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Title: I knew the bottom wasn't there
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 275 words
Prompt: Clow/Yuuko, chair, for lady_kikyou
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko
Other: n/a

Excerpt: He asked her if she wanted it, in the end. She looked at the chair with such venom in her eyes that he immediately regretted the question.

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Title: Managing Accounts
Fandom: xxxHOLiC/Legal Drug
Length: 618 words
Prompt: 31_days: 19 Oct 09 // hide-and-seek among the tea flowers; comment_fic: xxxHolic/Legal Drug, Yuuko and Kakei (with implied Doumeki/Watanuki and Rikuo/Kazehaya), bonding and reminiscing over the shared love of making their errand boys do humiliating things
Pairing: Yuuko and Kakei; slight Doumeki/Watanuki and Rikuo/Kazahaya implied
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Yuuko watched her creation fondly, lifting her cup of tea to her lips for a moment, and then resting it on the table next to her. It was still half-full, but Kakei refilled it anyway, his smile never fading.

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Title: Key to the Future
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Length: 193 words
Prompt: First sentence meme: "Kero did not sleep well that night."
Pairing: Kero gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Her hand curled around the absence of the key she normally wore around her neck and she turned over, sighing. Kero stared in horror for a moment before shaking her awake.

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Title: Light Created
Fandom: Angelic Layer/Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 380 words
Prompt: clampanonmeme: Misaki/(MKR) Hikaru, summer.
Pairing: slight Misaki/Hikaru
Other: AU with MKR Knights in Chobits world.

Excerpt: Before Misaki could even begin to explain, Hikaru's companions caught up with her-- a girl with long straight hair and another in glasses.

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Title: Joyful
Fandom: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle/Cardcaptor Sakura
Length: 427 words
Prompt: clampanonmeme: Fai + Nakuru, anything.
Pairing: Fai gen
Other: AU in which the travelers return to the xH world for a feather. Set early in series.

Excerpt: Fai shakes Nakuru's hand; she wraps her arms around his neck, makes him promise to return if he can.

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Title: traveler's log: Five Worlds Clow and Yuuko Visited
Fandom: xxxHOLiC(/Magic Knight Rayearth/Wish)
Length: 1027 words
Prompt: A five-things fic for Clow/Yuuko for lady_kikyou; journeys and quests for cliche_bingo
Pairing: Clow/Yuuko
Other: #1 is a MKR crossover, #5 is a Wish crossover, the rest aren't CLAMP worlds.

Excerpt: The way that the angels dressed reminded Yuuko of Yue. She gave Clow a measured look. After a moment, he shrugged and turned to rest his arms on the rail of the bridge, looking out.

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Title: Cardcaptor Watanuki
Fandom: CLAMP-verse; xxxHOLiC/CCS
Length: 1261 words
Prompt: poly_crack Kink Meme: Cardcaptor Watanuki.
Pairing: xH and CCS casts; ensemble gen
Other: A "missing" moment set somewhere after xH ch124. Should actually be canon-compliant, except that this never happened on-screen in canon.

Excerpt: "We don't have a loud-mouthed plush toy or a stick-in-the-mud winged guardian," she said thoughtfully, "but you'll just have to do, Watanuki-kun~."

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Title: The Arrangement
Length: 360 words
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura/xxxHOLiC (/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)
Pairing/characters: Eriol and Yuuko gen
Rating: G
Warnings: Tsubasa spoilers
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Yuuko versus Eriol: battle of wits

Excerpt: He lets himself in. She'd forgotten about the key in the box under the bush and he brushes a leaf from his face as he steps into the shop. He is not empty-handed. He has a bottle tucked under his arm and a pink staff in his other hand.

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Title: A Wolf at the Door; or Sanctuary
Length: 300 words
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura/xxxHOLiC
Pairing/characters: Watanuki and Eriol gen
Rating: G
Warnings: vague account of injury
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Watanuki and Eriol with the title, "A Wolf at the Door"

Excerpt: Watanuki wasn't sure why he knew this would be the place to stop, but he had little more than instinct left behind the keening wall of pain.

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Title: Friends Are For
Length: 214 words
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura/xxxHOLiC (/Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)
Pairing/characters: Sakura and Yuuko gen
Rating: G
Warnings: Tsubasa spoilers
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Sakura and Yuuko -- I've traveled the world and the seven seas / everybody's looking for something

Excerpt: But she kept coming back to take tea with Yuuko and talk about high school, pulling Yuuko out of the shop, into the world.

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