Note to self: you cannot rely on your ability to be smart and sly enough for Vetinari on command.

Just Enough To Confuse
"You should count your blessings, Commander."
Discworld, Vimes/Vetinari.  200 words.
Worksafe.

Sweat and Steel and Engine Grease
"Too much of a distraction?  We can't have you flying into a building."
FFXII, Balthier/Fran.  500 words.
NC-17/MA/Not Worksafe.

( Balthier was unwilling to admit the truth out loud, which was this... )

Insomnia.  But I might as well post this, while I'm up.

Pack Leader
There are a lot of things in the world that aren't important.
FFVIII, Seifer/Fujin.  500 words.
Questionably worksafe.  Implied sex and violence; nothing explicit.

( Fujin doesn't really notice the blood afterward. )

This was done for HC for one of maho_kiwi's prompts, and the prompt really caught me. ♥

Steel and Gold
They are both, in their own way, strange; it is an ally from a quarter she did not expect.
FFXII, Drace/Gabranth. 4400 words.
Not worksafe for sex. Spoilers through the end of the game.

( Most Archadians were dark, so the first thing that she noticed was the brilliance of his hair under the sun. )

Try Something
Six moments in the initiation of a Turk.
FFVII, Elena/Reno, brief mentions of other Turk pairings. 2200 words.
NC-17/MA/Not Worksafe for sex, mild violence.

( The first time Reno saw her, the only impression he had was of blondeness and great big brown eyes, and of smallness. )

I have been bunnied hard for an exceptionally obscure femslash pairing in a fairly obscure fandom where I can't even name the pairing because it would be spoilery. Argh. Argh! ...I'll probably write it anyway, though.

In other news: forgot to repost the other of my yaoi_challenge stories. Whoops! Here it is. I... really liked working on this one, for so ( Read more... )

Finally, running to the end of the YC reposts. I've always been kind of fond of Cid/Vincent, and this was a great excuse to write something for them.

Past MidnightNo amount of tinkering will ever fix this, but then, maybe it wasn't broken to begin with. At the least, coffee won't make things worse. (This is also the prompt, but a better summary ( Read more... )

Yet Another YC Repost. (Almost done, I swear.) I'm really, really, really glad I got this prompt. ♥

Liege
He is everything to them.
Kingdom Hearts 2, Xigbar/Snipers. 1400 words. Written for maho_kiwi for the yaoi_challenge Valentine Reverse 2007 ( Read more... )

Writing Axel and Roxas terrifies me -- so much so that I almost didn't take this prompt. It's not that I don't like the pairing: I do, quite a bit, and that's part of why it scares me. It's so -- it's hard, there's a balance there that's hard to get, and, well, I get intimidated by the complexity, and I don't want to screw it up. ;) I was ( Read more... )

Ficlet. It was meant to be Ashe/Fran, but it refused to go there, or anywhere except small and gen.

Other things continue by bits and bobs. Trying to put my scattered brain back together....

Surety
Ashe, Fran and becoming.
FFXII, Ashe, Fran, Penelo. Gen. Mild spoilers. 400 words.
Worksafe.

( She nearly stumbles over Fran, who is crouched next to one of the Strahl's bulkheads.... )