all i need is a miracle

Title: Damsel in Distress
Fandom/Pairing: CMN; Gray, Dollie
Rating: ESRB Rating of M for Mature < heavy violence>
Summary: Only idiots would take Dollie hostage. Gray teaches them the error of their ways.
Notes: This story doesn't make Eden, Gray, or, in fact, ANYBODY happy.

( The only witnesses to these pitiful deaths would be the next victims in line. )

Title: Last Midnight
Fandom/Pairing: Gungrave; Grave, Mika
Rating: ESRB Rating of E for Everyone < depressing lack of mature content >
Summary: The night before Bear Walken challenges Grave to a duel, Mika does some midnight reading. Grave probably just wants her to shut up.
Notes: Okay, originally the poetry fragment was supposed to be, "Ah and alas, all my loves are dead but one / And he I prepare to slay," and it was supposed to be something Edna St. Vincent-Millay could have written, but then I found Jaroslav Seifert's poem, "Canal Gardens". All excerpts come from Seifert. (Drabble title, by the way, comes from a musical number by Sondheim.)

( His mind races to come up with answers, but he can find none. He does not think like a traumatized thirteen year old girl. )

Title: Happy Endings
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Vincent/Yuffie
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < violence, language >
Summary: For roads_diverged. Today is officially the worst day of Yuffie Kisaragi's life: now, in addition to her deadhead dad, she's got a crazy boarder living in her dojo.
Notes: WIP

( Totally not the crazy lovechild of Ranma 1/2 and Rurouni Kenshin. Totally. )

Title: A Stone in His Chest
Fandom/Pairing: Gungrave; Mika, Grave
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < sad themes >
Summary: She's breaking her own heart against his nature.
Notes: As usual, pretentious.

( I love you, I love you, I love you, she cries. )

1; breaking her own heart against his nature
2; Ah and alas, all my loves are dead but one
3; I remember blue skies
4; today and tomorrow and for a long, long time
5; I lay down on snow-covered sheets of loneliness
6; Alone I'm filled with emptiness / alone I call your name
7; In my nightmare we never last this night
8; The dead will walk the streets tonight

Title: The Altar of You
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Vincent/Yuffie
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < language, mature themes >
Summary: Someday, he will stand before his own grave--and hers too--and ask himself what his true sin was.
Notes: Pretentious and crazy as usual.

( Some things are inevitable. )

Title: Songs Before Sunrise
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Yuffie, AVALANCHE, some Yuffie/Vincent
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < language, mature themes >
Summary: Ten-songs meme. Yuffie Kisaragi and the life of a ninja.
Notes: No making fun of my music taste, y'all.

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( There isn't any rain at Shalua's funeral. /Jazz music isn't Yuffie's thing / The truth about Yuffie Kisaragi is this: )

Trying to connect these dots:

• underground behemoth fighting
  
• running on walls
  
• exploding an airship with a fire hydrant
  
• Jetski playing chicken with an eighteen-wheeler
  
• Vincent Valentine as the John Wayne drifter
  
• a diner where even the coffee has a film of grease

Round little marbles of water bounce through my fingers.
My open hands struggle to catch them as they glint in the light,
Drop,
Bounce,
Roll,
Scratch along the floor.

When I can touch them, they are wet
And slip through my fingers.
There is no holding on.
My relationship with you is insubstantial.
I am left scrambling after them
On hands and knees,
Sobbing as more fall.

Why do you leave me alone
In this house?
With these thoughts?
With this pulling tide in my head and heart?

I hate what you do to me.
I will never ask you to stop.

01. Why Ethers Are Expensive and Do Not Go in the Microwave: A Horror Story

Let me explain: it starts with the fact that Tifa does not watch over Denzel all the time. Sometimes Cloud is home long enough she leaves the kids with him. And sometimes Cloud would rather sharpen every blade in First Tsurugi than, yaknow, pay complete attention. If they're quiet, he's cool (shows you EXACTLY how much Cloud knows about kids). Denzel watches the preview for the next episode of Battle Gone Bad, which is what happens when Ethers, Potions, and Elixirs expire for various reasons, and decides that they should heat a pair of Ethers.

Ethers are made of a homemade blueberry syrup, alcohol, light carbonation, mint, and a Philtre of Lifestream. They tend to become mostly alcohol when heated. As alcohol is a depressant, this makes them mostly useless in battle when taken by adults.

Denzel is 11. Marlene is 6. They have one Ether each. This does not end well.

In the end, Marlene is falling-down drunk, and Denzel's not much better off, not to mention there's some sort of weird alcoholic blueberry syrup with glowing bubbles ALL OVER THE KITCHEN. And somehow, this is all Cloud's fault.

Yeah, there are perils to living with the best martial artist in the world.

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02. A fic based on this song. Watch me cringe in shame. FFVII, YV, mindless fluff (most likely post-DoC).

OFM outline with music:

( LENGTH WARNING )

Title: Four Minutes, Twenty-Five Seconds
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Sephiroth, all of AVALANCHE, the Turks
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < Sephiroth, hilarity, swearing >
Summary: Sometime after their recent arrival in Nibelheim, Sephiroth returns to the Shinra Mansion and discovers that a years-old dancing sensation has reared its ugly head.
Notes: In the Faith & Feather universe. Also, the Chocarena is an actual song: download it here.

( To say that he was surprised to see Cid, Reno, and Barret all on the front step of the Shinra Manor would have been an understatement. )

Title: Happy Returns
Fandom/Pairing: Kingdom Hearts; Yuffie, Vincent (some added Leon)
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < implied destruction of worlds >
Summary: Burnt Offerings universe. Vincent Valentine turns a very high number. Funny how Yuffie doesn't seem to be around...
Notes: Happy birthday, Vincent!

( He spent much of the day looking for her and finding countless others, but the ninja herself (and her 'flying sidekick,' as Auron succinctly put it) remained elusive. )