9/19: Two new fic: "Life Like Fallin' Down" and "The Raven of Portobello Road."

I write fic very rarely; once or twice a year at most.  This collection is small, varied, and contains a high proportion of femslash.

She Alone
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Character/Pairing: Buffy-centric, with reference to Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Riley, Buffy/Spike, and of course, Buffy/Faith
Category: femslash, het, short
Rating: PG-13 for vague references to masturbation
Description: A short exploration of Buffy's romantic/sexual relationships.  Very pro-Buffy/Faith
Boys weren't the slayer.  In the end, that was all there was to it.

Thaw
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Character/Pairing: Willow/Kennedy, Willow/Tara
Category: femslash, angst, short
Rating: PG-13
Description: This is a fairytale: a witch named Willow, after the destruction of her home, wanders through a jungle with winter at her side.  (Written for the Fractured Fairytale Ficathon on LJ; based on an Acoma Pueblo legend, "The Origin of Summer and Winter.")
She had felt the cycle of the seasons break.

Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall
Fandom: due South
Character/Pairing: implied Fraser/Vecchio, Fraser/Kowalski
Category: subtexty (not quite slash), short
Rating: PG
Description: set after the end of the show; Fraser remembers Ray.  a short, sentimental reflection, which I wrote to help me deal with my Vecchio angst after completing the first two seasons.
In the heart of the city, you could never see the stars.

Showing Throat
Fandom: ElfQuest
Character/Pairing: Cutter/Strongbow
Category: slash, angst
Rating: R
Description: Set not long after the events of "Quest's End," two turns of the seasons before "Siege at Blue Mountain."  There are many kinds of healing, according to Leetah.  What will it take to truly heal the tension between Strongbow and his young chief?  For Yuletide 2005; written for Cygny.
No words from his tribemates had brought back the easy certainty that had once been his center, so simply and fiercely to be defended against the eroding influence of desert, mountain, and questing chieftain . . .

Life Like Fallin' Down
Fandom: Empire Records
Character/Pairing: Deb/Gina
Category: femslash, PWP
Rating: NC-17
Description: Gina never should have agreed to cover AJ's closing shift on a Friday night, but he'd had a date and she didn't, so there hadn't been much point in arguing.  For Yuletide 2006; written as a "stocking stuffer" for Bastet.
She gives the chain an extra tug and murmurs soft and extra-sweet, "I still don't like you . . ."

Up against the wall
Fandom: Kim Possible
Character/Pairing: Kim/Shego
Category: femslash, PWP, short (ficlet)
Rating: NC-17
Description: Smut, and nothing but . . . I was in a bit of a mood, you see.  I thought maybe I'd make this part of a longer story, but there hasn't been time.
"That . . . was a hell of a way to win a fight."

Mazed
Fandom: Labyrinth
Character: the Sarahs
Category: gen, poetry
Rating: PG
Description: just a poem I wrote in the perspective of the girls who brave the Labyrinth, including Sarah.  inspired by reading lots of Olga Broumas.  I'm very fond of this.
we were waiting like a held-in breath
let out by degrees, there’s
nothing clean about growing
waking
up: messy as a second birth

Kaleidoscope Eyes
Fandom: Runaways
Character/Pairing: Karolina
Category: angst
Rating: PG
Description: Snapshots of Karolina's life, leading up to the revelation at the start of the comic.  Written for Lilacsigil, for Comica Obscura 2006.
As far as she can see is a sea of happy pink faces, all smiling to see her family, stars.

Natural
Fandom: Runaways
Character/Pairing: Karolina/Nico
Category: femslash, angst, fluff, PWP
Rating: NC-17
Description: This is pure, fluffy smut.  Written for Tali, for Yuletide 2004.
“Always wanted you.  It was the only thing . . . the only thing that felt right.  The only thing that felt natural.” 

The Raven of Portobello Road
Fandom: The Adventures of Tintin
Category: gen
Rating: PG
Description: When Tintin travels to London to visit a recovered Chang, he unexpectedly encounters an old enemy.  Set between Tintin in Tibet and The Castafiore Emerald.  For Yuletide 2006; written for Keswindhover.  (I think I bit off more than I could chew with this one, honestly.  Tintin does much better in a visual format.)
"Blistering barnacles!" [The captain] jerked up, rubbing his head and grimacing horribly. Snowy, rudely awakened, barked indignantly. "Confounded contraption! Modern technology is far too concerned with moving faster, and not nearly enough with keeping my skull intact."

That Girl's-School Stereotype
Fandom: X-Men (reloaded comicverse)
Character/Pairing: Rachel "Marvel Girl" Grey/Kitty "Shadowcat" Pryde
Category: femslash, humor, fluff . . . crack!fic?
Rating: PG
Description: Fluff!  Or, possibly crack.  Written for the Multifandom Hometown Challenge, this story is about Rachel and Kitty heading off to my hometown of Northampton, MA to investigate an odd mutant signature that Cerebra has picked up.
"What fabulous PR that would be: mutants are dangerous, unnatural, and now they MAKE YOU GAY."