work for nine months. It's only fair that she gets a break."

"That's what she said."

"And," Dean practically hollers, because Miss Patty has taken over the karaoke machine and she's even louder than Kirk, "She already did it with you, so you probably owe her a little bit."

"She said that too."

"You should probably get her a bell. She can ring it when she requires ice cream."

Rory's eyes widen. "You do a startlingly good Lorelai," she said. "I forgot that about you."

"Look," Arthur says, staring over his head. "I may have been a little overbearing."

"Just a bit, yeah," Merlin says and then remembers that he's not speaking to Arthur.

When you’re 18, and nothing is as it was meant to be, sometimes it can be hard to let the right people know what you are thinking.

Right now, Tony is working on a 1970 Barracuda 426 convertible he's rebuilding from scrap, hands busy, eyes on his work, but he doesn't need to show his tells for her to read him.

"Mr. Stark, stalking is subject to a penalty of imprisonment up to one year in the state of California," she reminds him politely.

"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."

“What did you do tonight?” Rory asks.

“Hors d’oeuvres with the duke and duchess, dinner at the club. Then we went waltzing. With bears,” he adds matter-of-factly.

“Did the bears get fresh with you again?”

“I showed them your picture and they knew they couldn’t compete with that.”

"Don't fuck with me," Brad says quietly. He's trying to move back but Nate's not letting him. "I have no idea what I'm doing," Nate admits, feeling stupid and sort of shaky. His lips brush against Brad's neck as he speaks. "But I'm not fucking with you, okay?"

“Commander Spock, we have located your son,” the Vulcan lady on the screen says, which would be great, except Jim can tell by the look on Spock’s face that he’s never heard of this kid before in his life. “If it is expedient, the child will be sent to join you on the Enterprise within the week.”

"Have you *seen* that Czech kid you flagged to do Gerontius? I seriously don’t think he’s left the third-floor bathroom since you told him he has five days to learn an eighty-page score.”

In which Arkady manages to be a great nuisance, despite never appearing in the story, and Tharkay is thoroughly unsettled.

Artist: Tracey Ullman
Summary: A magical cupcake
Download: 32.7MB DivX

Sulu is Chekov's roommate at the Academy. Sulu is not happy about being saddled with a kid for a roommate, but eventually they become friends. Chekov falls in love with Sulu, and everything falls apart.

They met at the Academy.

AU where Rodney is a college professor and John owns a junk shop.

It was really all Sir Wynston's fault.

Brad Colbert is bored.

Nate knows this because he can feel Brad staring at him from his desk one aisle and two chairs back. On the other side of the classroom, Ray Person's making obscene hand signals in Nate's general direction, ostensibly to get Brad's attention.

summary: Just breathe. Probably NSFW.
music: certainty (remix'd). piano magic.
size/format/length: 31.3MB, wmv, 2:05
watch/download: 4shared | mediafire

Arthur tilts his head back, eyeing the purple stain spreading across the ceiling, mouth curved in a mocking smile. "Good evening, Lord Merlin. How does your search for domestic help--"

"I will turn you into a frog, I swear to God."

"Years ago," Arthur says because he's an utter, utter bastard, "I, too, suffered the indignity of incompetent help. It's a trial, I know, but rank has its burdens-"

[No Americanisms]

He knows that this moment happened because of him, because his fear of himself is simply too gargantuan to handle. He has no idea what to do next, and so he remains, red in the face and entirely still, until Henry moves towards him. His movement is slow but steady, and Pike sees a river in his place, like the sweetest flow for the parched man.

Considering Arthur's future wife will be chosen less for compatibility than for her political value, Merlin may be the only marriage he'll have that won't end in bloodshed or a great deal of fortifying wine. [Britpicked.]

Shakespeare, Ghostmaker's son and the future captain, didn't make much of an impression on Skinny at first. All he really noticed was the odd name - most of the grunt pirates had names like `Baldy' or - the more creative ones - `Bloodcurdler', though even that generally got shortened to Bloody. Even Ghostmaker's name wasn't that odd, but Shakespeare - it didn't fit somehow.

"You'll have to excuse him," Aziraphale told their assignment - Fraser - apologetically. "He has the manners of a - well."

Aziraphale waved a hand tellingly at Crowley. Crowley had evidently made very little effort for the sake of appearance; his wings were distinctly lopsided and his tail appeared to be held on with safety pins. The sunglasses had fallen by the wayside - not much point to them, when one was being obvious about these things - he had, however, managed to manufacture some tiny, tiny snakeskin shoes.

At least, one assumed those were shoes.

Fourteen years, eight months, and seven days after John and Rodney meet, the clock starts all over again.

summary: The epic love story of Sam&Dean.
music: with you. natalie walker.
size/format/length: 118.55MB, wmv, 3:39

Ponytail snaps, "Blow me."

"Please. I wouldn't suck your cock if you were wearing chocolate pants."

John hides a snicker with another retreat to the kitchen, and picks out the biggest muffin for Cup Guy; he's an asshole, but he deserves a big muffin for coming up with that one on the fly.

Maybe it also has something to do with the easy, casual way he said suck your cock. John's only human.

She starts to wonder how that other Doctor would kiss, and then understands: he wouldn't. This is how he would, if only he could, and she's the luckiest girl in the world.

"You're my brother, and I'd die for you." Epic romance. Wincest. (Spoilers only for season one.)
Song: Lamb - Gorecki
2:35 min, 20.5 MB, wmv

Rodney and failure were not on close, personal terms. They were like two people who lived on the same block, but had never even nodded as they passed one another. He guessed that they were going to jump to a first-name basis pretty soon.

"Yes, well," Lex said rather matter-of-factly. "This is really the closest thing either of us has to a committed relationship, so I thought we should observe the traditions of the day."