title: degausser (take apart your head)
fandom: Brand New
pairings: Brian Lane/Brian Lane, Brian Lane/Jesse Lacey
rating: NC-17
synopsis: Car crashes and rifts in the space-time continuum. Doppelgängers and other worlds. The storm is coming.
author's note: I wrote this in the space of 24 hours to celebrate Brian's birthday. (He turns 27 today.) I'm not sure he'd appreciate it though. Sorry, Brian.
word count: 3800w approx.

( The day that a skinny boy is waiting outside Brian’s house for him, everything starts spiralling. )

title: raised by wolves
fandom: Harry Potter
pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black (maybe.)
rating: PG-13
synopsis: A more cynical look at the Lupins—because all families are fucked up.
author's note: For barefootboys' 22nd of August prompt. They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
word count: 800w approx.

( Remus knows that, once upon a time, his family had been normal but this isn't a time that Remus can remember. Still, he knows the story. )

title: Games of Risk / we're taking bets
fandom: Harry Potter
pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
rating: PG-13
synopsis: When Sirius kisses Remus for the first time he knows how it's going to end.
author's note: Written for barefootboys' sixth prompt, a parlour game in which players must eat raisins which are alight. Basically, it's a game in which everyone's going to get hurt.
word count: 400w approx.

( The first time Sirius kisses Remus is when they’re packing to go home for summer. )

title: The First of August
fandom: Harry Potter
pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
rating: PG-13
synopsis: It's just a day trip but Sirius says it's the best day he's had all summer—and Remus secretly agrees with him.
author's note: Written for barefootboys' first challenge of the summer. I probably had an unorthodox stance on the prompt since I didn't realise the castle in question was used in the films until after I'd decided what I was going to write.
word count: 1000w approx.

( Remus sends Sirius an owl two weeks into the summer holiday before 5th year asking if he’d like to go on a trip with him and his parents. Sirius’ response is “anything to get away from this place”. He doesn’t even care where they’re going or what they’re doing. )

title: and the damp patch in the kitchen and etc.
fandom: Harry Potter
pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
rating: R
synopsis: It's a year of long silences and questions which go unanswered because they were never asked.
author's note: Set, for the most part, during the year of OotP but with some later events. SPOILERS UP TO AND INCLUDING DH. I wrote this to counter-balance a horrendous assignment of around the same length. & I know there are one or two canon disprepancies. (e.g. the kitchen walls are really stone but we can pretend they stripped them aferwards, yeah?)
word count: 5200w approx.

( The damp patch on the kitchen wall looks like a bruise—the edges dim to a lighter shade of purple-brown than the rest of the plaster. Remus thinks of rotten apples. )

title: what you were running away from
fandom: Supernatural
pairings: Sam Winchester/Dean Winchester
rating: R
synopsis: Set during Season 1 but with numerous pre-series throwbacks. It takes a long time for Sam to realise that normality isn't the same for everyone and you can't keep running forever.
author's note: First time posting fic in this fandom. Spoilers for Season 1, Episode 1. Make my day and comment - even if it's just to say welcome to SPN fandom or, in the case of my wonderful f-list, Not you too! What the hell's so good about Supernatural anyway?
word count: 1600w approx.
WARNING FOR INCEST

( The night Dean springs Sam in California, everything comes tumbling down. And for the first time since he realised that Jess had swallowed his line about his family Sam’s scared of the web of secrets and lies he’s spun. )

title: rinse and repeat
fandom: Taking Back Sunday/Straylight Run
pairings: John Nolan/Adam Lazzara (mentions of Jesse/John, Adam/Michelle)
rating: PG-13
synopsis: Touring never was easy - but, really, neither was life.
author's note: I'm sure my chronology's pretty off for this but I couldn't find any tour date archives. That aside: I love you LI fandom. You guys rock.
word count: 2200w approx.

( At the beginning of the tour, Adam’s completely on edge. He appeals to anyone who’ll listen that he can’t sing, there’s no way anyone will want to listen to him sing. )

title: epitases
fandom: 19th Century Literature / Poetry
pairings: Keats/Byron
rating: R
synopsis: . Keats isn’t sure whether the sudden feeling of being without a stomach is because he detests Byron, is incredibly embarrassed, or because he is as drawn to him as everyone else seems to be.
author's note: I do not have a suitable summary for this and I still can't believe I wrote it. Obviously, it's pretty niche but hopefully it's not too disgustingly esoteric despite being set c. 1820. I am a complete geek, I apologise. When I wrote this, I really didn't think it'd ever see the light of day. It's kind of faulty in places but I hope not garrishly so. So, uhm, enjoy?
word count: 2000w approx.

( When they meet their eyes don’t. (Meet that is. They won’t look at each other.) They shake hands begrudgingly, each knowing that every other person in the room understands the subtext. (They hate each other. Or rather, they hate each other’s opinions.) )

title: Churches.
fandom: Taking Back Sunday/Straylight Run/Brand New
pairings: Jesse Lacey/John Nolan
rating: PG-13
synopsis: Five things which happened in churches and a few which didn't. / A history of a relationship over many years.
author's note: To make up for coming back with HP fic. No names used because I'm stylish like that. It should be pretty clear though. Second person adressee is John.
word count: 1400w approx.

( You’re standing at the front of the church. You haven’t stood in front of a congregation since christingle services as a kid. This time you’re not holding an orange impaled with cloves and cocktail sticks loaded with sweets. )

title: If we could put the pieces back together.
fandom: Harry Potter
pairings: Remus/Sirius (impl.)
rating: PG-13
warning: DH spoilers.
synopsis: Shards of a life which you won't be the one to collect. An alternative to life flashing before your eyes.
author's note: I know, HP fic, those who know me are probably a bit surprised. But, hey, this journal was always meant to be for "fandoms that aren't generally subscribed to by those on my main account's friends list". This is the first piece of the Shattered Lens arc. Other fics will be other pieces of the puzzle.
word count: 1050w

( They say that when you die your whole life flashes before your eyes. )

title: if this was all there was / a film reel
fandom: Brand New / Taking Back Sunday / Straylight Run
pairing: Jesse/John (José)
rating: PG-13
synopsis: If I said that this was all there was, would you do it?
author's note: Second person. Addressee is John. I wanted to write a whole load of plays on the above phrase and awkward variations thereon but most were awful. Oh, and Dulux is a paint brand, in case it's just a British thing.
word count: 400w approx.


( Your bedroom in your apartment. Rewind to half an hour before, at dinner, the first meal you’d had together in a long time. )

title: magnets in our eyes / something with rubies and nostalgia and youth.
fandom: Brand New / Taking Back Sunday / Straylight Run
pairing: Jesse/John (José)
rating: PG-13
synopsis: There were magnets in our eyes. But only opposites attract.
author's note: This is not realism. This is not Jesse. This is not really John. This is just how heartbreak feels. It's more fish hooks in souls than magnets and rubies and hoards of pretty mementos.
word count: 1400w approx.


( When was it that your eyes first caught? )