Story Title: So It Goes
Fandom(s): Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Whumptober 2024 Day 4: Hallucinations
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,788
Summary: “I’m gonna kill him.” The declaration is more growl than speech. “I’m gonna fucking kill him.”

( She’s at her wits’ end. So, she tries the only other thing she can think of. While it’s not something she wants to resort to - surely it’s not mentally healthy - it’s worked before and she’s desperate. She also can’t say she hasn’t missed him, mirage or no. )

Story Title: Sometime Around Midnight
Fandom(s): Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 738
Summary: They’re two of the most dangerous people in the world, but for now, all Daisy feels is safe.

( Daisy smiles to herself. Even without a voice to accompany it, the unique vibration of Robbie Reyes shines through the white noise of all the rest. )

Story Title: Borrowed Splendour
Fandom(s): Ted Lasso
Rating: PG
Word Count: 6,042
Summary: Loving her comes in stages. Too small to notice at first, when it counts, and then all at once, later, when it doesn’t.

( It’s his fault, really, of course it is, that he missed the signs. After all, there’s nothing as soft as love, and softness is weakness, something he’s tried to bury his whole life. )

Story Title: Baseline
Fandom(s): Ted Lasso
Rating: PG
Word Count: 5,113
Summary: Problems are like mushrooms, she’d told Phoebe. The longer you leave them in the dark, the bigger they get. Perhaps she should’ve taken her own advice.
Author’s Notes: Spec fic written before episode 4 aired.

( If Jamie had come to her weeks, months even, after they’d broken up, contrite and honest and committed to change, she might’ve - well. She might’ve. )

Story Title: Tightrope
Fandom(s): Ted Lasso
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,186
Summary: Alarmed, she takes in the blotchy pallor of his skin, the tight, brittle set of his mouth, his body wound taut as a string. It all combines to open up a black hole in the pit of her stomach - she’s seen a similar look on him before. It scared her a year and a half ago ( Read more... )

Story Title: inside the pocket of your ripped jeans
Fandom(s): The Vampire Diaries
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,510
Summary: 2,500 words of me throwing hands with TVD’s post-S5 depiction of Caroline and Tyler’s relationship. Inspired by this fic by @cbsnforeverandalways and this post by @zalrb.
Author’s Notes: This is what happens when you find out that one ( Read more... )

Story Title: Hey Tomorrow
Fandom(s): A Song of Ice and Fire
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,800
Summary: Okay, so, maybe Arthur isn't the worst person ever. Not that Rhaenys is going to tell him that.
Author’s Notes: In the same verse as Same Auld Lang Syne.

( Don’t make this a thing. You’re my get-out-of-jail-free card, that’s it. )

Story Title: Same Auld Lang Syne
Fandom(s): A Song of Ice and Fire
Rating: PG
Word Count: 5,133
Summary: A chance meeting on Christmas Eve between former lovers leads to new hurts and old memories.
Author’s Notes: Written for Day 13 of gameofshipschallenges on Tumblr. Inspired by the Dan Fogelberg song by the same name, though with a more ( Read more... )

Story Title: When the West Wind Moves
Chapter Title: Arthur Dayne
Fandom(s): A Song of Ice and Fire
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,479
Summary: Five people who loved Elia Martell in secret, and one who told her.

( Part of him thinks she’s jesting, that of all the men in the realm it couldn’t possibly be him who holds her heart. )

Title: Stop, Passenger, As You Pass By
Fandom(s): A Song of Ice and Fire
Rating: PG
Word Count: 610
Summary: Hush now, my dear. I have come to take you home.
Author’s Notes: Response to this prompt.

( “Love? I’m not sure he ever knew what love was. Did any of us?” )