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Title: my soul-bird loves my body-cage
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Length: 877 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Star Trek: TNG, Data(/Geordi La Forge), if he's so inhuman then why did he wake up with a daemon?
Pairing: Data/Geordi
Other: Daemon AU.

Excerpt: "I am Enosh," the crow says, its affect flat. "It is nice to meet you, Geordi and Tichaona."

"Did you find him somewhere?" Geordi asks. He's still confused. Tich gets up and presses her head to the back of his calf.

"He's Data's daemon," she says.

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Title: could end in burning flames or paradise
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 552 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Elementary, Sherlock/Joan, mystery solvers club.
Pairing: Sherlock and Joan gen
Other: College AU!

Excerpt: Joan and Sherlock have already had several talks about his habit of volunteering her for things, especially after he got her student ID and cracked her email password. She knows he thinks he can annoy her enough that she goes away. So far she hasn't. She likes seeing her amount of student debt decreasing slowly but steadily. But days like this, she really thinks about throwing in the towel.

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Title: may its index point to joy
Fandom: Leverage
Length: 596 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Leverage, team or OT3, the team reunites in the 24th century on a spaceship
Pairing: team gen with Nate/Sophie
Other: AU as per prompt.

Excerpt: "Quit stalling, Nate. We haven't seen you and Sophie for so long we'd figured you were dead for good, and then you call a meeting on the moon? Dude, I don't have to leave the apartment for weeks sometimes, everybody delivers now," Hardison says. He does look a bit green. He glances down at Parker. "Parker, baby, you want to get on the same level as the rest of us?"

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Title: nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 668 words
Prompt: Let's Make Out Ficathon: Doctor Who - Amy/Rory - AU; Amy is the Doctor
Pairing: Amy/Rory
Other: AU as per prompt.

Excerpt: Rory was not looking for trouble; he never was. Trouble always managed to find him. He sometimes thought he became a nurse as an extension of his childhood tendency to follow around the other kids and try to clean up after them.

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Title: the precipitate
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 218
Prompt: three sentence ficathon: Elementary, fem!Sherlock/Joan, sweet
Pairing: Joan & fem!Sherlock gen
Other: Genderbend AU per prompt.

Excerpt: She makes spaghetti and serves it to Joan in a chipped mug, leaning over Joan's shoulder and resting her chin there as they study a case file.

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Title: the seaweed is always greener
Fandom: The Little Mermaid (Disney)
Length: 191 words
Prompt: three sentence ficathon: The Little Mermaid, Eric &(/Ariel), the AU where Eric is fascinated with the sea and makes a bargain to become a merman
Pairing: Eric gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: In the evenings Eric wades out as far as he can stand, even when the water is cold, and he wishes and wishes to truly become part of the sea, a man who is fish.

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Title: mostly sweet with a few nuts
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 710 words
Prompt: 'fix it' comment ficathon: doctor who, the ponds don't get stuck in the past and instead continue to pop in and out of the doctor's life (and maybe other companions, COUGHDONNACOUGH)
Pairing: Eleven + various new Who companions gen
Other: AU for the Ponds' and Donna's ends.

Excerpt: The Doctor was meeting with the Ponds last Tuesday at five. Amy had written it down for him the last time he visited, all the temporal-spatial coordinates she could think of. ...Earth, The Milky Way, The Universe at 5:00PM GMT, he read. As if she expected him to show up in the wrong universe or something. Actually, in that case, she could have been more specific.

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Title: peacocks and lilies
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Length: 399 words
Prompt: Change one thing in my character's canon AU: Toph isn't blind for jellybabyoftheneutronflow
Pairing: Gaang gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Sokka looked skeptical. "They call her the Bei Fong Princess," he said. "The Bei Fongs practically own this town. What are the chances that they let their spoiled rich girl daughter fight in Earth Rumble? As a blind boy?"

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Title: seasoned with folly
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 270 words
Prompt: Given a fandom, I will write a no-powers or modern-day AU.
Pairing: slight Watanuki/Doumeki; Watanuki/Himawari (as in canon)
Other: AU in which Yuuko runs something rather like a host club.

Excerpt: Sometimes, Watanuki really thought it wasn't worth it. This was one of those times.

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Title: i hold with those who favor fire
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 365 words
Prompt: and now in tears we meet again for chibidl's birthdayfic
Pairing: dark!Clef/dark!Presea; dark!Clef/dark!Umi
Other: Set in a dark mirror universe prompted from a Polychromatic curse. PG for violence.

Excerpt: As the opposite, many of his decisions are impulsive and unstudied, but this one isn't. He keeps stepping into her traps, crossing her boundaries, earnest and angry and wanting.

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