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Title: Scratches on the Soul
Chapter One: Blue
Fandom: Hellboy II: the Golden Army
Pairing: Nuada/Abe
Rating: PG-13
Includes: mild incestuous feelings (Nuada/Nuala), AU, angst, pre-slash


The soft, melodic hiss and clink of gears is in Nuada's ears beneath the ringing, and the steam-bellows hiss of automatons breathing, and the distant arrogant yap of this fool who has-- somehow-- bested him.  This fool who believes he has bested him.  Whoever taught this overgrown pup that victory could be determined while one's opponent yet lived?  Annoyance born of foolishness and missed opportunity burns in his chest, near that place where hatred lances ever sharper: the immortal hatred that consumes all, so very like the things that engendered it.  Annoyance, yes, and shame, to have underestimated the creature- this lost, misguided exile whose death should have long been assured.

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Title: Sciamachy
Chapter One: Pale September
Fandom: Thor/Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: Loki+Thor
Rating: PG (for sexual imagery)
Includes: Preslash, pre-incest (at least as far as the pair knows at this time), surprising gentleness with just a touch of pre-d/s :)
Notes: Set well prior to the first Thor movie, around Loki's mid to late teens.  Chapter includes abilities (telepathy, hypnotism) which are canon for Loki in the Thor comics but have not been explicitly evidenced in the cinematic universe.

sciamachy
      n.  Rare. A fight with an imaginary enemy. (C17: from Greek skiamakhia  a mock fight, from skia  a shadow + makhesthai to fight)



(  The embers in the hearth had died down to a subtle glitter, like flecks of bright gold amid the ash. Loki did not feel the chill, had always been slow to shiver in the frozen months, but at the sound of shuffling steps along the hall he turned, and, noting the state of the fire, swelled it back to small lapping tongues of flame with a gesture. )