Title: Reliant
Author: Fair Hearing
Characters/Pairing: Chekov/Sulu in various nu- and prime-verse combinations
Rating: R
Warnings: Sexuality, May-December dalliance.
Summary: It's 2293.  Fifty-six-year-old Captain Hikaru Sulu commands the U.S.S. Excelsior, peace with the Klingon Empire has been achieved, and a gangly Russian teenager stumbles in from an alternate reality with some very interesting news for the Captain.
Notes: Originally for the kink meme prompt "Chekov and Sulu Prime," so beware if you have extremely strict definitions of monogamy.  (It doesn't count as cheating when it's with your future self, baby, I swear!)  Also, goddamn, how badass is Captain Sulu in The Undiscovered Country?  "Target that explosion and fire," indeed.

( Reliant )

This wtf occurred several years ago, but the story a couple of posts down about the John Lennon guy reminded me of it, so I figured I'd share it with you guys. I used to work as a receptionist at a desk at my university. My office closed at 10 back then, but everyone else on the floor went home at 5 or 6. For the last few hours of my shift, I usually didn't see anyone, and it was always really quiet (and kind of creepy).

One night, I suddenly heard music blasting from down the hall. At first I thought it was a radio or something, but I quickly realized that it was someone actually playing/singing "Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty - really badly. I probably wouldn't have gone to investigate except that I really had to go to the bathroom, so I sucked it up. There was a guy sitting outside the restrooms with a guitar and one of those huge duffel bags, kind of like soldiers have in the army.

I was wearing a uniform and nametag, and the guy got really excited and asked if I worked there. When I said yes, this conversation followed:

( um...what? )

Author: levitatethis
Prompt: Mistletoe
Rated: PG13
Word Count: 1, 171
Characters: Mohinder, Sylar, Bennet, Mordecai (OMC)
Summary: Mohinder and Bennet are tracking an ex-Company man when they run into the unexpected.
Warning: Nothing
A/N: This is the fourth of ten stories I wrote for the mylar_fic holiday prompt table.


We really must stop meeting like this

Title: On the Eighth Night
Characters: Chekov/Sulu
Rating: G
Word Count: 373
Warnings: None.
Summary: Hikaru and Pavel repel the darkness.
Notes: A teenyfic for lomedet and tigerbright from rubynye. The request was for Chekov/Sulu, "light through the darkness". I had wanted to get this done before Hanukkah ended, but, well, we all see how well that worked out for me…so consider it a belated Hanukkah gift!

( On the Eighth Night )

Title: Hopeless
Pairing: Mylar
Rating: R
Warning: Angst.
Summary: An unexpected visit on a quiet night.
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters or their universe.
Word Count: 356
A/N: For the Holiday Contest. Prompt: silent night.

( He felt overwhelmed with heat, like his skin boiled, like he breathed steam, like fire crawled through his sinew. )

Just Like A Jones
Chapter: 35
Rating: NC-17 for series
Pairing/Characters: Jack/Ianto. Mica. David. Martha. Gwen/Rhys. Lois. Johnny/Rhiannon.
Synopsis: Mica may be a Davies, but sometimes she acts like a Jones. Set 13 years in the future. The world is a very different place, and Torchwood is a world that Jack doesn't want to know, but a promise made a long time ago brings him back to their door whether he likes it or not. Mica is in awe of a past she didn't know and a man she barely remembers, but her passion for his world takes her on a journey she never expected.
Spoilers: Aftermath of COE.
Disclaimer: Not mine, if it was this woul not need to be written.

Thanks. Thanks to everyone who has replied so far XD. As i have said before it was lack of feedback that made me give up before.

find it here

Title: Family Affair 8/10?
Word Count: this chapter 875
Characters: Names are the same… that’s about it!
Rating: PG (so far)
Spoilers: None, completely AU
Disclaimer: Sadly not mine, that whole RTD/BBC thingy.
Beta by: luvinthe88and20 Summary: Widowed Jack Harkness is in need of a kid tamer; enter one Jones, Ianto Jones.

A/N: This was a prompt from the brandy new tw_ficrequests, the request was for IantoPoppins. I have tweaked it just a bit. It’s still a work in progress.
I have never written AU before so if it goes horribly wrong… blame the beta ;) and well its AU.

A/N2: Ok, this part got a little sappy.


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I've never posted here before, but read all the time. I recently finished grad school and, after months of useless job searching, landed a part-time seasonal job at a huge national retail chain (think Walmart, but not). The last few days have been particularly stressful as the holidays make shoppers crazy. For instance, a couple days ago I took a call from a woman who began crying with relief when I found the last Swan Palace then shed tears of terror when I jokingly tried to calm her fears by saying, "yes, ma'am, the item should be fine behind the guest service desk. No, no one will take it if I put your name on it. Not unless some thief comes by in the night! Haha! No...no, ma'am...ma'am, I was kidding. We aren't expecting any break-ins. I'm sorry. No, we have great security. I'm sorry. Please don't cry."

None of the situations below are absolutely terrible, but bad (or frequent) enough for me to find them at least moderately obnoxious, appalling, or perplexing.


Notes to uninformed, lazy, indecisive, racist, and hot holiday shoppers:


( Uninformed )


( Lazy )


( Indecisive )


( Racist )


( Hottie )

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