Title: I got an idea
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses [Second War]; Jonathan, Hazel
Prompt: 53C "cluebat"
Word Count: 1074
Notes: Sometime after crash; this is less descriptive than I'd like it to be. Hazel's into her teens but probably not older than 17 or so.

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( Five minutes ago, he would have bet money that there weren't any cards keyed to him. )

Title: Loki is SO getting a kick out of this
'Verse/characters: Stealing Fire; Yasha, Hazel, Lin
Prompt: 77C "adventure"
Word Count: 1114 1247
Notes: "Y'know, if you had enough personal ambition, you've got the makings for a really epic personal background legend."
This is one angle on the beginning of Stealing Fire.

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( Hazel was stirring a cup of coffee absently with her butter knife, even though the remains of her fourth sugar packet was probably long since dissolved. )

Title: finders keepers
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Hazel, Conall
Prompt: "beating a crushed and dusty hat (fedora?) back into shape, and discovering hey, it fits--"
Word Count: 920
Notes: after the wars; she's probably seventeenish.

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( People had called--mostly behind their backs--Hazel and her sister many, many things over the years Hazel had been aware enough to hear them. )

Title: surprisingly resigned to his probable fate
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Jonathan, An Impending Sense of Doom, Hazel, Sascha
Prompt: 13B "hope"
Word Count: 538
Notes: not very long after the theory of continental drift.

( Jonathan paused, hungry, several rooms short of the kitchen. Which was giggling. )

Title: who knew planets grew on trees?
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Jonathan, Sascha, Hazel
Prompt: youraugustine: "Hazel, the expression that says 'if I listen long enough, maybe this will make sense'"
Word Count: 538
Notes: Sascha has a new toy. Well after the wars.

( 'Alright, imagine this orange is a planet--' )

Title: letters from upriver
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Lin, Hazel, the chaos!twins
Prompt: 74C "greed"
Word Count: 305
Notes: slightly before sweetgrass and smoke, after they've got home safely. This concludes the requests for the Spawn. Lin has a postal code at merditha's.

( Griffin looked at Mischa, who shrugged helplessly. )

Title: gift. sorta.
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Fintain, Duncan, Hazel
Prompt: 37A "excuses"
Word Count: 685
Notes: follows decision made. This and the one previous were not written today (shocking, I'm sure). However, this concludes the wars requests. If you want more, ask.

( The boy--young man, really, wearing a coat a little too big and a little too armored to have been his long--was half-familiar, the way everyone was familiar if one could live long enough, uncles and cousins and fathers echoed in new generations, new voices drowning out the voices of their grandfa--oh, no. )

Title: incense for the living
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Hazel
Prompt: 94D "soft"
Word Count: 402
Notes: doseki requested Hazel, "First war...and um, something to do with candle wax dripping."

( candles for the dead )

Title: one more letter, 'til we say goodbye forever.
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Hazel
Prompt: 02A "letter(s)"
Word Count: 386
Notes: This isn't my best work, M. Sorry. But here.
For reference, she's writing to Joshua, who was part of the ensemble here.

( It took her four tries to get past the first paragraph, left crumpled paper scattered around the chair and the desk before she finally gave up, grabbed the last sheet of paper. )

Title: upon regaining consciousness . . .
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Fintain
Prompt: 44C "kiss"
Word Count: 333
Notes: zero_pixel_coun suggested 'cold stone'; goldjadeocean said 'Fintain' when presented with a list of options. Blame, however, belongs to me and Hazel.

( His youngest daughter had, when presented with a sword, been first disgusted, then resigned, )