Fic: Difficult Choices

Title: Difficult Choices
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Rating: T/PG-13
Warnings: Trauma, referenced child abandonment
Relationships: Eärendil/Elwing
Characters: Eärendil, Elwing
Word Count: 409
Summary: Eärendil doesn't know the trauma that led his wife to abandon their children, and can't even pretend to understand it.

Eärendil cradles the albatross a little awkwardly, humming a snatch of a soothing tune. The bird croons at him in return, and suddenly he’s holding an elf, not a bird.

“What?” He gasps, and they slap him. He’s winded by the blow somehow, ears ringing. Maybe it’s the shock, too.

“Where have you been?” A familiar voice growls, sounding close to tears. He looks more properly at the elf, and to his shock, it’s his own wife.( Read more... )

Fic: Sweet Like Honey

Title: Sweet Like Honey
Fandom: Saint Seiya- Soul of Gold
Rating: T/PG-13
Warnings: Alcohol use
Relationships: Leo Aiolia/Lyfia
Characters: Leo Aiolia, Lyfia
Word Count: 593
Summary: A moment to relax, a drink to share, and kisses sweet as honey. After all is said and done, Aiolia and Lyfia share an evening.

Aiolia giggles, and Lyfia thinks it’s a nice sound, if a little odd coming from a fully grown man and a battle hardened warrior. It makes Lyfia giggle too, curling into his side where they’re sprawled on the thick rug in front of the fireplace in the rooms Aiolia’s staying in. The bottle of mead they’ve been drinking is sitting off to the side on the hearth, warming, and their empty cups are there too.( Read more... )