Title: Kitestrings
Prompt: Challenge #13, "Escape" & Bonus Ingredient #12, "Childhood" [fanfic_bakeoff], for Team Pie
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Wordcount: 105
Characters: Watanuki-POV, Maru and Moro, mentions of Yuuko
Rating: PG
Summary: They were unnatural beings who could never age beyond the laughter and frills of childhood.

( a buoyancy to balance the weight of the years )

Title :: Poles
Prompt :: August 20th, “sleeping underneath your skin” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Himawari; Doumeki/Watanuki/Himawari implied
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 101
Warnings :: Set during volume ten.
Summary :: She wonders what she would find, if she could pry open her skin, if she could look beneath the layers of them creeping like a secret up ( Read more... )

Title :: Solstice
Prompt :: August 19th, “there's a bird that nests inside you” [31_days]
Pairing :: Watanuki/Himawari; abstract mentions of Tanpopo ♥
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 160
Warnings :: Set during volume ten.
Summary :: He can touch her, in his dreams.
Notes :: GEE I BET NO ONE EVER I GUESSED I WOULD WRITE THESE TWO FOR THIS PROMPT WHAT A BIG ( Read more... )

Title :: Entanglements
Prompt :: August 14th, “will you catch if I'm falling?” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Himawari; Doumeki/Watanuki/Himawari implied
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Spoilers for volume ten.
Wordcount :: 150
Summary :: She does not know how she has the breath to scream.

( a moment, a moment, a moment is all it takes )

Title :: Frameworkings
Prompt :: August 12th, “step out the front door like a ghost” [31_days]
Characters :: Watanuki, mentions of Yuuko
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Spoilery for 185.
Wordcount :: 135
Summary :: He folds himself in and opens his eyes, like paper cranes that stare at the sky and can never take flight, for fear of displacing the wishes poised ( Read more... )

Title :: Monomane
Prompt :: August 7th, “seven for a secret never to be told” [31_days]
Characters :: Himawari
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Allusions to spoilers for Himawari's backstory.
Wordcount :: 125
Summary :: She wears it like a second skin.
Notes :: Monomane (imitation or mimesis) - the intent of a Noh actor to accurately depict the motions of his ( Read more... )

Title :: Thresholds
Prompt :: August 6th, “three thousand five hundred miles away” [31_days]
Characters :: Watanuki, abstract mentions of Yuuko and Doumeki and Himawari
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Spoilery-ish for 185.
Wordcount :: 100
Summary :: The shop, he thinks, is home.

( and he remembers waking up to scarlet lips and the smell of blood and the softness of Himawari's smile )

Title :: Firebreaks
Prompt :: August 5th, “lay me down in a field of flame and heather” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Watanuki, mentions of Himawari; Watanuki/Himawari implied
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 135
Summary :: He weaves her wreaths of flowers to rest atop her hair, and he does not know whether or not this is a dream.

( and he thinks of red threads, of connections that span worlds )

Title :: Fortifications
Prompt :: July 29th, “a bit of your skin that I've yet to have kissed” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Doumeki; Doumeki/Watanuki/Himawari
Rating :: PG
Summary :: He sees himself not as a barrier between them but a bridge.

( not the polarities of magnets, pushing further and further away, but rather the simplicity of gravity, pulling them in and keeping them bound )

Title :: Infusion
Prompt :: July 19th, “if logic or theories cannot explain” [31_days]
Pairing :: Watanuki/Himawari
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Set during volume ten.
Summary :: It's not enough, he knows that she would say.

( his words must ring as false as the feel of her own smile )