Whispers

June 2015 (about 58K)

1. Drabble: Fraternity (The Unusuals, Walsh & Casey): AO3


2. Drabble: Mission Success (MI4, Jane/Brandt): AO3


3. Drabble: This is Not a Request (616, Kate/Clint): AO3


4. Drabble: A Time to Embrace (Divergent Movieverse, Tris/Four): AO3


5. Drabble: About a Girl (Good Will Hunting, Skylar/Will): AO3


6. The Changeling (Blank Space, Taylor/Sean): AO3


7. Shining in the Corners (MCU, Maria/Bucky): LJ | AO3


8. Slow Dance (MCU, Bobbi/Hunter): LJ


9. Upon Questioning the Sanity of a Certain Archer (MCU, Clint/Laura + Natasha): LJ


10. Drabble: Still Beautiful (MCU, Clint/Laura): LJ | AO3


11. My Job (MCU, Clint/Wanda): AO3


12. Drabble: Denial (MCU, Clint/Wanda + Natasha): AO3


13. Tracing Trouble (Original: Kingdoms and Thorn, Cate/Marc): AO3


14. Fever (Tortall, Daine/Numair): AO3


15. One for Hope, for Peace, and for Joy (Andromeda, Trance/Harper): AO3


16. Look Who Came to Dinner (MCU, Phil + Clint + Natasha): LJ


17. Exception (Original: Kingdoms and Thorn, Shift/Kilter): LJ


18. 15-Word Prompt Meme (multifandom, 8 fills): LJ


19. Drabble: Own (the Sword) (Tortall, Alex/Alanna): LJ


20. Make Me Forget (MCU, Skye/Tripp): AO3


21. That One Child (MCU, Andrew/May): AO3


22. The Apocalypse (Original: Kingdoms and Thorn, Cate + Dreamer): LJ


23. Must Bring Flowers (MCU, Maria/Steve + Clint/Natasha): AO3


24. Drabble: The Worldship Hungry (Andromeda, Tyr): AO3


25. Drabble: Mother, Monster (MCU, Jiaying + Skye): AO3


26. Drabble: The Last Day and Hour of the Infamous Convertible (MCU, Bobbi/Hunter): AO3


27. Drabble: The Things We Should Not Be (Andromeda, Trance + Harper): AO3


28. Drabble: Domestic Maintenance (MCU, Clint/Natasha): LJ | AO3


29. Drabble: Hide the Bruises (MCU, Clint/Natasha): LJ | AO3


30. Drabble: A Time to Refrain (MCU, Clint/Natasha): LJ | AO3


31. Drabble: Changeling (MCU, Clint/Natasha): LJ


32. Drabble: Origins (MCU, Clint/Natasha): LJ


33. Drift (MCU, Jemma/Bucky): AO3


34. Reading Volumes (MCU, Clint/Natasha): AO3


35. The Fine Art of Compromise (MCU, Steve/Maria + Pepper/Tony): AO3


36. Alternate Definitions of the Word 'Family' (MCU, Clint/Laura): AO3


37. A Factual Account of the Important Details of Eustace Scrubb's First Visit to Narnia (Narnia, Eustace + Jill): AO3


38. Like That (Living Legend Remixed) (X-Men Movieverse, Bobby/Rogue + Logan): AO3


39. Stay (By the Wayside) (MCU, Jemma/Bucky): AO3


40. The Way to be a Good Neighbor (MCU, Steve/Maria + Pepper/Tony): AO3


41. Transition, (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Carter/Brandt): AO3


42. World's Worst Road Trip (MCU, Hunter/Bobbi): AO3


43. Remember the Name (MCU, Steve/Maria): AO3


44. All Tied Up (Marvel 616, Clint + Kate): AO3

Warnings: The usual for the 'verse - child abuse and exploitation, underage, violence and references to violence.

A/N: Written for the "secret child" square for my Trope Bingo card. Not quite as storyish as I was hoping and far more fanficcish, but ah well, it exists.

Summary: When she woke up nauseous and sick and went to fight and train anyway, when she stumbled off the mats to find a private corner with a trash can to lose all the food she hadn't eaten, when her body ached in strange places and she couldn't find a comfortable way to sleep—she hadn't known any better. She hadn't known she was pregnant, so she didn't tell Kilter.

Shift knew now. She still didn't tell him.

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April 2015 (about 8K)

1. Reminisce (Original: Kingdoms and Thorn, Cate + Jason): Other


2. Man, Wife, and Slinky Dress (Firefly, Wash/Zoe): AO3


3. As Real Girls Do (MCU, Dottie + Peggy + Angie): AO3


4. The Rule Where Falling Asleep Isn't Sleeping (616, Clint/Kate): AO3


5. A Lucky-Eyed View (616, Lucky + Kate + Clint): LJ | AO3


6. Date Night (MCU, Darcy/Steve): LJ


7. Timing (Bourne Movies, Jason/Marie): LJ


8. Dust to Dust (MCU, Clint/Darcy): LJ


9. Hawkeye Speaking (616, Tony + Kate): LJ


10. Safe Space (MCU, Clint +/Bucky): AO3


11. Mend (Bourne Movies, Aaron/Marta): LJ | AO3


12. My Bruises Are All Older Than You (616, Clint + Kate): LJ | AO3


13. Legacy (or What's in Me is in You) (616, Clint + Kate): LJ | AO3


14. Here Be Dragons (Bourne Movies, Aaron/Marta): LJ | AO3


15. You and Me Both (MCU, Clint/Bobbi): LJ | AO3

So in the final analysis, for completed fics, I wrote about 20K in February. The goal for the month was about 38K. Not bad.

1. Recruitment (MCU, Bobbi + Clint): Not posted yet



2. MCU Ladies Ficathon Treat: AO3



3. The Truth Now (MCU, Bobbi/Lance): LJ



4. Solidarity (MCU, Bobbi + Melinda + Skye): AO3



5. Made and Meant (MCU, Clint/Natasha): LJ | AO3



6. A Valentine's Day Win (MCU, Clint +/ Natasha): LJ | AO3



7. Lost Bet (MCU, Clint/Natasha): LJ | AO3



8. A Box of Valentine's Cheer (MCU, Clint/Natasha): LJ | AO3



9. Clint's Hugs and What Natasha Finally Did With Them (MCU, Clint + Natasha): LJ | AO3



10. Third Purim Gifts Fic: AO3



11. MCU Ladies Ficathon Treat: AO3



12. Untitled (Original: Splintered, Bridhë/Yaden): LJ



13. A Light Would Pass (MCU, Clint/Natasha): AO3



14. Catch My Breath (616, Clint/Kate/Barney): AO3



15. Purim Gifts Pinch Hit: AO3



16. Hobbies (MCU, Clint/Natasha/Bucky): LJ



17. Cold Comfort (616, Clint + Barney): AO3



18. Unearthly Green (MCU, Darcy/Steve): LJ



19. MCU Ladies Ficathon Treat: AO3

Italicized pieces are commentfic and generally very short. Bolded pieces are for unrevealed challenges or collections and will be updated later. This does NOT include any WIP fic at all.

I may come back and talk about some of these in particular (okay, I probably will), but this will do for a brief summary. I'm tracking all completed fics for the year here.

From likewinning:

Never Will I Ever meme: Name three fics you think I will never, ever, ever write. In return, I may attempt to write a snippet of one of them.

Note: These can be any of my fandoms or original work.

It's everywhere. Fine! I capitulate. :waves the white flag:

From everyone, literally everyone, the WIP meme. Three random sentences from three random WIPs:

A Game for the Gods for trovia - Vardin

She reached up and gently, tenderly brushed the backs of her knuckles over the edge of his jaw in lieu of the kiss that would certainly wake him. At least one of them should sleep.

Tomorrow was the Open. If any vent-skimmer was actually going to die, it would probably be then.

Monsters and Daisychains - Agents of SHIELD

"What are you doing?"

Skye looks up sharply, then down, following Jemma's gaze to the string of flowers she's been steadily inking into a napkin. They're daisies, she realizes, and her hand clenches against the tabletop.

Falcon Whose Name is Death for inkvoices - MCU

"By this Holy water and by your Precious Blood, wash away all our sins, O Lord," she murmurs reverently. Fire pours out of her wounds as she stares. She waits until flames leap from her fingertips then plunges her hands into the water and whispers the prayer again.

I've got a handful of stories that are on the table right now:

• belated Yuletide gifts (1 or 2 will do, she's not picky)
• the collaboration (she's patient, which is good because I'm deep in revision/formatting wonderland)
• Splintered Gates (which is my learning how to write on a tablet book)
• Collateral Damage (the follow-up to Dowse and Bleed)

I've had an 4100+ word opening to Collateral Damage from before that phrase appeared in Dowse and Bleed, but I didn't know which direction to turn after that because it starts out from the perspective of Andre and Shift instead of a direct head-on with Rachelle. Which meant I hadn't the foggiest idea whose story it was and why. I only knew what was going on: the crisis.

Today, I went for the dubious option of just pick one. Here's the snippet:

Breathe. This was not supposed to happen now, not so soon, and not like this.

It was an effort to breathe, to shift gears from the world as Rachelle had always known it. Cycling was survival. She had to move the flood of genetic entries through her vascular system and into archive as soon as possible, or the backup would overwhelm her veins, which could only handle so much. But this day had been coming a long time, and it hit her hard when she incorporated one more entry into her own permanent genetic makeup and then felt that harsh inability to breathe that it was the archive out of space.

Don't cycle. Don't cycle. Back up, spin the paddles, find a shield and stop her own genetic flow. How can you deny your very bones?

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

Let's take the third first. Overhauling the story from inferno, aka "Dowse and Bleed," left me feeling drained and exhausted, but it's out to beta and may she not find any more structural issues that need addressing. For that matter, may I not!

On angst: I write a lot of it. I know that. I've been buried it in lately and I feel a desperate need for something light, fluffy, and humorous, so on to point two:

Anyway I need something light and fluffy to clear out some headspace. Anyone want to give me

1. A character or couple
2. A random word or object

And I will write you a drabble: 100 words. No more. That'll keep my headspace break from getting out of hand. :grins:

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Completed Drabbles

Seven Days

• Lena/Wesley – Unshelved Books
• Lena/Wesley – How Can You Pick?
• Connor + Wesley/Lena – What You Don't Know
• Connor + Wesley – Of Seeds and Men
• Connor + Wesley – Technically Strangers
• Wesley + Connor/Ashelynn – A Matter of Taste
• Lena/Wesley – Just for a Minute
• Lena/Wesley – The Dream Box
• Lena/Wesley – Two
• Angelita + Lena/Wesley – Photographic Evidence
• Connor/Ashelynn – A Long Night
• Connor + Angelita + Lena/Wesley – Lost Cause

Kingdoms and Thorn

• Red Wolf/Whisper – Bedtime
• Rachelle/Justus – Uncivilized
• Red Wolf/Whisper – Bluegrass
• Rachelle/Justus – Breathing Room
• Ashen + Red Wolf/Whisper – I Think She Likes It
• Shift + daughter – Once There Was a Princess
• Sketch/Lightsculpt – Waiting
• Storm + team ensemble – Love, War, and Popcorn
• Rachelle/Justus – Shirt Theft
• Rachelle/Justus – Crashing the Party
• Rachelle/Justus – You're Hired
• Storm + Surge – Pint-Size
• Sketch + Lightsculpt – Sculpting the Minutes
• Red Wolf/Whisper – What Little Girls are Made Of
• Storm + team ensemble + Anya – Wrapped
• Shift + daughter – Birth of Wings
• Sear + team ensemble – Popcorn Thief
• Shift + Kilter + daughter – What's in a Name?
• Ashen + Red Wolf – Defining Relationships
• Sketch/Lightsculpt – Letters from War
• Rachelle/Justus – Protective Measures
• Rachelle + the cat – Ode on the Death of a Favorite Shirt, Torn in the Claws of Sophocles
• Rachelle + team ensemble – The Coming of Sophocles
• Keeper/Brushfire – Remember the Lullaby
• Red Wolf/Whisper – A Quiet Interlude
• Keeper/Brushfire – As Good as a Promise
• Sketch/Lightsculpt – Call It a Night
• Rachelle/Justus + Sophie – This Child

Kingdoms and Thorn/Fire and Water Crossover Fanfic

• Sophocles + Chocolate – Pets of the Unusually Gifted
• Clown Fish + Sophocles – And Then the Deluge

X-Men Movieverse

• Rogue/Remy – Date Night In

X-Men Evoverse

• Rogue/Remy – Where, Oh Where Has My Flatiron Gone?

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

So I've been scribbling away on the Comment Fic LiveJournal Community, and while they welcome original fiction, I've mostly scribbled fanfic. This is the first original piece I wrote over there. I'll put up the other 2 (make that 3) fanfic pieces later.

Little Things

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters: Justus, and Brittany Rachelle Winslow, the Database
Pairings: Justus/Rachelle
Prompt: "You look good in my shirt."
Rating:
Notes:

This one’s for you, thecatisacritic. :grins:

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Justus never expected to see Rachelle wearing his shirt. He also didn’t expect his reaction to seeing it.

   

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

Not all stories ask permission nicely to impinge upon my inspiration. No, they barge in and take over! We're at 2000+ words and counting.

Have a snippet:

"Storm."

He is just coming out of the conference room and glances down at her before they fall into step on the way to their team area in the underground military facility. They don't speak until they're on home turf, out of the way where it's safe, and Storm discharges enough electrical energy into the security system to kill any tracking or monitoring.

Whisper shows him the file. Code 48. The Department's way of cutting its losses and abandoning a compromised operative to their own fate.

Storm's jaw clenches. Alpha Wolf doesn't deserve this. "You know what you're asking?" he demands of her. Countering direct Department orders always results in punishment, and Storm has always deliberately made sure he took the heat for all of them. It is the way of the third ranking, which Storm now occupies. He has always had the temperament for it.

But Whisper shifts her head slightly to one side in a negative, bigger picture in mind than what he's implying. "Storm," she says softly, sotto voice, and his eyes darken as he listens. "I'm not asking."

Compromised operatives do not have family. They were stolen as children and have never been a liability for their knowledge, only the physical evidence of genetic manipulation and government illegal activities their bodies represent. Human weapons. Red Wolf, her lover whom she calls Alpha, has a family. He knows everything there is to know about too much classified information.

"I lost the Christian," she whispers.

The first man she had ever loved died while infiltrating a terrorist cell. Storm held her through that storm, anchored her grief after she had wiped out every person related to the Christian's death. He hears what she has not said outright. They're going to kill him.

She didn't ask Storm before she took on an entire terrorist organization and became known as the first ranked assassin in the Department. She isn't asking now if they can save their leader.

"Do you know what you're saying?" Storm raises his eyebrows, incredulous, because he does. This will require more than just defying orders and intercepting the kill team. They can't just extract him. They have to keep him alive and either out of the reach of the Department and their handlers or of his family who is now rushing to his side.

Whisper nods. "Shift owes me."

They're going to have to burn the Department to the ground.

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.