more three sentence fic

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For lizzie_marie_23
academia, formal/informal, slippery slope
It's only one late night; one cup of coffee too few, too late, and suddenly a flutter in the stomach, a trembling of fingers. A flirtation. Suddenly, contractions and extreme punctuation, and the footnotes are left lonely out in the cold.

Doctor Who/Narnia, any Doctor and Susan, "well, my lady, where shall we go next?"
"Oh," Susan says, careless and quick with loneliness, "I haven't been a lady for a long time."
"What are you, then?" the Doctor asks, leaning on the TARDIS console, already pressing buttons.
"Let's find out."

academia, marginalia/text, I will map a world across your body
In younger, clumsier hands I am the conqueror, bold curves pushing into your space, so eager to make my opinion of you the new truth. But we grow together, and soon come others, even the same fingers now more careful and careworn, gentler expeditions, overtures of peace. I ask questions; I seek you rather than myself in you.

academia, race/ethnicity, blurring the lines
"You're only a social construction," Ethnicity tries to say; "you don't exist."
"Don't I?" Race asks, eyes flicking to the news program and back. "Who're you talking to, then?"

academia, marginalia/text, here be dragons
The blank pages in the back of the book are lonely territory, too clean and empty and unknown. The rows of silky block text, the pre-figured answers are safe. Here there be dragons; here you must think for yourself.

For grim_lupine
Narnia, Susan, scarlet lipstick like a brand
In school they are forced to read a horrid American book about Puritanical adultery and a scarlet letter, and later Susan looks for a long time at herself in the mirror, bright eyes and red cheeks, brighter and redder lips. She raises a hand to wipe the brand from her mouth, but then she thinks - what did Hester Prynne do but love the wrong man, live in the wrong world? - and her hand drifts back down to her side. She smiles, fierce for herself, and freshens the lipstick before going out.

Harry Potter, Fleur, beauty is no crime
She plays up the speck of Veela blood because it's better that they fear her than believe they can own her. So she lets a rumor flutter here and there. It's not her fault that they so desperately want to believe she is not wholly human.

Tamora Pierce, girl!George, she becomes the Rogue with blood on her knife and a smile on her face
They never expected the crooked-smiled girl to slip out of the shadows one night and slit a new grin into the Rogue's throat. They expected even less for her to hold the seat more than an hour. But Gee's always been good with odds against her.

For seasight
Narnia/Game of Thrones, Susan and Sansa discuss Arya and Lucy.
"She dirty, and loud, and she never understands that sometimes it's better to just shut up and be small," Sansa complains, and Susan smiles for the love in that whining voice. She covers Sansa's trembling hands in her own.
"One day she might surprise you with much more understanding than you see."

For skullage
Supernatural/Stonehenge Apocalypse AU, Jimmy/Jacob (twins), sanctuary.
It hurts, of course, every time they do this thing where they forget they are separate people. The re-separation afterwards is always a death. But they need each other.

For gabby_silang
Supernatural. Mary Winchester never died.
She watches them grow up and knows that one son is not like the other. Dean plays baseball with John and helps her in the kitchen and play-wrestles with Sammy; Sam...is quiet, the calm before a storm. Mary watches, and fears that one day she will have to kill her son.

For caramelsilver
Hunger Games, Katniss, AU (dead!Peeta, victor!Katniss), alcohol doesn't numb the pain or the guilt, but helps with the forgetting
Her talent is the distillation of bootlegged alcohol. It was supposed to be a fuck you to the Capitol, but no one's stopped her yet. Probably they enjoy watching her manufacture her own destruction, again.

For twoskeletons
Avatar, Azula/Ty Lee, challenge yourself
She would never, ever admit it, but the reason Azula likes sparring with Ty Lee (why she likes Ty Lee), is that it's a challenge. The burning need to prove herself against the other girl's gifted fingers, the threat of immobilization. The desire to conquer.

For tigriswolf
Biblical, Jesus/Judas, the Son of God
You'd think it would be hard to love the Son of God like this. Certainly everyone else holds themselves at a certain distance; no matter how well they know him, no matter how much he relies on them, Jesus is too much for them to do anything but follow. But Judas sees the man.