[Animorphs] Taste (Cassie gen)

Title: Taste
Fandom: Animorphs
Length: 332 words
Prompt: Icon keywords: war tongue for senri.
Pairing: Cassie gen
Other: PG-13 for violent imagery.

Excerpt: So when she goes to war, she retreats into the wolf, or whatever she has morphed, fighting down the lust for the hunt that the morph offers, trying not to taste.

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[Arrested Development] Catching the Blues (Michael gen)

Title: Catching the Blues
Fandom: Arrested Development
Length: 321 words
Prompt: Icon prompt for tyy_tad.
Pairing: Michael gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Anything that someone could possibly come up to freak him out-- it's been done by people who share most of his genes and live in his house.

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[Yu-Gi-Oh!] Stepping Forward (Ryou gen)

Title: Stepping Forward
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Length: 280 words
Prompt: Icon prompt for sky_pirate_tat.
Pairing: slight Ryou/Bakura; mostly Ryou gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Maybe it will be pointless in the end, but Ryou always hopes that there's a little bit of himself in Bakura.

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[Magic Knight Rayearth] Sugar, Salt, Chalk, and Pine (Clef/Presea)

Title: Sugar, Salt, Chalk, and Pine
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 4358 words
Prompt: n/a
Pairing: Clef/Presea primarily; mentions of Kurogane/Fai and Clow/Yuuko
Other: School AU prompted initially by a curse in polychromatic; based in the Holitsuba universe and featuring other CLAMP characters.

Excerpt: She was in the teacher's lounge very early one morning, carefully adding salt to the sugar bowl, to taste. She was grinning to herself and mixing in a small spoonful when she heard a voice behind her.

"I suppose it's a good thing that I take mine black."

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[xxxHOLiC] There Was the Word (Clow/Yuuko)

Title: There Was the Word
Fandom: xxxHOLiC(/Tsubasa/Cardcaptor Sakura)
Length: 634 words
Prompt: Icon prompt for outou.
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko; mostly Clow gen
Other: General TRC spoilers.

Excerpt: Clow did not believe in the transience of life-- not really, deep down.

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[xxxHOLiC] Steamed (Clow/Yuuko)

Title: Steamed
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 501 words
Prompt: Icon prompt for lady_kikyou.
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko established
Other: PG-13 for sexual themes and nudity.

Excerpt: The world was soft and blurry, as he hadn't yet located his glasses, and he was humming a little under his breath when Yuuko struck.

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[Final Fantasy VII] On Hold (Tifa gen)

Title: On Hold
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Length: 176
Prompt: Icon prompt for asylumiss.
Pairing: Tifa gen
Other: Pre-canon.

Excerpt: When Tifa joined AVALANCHE, she'd never realized there would be all this... waiting.

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[Dalemark Quartet] Making Waves (Hildy gen)

Title: Making Waves
Fandom: Dalemark Quartet (Drowned Ammet)
Length: 184 words
Prompt: Icon prompt for spellcoats
Pairing: Hildy gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Hildy loves sailing. It is a vague idea of hers that if she had been born a boy, and further, not kin to the Earl, that she would have been a sailor.

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[Princess and the Frog/Hunchback of Notre Dame] The Gypsy and the Frog (Naveen/Esmeralda)

Title: The Gypsy and the Frog
Fandom: Princess and the Frog/Hunchback of Notre Dame
Length: 315 words
Prompt: Icon prompt for bringthefate
Pairing: Naveen/Esmeralda
Other: AU in which Naveen goes to Paris-- pre-movie for both.

Excerpt: She's a gypsy, the churchman spits at him, when he inquires, and he knows just enough of diplomacy not to blurt out, "So, you have your eye on her too, yes?"

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[Cardcaptor Sakura] The Words I Didn't Write (Terada/Rika)

Title: The Words I Didn't Write
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 396 words
Prompt: Icon prompt for dreximgirl.
Pairing: Terada/Rika
Other: Flowery language. Title from a poem by Emily Dickinson.

Excerpt: They steal time together-- all their time is stolen from people who would not understand that what they have now is pure and sweet, love distilled to its essence, uncorrupted and unchanged by the physical reality.

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[Discworld] Still A-Flying (Susan/Jeremy)

Title: Still A-Flying
Fandom: Discworld (Thief of Time specifically)
Length:307 words
Prompt: Icon prompt for dawnduskdancer.
Pairing: Susan/Jeremy
Other: Title from a poem by Robert Herrick.

Excerpt: The idea of someone peering into her future was really irritating, actually, but before she could say something about that, he pressed a quick kiss to her cheek and returned her to class.

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[Cardcaptor Sakura] Professionalism (Syaoran gen)

Title: Professionalism
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 250 words
Prompt: Icon prompt for starlightfairy2.
Pairing: Syaoran gen
Other: Set in early canon.

Excerpt: Now what is he going to do, stand around and watch her take his destiny away?

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[Cardcaptor Sakura] I am a Dreamer (Syaoran/Sakura)

Title: I am a Dreamer
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 306
Prompt: Icon prompt for suppis_tenshi.
Pairing: Syaoran/Sakura
Other: n/a

Excerpt: She dreamed one night so vibrantly of the way it felt to hug him that when she woke she was reaching towards the ceiling, trying to touch him.

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[original] Team Ignis (Ignis and Eclat gen)

Title: Team Ignis
Fandom: original
Length: 488 words
Prompt: Icon prompt for o_melody_nelson.
Pairing: Ignis and Eclat gen
Other: Set in an original universe owned by chibidl. Should stand alone.

Excerpt: They usually met up after class on Friday afternoons to troll Starbucks for a few hours-- Ignis would drink too much coffee and gesture widely as he explained some ridiculous theory or another. Eclat would giggle and poke holes in the argument.

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[Cardcaptor Sakura] Worldly Child (Touya/Kaho)

Title: Worldly Child
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 350 words
Prompt: Icon prompt for mellowcandle.
Pairing: Touya/Kaho established
Other: Mayu's name and existence are both L-chan's idea; I just borrowed them for a bit.

Excerpt: There was a knock on the door, and then a thump and maybe the beginning of an argument between a rumbly-voiced lion and his mistress. Touya whispered something in Mayu's ear, and her eyes grew wide.

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[Cardcaptor Sakura] A Good Laugh and a Long Sleep (Touya/Yukito)

Title: A Good Laugh and a Long Sleep
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 239 words
Prompt: Icon prompt for dreximgirl.
Pairing: slight Touya/Yukito
Other: Title from an Irish proverb.

Excerpt: When he came upon Yuki leaning casually against the tree, book abandoned on his knee and eyes closed in sleep, Touya drew in a breath before he realized that he didn't have to worry about that kind of thing anymore.

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