svgurl: (one tree hill: brooke/peyton)
Title: the second time around
Fandom: One Tree Hill
Pairing/Characters: Brooke/Peyton
Rating: G
Word Count: 998
Spoilers/Warnings: set during the 4 year jump/none
Summary: Peyton says no to Lucas's proposal, but she finds where she was meant to be all along.
A/N: for my [community profile] femslashficlets table, prompt: be careful what you wish for

Up until the moment she said “no”, Peyton had always imagined she’d say yes.

She was in love, he was the guy she had always wanted, but when he got on one knee, she didn’t even look at the ring before giving her answer.

Peyton wasn’t sure which one of them was more surprised. Because hadn’t this been what she wanted? The two of them were supposed to live happily ever after, weren’t they? They had gotten their act together, and were in love, even with the long distance, no obstacles in the way … why shouldn't it work?

Why shouldn’t she say “yes”?

Yet she couldn’t do it. She wanted to date him, but marriage? Marriage was off the table, at least for now.

And he didn’t want to wait. Her love alone wasn’t enough. Then again, it seemed it never had been, and wasn’t that what she had been afraid of all along?

That she wasn’t enough.

That everyone would leave.

If Lucas couldn’t stay, who would?

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svgurl: (smallville: lois/lana)
Title: a new hero in town
Fandom: Smallville
Pairing/Characters: Lois/Lana
Rating: G
Word Count: 926
Summary: She really needed to stop getting herself into these messes.
A/N: for my [community profile] femslashficlets table, prompt: knight in shining armor

She really needed to stop getting herself into these messes.

But, Lois decided, as she knocked out one of her attackers, she hadn’t exactly been expecting her dry cleaners to be a front- for what, she was still figuring out. All she had been doing was trying to get her jacket before they closed and got distracted by the suspicious noises coming from the back of the building. She investigated, only to come face to face with some very shady looking people who now wanted her dead for hearing more than she should’ve. It hadn’t exactly been in her evening plans.

Jabbing her elbow into the gut of a man who had grabbed her from behind, she stepped on his foot, digging her heel into his toes, and got the separation she needed when he winced and stepped back, using the distance to take him out as well.

But at the familiar sound of a gun cocking, she realized that her luck may have run out and there was no time to call for help. Before he could fire, he was taken down too, and so were his remaining friends, all of them tied together in a flash.

Her hero turned out to be a woman dressed head to toe in black leather, a mask covering the top half of her face. She was shorter than Lois, petite with black hair and a smile that looked way too familiar. In fact her whole presence seemed to ring a bell, but Lois couldn’t place her.

“Are you okay?”

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svgurl: (smallville: lois 'hex')
The sky is blue, the grass is green, the second I start writing again, I sign up for anything and everything I see lol

This is for the [community profile] femslashficlets, and this is the folktale theme but they also have a tarot card one. The deadline to finish your table there is February 28th and this one isn't till June. Rules are HERE.

1. Be Careful What You Wish For - What you think you want isn't always what's good for you.
2. Forbidden Fruit - Whether the literal poison apple or a temptation that's just too enticing to resist no matter how glaring the warning signs.
3. Impossible Task - Our protagonist is tasked to surmount the seemingly insurmountable, against all odds.
4. The Girl in the Tower - She's trapped out of reach and far away, and might be longing for rescue or escape.
5. I Know Your True Name - Names have power, and knowing someone's true name can mean control over them, or a bond that cannot be broken, whether for good or bad.
6. Knight in Shining Armor - A hero/ine to save the day.
7. Liminal Time - The time in-between, when people or places or things are in the process of changing from one state of being to another. Danger and magic lurk here.
8. Beauty and the Beast - A beauty to tame the beast, who may not be what they appear.
9. True Love's Kiss - The power of true love can overcome all trials and tribulations.
10. Threshold Guardians - Not necessarily an adversary or obstacle, but a being who prepares our protagonist for the adventure ahead, whether through assistance or a test of resolve.
11. The Evil Queen - Queen, matriarch, or wicked witch, but is she bad to the bone or just misunderstood?
12. The Trickster - The clever fox who breaks the rules and enjoys the chaos caused.
13. The Tiger and the Dragon - Sparks fly between two spirits who are opposites yet linked together by destiny.
14. The Granter of Wishes - A jinn or fairy godmother with motives sometimes pure, sometimes not.
15. Into the Woods - A wild, dark place of some kind must be traversed before our protagonist can find resolution.