Title: Interlude in F Major
Universe: The Sparkle Lounge; sandbox proprietors xaritomene  and xrysomou 
Author: 42footprints 
Fandom: All-American Rejects and Panic! At The Disco bandom au
Pairings: Brendon/Ryan Nick/Tyson
Rating: PG-13 for a lot of swearing and a bit of nudity.
Warnings: strippers, ok?
How did this happen? : I told xari that the Sparkle Lounge needed more Ryan and ( Read more... )

Title: The Dead Man and the Ghost
Author: 42footprints
Recipient: romanticidiot
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Rating: PG
Warnings: Implied character death.
Summary: Holmes comes home from Reichenbach to find that the world may not have changed, but Watson certainly has, and he learns the meaning of chiasmus.
Word Count: 1700

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Title: (This Best of All) Possible Worlds
Author: 42footprints
Pairings: Dean/Castiel, Sam/Ruby, Sam/Gabriel, Sam/Lucifer, implied Gabriel/Lucifer.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Het and Slash sexual situations.
Spoilers: Up to 5x14.
Word Count: 3103
Notes/Prompt(s): Zachariah kidnaps Dean and tortures him to try and get Dean to say yes to Michael, Castiel has to ( Read more... )

There’s a little redhead, implausibly little, her dirty curls tipping into her smudged face, and she’s walking into the Emergency Room with Ryan’s unconscious body in her arms.  When the nurses take him from her, she twists her bitten nailed fingers into the holes in her fishnet stockings, leaving flecks of multi coloured nail polish on her legs.  ( Read more... )

There are ground rules to this game.  It’s as well to know them from the beginning.  One of these rules is that they don’t talk about how it is that Ryan Ross, once voted most likely to leave his left shoe in the back of a taxi by the internet so it must be true, has a key to Alex’s house.  It’s better not to ask.

It does, however, explain how ( Read more... )

“I hate airports.”

Luke was slumped into a chair that was definitely not designed for slumping in, leaning heavily on Nico’s shoulder.  Nico looked at him.  It was a look he had perfected over the years, a combination of amused, sympathetic, and infinitely put upon.  It was a look that said, very clearly and in a loud voice, it’s a good job I ( Read more... )

So this is the first rule of their relationship: wherever Clarisse is during capture the flag, Silena is somewhere else.  Only when the flag is safely in Clarisse’s hand, slick with sweat, and sometimes blood, does Silena appear from among the trees.  The look on her face is unreadable, to most.  To Clarisse, it rings with pride, with possession, ( Read more... )

Behind the tattoos and piercing, and those deep, dark eyes there was a magic to Nico.  Something pure, that made Luke want to believe in love at first sight; that all those bedtime stories his mother used to tell him when he was younger were completely true, that fairies and pillywigs could have whispered in his ears and told bawdy jokes if he had ( Read more... )

There are some things you get used to when you’re dating one of Poseidon’s kids.  You measure an argument in inches of rainfall, and are secretly thrilled if you make it to the evening news.  You spend rather longer in the shower than you used to, and who can blame you, because you know that nobody has a shower quite like yours.  So you buy an ( Read more... )

Jensen had been waiting for hiatus for what seemed like forever.  Since the day he picked up a call to tell him that Jeff was filming in New Mexico, in fact.  Because that was just about perfect.  Time for some of his mama’s food, some family down time, and a visit to an old friend, before he trekked back to Canada.  He didn’t want Supernatural to ( Read more... )