Stories by incense-whiskers

so a rogue walks into a bar.../snippets of a young woman's life/it must be terrible to be that scared of the world

in the end, uncle iroh truly does know best/on second chances/ AU after ozai tries to take the throne/ zue, azulaang, lu toph edited and twice as shiny!

we enjoy killing each other too much: last words blue-bitch? on grieving, displays of power and dying with your head held high

she smoothes down your collar and tries to smile/you promise to write/on growing up

this is it, you're done – the crackle of ozone and a hand hauls you up, pushes you forward/you got this/on self-confidence

she's the first to greet him : "I need some help in the greenhouse"/on trust and smudged-noses/sproutxsnape

it doesn't matter that she'd chew off her left arm for the boy, he turned his back on her and it burned/on talking before you've thought it over/ GilraenxAragorn, family

it's only a game, why can't they play?/on unsaid "I told you so's"

but her smile is like sweet tea/he still hates you, probably/on mellowing; mccoyxchapel

they meet up again at a deserted bar, it's july fourth and there are fireworks/legends are terrible with names and faces/loganxsteve

but she is here now and she is content/AUish, stranded!SifxDarcy

yeah, yeah – I'll sleep when I'm dead/on making friends and making your own reservations/helxdarcy

but you are forsaken and you do not know what you want anymore

you can paint over the shadows and the ghouls with the stories your mother told you/stratholme and Timmy

your father taught you about mercy, but you have your own way of delivering it/scholomance and the ghosts

in the aftermath, not all things are mended/gnomes, radiation and coping mechanisms

you are saving them/on being the obsessed/scarlet crusade onslaught

it is only a murmured spell and a needle with thread/but watch how she bleeds/on fighting/eirxloki

they are like ships in the night, passing each other by/on stories with no happy endings/severusxpoppy

it's easier to kill when they're monsters/on guilt

so, how was your day?/coming home is the best part of one's day/darcyxsif

the baby is gone/on alternate paths/lokixeir

the cold is freezing the joints of your fingers/everything's alright, the voices have stopped

and darcy collects cups of coffee, the comics from the daily paper and helps steve rogers tie his tie/examinations of well-meaning interns with six credits to earn/sifxdarcy

you are fixing things but nobody will meet your eyes/on being the boogeyman

she blames it on the carols and the tinsel/ a 5&1 deal, the other side of mistletoe - lokixdarcy

it gives you ideas/lokixdarcy

nobody likes a whiner/on distractions/lokixdarcy

everybody's heard the stories/on destiny/lokixdarcy, some strong language

they are the monsters Asgard fears/lokixdarcy, 'welcome to the family'

this is more than a little family dysfunction/darcyxloki drabble

hell is more fun with friends/lokixdarcy drabble

three is the magic number, four is back luck - we make our own chaos/lokixdarcy, mild language

this is not what he wanted/thorxloki drabble

the end is seen at the beginning/of growing up and the choices we make/thorxloki; eir

she shouldn't have said that – he said, she said/on apologies/severusxlily AU

he counts the days until they come home/hagrid drabble

could give her desire/this will not grant you peace/ HpxEndless, AU, severusxdesire, severusxdream

we could be friends/i think not/ HPxEndless, severusxdespair, severusxdelirium

only you, she smiles and he breathes again/severusxlily, AU, a five-and-one deal: Lily saves Severus five times and the one time he returned the favor.

Jaina has a temper too/on making informed decisions.

hello sarek: this is love/on human relationships, because they're stubborn

it's all in the name of "family time", really./EnglandCanadaAmerica/on how not to rule the world.

it'll get better ambassador, you'll see/on Vulcan, healing and hope

it's easy to animate a corpse, resurrecting a soul is much trickier/scenes of an unusual relationship

jaken did not like this girl with the shard glow and the serrated attitude./ challenge one-shot, see the author's note.

she hates that girl with the passion of a thousand burning suns/on azula's relationships and inferiority azulaxkatara/mai/toph/suki/ty lee

he is a talented, if an unintentional murderer: three dark!Pippin drabbles/ on killing your father, your brother and your king.

sometimes being a captain was really just a fancy name for being a babysitter/in which kirk has his eyes opened, poor mal

on motherhood - our avatar girls have grown up!

he's wondering where he lost his heart to; he wants to go home now/on losing your mind

in which gollum introduces smeagol to the finer things in his new life/on despair

a conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Boogieman about the game that they play/au/on who's really the bad guy

Sam Gamgee made a promise and he'll see it through/on loyalty in the face of utter doom

river is not quite right in the head/on jayne and his adjectives and the possibilities we see in mirrors

she could smell the envy curling right out of the other bender's skin/ on being the green-eyed monster

they protect each other, even the nightmares that aren't their own/on growing up too fast

looks like jenova isn't the only thing out there/on space being big and full of surprises also: triple!crossover

they were a rainbow once/on missing your loved ones and praying for better circumstances

end of the war didn't happen with an epic showdown with the fire lord. no, it started with a few innocent looking pink leeches with tentacles from underneath omashu/ on why you should drink tea and stay out of the sewers