there's a darkness looming but the sun is shining bright

Title: Past Today
Fandom: Dark Angel
Author: dollarformyname
Artist: amberdreams
Beta: 2blueshoes
Cheerleader: chiiyo86
Characters: Alec, Ben
Rating: R
Warnings: "Off-screen" major character deaths, violence, other deaths of the OC variety.
Timeline: Takes place about five years after Freak Nation.
Words: ~28.5k
Summary: Terminal City was abandoned after an attack five years ago, survivors scattered to fend for themselves. Alec's been on his own for a while now, trying to forget what he lost, but then Ben shows up to make him remember in all the wrong ways. After an armed robbery and a city-wide manhunt that results in high-speed chases, gunshot wounds, more dead transgenics, and a hostage situation or two, Alec tracks Ben down to thank him properly.

A/N: Written for the darkangel_bb 2014. Unending gratitude to my team of awesome helpers/collaborators and detailed notes can be found at the end of the fic.





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In the spirit of trying to kick my muse in the butt, I went through my WIP folder to organize and clean stuff out, and found a whole bunch of fic-type miscellany that I will probably never get around to expanding on/finishing. Packrat that I am, actually pushing the delete button has proven painful, so I've decided some of them might work all right as standalone ficlets. For the sake of not spamming my f-list I'll just do a couple at a time.

So! Have some randomness that needed to be purged from my brain (and my hard drive).

( SPN/DA. Sam POV. Alec is not a hitchhiking apparition. Sam picks him up. )

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( SPN. Jess POV. She'll survive the fire. She'll wish she hadn't. )

Title: The Open Way's Too Dangerous (WIP)
Fandom: Dark Angel
Pairings/Characters: There are definite Max/Ames/Alec vibes in varying combinations, but nothing too explicit.
Rating: R
Warnings: Language. Crack. And I say again, this a WIP, so don't say you weren't warned.
Timeline/Spoilers: Takes place at some vague point before Freak Nation. Transgenics are a known "threat to public", but some individual faces aren't quite famous for it yet.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Not for profit. Title from the song First Wave Intact by Secret Machines. Also, there's a snippet of a quote toward the end that was extracted from the Dark Angel Wiki.
Word Count: ~9k so far.
Summary: Alec, Max, and Ames White mysteriously lose their memories and have to team up to fight off the gang of Steelheads who seem pretty intent on killing them. Many misunderstandings about the world around them and who they are to each other seem inevitable.

A/N: Ahhh, finally! Written for the da_reversebang based on cassiopeia7's MAGNIFICENT art prompt. Massive thanks to her for putting up with me. I fell in love with the art prompt immediately, and I kind of love this thing that it birthed, even if I haven't slept for days and any last-minute edits might come off wonky. My beta was my roommate, who's not familiar with canon, so any plot holes are entirely my own fault.

ETA 7/17/14: Oh geez. Just about a year later, what a mess. Short story: there was a huge, major plot hole that I didn't notice until the last second. I locked everything back up in a hurry to edit that, got one of those phone calls that no one ever wants to get literally in the middle of rewriting this thing, and that sent RL into tailspin where, unfortunately, fandom stuff fell to the wayside. I haven't been able to write worth a damn for a long time, but some gentle prodding from denyce (THANK YOUUUU) got me to look at this again and I decided to just post what I have now, and post the rest as it comes/is edited. An unfinished something is better than nothing, I think? I hope. Anyway, ENDLESSLY HUGE WHOPPING apologies to my artist, cassiopeia7, for the utter failure on my part. If nothing else, everyone should take a look at the art, because, again, it is magnificent!



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PART ONE | PART TWO - coming soon

Story Title: Fight From The Inside
Fandoms: Supernatural/Buffy/Angel/Dark Angel
Pairings: Sam/Jess, Connor/Dawn possibly others (romance not really the focus here, though)
Rating: R
Warnings: Violence. Slightly disturbing treatment of tiny little X-5s. Minor character deaths very likely. Language.
Timeline/Spoilers: Ats: post Not Fade Away; BtVS: post Chosen; SPN: pre-series; DA: pre-series. It's around May of 2005 if that helps.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Not for profit. Story title from Queen's Fight From The Inside. Chapter titles from Pink Floyd's The Final Cut. No copyright infringement intended.
Summary: Demons, hunters, superpeople, genetically-engineered soldiers, and a college campus. Throw in some firearms and this is how it goes down.

A/N: 1st chapter is here. Thanks to trouble for the quick beta! I'm sorry I'm slooooow. I can't seem to speed things along for the life of me, but gradual progress is better than no progress, right? :D

( Dawn can't stop looking at her, at those eyes. )

Title: Put It All In Bags, Just Call It Charity
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairings/Characters: Adam/Jo friendship (sorry, gen's all I can manage lately; it can be pre-sexin' if you really want it to, though)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Language. Unbeta'd, because I like to live dangerously.
Timeline/Spoilers: Just another one of those Jump The Shark AUs.
Word Count: ~7,543
Disclaimer: Not mine, not for profit. Story title from the song Can't Go Back by Soul Asylum. No copyright infringement intended.
Summary: There's a name for the brand of frustration he incites, and if she'd known it sooner, she would have left him in jail.

A/N: This is completely the fault of high_flyer87, who just had to have contagious thoughts in this discussion

( She's in a rush to meet up with her mom in Jackson, hoping to avoid another lecture on punctuality and aging the woman another five years for every minute she's late. )