Andriana had not been wrong about it being a long night, but she had been a bit off from the exact reality of the first night with the Raven.  It had not been a long night - it had been the longest night of her life.

Nothing she had done had been right.

“I might as well bathe in the river, this water is so cold.”

Nothing she had done had been good ( Read more... )

 
( Chapter Four: Learning to Play the Game )

My writer's block was getting me down, and making a video seemed the only answer to alleviate the frustration in the meantime.

Title: Where She Stood
Fandom: The Devil Wears Prada
Pairing: Miranda/Andy
Summary: Sometimes the strongest thing we can do is walk away from the one we love.

Where She Stood

Chapter Three: The End of the Beginning, the Beginning of the End

The instant she was aware of the sounds of the night birds, Andriana realized she had fainted. She rolled onto her side, groaned, and reached to touch the sore spots, first on her head, which was more immediately pressing, then her shoulder, which ached more mildly.

For a ( Read more... )

Chapter Two: And it Starts to Rain

The next few days passed steadily and without incident for Andriana.  Her mother did a fair job of keeping her busy; between work at the tavern and inn and the small things her mother seemed to find for her every spare moment, Andriana barely had a second to spare for herself, let alone enough time to worry over ( Read more... )

It was a morning like any other.  The sun, warm and gentle, diffused through the soft white clouds that drifted down from the mountain tops, falling like bright snowflakes of light, waking the little village as a mild mother gently wakes her young child.

Down from the mountains came a cool, tumbling breeze that ran giddily along the wide dirt ( Read more... )

A fuzzy, warm feeling on the edges of her consciousness hastened Andy into a waking awareness of being watched.

“Good Morning.”

Andy took a deep breath, arching a little to ease the ache in her body from lying still in what had been a perfect night’s sleep.  Sunlight poured softly like humidity over the bed and room; it all looked so different in ( Read more... )

Andy remembered the first time she’d walked Miranda’s stairs.  And she was just as terrified in the present moment as she had been then.

She tried to concentrate only on walking up the stairs - one foot, then another - and ignore the dizziness, the butterflies, the ringing in her ears.

The words “love” and “you” still echoed, resonating through ( Read more... )

Title: There's No Such Thing (As a Beautiful Goodbye) {Pt. 4/?}
Fandom: DWP
Pairing: Miranda Priestly/Andrea Sachs
Rating: PG-13/Hedging toward R
Summary: Andy has a strange feeling about what's going on, and Miranda is acting oddly - the journalist in her drives her to try to get to the bottom of things, but she isn't prepared for or expecting what ( Read more... )

Title: There's No Such Thing (As a Beautiful Goodbye) {Pt. 3/?}
Fandom: DWP
Pairing: Miranda Priestly/Andrea Sachs
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The article is finished and Andy is on top of the world, but that world is very quickly pulled out from under her high-heel shoes.
Author's Note: I'm veritably notorious for stalling when writing a series.  That's ( Read more... )