Title: to be made flesh again
Author: Elena
Fandom: Avatar - the Last Airbender
Timeframe: pre-series
Characters: Roku, Kyoshi, Kuruk, Yangchen
Summary: To be the Avatar is to be the bridge between this world and the next.  It doesn't mean you don't suffer.

( for how else can one empathize with the people you are meant to protect? )

Title: of a low dishonest decade
Author: Elena
Fandom: Star Wars EU
Summary: Her aunt is dead and her brother changed, and all the while a ghost she doesn't know is telling her things she doesn't want to know.  [Jaina, post-Sacrifice]
Author's Note: semi-inspired by cenestpasunewok .  This idea has been stuck in my brain in various incarnations for the better part of ( Read more... )

Title: Freed From Death Row
Author: Elena
Fandom: Fairy Tail
Summary:  Flashfic prompt “jailer”.  It’s as much a relief for the jailer as the jailed.
Author’s Note:  So, I read the entire manga in three days, and find myself wondering why I’ve never heard of something this good before.  Also, I need a Fairy Tail icon now.

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Some years before Sasuke killed the Hokage…

“Can someone who can’t save even one of his friends become Hokage?  What do you think, Sakura-chan?”

At this point, Hanabi decides to intervene.  There’s an ugly undercurrent to what Naruto just said, and Sakura is beyond pulling her punches.  One step forward, then three precise chakra-enchanced jabs, ( Read more... )

Years later, Sakura would wish she had known Jiraiya better.  She had known him as Naruto’s teacher, as Tsunade-shishou and Orochimaru’s teammate, as the old lech who peeked at women in the bathhouse - all roles that impinged in her in some way when she was a student and he was still alive.  But Jiraiya has been dead for years, and Sakura cannot ( Read more... )

Title: and this is how you grow
Author: Elena
Fandom: Naruto
Summary:  Of all the people Kakashi has ever loved, Rin is the only one he's ever told.  That's probably because she isn't dead.

( even ninja grow up like trees )

Title: Five Things Wedge Antilles Didn't Do
Author: Elena
Fandom: Star Wars EU
Summary: Fairly self-explanatory, I think.  Five alternate universes, five things Wedge Antilles never did.

i.                    Turn Traitor

The café is small and out of the way, but the food is good - not much like Cartann’s, but it’s hot and filling, and she eats ( Read more... )

Title: Family Values
Author: Elena
Fandom: Star Wars - LotF
Summary: Sith and Jedi are vulnerable in so many, many ways.  Mostly, it's in the fact they've forgotten this.  Original post here.

( the first thing to remember is to have a plan )

Title: Pod Person
Author: Elena
Fandom: Star Wars EU - LotF
Summary: In which Jaina goes on a quest for her missing aunt, and finds more a helluvalot more than she planned...
Notes:  Originally posted here.  Written for Thrawn McEwok's Cover Art Challenge.

( have you seen this woman? )

Title: Hunting Frenzy
Author: Elena
Fandom: Star Wars EU - X-wing
Summary: Invisec, a Jedi, and the first invasion of Coruscant.
Author's Note: Written almost immediately after seeing this trailer.

( wander the streets and watch the people )