Summary: "Imagine time like a rubber ball, bouncing. The first impact is the incident, and the bounces are like echoes. I can keep the ball bouncing for longer, that's all."
Notes: First snippet written as a reverse birthday present for my birthday on the 13th, this one for thesilentpoet, who wanted WHR or Sapphire and Steel, and wound up with something like ( Read more... )

Summary: Sapphire and Steel's work isn't all cold intellect and unseen manipulation. Sometimes they must behave almost like humans.
Notes: The other promised birthday gift for thesilentpoet. Apparently I fail at writing plotless porn for these two. Thanks once again go to sylverice2 for beta-work.

( The castle stood for a thousand years in this place. )

Summary: For a moment, Sapphire allowed herself to wonder why children were so often the weak spot.
Notes: Written for Blogathon 2008, with a prompt of "lions and tigers and bears oh my." Sadly, no Oz content beyond the quote in question.

( Or perhaps it was only that she remembered better when it was children. )

Summary: Sometimes the future tries to shape itself.
Notes: NENN for June 13th, at the request of thesilentpoet.

( Time for a cup of tea. )

Summary: You cannot comprehend it, not really.
Notes: Written for NENN, at the request of thesilentpoet.

( Imagine a room. )

Summary: No one knows what the last stage of training is, except those who pass through it.
Notes: Rare fandoms return! No connection to my previous S&S story: this was written for thesilentpoet, in celebration apology for introducing her to the series. Sapphire/Steel, for the wary.

( They must pass for human, after all. )

Summary: The delight of stage magic is that it isn't real.
Notes: Written for yuletide 2006, for cyphomandra. Take Sapphire And Steel, an obscure British TV show from the early 80s starring Joanne Lumley and David McCallum. Stir in a generous sprinkling of The Illusionist, because Victorian magic always spices things up. Test with hatfullofstars, and once approved, serve.

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