Am I the only one who doesn't like the new LJ cut thing actually being a pair of scissors? I miss the parentheses. They were cleaner.

i will show you fear in a handful of dust, 9/Rose, T (some violence)

“You.” He says it again, rougher, wrenches her wrist violently. She tries to pull away, stammering out a demand for an explanation, but he pulls her ( Read more... )

Title: Of Chips and Charles Dickens
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Pairing: Ten (John Smith)/Rose; Rose/Donna and Jack/Ten friendship
Word Count: 997
Rating: T (to be safe)
Warnings: None!
Disclaimer: I don't own them! I steal them from time to time, like the Doctor stole the TARDIS.
Summary: AU. “She seems like she could be your type, Doc. Blonde. All smiles. Up ( Read more... )

He could find her. He could go back to that market and take her hand and lead her away, away from the bezoolium and the other useless trinkets. He could go back and coax the TARDIS into doing the laundry (no, he thinks, he could demand she do it; no reason he can’t except there are so many reasons but he no longer pays them heed). He could strip ( Read more... )

Title: Your Ex-Lover Is Dead, Part I
Fandom(s): Sherlock
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Word Count: 150
Rating: K
Warnings: Spoilers through "The Reichenbach Fall", although you probably know what Reichenbach means for Holmes anyway...
Disclaimer: I don't own them! I just borrow them.
Summary: He wakes up in a cold bed with his hand curled around nothing...
Notes ( Read more... )

Halfway Out of the Dark, Eleven/Rose, PG-13

“I’m always yours, Rose.”

“Are you?”, 1,027

A/N: I didn't use all the words, but those I did certainly came in handy! Someday I will stop with the Eleven/Rose angsting. Today is not, apparently, that day.

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Title: what stays and what fades away
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Pairing: Amy/Rory
Word Count: 400
Rating: K (allusions to sex; nothing explicit)
Warnings: Spoilers through "The Wedding of River Song".
Disclaimer: I don't own them! I just borrow them. The title is from a Florence + The Machine lyric; I owe so many debts to Ms. Welch and the rest.
Summary: ( Read more... )

This Year, To Save Me From Tears, Eleven/Rose, PG-13 (some talk of adult things)
She made a resolution then and there, for the sake of her other garments and her own incredibly tenuous patience, to never work with Claus’s assistant if she could help it., 5,460

A/N: Written for Challenge 91, AUs, at TTU. And I don't even know, okay. This is apparently ( Read more... )

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: a heart that's not walking away
Fandom: Original.
Pairing: Liam/Amanda.
Word Count: 802
Rating: T (thematic material)
Warnings: References to parental abandonment.
Disclaimer: None -- I actually do own these characters. Huzzah! I do not own the lyrics in the title and epigraph (that's all Mat Kearney), and the line that makes up Liam's album title ( Read more... )