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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion Chapter 379

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: They need to evacuate Rush's lab.
Word Count: 1391
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS

( Chapter 379: Prince of Ashes )

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Current Music: N/A

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HH et al Round Up #2

HORROR HIGH (complete, edited, posted, 10 chapters, 70,659 words)

POST-HORROR HIGH ONE-SHOTS:
1) Cheap Motel (complete, edited, posted) (14,984 words)
2) Snapshot (complete, edited, posted) (17,312 words)
3) Southern Hospitality (complete, edited, posted) (22,980 words)
4) Cornfields (complete, edited, posted) (17,862 words)
5) Comfort Food (complete, edited, posted) (17,247 words)
6) Something To Be Protected (complete, edited, posted) (18,295 words)
7) Counting Scars (complete, edited, posted) (12,080 words)
8) Breathe (complete, edited, posted) (18,627 words)
9) Cerulean Blue (complete, edited, posted) (16,134 words)
10) Everything I Do (complete, edited, posted) (13,851 words)
11) Puppy Love (complete, edited, posted) (19,943 words)
12) Summer Nights (complete, edited, posted) (19,534 words)
13) Absolute Devotion (complete, edited, posted) (21,068 words)
14) Solid Foundations (complete, edited, posted) (17,892 words)
15) Lifeline (complete, edited, posted) (20,484)
16) Afterglow (complete, edited, posted) (17,779 words)
17) Nightlight (complete, edited)
18) Say Something (complete, edited, posted) (17,372 words)
19) Put Your Hands On Me (incomplete)
20) Falling Stars (complete, edited, posted) (14,601 words)

STORM SEASON (complete, edited, posted, 10 chapters, 77,127 words)

POST-STORM SEASON ONE-SHOTS:
1) When Lightning Strikes (complete, edited, posted) (demons/elemental) (14,990 words)
2) Ghost In The Machine (complete, edited, posted) (poltergeist) (17,091 words)
3) Pinfeathers (complete, edited, posted) (just Destiel) (15,765 words)
4) Teeth (complete, edited, posted) (tooth fairy) (18,469 words)
5) Nightingale (complete, edited, posted) (succubus) (12,212 words)
6) Going International (incomplete) (baobhan sith/each-uisge)
7) Hunting Souls (complete, needs editing) (Crowley/hellhounds)
8) Echoes (complete, needs editing) (spell gone wrong)
9) Endling (complete, needs editing) (original monster)
10) Supply And Demand (incomplete) (black market monster trade)
11) Fetters (complete, needs editing) (nightmare/demons)
12) Temper Tantrums (incomplete) (poltergeist)
13) Baby (incomplete) (spell gone wrong... sort of)
14) What Angels Dream (incomplete) (djinn)
15) Grace (incomplete) (phoenix)
16) Hollow Things (incomplete) (rabid werewolves)
17) The Desert Tide (incomplete) (kelpies)
18) Coyote Country (incomplete) (wendigo)
19) Coulrophobia (incomplete) (demon clown)
20) Creepy Crawlies (incomplete) (okumade)
21) Run Hide Die (incomplete) (hydra)
22) The Wolf (incomplete) (charnel cow)
23) Crawlspace (incomplete) (ghost)
24) Mirrors (incomplete) (basilisk)
25) Sudden Cardiac Arrest (incomplete) (humans, man)
26) Day Drinking (incomplete) (ghouls)
27) Mockingbird (incomplete) (wolpertinger)
28) Dreamcatcher (incomplete) (demon)
29) Magpies (incomplete) (original monster)
30) Dogman (incomplete) (dogman)
31) Stalactites (incomplete) (wyvern)
32) Fairy Tales (incomplete) (unicorn... ish)
33) Eyes In The Dark (incomplete) (mothman)
34) The Thirteenth Child (incomplete) (Jersey devil)
35) Split (incomplete) (manananggal)
36) High Noon (incomplete) (chupacabras)
37) Animal (incomplete) (nandi bear)
38) Billabong (incomplete) (bunyip)
39) Tricks No Treats (incomplete) (coyote trickster)
40) Territoriality (incomplete) (Unhcegila/Sally)
41) Clash Of The Titans (incomplete) (Mishipeshu/Thunderbird)
42) Daylight (incomplete) (gargoyle)
43) Slither (incomplete) (titanoboa)
44) Burrunjor (incomplete) (burrunjor)
45) Leave No Traces (incomplete) (Keelut)
46) Runaway (incomplete) (amazons)
47) Bray Road (incomplete) (the beast of Bray Road)
48) Shearing Time (incomplete) (sheepsquatch)
49) Let Them In (incomplete) (BEK)
50) The Devil's Highway (incomplete) (Highway 666/elemental)
51) Crawlers (incomplete) (pale crawlers)
52) Clowder (incomplete) (original monster)
53) The Owl (incomplete) (la lechuza)
54) Dracula Drive (incomplete) (melonheads)
55) Papio Devilicus (incomplete) ("devil monkey")
56) Conspiracies (incomplete) (subterranean reptoids)
57) The Tall Ones (incomplete) (slenderman tulpa)
58) Accursed (incomplete) (dybbuk)
59) Stay (incomplete) (devil dogs)
60) Tiny Calamity (incomplete) (evil gnomes)
61) Bad Monkey (incomplete) (flying rebobs)
62) Foxfire (incomplete) (child fox familiar)
63) Controlled Descent (incomplete) (the angel Dima)
64) Midnight Spirits (incomplete) (midnight Spirit Mass)
65) Remembrance (incomplete) (malevolent spell)
66) Wind-Up (incomplete) (cursed object)
67) Cobweb (incomplete) (djieien)
68) Better Angels (incomplete) (angel hunter)
69) Enter The Sandman (incomplete) (original monster)
70) Bed Of Roses (incomplete) (poltergeist)
71) Murmur (incomplete) (humans, man/original "monster")
72) 2140 Degrees Fahrenheit (incomplete) (Kaupe)
73) Creeping Death (incomplete) (original monster)
74) Nightmare Fodder (incomplete) (spell gone awry)
75) Not Deer (incomplete) (Not-Deer)
76) Loveland (incomplete) (Loveland frogman)
77) For Honor (incomplete) (gryphon)
78) Wayward Daughters (complete, edited) (spell gone awry... sort of)
79) Halcyon Days (complete, edited) (just Destiel)
80) Serendipity (complete, edited) (just Destiel)

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Room And Board

Mom and Lee are nickel-and-diming me to death. I already pay more here for room/board than I am allotted by ODSP and it's supposed to cover everything, including my food. Now, when I want snacks and stuff, I pay for them myself, but actual FOOD is supposed to be covered. But when I ask for V8 juice for my special diet, or hot house tomatoes because roma tomatoes are bullshit, they force me to pay for that as well. This week I asked for turkey lunch meat, which I get occasionally and have NEVER had to pay for it before, and suddenly Mom has decided that I have to pay for it out of pocket. It's like $15.50.

And that's another thing. I'm CONSTANTLY picking up little odds-and-sods of snacks for them when I find stuff I think they'd like, but I NEVER ask them to pay for them, even when they offer. But if I "buy" something for $12.25 you had better bet I'm PAYING THAT QUARTER because they are NOT willing to round down. They'll round UP if it's in pennies, but NEVER DOWN. I need some form of groceries every week that aren't their "normal" groceries because of my fucking liver but they won't give a Goddamn INCH.

It's no wonder I never have any money.

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: N/A: "Zombie Town" on Tubi.

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External Filters

The last little while the axolotl tank has gotten a little smelly, and I can only attribute it to two possible things. 1) The water that's leaked out the cracks in the bottom and is sitting there getting mouldy while my ribs heal to the point I can actually tackle swapping the tank out for the new one or 2) The external filter needing desperately to be cleaned.

You typically don't use external filters with axolotl aquariums, just the internal ones, but the internal ones only filter chemicals, not particulates, so I have both going on. Anyway, so tonight I unplugged the external filter and took it to the basement and cleaned it thoroughly, and then when I brought it back up and put it back in place... it won't turn on. I THINK I accidentally got some water into the motor casing while I was cleaning it, so I'm leaving it to dry out overnight and tomorrow I'll give it a try again. If it still doesn't work I'll have to buy a new one, which I CAN NOT afford. =/

Other than that, a little over a week ago I bought two black sweet potato vines from the garden shop at Country Produce, and one of them (Castiel) I put in the aquarium and he is THRIVING HOLY SHIT. He sits right next to Dean, naturally, but Dean isn't doing well atm, most of his leaves have systematically fallen off, especially the last little while. I have a spare Dean downstairs, though, so I just have to do some pruning and fixing and current!Dean with spare!Dean and he should be fine. Sam is still doing really well, too, and though Jack is recovering from when Pluto... ate some of him, because he was living on my windowsill next to my bed. EVENTUALLY JACK WILL BE BIG ENOUGH TO JOIN HIS FAMILY.

I've had two orders of computer ink lately where one of the cartridges was defective and my printer couldn't read it. I just returned one like yesterday, and the replacement one that came in today needs to be replaced too. I'm really fucking annoyed, but at least Amazon has a good returns policy. *shrug*

Tomorrow is Thursday, which means it's Fic Update Day on my literally nonexistent update schedule lmao. I'll be posting Solid Foundations, and I already have Nightlight finished and edited for next week. I'm currently working on Put Your Hands On Me for the week after, and then that's the end of the post-HH fics, and I'll be working on post-SS fics instead, which are totally different stuff.

But before I start posting more post-SS fics, I'm taking a break (for real this time!) to finish up TKA, and maybe get a start on My Zombie or Freefall, Then I'll go back to writinf post-SS fics for a while, and then after a few of them I'll take another break to work on something else. Maybe Frailty or Tempest. I haven't quite decided yet, I just know I need to at least PERIODICALLY work on stuff that isn't related to Horror High et al, as much as I love it.

Which reminds me, I've gotten a couple of really nice reviews since I posted Absolute Devotion, ones that were really kind and made me feel really good about myself and my writing. But in the notes for Absolute Devotion I talked about how it was a good thing I didn't mind not getting any kudos/comments on my stuff because I get like less than 200 hits and maybe 7 kudos and no comments on most of my fics. I guess a few people read that and took it to heart. It was nice.

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Memories of War

Desmond actually is doing better than he thinks, but he’s right that he has been half-assing it a little because he wasn’t confident. He did obviously decide to have another existential crisis, this time because he finally realized that people might know who he is now.
Red’s speech about the war is paraphrased because, among other things, he usually tells it at his store.

Main Points: Assassin's Creed/The Secret World
Summary: Desmond follows the lead Krieg gave him and stumbles across another.
Word Count: 2690
Rating: Teen

( synchronicity )

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Current Music: Track 9 - Darling Violetta

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Stand Up for Puns

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Dialoguefic
Summary: faster to read
Word Count: 30

“You’re the best partner.”
“No, you are. I’m a Pretender to the title.”
*snort*
“What?”
“Pretender.”
“You have got to be joking.”
“I am.”
“...I walked straight into that one.”

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Current Music: Installer Loop - City of Heroes

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Playing Hero

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Dialoguefic
Summary: faster to read
Word Count: 100

“Throwing yourself in harm’s way is something for the Slayers, mister.”
“Aww, come on, aren’t you at least going to tell me you’re proud of me?”
“...Okay, I am happy you saved that civilian, but I don’t want there to be one less Xander in the world!”
“We don’t know that I saved his life yet. He’s in worse shape than I am. At least he’s here so I can listen to what they’re doing. To know for sure we’d have to be in something like a video game and have restarted the level because he died the first time.”

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idle thought #674

another question for antis: why are you buying clothes at the soup store?

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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion Chapter 378

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Buffy deals with some of the things they found in Rush's lab.
Word Count: 1307
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS
Warning: more body horror

( Chapter 378: Cygnus X-1 )

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Current Music: N/A: "Mirrors" on Tubi.

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Out Of Control

Alright. Well. So. Um, I have been adding to the post-SS fics again and now we are up to freaking SEVENTY-FIVE, or, well, seventy-FOUR, I guess, right now, but we all know I work in multiples of 5 so I'm currently on the lookout for one more good monster to bring the total up to the seventy-five. :P

63) Controlled Descent (incomplete) (the angel Dima)
64) Midnight Spirits (incomplete) (midnight Spirit Mass)
65) Rememberance (incomplete) (malevolent spell)
66) Wind-Up (incomplete) (cursed object)
67) Cobweb (incomplete) (djieien)
68) Better Angels (incomplete) (angel hunter)
69) Bed Of Roses (incomplete) (poltergeist)
70) Murmur (incomplete) (humans, man/original "monster")
71) Paradoxical (incomplete) (Kaupe)
72) ?????

Yeah.

I posted Absolute Devotion yesterday and so far it's doing alright, at least by the standards of the rest of the series. I did get a review (that was really nice, positive and uplifting, I appreciated it a lot) but so far only 4 kudos and 119 hits all together. Sometimes it feels like... why bother? But I know there are a FEW people out there who are following along and I'm still enjoying writing for post-HH and post-SS, so as long as that keeps up I'll keep going.

Right now I'm working on Nightlight and so far it's 16 pages and 8,047 words, but it's coming along nicely. The post-HH one-shots typically have no real plot and are just written for the sake of smut and fluff. Nightlight is no different. When I get back into the post-SS fics, THEN I'll have plots to work with, just. With smut and fluff included as well. :| lol.

Anyway.

It took two weeks, but my leg is much better than it was, it almost doesn't hurt at all anymore, so I'm not LIMPING much anymore, so my ankle/knee/hip on my OTHER leg are starting to be not quite so sore. Everything is a freaking chain reaction, man, and it sucks. My back and ribs are buggered even more from me limping around the last couple weeks as well. Hopefully they'll start feeling better soon, too.

This morning, my printer ran out of color ink and when I put a new cartridge in it refused to recognize it and kept telling me my ink was empty. I tried taking it out and putting it back in a bunch of times but it was still a no-go. So, finally I dug out a DIFFERENT cartridge and put IT in and BINGO! it worked perfectly fine. I held onto the other one to try one more time when the current cartridge is empty, but I think it's just defective and I'm actually kind of pissed off. Each of those cartridges costs me like $20. =/

Aaaaand now I have to go downstairs because it's my day to cook dinner! Ciao!

Current Mood: sore
Current Music: N/A: "The Devil You Know" on Tubi.

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Chores Day

Today I finished editing Solid Foundations, and while it's not my FAVORITE of the post-HH one-shots, it's definitely solid. After all my edits it came out to 17,903 words, which is shorter than some of my recent one-shots but kind of in-between the really long ones and the shorter ones. I'm happy with it.

Now I'm working on Nightlight, and after Nightlight comes Put Your Hands On Me, and then that's the end of the post-HH one-shots and I'll be transitioning back into the post-SS ones instead. I already have four finished that just need editing, I think, but before I tackle THAT I need to write and edit Going International, since it got kind of shoehorned in at the last minute. =/ BUT SCOTTISH MONSTERS, THOUGH!

The last couple weeks I've had a huge patch of my inner right thigh that has been absolutely KILLING ME, even though there's been no bruising or swelling or even redness. I highly suspect that I have an abscess because of my Hidradenitis Suppurativa, but I've been avoiding going to the hospital because if I go to the ER and tell them "my leg hurts" I'm going to be the lowest on the list and I'll have to sit there for two fucking days until I eventually see a Doctor.

Anyway, the last couple of days the pain has been subsiding so I'm hoping whatever's going on is going away, finally. But in the meantime I've been limping HEAVILY, and that's fucked up the ankle/knee/hip on my OTHER leg so now I'm just in pain everywhere because my ribs and back are still being jerks, too. Blegh.

Yesterday I rearranged the shelves in the library/cat room. It took me all afternoon and I almost died (because of my ribs and back especially) but I got it done. The first thing I had to do was empty (almost) everything (books) off of the wooden shelves and get Mom to help me move them over about five inches. Then I had to empty the first set of black plastic shelves and unscrew them from the wall to move THEM over five inches. This is all to make room for the NEW set of black plastic shelves, which I then had to assemble and screw into place before I could put everything back on the shelves again.

I pinched my thumb putting together the new shelves and ended up with a big blood blister that I subsequently popped, so my thumb is sore now but that's a little thing. And now all of my binders fit on the shelves, and I even have spare room for FUTURE binders, too! Also, when I put all my books back on the first set of shelves I actually ORGANIZED them! So. Success! But then I died a little because EVERYTHING HURT. Everything STILL hurts.

At some point today I need to get the towels down on the floor under the rug that my computer table sits on, I'm just trying to keep the legs from making further furrows into the carpet, since I drag the table back and forth so much. I'll probably do that once I'm done posting this entry.

Also, my Internet just cut out. Goddammit.

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idle thought #673

also vital stars contain concentrated liquidified Green Herbs. They need to be treated rather than just eating the raw plant because demon/half demon need a bigger concentration

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idle thought #672

I completely forgot I’ve visited Il Duomo in Firenze, oops. Was super jetlagged but one thing I do remember: the doors are absolutely gorgeous in person

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Current Music: Power Corrupts - The Secret World ST (Simon Poole & Mark Canham)

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The Embedded Narrative

After Desmond finished his speech, I went “wait a minute, that sounds familiar”. There’s a lot of similarity there with Glenn Yarbrough’s It’s So Easy Not to Try.
Chapter title from Beta-senpai (who is still not beta’ing this whole story as he’s not familiar with Assassin’s Creed but is lending a hand here and there). I also sent him part of the speech and he went “I’m sensing some well-earned hostility there...”
compilation of weirdly 10x more relevant to Desmond than your average TSW character dialogue from Krieg:
“Are you here for a signature? I'll make it out to "Christ almighty," since you're so intent on dying for our sins.”
(He did also mention ‘the buzz fades’. That’s less Desmond-specific, though.)
“I’m a writer. I make millions repeating myself. What’s your excuse?”
“Who would you be, what would you be, without this, without your precious war on evil, without your secret world, your sacred brotherhoods, your ranks and titles and rituals. You’d be just another rat stuck in the race with a dead-end job, living for a paycheck and the weekends.” (...not that Desmond would think that was a bad thing.)
“You soak in it so others don’t have to. You take one for the team.”
“Maybe it’ll be different this time. Maybe you’ll save everyone.”

Main Points: Assassin's Creed/The Secret World
Summary: Desmond finds the clue he needed for Rogêt's vision.
Word Count: 2114
Rating: Teen

( the nihilist and the assassin )

Current Mood: sore
Current Music: N/A: "The Devil You Know" on Tubi.

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Solid Foundations

It's the second of the month and I have $38 in my bank account. Today Mom was supposed to take me out to buy the rest of my monthly groceries and stuff, but obviously that's not happening. We did go back to Walmart this afternoon, though, to return a binder and a pair of pants that I bought on Saturday and turned out to be incorrect. I was able to exchange the binder for the correct one, but the pants were out of stock so I couldn't get a new pair in another size, so that added $30 to my account, but now I'm back to having no pants that fit. =/ Since I HAD that additional $30, though, we went to Canadian Tire so I could pick up the set of shelves that I needed, so at least that's done.

On the 10th I get a government payment (I can't remember which one) that's about $100, so I can go out and get worms for the 'lotls then. Until then they'll just have to put up with pellets. They actually don't seem to mind the pellets all that much, but I know worms are better for them. I really need to get their tank swapped over ASAP, too, but between my ribs and my legs I just... I feel so useless. I can't do anything right now.

Today I finished Solid Foundations, and it came in at 36 pages and 17,730 words, but it still needs to be edited, obviously, so the word count will definitely change a bit one way or the other. But I have time to edit Solid Foundations, it's not being posted for another week-and-a-bit. Tomorrow I'm going to be editing Absolute Devotion, though, because it's due to be posted this Thursday. Did I mention I really hate editing? I have? Well guess what, I still really hate editing. :P

I spent a while today making covers for some more of my fics and printing them out for future use in binders that I don't have for them yet. About half of my Valdemar fics are going to end up in 1" binders, I think, though three or four are going to go in 1.5" binders instead. Meanwhile I have a 3" binder and a 2" binder for Horror High et al AND THREE 3" binders and a 2" binder for Storm season et al. Honestly that series will be the death of me and I don't even care.

Before I can put my new shelves up I have to move two other sets of shelves that are already in the library, and they are, as you might imagine, full of books atm. I think tomorrow I'm going to try tackling that project because I can move the books just a few at a time and the shelves themselves aren't that heavy when they're empty. I think I can do it even with my fucked up ribs and legs, if I take it slow. Then I can assemble the new shelves and screw them into the wall the same as the last ones I put in.

Tomorrow I also have to go down to the front of the complex and raid the rhubarb plant that's growing there. Mom mentioned it to be today, but I had just spent an hour planting and watering my tomatoes and I was in SO much pain, so I opted to put it off to tomorrow. Hopefully no one else goes down to pick it in the meantime, it's not a very big plant. =/

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Lios ~ Helba - .hack//ost

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Our Hopes and Expectations

Main Points:
Blake's 7 (probably series A/season 1, but otherwise ambiguously set) (Black Holes and Revelations)
Chapter Summary: The rest of the crew noticed Avon's uncharacteristic behavior, and once they've finished treating Blake Jenna was elected to go confront Avon about it.
Word Count: 875
Rating: Teen

( confrontation )

Current Mood: migraine
Current Music: Starlight - Muse

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Never Fade Away

I was hoping to have been able to work on the Cambion AU again but between unexpected stuff this week and next week and a migraine today, we're going with another thing I already had written but wasn't planning on posting yet.
For this one, the thought occurred to me while reading a different (and really good) soulmate fic series by x_los 'what if I used the Linked concept for it'. Then was like, nah, that'd never work. A ton of the plot can't happen if Blake isn't allowed to keep being mysterious, but I kept thinking about it. For one thing because Time Lord Blake isn't quite as inclined to not share that it's going to change things drastically anyway, and also because Phoenix and Edgeworth have been using blocks a lot recently and I suspect Avon and Blake would be the same way, because they're both nosy but also inclined to be fairly private. Add in some more Federation worldbuilding, and it totally works. Basically how the Linked soulmate AU stuff works is that two people form a mental Link, kinda like having a mental penpal. Platonic versions exist and at some point I might write one, since I'm using it again. Though, of course, while people talk about accepting that there's a bit of a stigma. (I suspect this isn't a completely original soulmate AU, partly because it's an extrapolated 'but what if more common' expansion on a Dresden Files Dresden/Marcone kinkmeme fill.) That being said I like the concept of 'this isn't cutting out free will, just giving you limited telepathy, and what you do with it is up to you'.

Main Points:
Blake's 7 (probably series A/season 1, but otherwise ambiguously set) (Black Holes and Revelations)
Chapter Summary: Blake and Avon argue all the time. This doesn't end like one of their usual arguments.
Word Count: 400
Rating: Teen

( on keeping secrets )