Roads Diverged

Title: Smooth Shuffle
Author: cleflink
Pairing: suggestion of Elena/Tseng
Rating: PG
Warnings: violence and an OC narrator (though he's really not that bad once you get to know him)
Theme: #12 - gangsters
A/N: A little bit of 1920s slang - a speakeasy was an illegal, underground locale for partaking of a drink (or three) during the Prohibition. Everything other than that should be pretty easily understood.

Summary: 1927, Chicago. One of Big Man Maud's men goes out to dig up some dirt on the Shinra gang.

Title: In Service of the King
Author: cleflink
Fandom: FFVII
Pairing: Nothing overt (although it is the Turks, so feel free to insert subtext)
Rating: G-PG
Warnings: None really. Kinda violent, but not too bad.
Theme: #14 - military

Summary: How far would you go to uphold a corrupt regime?