01 | Fic: Skins ; Emily/Naomi, canon, anything angsty. 02 | Fic: Skins ; Emily/Naomi, AU, Naomi and Emily meet at university. 03 | Fic: Skins ; Emily/Naomi, canon, their relationship from Katie's POV. 04 | Fic: Skins ; Katie/Emily, canon, anything set before S3. 05 | Fic: Skins ; Naomi/Effy, canon, set during episode 307, what happened to Naomi and Effy in and after the club. 06 | Fic: RPFS ; Kathryn Prescott/Lily Loveless, any type of story set post-Skins. 07 | Fic: RPFS ; Kathryn Prescott/Lily Loveless, anything non-angsty. 08 | Fic: Dollhouse ; Whiskey/November, canon, the girls are sent out on an engagement together. 09 | Fic: Dollhouse ; Claire/Echo, canon, Claire blames Echo for what happened to her. 10 | Vid: Skins ; Emily/Naomi/Effy, AU, for my story "Writing Books Through Letters"
#9; title-free (because titles suck)parcaeSeptember 21 2009, 19:29:38 UTC
The clients are vague, but you like it that way. You and Maggie get the details of the job -- three days out, some big party, some files need stealing, just up your alley -- and that's all you need. Anything more than that is a liability, and just because you're in this line of work doesn't mean you're foolhardy. You've seen what happens to people like that; it's not pretty.
Maggie does your hair, the night of, some incredibly intricate thing with bobby pins that you don't understand and can barely believe will stay up the entire night. Well it won't if you keep messing with it, she says, making a face, and slaps your hands away.
Final touch, she says, and stands behind you, fastens a delicate silver chain with a sparrow on it around your neck. She'd told you it was an impulse buy, more or less, at the department store an hour and a half east of here; you'd come out of the dressing room in your regular clothes, and she'd been over at the jewelry counter, holding your gown carefully and staring at this necklace. When you went
( ... )
Two and a half hours later you get the signal, make your graceful departure, and head to the car. You look in the rearview mirror when you're buckled in, see Maggie give a thumbs-up from her position, curled up in the passenger seat-well, and drive away.
It's not until you're in the parking lot of the hotel and Maggie can't quite get herself out that you realize something's wrong; when you help her out of the car you notice she can barely put any weight on her right foot, and roll your eyes. Jesus, Maggie, you say, and half-carry her back inside.
It's just a sprain, she tells you, but she lets you wrap it up carefully with tape anyway, prop it up on the extra pillows. After you're out of the gown and she's out of what you affectionately refer to as her cat-burglar outfit, files on a jump drive hidden in your toiletry case, she even takes one of your dwindling supply of narcotics. One of you is going to have to get some more, soon
( ... )
#4 - the ashes just look pretty on your eyescyandragonflySeptember 21 2009, 22:40:29 UTC
"What's wrong with you, then?" Katie looks at you through the mirror while she finishes painting her lips a shining red that matches both of your freshly dyed hair. Your arms tighten involuntarily where they're crossed in front of your chest and you feel your frown deepen
( ... )
Re: #4 - the ashes just look pretty on your eyesimmortalitySeptember 23 2009, 17:50:42 UTC
I meant to comment on this right after I read it but I ended up accidentally closing the tab and then forgot I hadn't replied!
Anyway, I love this. I love the implication that this isn't the first time they've done this. And I love how Katie's really completely okay with this, which is how I will always see her. Thank you so much! ♥
Re: #4 - the ashes just look pretty on your eyescyandragonflySeptember 23 2009, 23:17:52 UTC
You have no idea how often that happens to me. Don't worry about it.
And you're welcome! I wasn't too happy with the end (plan B was supposed to be jealousy/Naomi but I couldn't figure out how to say it without slapping a reader in the face with it.
Anyway, thanks for entertaining us with your fics forever.
Hey there, I don't know whether my last reply went through *shakes fist at live journal* Anyway, you've contributed so much to fandom, I'd be thrilled to give back. I'm snagging 05 and will have it done by the weekend
02 | Fic: Skins ; Emily/Naomi, AU, Naomi and Emily meet at university.
03 | Fic: Skins ; Emily/Naomi, canon, their relationship from Katie's POV.
04 | Fic: Skins ; Katie/Emily, canon, anything set before S3.
05 | Fic: Skins ; Naomi/Effy, canon, set during episode 307, what happened to Naomi and Effy in and after the club.
06 | Fic: RPFS ; Kathryn Prescott/Lily Loveless, any type of story set post-Skins.
07 | Fic: RPFS ; Kathryn Prescott/Lily Loveless, anything non-angsty.
08 | Fic: Dollhouse ; Whiskey/November, canon, the girls are sent out on an engagement together.
09 | Fic: Dollhouse ; Claire/Echo, canon, Claire blames Echo for what happened to her.
10 | Vid: Skins ; Emily/Naomi/Effy, AU, for my story "Writing Books Through Letters"
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Maggie does your hair, the night of, some incredibly intricate thing with bobby pins that you don't understand and can barely believe will stay up the entire night. Well it won't if you keep messing with it, she says, making a face, and slaps your hands away.
Final touch, she says, and stands behind you, fastens a delicate silver chain with a sparrow on it around your neck. She'd told you it was an impulse buy, more or less, at the department store an hour and a half east of here; you'd come out of the dressing room in your regular clothes, and she'd been over at the jewelry counter, holding your gown carefully and staring at this necklace. When you went ( ... )
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It's not until you're in the parking lot of the hotel and Maggie can't quite get herself out that you realize something's wrong; when you help her out of the car you notice she can barely put any weight on her right foot, and roll your eyes. Jesus, Maggie, you say, and half-carry her back inside.
It's just a sprain, she tells you, but she lets you wrap it up carefully with tape anyway, prop it up on the extra pillows. After you're out of the gown and she's out of what you affectionately refer to as her cat-burglar outfit, files on a jump drive hidden in your toiletry case, she even takes one of your dwindling supply of narcotics. One of you is going to have to get some more, soon ( ... )
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Thank you! It was lovely and perfect.
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Anyway, I love this. I love the implication that this isn't the first time they've done this. And I love how Katie's really completely okay with this, which is how I will always see her. Thank you so much! ♥
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And you're welcome! I wasn't too happy with the end (plan B was supposed to be jealousy/Naomi but I couldn't figure out how to say it without slapping a reader in the face with it.
Anyway, thanks for entertaining us with your fics forever.
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