Title: The Centre Cannot Hold (ch. 4/5)
Characters: Dr. Spencer Reid, Jason Gideon, Emily Prentiss, Derek Morgan, Aaron Hotchner, Jennifer Jareau, Penelope Garcia, Tobias Hankel, Ethan, mentions of several.
Pairings: Reid/Morgan, Reid/Elle, Reid/Tobias; all minor.
Rating: R/FRM.
Warnings: Mature themes, sexuality, slash, subject matter, general spoilers for the series, explicit discussion of drug abuse and addiction.
Summary: A case in Washington brings Spencer back in contact with his old mentor, but nothing can be as easy as it looks.
Word Count: ~9,400
Disclaimer: Criminal Minds, the characters and situations, and other related things belong to Jeff Davis and CBS, which is to say: not me.
Feedback: Very much welcome!
A/N: This chapter is unbeta'd; I've given it a couple looks over and all mistakes are mine. ♥
SPOILERS: A good many, but notably: 1x22 & 2x01 “The Fisher King,” 2x05 “Aftermath,” 2x10 “Lessons Learned,” 2x11 “Sex, Birth, Death,” 2x12 “Profiler Profiled,” 2x13 “No Way Out,” 2x15 “Revelations,” 2x16 “Fear and Loathing,” 2x17 “Distress,” 2x18 “Jones,” 2x23 “No Way Out II,” 3x01 “Doubt,” 3x02 “In Name and Blood,” 3x04 “Children of the Dark,” 3x16 “Elephant’s Memory,” 4x07 “Memoriam,” 4x24 “Amplification”
Links to Previous Parts: one, two, three

( Coming here, Spencer had designs to be nice -- he remembers thinking that he owed Gideon the courtesy.... )

Title: The Continuing Adventures of Bungalow Bill and the Eggmen.
Character Pairing: Caradoc Dearborn/Sturgis Podmore (pre-slash)
Other Pairings: pre-Ted Tonks/Andromeda Black, pre-Emmeline Vance/Hestia Jones.
Prompt: "fundamental."
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~720
Summary: "Don't put it all on me, Mister Walrus, mate. I get by with a little help from my friends."
Author's Notes: The slash is still not happening, but it will eventually. Blah blah, based on dontsayaword canon; Sturgis is musify's and Ted is venezia's; Emmeline and Hestia are not based on comagirly's or theblev's. Any Beatles references belong to John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
Link to Prompt Table: Over yonder!

( Of the group into which he's assimilated himself, Sturgis is the only one who doesn't get a Prefect's badge, come fifth year. )

Title: The Early Days of the Three Musketeers
Character Pairing: Caradoc Dearborn/Sturgis Podmore
Prompt: "unidentified falling object."
Rating: G
Word Count: 545
Summary: "Caradoc Dearborn and Sturgis Podmore meet by accident on the train in their first year."
Author's Notes: They're first years. The slash is going to happen eventually, but right now, it's borderline gen. Blah blah, based on dontsayaword canon; Sturgis is musify's and Ted is venezia's.
Link to Prompt Table: Over yonder!

( ...and then something tallish and gangly-limbed falls from nowhere, making a noise sort of like a yelping crash... )

rarepair_shorts HP Rare-Pair Challenge Author: amor_remanet Pairing: Caradoc Dearborn/Sturgis Podmore Progress: 2/13

1. unidentified falling object The Early Days of the Three Musketeers, G

2. the question is obvious

3. fundamental The Continuing Adventures of Bungalow Bill and the Eggmen, PG

4. moonlight on the forest floor

5. paint the sky with stars

6. tinkering

7. rolling on the floor

8. decisions, decisions

9. and that is a panda's purpose in life

10. looking for more oranges

11. not your average Douglas Fir

12. pining for normalcy

13. facing tomorrow alone

...Okay, so I'm a little nostalgic for dontsayaword and musify's Sturgis.

Only I'm going to be writing these in an entirely canon sort of way, because I'm hella mean to fictional characters. :[

rarepair_shorts HP Rare-Pair Challenge Author: amor_remanet Pairing: Percy Weasley/Rufus Scrimgeour Progress: 4/13

1. knight in shining whatever (Daring Rescue)

2. well, if you put it that way (Interference)

3. er... um... (Creative Hallucinations)

4. this is Wednesday

5. tricks and treats

6. facing tomorrow alone (Mindless Repetition)

7. in the other sense of the word

8. caustic chemical

9. by the book

10. idiosyncrasies

11. atomic

12. first snow

13. a little bit of night music

...Technically, I dropped this claim, but I kind of miss it, so I'm bringing it back.

Title: The Centre Cannot Hold (ch. 3/?)
Characters: Dr. Spencer Reid, Jason Gideon, Derek Morgan, Aaron Hotchner, Emily Prentiss, David Rossi, Ethan, mentions of several.
Pairings: Reid/Morgan, Reid/Ethan, Gideon/OFC.
Rating: R, mostly for subject matter, angst, sexuality.
Summary: A case in Washington brings Spencer back in contact with his old mentor, but nothing can be as easy as it looks.
Word Count: ~6,250
Disclaimer: Criminal Minds, the characters and situations, and other related things belong to Jeff Davis and CBS, which is to say: not me.
A/N: This chapter is unbeta'd; I've given it a couple looks over and all mistakes are mine. ♥
SPOILERS: 1x10 "The Popular Kids," 2x15 "Revelations," 2x16 "Fear and Loathing," 2x18 "Jones," 3x01 "Doubt," 3x02 "In Name and Blood," 4x03 "Minimal Loss," 4x07 "Memoriam," 4x24 "Amplification"
Links to Previous Parts: one, two

( Finally, Gideon didn't see something coming from Spencer's corner... )

Title: The Centre Cannot Hold (ch. 2/?)
Characters: Dr. Spencer Reid, Jason Gideon, Diana Reid, Will Reid, Derek Morgan, JJ Jareau, Penelope Garcia, Nathan Harris, mentions of several.
Pairings: Reid/Morgan, JJ/Will.
Rating: R, mostly for subject matter, angst, sexuality.
Summary: A case in Washington brings Spencer back in contact with his old mentor, but nothing can be as easy as it looks.
Word Count: ~5,200
Disclaimer: Criminal Minds, the characters and situations, and other related things belong to Jeff Davis and CBS, which is to say: not me.
A/N: Many thanks to musify & fruityoatybar, my darling betas. ♥
SPOILERS: 4x03 "Minimal Loss," 4x08 "Masterpiece," 4x20 "Conflicted," 4x22 "The Big Wheel," 4x24 "Amplification"
Links to Previous Parts: one

( He looks at Gideon as though he just suggested riding down the main thoroughfare on a flaming unicycle and juggling lobsters. )

Title: The Centre Cannot Hold (ch. 1/?)
Characters: Dr. Spencer Reid, Jason Gideon, Diana Reid, Will Reid, Derek Morgan, JJ Jareau, Penelope Garcia, Emily Prentiss, mentions of several.
Pairings: Reid/Morgan, Reid/JJ, Reid/2 OFCs.
Rating: R, mostly for subject matter, angst, sexuality.
Summary: A case in Washington brings Spencer back in contact with his old mentor, but nothing can be as easy as it looks.
Word Count: ~5,000
Disclaimer: Criminal Minds, the characters and situations, and other related things belong to Jeff Davis and CBS, which is to say: not me.
A/N: Many thanks to musify & fruityoatybar, my darling betas. ♥

( All of the details are somehow different from the way he's imagined them, but they're nevertheless consistent, in their ways. )

Title: Love Is Not A Victory March.
Characters: Severus Snape/Lily Evans-Potter, Barty Crouch, Jr./Severus Snape, Barty Crouch, Jr./James Potter, James Potter/Lily Evans-Potter, with implied Barty Crouch, Jr./Regulus Black and Barty Crouch, Jr./Anzhelina Dolohov
Rating: PG-13, for language, het and slash snogging, marital infidelity, general morbidity.
Summary: “I love you, Lils. I always have.”
Word Count: ~2,960.
Prompt: "dancing with the devil under the pale moonlight" from LJ's ~joss100
Warnings: Slash, snogging, language, generally questionable stuff.
Disclaimer: They're all JKR's kids and/or the kids of JKR's kids; I'm just playing with them. Inspired by, with several revisions to, blurred_lines canon and all characters are influenced by their portrayals there. There are too many mentioned to give everyone an individual shout-out, but: Severus is hafren's, Lily is bollywood's, James and Marius are cupcakecalamity's, Regulus is coeur_delanuit, Antonin is musify's, Crouch Senior is parisian's, and Anzhelina is plum's.
A/N: I continue to be a bad person. This continues to be news. Also, this is dedicated to hafren, as it is entirely her fault.

( Although not notably warm, Severus is surely welcoming – how can he not be? )

Title: It's a bitch convincing people to like you.
Characters: Barty Crouch, Jr./James Potter.
Rating: PG-13. Language, mostly. Also, the slash.
Summary: "Yet now you have had a change of heart; yes, of course; just as you have everywhere else. I have already heard this tale, Potter, and I tire of it immensely"
Word Count: 268.
Disclaimer: They're all JKR's kids and/or the kids of JKR's kids; I'm just playing with them. Inspired by dontsayaword canon; all characters are, thus, inspired by their portrayals there. James is cupcakecalamity's, Regulus is coeur_delanuit's, and Endymion is musify's.
A/N: Uhm. I was listening to "I Can't Decide" by Scissor Sisters before a class on Paradise Lost. This happened in the middle of my notes. Title is a lyric from aforementioned song.

( You play good Quidditch. )

Title: Of Hippolyta and Boadicea.
Characters: Albus Severus Potter/girl!David Dursley
Rating: PG-13, for kissing, and subject matter, and Al having quite the little mouth on him. And, technically, it's second cousin incest, but it's only a little bit, right at the end.
Summary: "Couldn’t believe he was making David go out in public – honestly! David had been the one who wanted Chinese!"
Word Count: ~1,350
Prompt(s): "haute cuisine" from my joss_100 table.
Disclaimer: They're all JKR's kids and/or the kids of JKR's kids; I'm just playing with them. Inspired by nextgen canon; David is musify's boy.
A/N: This little number is dedicated to musify, because she is awesome and it is her birthday. ♥

( Al sighed, exasperated, and slumped down in his seat, staring across the table at David... )