Title: Night Passage
Author: the_grynne
Fandoms: Heroes/The Vampire Diaries
Characters: Adam Monroe/Angelica, Pearl
Rating: PG
Timeline: Pre-series, "The Ten Brides of Takezo Kensei"
Word count: ~400
Summary: Adam calls in a debt.

The fever has the entire country, the entire world, in its grip; and when you propose joining the fleets of covered wagons, ( Read more... )

Title: Dreamtime
Author: the_grynne
Characters: Angela/Adam
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Seasons 1-2, deleted scenes.
Word count: 150
Summary: She never wanted to be defined by this power.
A/N: Last in a trio of drabbles. Follows on from Methuselah, I and Tipping Point.

Is this what you've been waiting for? Is this really all?

Title: Tipping Point
Author: the_grynne
Characters: Kaito Nakamura, Adam Monroe
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Seasons 1-2, deleted scenes.
Word count: 150
Summary: Kaito realises the truth about Adam.
A/N: Second in a trio of drabbles. Preceded by Methuselah, I and followed by Dreamtime.

The ancients said: Give me a lever and a place to stand on, and I will move ( Read more... )

Title: Methuselah, I
Author: the_grynne
Characters: Adam/Angela
Rating: PG
Word count: 130
Summary: He is not powerless - never that.
A/N: First in a trio of drabbles. Followed by Tipping Point and Dreamtime.

I have leapt, no sympathy for gravity, from waterfalls and zeppelin chambers, twisted my cheek to nurse three dozen languages, palmed golden heads of ( Read more... )

Title: man in a landscape
Author: the_grynne
Fandoms: BSG/Heroes
Characters: Adam, Claire
Rating: PG
Spoilers: BSG midseason 4 finale
Word count: 330
Summary: Earth is not a dead planet.

His voice recovered, but other words were inadequate. Driftwood, signifying nothing. How to describe, communicate, the strange new world? It would have to be renamed: one ( Read more... )

Title: In Fernem Land
Author: the_grynne
Fandoms: Firefly/Heroes
Characters: Adam Monroe, Simon Tam, River Tam
Rating: PG
Word count: 735
Summary: The nameless come and go.

'You forget, Mr. Takezo, that I have met with saboteurs and idealists. They led me to you, after all. You came highly recommended. But you're different ( Read more... )

Title: (In Case of Emergency) Break
Author: the_grynne
Characters: Adam/Elle/Peter
Rating: G
Word count: 110
Spoilers: "Four Months Ago"
Summary: Elle has a new toy; Adam has perfected the art of holding on while letting go.
Author's Note: Preceded by Love (And Other Catastrophes)

Can our friend make you laugh, my dove? You deserve as much. Does he ( Read more... )

Title: Into Dust
Author: the_grynne
Characters: Claire, Adam
Rating: PG
Word count: 350
Summary: Mourning is a young man's sport.

Adam snatches up two ancient bouquets from passing graves, while you spot under a tree a tangle of weeds, grown knee-high from neglect. The tiny white wildflowers you pick join the brown, brittle stalks in his arms.

Title: Golden
Author: the_grynne
Characters: Angela Petrelli, Adam Monroe
Rating: G
Timeline: Pre-series
Summary: She made her choice.

No one can touch you, or say what you must do. Who you must give up.

Title: Nice Work (If You Can Get It)
Author: the_grynne
Fandoms: Heroes/Moonlight
Characters: Adam Monroe, Josef Kostan
Rating: G
Summary: They're neither of them after the American Dream.

Unwilling to be pinned down, I was a wastrel before this life, even if you think the centuries have given me focus.