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Title: Becoming Family
Length: 156 words
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Pairing/characters: Syaoran/Sakura; Meiling
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Sakura and Meiling: "I'd hate to ruin the surprise."

Excerpt: "Come on, come on!" Meiling said, reaching for Sakura's hand, and they were both grinning as she dragged her up the stairs. For a moment they were kids again instead of the adults they proposed to be.

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Title: A Wolf at the Door; or Sanctuary
Length: 300 words
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura/xxxHOLiC
Pairing/characters: Watanuki and Eriol gen
Rating: G
Warnings: vague account of injury
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Watanuki and Eriol with the title, "A Wolf at the Door"

Excerpt: Watanuki wasn't sure why he knew this would be the place to stop, but he had little more than instinct left behind the keening wall of pain.

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Title: Wagered
Length: 143 words
Fandom: xxxHOLiC/Cardcaptor Sakura
Pairing/characters: Yuuko, Watanuki, Tomoyo gen
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Yuuko and Tomoyo: gambling for interesting stakes

Excerpt: "I'll wager Watanuki then," Yuuko said, lifting her tea cup at the particular moment Watanuki walked into the room.

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Title: Consulted
Length: 179 words
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura (/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)
Pairing/characters: Sakura and Clow gen
Rating: G
Warnings: vague Tsubasa spoilers
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Sakura and Clow, working together

Excerpt: The grass was dead and the light was dying when she stepped onto Clow's estate, already touched by early winter winds. He was waiting for her by the tree, as always; she wondered, as she often did, how his precognition wearied him.

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Title: Friends Are For
Length: 214 words
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura/xxxHOLiC (/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)
Pairing/characters: Sakura and Yuuko gen
Rating: G
Warnings: Tsubasa spoilers
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Sakura and Yuuko -- I've traveled the world and the seven seas / everybody's looking for something

Excerpt: But she kept coming back to take tea with Yuuko and talk about high school, pulling Yuuko out of the shop, into the world.

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Title: Family Bonding
Length: 399 words
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura/xxxHOLiC
Pairing/characters: Syaoran/Sakura implied; Watanuki/Doumeki/Himawari blink-and-you'll-miss-it
Rating: G
Warnings: vague xxxHOLiC spoilers; useless speculation on xxxHOLiC future
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Meiling and Watanuki: "Well, I never saw that coming."

Excerpt: Their first meeting ended with near violence. There they were standing, foreheads pressed together, looking absolutely ridiculous as they shouted insults at one another.

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Title: Who Do You Think
Length: 204 words
Fandom: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles/Cardcaptor Sakura
Pairing/characters: Syaoran/Sakura; Meiling and Clow gen
Rating: G
Warnings: Tsubasa spoilers; AU
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Clow and Meiling: "Who do you think you are?"

Excerpt: "Who do you think you are, Meiling?" Clow asked, reaching down and catching her by the chin, and she resisted the urge to pull away, because this was Clow and whatever he wanted was surely important.

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Title: First Impressions: five ways yuuko and meiling never met
Length: 804 words
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura/xxxHOLiC
Pairing/characters: (I) slight Meiling/Yuuko; (II) implied Syaoran/Sakura; (III) gen; (IV) Clow/Yuuko implied; (V) Syaoran/Sakura; Meiling/Syaoran implied
Rating: G
Warnings: Tsubasa spoilers; five AUs
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Meiling and Yuuko, first impressions

Excerpt: "You have a wish," she said, taking Meiling's hand and pulling her into the shop before Meiling could protest that she was just making a delivery.

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Title: Blur the Boundaries
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura/xxxHOLiC
Pairing/characters: Doumeki/Watanuki established; Eriol and Watanuki gen
Rating: G
Warnings: drunkenness
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Clow/Watanuki, intoxication

Excerpt: He had to be drunk, he was seeing Clow. Watanuki blinked blearily at the apparition, who handed him his glasses.

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Title: Rebirth; or proper selves
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura (/xxxHOLiC)
Pairing/characters: Clow gen; Clow/Yuuko
Rating: PG
Warnings: (canon) character death; transgenderism
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Eriol and Clow: transformation of some kind (genderswitch? body swap? species shift?)

Excerpt: Clow dressed in layers. It was the only way he was comfortable-- to be as separate from his skin as possible. He tied his hair back and wore the thick robes, and even Keroberos and Yue never saw him without them.

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Title: Thirteen Nightmares
Length: 1693 words
Prompt: [livejournal.com profile] the_lucky13: 13 nightmares you've had or wouldn't want to have
Pairing: n/a
Other: Character death: 05-11. Thirteen canon AUs. These nightmares consist of 13 places where canon could have deviated, spoiling Eriol's plans. He dreamed them at various times before going to Tomoeda. All quoted language comes directly from the source text (manga) until the plot deviates.
Excerpt: The Clow Cards are thrown away when she moves into her first apartment with Syaoran. She digs them out of her desk while looking for some old papers she needs, and she doesn't recognize the book at first.

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Title: Five Things I Would Change About CCS
Length: 540 words
Prompt: see title
Pairing: 1. gen; 2. Tomoyo/Sakura; Meiling/Tomoyo; 3. gen; 4. Fujitaka/Nadeshiko; 5. Nakuru/Touya; Touya/Yukito
Other: n/a
Excerpt: When the boys came in and both of their gazes fastened on Sakura, Tomoyo laughed quietly. Fourth grade would prove to be an interesting year...

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Title: Where the Love Light Gleams
Author: [livejournal.com profile] rhap_chan
Written For: [livejournal.com profile] tsukimineshrine Secret Santa 2008: [livejournal.com profile] shiiki
Prompt: Syaoran & Meilin (non-pairing), Christmas away from home
Characters: Meiling, Syaoran
Rating: G
Length: 532 words

Excerpt: "We're going to spend Christmas together, aren't we, Syaoran?" she asked.

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Title: What a Wonderful Feeling
Length: 553 words
Prompt: [livejournal.com profile] cardcaptorgifts: Valentine's Day from Suppi's perspective. Have fun!
Pairing: Spinelsun gen
Other: n/a
Excerpt: "Suppi!" Nakuru said bouyantly. Spinel twitched an ear and said nothing. "Let's make white chocolate before Eriol and Kaho come home."

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Title: Two, Three
Length: 149 words
Prompt: meme: three facts about Yukito from my personal canon for [livejournal.com profile] moko_ko_nyanko
Pairing: Yukito gen
Other: n/a
Excerpt: He just wanted a normal life, really, but he couldn't let Yue go, even if he had the opportunity.

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Title: Their Joyful Tone to Every Home
Author: [livejournal.com profile] rhap_chan
Written For: [livejournal.com profile] tsukimineshrine Secret Santa 2008: [livejournal.com profile] peacewish
Prompt: Yue and Keroberos exchanging Christmas gifts.
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Clow, Kero, Yue gen

Excerpt: "I don't know what to get Yue for Christmas," he said, head-butting his creator's knees in urgency. Clow laughed kindly at his distress.

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Title: Stolen
Length: 165 words
Prompt: music meme: 06. "Killer Queen," Queen
Pairing: Eriol and Sakura gen
Other: Sequel to Steel. More spy AU. PG for discussion of murder.
Excerpt: "I don't think," he said carefully, "that killing is yours. I have come to offer you a business proposition."

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Title: Steel
Length: 218 words
Prompt: music meme: 05. "We Both Reached for the Gun," Chicago soundtrack
Pairing: Eriol and Sakura gen
Other: Spy AU.
Excerpt: She'd liked his smile. But skulls always smiled, didn't they? Perhaps she should think of him as already dead. That might make it easier.

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Title: Pulled Over
Length: 138 words
Prompt: music meme: "I Saw a Cop," Jill Sobule
Pairing: Eriol and Meiling gen
Other: n/a
Excerpt: "License, registration, perhaps a handshake?" the cop said, coming up next to her. Meiling blinked and ran the English back through her head-- then realized it was Chinese.

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Title: Loved
Length: 98 words
Prompt: icon meme
Pairing: Nadeshiko and Nakuru gen
Other: n/a
Excerpt: She and Nakuru would stay up all night and cook and laugh and smile. She would braid Nakuru's hair and Nakuru would kiss her cheek and be her daughter in England, no matter how exactly they were related.

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