potentiality_26 | Entries tagged with genre: first time

Title: The Garden Where All Beauties Be
Fandom: The Witcher
Pairing/Characters: Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier
Summary: Jaskier gets a noseful of pollen in a mage's tower.
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium (11,193 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: Title from Sir Phillip Sidney's Sonnet 82. I went with more traditional fantasy creatures for the references in this story because that's what's familiar to me — apologies if any of it actually contradicts Witcher canon. I have seen S3 this time, but the vibes are mainly S1 again.
Excerpt:
Jaskier wanted to tell Geralt he felt just fine. That his nose had been irritated at first but that seemed to be over with now and he was — it was fine. Not worth fussing over. All right, maybe worth fussing a little. Maybe worth holding on to him, just for a moment longer. Maybe —

The unfortunate truth, Jaskier slowly realized, was that he did not, in fact, feel fine. It started with a heat in the pit of his stomach and a burning along his skin. And it didn’t get better.

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Title: A Step Too Far
Fandom: Callan
Pairing/Characters: David Callan/Toby Meres, Hunter
Summary: After Richmond, Callan does a spot of eavesdropping and learns something he never knew.
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium (8,434 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: Minor violence. References "The Richmond File" episodes and "You Should Have Got Here Sooner" pretty heavily. I went back and forth on whether to put some kind of "not that fluffy but fluffy for the source material" tag on this- I went back and forth on how fluffy it in fact is- so YMMV. Obviously the "post-canon" tag is used in a "Wet Job? I don't know her" capacity. Fills my 100fandoms table prompt #30 (truth) and possibly also my hc_bingo "forced to participate in illegal / hurtful activity" square.
Excerpt:
Dead mother, absent father, constant stream of nannies and tutors until he could be safely shipped off to boarding school... Callan had skimmed that part of Meres' file while he was Hunter because it all seemed a bit poor little rich boy. It didn’t feel like that now.

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Title: The Second Hand Unwinds
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe (Thor, Avengers)
Pairing/Characters: Loki/Thor
Summary: This isn't a quest. Thor isn't sure what it is, though.
Rating: NC-17
Length: Short (4077 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: Endgame spoilers, canon character death, bittersweet/ambiguous ending. Fills my 100fandoms table prompt #26 (balm). Title from "Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper. Not a fix-it because I'm not sure how to fix a lot of this, but I was definitely working through some stuff. Set before Thor's final scene with the Guardians of the Galaxy characters, I guess, but the continuity's a bit wonky. Enjoy?
Excerpt:
There was a Loki out there who had escaped with the Tesseract, years ago. Thor did not know if he made these trips to find the strength to go looking for him, or the strength not to.

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Title: Snowbound
Fandom: Kingsman
Pairing/Characters: Eggsy Unwin/Harry Hart, Merlin, Original Characters
Summary: Considering how many times Harry has almost died in the field, it would be silly to call this his worst mission. It rather feels like it is, though.
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium (6,033 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: Not Brit-picked.
Excerpt: “Wouldn’t it be easier if I was-” Eggsy cleared his throat again- “Harry’s- you know- his date?” Eggsy’s cheeks reddened slightly, but he held his chin high.

Harry opened his mouth to protest, but before he could get anything out Merlin said, “Very good, Eggsy. You’re exactly right. Those are precisely the covers I’ve built for you.” He held out files to both of them. “Happy reading.”

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Title: The Courtship of Harry Hart
Fandom: Kingsman
Pairing/Characters: Eggsy Unwin/Harry Hart, Roxy Morton, Michelle Unwin
Summary: Eggsy decides to woo Harry- which turns out to be more complicated than it seems.
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium (8,608 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: Titles are officially the bane of my existence, I'm telling you. Not Brit-picked.
Excerpt: “If I liked somebody back in the day,” Eggsy explained, “I’d know exactly what to do about it. But everything’s different here and I… well, I gotta make sure H- well, the person that I like- knows how serious I am about this. Everything’s gotta be perfect, you know?”

Roxy blinked at him. “Eggsy,” she said slowly. “Is this about Harry?”

Eggsy felt himself flushing. He knew he had to be prepared for this reaction from people. He knew what he was like and what Harry was like and that everyone was going to think it was some kind of joke, Eggsy actually thinking he had a shot with Harry. And it wasn’t like Eggsy didn’t also know that there was a good chance of Harry turning him down flat- but he was hoping that if he did everything right Harry would at least let him try.

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Title: Wind to Fire
Fandom: Kingsman
Pairing/Characters: Eggsy Unwin/Harry Hart, Michelle Unwin, Merlin, Roxy Morton, Original Characters
Summary: The year after V-Day.
Rating: NC-17
Length: Long (18,177 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: The title comes from the quote “Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great" by Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, which I know has been done before if not in this fandom, but it just fit so well here. Not Brit-picked.
Excerpt: The week Eggsy became Galahad was characterized by a lot of kicking Dean’s arse until he finally got the message, moving his and his mum and sister’s stuff into Harry’s place and moving Harry’s things up to the attic, and trying to work out his place in Kingsman when the world wasn’t ending.

Eggsy spent a lot of that time thinking about the little things he’d say to Harry if he could.

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Title: Love Potion No. 9
Fandom: Kingsman
Pairing/Characters: Eggsy Unwin/Harry Hart, Roxy Morton, Merlin, Original Characters
Summary: A lab accident has some unexpected side effects.
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium (12,618 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: This is based on a branch of the sex pollen genre I've seen before in other fandoms and wanted to explore with Hartwin. Re: the title, in the movie “Love Potion #9”, No. 8 makes anyone who uses it irresistible while No. 9 is later used to reveal real love. I haven’t seen the movie, but it’s an excuse for my inability to come up with any other title for this story, since the more famous song is pretty unrelated. Finally, there’s a bit in here where Harry and Eggsy play five card draw as I was taught to play it. I don’t know if that’s the most realistic choice, but there you go. Not Brit-picked.
Excerpt: “Look, Harry, if you wanted to go after people for hitting on me today you’d get tired real fast because since then basically everybody has." Except you, Eggsy didn’t add, because that was the most wonderful, horrible, baffling part. Harry hadn’t.

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Title: Enough To Live On
Fandom: Kingsman
Pairing/Characters: Eggsy Unwin/Harry Hart, Merlin, Roxy Morton, Original Characters
Summary: Harry comes back a week after V-Day. He isn't strictly alive, but that means less than he would have expected it to.
Rating: NC-17
Length: Long (19,187 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: Title from "Enough To Go By" by Vienna Teng, mainly because it kept running through my head while I was writing this. Thanks to klaudos for the beta. Not Brit-picked.
Excerpt: Harry stated the obvious, something he should have seen that morning but hadn’t: “You shopped.”

“I been here quite a bit,” Eggsy explained, shrugging one shoulder. “And anyway it seemed… better. Food in the fridge, nothing gathering dust. Made it more like you’d be back any day now.” Eggsy swiped his knife over the bread with a little more aggression than was strictly necessary, but his voice was very even. “You said you’d come back and sort things. But you didn’t.”

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Title: Getting It Right
Fandom: Kingsman
Pairing/Characters: Eggsy Unwin/Harry Hart, Merlin, Original Characters, mentions of Roxy Morton
Summary: Five times Eggsy gets Harry to kiss him for the wrong reasons (and one time he gets it right).
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium (8,216 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: Not Brit-picked. If anyone wanted to volunteer for the job I'd appreciate it, this will certainly not be my last fic in the fandom.
Excerpt: “Kiss me,” he murmured when he reached Harry, because while it wasn’t exactly vital to the mission that Eggsy convince this woman that they were in love, it would certainly make him feel better. Harry pressed his mouth to Eggsy’s as he passed him a glass of champagne, and ‘feeling better’ went out the window. The kiss was quick, sweet, marital. Eggsy didn’t know how Harry made it feel so practiced, but he did.

“I have an admirer,” Eggsy informed him, almost breathless with how much he wanted Harry to kiss him like that every day, how much he wanted Harry to have a reason to.

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Title: A Different Path
Fandom: The Hobbit
Pairing/Characters: Fili/Kili/Tauriel, Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, Dis, The Company
Summary: Kíli’s version of the events of An Accidental Engagement.
Rating: NC-17
Length: Long (16,195 words)
Disclaimer: None of this belongs to me, except the things I made up about dwarf courting.
Notes/Warnings: Includes incest, obviously, and some suicidal behavior. An Accidental Engagement should probably be read first even though this is very different in tone.
Excerpt: Kíli knew that he needed to convince Fíli that yes, he loved Tauriel- but he loved Fíli too and if he did nothing else for the rest of his life he would find a way to be with both of them, whether such a thing was customary among their kind or not. Kíli also knew that he was only likely to get one chance to do it, so it was going to have to be perfect.

And as Fíli would have told anyone who asked, getting things right in one try was not one of Kíli’s specialties.

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Title: A Night's Work
Fandom: The Wild Wild West
Pairing/Characters: Artemus Gordon/Dean Richmond, James West
Summary: An evening well spent. Possibly.
Rating: R
Length: Short (1,097 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: This was written for the

older_not_dead amnesty prompt "not as drunk as you think I am." Super rare pairing. Yay.
Excerpt: “You’d better get me out of here before I cause an international incident,” Artemus whispered in Colonel Richmond’s ear.

Privately, Richmond doubted it. Artemus was just drunk enough to begin to show it, but when he was in full form- as he was tonight- every always seemed to go his way. Still, if Artemus wanted to be carried out it was likely for some reason other than because he’d consumed enough alcohol to become foolish- two or three other reasons at once, probably, knowing Artemus.

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Title: What Comes Next
Fandom: The Musketeers
Pairing/Characters: Aramis/Athos/Porthos (from established Aramis/Porthos), d'Artagnan
Summary: Between "Knight Takes Queen" and "Musketeers Don't Die Easily" the boys get on the same page (in more ways than one).
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium (10,221 words)
Disclaimer: These characters don't belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: I'd done the natural amount of speculating, regarding the actual pre-1x10 conversation where the guys work out who knew what when, but it wasn't until I rewatched "Commodities" that I had a real light bulb moment regarding a possible sticking point. And thus this fic was born.
Excerpt: Athos looked dazed, as he often did when confronted by strong emotions. Aramis knew from experience that the only way to keep Athos from retreating into his head- and from thence a bottle- when he was like that was to give him something to do or someone to worry about.

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Title: Moment of Truth
Fandom: The Musketeers
Pairing/Characters: Aramis/Athos
Summary: A confrontation after "Musketeers Don't Die Easily" ends.
Rating: NC-17
Length: Short (3,167 words)
Disclaimer: These characters don't belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: I’m just a posting demon right now. The explanation is that I tend to hoard finished fics, flailing around about how they could be better- but with the new season coming up I’m finally making myself post them.
Excerpt: “You have put yourself, and me, and most likely Porthos and d’Artagnan by association- to say nothing of the Queen- in a great deal of danger. She is reasonably safe from the Cardinal now, but should he find anything that could be construed as proof that this child is not the king’s…”

“It’s not as if we wrote each other love letters.”

“At this point, Aramis, I am putting nothing past you.” As he watched Athos now, Aramis slowly realized that the look in the throne room had been an aberration. Athos was actually much, much angrier than he had let on then.

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Title: Silk Roses
Fandom: The Wild Wild West
Pairing/Characters: Artemus Gordon/James West
Summary: After 'The Night of the Running Death,' coin tosses are won and lost, Artie puts away a persona, and Jim puts on a dress.
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium (14,985 words)
Disclaimer: The Wild Wild West belongs to CBS and a lot of people who aren't me.
Notes/Warnings: In case you don't know 'The Night of the Running Death' off the top of your head, it's the one where Jim and Artie are part of a wagon train headed to Denver and trying to figure out which of their traveling companions is an assassin. In it, Artie pretends to be a very swish actor named Kingston and insists up and down that he can pick someone in a wig and makeup out in any crowd- despite the fact that the middle-aged British woman in their midst is actually the man they're looking for. This started out as my effort to reconcile myself with that, and it sort of went its own way from there. The episode also has an odd sort of double ending. This story is set around the first part of said ending and before the second. For a 15,000+ word story, it really is pretty low on plot. Apologies.
Excerpt: At this point, Jim should have anticipated that things would go wrong as matter of course the moment he took the decision to bait Artie about Ms. Tyler, but sometimes his reason took a long time to catch up with the rest of him.

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Title: Sleeping Patterns
Fandom: The Wild Wild West
Pairing/Characters: Artemus Gordon/James West, Miguelito Loveless
Summary: There's something wrong with Jim. Can Artie figure out what before things get even worse?
Rating: NC-17
Length: Long (17,442 words)
Disclaimer: The Wild Wild West belongs to CBS and a lot of people who aren't me.
Notes/Warnings: This includes the old ‘character thinks he’s dreaming’ trope, which in my opinion comes with a measure of dub-con, but it’s only kissing. If anyone has a suggestion for how I should tag/warn for that or if I need to, let me know.
Excerpt: Like many men who had been soldiers for at least half as long as they’d been alive, Jim thought of asking for help as weakness.

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