open_on_sunday Make-Up Challenge: Strawberry Tart

Title: Strawberry Tart
Author: seraphcelene
A/N: set during Him
Rating: PG-13 for language
Summary: The way you wear your make-up and the lies told for love.


Strawberry Tart

She rims her eyes with black, darkens the lashes with mascara and suddenly her eyes shout: Fuck me, now! It’s a look she learned from Faith. The candy coated lips are courtesy of Willow and her fondness for Lancome.

Buffy’d be surprised if she saw. Knocked right between the eyes by Dawn’s shimmying hips and the way she has of rolling her tongue when she kisses. A little trick she picked up from Cordelia.

Once, Dawn practiced on Tara. Snuck up on her and dipped her tongue right in. Blindsided and better than a supernatural fuck on a classroom table.




(x-posted at open_on_sunday

ff_friday Air Challenge - Simon drabble

Fandom: Firefly
Title: Tremble in the Water
A/N: AU during Serenity. Title from Tennyson's Lady of Shalott
Count: 100 words
Summary: There are other ways it could have ended.


Tremble in the Water

Girl-in-the-Box pop. Swaying, and then up over the side. Simon caught her before she hit the floor. Eased her down and smoothed back her hair. Caught her wet and naked; she wasn’t breathing.

Simon stroked her ribs, her chest and heart. Breathed into her nose and mouth, counted the seconds of her life slipping away.

“Mei Mei, please,” he begged and tried to press all of the air in the cargo hold into her empty lungs. Ignored the heavy silence around him and that was it. Not enough time even for the infirmary.

Just breathless River on the floor unmoving.


(x-posted at ff_friday)