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Title: The Hardest Task
Author:

lucy_roman
Rating: Teen and up
Summary/Warnings: George is about to do one of the hardest things he has ever done. Death fic.
Word Count: 260

( The Hardest Task )

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Title: Late & Lamenting
Fandom: Torchwood
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Owen, Jack, Katie.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1047
Summary: Owen’s life really hasn’t turned out the way he’d hoped.
Spoilers: Nada.
Warnings: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 516: Late.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood or any of the characters.

( Late & Lamenting... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Title: Cowley's Late
Fandom: The Professionals
Rating: Teen and up
Length: 350
Content notes: None
Author notes: None
Summary: Bodie and Doyle are waiting for Cowley but Cowley is late

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Teen
Length: 5473
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: trinityofone on AO3
Themes: Journeys and Travel, Road trips, First time, Friends to lovers, Pining

Summary: “Don’t be silly,” John says. “You’re Bob and I’m Bing; now get in the car and let’s go find ourselves a Dorothy.”

Reccer's Notes: A classic road trip fic, with John and Rodney meandering across the USA toward California. Eventually, after some pining on John's part, the inevitable happens and the trip becomes a metaphor for them wandering towards each other.

Fanwork Links: Looking for Lamour

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Our new challenge is:

LATE

As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Monday, 1st June. No sign-up required.

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Hyouka (Kotenbu): Fanfic: walking in your [footsteps] to walk back to myself quietly by

The Avalanche challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

Starsky & Hutch: Fanfiction: Live! by

lucy_roman
Criminal Minds: Fanfiction: The Weight of a Whisper by

infinitum_noctem
Torchwood: Fanfic: You’ve Got Mail by

badly_knitted
Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Fanfic: A Landlady's Lament by

smallhobbit
Heated Rivalry: Fan Fiction: Changed His Life by

darkjediqueen
MacGyver (1985): icons: Out in the Cold by

highlander_ii
Torchwood: Fanfic: Buried in red tape by

m_findlow
Viola come il mare: Fanfic: The Bachelor by

veronyxk84
Due South: Fanfic: Abyss by

mercury7650
Final Fantasy VII: Fanfic: Don't Care by

iserlohna
Wiseguy: fanfic: turn to salt, turn to stone by

bluedreaming

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Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: M/M; Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 3,343
Content Notes: No AO3 Warnings Apply; winter weather as relentless atmosphere and adversary; public transportation as a liminal zone; possible unreality—the situation is open to interpretation.
Creator Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Creator Links: (AO3–locked)

Suspicious_Popsicle, (Dreamwidth)

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Theme: Journey & Travel, Hurt/Comfort, Modern AU

Summary: When he came to, the bus was on the freeway. The windows were dewed with drops of melted snow that shone with captured light. Outside, traffic was at a standstill. Dingy slush covered the roads, gradually accumulating as snow drifted down from the woolen sky, the flakes picked out in sharp contrast where they plunged into the light of streetlamps and headlights. Wei WuXian laughed softly to see it. When he turned away from the window, he saw that the beautiful man from earlier was still sitting next to him, watching him with an expression that might, optimistically, be called inquisitive.

“The snow,” Wei WuXian said, gesturing outside. “It looks like champagne bubbles, only going the wrong way.” He laughed again, and rubbed his head. “Have you ever felt drunk, but been pretty sure you weren't drinking? Haha, no, never mind me. I'm just tired.” He rubbed a hand over his face, wanting desperately to sleep.

Author’s Notes: For firesonic152.
For my friend, who got stuck on a bus and sent me photos. XD

(See the end of the work for other works inspired by this one.)

Reccer's Notes: A modern AU account of a snowy night when Lan Wangji serves as Public Transit Guardian Angel to an exhausted, dissociating, and hypothermic Wei Wuxian—who has been in far more trouble than he realizes.

(Until the summer of 2023, shanks’ mare and Dayton, Ohio’s city bus system were my primary modes of transportation. This hazy grey winter ghost-story-or-is-it? is anchored in Suspicious_Popsicle’s concrete lived-in detail, nailing the experience of looping interminably around just to shelter from the elements, waiting for the next opportunity for a stop or transfer (better hope you have at least a day pass and a sympathetic driver, and that you don’t drowse off again!) And of trudging wearily forward through the hostile frigid weather in sodden Vimes’ Boots! Boots! Boots!

Suffice to say that the idea of rescue by a steadfast, devoted, and ethereally handsome Saint Bernard held a profound appeal.)

(This hits similar narrative pressure points to

willowcatkin’s Guardian fic The White Umbrella, recced here.)

Fanwork Links: (AO3-locked): Night Bus, by

Suspicious_Popsicle : https://archiveofourown.org/works/16792465
Collections: fics that cured ser’s depression
Inspired Works:
Little Talks, by

firesonic152.
[Podfic] Night Bus, by

flamingwell.

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