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Title: all the nothing you want
Fandom: Leverage
Length: 333 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Leverage, Nate/Sophie, Empty nest syndrome
Pairing: Nate/Sophie
Other: Set post-canon.

Excerpt: "Concerned? Parker can handle it. She's going to be better than me in a couple years," he says, and she can hear the pride that he tries to hide in his voice.

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Title: do not live like living men
Fandom: Star Wars
Length: 158 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Star Wars original trilogy, Leia Organa, prophetic dreams
Pairing: Leia gen
Other: Set precanon.

Excerpt: The dreams are vivid -- not just her mother, but a blonde man with a crooked smile, a man in a black vest, a boy taking off a storm-trooper's helmet -- but none of them make any sense.

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Title: just and loyal
Fandom: Leverage
Length: 225 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Leverage, Eliot Spencer + Alec Hardison, it takes him awhile to realize Eliot is basically the biggest Hufflepuff he’s ever met
Pairing: Hardison, Parker, and Eliot gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "I still vote Gryffindor," Parker says. "Cedric Diggory had terrible reaction time. You couldn't take Eliot out that easily."

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Title: a whit more just
Fandom: Brooklyn 99
Length: 243 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, ensemble, everyone gets superpowers except for Peralta
Pairing: precinct gen
Other: AU as per prompt.

Excerpt: "This is so unfair!" Peralta says. If sulking was a superpower, he'd have it, but unfortunately, it is not. He watches sullenly as Rosa sets the copier on fire.

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Title: I stay with problems longer
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 100 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Elementary, Sherlock Holmes, tranquil fury [3 sentences]
Pairing: Sherlock/Irene
Other: Set pre-canon, spoilers for S1.

Excerpt: He is scariest when he is quiet, because that is when he's dangerous, and that is when Irene loves him the most (well, for a certain definition of "love").

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Title: open the door and fly on your heavy feet
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 3113 words
Prompt: Written for

galentinesday 2015 for

Elleth.
Pairing: minor Lin/Tenzin and Suyin/Bataar Sr.; mostly Suyin and Lin gen
Other: Also at AO3.

Summary/Excerpt: Suyin, Lin, and Toph fell apart as a family when Su left for Gaoling. It took a long time for them to come back together.
Tenzin bit his lip. "Your mom isn't very good with feelings," he said. "You know that."

Lin drummed her feet on the ground in frustration. "I know," Lin said. "I know. I'm not -- well, you know. Not great at talking about them either. But she just pretends that nothing ever happened. My sister is halfway across the Earth Kingdom over nothing and I am never going to be able to hide this after that nothing."

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Title: in the palm of our skull
Fandom: Being Human (UK)
Length: 427 words
Prompt: fandom_stocking for

megans_writing
Pairing: Mitchell/George established
Other: n/a

Excerpt: On full moon nights, Mitchell waited. Annie tried to distract him with tea and playing cards and anything she could think of, but Mitchell collected three-of-a-kind and never stopped worrying. They couldn't open the door until the morning.

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Title: the illusion is always one of normality
Fandom: Elementary/Doctor Who
Length: 348 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Elementary, Joan + Sherlock, Doctor Who AU
Pairing: Sherlock gen
Other: Doctor Who fusion, Elementary characters in the Doctor Who universe.

Excerpt: He loves it. There is nothing Sherlock loves more than space travel, and he'd thought there would never be anything better than being a detective. But now he is a detective in space.

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Title: a cat is a poem
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Length: 115 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data + Spot, playtime
Pairing: Data gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Cats require play as well, and this Data provides, with the careful precision that characterizes each of his movements.

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Title: everyone's a pacifist between wars
Fandom: Leverage
Length: 132 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Leverage, any, how he/she got to be the best thief/hitter/grifter/hacker/etc.
Pairing: Eliot gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Eliot never quits thinking, not until his vision goes red around the edges and his body moves and he lets his fists do the work.

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Title: one another's best
Fandom: Brooklyn 99
Length: 993 words
Prompt: fandom_stocking for

cashay
Pairing: Holt/Kevin
Other: Also at AO3.

Excerpt: "Where and how did you meet your spouse?" Jake asked, glancing sideways at Holt and then back out the window. Holt knew the way that Jake felt about Kevin, and vice versa, even though they were learning slowly to be more courteous to each other. It was like watching a mouse dance with an elephant.

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Title: earthbenders have their faults
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 500 words
Prompt: Christmas cards: Old Toph trolling either Zuko or Izumi or both!
Pairing: Zuko and Toph gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Finally, he turned it over and wrote, "I don't know. Where do rocks sleep?"

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Title: where's the man could ease a heart like a satin gown?
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 614 words
Prompt: fandom_stocking for

starlit_purple
Pairing: Lin and Suyin gen
Other: Set at the end of S4.

Excerpt: When Suyin walked into the police station, a hush fell over the assembled officers. She had not been inside even once since her exile, but there was no doubting who she was, with the family resemblance. She kept walking, her feet clicking on the tiled floor, until she reached Lin's office, and she opened the door without knocking. She shut it behind her.

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Title: as good as gold
Fandom: Thrilling Adventure Hour
Length: 1017 words
Prompt: Written for Thrilling Adventure Hour Secret Santa 2014 for

gloriousclio, for the prompt Apex Christmas.
Pairing: Captain Laserbeam/Philip Fathom heavily implied
Other: Also at AO3.

Excerpt: "Santa Claus is here!" Adventurekateer Patrick said breathily when Laserbeam strode into the Clubhouse. "Santa Claus, Santa Claus!"

Adventurekateer Clio scoffed. "It's Captain Laserbeam, dummy. Santa Claus isn't going to be here for two more days."

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Title: a sweet orange is as scripture
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 341 words
Prompt: fandom_stocking for

tessercat
Pairing: Ten & Donna gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "I'm not asking you to cook," she said, hands on hips, "because you'd probably make some other kind of terrifying spaceman food. What do Time Lords eat, anyway?"

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Title: all sense of time
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 470 words
Prompt: fandom_stocking for

paynesgrey
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Sometimes they watched movies in the best theater this side of Alpha Centauri, or so the Doctor claimed. It was comfortably small and the couch adjusted to their body shapes and changed patterns at whim. It also pushed them closer and closer together over the course of the night. Rose always woke up with her head in the Doctor's lap.

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Title: love you like a burrito
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 753 words
Prompt: fandom_stocking for

vel
Pairing: Bolin/Varrick, mentioned Bolin/Opal, Korra/Asami, and Varrick/Zhu Li
Other: Set post-canon without the wedding.

Excerpt: With Korra and Asami on vacation, Bolin had a limited pool of people to talk to about his new problem. He felt weird telling his brother about his love life, but he was still a better choice than his ex-girlfriend or the police chief.

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Title: chance had it all planned
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 431 words
Prompt: fandom_stocking for

wildandfreehearts
Pairing: Eighth Doctor/Grace
Other: Set post-canon.

Excerpt: "Grace Holloway!" he'd said, with such pleasure that she'd somehow never gotten around to filing a report on the man in Edwardian costume who walked home with her from school on the day before her grandmother died.

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Title: we show off our different scarlet letters
Fandom: Thrilling Adventure Hour
Length: 2016 words
Prompt: Written for the Thrilling Adventure Hour Secret Santa for

goggles-girl.
Pairing: Red gen with Red/Croach, Red/Sparks, and Croach/Red/Sparks
Other: Also at AO3.

Excerpt: "G'rop N'go-goth," Croach said, "I do not understand why I would be tied to the space train tracks in this scenario. You know that I have the ability to excrete a slippery solution that would help me escape these bonds."

"Shut up and listen, Croach," Red said.

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Title: beauty is woman's sceptre
Fandom: Big Hero Six
Length: 702 words
Prompt: n/a
Pairing: Honey Lemon/Gogo Tomago
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Gogo had mastered the resting bitch face by the age of thirteen in hopes that people would leave her alone once in a while. How could someone like Honey choose to shine all the time?

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[Leverage] all the nothing you want (Nate/Sophie)

[Star Wars] do not live like living men (Leia gen)

[Leverage] just and loyal (Hardison, Parker, and Eliot gen)

[Brooklyn 99] a whit more just (precinct gen)

[Elementary] I stay with problems longer (Sherlock/Irene)

[Legend of Korra] open the door and fly on your heavy feet (Suyin and Lin gen)

[Being Human (UK)] in the palm of our skull (Mitchell/George)

[Elementary/Doctor Who] the illusion is always one of normality (Sherlock gen)

[Star Trek: The Next Generation] a cat is a poem (Data gen)

[Leverage] everyone's a pacifist between wars (Eliot gen)

[Brooklyn 99] one another's best (Holt/Kevin)

[Legend of Korra] earthbenders have their faults (Zuko and Toph gen)

[Legend of Korra] where's the man could ease a heart like a satin gown? (Lin and Suyin gen)

[Thrilling Adventure Hour] as good as gold (Laserbeam/Fathom)

[Doctor Who] a sweet orange is as scripture (Ten and Donna gen)

[Doctor Who] all sense of time (Ten/Rose)

[Legend of Korra] love you like a burrito (Bolin/Varrick)

[Doctor Who] chance had it all planned (Eighth Doctor/Grace)

[Thrilling Adventure Hour] we show off our different scarlet letters (Red gen)

[Big Hero Six] beauty is woman's sceptre (Honey/Gogo)

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