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Title: Live
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 738 words
Prompt: n/a
Pairing: Yuuko and Watanuki gen; Clow/Yuuko, very slight Doumeki/Watanuki
Other: Spoilers for xH 186. I am always writing canon-fixing fic, I think.

Excerpt: He was skinny, pale, leaving one in mind of some sort of oversized bird, and he looked no older, a fact that she found very odd indeed. She had only a moment to draw breath before Watanuki had thrown himself into her arms, sobbing with relief.

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Title: Captured
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 372 words
Prompt: Self-prompt: an explanation of how that splashpage with Yuuko sitting at Clow's feet came to be.
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko; Yue
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "What sort of an expression is that?" she said, scowling at his pleading face. After a long moment, she stomped back over and pulled the ottoman near to the couch.

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Title: Reflection
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 649 words
Prompt: see lyric prompt below the cut
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko implied; Yuuko and Watanuki gen
Other: Fifteenth in a series; table of contents.

Excerpt: "Do you see the rabbit in the moon, Watanuki?" she asked, her voice soft and far away.

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Title: Ourselves We Find in the Sea
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 728 words
Prompt: see lyric prompt below the cut
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko
Other: Thirteenth in a series; table of contents.

Excerpt: It was Wednesday, perhaps, or maybe Thursday, and he was rubbing sunscreen onto her perfectly pale feet, when she sighed theatrically and stretched, curving her spine like a bow.

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Title: Melting
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 571 words
Prompt: see lyric prompt below the cut
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko
Other: Eleventh in a series; table of contents.

Excerpt: They looked like a couple. They looked like they belonged together. They looked... domestic. Here they were, lobbing snowballs back and forth, laughing, teasing the Mokona.

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Title: Eclipsed
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 670 words
Prompt: see lyric prompt below the cut
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko
Other: Ninth in a series; table of contents.

Excerpt: She swept into Clow's house as if she owned it, immediately provoking Yue's ire. Then she looked Yue up and down as though she were assessing him, and smiled an odd, knowing smile. He liked her even less for what she presumed she knew.

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Title: Love a Quarrel
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 488 words
Prompt: see lyric prompt below the cut
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko
Other: Seventh in a series; table of contents.

Excerpt: They had a hard time living together. It tended to happen by accident, any cohabitation longer than a couple of days, brought upon by their habit to work through the afternoons, drink through the evenings, and sleep through the mornings.

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Title: Love Given Unsought
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 555 words
Prompt: see lyric prompt below the cut
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko
Other: With apologies to Shakespeare. Fifth in a series; table of contents.

Excerpt: Clow started reciting sonnets, the most ridiculous poems he could think of, comparing women to cats and birds and other impossible things. She threw a bottle at him. He dodged, wobbling, and it hit the wall but did not break.

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Title: The Ties That Bind
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 863 words
Prompt: see lyric prompt below the cut
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko, slight Fei Wong/Yuuko
Other: Third in a series; table of contents.

Excerpt: Fei Wong laughed again. "Now I see why you had to hurry away to Japan, Ku Luo!" he said, slapping Clow on the back.

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Title: Dream No Small Dreams
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 1150 words
Prompt: see lyric prompt below the cut
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko
Other: Way precanon. First in a series; table of contents.

Excerpt: She had long dark hair and crimson eyes, and he'd never met someone who could walk through dreams, so the tiny part of him still lucid was amazed that he could imagine such a vivid, beautiful woman.

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