&. no pen or ink or bindings to break

A/N: Another oneshot OT3 drabble-thing! It started as a third person sample for a Kida app, but it's long enough (and cute enough) that I figured I could (should?) go ahead and just post it as a fic also. :]

Summary: The trio take advantage of one of their days off during the summer break and visit the Sunshine City Aquarium together. Cuteness ensues.

( OT3. )

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Summary: Police Inspector Kurt Wallander is struggling to accept having shot and killed another man, even though it was clearly self-defense…so he turns to a colleague whose hands he knows are no more clean than his own.

A/N: Written in response to the events of “Faceless Killers”, with the end of “One Step Behind” kept in mind--this will make little sense to anyone who isn't familiar with the show and what happened at the end of Season 1: Episode 3. It's a ‘missing scene’ of sorts, perhaps. Because I process things through writing, apparently.


[Wallander, Martinsson. ‘Mens Rea.’]
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“How do you do it?”

Magnus Martinsson, busily typing away at his computer, glanced up briefly, but didn’t pause in his typing. “Do what?” he asked after a short pause, his eyes focused on the glowing screen before him once again.

Kurt Wallander just stood there for a second, looking even more rumpled and lost than usual. “I…I dunno,” he sighed, seeming almost ready to drop the subject before he’d even breached it. “Just…live with yourself, I guess. I mean, after…” He cast about the room, looking everywhere but his younger colleague, rubbing his two-day stubble unconsciously. After a moment the rubbing shifted to cover the rest of his face, his eyes in particular; then he dropped his hand to his side and released another heavy breath. “It’s just, I never thought…I never thought I’d take the life of another man. Ever. And now I have to live with that for the rest of my life.”

Martinsson was quiet for a long moment, but his fingers had gone still over the computer’s keys. “Well, in my case,” he said at last, still not looking over at the other man, his voice soft, his words clipped and clearly carefully chosen, “I just think about what would have happened if I hadn’t pulled that trigger.” Now he did look at Wallander, his expression set and grim; but his eyes were steady, if harder than they’d once been, and there was no blame, no guilt there. “I mean…what would I have to live with then?”

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…It’s been five million years since this thread happened. I’ve no clue why this (guerilla!) plot bunny decided to bite me now. 8|a

…My only warnings are LOL CROSSOVERRR, TY RP FOR ENABLING ME 8D and (as always) NOT FREAKIN’ YAOI K B|. Also, somewhat inspired by this piece of art by this artist...and while I'm 99% sure that that's meant to be young!just-kidnapped!Asch, it looks more like Sync to me. |3


( Fortune Favours The(e)… )

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My first Bleachfic. This was actually written as my 3rd person sample for an RP, but it's...really prettymuch a fanfic, so I'm posting it as such. And yes, I got in to the RP. :3

( Sarugaki Hiyori. 'Fragments of Faith' )

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…This is my answer to pretty much all the SasoDei/DeiSaso/WTF-ever fics out there. :| …Because this is what would’ve happened if anyone had tried anything, lol. Oneshot, slightly AU, and kinda a little bit dark. :]

( Be careful of what you wish for... )

Title: Orientation.
Author: alory_shannon.
Genre: Humour, slight Romance.
Rating: T, if that.
Pairings: Naruto + Sasuke, SasuSaku.
Summary: One-shot drabble. Set in the future (so probably AU), after Sasuke's return. A certain question is raised, much to Sasuke’s annoyance…but annoying things don’t always turn out to be wholly unpleasant in the end.

A/N: …Sorta for its_game_time, sorta for me, mostly for the sake of catharsis. I’m sure you’ll know why, bb. Really, I just…started writing with the beginning scene in mind, and I had no idea where it was going to go or how or even why (though I DID know I didn’t want it to go The Way Of The Cliché), but I really needed to let go and write something, so here it is.

( Orientation. )

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I'm not really taking requests just yet, but this one was an exception.

Set sometime in the future in the Narutoverse, probably about four years post-series.


Prompt: You Don’t Have To Stay Anywhere Forever
Requester: preeho <3
Pairing: Sasuke x Sakura
Rating: T
Word Count: 864

( The sweat is still cooling on his body... )

...And since I'm so nice, this ended up as a two-for-one deal: bonus drabble, a little of Sakura's side of this.

( Bonus! )

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Any of you who know me at all well know that Deidara and Sasori are my two favourite Akatsuki members, and that their dynamic fascinates me somewhat--they're just such perfect foils, and I love seeing that explored, as well as exploring it myself, which is what this piece is.

Also, I've recently come to realise that Tobidara, what with him truly being immortal (or so we've been told), ends up being a perfect foil for Deidara as well...perhaps even more perfect than Sasori, since his form of immortality (and "art") has been perfected.


...And a million points to whoever recognises where the subject line is from, and why I used it~


( Deidara, Tobi, Sasori. 'Sleep When You're Dead, Part One.' )

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More KakaSaku. That and DeiSaku seem to be the pairings of choice for my muse these days. Not that that's a bad thing. :3

...What with Sasuke being a moron of late and Deidara being dead and Naruto just...being Naruto, I'm really starting to wish that this was a viable canon pairing...and I think that shows here. It feels sad to me, and yet not at all without hope.


( Kakashi/Sakura. Still On The Horizon. )