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Title: burning cathedral of the summer
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 1339 words
Prompt: Cardcaptor Sakura, Syaoran/Sakura, With summer right around the corner, the stars always seemed to be the most beautiful.
Pairing: Syaoran/Sakura established; minor Touya/Yukito
Other: Written for arizonaicerose for the first round of help_japan. Thanks for donating, and I really hope you like this! PGish for some implications.

Excerpt: "I was just thinking," she said, still wearing that nostalgic little grin, "that the yukata I made you definitely wouldn't fit anymore. Should I make you a new one? I've been practicing my sewing with Tomoyo-chan. We made one for Onii-chan last year, and it was almost perfect. I had to let it out a little, though." She giggled, fingers tracing an absent pattern on the back of his neck. As if imparting a great secret, she stage-whispered, "I think Yuki-onii-chan has been feeding him too much. He's getting fat."

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Title: best substitute for experience
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 66 words
Prompt: Clow/Yue, genderbent for someone on plurk
Pairing: fem!Clow & fem!Yue gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: She made Yue into the beautiful woman she was not.

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Title: choosing among one's real thoughts
Fandom: Star Wars
Length: 134 words
Prompt: C-3PO and R2-D2, genderbent for chibidl
Pairing: fem!C-3PO and fem!R2-D2 gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "Oh dear," she said reflexively, "this looks like quite a mess."

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Title: unbuttoned
Fandom: Star Wars
Length: 98 words
Prompt: Han/Leia genderbent for someone on plurk
Pairing: fem!Han/male!Leia gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "Hey princess," Hana said, comfortably sprawled across the bed. Her shirt was only half-buttoned, but Lei got the impression of deliberate undress.

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Title: every day
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 542 words
Prompt: Christmas card fic!
Pairing: Syaoran/Sakura established
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Syaoran thought that weddings shouldn't take place in winter's cold; Sakura was grateful that the two of them could take advantage of their time off university. He was overwhelmed by the crowds; she learned everyone's names. Sometimes he really wondered where he would be without her.

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Title: all I want
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 659 words
Prompt: Christmas-card fic.
Pairing: Tomoyo/Meiling established
Other: n/a

Excerpt: She was missing someone. She was missing snarky remarks, sighing, the little black cocktail dress and flashing garnet eyes of a certain Li Meiling, who'd flown back to Hong Kong this morning to spend Chinese New Year with her relatives. Tomoyo didn't begrudge Meiling the time or ritual; New Year was for family, after all, and she knew Meiling was looking forward to it. But her absence had crept into every corner of Tomoyo's life.

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Title: turning of us over from time to eternity
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 1191 words
Prompt: clampkink: Yue -> Clow - The first time Yue changed his clothes was when he put on one of Clow's suits and went to visit his grave for the first time.
Pairing: slight Yue/Clow
Other: Aaaaaaangst, discussion of death. G.

Excerpt: Clow had a grave, but no one knew where it was.

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Title: Charmed
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 625 words
Prompt: Genderbent requests: Eriol for chibidl
Pairing: fem!Eriol gen with Syaoran/Sakura background
Other: In which Eriol has always been female.

Excerpt: Eriol is-- there's something about her that provokes Syaoran's suspicion. She's kind to him but almost in a backhanded way, compliments that slide into teasing and completely innocent smiles.

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Title: Work to Live
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 332
Prompt: Domesticity fic: Eriol/Tomoyo from CCS, to fall asleep in the middle of work for sheila_chan
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo established
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Oftentimes they would sit on the couch next to each other, she tapping on her laptop as he read a book, and they would rest in comfortable silence, just basking in each other's presence.

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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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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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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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