Roads Diverged

Title: Of Mutual Benefit
Author: badpenny
Fandom: Baccano!
Characters: Eve Genoard, Luck, Keith, and Berga Gandor
Rating: R-ish for mild language and a fade to black scene between Keith & Katherine.
Warnings: No real warnings outside the rating
Theme: #15. Society - Empire
Summary: The Genoard Family's power and influence is fading, but it may still have enough of both for Eve to negotiate an arrangement with the Gandors.

( Of Mutual Benefit )

Title: Empery
Author: karanguni
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Tseng; Veld cameo
Rating: Hard R (non-explicit sex, swearing)
Warnings: Massive AU. Massive culture abuse. Massive abuse in general.
Theme: 15. empire
Summary: He was taught that Wutai was the centre of the universe; he could not understand the empire stirring in the East until it was upon him, until it destroyed him, until it changed him, until it gave him empery.

6756 words and oh god I am so proud of this baby. This is my justification for Wutai versus Midgar in the original game, transplanted so that it makes sense.

( They said: Empire is coming. By the time he understood what they meant, it was already too late. )