The Math of Love Triangles – Gilmore Girls; Rory/Paris; 2,600 words. A sleep-deprived Paris shows up in Stars Hollow to study. Rory deals with it as best she can (and has more Paris-induced feelings than she probably should). Set during season two.
Read it: [AO3]
“How long has it been since you’ve slept?” Rory asks.
Paris is sitting at the coffee table in the Gilmore living room, staring down at her math textbook like it’s murdered her whole family. Well, to be fair, she’s probably more upset about the math than she would be about the murder, based on what Rory has gleaned about Paris’s family.
The last math test before winter break is supposed to be brutal. Rory’s not sure if it can possibly be more brutal than Paris randomly showing up at her house at ten in the morning on a Saturday and demanding that they study, though. Sure, Paris showing up in Stars Hollow is becoming sort of an established thing after the midnight-Puffs-kidnapping and rehearsing Romeo and Juliet in Miss Patty’s dance studio, but that doesn’t mean Rory has to accept it. Especially when she’s still in her pajamas.
She isn’t anymore; she hurried into her room to change after Paris, still in the doorway, looked her up and down like she was some kind of deranged hobo. But the judgy energy persists even now that Rory’s in a sweater and jeans.
Mom promised she’d bring back coffee and baked goods from Luke’s to alleviate the pain, but she’s been gone a suspiciously long time. Maybe she lives in the diner now. Rory can’t blame her for that self-preservation tactic. Then again, Mom might be even more freaked out by Jess than Paris.
Rory definitely doesn’t share that stance. For one thing, she’s pretty sure Jess doesn’t have a terrifying vendetta against sleeping.
“I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” Paris replies, not looking up from her book.
“I kinda doubt that.”
“Wow, Rory. You’re hilarious. Has anyone ever told you how hilarious you are?”
you can’t just reblog paris/rory like that with no warning, its one of those ships i always forget about but it suddenly will pop up out of nowhere and emotionally drag me back into the early 2000s. but i love that there are still ppl writing it after so long haha
Heh, awwww, yeah, the fandom’s keeping it afloat! If anything, though, doesn’t it feel stronger now than back then? But maybe I just think that because I didn’t ship it at all back then. I wasn’t aware of it as a ship and wouldn’t even suspect I was gay until after the show finished. And then I read good ole Boston Marriage and was like…you know whattt.
You have read The Best of It, right? Just in case the early ‘00s really were your last time with them, I don’t want you to continue living without it in your life
fic: (i want you) for worse or for better {rory/paris}
(i want you) for worse or for better – Gilmore Girls; Rory/Paris; 1,800 words. Soon after the events of “Fall,” Rory pays Paris an impromptu visit.
Read it: [AO3]
It’s raining when Rory shows up on Paris’s doorstep. Really raining. Noah’s Ark raining. I love you in a romcom raining.
She has a key in her purse, but she doesn’t use it. It feels more right like this, for some reason: waiting here to see if she deserves to be let in.
Paris is the one to open the door. She’s rocking an annoyed expression and pulling a beige cardigan closer around herself.
“You deserve better,” Rory says as she shivers from the cold. And the wet. It’s seriously wet out here. Her hair is already soaking, and she’s only been out of the car for a minute.
“I thought you were pizza,” says Paris.
fic: this is what you wanted (killing eve)
THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED – Killing Eve; Villanelle/Eve; 5,600 words; 3 chapters. Villanelle goes to Alaska. Set after the season two finale.
Read it: [AO3]
Alaska is shit.
Villanelle finds this out too late.
She needed to get out of Europe. There was nothing left for her there. So she picked an island, that one full of bears. She looked at pictures on the internet, and they all made her big promises. Green, rolling mountains, like Ireland with sharper teeth. Brown bears and tall pink flowers. The ocean everywhere, a bright drown-in-me blue. In 1964, there was a tsunami there that wiped out the entire downtown. Before it, an earthquake shook the ground for five minutes. Five minutes isn’t long enough when you are happy, but it is eternity in a moment that hurts.
The five minutes walking away from those ruins, away from Eve who’d already walked away from her, hurt worse than the knife plunging in. She almost turned back so many times. Her hands–one clutching the gun, one clenched into a fist–screamed out, wanting to press against the part of Eve that had burst open and stop the bleeding. Don’t die, don’t leave me, you’re mine.
But Eve wouldn’t want that. Didn’t want her, even after Villanelle had given her everything, set her free, turned her dull life to fireworks. Eve would rather die. And so Villanelle kept walking.
Now she will walk right out of her old life and into something new.
She hopes for more earthquakes. For a land as wild as the feelings inside her.
eleven gets a letter from mike & clarke tries to work out why she’s upset (& your author is very sorry for taking so long)
(part 24 (!!!) of the clexa eleven au)
Parenting is weird.
Eleven is slouched in her chair at the kitchen table with her legs kicked out in front of her, crossed at the ankle. There’s a grass-stain on her knee and rhinestones on her socks, but you can see a hint of looming teenagedom in her posture. It’s there, too, in the set of her jaw, and you smile to yourself because Lexa had the same look when you first met.
You always mean it when you say El takes after her Mum.
Waffles brushes up against your legs, bringing your thoughts back to the here and now. You push off the kitchen counter and start making a fresh batch of strawberry lemonade – an after-school ritual that began when Eleven first arrived and is still going strong. Every once in awhile she sighs and, though you can’t help but glance over at her, you stay quiet. You’ve found it’s best to give her time to process things on her own.
If only you had any idea what she’s processing.
Eating Your Gods – delgaserasca – Killjoys (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
Eating Your Gods – delgaserasca – Killjoys (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
Fic Rec
Chapters: 1/1
Pairing: Aneela/Delle Seyah Kendry
Word count: 5,368
Summary:
A story about damsels, distress, and destruction.
@notabuddhist wrote this really in-character one shot for last year’s Yuletide so it’s post-s3 and is obviously no longer canon compliant but it’s a great look at what could possibly have happened.
Eating Your Gods – delgaserasca – Killjoys (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
Eating Your Gods – delgaserasca – Killjoys (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
Fic Rec
Chapters: 1/1
Pairing: Aneela/Delle Seyah Kendry
Word count: 5,368
Summary:
A story about damsels, distress, and destruction.
@notabuddhist wrote this really in-character one shot for last year’s Yuletide so it’s post-s3 and is obviously no longer canon compliant but it’s a great look at what could possibly have happened.