Squares: Fire and Ice
Warnings: Head games
Tags: M/f, Tez & Maria, bondage, blindfolds, branding

“Maria? Are you all right?” Tez asked, keeping his voice neutral, not ready to betray actual concern.

( Head games/you and me baby.. )

For ankewehner: “Tez meeting (or thinking about) Swan after Maria's death.”

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You have a great deal of nerve would have been the obvious thing to say. But then, Swan was his daughter. The observation would have been redundant. So Tez waited until she had bent her head over Maria's coffin, the prayers had been spoken, and they had all shuffled out of ( Read more... )

For ankewehner: "Trust issues"

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Maria's fingers worked the buckle of the wrist strap, tightening it firmly. "This shouldn't make things easier," she said.

Tez gave it a tug. There was enough slack in the chain to allow him to struggle, nowhere near enough to escape easily. Good. “You have had many issues of personal control. At the moment, it’s ( Read more... )

For lilfluff: "€œAnything based on any foolish questions you may have been asked about parenthood...â€"

Note: I thought you wanted a drabble, not a novelâ ( Read more... )

For lilfluff: “Poodles, why did it have to be poodles?”

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“Tez, what god did you upset that these things keep happening to us?” Maria screamed, as she reached the highest branch of the tree. Below, the angry natives bayed and shook their spears at them ( Read more... )

For shadur: "One of your characters, victorious, and wishing they weren't ( Read more... )

Catching up again, on account of having to take my cat Rascal to the vet last evening. :(

For drhoz: "Parasitic butterflies."

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"Swan? Swaaaan!" Maria called, treading through the elvenwood. Her youngest daughter, always precocious, had gone off the track just as her father had instructed her not to. Better to find her before Tez was given cause ( Read more... )

For colliemommie: "Exactly what it says on the box ( Read more... )

For colliemommie: "Out of the mouths of babes ( Read more... )

For Naziha Zahed: "Tez telling his kids why Maria hates penguins ( Read more... )