When his wife gives him the news, William is firstly ecstatic and secondly scared out of his mind.  His excitement and joy and anxiety and thoughts of oh god how are we going to do this? are all jumbled up inside his heart, ready to burst.  He’s really never felt like that before, so full of nervous energy and elation all at the same time, and the ( Read more... )

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Rosette Merchant did not believe in God.  She was in fact firmly opposed to the idea that there was any sort of benevolent Being residing in Heaven or anywhere else.  Even if a spiritual presence existed, she doubted that it had the time or will to care about mankind in general, much less about her as an individual like her parents had ( Read more... )

 
( His father’s hand came up to rest on his shoulder, and if Kyouya were naïve, he might have thought the gesture was meant to be comforting. )

 
( Arsony )

 
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Title: Descent
Rating: T
Word Count: 2,516
Pairings/Characters: TamaHaru, with cameos from various others.
Summary: Because even though Tamaki has his father's hindsight to guide him, the past seems hell bent on repeating itself.

( Descent )

It had been such a long time since Anne-Sophie had seen them in person, since she’d been able to hug her son and kiss her husband.  She’d been a little worried when she received a call from Yuzuru saying he and René were coming to visit her, because it either meant that they’d been disowned or that his mother was dead.  If it was the former, they ( Read more... )

Sometimes, Ritsuka wondered if he would get into trouble for using his brother's Fighter. He wondered if Seimei's order made it okay, because he couldn't imagine a life without Soubi. And sometimes, especially at times when he was curled up in Soubi's arms, he wondered what would happen if the Loveless Fighter unit would appear before him. They had ( Read more... )

As soon as Aerith saw the boy, she knew.  As soon as she saw that silver hair and those hard green eyes, blazing with pent-up anger, she knew he was Sephiroth’s child.  She almost gasped aloud with the realization, thinking she would never see him again, would never have to see the baby he had forced on her again.  She couldn’t remember that night ( Read more... )

Title: The Joys of Exposing One's Soul
Rating: K+
Warnings: N/A
Word Count: 957
Pairings/Characters: Soubi/Ritsuka
Summary: Soubi was slightly surprised at the request for information, as Ritsuka usually didn't ask, and when he did Soubi usually deflected. But he couldn't see how he was going to get out of it this time

( “Someday, huh?” Ritsuka drawled, rolling his eyes again. “It’s always ‘someday’ with you, isn’t it?” )