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Title: and would suffice
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 425 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: xxxHOLiC, Himawari (+Yuuko), outside the shop
Pairing: Himawari & Yuuko gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Himawari is always a little surprised to see Yuuko outside of the shop. She never seems to fit well into the world.

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Title: against protocol
Fandom: Star Wars/CLAMP
Length: 351 words
Prompt: Star Wars and CLAMP crossover for chibidl
Pairing: Watanuki gen
Other: Fusion fic with CLAMP characters in the Star Wars verse.

Excerpt: WT-NK1 was not having a very good day. He was not having a very good day at all.

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Title: Twins
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 357 words
Prompt: Fic-or-treat: Maru and Moro get separated somehow for claire_chan
Pairing: Yuuko, Watanuki, Maru & Moro gen
Other: More of an AU sort of thing than the prompt. Spoilers for ch182-ish.

Excerpt: Yuuko had cuddled her, called her "my little Marudashi," and it had been just the two of them for a while. Maru slept curled up across Yuuko's feet, and she dreamed of the shop and kept it strong.

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Title: Upon a Time
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 453 words
Prompt: 31_days: 29 Oct 09 // a crow buries its secret
Pairing: Yuuko and Watanuki gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "Once upon a time," Yuuko said, exhaling smoke that slid lazily across the air, half-forming patterns that broke as soon as Watanuki looked at them. "Once upon a time, there was a crow."

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Title: Truly
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 239 words
Prompt: 31_days: 24 Oct 09 // Ask tearfully, truly
Pairing: Yuuko gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: But when someone asked Yuuko for the truth of their futures, they didn't often like the answers she gave. Few people valued a good fortuneteller because of this.

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Title: Real Enough to Matter
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 505 words
Prompt: 31_days: 20 Oct 09 // and within every dewdrop a world of struggle
Pairing: Yuuko and Watanuki gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: She takes his watch but there are other things she could have taken, and she tells him this. His soul, the course of his future-- because his name is false, he is safe enough, but even that name was given in love, and so it means enough to matter.

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Title: By all the eagle in thee, all the dove
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 2305 words
Prompt: 31_days: 9 Oct 09 // wandering birds pass through the village
Pairing: Watanuki and Yuuko gen; Clow/Yuuko implied
Other: This is a fantasy-type AU in which Clow is the king of some not-Clow country, and Yuuko is a traveling shopkeeper with her irritable assistant Watanuki. Also featuring Doumeki the stone-faced knight. Fic dedicated to chibidl because this is her AU I'm playing in. Title from a poem by Richard Crashaw.

Excerpt: For a wagon that looked as old and as odd as it was, it traveled very smoothly, and for the first few days as Watanuki recovered, he felt as though he were on the sea, rocking back and forth.

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Title: Gilt Instead of Gold
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 220 words
Prompt: writing_game Week 64: G+3, Gilt
Pairing: Watanuki gen
Other: Spoilers for ch186.

Excerpt: He was studying a mirror, gold paint flaking, and trying to decide why it gave him the shivers when he heard the crack of thunder.

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Title: Inherited
Fandom: xxxHOLiC
Length: 180 words
Prompt: writing_game Week 64: D+2, Déjà-vu
Pairing: Doumeki gen
Other: Spoilers for ch186.

Excerpt: He'd never thought that the witch could be Watanuki's mother; at least, not the one who gave birth to him, though she'd certainly guided him like one when she was alive.

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Title: Patiently Waiting for Our Wits
Fandom: Chronicles of Chrestomanci/xxxHOLiC
Length: 1271 words
Prompt: From self: I have a sudden brilliant desire to write Chrestomanci/xH fic because Yuuko would dislike grown-up Christopher so very much, and he and Clow would probably get along fabulously.
Pairing: Yuuko and Christopher gen; Clow/Yuuko implied
Other: Set slightly before Charmed Life and some time between Clow's death and Watanuki's employment. Title from a quotation by Eden Phillpotts.

Excerpt: There was a magician in her garden, and he hadn't come through the door. He was just there, adjusting his cuffs and looking around with vague interest.

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