Title: (you were) my picket fence
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Pairing: Reid/Maeve
Words: ~3.1k
Warnings: Spoilers for Season 8, especially Alchemy
Notes: Guh, I love this pairing so much. Not necessarily the way the show handled them, but the essence of what they could have potentially been.

Summary: "Sleep," Maeve whispers in his ear. "We're going to ( Read more... )

Title: draw an invisible picture for me
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Characters: Aaron Hotchner & Spencer Reid, past Reid/Maeve, past Hotch/Haley, mentions of Hotch/Beth
Words: ~3.8k
Warnings: for season 8, everything up until Alchemy. Mostly friendship and/or pre-slash, depending on how hard you're squinting and whether you have your slash goggles on.
Notes: ( Read more... )

Title: love written by the broken hearted
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Characters: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Words: ~3.9k
Notes: ahem. so this is mostly just weird and rambly and full of run-on sentences. It was an idea that just wouldn't let go until I decided to sit down and just *type*. I have a lot of scenes around this idea running around in my head ( Read more... )

Title: your heaven's trying everything (to break me down)
Fandom: Elementary
Characters: Joan Watson, Joan & Sherlock
Words: ~1.4k
Warnings: General spoilers for the first few episodes, but nothing in particular.
Notes: I started writing this after the first episode. Yeah, no, seriously. I kept changing things about it until I realized that I'm ( Read more... )

Title: and you're trying to smile
Fandom: House MD
Words: ~3.2k
Warnings: for major character death. General spoilers for season 8. AU after the last scene of Body and Soul; Wilson is still sick but it's dealt with in a different way. This was started for the 'Once Upon a Time' Challenge over at house_wilson but this took a life of its own really fast and ( Read more... )

Title: to die by your side (well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine)
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Words: ~3k
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sebastian Moran, Mycroft Holmes.
Notes: General spoilers for the show, and specific spoilers for The Reichenbach Fall. Title is taken from there is a light that never goes out by The Smiths.

Summary: "We will ( Read more... )

Title: let these chains be ashes
Fandom: the hunger games, peeta/gale, peeta & gale & implied!katniss
Words: ~2.6K
Notes: written for the comment ficathon at breadetcircuses, for electrumqueen's prompt: peeta/gale, sleeping as we do on opposite sides of a venn diagram.

Summary: It's been a long time since school but they're all children; wide-eyed, hands by their sides, ( Read more... )

Title: only fools rush in.
Fandom: House M.D.
Pairing: Gregory House/James Wilson
Words: ~3.8k
Notes: . This started out as light-hearted, but turned fluffy on me really fast. So yeah, major fluff warning, I guess? It feels absolutely *great* to be writing housefic again.

Summary: so take my hand, and take my whole life too. Or, the one in which ( Read more... )

And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.

-     - Ali Smith, girl meets boy: the myth of iphis.

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He’s nine and they’ve had a ( Read more... )