Community: 20loves
Completed: 13 Sept 06
Claim: Cardcaptor Sakura, both tables
Title: One True Threesome (or: Feathers in Their Bed) [link]
Pairing: Touya/Yukito/Yue
Quote: 1. "Do you love me?"
"No."
"I love you."
"I know."
Words: 1987
Rating: PG
Excerpt: Touya woke up the next morning next to Yue. There had never been a more disconcerting thing.
writer's commentary
Title: Giving In [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo primarily, Syaoran/Sakura, Eriol/Kaho, Tomoyo/Sakura
Quote: 2. "Do you forgive me for falling for you?"
Words: 2082
Rating: PG
Excerpt: "You knew I didn't care, but you stayed. You stayed and I hate you for it, because before I knew it--" she began, and then looked mortified.
Title: Til Death [link]
Pairing: Fujitaka/Nadeshiko
Quote: 3. "I would rather walk the earth next to you as a ghost, than go to heaven and never see you again."
Words: 623
Rating: G
Excerpt: So as a substitute for whatever opportunities she took from him she loved him perfectly and unconditionally.
Title: Roses [link]
Pairing: Syaoran/Sakura; Sakura/Yukito
Quote: 4. "You look at me and my heart melts, even though you don't even try."
Words: 296
Rating: G
Excerpt: I have become quiet recently as my only defense against her beauty and charm.
Title: Let Go [link]
Pairing: Yue/Eriol, Eriol/Kaho, Syaoran/Sakura, Touya/Yukito, past Yue/Clow, implied Clow/Yuuko
Quote: 5. "The day you left I thought I would die. Strange thing was that was when I truly began to live."
Words: 1405
Rating: G, shounen ai
Excerpt: All the moon angel saw was that his beloved master had died and now he'd returned, and he didn't want Yue anymore.
Title: Prove that You Love Me [link]
Pairing: Meiling/Syaoran primarily, Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 6. "If you ever cared about me, even for a moment, leave now. Don't look back, just leave."
Words: 871
Rating: G
Excerpt: "Prove that you love me," Meiling said petulantly. He sighed and rolled his eyes.
Title: Yours [link]
Pairing: Touya/Yukito
Quote: 7. "Even though you never told me you loved me, I know you do. I can feel it."
Words: 505
Rating: G
Excerpt: His face made me laugh. He took such an effort to be grumpy, as though people were watching him all the time and giggling when he smiled.
Title: Heart's Deaths [link]
Pairing: Syaoran/Sakura; past Syaoran/Yukito
Quote: 8."You're worth it."
Words: 313
Rating: G
Excerpt: I might die if she cannot change the cards, I thought.
Title: Don't Cry [link]
Pairing: Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 9. "If I had known that simply loving you was enough, I would have done that
long ago."
Words: 221
Rating: G
Excerpt: She gave me courage: I couldn't bear to write and say I would never return, for I knew her next letter would be tearstained, and she shouldn't have to cry about me.
Title: Knowing [link]
Pairing: Touya/Kaho primarily; Eriol/Kaho, Touya/Yukito
Quote: 10. "I would give anything to simply hold you again."
Words: 270
Rating: G
Excerpt: "Would you give up him?" I said. I hated to have to be the know-it-all, but it seemed to be my lot in life.
Title: Giving In [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo primarily, Syaoran/Sakura, Eriol/Kaho, Tomoyo/Sakura
Quote: 11. "You knew I didn't care, but you stayed. You stayed and I hate you for it, because before I knew it I fell for you."
Words: 2082
Rating: PG
Excerpt: "You knew I didn't care, but you stayed. You stayed and I hate you for it, because before I knew it--" she began, and then looked mortified.
Title: Leaving [link]
Pairing: Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 12. "It's moments like this that make all the pain and sorrow worth it."
Words: 436
Rating: G
Excerpt: There might not be a ring, and he wasn't on his knees, but he would never leave me again. I would never have to wake up alone again.
Title: Safe [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Sakura
Quote: 13. "I would rather watch you from the shadows if only to ensure your happiness."
Words: 100
Rating: G
Excerpt: You will never look at me again without thinking about who I was, what I did to you. That's
why I have to leave.
Title: Determined [link]
Pairing: Meiling/Syaoran; Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 14. "That was a wicked thing to say because I know you never felt that way."
Words: 245
Rating: G
Excerpt: Meiling always gets what she wants, the family says, in a mixture of irritation and admiration.
Title: Growing Old [link]
Pairing:
Quote: 15. "All the talk about growing old and dying old isn't my thing. I want to die young with you. That way I'll always carry this version of you with me."
Words:
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Excerpt:
Title: Only We Know [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Sakura primarily; Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 16. "So why don't we go somewhere only we know."
Words: 467
Rating: G
Excerpt: But he took my hand and I wondered,
and he kissed it, and I knew, and there was nothing else to do.
Title: Safety [link]
Pairing: Touya/Yukito/Yue
Quote: 17. "Don't even doubt my love for you again."
Words: 1112
Rating: PG
Excerpt: Multiple personality disorder might be easier than this, this careful engineering of my life as a protector of Sakura and then as myself.
Title: Cherry Kiss [link]
Pairing: Tomoyo/Sakura, Meiling/Syaoran, implied Eriol/Sakura, past Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 18. "Know what will make me happy? If you walk out that door and find someone who will treat you right.
I can die happy if I know you're happy."
Words: 1662
Rating: PG for main character death
Excerpt: "They gave you a painkiller. I talked to Eriol, Tomoyo, and he's flying in to see you tomorrow. It sure has been a while, hasn't it?"
Title: Date [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo; Eriol/Kaho; Tomoyo/Sakura; Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 19. "Can I keep you?"
Words: 546
Rating: G
Excerpt: But people were starting to wonder
why Tomoyo turned down every boy that came courting her. They were beginning to talk.
Title: Her Voice [link]
Pairing: Touya/Kaho
Quote: 20. (author's choice) 20. "Promise you'll never forget me."
"Only if you promise to forget me."
"I know."
Words: 536
Rating: G
Excerpt: There was a cadence to their relationship not unlike her voice--it flowed quietly and easily without any trouble
from teacher-student to girlfriend-boyfriend.
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Title: Giving In [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo primarily, Syaoran/Sakura, Eriol/Kaho, Tomoyo/Sakura
Quote: 1. "I don't know if I should hit you or kiss you."
Words: 2082
Rating: PG
Excerpt: "You knew I didn't care, but you stayed. You stayed and I hate you for it, because before I knew it--" she began, and then looked mortified.
Title: One True Threesome [link]
Pairing: Touya/Yukito/Yue
Quote: 2. "I don't know what love is, or how it feels. I'm not even sure it exists. But if this is
love, then I'm happy."
Words: 1987
Rating: PG
Excerpt: Touya woke up the next morning next to Yue. There had never been a more disconcerting thing.
writer's commentary
Title: Constancy [link]
Pairing: Tomoyo/Sakura; Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 3. "One of these days you'll be mine. That will be a sad day."
Words: 181
Rating: G, shoujo ai
Excerpt: All Tomoyo has to do is wait, and though that makes things easier when she tires, it also makes her sad.
Title: First Words [link]
Pairing: Fujitaka/Nadeshiko; Touya/Yukito; Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 4. "I don't use words like love and hate. Don't believe in them. So I hope you never expect me to say those words to you."
Words: 611
Rating: G
Excerpt: Those words of my childhood--the freely given love, the passion I saw between my parents every day they were together--they had to be hidden so that they couldn't come back to hurt me.
Title: Fate [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo primarily, Eriol/Kaho, implied Tomoyo/Sakura
Quote: 5. "I look at you and my heart breaks."
Words: 728
Rating: G
Excerpt: "My heart breaks because you seem so alone, and you have always been alone. It's very hard to be alone, Clow reincarnate or not," she said.
Title: Family [link]
Pairing: Sonomi/Nadeshiko; Fujitaka/Nadeshiko
Quote: 6. "Don't talk to me about death. I'll be the one to die before you because without you I'm as good as dead."
Words: 586
Rating: G
Excerpt: They sat and talked, but not for long, because an awkwardness had grown between them since they had
married, and its name was Fujitaka, who was due home soon.
Title: Things Unsaid [link]
Pairing: past Touya/Kaho; Touya/Yukito, Eriol/Kaho
Quote: 7. "You caused me so much heartache. I couldn't eat or sleep because of you. At those moments I hated you. And yet I don't regret a single moment I spent with you."
Words: 373
Rating: G
Excerpt: I wanted to say it as much as I thought I had wanted to yell at her when she left.
Title: Broken [link]
Pairing: Meiling/Syaoran; Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 8. "It's simple. Just love me and I'll be happy."
Words: 418
Rating: G
Excerpt: "I broke your heart by breaking my own," he said into the darkness, reaching out with his arm and clutching at nothing.
Title: First Come, First Serve [link]
Pairing: Sakura/Yukito primarily, Touya/Yukito
Quote: 9. "I don't think I'll ever feel this strongly for anyone ever again, no matter how hard I try."
Words: 378
Rating: G
Excerpt: Yuki and Li-kun both have hazel eyes, but there is more fire burning in Li-kun's. His love is more passionate than comfortable. It burns in him and it burns him, I think, to be unable to tell of his love. But I'm sure he'll be okay.
Title: Something Blue [link]
Pairing: Tomoyo Sakura primarily; Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 10. "I loved you with every ounce of my being. But I knew you never would love me that way. And you know the sad thing about it all? I didn't care."
Words: 680
Rating: PG, shoujo ai
Excerpt: Tomoyo stole a kiss from her love the day she married. The day, that is, that her love was married.
Title: Moonlight Sonata [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Sakura
Quote: 11. “If I’m dreaming, never let me wake. If I’m awake, never let me dream.”
Words: 100
Rating: G
Excerpt: I tell him he is more than Clow, and he answers that I am too perfect, and this must be a dream.
Title: Love Unconfessed [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo primarily; Tomoyo/Sakura, past Eriol/Kaho
Quote: 12. "I thought being with you would hurt more than being alone. I was wrong, and now we can never go back to the way things were before."
Words: 3507
Rating: G
Excerpt: "I think I love you," he said in a calm voice, but his eyes betrayed his seriousness.
Title: Friends [link]
Pairing: Meiling/Syaoran; Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 13. "We were friends. Then I gave you my heart and there the story ends."
Words: 392
Rating: G
Excerpt: I had always wanted to be the princess rescued by my gallant knight to ride off into the sunset.
Title: Surprise [link]
Pairing: Meiling/Syaoran; Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 14. "Don't tell me you love me, it's not who you are. I want to die without hearing those words. That would be a wonderful way to die."
Words: 349
Rating: PG13 for semi-graphic character death
Excerpt: "You're my favorite cousin," he said instead, knowing it wasn't enough.
Title: Letter [link]
Pairing: Fujitaka/Nadeshiko
Quote: 15. "The other day I woke up and I swear I smelled you in the air. But when I rolled over you weren't there. I got mad at myself for getting happy."
Words: 662
Rating: PG, heavy discussion of character death
Excerpt: One of the books I've been reading lately suggested that writing a letter to someone you lost helps tie up loose ends. I don't know if that's true or not, but I'm willing to try.
Title: Dreamer [link]
Pairing: Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 16. "You know when you left I stopped dreaming."
"Why?"
"You were my dream."
Words: 368
Rating: G
Excerpt: The sky was perfectly blue the day he came back, the color of Tomoyo's eyes when she was happy.
Title: Broken [link]
Pairing: Meiling/Syaoran; Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 17. "I will break your heart by breaking my own."
Words: 418
Rating: G
Excerpt: "I broke your heart by breaking my own," he said into the darkness, reaching out with his arm and clutching at nothing.
Title: Miss You [link]
Pairing: gen
Quote: 18. "I can't see you, but I know you're there. I can feel you."
Words: 218
Rating: G
Excerpt: Late last night I woke up with my mother's name on my lips and bolted upright in bed, gasping.
Title: I Hate You [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Meiling primarily, Syaoran/Sakura, Meiling/Syaoran, Tomoyo/Sakura
Quote: 19. "I hate you. I hate the way you look at me, and the way you talk to me. I hate the way you make me feel. I hate the way I'll watch the door waiting for you. I hate the fact that I don't think I can live without you."
Words: 889
Rating: G
Excerpt: It started when Eriol got the invitation to Sakura and Syaoran's wedding. He saw her there for the first time in almost ten years. She was the last bridesmaid, and the saddest looking one.
Title: Ghost [link]
Pairing: Tomoyo/Sakura primarily; Syaoran/Sakura
Quote: 20. (author's choice) 20. "It wasn't you. It never is."
Words: 486
Rating: G
Excerpt: The other day on the street I saw a girl with green, green eyes and my lips parted, your name threatening to spill over my lips.