Clare-Dragonfly

Title: Water: No Bridge
Fandom: Addergoole/fae apoc
Word count: 211
Rating: G
Prompt: Thimbleful Thursday: water under the bridge
Notes: Finally, the return of Kay and Vic! :D Laconic characters are helpful for very short stories.


Vic stops and lowers his bag from his shoulder to rest on the ground. “I’m quite certain,” he says, “that there used to be a bridge here.”

Kayros surveys the empty water, blank and featureless, except for the fact that she can just barely see land on the other side. “Used to be a lot of things that there aren’t anymore.”

“True.” He looks around and shakes his head. “Should we try another way?”

She smiles. “You know what? I think we’ve found our spot.”

He looks at her and blinks his butterfly-feathery eyelashes and waits for her to explain. She doesn’t always have to explain; sometimes he just knows what she means.

She sets down her own pack and gestures at the water. “No bridges here. No bridges up and down. We’re not the only ones who can’t get across.”

He tilts his head, then understanding dawns in his eyes. “We can make ourselves useful. I don’t think either of us has enough magic to make a bridge…”

She shakes her head. “A ferry. People pay to get across, we pay for our food, look like ordinary people.”

Vic smirks at that. “Ordinary?”

“Close enough,” Kay says, and leans in to kiss him.

“A ferry,” says Vic musingly. “Okay.”

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Title: Good Advice (AO3)
Rating: G
Characters: Helena "H. G." Wells, Jimmy Palmer, Breena Slater
Prompt: intoabar: Helena Wells walks into a bar and meets... Jimmy Palmer!
Summary: Helena is worried about Artie; she meets a guy who turns out to be a good listener.
Author's Notes: This is set during the first half of season 4 of Warehouse 13 and after season 9 of NCIS. Contains some spoilers. The entire fic is from H. G.'s perspective, so canon knowledge of NCIS is not necessary. Includes Jimmy's relationship with Breena and H. G.'s with Myka, but neither is the focus of the fic.


Helena walked down the street with a sigh. Sometimes artifact hunting was a chore, a drag, a pain. No wonder the Warehouse agents usually did their hunting only when there were sightings; with no clues to go on, no one apparently using the artifact to do strange things, there was nothing to do but search out obscure mentions from minor writings, and comb the world.

It wasn’t as though she was in a hurry at the moment, though. In fact, she rather had a feeling that she shouldn’t hurry, should take as long as she could manage to find this particular dagger. True, Artie had asked her particularly, and she felt a peculiar loyalty to the crotchety, brilliant man who had so recently completely turned around in her opinion of her. But there was something odd about the request, and she wanted to turn it around in her mind some more.( Read more... )

Title: Three's a Crowd
Rating: PG
Characters: Ivette, un-named other characters
Prompt: kink_bingo: gangbang
Warnings: (skip) potential dub-con
Summary: Ivette sends out a lot of invitations.
Author's Notes: For the mini-bingo challenge.


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Title: Rigging Rope
Rating: FRT/R
Characters: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells
Prompt: kink_bingo: suspension
Warnings: none
Summary: Myka is caught in the rigging ropes of the Mary Celeste.
Author's Notes: For KB's January mini bingo challenge.

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Title: Hammocks
Rating: FRAO/NC-17
Characters: Lavender Brown/Padma Patil
Prompt: kink_bingo: suspension
Warnings: Characters are both 17--this is enough to mark the characters underage but in Wizarding culture they are considered of age.
Summary: Lavender teaches Padma to enjoy the hammocks in the Room of Requirement.
Author's Notes: When I had the idea for this fic I really thought it would be Padma in charge. I have a very strong Padma-muse and she's, well... very domme. But apparently, Lavender wanted to help her with her control issues instead. Also, this completes my line bingo! Yay!

On AO3


Padma and Lavender lay in their hammocks, holding hands across the space of air between them. All around them, the Room of Requirement was filled with snores and snuffles and soft, heavy breathing. Padma and Lavender were the only two awake. And Padma had no desire to go to sleep, despite the fact that tomorrow they would probably find someone else they needed to rescue, or strike some blow against the Carrows, or evade some of the all-too-happy Slytherins. She just wanted to lie here looking at Lavender’s smiling face and holding her warm hand.( Read more... )

Title: Five Hundred
Rating: FRAO/NC-17
Characters: Michelle Lee/Jimmy Palmer
Prompt: kink_bingo: wildcard (prostitution)
Summary: Jimmy really likes Michelle's outfit from going undercover. Tag to episode 4x08 "Once a Hero."
Author's Notes: Unbetaed, because I was too lazy to find an NCIS beta, so feel free to point out any typos. Also, feel free to suggest a better title because THIS ONE IS TERRIBLE I HATE TITLES.

On AO3


Jimmy was putting the last of the pipettes back into the drawer, thoroughly washed and neatly stacked, when Michelle came in. This was a frequent habit of theirs. Even when they met during the day, they often met again at night. Jimmy was not going to complain about this.

He heard the doors open and turned with a smile on his face, intending to compliment her on her heroism—he’d heard about her undercover work from Tony, and he was really impressed. But when he saw her, his jaw dropped and his mind emptied of the words he’d prepared.

She was still wearing the courtesan outfit.( Read more... )

Title: To Face the Demons
Rating: NC-17/Explicit
Characters: Emily Prentiss/John Cooley, David Rossi, BAU team, Father Paul Silvano, Father Jimmy Davison
Prompt: cm_bigbang
Warnings: (skip) Graphic violence, major character death, noncon/dubcon, sex involving underage characters (they are 15 and 16). Yes, I managed to write a fic using every single AO3 warning.
Summary: When Emily's old friend, Matthew Benton, is killed, she suspects foul play. She and the team catch the killer, Father Paul Silvano, and have him sent out of the country. But when he tells them they've just made the world a more dangerous place, he's telling the truth. Soon more murders, even stranger ones, are appearing on the BAU's radar, and John Cooley is hanging around a lot more. (AU/tag to 4x17 "Demonology.")
Author's Notes: Thanks to ariestess for the inspiration and beta! Story is full of spoilers for 4x17 "Demonology" and also includes slight, blink-and-you'll-miss-them spoilers for Emily's arc in season 6.

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Title: The Sword and the Mind
Rating: R/FRM
Characters: Spencer Reid/Steve Jinks, Penelope Garcia/Claudia Donovan, background Myka Bering/Helena "H.G." Wells; all Warehouse and BAU agents
Prompt: casestory
Warnings: (skip) Implied child sexual abuse and murder
Summary: After having her death faked, Emily Prentiss expected to travel around Europe, hiding from Doyle and having contact only with JJ--not to be surprised in her hotel room and whisked off to South Dakota to hide in a warehouse and help hunt down quasi-magical artifacts. Now that Doyle is dead, she can return to her own team, but her conscience stops her. She can't leave until they solve the mystery of who is using the sword of Gilles de Rais to murder children. Bringing the BAU and Warehouse 13 together to catch a killer isn't going to be easy, but it's the only way.

Story on AO3

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Title: Part 1: Addergoole
Word count: 765
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: none
Notes: These characters ambushed me last night and were like "Write about us! We do awesome stuff in fae-apoc!" And I was like "Okay, but how did you meet?" And then they told me. This is that story. I still don't know what awesome stuff they do in fae-apoc, or what Kay's innate power is, but I suppose they'll tell me eventually.

(For those unfamiliar, this is fanfic [with original characters] for aldersprig's Addergoole setting. You should read it because it's awesome.)


Kayros stands in the Village and watches Vic. Vic, of course, is watching Nora. Nora is walking away without a backwards glance, without even a thought for the beautiful butterfly boy she’s chosen to abandon.

Kay knows what it’s like, of course. She knows it’s the way things work here. But she doesn’t have to like it. She doesn’t have to approve of the way Vic is shaking and pale and looks like he’s lost everything, casually tossed away like a used-up possession at the end of the year.( Read more... )

Title: Time to Relax
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Emily Prentiss/Jordan Todd
Prompt: kink_bingo: in public
Summary: After they get what they need from Viper, Emily helps Jordan unwind.
Author's Notes: Episode tag to 4x09 "52 Pickup."

On AO3


Emily lets out an explosive sigh as she slaps her phone closed. “Thank God that’s over.”

Jordan nods in tired agreement. “I thought this would be kind of fun, but all that arrogance just rubbed my nerves raw.”

Emily grins suddenly. “Oh, come on. It was actually kind of fun. Tearing him down like that…”

The smile is infectious, and Jordan can’t help grinning back. “Yeah, I guess. I just wish I thought it would teach him a lesson. But he’s not going to change.”( Read more... )