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Title: chafing my heart
Fandom: Glee
Length: 860 words
Prompt: Given the first line of a story, I will write something: "Quinn hesitated before accepting the Skype request," for merkintosh
Pairing: Quinn/Mercedes
Other: The canonicity of anything in this is debatable, as I haven't watched Glee since partway through S3. I did hear about Quinntana, though, and this set post that episode.

Excerpt: Quinn hesitated before accepting the Skype request. When Mercedes's face popped up on her laptop screen, Quinn tried an awkward smile. Mercedes was giving her one in return.

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Title: a better fate than wisdom
Fandom: Glee
Length: 548 words
Prompt: Christmas card fic!
Pairing: Kurt/Rachel (yes, romantic); mentioned Kurt/Blaine and Finn/Rachel
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "It's Christmas. Not that that means much to me, really, since I'm Jewish, or to you, because you're an atheist, but I'm pretty sure you're entitled to dinner anyway." Rachel smiled hopefully.

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Title: everything is softer
Fandom: Glee
Length: 452 words
Prompt: Christmas card fic!
Pairing: Brittany/Santana
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Brittany didn't even seem to notice, and that drove Santana crazy. Some mornings she had to bodily drag Brittany inside to prevent her from making snow angels until the bell rang.

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Title: one impulse from a vernal wood
Fandom: Glee
Length: 3431 words
Prompt: For the g_aficexchange.
Pairing: Sam/Rachel
Other: There are spoilers for The Dark Knight and the Spiderman comics in here, and some various other nerdery. This goes AU around Prom Queen and I hand-waved the actual timing of hunting season for the sake of the story.

Summary/Excerpt: Sam's dad recommended that he take his crush hunting in order to romance her. Too bad Rachel is, um, a vegan. Sam was beginning to realize that he was really, really bad at romance.

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Title: sharpie dinosaurs
Fandom: Glee
Length: 364 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Glee, Finn Hudson and Noah Puckerman, they know what it's like to wear the same shoes year after year because you can't afford new ones.
Pairing: Finn and Puck gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Puck was the only other guy that Finn knew who duct-taped his shoes together. He claimed it was way cooler than buying new ones every year. He wrote on his duct-tape with permanent marker, although Ms. Johnson always made him cover up the bad words.

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Title: replace an empty mind
Fandom: Glee
Length: 583 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Glee, any(/any), "How does someone fail Study Hall?"
Pairing: Santana/Brittany; mentioned Brittany/Artie
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "Britt, how did you fail study hall?" she asked in amazement. She'd failed everything else -- straight F's down the line of grades, but Santana didn't even know you got graded for study hall.

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Title: but it keeps finding me
Fandom: Glee
Length: 449 words
Prompt: glee_anon: I would really love some Sam/Mercedes where they mutually reassured one another about how hot they are. Whatever other kinks are welcome too.
Pairing: Sam/Mercedes
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Honestly, Mercedes didn't expect Sam to react like this when her fingers trailed up under the hem of his shirt. She teased her fingernails across his abs, and he gulped and froze. She froze too.

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Title: waste her whole heart
Fandom: Glee
Length: 530 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Glee, Brittany/Santana, First kiss
Pairing: Brittany/Santana
Other: PG with warnings for GBLT slurs.

Excerpt: They're twelve when they kiss for the first time, guests at a sleepover playing Truth or Dare. It's nothing then, or so Santana says, even when something in her stirs, deep down, when she touches Brittany's lips.

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Title: enchanting new creature
Fandom: Glee
Length: 408 words
Prompt: Mercedes/Quinn, carpooling, for the_windowbird
Pairing: Mercedes/Quinn
Other: Set directly post Prom Queen.

Excerpt: Quinn abandoned Mercedes after she had the baby.

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Title: life is just my stage
Fandom: Glee
Length: 4032 words
Prompt: Mercedes/Rachel for glee_rare_pairs exchange #2 for kkieslowski
Pairing: Mercedes/Rachel; minor Kurt/Blaine
Other: Some spoilers for 2x16 Original Song, ignores 2x17 Night of Neglect. No warnings.

Summary/Excerpt: When Mercedes agreed to double-dating with Kurt and Blaine, she didn't think her partner would be Rachel. They'd hardly been at the restaurant as a foursome for five minutes before Mercedes got up and made excuses to haul Kurt to the bathroom. Kurt struggled. "You can't leave Blaine out there with Rachel!" he protested. "What if she decides she needs more song inspiration?"

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