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bones

start new when your heart is an empty room - 12k. He leans back, closes his eyes, and you want to wrap the blanket around him, put a pillow over his nose and mouth, suffocate him until he can't breathe. You want to keep him safe.
post "The Pain In The Heart"; Jack might need a break.

until the embers smoke - 12k. Sweets raises an eyebrow, but points his chin down, stops smiling. There's something behind his twenty-three year old face that seems, suddenly, a hundred. "Why is it," he asks, "do you suppose, that you call your best friend by her last name?"
post "The Pain In The Heart"; Angela might need a break.

blood ties

to be young (is to be sad) - 8k. Henry slaps the bar, and with a sharp smile says, "welcome to Toronto."
I kind of wish I hadn't used this title on such a trite story; oh well. set after blood ties, season two; henry and methos. also, the only thing I know about methos at all is that he likes to leave.

criminal minds

instruments of faith - [20k] Instead of tilting her head in the typical pose of someone assessing the situation - the way a profiler exhibits concern for someone as a specimen of the human race - Prentiss puts a hand on JJ's arm and squeezes. She says, "yeah," and adds, "Sometimes it's just nothing."
written for the 2007 yuletide xchange for Grey Bard.

csi - las vegas

neon to the first floors - [9k] "Just take your time," you tell him. There's a small blood smear on the door to your left that he hasn't found yet. As you turn, he does too, and the soft sigh he gives you when he sees it is indicative of his eternal failure.
Gil Grissom (and Greg Sanders). I uh, I watch a lot of csi, but it's all on spike tv, so it's kind of really out of order. so apologies for that!

dead zone

prophet - [12k] You're a little uncomfortable at Bruce's father's wake. The primary reason is that everyone here believes in God. Everywhere you turn, when someone bumps an elbow against your tightly clenched fist you get a flash of someone's prayer. Being a pretty well established atheist at this point it's really not at the top of your list of Saturdays.
set in the season two episode of Bruce's father's wake. Johnny's pov.

empire records

the world's own change - [16k] The next day was Thursday, but it felt like Monday. Only on Mondays did Mark ever manage to set off the store alarm.
Lucas wants a change. Set after the movie, and in my head, before CSI: Miami, where you might have seen Lucas from Empire Records playing a CSI investigator named Tim Speedle.

leave my wings behind me - [12k] They started to notice when he stopped taking shifts about the same time they hired two new employees to cover the extra weekend hours. Staff turnover had always been fairly high at Empire, but lately they couldn't keep anyone around, couldn't make anyone stick. No one was willing to say that Joe had lost some of his focus. No one was willing to say it, anyway.
Lucas finds himself leaving. Sequel to "the world's own change".

everwood

postage - [12k] By now they were at his dad's car, and any minute his dad was gonna come out of the pharmacy with some new inane toothpaste recommendation.  It was bad enough Ephram had to go through that, if he could help it he'd save Laynie.  "I haven't actually seen it," he told her, "it was basically a witty extended masochism joke."  He shifted the bags.
Ephram/Laynie, alternate season one. clearly Laynie/Ephram would have been really hot.

the invisibles

*nvisibles - "Pop, like Chronos the Titan, always eats its darlings."
there are five members in an invisibles cell; five members of nsync. you do the math. (co-written with and hosted by kate bolin, unfinished).

santa claus eats babies - [8k] People walked around in some plastic cosmopolitan smiling fishbowls, snowglobe pretty and carrying stupid parcels of stupid gifts.
this was for the holiday fanfiction project.

keen eddie

catalyst - [8k] So of course, there was red and green Jello shooters, and Eddie got to see Pippin naked, and maybe they passed out for a while with no clothing on. Technically, nothing happened. In the biblical sense.
this was for yuletide 2006 for Bast. Eddie, Fiona and Pippin go to some Christmas parties. wacky threesome-ness ensues.

the matrix

shake - [48k] No one takes the short blond seriously. Not even if she breaks their collarbone first. And that was the first mission I got.
an origin story for Switch and Apoc, from the first Matrix movie, who died way too early.

ocean's 11

legends - [12k] "Guys like us stay sharp or they get sloppy, Saul, we don't change." Rusty didn't even know what he was saying anymore, just spewing words and sucking down fruit cocktail.  This was the guy that saw him throwing up after too much Schnapps into a toilet in Brazil at twenty two.  Rusty was playing the game, but only out of affection, not from any hope of actually winning. Saul would either do it or he wouldn't; Rusty couldn't change that.
Rusty and Danny, written before O12. slash suggested.

the perfect con - [16k] There's something missing here in Danny's plan, something that Rusty hasn't quite seen yet. The whole picture, much like a floorplan, comes together because of a hundred smaller details, and each one has to be reviewed before the thing will work.
written for the yuletide 2004 challenge, for K. a pre-O11 story.

oz

into the fire - OZ/Buffy x-over, series. mid season 4. a lot of these stories could be better. Links to the buffy page, since they're all listed there.

day to day dying - [8k] What a horrible way to die, on your knees, sucking off some random guy like he spurted heroin. It's not even execution style. It's a goddamned suicide.
O'Reily, Beecher/Keller, season 4.

opposite of redemption - [8k] The people you gotta look in the face, they tip your balances. They tally it up, and send it back to you, each and every day. And guess what? There's just too much pain for anyone. That's the motto here.
Keller, season 4. for quite a while I was, let's say, interested, in Chris Keller.

profiler

it takes forty years - [8k] The first Christmas without Tom, Chloe's five.  Angel helps her unwrap all the presents, smiles at the wrapping paper and takes pictures of Chloe with a box and bow on her head. Sam sits on the couch and bites her lip to keep from crying.  She doesn't want Chloe to see.  She bites it so hard she can taste blood in her mouth.
Sam and Bailey, and the holidays. this was a secret santa fic for cahra.

roswell

rush - [20k] It was at a party, and Isabel didn't know what possessed her.  Maria kept her eyes widened, she stared, but she didn't pull away.  After a minute, Isabel did the pulling away.  "Oh," Isabel said.
Maria/Isabel/Michael. Isabel gets lonely. This one took years to finish, despite the fact that I had that image of Maria saying "I love you" over Isabel's head immediately.

studio 60 on the sunset strip

alone through silverlake - [16k] You're considering tattooing 'ridiculousness' onto your forehead, just to warn everyone. In advance. you think it might save some time so you don't have to explain it later. On TV, someone is talking about hip-hop videos instead of actually showing them.
Matt and Harriet break up; really this time.

veronica mars

I wish I was in Tijuana - [16k] Sometimes she imagines the two of them, Logan and Lynn, huddled on the same lawn chair, drinking tequila because it's the afternoon. Some country where it's possible to get lost. Some place to disappear. They're always on the same lawn chair because they want to have permission to be gentle with another human being, they want to be close to someone. They're always drinking because even in her wildest flights of fancy she can't quite make things perfect.
Logan disappears. Veronica/Logan. after season one.

I'm on a wavelength far from home - [24k] Logan holds up a Visa, a plain old Visa, with Lynn Echolls' name on it. Of course. How poetic. "Frankly, I'm surprised it took you this long." He pauses, glances away, shoves the card back into his pocket. "Can't have been trying too hard."
sequel to "I wish I was in Tijuana". Veronica finds him. Veronica/Logan.

twenty one reasons why a bad idea remains a bad idea, even if it feels like a good one at the time - [24k] You look at Logan, and he looks at you; the two of you are the only people in the room that could possibly hate the idea of a Lilly Kane Memorial Fountain. For five seconds it's like you're on the same wavelength. The two of you used to have a lot of fun. Maybe he's thinking about the last homecoming you spent together - after all, it was one of the best limo parties Logan threw for the four of you. For all that, it's only five seconds.
This one was started basically after the end of season one, and was finished like five episodes before the end of season two. Veronica/Logan.

into the stubborn deep - [40k] Trina wipes her eyes. "We specified family only," she tells you. "It's for the best," she says, "Trust me," and suddenly you really don't.
alternately titled "amnesia!Logan". alternate season two. a lot of this came out of improvs, and there are a lot of scenes that never made it in that are still improvs.

wap!

wap! is this, uh, made up fandom. which is basically an alternate popslash fandom. with a made up 5 person group and made up characters. oh, yeah, and three of them are mutants. an alternate-reality popslash fandom if there was a popslash fandom set in the x-men movieverse.

24 hr party people - [9k] Izzy shrugged, grabbing his duffle and throwing it over his shoulder.  His arms bulged with muscles most people didn't see.  "Knock yourself out."
written as emmiz.

at swim, two boys - [17k] Izzy hates swimming.  The chlorine makes him feel ill, the changerooms smell like bleach and slippery tile, and when people aren't yelling instructions over the splashing, they're eying your bathing suit and your legs and your tan and everything else.  Swimming is exposure in an artificial setting.
written as jubal and sachett, with river.

the butterfly effect - [22k] Alex threw a drink cup at Jana's head, who fingered him without turning around.  "A butterfly," he said, "can flap its wings in Norway, or Iceland, or Mozambique or something," and Jana threw a book back at him, "and we get held up by a three car traffic accident."
written as martha.

superstar - Izzy sits, perfectly composed, perfectly natural, not saying a word.  When Alex and Rick are finished, he shrugs at Rosie.  "You see what I have to do to get anyone's attention around here?"
written as misa.

west wing

it's the end of the world as we know it - [8k] Decontamination took about a week. To get a vaccination from the guy's blood took twice as long. The British health minister was optimistic. No, they wouldn't reopen the airports.
Brian Kinney (Queer as Folk) and Josh Lyman at the end of the world. for kel's birthday. at one point Josh is offered an NSA card that allows the bearer to live in the event of a nuclear attack or global catastrophe. In the show, Josh doesn't take it. in the show, anyway.

wonderfalls

plastic reindeer - [12k] All those things had definite hellish qualities about them - looked like hell, felt like hell, had even smelled a bit like brimstone. But now Jaye knew better. Hell was a wax lion and his newly acquired evil genius partner, plastic reindeer, singing "Silent Night", off-key.
Written for Yuletide 2005 and set after the show.