as long as we're going down

Title: Catherine and the Pirate (The Reformed Criminal Remix)
Genre: Historical romance.
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 2,372
Summary: A rewrite of the book, Catherine and the Pirate. Full summary and chapter index can be found here.

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( Chapter 11: In which Uncle Elliot is still pissed, and also in over his head. )

Title: I’m Not Yours Anymore, You’re Mine
Fandom: This Gun For Hire (1942)
Genre: AU, drama, angst, gen.
Characters/pairings: Ellen Graham (Michael/Ellen and implied Raven/Ellen)
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1,330
Summary: She hates him, she thinks. She hates him for having the decency to disappear from her life, but the cruelty to linger everywhere else. (Or, Ellen and the aftermath of trauma.)

Notes: Follows the same continuity as my other TGFH fics, which is to say: Raven somehow escaped at the end of the film.

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( The weariness hits her in the afternoon, at the station, when she’s coming up on thirty-two hours without any substantial amount of sleep. )

Title: I Try To Pretend, Saying That I Don’t Mind It
Fandom: Black Angel (1946)
Genre: Drama, general, angst?
Characters: Martin Blair (implied Marty/Catherine)
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 286
Summary: Christ, he really was a glutton for punishment, wasn’t he? First Mavis—that beautiful, glorious vampire of a woman—and now this. (Or, Marty after Catherine initially goes up to Marko’s office.)

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( He had no right to be jealous, and he wasn’t, really. )

Title: Forward and Reverse (1/3)
Fandom: Hetalia
Genre: Drama, angst, romance, historical.
Characters/pairings: Austria/Hungary, AusHun (with minor appearances of various other nations and real-life historical figures).
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 7,564 (8,847 with notes)
Summary: The circumstances that led to their marriage were hardly the stuff of fairy tales. From the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867. Historical!AusHun.
Warnings: History, some mild violence, an assault of sorts, and more history.

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( Part I: In which Hungary says, ''Fuck this, I'm outie,'' and Austria says, ''Fuck that, you're innie.'' )

Title: Each Cloud Contains
Fandom: This Gun For Hire (1942)
Genre: Drama, angst, general.
Characters: Philip Raven, Ellen Graham.
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1,564
Summary: It was her. The girl from the train. The one who’d so frustratingly gotten away earlier that day. Just what in the hell was she doing there? (Or, Raven rescues Ellen from Gates’ mansion. Expanded scene/character study.)

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( He didn’t like being lied to. He liked being stiffed on his payment even less, and Willard Gates and his associates had now effectively done both. )

Title: Wherever You Are
Fandom: This Gun For Hire (1942)
Genre: AU, angst, romance.
Characters/pairings: Michael Crane/Ellen Graham, implied Philip Raven/Ellen Graham
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1,430
Summary: In the days following Raven’s final escape, Ellen and Michael try to go back to normal. (Spoiler alert: They aren’t very good at it.)

Notes: Follows the same continuity as my other TGFH fics, which is to say: Raven somehow escaped at the end of the film.

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( It was at seventeen minutes after seven that the telephone in her hotel room finally rang. )

Title: They’ll Ask Me Why and I’ll Tell Them I’d Rather
Fandom: This Gun For Hire (1942)
Genre: AU, drama, romance.
Characters/pairings: Philip Raven/Ellen Graham
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 6,020
Summary: Sequel to There Are Dreams I Must Gather. Philip Raven returns to the club, as promised. (Or, in a very special performance, Miss Ellen Graham deconstructs the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope.)

Notes: It wasn’t necessary to mention it in There Are Dreams I Must Gather, but for the purposes of these fics, I headcanon that Ellen moves away from California after the events of the film. I suspect she becomes pretty well known in L.A. (and even San Francisco) as “that nightclub singer who was taken hostage by that guy who stole all that money,” and when you combine that with her breaking up with Michael, well, I can see her wanting to get away and start fresh, so to speak. So this fic and the previous one actually take place in Chicago.

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( ''So what should I call you these days?'' Ellen asked. ''Since you said you changed your name.'' )

Title: There Are Dreams I Must Gather
Fandom: This Gun For Hire (1942)
Genre: AU, drama, romance?
Characters/pairings: Philip Raven/Ellen Graham
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 4,042
Summary: AU, assuming Raven somehow escaped at the end. Four years later, in 1946, Ellen Graham runs into him again.

Notes: Because I watched the film, needed more of these two, went looking for fic, came back empty-handed, and so set about to writing my own (be the change you want to see in the world, amirite?). I can only hope I've done them justice.

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( Sitting there, drink in hand and hat on the table, was none other than Philip Raven. The man who—not more than four years prior—had nearly murdered her, then saved her life, then dragged her around the whole of Los Angeles before letting her go and vanishing in a blaze of vengeance. )

Title: Don't You Mess Around With Me
Fandom: The Tick (2017)
Genre: Humor, romance.
Characters/pairings: Slight Overkill/Dot.
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1,486
Summary: "How long have you even been here?" she demanded. "Long enough." "What the hell does that mean?" His unnaturally blue eyes pierced hers. "Long enough to know you struggle to hit the high notes of Pat Benatar's 'Heartbreaker.' " (Or, Dot takes a shower and shenanigans ensue.)

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A/N: So I started writing this before watching season 2 (LEAVE ME ALONE OKAY, I HATE BINGING THINGS, PLUS THERE WAS A HOLIDAY WEEKEND WHERE I DIDN'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WATCH ANYTHING BUT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO LET MY MIND WANDER IN REGARDS TO THESE TWO IDIOTS), so even though it seems literally only a day canonically passes between episodes 1x12 and 2x01, let's just pretend it was a bit more than that, and that this fic takes place within that nebulous timeframe, okay? Okay, cool, thanks.

( She sighed. Christ, one would think having a superhero/antihero break into her place just to (apparently?) make sure she was okay would be more flattering or sexy or something. )

Title: Ligaments
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Genre: Drama, romance, hurt/comfort (in their own dysfunctional way?)
Characters/pairings: Lore/Ishara Yar.
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1,540
Summary: In which Ishara suffers a sex injury, and Lore doesn't find this nearly as amusing as you might think. (Follows the relationship previously established in Built Upon Sand and Castles.)

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( Sometimes, on days like today, that saw her brushing her teeth while Lore washed in the shower cubicle behind her, Ishara was struck by how strangely domestic they'd become. )