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Joined 08-27-05, id: 886628, Profile Updated: 10-23-18
Author has written 82 stories for Misc. Movies, Gordan Korman, Temeraire, Hunger Games, Captain America, Portal, Much Ado About Nothing, Bible, Kamen Rider, Shakespeare, Star Wars, Stranger Things, 2016, Wynonna Earp, Wonder Woman, Dragon Age, Umbrella Academy, and Avengers.

Mirror of my account on AO3, because not everyone reads stuff over there.

I write lots of things, but mostly The Hunger Games. District 2 crept up on me, and I guarantee my friends and I have thought more about it and Career training than almost anyone alive. I didn't ask for this, but it's too late now.

I write romance sometimes, but I like people more than I like sex, so expect a lot of gen. I write a lot of feelings and very little porn.

If you want to talk to me about fannish things, you can stalk me on Twitter, Tumblr, or LJ/DW (I'm lorata everywhere).

SERIES READING ORDER:

We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2 (if you're new, titles in bold are a good place to start)

  1. welcome to your gory bed
  2. The Devil You Know
  3. Follow the Leader
  4. In Memoriam
  5. To Love a Beast (Brutus)
  6. you can love me later if you hate me now
  7. Dying is Easy
  8. Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice (Lyme)
  9. Always Prepared
  10. Que Sera Sera
  11. Take My Hand
  12. I can't be your hero, baby
  13. All or Nothing
  14. Nothing Personal
  15. Nobody Decent
  16. Kintsugi
  17. don't ever wanna let you down
  18. It's Time to Begin, Isn't It?
  19. Down For the Count
  20. Better Than a Boyfriend
  21. It's Either That or Malaria
  22. Bring Us Together
  23. No Miracles
  24. Fixed to a Star (Claudius & Lyme)
  25. Tradition
  26. Where is the Silence
  27. In Laughter, In Strife
  28. The Mountain and the Sea
  29. The Lone Isle of Brutus
  30. A Friend in Need...
  31. Something Left to Save
  32. Claws and Teeth and Tulle
  33. District 2, Male
  34. Mirror, Mirror
  35. the blight upon your blighted life
  36. Love Me (it's the rules)
  37. Coping Mechanisms
  38. Fighting for the Holidays
  39. There When You Die
  40. Don't Flinch
  41. Skip the Masquerade
  42. The End is the Beginning is the End
  43. Interlude: Shadows Fall
  44. No Room to Breathe
  45. The Price of Celebrity
  46. Make Us Proud

The World's On Fire (How 'Bout Yours) - District 2 Rebels Canon Divergence AU

  1. The Quarter Quell: The End is the Beginning is the End (pre-divergence)
  2. Interlude: Shadows Fall (pre-divergence)
  3. The War: A District Upside Down

COMMENTS AND MESSAGES:

I'm always more than happy to discuss characterizations or headcanons or whatever else in PMs or over Twitter/email! I don't reply to comments on the reviews page because the lack of a reply/threading function on FF.N makes things very messy, but please feel free to contact me! You can also add me on LJ or come into my askbox on Tumblr for more longform discussion, which has the benefit of being public so other people can get involved.

If you have a prompt for a standalone story idea about my District 2 victors, please message me -- I make no promises, but I have been known to write the occasional fic based off prompts, so you might get lucky. I will credit and thank you if I use your prompt as the basis for a fic! If you're scared, my askbox on Tumblr accepts anon messages.

Full disclosure, however, I don't read comments requesting specific content for future chapters of existing works in progress. I plan out longer works before I start them, and while speculation is obviously fun and is absolutely encouraged, I do skip comments that tell me where they think the story should go and what I should put into future chapters. This is for my own peace of mind and I ask for everyone's understanding on this.

Finally, please do not complain about updates and/or delays. If anyone feels I am not producing content fast enough, please remember I am writing all this for free because I enjoy it and like to share. Any negative reviews about my posting speed will be deleted immediately without comment.

We're all here to have fun, right? Let's have fun!

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and sometimes they're inside reviews
Number Six unleashes his inner demons at three years old. If only that were metaphorical.
Umbrella Academy - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,414 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 10 - Published: 2/27/2019 - Complete
A District Upside Down: The War reviews
When Brutus fell, the hovercraft team who retrieved his corpse fought to resuscitate him, refusing to stand by and watch their hero die. They're recruited by a second rebellion, split from District 13, to fight against both the Capitol and District 13 - and maybe turn the tide. A canon divergence AU where District 2's Victors have a chance of making it out alive. [COMPLETE]
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 15 - Words: 157,674 - Reviews: 183 - Favs: 22 - Follows: 12 - Updated: 7/14/2018 - Published: 3/14/2017 - Complete
A Complicated Time of Year reviews
Lyme isn't the only Victor with a complicated relationship to the holiday season, and for her part she'd really rather pretend the whole thing doesn't exist. It's going pretty well, until she pulls a Victor who decides to go all-in. [mentions of past child abuse]
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,618 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 2 - Published: 12/25/2017 - Lyme, OC - Complete
help the hurt, save the small reviews
A strange rift in Skyhold brings Cole somewhere new. The former Ghost of the White Spire finds himself stalking new halls, searching for the girl whose pain tore a hole in the fabric of the world. (In which Cole saves Eleven, or maybe helps her save herself.)
Crossover - Dragon Age & Stranger Things, 2016 - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,578 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 5 - Published: 8/23/2017 - Complete
Cut to the Feeling reviews
Every future power couple starts somewhere; for Devon and Misha it starts with painting, sparring, a dead girl, and an angry former classmate at a bar.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,628 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Published: 8/4/2017 - OC - Complete
Poor Little Asshole reviews
Wynonna's complicated relationships with parents, sex and bodily autonomy start early. An exploration of Wynonna's early years, leading up to that moment in "Whiskey Lullaby" when the demon offers her a choice. [SPOILERS for Season 2 Episodes 5 & 6]
Wynonna Earp - Rated: T - English - Drama/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10,282 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 4 - Published: 8/2/2017 - Complete
she painted her cheeks with blood reviews
Once, Diana asks Antiope what she knows of men. Or: For every story Diana has heard, there are a thousand she has not. (TW: mentions of past rape, sexual assault, violence)
Wonder Woman - Rated: M - English - Drama/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,457 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Published: 7/31/2017 - Complete
daughter of sea and sword
In your first moments you are drowning, but don't let that stop you. You are Antiope, the second of the Amazons, and from your first breath life is a battle.
Wonder Woman - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 648 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Published: 7/31/2017 - Hippolyta, Antiope - Complete
on the bloody morning after reviews
The rebellion fails. The wrong person finds out about the Arena plan and it all falls apart: Plutarch Heavensbee and the mentors are arrested, President Coin cuts her losses and retreats to District 13 to plot another day, and the victor-tributes in the Arena are on their own. Not that Brutus knows any of this, of course. He's too busy trying not to die. (One-shot AU)
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,253 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 2 - Published: 7/5/2017
In Memoriam reviews
Callista of District 2 won her Games with sex and blood. She's confident that after the Arena, she can handle whatever the Capitol throws at her. But after losing her first tribute to Chaff of District 11, Callista finds out the hard way that the Capitol's obsession with pretty tributes extends even after death - and it's far more twisted than even she imagined.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,254 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Published: 2/24/2017 - OC - Complete
the blight upon your blighted life reviews
(WARNING: CHILD ABUSE) Peacekeepers are supposed to save you, but sometimes they don't. Sometimes "keeping the peace" means protecting the people with power and never mind who else gets hurt. Sometimes nobody comes to save you after all. For Sloane, dying in the Arena will be the escape she's wanted since she was six years old. The trick is surviving until she gets there.
Hunger Games - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,163 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: 2/13/2017 - OC - Complete
Fighting for the Holidays reviews
The District 2 Victors' Village has a new holiday tradition this year, which makes for some very interesting shenanigans. [Prompt: mistletoe, but instead of kissing you have to fight]
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,646 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 2 - Published: 12/24/2016 - Brutus, Enobaria, Lyme - Complete
Don't Flinch reviews
Cato and Clove make it to the final two, but the Capitol revokes the rule change anyway. Whichever way the wind blows - whether Clove strikes first, or Cato does - this is not a happy ending.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,568 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 14 - Follows: 3 - Published: 11/13/2016 - Cato, Clove, Brutus, Lyme - Complete
Always Prepared reviews
Lyme has aced every test the District 2 Career training program has tossed at her, but there are a few they haven't tried yet. Turns out the murder is the easy part.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,249 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 4 - Published: 10/18/2016 - Lyme - Complete
I can't be your hero, baby reviews
"I'm not ready for this ... Not kids thinking I'm a hero and growing up wanting to be like me." Winning the Hunger Games means the worst days of your life aren't just televised, they become inspiration, especially in District 2. For Lyme, still battling guilt and trauma as she recovers from her recent victory, the adoration comes too soon.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,079 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: 10/17/2016 - Lyme, OC - Complete
Down For the Count reviews
Lyme mentored Artemisia to victory her first year in the ring, making both of them a sensation. 4 years later, Artemisia tries her luck in the hot seat to see if she and her girl can pull off the same miracle.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,748 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 2 - Published: 10/14/2016 - Cecelia, Lyme, OC - Complete
Proud of Yourself, Doubting Yourself reviews
The question isn't what the years of isolation and brainwashing did to Willa Earp to make her like this. The real question is, was that Willa made at all, or was she just unleashed? Not an apology, but an exploration.
Wynonna Earp - Rated: T - English - Drama/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,872 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 4 - Published: 9/13/2016 - Complete
do you really want to hurt me reviews
Eleven learns a new word to explain a very familiar feeling.
Stranger Things, 2016 - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,135 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 24 - Follows: 4 - Published: 8/21/2016 - Complete
Make Us Proud reviews
Growing up in District 2 with the high-ranking Peacekeeper families, Alec joins the Career Program at age seven like his older brother Creed and their friend Selene. Alec struggles to fit the Program mold while Creed and Selene flourish, but that just means he has to try harder. Meanwhile the Mockingjay is coming, and Panem is about to go to war ...
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Family/Drama - Chapters: 9 - Words: 70,868 - Reviews: 17 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 3 - Published: 8/5/2016 - Complete
Coping Mechanisms reviews
It's the months before the 74th Hunger Games, and mentors Brutus and Lyme decide to blow off steam before crunch time in a decidedly immature fashion. Petra, Brutus' youngest Victor, doesn't understand why her mentor is acting like an idiot in front of witnesses, but Claudius has an idea. (prompt: Brutus & Lyme, competitive drinking)
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,517 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: 7/21/2016 - Brutus, Lyme, OC - Complete
Follow the Leader reviews
District 2's presumptive volunteer for the 30th Hunger Games is killed in a training accident two days before the Reaping. Joseph, 18 years old and already scouted by the Peacekeeping Academy, watches in horror as the replacement volunteer loses his nerve on the big day and fails to step forward. After that an Example needs to be made, and it's one that Joseph can never forget.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,195 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 4 - Published: 7/8/2016 - Complete
In Starships and Cups of Coffee reviews
Birthdays away from home can be complicated, whether you're an orphaned smuggler who doesn't remember, a princess whose home planet exploded, or a farm boy whose native world used an obscure calendar system. [Birthday giftfic]
Star Wars - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,862 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 17 - Follows: 4 - Published: 5/29/2016 - Luke S., Leia O., Han S., C-3PO - Complete
Nothing Personal reviews
One night after way too much booze, Brutus asks Lyme if she hates men.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Humor/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,942 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 4 - Published: 5/4/2016 - Brutus, Lyme - Complete
No Miracles reviews
("They win it almost every year, but-" / "Almost.") District 2 doesn't always bring it home. The hard part is watching from the mentor seat. [Devon POV]
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,752 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 4 - Published: 5/3/2016 - Johanna M., OC
let the sky fall reviews
Cashmere tells the Avox she wants to die. [WARNINGS: mentions of forced prostitution/rape, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts]
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,589 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 18 - Follows: 3 - Published: 4/7/2016 - Finnick O., Cashmere, Gloss - Complete
Kintsugi reviews
Brutus half-expected to lose his first year in the mentor seat; instead, three years after Emory's win, Brutus gets to watch his Victor lose her tribute - again, and again, and again. [Prompt: Brutus cheers Emory up after an unsuccessful Games.]
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,829 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 4 - Published: 3/25/2016 - Brutus, Lyme, OC - Complete
don't ever wanna let you down reviews
Devon from District 2 wins his Games as the Kissing Killer, a ruthless tribute who romanced four of the Careers in the Arena and killed two of them in the throes of passion. But what the cameras show in the Arena isn't always what it seems ... [Prompt: Kill Me Mourn Me]
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,822 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 1 - Published: 3/20/2016 - Brutus, OC - Complete
Dying is Easy reviews
After winning her Games by default when the last remaining tribute died in a Gamemaker's trap, Emory of District 2 struggles to feel worthy in a Village full of specacular Victors. Brutus, who never expected to pull a Victor on his first year mentoring, needs to find a way to show his girl she's not only loved, but worthy.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,421 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 1 - Published: 3/16/2016 - Complete
you can take the boy out of the desert reviews
In which what was meant to be a silly fic about Luke's farmboy water obsession turned into a story about grief, mourning, culture shock and friendship.
Star Wars - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 2 - Words: 5,511 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 46 - Follows: 21 - Updated: 2/15/2016 - Published: 2/13/2016 - Luke S., Leia O., Han S., Wedge A. - Complete
Better than a Boyfriend reviews
When the Brutus-inspired line of manly-scented candles throws the Capitol fans into a frenzy, Brutus would really rather forget the whole thing exists, but his fellow Victors - especially Lyme - aren't going to let him off that easily.
Hunger Games - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,013 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 6 - Published: 1/24/2016 - Brutus, Lyme - Complete
Claws and Teeth and Tulle reviews
Nobody gets to choose their image, not even Careers. After a final showdown injury that overwrites the rest of Petra's brutal, bloody Games, the girl with District 2's highest kill count has to play the broken doll for an over-sympathetic Capitol audience. At least her mentor knows the truth, and Brutus makes sure his girl doesn't forget it.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,714 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 13 - Follows: 3 - Published: 10/3/2015 - Brutus, OC - Complete
Take My Hand reviews
Before rebel and renegade, between victor and mentor, Lyme was in recovery: angry, bitter, confused and lost, a trained killer without a purpose. Nero, her mentor, has his work cut out for him - especially since not all ghosts come from the Arena. Comes after Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 10,792 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 2 - Updated: 6/18/2015 - Published: 3/8/2014 - Lyme
Where is the Silence reviews
The Capitol stop on the Victory Tour is a celebration for everyone but the Victor. Claudius from District 2 has it better than most, but even he would rather just be home. Luckily for Claudius, his mentor Lyme has played this game before.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,263 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 4 - Published: 6/2/2015 - Lyme - Complete
In Laughter, In Strife reviews
The 20th anniversary of Brutus' win falls on a Games year no one in the Victor's Village feels much like celebrating. The younger Victors deem this unacceptable, and cook up the best kind of shindig: a 'who's the bigger badass' contest between Lyme and Brutus, because nothing says 'party' in District 2 like a little friendly competition.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,545 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 1 - Published: 4/3/2015 - Brutus, Lyme - Complete
It's Either That or Malaria reviews
After years of teasing Lyme and Brutus for their horror at the Capitol thinking they're a couple, their Victors start to wonder if maybe the rumours aren't true after all.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,362 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 6 - Published: 2/14/2015 - Brutus, Lyme - Complete
Interlude: Shadows Fall reviews
The third night of the Quarter Quell, Katniss Everdeen fires an arrow and brings down the force field. Brutus is dead; Enobaria is still in the Arena; and Lyme has turned traitor, disappearing without word, leaving their respective Victors and mentors reeling.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11,969 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 7 - Published: 2/13/2015 - Complete
The Price of Celebrity reviews
["The price of celebrity," says Beetee. "We were targeted from both sides. The Capitol killed the victors they suspected of being rebels. The rebels killed those they thought to be allied with the Capitol." - Mockingjay, Chapter 26.] Ronan, District 2's first Career Victor, and Petra, its youngest, are in the Capitol when it falls.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,966 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 5 - Published: 1/18/2015 - Complete
Nobody Decent reviews
[COMPLETE] District 2 Victor Lyme, two years fresh from the Arena, gets her first tribute to mentor. Her vow to remain aloof to avoid getting attached lasts until she finds Artemisia: wicked, irreverent, blase and a little unhinged, whose childhood photos showed bruises her Games training never put there.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 6 - Words: 50,151 - Reviews: 26 - Favs: 16 - Follows: 6 - Updated: 1/10/2015 - Published: 9/21/2014 - Lyme, Brutus - Complete
Tradition reviews
Claudius is new to the District 2 Victors' Village, but luckily the other Victors are there to help him out. But Victors are Victors after all, and after a while Claudius starts to wonder how much of their 'advice' is real. In which the Village's resident pranksters haze their newest Victor, but it's all in fun. Slice of life, family dynamics, and finding your place among friends.
Hunger Games - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,036 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 6 - Published: 11/30/2014 - Lyme - Complete
No Room to Breathe reviews
Claudius, from District 2, has never liked the dark. As a child his mother punished him by locking him in closets; after he escapes to the Career Centre it happens again, once as a hazing and once in training. Years later he follows Lyme to District 13 and ends up trapped forty levels underground as bombs fall above him; life is fun like that. At least this time he's not alone.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,466 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: 11/30/2014 - Lyme - Complete
Love Me (it's the rules) reviews
Cato is a big dumb boy with big dumb hands and a big dumb brain. His parents ignore him, his teachers sigh at him, and school is hard and sitting still is hard and he's not good at anything. Except at the Centre, where he doesn't have to read or sit and the trainers give him cookies and no one yells at him for being stupid or loud or clumsy.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,077 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 13 - Follows: 1 - Published: 10/11/2014 - Cato - Complete
It's Time To Begin, Isn't It? reviews
Brutus has pulled himself a second Victor, but mentoring doesn't end with the trumpets. The best part is helping them decide the person they want to become after they wash away the blood.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,062 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 1 - Published: 9/13/2014
The End is the Beginning is the End: The Quarter Quell reviews
[COMPLETE] When the Victor Games are announced, District 2 must send its heroes along with the rest of them. Brutus hopes doing his duty will silence the voices telling him this is wrong; Enobaria wants to burn the traitor Mockingjay for bringing this on people who only ever followed orders. Lyme needs to make it through without stabbing President Snow in the eye.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 9 - Words: 68,631 - Reviews: 52 - Favs: 19 - Follows: 12 - Updated: 7/29/2014 - Published: 6/3/2014 - Brutus, Lyme, Enobaria, Pres. Snow
Embrace the Fire: The Avenger Games reviews
[COMPLETE] "Trust me, and I'll give you something better than a Mockingjay. I'll give you the Avengers." "What's that supposed to mean?" "Trust me, and you'll see." Avengers/Hunger Games fusion crossover/AU. M for violence and language (no sexual content).
Crossover - Hunger Games & Avengers - Rated: M - English - Drama/Friendship - Chapters: 17 - Words: 153,155 - Reviews: 79 - Favs: 94 - Follows: 77 - Updated: 7/21/2014 - Published: 2/9/2013 - Iron Man/Tony S., Captain America/Steve R., Black Widow/Natasha R., Hawkeye/Clint B. - Complete
Tis Strange
Some stories aren't just universal, they're multiversal. The tale of King Lear, from eleven different worlds. Written for Night on Fic Mountain 2014. (AUs include: corporate, superheroes, rock band, zombies, space, high school, dragons, age of sail, noir, tarot, fix-it)
Shakespeare - Rated: K+ - English - Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12,056 - Favs: 4 - Published: 7/7/2014
When She Was Bad reviews
Even the sweetest pup will bite if handled roughly, and Regan is no innocent. The making of a girl who embraced her demons and turned them to her purpose. Written for Night on Fic Mountain 2014. (DARK WARNING: violence, torture, animal death, attempted murder.)
Shakespeare - Rated: M - English - Family/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10,535 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 3 - Published: 7/7/2014 - Complete
Slow Work reviews
[COMPLETE] Men are allowed to marry & Bucky is dead. Together in peacetime for the first time since before Steve took the serum, Steve and Bucky struggle to find their place - and each other - in the middle of a new millennium, new bodies, and new dynamics. Or, just because you wake up in a century where everything you've repressed is magically okay, that doesn't make it easy.
Captain America - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 12 - Words: 85,351 - Reviews: 45 - Favs: 128 - Follows: 55 - Updated: 7/4/2014 - Published: 5/9/2013 - Bucky B./Winter Soldier, Steve R./Capt. America - Complete
Ambrosia reviews
Amber is a pretty girl who's murder with a mace; there's almost no way she can lose. The problem is, she knows what happens to the girls from District One, and winning the Hunger Games only means another war that never ends. But what do you do when you've never known anything else?
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,414 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 16 - Published: 5/14/2014 - Complete
I wanna see you be brave reviews
Katniss dies, and Rue wins the 74th Hunger Games. Prim will never forgive the girl who took her sister ... except maybe she will. Maybe Rue isn't the one to blame after all. The genesis of a revolution in four notes. (SHIP SWAP 2014)
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 4 - Words: 26,334 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 23 - Follows: 6 - Published: 5/14/2014 - Prim E., Rue, Mrs. E., Haymitch A. - Complete
Mirror, Mirror reviews
The good thing about being a Career mentor is you get to choose your tribute; the downside to being a Career mentor is you get to choose your tribute. The girl Lyme picks for the 73rd is familiar to her, too, but not because she's met her before. Not exactly. Companion to "District Two, Male"
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,673 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 6 - Published: 5/14/2014 - Lyme - Complete
District Two, Male reviews
Ten years after a routine PR appearance at an elementary school, District Two mentor Devon is choosing this year's tribute from the top candidates when a familiar face crosses his desk. [COMPLETE]
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,695 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 1 - Published: 4/7/2014 - Other tributes - Complete
All or Nothing reviews
Brutus and new-victor Lyme go on a date at the behest of their mentors. It really, really does not go well, but maybe that's okay.
Hunger Games - Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,739 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 5 - Published: 2/14/2014 - Lyme, Brutus - Complete
The Lone Isle of Brutus reviews
Brutus falls down a mountain and hauls himself back on a broken leg, because A Man Does Not Ask For Help. Lyme's gonna make him wish he just picked up the damn phone.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,022 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Published: 2/14/2014 - Brutus, Lyme - Complete
dream the painting, paint the dream reviews
Prim survived the bombing, but they can't erase the scars. Peeta comes up with an idea to make them part of her. Katniss, meanwhile, struggles to hold on. Prim Lives AU, with accidental how'd-that-get-in-there Everlark.
Hunger Games - Rated: K - English - Family/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,164 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 2 - Published: 2/10/2014 - Katniss E., Peeta M., Prim E. - Complete
Bring Us Together reviews
Finnick Odair kills the girl from Two an unprecedented three days into the 65th, and for once Brutus doesn't want to deal with it alone. The good news is, he doesn't have to. (prompt: Brutus and the other victors watching crappy Capitol movies)
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,779 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 2 - Published: 2/9/2014 - Brutus - Complete
Don't Cry For Me reviews
When Rue dies, the nation weeps. When Thresh dies, it's a disappointment. He can't say he didn't see it coming. prompt: Thresh and Rue before the Games, district solidarity
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Family/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,463 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 2 - Published: 2/8/2014 - Thresh, Rue - Complete
Something Left to Save reviews
(Six weeks after Brutus carries Petra from the car to her new home in the Victors' Village, she asks him to kill her.) A mentor should always know what to do. But twenty years of experience don't mean anything when Brutus' girl comes home after the all-maces year with a shattered pelvis and empty eyes.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,590 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 13 - Follows: 2 - Published: 2/3/2014 - Brutus, Lyme - Complete
No Good Deed reviews
Nobody cares about District 12. No Peacekeeper asks to be stationed there. Not until Darius. Written for the Girl on Fire Ficathon, prompt: Darius, no good deed ever goes unpunished
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 982 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 1 - Published: 1/29/2014 - Darius - Complete
you can love me later if you hate me now reviews
A mentor's job doesn't end when they pull their tribute out of the Arena. For District Two, especially, the real stuff begins now. But Brutus, who won his Games based on strength and stubbornness, figures weakness is for other people.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,463 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Published: 1/27/2014 - Brutus - Complete
Que Sera Sera reviews
Three people who knew Madeline watch Lyme's Reaping: her mother, her father, and the teacher who helped her find her dream. Only one makes the connection.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,551 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 2 - Published: 1/26/2014 - Lyme - Complete
The Mountain and the Sea reviews
Victors are legend but mentors are heroes, and Mags is the only non-Two mentor Brutus gives his wholehearted respect. Snapshots of two very different mentors as they interact throughout the years.
Hunger Games - Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,959 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 22 - Follows: 2 - Published: 1/24/2014 - Brutus, Mags - Complete
The Long Goodbye reviews
(Shoutarou sets the second cup of coffee down and slides it across the length of the counter for Philip to catch. The cup crashes against the floor, the porcelain shattering and the hot liquid splattering over the tile.) Twelve months. A half-in-one Kamen Rider. Shoutarou grieves as time passes around him. SPOILERS for series finale.
Kamen Rider - Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,660 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 14 - Follows: 1 - Published: 1/23/2014 - Complete
Flowers of Perhaps reviews
[And Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 1 Samuel 18:20] [And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child until the day of her death. 2 Samuel 6:23] Much might happen in between such short, bookend verses. This is the story of two young people who fell in love, who drifted out of it, and why. Yuletide 2013.
Bible - Rated: K - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 8 - Words: 36,578 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 4 - Published: 1/14/2014 - Michal, David - Complete
Seek Not to Alter Me reviews
(Beatrice slitted her eyes at him. "You're talking about my friends." / He took another long drag of his cigarette. "Am I?") It's the big school dance, and Beatrice is utterly fed up with everyone. Worst of all, the punch isn't even alcoholic. Beatrice/Don John UST. Modern AU, high school setting, because I have no idea why this isn't a teen movie yet. Yuletide 2013.
Much Ado About Nothing - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,121 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Published: 1/14/2014 - Complete
Show Me Your Teeth reviews
Hunger Games Holiday Exchange. Prompt: Cato/Glimmer/Marvel, "tell me you're dead and I'll love you even more". ("This is our time," Glimmer says. "We should take what we want.") They'd never do this in real life, but this the Arena.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,024 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 8 - Published: 1/14/2014 - Cato, Glimmer, Marvel - Complete
hold on to this lullaby reviews
Hunger Games Holiday Exchange. Prompt: "the games continue and Katniss has to mentor someone." AU: The year of the 75th Hunger Games, Katniss watches as her sister is called in the Reaping, and she can't step in to save her this time. A sequence of 10 drabbles. COMPLETE.
Hunger Games - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,040 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 2 - Published: 1/14/2014 - Katniss E., Prim E., Pres. Snow - Complete
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice reviews
[UPDATE: now with manageable chapters] Before she was Lyme, she was Madeline, an angry little girl who needed to learn to fight. Part of my exploration of victors before they were victors, and how the Centre works to make its killers. COMPLETE.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 6 - Words: 45,129 - Reviews: 19 - Favs: 20 - Follows: 3 - Updated: 1/13/2014 - Published: 8/25/2013 - Lyme - Complete
Skip the Masquerade reviews
Victors in District 2 have it the best in Panem, and Brutus will be the first to agree that he ain't got nothing to complain about. That doesn't mean everything works out the way he planned. Another in my Career Victor exploration series. A sequence of 10 drabbles on a theme.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 999 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 1 - Published: 10/1/2013 - Brutus, Lyme - Complete
There When You Die reviews
(On camera they're perfect; sharp, nasty, competitive, a pair but distant. Alone they snap together like one of Clove's knives into a target.) The 74th Hunger Games from a mentor to her tribute. It's a game Lyme knows is rigged to lose, this year more than ever.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,001 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 3 - Published: 9/17/2013 - Lyme, Cato, Brutus, Clove - Complete
To Love a Beast reviews
Most parents of Career victors are happy to distance themselves from the monsters their children have become. Brutus, victor of the 49th, is no different - or is he? His Games through the eyes of the mother who swore to love whatever walked out of the Arena, regardless of what happened, whether her son wants her to or not. [COMPLETE]
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Family/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22,236 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 15 - Follows: 2 - Published: 7/19/2013 - Brutus - Complete
Lots of Rules and No Mercy reviews
Following Haymitch Abernathy's seditious use of the Arena against his opponent, the Capitol wants to send a message: tributes cannot outwit the Arena, ever. The 52nd Hunger Games involve a very special Arena, and a very, very special Gamemaker. Hunger Games/Portal fusion AU. POV characters from Districts 1, 2, 3, 5, and 9. [IN PROGRESS]
Crossover - Portal & Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,299 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 13 - Published: 6/25/2013 - GLaDOS
To Touch, To Contain reviews
PROMPT: seneca crane/johanna, i've even loved a few times in my disgusting human way. Seneca Crane will not be denied, even when he is.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,155 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 6 - Published: 5/9/2013 - Johanna M., Seneca C. - Complete
The Devil You Know reviews
The question isn't "Why didn't District 2 join the Rebellion"? The question is: "Why should they have?" Why District 2 stood alone against the Rebellion. [NOTE: opinions of characters ! opinions of author]
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 6 - Words: 45,979 - Reviews: 38 - Favs: 31 - Follows: 8 - Published: 5/9/2013 - Brutus, Cato, Enobaria, Lyme - Complete
welcome to your gory bed reviews
prompt: victors, sorrow found me when I was young; sorrow waited, sorrow won. 19 named victors in the Hunger Games trilogy, and not a one escaped unscathed.
Hunger Games - Rated: M - English - Drama - Chapters: 3 - Words: 18,854 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 15 - Follows: 2 - Published: 5/9/2013 - Complete
Fixed to a Star reviews
Every tribute chosen in the Reaping of the 67th Hunger Games just 'happens' to be twelve years old. Claudius, the male Career volunteer from District Two, finds the moment he spent his entire life training for tainted as he's now forced into the role of the Capitol's executioner. Lyme, his mentor, refuses refuses to let her tribute go down as the villain. [COMPLETE]
Hunger Games - Rated: M - English - Drama - Chapters: 11 - Words: 80,052 - Reviews: 19 - Favs: 27 - Follows: 8 - Updated: 5/9/2013 - Published: 2/9/2013 - Lyme, Brutus, Enobaria, Pres. Snow - Complete
She Says, You Don't Wanna Be Like Me reviews
Everyone knows what happens to the District One girls who win. Natasha Romanov knows, and she knows what she has to do to survive. At least she has Clint to help her through it. That changes when she meets Glimmer, a girl who doesn't have that luxury. Spinoff of The Avenger Games.
Crossover - Hunger Games & Avengers - Rated: M - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 13,807 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 17 - Follows: 7 - Published: 2/9/2013 - Glimmer, Black Widow/Natasha R. - Complete
Homeward Hopes reviews
Loki's already well on his way to being broken by the time his story starts in the Avenger Games, but was he always that way? Or was he ever just a kid, confused and culture-shocked and desperate to belong somewhere? Or, some sociopaths are made and born.
Crossover - Hunger Games & Avengers - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10,819 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 7 - Published: 2/9/2013 - Loki - Complete
Like Philosophy, Like Art reviews
SPOILERS for the entire series, 1-7, but ESPECIALLY for Crucible of Gold. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Half a sentence from Iskierka, and a cup of grog, passed from hand to hand at a bonfire. That's all the canon gives us. An attempt to fill in the missing pieces. The story of Captain Little, John Granby, and William Laurence, through the years.
Temeraire - Rated: T - Spanish - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11,716 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 10 - Follows: 1 - Published: 2/9/2013 - Complete
From, and To, and Why reviews
Laurence's talent for repression, Tharkay's for self-denial, and Granby's for exploding when he just can't take it anymore finally come to a head. Also, Temeraire and Iskierka nearly get everyone killed.
Temeraire - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 34,566 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 15 - Follows: 1 - Published: 2/9/2013 - Complete
Faithful in the Performance reviews
On board the Allegiance, Laurence has a lot of time to think. Granby and Tharkay try to talk him out of it.
Temeraire - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10,096 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 17 - Follows: 1 - Published: 2/9/2013 - Complete
Elmer Drimsdale, Flirtation Crustacean reviews
Elmer's attempts at romancing Marylou go awry when his new invention doesn't work exactly as planned.
Gordan Korman - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,646 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 2/9/2013 - Complete
Slash on a Plane reviews
It had to happen sooner or later. What we believe to be the internet's very first 'Snakes on a Plane' slash fic. Entirely banter, oneshot.
Misc. Movies - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 912 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: 8/17/2006 - Complete