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Title: Design Flaw
Fandom: Merlin
Rating: PG-13
Length: 2,360 words
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin
Synopsis: Arthur, Merlin, and the knights are captured and forced to fight for the chance of escape. This goes about as well as one would expect.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and am making no profit from this.

Available on AO3.

I still exist! I... just don't exist here on this specific platform very often.

I've been concentrating on writing my original stuff, but stalled out a bit right around the time HC Bingo came around for the year, so you can see what happened there. Eventually, though, I realized I was using those stories to stall from what I really should have been working on. So, here is everything that was pending (which constitutes a bingo, btw) in hopes it gets my ass in gear again:

Title: A Present from the Past
Fandom: MCU
Pairing: Bucky Barnes/Darcy Lewis
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~3,050 words
Synopsis: Darcy’s past comes to try to bite her in the ass. She bites back.
Author’s Notes: For the “blackmail” entry at hc_bingo.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and am making no profit from this.

Available on AO3.


Title: Close Enough
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~1,940 words
Warnings: Aftermath of torture, injury.
Synopsis: The bad guys didn’t get what they wanted and the good guys were finally there. He wasn’t home yet, but he was pretty damn close.
Author’s Notes: For the “torture” entry at hc_bingo.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and am making no profit from this.

Available on AO3.


Title: One of Their Own
Fandom: Xena
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~11,000 words
Synopsis: Gabrielle faces an upstart young Amazonian challenger, and gets far more than she originally bargained for.
Author’s Notes: For the “poison” entry at hc_bingo. Its been a long time since I’ve played in this particular sandbox.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and am making no profit from this.

Available on AO3.


Title: Safe and Soundless
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~7,300 words
Synopsis: Set in a dystopian, cyber-punk future, with echoes of the past, Arthur is forced to leave an injured Merlin behind. The ensuing rescue reveals a little more than he expected.
Author’s Notes: For the “loss of hearing” entry at hc_bingo.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and am making no profit from this.

Available on AO3.


Title: Domo Arigato
Fandom: Shadowhunters
Pairing: Alec/Magnus, Izzy/Simon, Clary/Jace
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~3,500 words
Timeline: Post-Series
Synopsis: The problem with modern tech is that it gave the demons so many more opportunities, if they knew how to take them.
Author’s Notes: For the “robots/androids/AI” entry at hc_bingo.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and am making no profit from this.

Available on AO3.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SWEETIE!

Title: Pasts and Tomorrows
Genre: Gen/Friendship
Rating: PG-13
Length: 1500 words
Synopsis: He’s had plenty of both, really.
Author’s Notes: For the wonderful emeraldteal on her birthday.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and am making no profit from this.

Also available on AO3.

( Pasts and Tomorrows )

Feedback is always welcomed.

Reveals are up for merlin_holidays! Pre-archived already over at AO3 and everything. :)

Title: Knights' Code
Recipient: meatball42
Rating: light R
Genre: Slash, Hurt/Comfort
Pairings: Gwaine/Leon
Word Count: ~2,250
Content/Warnings: None
Summary: The Knights' Code includes keeping your word, something Leon is very good at indeed.
Author's Notes: One of the prompts offered was a Gwaine/Leon coming together fic, and I rather liked the idea of that. Hopefully this does it justice.
Disclaimer: I do not own this interpretation of the myths and am making no profit from this.


Feedback, as always, is welcomed.

Whoo to the hoo? Got a border bingo in before the cut off. I also got more than a single fic qualifying as an "extra" due to the length. You can check out all the rules and scoring and such, as well as everyone else's bingos over at hc_bingo/hc_bingo.

Below is an index of the stories as well as a copy of the original card. I'd just like to state for the record that coding this all was an adventure. For realz.

Fandoms: Avengers, Highlander, Merlin
Prompts: comfort food/item, forced to rely on enemy/rival, hunger/starvation, loss of job/income, imprisonment, whipping/flogging, interrogation, cursed, panic attacks, plane crash, extortion, mutation, hallucinations, phobias, surgery, body guards

( Fills below the cut )

If anyone is interested in the card itself, here it is below the cut.
( My hc_bingo card )

Go me?

Title: Not by Half
Genre: Gen, Gwaine & Merlin friendship (more if you squint)
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~1,800 words
Spoilers: End of Series 4
Warnings: Panic attacks, PTSD, allusion to eating disorders
Synopsis: Gwaine knew the marks Morgana left behind would eventually fade. He simply was not there yet, not by half.
Author's Notes: For the "panic attack" square at hc_bingo. Please heed the warnings.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and am making no profit from this.

Also at Archive of Our Own.

( Not by Half )

Feedback is always welcomed.

A little backstory first:
My loving partner wolfie74 recently bought some fish. Amongst them were three guppies who bonded and play with each other constantly. They are all three supposedly male and all three try to do more than play, which led to inappropriate comments, which led to her admitting her and Youngest named the three Arthur, Merlin, and Gwaine, which led to comments on Twitter regarding genderbending, mpreg, animal transformation, and LARP, which led to emeraldteal joining in the fun. Er, this is what happened. Pretty much what it says on the label, sans the "LARP" bit.

Yes, this is what happens when I have been far too stressed from work to write for far too long. Sorry.

Title: Transformative
Genre: Crack, Slash
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin
Rating: PG-13
Length: 1,600 words
Spoilers: Roughly Series 4 of Merlin, and possibly a tiny bit of the animated Sword in the Stone movie. *wince*
Warnings: Bad taste? Genderbending animal transformation fic with a hint of mpreg?
Synopsis: There are myths, there are legends, and there are tales that go down in the tomes of history. This is most decidedly none of those.
Author’s Notes: I am not sure who I wish to blame more, emeraldteal for encouraging me, or my loving partner and son for deciding to name the guppies Merlin, Arthur, and Gwaine, and then making commentary on the Merlin fish looking pregnant.
Disclaimer: Apologies to Disney and BBC. I do not own these characters and am making no profit from this.

( Transformative )

Feedback is always welcomed, even for this.

Finally polished this up. A little on the angsty side, but so is life, so there's that.

Title: In Memoriam
Genre: Friendship, with slight Arthur/Merlin undertones
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~1,900 words
Spoilers: Through Series 4 to be safe, though set in the slight future.
Synopsis: It serves as a reminder, as something has to.
Author’s Notes: Er, a bit of angst thrown in there, and slight mention of injuries.
Disclaimer: I do not own this interpretation of the myths and am making no profit from this.

( In Memoriam )

Feedback is always welcomed.

Title: Way to the Heart
Genre: Modern AU, Slash
Pairing(s): Gwaine/Merlin, hint of background Arthur/Gwen
Length: ~5,400 words
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Reference to injury, reference to misuse of food, sap.
Spoilers: Character names only though Series 4.
Synopsis: The one where Gwaine is a chef trying to woo waiter Merlin with food.
Author’s Notes: Written for gwaine_quest’s Jamuary challenge. Thanks go to my loving partner and her chef expertise for help with the culinary terms.
Disclaimer: I do not own this interpretation of the myths and am making no profit from this.

Read over at Gwaine_Quest

Title: Five Times Merlin Crossed
Genre: Gen, Crossover
Fandoms: Merlin, Old Kingdom, Sherlock Holmes, Leverage, Alphas, Doctor Who
Rating: PG-13 for violence and implied character death
Length: ~3060 words
Spoilers: End of Abhorsen series, general for all other series, 11th Doctor, Arthurian mythology
Synopsis: Five times Merlin has crossed the boundary to death.
Author’s Notes: I love the immortality aspect of the Arthurian myths and could not resist playing with it again. This is also a shameless excuse to cross some of my favourite fandoms (even though I did not manage to get Fringe or Highlander in here this time around).
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters and am making no profit from this.

( Five Times Merlin Crossed )

Feedback is always welcomed.