the_rck
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- Weiß Kreuz (28)
- Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny (22)
- Sky High (2005) (13)
- Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis (8)
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Twelve years after Homecoming, killing Warren's father serves as the opening move in a much bigger game. In the immediate aftermath, Zach talks to Barron Battle's lieutenant, and she starts to understand how very dangerous Warren's former sidekicks are.
“At this point, you wouldn’t manage to touch her at all.” Zach made the words a warning rather than a threat.
Windy eyed him appraisingly. “And if I take you hostage?”
Zach was almost certain that she wasn’t really considering it. Even so, he bared his teeth in an unfriendly smile. “I don’t recommend it. Really don’t. Layla’ll probably let you go completely without that. You threaten any of us, and she won’t let you go, won’t even let you die.” He took a deep breath. “Partly because she’ll be pissed, but partly because we need to make an unsubtle point about consequences. It just doesn’t have to be you.”
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- Part 6 of Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion
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Hard Unsanctified Desire by the_rck for SilverShepard
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
07 Jul 2018
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The landscape consisted entirely of black lines on a white background. Trees, hills, a deep ravine on the right, all done as outlines and white space. Tony stood in front of a cave entrance. He knew, more or less, what waited within, and he wanted very badly to turn and run, but he knew he wouldn’t, not tonight.
Some nights, Loki wanted that, but Tony could tell that it wasn’t on tonight’s agenda. He’d have started somewhere else if it were.
Tony was asleep. He knew that, too. He always knew that. It just didn’t help him at all. He’d never admit it, not even to himself, but anything that would ‘help’ would be decidedly unwelcome. He desperately wanted to be there and very desperately wanted not to be. If he had a choice, he’d have to be responsible and say no. If he could say no, the whole thing would be wrong.
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Shores of Entangled Blood by the_rck for ancslove
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
07 Jul 2018
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“Very good,” Spike said. “Very good. You come to heel, and maybe I’ll want to keep you forever the way Drusilla does. You might even start eating regular.” He leaned in and pressed his lips against Angel’s.
Angel didn’t try to stop Spike’s teeth sinking into Angel’s lower lip. He didn’t try to swallow the whimper of pain. Instead, he bundled together everything he had left that might let him resist and shoved it all deep into his mind, somewhere farther down than where Angelus was. He felt Angelus shift to hold it submerged.
If Angel died here, Angelus would, too.
Angelus would let it all resurface if there was ever a need to use it. In the meantime, Angel would become nothing but what Spike and Drusilla wanted. Angel would accept despair.
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Later, Karl always thought of it in present tense. At any moment, it was both over and just beginning, smeared backward and forward through time so that it was constantly happening in the now. He had the layers of changing memories to tell him that nothing had altered enough for it not to have happened, not to still be happening. He just wasn’t there for it any more.
He wasn’t supposed to remember it at all, not in general form and certainly not in details, but he’d gotten old in service before the now when he was young. The now was real, but he wasn’t letting anyone-- not the enemy and not his well-meaning rescuers-- take his past-future. It had happened, and now, it wouldn’t.
Except that it had.
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Rya’s lips curved upward. Those were the best because they couldn’t believe that it was happening, not to them instead of by them. She turned to evaluate the room, looking for things she might use as toys. She should have come prepared tonight. Usually she did for a place like this, but she’d had the extra bag to carry--
Oh. That was why the Sparks had insisted on it. This wouldn’t be a one and done. They’d be taking him home. The magic woven into the cloth would make him lighter and smaller so that she wouldn’t so obviously be carrying a body. She could probably manage the weight and bulk if she left the rest of her haul behind, but she wouldn’t have to.
The Sparks were thoughtful like that.
She hadn’t brought anyone home before, but they had cells. It was something normal for the Sparks and their avatars. Rya supposed that the Sparks had waited for her to be ready to care for a prisoner. She felt a thrill at the realization that they trusted her with the responsibility. She’d been avatar for five years, and she suspected that this was the step that would carry her into the fullness of that office.
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Whoever I May Become by the_rck
Fandom: Phineas and Ferb, Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011)
14 Apr 2018
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Nothing Until I Happen by the_rck
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
02 Mar 2018
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This series is a collection of canon divergent AUs that all start from something different happening after Luke trapped Merlin at the end of Trumps of Doom. Some of them also branch off from each other. Generally speaking, reading one doesn't require having read the others even if it's late in the sequence.
I may shift the numbering of stories within the series to reflect new stories with earlier branching/divergence points.
The list of stories and notes on how they fit together and diverge can be found here on DreamWidth. The list includes unposted WIP. I tried to avoid out and out spoilers, but my judgment on what constitutes a spoiler is suspect.
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Always comes around again by Elenothar
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
30 Mar 2018
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Poe TLJ Time Loop fic.
All it takes is one stray thought, growing and shaping, fed by despair: I wish I could go back and change it. The Force and its unquiet ghosts are listening.
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14 Aug 2018
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Hot Buttered Crumpets by greerwatson for Artemis1000
Fandoms: Crossover Groups, Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
13 Jul 2018
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Professor Kirke wangles Lucy an invitation to tea.
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29 Jul 2018
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the past is a foreign country (diplomacy sometimes breaks down) by Morbane for DesertScribe
Fandoms: The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
19 Mar 2018
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Returning with the Orbs was never the best-case scenario - they were placed in the past for a reason.
On the other hand, it also wasn't the worst.
(A theory of how the Orb plot looked from the perspective of Karina's people.)
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05 Jun 2018
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Harmonia's Daughters by Domenika Marzione (domarzione)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Black Panther (2018), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies)
08 May 2018
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The ladies who rise from Infinity War's ashes.
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15 May 2018
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Into the Western Wild by Dragonbat
Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
31 Mar 2011
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When Mary Lennox storms out of Misselthwaite Manor, she finds herself in a rather different garden.
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17 Mar 2018