little highway girl

Title: Pepigit Interruptus
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition
Relationship(s)/Character(s): Dorian Pavus/Felix Alexuis
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 700
Content Notes: sexually suggestive
Summary: Dorian's studies are disturbed.
Author's Notes: For Black Emporium 2016, for sparkleymask. Oh schoolboys, what would we do without them?
( The door to the study opens on perfectly maintained hinges. Dorian doesn't hear it; only the plush crunch of footsteps on the carpet cause him to set aside his book and look up. )

Title: Where I Belong Tonight
Fandom: Dragon Age Inquisition
Character(s): Cullen Rutherford, Female Cadash
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~900
Content Notes: none
Summary: Cullen can't sleep and he hears something in the night.
Author's Notes: Written as a treat for lumateranlibrarian for Black Emporium Exchange 2016. Thanks to buhnebeest for beta-ing.


Cullen watched the Inquisitor leave the war room, headed for her chambers. She seemed… different lately. ( Maudlin. Distant. )

Title: Such A Depressing Box of Tapes
Fandom: Supernatural
Relationship(s)/Character(s): Sam/Dean
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 600
Warnings: set during Mystery Spot, so have some canonical character death
Summary: Dean dies on a Wednesday and doesn't come back. Relearning to live after that is a struggle for Sam.
Author's Notes: Written to go with this art, 'cause there ain't no party like a badbastion livestream fandom party. (art nsfw!)

Sam wakes up two minutes before the alarm and turns it off before it can blare in his ear. He can't stand hearing the classic rock every morning, but he tunes to the classic rock radio station first thing in every new motel room, right after he locks the door and remembers how to breathe again.

( It's been forty-one days since Dean died for the last time. )

The Tumbler's Fall

By sunspot, aka: unavoidedcrisis.
Collaborative artwork by hollymarchosias.
Beta'd by cherie_morte and sigrundora.

Fandom: Leverage
Relationships & Characters: Sophie/Parker, past Sophie/Nate, Hardison, Sterling, Eliot, Nate, Tara
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 12,400
Warnings/Content Notes: mild implied violence
Author's Notes: Written for au_bigbang '12. I had a great time with my artist, hollymarchosias, so thanks a million :) Huge thanks to the mods for a good round and to Chat for their support and motivation. This is my first attempt at anything remotely steampunk/sweepingly world building.

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Stripped of name and rank, the former Queen Sophie takes up with a band of brigands and miscreant thieves aboard an airship, The Tumbler's Fall. Captained by a strange young girl and crewed by the oddest assortment of people Sophie could imagine, the plan is to ship out for lands unknown and treasures undreamed of. Things aboard The Tumbler's Fall don't always go according to plan, it turns out...

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Title: Sorry, Not Sorry
Fandom: Supernatural
Character(s): (gen) Jo Harvelle, Castiel
Rating: PG
Word Count: 400
Warnings: none
Summary: What can an angel say to a dead girl? [episode tag for 5x10]

When all the lights go out, everything gets very cold. Jo doesn't notice right away, but after what she perceives as a few minutes, the cold starts seeping into her bones.

"Hello."

( Castiel is standing where there had just been empty space, but he doesn't startle her because she had been expecting him. )

Title: A Man In Need (Is A Friend Indeed)
Fandom: Supernatural
Relationship(s)/Character(s): Sam Winchester
Rating: PG
Word Count: 415
Warnings: none
Summary: Sam's spidey-senses start tingling while he's trying to study.
Author's Notes: A remix for clex_monkie89's Sam's Best Friends He Doesn't Know About.

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( John had called them spidey senses when Sam was younger... )

For as long as Alec could remember the first day of school was one he looked forward to for weeks. New shoes, new pencils, new friends to make, and Nana saying how proud she was of him.

( This year was different though. He couldn't feel less excited if he tried. The first day of college was three weeks away and his stomach was a knot of dread. )

Twenty-two months ago, when Parker was just a regular girl, things were a lot more simple. She was still a girl now, of course (though there were tabloids out there that were convinced otherwise), but now she was also the number one selling, chart topping, most talked about pop star of the decade. That complicated things considerably.

( It started with a stranger in a bar. She met a man who said he could make her a star and she'd signed all the paperwork he put in front of her right then. )

Part Two

Things were better after that. Parker was pretty sure it was better, anyway. She was spending time with Eliot and it wasn't weird. It was like old times. Almost constant laughter and hijinks and easy, comfortable companionship.

It helped that Spain was the most beautiful place Parker had ever seen. She was absolutely going to come back when she had more time to spend, but as it was, she had to settle for filling disposable cameras with photo after photo. Nate kept trying to buy her a digital camera, but she liked it impermanence behind a disposable. She wanted to take the colours and feelings of the city and keep them inside her forever, memories remaining long after the place and the camera were gone.

( After the afternoon concert in Barcelona, she tricked Nate into distracting the front desk staff at the hotel while she and Eliot snuck through the fire escape onto the roof to watch the sunset. )

Part Four