At First Light

Fic! Part two will follow relatively soon. (This doesn't even mean "oh, yeah, I swear I'll write the rest soon," it means, "I have written the rest, and people are currently reading it to tell me if it's crap or not before I post it." Just sayin'. Felt it might be worth something, given my track record with multi-part fic.)
Also, this breaks at a fairly random point. It only breaks at all because LJ can't cope with 12,000 words in one shot. >_>


Title: Dangerous Games (Part 1 of 2)
Characters: Niou, Yagyuu
Rating: NC-17 (to be safe as much as anything. Plenty of m/m sex, but not the most explicit thing ever.)
Summary: AU. The city isn't just home to humans; other stranger creatures coexist with them, keeping out of sight, hunting and behing hunted.
Two men meet in a bar. Filth, really. :D Contins sex, violence, not!Vampires, mixed mythologies, and a possibly alarming quantity of fluff at some points, considering the genre.

( Just passing through )

...I can't believe this is over. Ok. Please excuse any typos in this, I'm not entirely sure where my usual checking-through people have gone. I'll fix stuff as I find it. >_>"" This chapter was written over the space of... goodness... four months? Five months? Too long. It was written in three different notebooks and using multiple different computers, at least one of which did not have a QWERTY keyboard. Life is chaotic as ever. :D I realise that the summary is no longer an accurate or at least anywhere near full description, but I fail at summaries. Live with it. :) (It's not very complete. There are other fics waiting to happen in the same universe. But Niou & Yagyuu's part is over, so this is complete.)


Title: Gentleman and Trickster (9 of 9)
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairings/characters: Niou/Yagyuu, implied Yanagi/Kirihara
Rating: PG-13
Warnings/Disclaimer: violence, language, slash, not mine.
Summary: Welcome to the streets of Tokyo, in the not-so-distant future. Meet Niou and Yagyuu, a slightly unlikely pair, running errands for whoever will pay. Cyberpunk AU.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8

( An ending, of sorts. )

Title: Sleepless
Rating: G
Fandom: Saiyuki
Characters: Sanzo, Goku
Summary: not-quite-drabble. Sanzo watches the rain and Goku watches Sanzo. (dystopiarcadia was throwing me random prompts on one of the many trains we've taken together recently and this one came out better than most of them.)

( Sleepless )

Hah. Fear my ability to lie about the number of sections any given fic will have.

As with the first part, this part does have closure of its own, so it's not like you're being left hanging for a third part - just that there will eventually be one, when I have the time and attention span. [Edit] Actually, it's complete. Part three? Is a sequel, because the style of writing is substantially different and Connect was put there as a get-together fic anyway, so it's really fulfilled its purpose in these two parts.

Oh yes - and as of about three hours' time I'll no longer have a net connection, so lack of response to anything you have to say about this isn't me being rude, it's me being off in a tent in a field somewhere in Eastern England without a computer. For the next five weeks. So don't hold your breath for updates to anything else, either...

I finally decided to stop beating myself up over quality and just post this. So here it is.

Title: Connect (2/2)
Rating: PG/PG-13
Characters: Niou, Yagyuu; Yagyuu's POV. (No longer gen.)
Summary: Niou and Yagyuu build a relationship. This section set in high school. The tennis seems to be hiding again. Oops. XD

Part One

( Connect )

I wrote this a while ago for vacivity. I'm reposting it because, against all probability, I actually quite like it and keep losing it as it's just in a comment on an entry.

Neverwhere, Richard and Door, about 300 words, with the prompt "Tonight the stars are shining bright", which is a line from a song by Front242 (Circling Overland). Richard is kind of clueless, and the stars are shining bright. No warnings whatsoever.


Tonight the stars are shining bright

( The floating market was in the Barbican Centre this time )

No title for this, yet. A bit of plot lurking in my mind waiting to attach itself to the thing, though there's no evidence of any such thing so far in the writing. I'm almost certainly going to expand it.

Jackal and Marui. Cyberpunk. They wanted a piece of the action.

I know. I should be writing other things. For now, I'm just throwing this at you lot. Have fun.

I'm posting it because if I just save it it'll sit on my harddrive and get lost and then I'll rediscover it in six months and forget what on earth I was going to do with it.

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The world is monochrome. Slick black tarmac, glaring white light, rough grey concrete. Dull clouds that shift between black and white but live mostly in the space between. Rain. No colours stand out; everything is defined by texture. A black-and-white photograph, high-contrast but beginning to fade. The rain blurs things in the distance.

His feet (covered in black boots, waterproof) splash through puddles on the uneven tarmac of the walkway. The droplets of water that fly up in his wake are black in the shadows, shining white under the electric strip-lights. He’s dressed in dark clothes. The shirt might be blue but he’s avoiding the light, mostly, so it doesn’t really show. It looks charcoal-black.

He can’t see his partner. This is the place they said they’d meet. He knows he’s on time.

His partner will be somewhere nearby.

Where are you?

~Here.

That’s not helpful.

~Look behind you.

He looks.

There’s colour in the world, a flash of red breaking up the shades of grey.

“Bunta,” he says, just a little frustration in his voice. How did Bunta get behind him again? But Marui Bunta is a law unto himself. The redhead straightens up from his position lounging against a wall, smiles, winks, snaps his gum. He’s always chewing gum.

“How did you get there?” Jackal asks, though his tone is gentle, amused rather than angry.

“I’m just that much of a genius, I guess,” Bunta tells him laughingly, pointing fingers at him like a kid pretending to aim a gun. Bang, you’re dead.

Jackal smiles.

*deep breath* And we're almost there.

Still have reservations about quality. But see what you think.

The final part gets all the action. Here, we have yet more talking. I'm sorry. ;)

Author: giving_ground
Title: Gentleman and Trickster (7 of 8)
Theme and Number: 1 - Way of the Samurai or Hakama
Genres: Cyberpunk
Warnings/Disclaimers: AU, not mine.
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: NiouxYagyuu
Rating: PG-13 for language.
Summary: Welcome to the streets of Tokyo, in the not-so-distant future. Meet Niou and Yagyuu, a slightly unlikely pair, running errands for whoever will pay. Cyberpunk AU.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

( Oh. A lecture on honour. Is this a hint? )

Just finsihed this part. Not checked through very thoroughly; I may revise it sooner or later, depending on general consensus/Syl's comments when she checks it over. Happy Christmas, have some UST.

Author: giving_ground
Title: Gentleman and Trickster (Part 6 of 8)
Theme and Number: 7 - Just Like Magic! or Wizardry
Genres: Cyberpunk
Warnings/Disclaimers: Not mine. AU, obviously. Second half has not been even slightly beta'd, because dystopiarcadia is on holiday.
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: NiouxYagyuu (and a small dose of YanagixKirihara. if you want it to be.)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Welcome to the streets of Tokyo, in the not-so-distant future. Meet Niou and Yagyuu, a slightly unlikely pair, running errands for whoever will pay. Cyberpunk AU.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5

( Something about Ohtori’s turn of phrase made him think there was a considerable amount going on that they still weren’t aware of. )

For 25phrase

Still Not Tired. This is... unfortunate. I'll probably crash thoroughly tomorrow.

Title: Blue
Author: giving_ground
Fandom: Last Exile
Pairing: Alex/Yuris
Rating: PG
Warning: SPOILERS for the final episode of Last Exile. Angst, despite the phrase, because it's Alex, after all. Is it twisted that I consider this to be a manner of happy ending? (Another warning is that this was written at 3am while listening to the most depressing songs I could find from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, and that it hasn't been beta'd...)
Approx. word count: 788
Phrase #24: “Everything is going to be alright”

( Alex could remember, more or less, a time when he smiled freely )

Author: giving_ground
Title: Gentleman and Trickster (Part 3 of... some?)
Theme and Number: 9 - Damnation
Genres: Cyberpunk
Warnings/Disclaimers: Not mine. AU, obviously. Language. Quite a bit of violence.
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: NiouxYagyuu (slightly more evident than in previous parts)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Welcome to the streets of Tokyo, in the not-so-distant future. Meet Niou and Yagyuu, a slightly unlikely pair, running errands for whoever will pay. Cyberpunk AU.

Part 1

Part 2

( His mind was in overdrive, racing through scenario after scenario. He hadn’t seen that coming. )