potentiality_26 | Entries tagged with genre: pre-relationship

Title: Menace
Fandom: Callan
Pairing/Characters: David Callan/Toby Meres
Summary: Sometimes there's only one bed. This is one of those times.
Rating: PG
Length: Short (1,186 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: I feel like this must come before Playing with Fire chronologically, but I've made it a series while I figure it out. I have ideas for more in this 'verse. Not Brit-picked.
Excerpt:
Callan stopped for a second too long in the doorway. Meres, having picked up their bags with exaggerated deference to Callan’s age and experience, nearly collided with his back. Evidently the section had elected not to spring for a double room on this occasion.

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Title: Playing with Fire
Fandom: Callan
Pairing/Characters: David Callan/Toby Meres
Summary: The night after a long day.
Rating: PG-13
Length: Short (1215 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: Somewhat inspired by the Lewis episode "Music to Die For", which I watched recently. Not Brit-picked.
Excerpt:
“You must be exhausted,” he said, getting up. Meres usually was when he made a rare self-deprecating class joke. Callan didn’t want to contemplate what, beyond tiredness, it might signify. The apocalypse. Brain damage.

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Title: Hollow
Fandom: Sherlock
Pairing/Characters: Sally Donovan/Stella Hopkins
Summary: A strange case.
Rating: PG
Length: Very Short (465 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: I've been working on a fic based ACD/Granada’s Abbey Grange, and it made me think about a more modern interpretation of that case, and how it might have been handled by Sherlock’s version of Hopkins. This is the result. I don’t actually remember what case she really brought Sherlock in the show, so sorry if this ignores anything in canon.
Excerpt:
She had been watching Stella Hopkins for a while- from where she sat at the other end of the bar, and also in general. She knew Hopkins was trying to make a name for herself and figured that Sherlock Holmes could be a good way to do that; either she would come out the other side of it or she wouldn’t. Sally hoped it would be the former, obviously- but she saw hints of the latter in the speed at which Hopkins had been drinking all night.

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Title: Ghosts
Fandom: Kingsman
Pairing/Characters: Eggsy Unwin/Harry Hart
Summary: Eggsy shows up at Harry's house.
Rating: G
Length: Very Short (836 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: Happy Halloween! This was inspired by a "there's a ghost in my house can I stay with you" prompt that I can't seem to find now. Not Brit-picked.
Excerpt: “I think my house is haunted,” was the first thing Eggsy said when Harry opened the door.

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Title: A Pocket Full of Soul
Fandom: Kingsman
Pairing/Characters: Eggsy Unwin/Harry Hart + Daisy
Summary: Eggsy has something to ask Harry.
Rating: G
Length: Very short (584 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: The Kingsman sequel will be out a year from yesterday, so I thought I'd post a little something in honor of that. I'm not really sure how much of a time skip from the end of the movie is required for Eggsy's sister to be this articulate, so I'm leaving that as open as possible. The title comes from "Mirrors" by Justin Timberlake. Not Brit-picked.
Excerpt: Eggsy scowled at his reflection, finding fault with everything about it. He was wearing his best suit, sure- but his hair was askew, his cheeks were flushed, and no matter what he tried he couldn’t get it to sound quite… right.

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Title: What You Miss
Fandom: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Pairing/Characters: Barbara Havers/Thomas Lynley
Summary: A revelation.
Rating: G
Length: Very short (200 words)
Disclaimer: These characters aren't mine.
Notes/Warnings: This was written for the

older_not_dead amnesty prompt "red cheeks from the chilled air."
Excerpt: He wondered if this happened to other people. If it was natural to spend so much time in the company of another person that you stopped seeing them- and then in a flash realize everything you had missed.

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Title: Observation 101
Fandom: Sherlock
Pairing/Characters: Greg Lestrade/Molly Hooper, Mycroft Holmes/Sherlock Holmes
Summary: Greg is stood up on a blind date, whereupon things get... strange.
Rating: PG-13
Length: Short (4,559 words)
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Notes/Warnings: Written for this prompt on

sherlockbbc_fic. Warnings for incest, and Greg and Molly being really incredibly dense. They got a nice date out of it?
Excerpt: That was Mycroft Holmes sitting a few tables away; Greg would know him anywhere. It wasn’t his presence in itself that was so surprising; this might not have been Greg’s kind of place, but it had to be Mycroft’s. The surprise lay in the fact that he had a woman with him and Greg had been reasonably sure that Mycroft was gay. Gayer than picnic basket. Gayer than Christmas. Gayer than… something really very gay.

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Title: Just a Cold
Fandom: Foyle's War
Pairing/Characters: Christopher Foyle/Sam Stewart
Summary: Sam gets sick.
Rating: G
Length: Very Short (564 words)
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: Written for my

hc_bingo square minor illness (my card is here). I'd set it around S5 or 6.
Excerpt: “Worried about me?” She eyed him through half-open eyes, somehow sly. “'S just a cold.”

“Yes,” he said, ultimately to both. It certainly didn’t help that she looked so pale and weak. It brought to mind that time when she’d been truly ill- dying, even- and he hadn’t been sure he would be able to get the cure for her in time.

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Title: Rolling Stone
Fandom: Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis
Pairing/Characters: Sam Carter/Vala Mal Doran
Summary: Sam on her way to Atlantis.
Rating: PG
Length: Very Short (912 words)
Disclaimer: These wonderful characters do not belong to me.
Notes/Warnings: Written for my

hc_bingo square moving (my card is here). This is set during the SGA episode where Sam is transferred to Atlantis, but it's been a while since I've seen it, so I apologize for any possible continuity problems. The title comes from "A Place Called Home" by Kim Richey.
Excerpt: “Won’t you miss all this?” Vala asked.

“I’d say it’s not another planet, but- you know- it is,” Sam reminded her. “The one thing that’ll stay pretty much the same is ‘all this.’”

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Title: Endings and Beginnings
Fandom: Longmire
Pairing/Characters: Henry Standing Bear/Vic Moretti/Walt Longmire, mentions of Ed Gorski
Summary: Vic's housewarming- such as it is.
Rating: PG-13
Length: Short (2,306 words)
Disclaimer: These lovely characters are not mine. I just... come along occasionally and try to sort out their angst.
Notes/Warnings: Written for my

hc_bingo square gaslighting (my card is here), so warnings for mentions of off-screen (and long past) gaslighting. This fic is ultimately me trying to work through how unsatisfactorily I thought the Ed Gorski plotline was resolved (as far as Vic's characterization is concerned), but it's set in some nebulous post-S3 future where things have calmed down, and Vic's divorce is finalized. It's entirely TV canon but it was somewhat inspired by book canon- mainly the part in Hell is Empty when Vic has moved into her own house and Walt is supposed to have dinner there with her and Henry but doesn't make it because he's Walt, and also Walt's general book canon tendency to invite Henry along on his dates.
Excerpt: She’d gone about it badly- the whole moving to a new house thing. Between the stuff Sean had taken with him when he transferred to another damn country, and the stuff she had never wanted to see again after he did, and the stuff she didn’t feel like unpacking now that it was here, the place was basically unfurnished.

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Title: The Impossible House
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Pairing/Characters: Belle/Rumplestiltskin, Baelfire; mentions of Aurora/Mulan, Hook and Jefferson.
Summary: Doctor Who AU: Belle is a Time Lady and she wants Rumplestiltskin to come with her.
Rating: G
Length: Short (2,714 words)
Disclaimer: Neither Once Upon a Time nor Doctor Who belongs to me.
Notes/Warnings: Rumplestiltskin here is meant to come from a middle ages-ish period, but no effort has been made to be historically accurate. This is a just a bit of fun, and likewise not really intended to be part of a larger series. Also, it confuses the heck out of me that there are two spellings for Rumplestiltskin- I've gone with the spelling in AO3's tags for continuity's sake, but... *shrugs*
Excerpt: Nothing much ever happened to Rumplestiltskin. His was an ordinary life. A boring life, perhaps- but Rumplestiltskin told himself that he didn’t mind if his life was boring, so long as it was safe; since the war, and everything that happened after, he considered safe the thing to be. Most of the time, he even believed it. And then the Librarian came along.

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Title: Someday
Fandom: The Wild Wild West
Pairing/Characters: Artemus Gordon/James West
Summary: Little is more inconvenient than final words that turn out not to be so final.
Rating: PG
Length: Short (2,337 words)
Disclaimer: The Wild Wild West belongs to CBS and a lot of people who aren't me.
Notes/Warnings: The slash here is fairly light, but still present. Don't like, don't read. Comments are love!
Excerpt: As if by tacit agreement, they’d never spoken of it until Jim had just now. Unaccustomed to being the first to break any silence, Jim hadn’t the first idea what this could mean for them.

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Title: Dichotomy
Fandom: Justified
Pairing/Characters: Boyd Crowder/Raylan Givens
Summary: Boyd saves Raylan. Again.
Rating: PG-13
Length: Short (1,667 words)
Disclaimer: Justified belongs to FX and Leonard Elmore.
Notes/Warnings: This is just a little oneshot to get my feet wet in this fandom. I'm not entirely up on S4 yet, so this may be impossible. Think of it as set earlier in the series in some A.U., or in the future at some point- whatever makes it work for you.
Excerpt: Boyd was the next generation of everything Raylan grew up promising himself he would never be. He was also the first boy Raylan ever trusted with his life. No matter how much time passed, or how many crazy things Boyd did, he would always be both of those things. It was a problem. Except when it wasn't.

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Title: A Mad Tea Party
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Pairing/Characters: Belle/Rumplestiltskin, Jefferson
Summary: Jefferson pays the Dark One a visit and things are not as he left.
Rating: PG
Length: Short (1,604 words)
Disclaimer: Once Upon a Time belongs to Disney and ABC.
Notes/Warnings: I've only just gotten around to watching any of S2, and this plot bunny grabbed me watching The Doctor. It's based on the possibly already jossed idea that Jefferson was still traveling between worlds while Belle was living at Rumpelstiltskin's castle. It's a bit OOC, but I got a laugh out of writing it and hopefully someone else will get one reading it.
Excerpt: Rumple was, for lack of a better term, frazzled. Physically, he looked much the same- though maybe a trifle less scrawny- but he was definitely out of sorts. Twitchy. Well, twitchier. Rumple had never exactly been a poster boy for sanity, had he?

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