Old Habits

Fandom: Les Miserables
Rating: T
Setting: 1920s Prohibition au (dw tag)
Characters: Javert, Azelma 'Az' Jondrette
Primary Pairings: Javert/Azelma 'Az' Jondrette
Word Count: 429 

General Summary: For Javert, admitting that something makes you happy has always been like a jinx, and it is in this regard only that he is superstitious.

This is sort of a companion piece to "Minding Cues."

Author’s Note: sCan't remember what the prompting was for writing this. I think I just did. Written on 4 August 2013.


“Are you happy?”

The words brush over the back of his ear as the lips they slipped from graze his skin.

“What?”

Even to his own ears, his voice is slightly fuzzy and drowsy; he sounds “fucked out,” as the body laying against him in the dark would have put it.

“Does this make you happy?”

And the underlying follow-up: “Do I make you happy?”

He doesn’t answer

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Hearsay

Fandom: Les Miserables
Rating: T
Setting: Modern au
Characters: Bahorel, Combeferre, Enjolras, Feuilly, Grantaire, Jean Prouvaire
Primary Pairings: Combeferre/Grantaire
Secondary Pairings: Enjolras/Grantaire (in the past)
Word Count: 923 

General Summary: Grantaire has seen Combeferre drunk, but due to the circumstances, can't tell anyone.

Not that anyone would believe him. 

Author’s Note: This was a prompt fill for Combeferre and the word "capernoited," meaning "slightly intoxicated or tipsy" done back on 12 October 2013.


"Has anyone even seen 'Ferre drunk before?" Bahorel looked around the room at the stragglers who had stayed behind after the meeting.

Feuilly and Jehan shook their heads and shrugged their shoulders.

"R? You’ve gotten pissed with pretty much everyone. You seen him drunk?"

Lifting his head from the table, but not his eyes, Grantaire shrugged noncommittally.

"No."

It was more a testament to the alcohol in his system than anything else how easily the lie slipped from his lips. Then again, he thought, he could probably have been completely honest and it wouldn’t have mattered - who would believe him anyway?

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Missed Cues

Fandom: Les Miserables
Rating: E
Setting: Modern au
Characters: Combeferre, Grantaire
Primary Pairings: Combeferre/Grantaire
Secondary Pairings: Implied queerplatonic Combeferre/Enjolras
Word Count: 3181 

General Summary: It's been two months since Grantaire woke up to Combeferre in his kitchen, a dark bruise still forming just under his jaw, and despite having avoided both Combeferre and Enjolras ever since, all it takes is a single text to send him into a panic.

A follow-up piece to "Hearsay."

Author’s Note: A follow-up piece written for a good friend of mine in January 2014.


It had been almost two months since Grantaire had woken up to Combeferre in his kitchen, a dark bruise still forming just under his jaw, when he been startled awake at three in the afternoon to find a single text staring up at him from the dingy screen of his mobile phone. A single, brief text, only four words long.

We need to talk.

It was from Combeferre.

It took Grantaire approximately a quarter of a second to feel himself start to panic. It took a hot shower and three mugs of coffee that were more whisky than actual coffee before he managed to send a response.

Can you come over here?

The response was almost immediate.

I’ll be there in fifteen.


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Nicht Gefärbt

Fandom: Elisabeth das Musical
Rating: G
Characters: Der Tod, Elisabeth, Rudolf
Word Count: 591

General Summary: Rudolf had been a dark haired child - Elisabeth remembered that with certainty, and the change in her son's appearance over the years sends her chasing all the wrong spectres.

Author’s Note: Written in March 2014, this piece was largely inspired by a discussion I had at 6am about a performance from the most recent Vienna production in which at least one young Rudolf is dark haired, and adult Rudolf is portrayed by the very pale, white-blond Anton Zetterholm. Said discussion had me saying "Okay, ignoring the realities of casting and staging and how things don't always match up, let's explain this as something within the story world," largely because you can't let playwrights do anything - we always have to mess with stuff.



He had been a dark-haired child, she remembered that clearly. He had been fair-skinned and frail like his mother, with his father’s quiet expressiveness, and the dark, chestnut hair of both parents.

That had been nearly eighteen years ago, and when she next saw her son, he was not the boy that had been taken from her years before; who she had tried and failed to liberate from the claws of the court. He was tall and handsome, but then she had always known that he would be that.

It was more than that, he was white.


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Set I

Fandom: Chess
Rating: G
Setting: Pre Canon
Characters: Svetlana Sergievskaya, Anatoly Sergievsky, Freddie Trumper, Florence Vassy
Word Count: 302

General Summary: A quick (more-or-less) background study of some of the major players in Chess.

Author’s Note: Just some Chess character sketches that I wrote up while developing my own ideas and feel for the backgrounds of different characters from the musical. I jotted them down at one point back in May 2015 while writing Chess fic but afraid to post any Chess fic because of the fandom.


January 1957
Florence Vassy is a stranger in a strange land at only five years old, the only thing between her and what’s left of the streets of Budapest is a widowed aunt, the never-spoken-of sister of Florence’s mother who married an English journalist in secret and left all that she knew behind her; “I’m a survivor,” she had whispered to Florence at the airport, “just like you’ll learn to be.”
 

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On Fearing One's Creation

Fandom: Doctor Zhivago
Rating: T
Characters: Lara Antipova, Viktor Komarovsky
Primary Pairings: Lara Antipova/Viktor Komarovsky (past)
Warnings: Vaguely referenced sexual abuse
Word Count: 262

General Summary: Vikor Komarovsky never had any intentions of loving the poor girl, nor anyone else for that matter.

Author’s Note: A short piece I wrote on 10 February 2017 as part of an attempt to write at least 100 words a day. The prompt was 'falling in love' and I was in a dark mood.


If asked, he would maintain that he had always loved her in some way or another.

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Insomnia

Fandom: Chess
Rating: T
Characters: Anatoly Sergievsky, Freddie Trumper, Florence Vassy
Primary Pairings: Freddie Trumper/Florence Vassy, Anatoly Sergievsky/Florence Vassy, Freddie Trumper/Florence Vassy/Anatoly Sergievsky
Word Count: 411

General Summary: Florence never could stomach sleeping alone. 

Author’s Note: Another 'trying to write 100 words or more a day' piece from February 2017. This one was the prompt 'comfort.'


Florence Vassy had never, would never admit it aloud to anyone – not to the ragged remains of what little family she had left, and certainly not to anyone who found themselves in bed with her – but she hated sleeping alone. Not just because she was easily chilled, but the prospect filled her with a visceral fear that she had never quite conquered entirely. Nonetheless, she had done it more often than not, swallowing the fear like hot bile and gritting her teeth against the sudden sense of isolation.


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