“You shouldn’t be here.”
Elena lets out a breath, he’s alone. It’s beyond lucky, and she can’t stand for relief, leaning against the closet wall. Out of the corner of her eye is his writing, and it’s all too easy to imagine her name at the bottom of the list in shaky cursive.
“I know.”
Teen, canon divergence from 3×03. Stefan goes back to his apartment without Klaus. A short but intriguing what-if.
As a human she’d known all this. It’s what had given her the strength to hold onto him no matter what. Stefan was hers completely and she was his. As a vampire it is intoxicating in ways she’s never thought possible.
Source: Coming Home, by DesertFlower303 – The Vampire Diaries (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
Adult, 4×02. I have no idea what happened in this ep, but it definitely should have been this! 😉
It’s hard keeping your relationship a secret when your boyfriend lives with someone who can hear every little thing you do from every corner of the house.
Source: suddenly the world looks back, by summerstorm – Vampire Diaries (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
Adult. So yes, I’ve fallen into another rabbit hole about a ship from a show I never watched and don’t plan to (blame the Youtube algorithm). But c’mon, Stefan and Elena were great together! Sadly a lot of the fanfic is not the best, but this one’s yummy and full of tension.
Spock’s hand shook as he pressed his fingers to Kirk’s psi points. He had no particular plan. Just putting together a thought as coherent as “I should try a mind meld” had taken some doing. “My…mind to…your mind…” He grit his teeth. It was a bit like pushing a shuttle up a hill by himself while working quantum equations in his head. The real trick to it was putting himself in Kirk’s mind while retaining his own defenses against the psionic field. “My thoughts…to your thoughts…”
He didn’t enter Kirk’s mind, so much as fall into it. But it was chaos. He could make no sense of it; cacophonous sounds, images, memories, text, emotions, thoughts, all a tempest endlessly whirling in a void.
Adult, SNW, post-Subspace Rhapsody. Due to an accident Kirk ends up in Spock’s mind, intimacy ensues. This is simply lovely, full of emotions, sexual tension and bonding.
Kirk opened his mouth to ask Spock what the matter was, the Vulcan’s eyes were wide and stared fixedly at Jim, who found himself unable to move and now noticed an uncomfortable heat coming from the stone, fitted between their palms and interlocking fingers.
He wanted to yank his hand back and couldn’t move. He couldn’t understand what the professor was saying, and neither could he speak.
Commander, he heard Spock say in his mind , I do not think this stone is inactive.
Not for us, apparently , Kirk thought back.
Source: All Our Tomorrows Come Today – Chapter 1, by flippyspoon – Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]
Adult, canon-divergence. I must say, I simply adore SNW fics about these two, especially when they integrate so beautifully into TOS.
He doesn’t think he could – he knows he said he’d be Buck’s best man but… he doesn’t think he can do it. Doesn’t think he can stand at the altar and watch as Gale marries the girl of his dreams, the one he’d gone back to even though he spent more time with John than he ever has with her.
And if that’s a petty thing to think, then so be it.
Howdy, Buck!
He starts the letter, sloppily penning it with his head in his hand, sitting on the ground at the coffee table.
How many horses does it take to make a cowboy? Is one enough? Her names Eurydice, real fancy! Hope you got my last letter, since I got no reply and all. Do I need cows to be a cowboy? I could get some, I have the land now. I think the cat in the barn is having kittens, it’s getting real busy around here. I think Peg wants to set me up with her daughter. Didn’t you say you want to go back to studying physics? Sometimes I dream about you dying and I need to know you’re alive. Say hi to the loveliest Marge for me!
Your newly-minted rancher,
Bucky.
Adult, post-canon. Bucky is back home and trying to cope without Buck. It doesn’t go so well, in spite of a lovely horse and some new friends.
“I want to be alone, Jack,” Robby said, short and sharp and pissy.
Fucking great. Apparently in the 45 minutes since Jack had last seen him, Robby had gone from devastation to anger. This would be fun.
“It’s nice to want things,” he drawled, deliberately light. “I wanted to walk out of Iraq on my own two feet, but hey. No plan survives contact with the enemy and all that.”
Robby turned then, looking at him over the top of the couch, face drawn, eyes dark in the low lights. “Yeah? You my enemy?”
Jack scoffed at the thought, setting the plastic bag on the bench inside the door, dropping his backpack to the floor, and then sitting down to take off the prosthetic. “Nah, man. Just a friend.”
Friend, he internally mocked. In a sense it was true, but it was also wildly insufficient.
Source: Bring Me to Life, by Alethia – The Pitt (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
Adult, episode tag to the season 1 finale. This is pure perfection. I’ve been thinking about Abbot following Robby home at the end – this version is full of feels and hotness, my favourite combo!
“Would it help to know I’m out here because it reminds me that I want to be alive?”
“I can think of other things for that,” Robby shot back, a little challenging.
“What, jumping out of planes? Did that, not impressed. Drugs? Not interested, even if it wouldn’t fuck with my license. Sex? You want to talk about the market for a traumatized, widowed, workaholic vet who’s down a leg? It’ll be a short conversation.”
“You’d be surprised,” Robby said, low, but the note of heat in it got Jack’s attention, finally had him turning back to look at Robby.
Source: The Call of the Void, by Alethia – The Pitt (TV) [Archive of Our Own
Adult. The first time Robby finds Abbot on the roof, he offers him an… alternative way to feel alive. Delicious!
Gale’s not sure who he’ll be without the war, without the Hundredth, without a B-17. But he knows he won’t be Buck without Bucky. Won’t be himself without John.
Perhaps that’s why John tried to slip away unnoticed tonight, why he came out here and tucked himself into the copilot’s seat. An attempt to sever a limb, one he knows he can’t take home with him.
Source: flak-happy, fancy-free – Chapter 1, by mercess – Masters of the Air (TV 2024) [Archive of Our Own]
Adult, set on VE Day. Bucky disappears on Gale, and Gale doesn’t hesitate to go find him. Perfect first time fic.
One corner of Gale’s mouth ticks upward. John wants to press his thumb to it. Gale has to know John is looking, but he doesn’t protest it, doesn’t try to stop it. He doesn’t even look back, as if content to let himself be watched.
They’ve been dancing around this for so long now that even Gale, with his two left feet, is an expert at it. He could dance it without music, upside down, and backward, and still make it look pretty. They linger and the music begins. They lock eyes and take that first step. They laugh and twirl in time, easy and free. It feels weightless. It feels like an anchor. One day, they’ll cut the chain loose and see where the wind takes them.
Source: my type – Chapter 1, by mercess – Masters of the Air (TV 2024) [Archive of Our Own]
Adult. This fic is like a beautiful dance indeed, as Bucky and Gale decide to try some new steps on the wing of a plane (of course)…
