Title: You and I
Fandom(s): The OC
Pairing: Ryan/Marissa
Word Count: 2,246
Rating: K
Warnings: None!
Disclaimer: I don't own them! I just borrow them. I also don't own the lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson in the epigraph; all credit goes to her.
Summary: AU; future fic. Ryan has a plan: to build a home for him and Marissa. But building a home isn't always ( Read more... )

Title: would they see a poor boy?
Fandom(s): The OC
Pairing: Ryan/Marissa
Word Count: 1,508
Rating: T (very brief language)
Warnings: References are made to parental abandonment, divorce, alcoholism, and shoplifting.
Disclaimer: I don't own them! I just borrow them.
Summary: Ryan and Marissa's viewing of Aladdin conjures complicated emotions and ( Read more... )

Title: excerpt of Chapter 13, "Come Undone", from Surviving
Fandom(s): The OC
Pairing: Ryan/Marissa
Word Count: 1,220
Rating: T (sexual content; references to anatomy and such, but only in foreplay--nothing too explicit, IMO)
Warnings: None!
Disclaimer: I don't own them! I just borrow them.
Summary: After much deliberation, Ryan and Marissa decide to take ( Read more... )

Title: i will be your safety
Fandom: The OC
Pairing: Ryan/Marissa
Word Count: 770
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine! "Don't Leave Home" is by Dido and belongs entirely to her.
Summary: “You know something?” Marissa murmurs, and he shakes his head, inviting her to go on. “I like being with you. It’s… different.” Post-"The Perfect ( Read more... )

At first, she finds it attractive.

He kisses her as hard as he can when they make love. He bites at her lips, drawing blood, making her taste it, seemingly loving it himself. Passion. That’s what she thinks it is.

He kisses her hard enough to take her breath away, to leave her gasping for air, as if she’d just surfaced after nearly ( Read more... )

She lays on the floor, perfectly still, or at least not moving perceptibly. She’s shivering the tiniest bit. Lying naked and still on a wooden floor, during a New York City winter? Not as easy as it seems.

In the corner of her eye, she can see the painting, can watch Julian as he mentally plans each brushstroke before setting paintbrush to canvas. ( Read more... )

November 6th, 2005

“They’re gay, Cohen.”

“They are not gay!” Seth is protesting, jerking a thumb at the television screen as Arwen rushes to kiss Aragorn.

“Maybe he’s not, but the short ones totally are.”

“Hobbits, Summer, hobbits, and they aren’t-!”

“Straight men don’t care that much about a piece of jewelry, Cohen!” ( Read more... )

I'm making a claim over at lover100! I have a few challenges on my plate right now, but that's mainly because my brain multitasks naturally and I need more than one thing to write, otherwise I go crazy. I'm claiming Ryan and Marissa from The OC, as I mean to write more for them after I continue working on my WIP for the pairing, and I have at least three ( Read more... )

She told herself to get used to it-smoke stinging her eyes, the smell of it making her fingers twitch with the desire for nicotine. She used to smoke to keep her weight down, but there’s no need for that now. Still, she wanted to quit. She wanted to shake off every remnant of her modeling days and go back to really living-actually being able to eat ( Read more... )

I've got an ongoing AU project for The OC that I've been working at on and off for months, and it's a 'verse I desperately want to get right before I really delve in and write the whole thing. It's a dark topic, one I never would have pictured myself thinking of, but it's something I'd really like to do.

I posted a snippet of one of its fics before ( Read more... )