Clare-Dragonfly

Title: Maureen
World: Moonsisters
Word count: 6,004
Rating: PG-13 for implied child abuse and possibly murder
Prompt: rainbowfic Antique Brass 1, Okay, could you sound a little more creepy?; The Hills of Iowa 2, Oh, my enemy, beautiful enemy.; origfic_bingo silence
Notes: This is a lot scarier than it was when I first started writing about these characters. When I was, uh, twelve. Oh, and ...Squirrel takes place during this story.


“Oh my god, your hair is just so silky, isn’t it? How do you do it?”

There were hands in Ivy’s hair. She sat up straight and still. It was a pleasant tone of voice; whoever it was seemed to be just trying to be friendly. But still, they were touching her hair. She twitched her head so it came out of the person’s hands and moved slowly so that she could see who it was. She stayed silent.

It was Maureen, the most beautiful, blonde, popular girl in the school, now standing with her hands on her hips and a teasing smile on her face. “Ivy, right? I mean, your hair is just perfect. What kind of conditioner do you use?”( Read more... )

Title: Country Matters
Word count: 5,612
Rating: hard R? for sexual activities between two characters who are both under 18 and some profanity
Prompt: rainbowfic Tyrian Purple 10, the face that sailed a thousand ships and Heart Gold 17, Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. - Henry Ward Beecher
Notes: Written for the rainbowfic Canvas challenge.


Maggie ducked into the school, darted into the girls’ bathroom, locked herself in a stall and pulled off her backpack. She changed quickly; she’d gotten pretty good at this, the last few years, since she’d begun to properly assert her independence and not actually wear what her mother picked out for her at school.

Of course, she couldn’t wear her real clothes out of the house. There’d been enough screaming matches over that. Maggie was learning to pick her battles.( Read more... )