Fic: "your boldness stands alone among the wreck" (Ziva David, NCIS); PG-13

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Title: your boldness stands alone among the wreck
Author: tosca1390
Fandom: NCIS
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Elements of torture, violence
Prompt: 43) More piercing, more unbearable than blame / Is to be understood. --Frances Cornford (1886-1960), English poet.
Summary: Her veins felt like iron, her bones unbreakable, for she was Ziva David, and she did not bow to any man. What happened that summer in Somalia.

Author's Notes: I'm so excited to post this, I've been sitting on it for days! Many thanks to ladychi for the beta. Title comes from a Mumford and Sons's song.


( your boldness stands alone among the wreck )

Harbingers of Blood, Part 1 (Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare, PG-13)

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Title: Harbingers of Blood
Author: gehayi
Fandom: Shakespeare--specifically, Macbeth
Characters: Gruoch (Lady Macbeth), Macbeth, Duncan, the Three Witches, Éua (the nameless Gentlewoman from the play), a Priest (OC), assorted Ghosts
Word Count: 12,046
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I most emphatically am not William Shakespeare. This should not come as a shock to anyone.
Prompt: And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. -- Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) , Pulitzer-prize-winning African-American novelist, short-story writer and poet. First black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. First black woman to win the National Book Award. (Both awards were in 1983 for The Color Purple.)
Summary: Written for femgenficathon. Queens have power. They need not hide who and what they are for safety's sake. But more than that--queens have names. And Lady Macbeth would do much to be known and remembered under her own name.
Warnings (if any): Violence and murder.
( Author's Notes )

***

( She has no quarrel with camouflage or disguise. Of necessity, she has learned to be good at both. )

Part 2

Harbingers of Blood, Part 2 (Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare, PG-13)

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Title: Harbingers of Blood
Author: gehayi
Fandom: Shakespeare--specifically, Macbeth
Characters: Gruoch (Lady Macbeth), Macbeth, Duncan, the Three Witches, Éua (the nameless Gentlewoman from the play), a Priest (OC), assorted Ghosts
Word Count: 12,046
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I most emphatically am not William Shakespeare. This should not come as a shock to anyone.
Prompt: And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. -- Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) , Pulitzer-prize-winning African-American novelist, short-story writer and poet. First black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. First black woman to win the National Book Award. (Both awards were in 1983 for The Color Purple.)
Summary: Written for femgenficathon. Queens have power. They need not hide who and what they are for safety's sake. But more than that--queens have names. And Lady Macbeth would do much to be known and remembered under her own name.
Warnings (if any): Violence and murder.
( Author's Notes )

***

Part 1

( She is in the slaughterhouse, listening to the prophecies and accusations of the dead while she scrubs vainly at the blood on her hands. )

***

( End Notes )

Step Forward (Kendrix, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, PG)

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Title: Step Forward
Author: second_batgirl
Fandom: Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
Rating: PG
Warnings: character death
Prompt: 87) That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. -- Simone de Beauvoir(1908-1986), French author and existentialist philosopher. Author of one of the seminal books on feminism, The Second Sex.
Summary: Kendrix knows what she has to do
Author's Notes: Spoilers for The Power of Pink. Many thanks to pockythoughts for the beta.

Step Forward

Broken Skies, Broken Sunsets (Anastasia Dualla, BSG, PG-13)

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Title: Broken Skies, Broken Sunsets
Author: lls_mutant
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (new)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Prompt: 113: do authors who write Indian romances love the nation they endeavour successfully or unsuccessfully to describe? Do they, like Tecumseh, say, "And I, who love your nation, which is just, when deeds deserve it," or is the Indian introduced into literature but to lend a dash of vivid colouring to an otherwise tame and somber picture of colonial life? It looks suspiciously like the latter reason, or why should the Indian always get beaten in the battles of romance, or the Indian girl get inevitably the cold shoulder in the wars of love? -- Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake--literally "double life" ) (1861-1913) Mohawk Canadian poet, short story writer, journalist and performer.
Summary: Growing up, Dee loved romance novels. As she got older, she noticed that something was really off about them.
Author's Notes Thanks so much to ivanolix and rose_griffes for the beta job!

( Broken Skies, Broken Sunsets )

fic (Eyes Forward, Shoulders Back (ST:DSN Kira Nerys

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Title: Eyes Forward, Shoulders Back
Author:karrenia_rune
Fandom: ST:DSN
Character: Kira Nerys
Rating: General Audiences
Prompt: 57) I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. -- bell hooks
words: 1068

Disclaimer: ST: Deep Space Nine and the characters who appear here or are mentioned belong to Paramount, UPN and its various producers and director; they are not mine.

( eyes )

lovely branches (Doctor Who, Amy Pond, PG)

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Title: lovely branches
Author: kaydeefalls
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Amy, Rose
Rating: PG
Prompt: 151. The pain that rises in my breast brings forth a little shoot/it spreads its thick trunk of despair in my soft heart/puts out lovely branches made of the rumors in the town. -- Auvaiyar, also called Avvaiyar and Avvai, (circa before 300 B.C.E.), Tamil bard, war poet and diplomat.
Summary: A fairytale about Amelia Pond and the big Bad Wolf.
Author's Notes: Huge thanks to solsticezero for the beta. Spoilers for all of series 5.

( lovely branches )

Destiny Whispers Your Name (Pokemon, Kotone, PG)

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Title: Destiny Whispers Your Name
Author: fashi0n_mistake
Fandom: Pokémon (games)
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Prompt: #15: Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness. --Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999), American author of fantasy novels, short stories and anthologies, poet, composer, editor and co-founder of the Society for Creative Anachronism.
Summary: Legends live forever but nothing else remains.
Author’s Note: I use the name Kotone for the female main character of Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver and Blue for the name of the female main character of the first generation games. This fic is from the POV of Sabrina, the psychic Saffron gym leader. Thanks to akumugan for the beta!

( Destiny Whispers Your Name )

Animorphs: "Four Questions Rachel Asked Herself (and one she didn't)" (1/1)

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Title: Four Questions Rachel Asked Herself (and one she didn't)
Fandom: Animorphs
Characters: Rachel, Naomi, Jordan, Sara, Cassie
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence and lots of blood. This is Rachel, you know.
Summary: After the events of #22: The Solution, Rachel has a lot of questions.
Notes: Written for femgenficathon to the prompt: Sometimes I have a sense of what I'm seeing being a small fraction of what's there. Not always there, but probably more often than I realize. Something will come up, and I'll realize I'm thinking about the world a little differently than my friends. -- Lisa Randall (born June 18, 1962), American theoretical physicist. First tenured woman in Princeton's physics department; first tenured woman theoretical physicist at both MIT and Harvard.

( Four Questions Rachel Asked Herself (and one she didn't) )

The World Unravels in Rewind (The Good Wife, Alicia Florrick, PG)

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Title: The World Unravels in Rewind
Author: empressearwig
Fandom: The Good Wife
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Prompt: #6. Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.---Margaret Mitchell
Summary: Alicia Florrick, before and after the fall.
Author's Notes: Thanks to normative_jean and leobrat for serving as sounding boards. The quote used in the fic is from Anne Tyler's novel, Back When We Were Grownups. To be safe, spoilers for the whole first season, but all the events of the fic all take place before the show begins.

[the world unravels in rewind]

Carve me in marble, cast me in gold (TSCC, Terissa Dyson, PG-13)

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Title: Carve me in marble, cast me in gold
Author: chaila43 
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Prompts:
13) If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again. -- Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883), African-American abolitionist, women's rights activist, advocate for prison reform, anti-capital punishment activist, lecturer and saint of the Episcopal Church.

120)
You and I
Have so much love,
That it
Burns like a fire,
In which we bake a lump of clay
Molded into a figure of you
And a figure of me.
Then we take both of them,
And break them into pieces,
And mix the pieces with water,
And mold again a figure of you,
And a figure of me.
I am in your clay.
You are in my clay.
-- Kuan Tao-Sheng (1262-1319), Chinese painter, calligrapher and poet of the Yuan Dynasty.
Summary: Terissa's nightmares always start and end the same way. Terissa Dyson and Sarah Connor, with guest appearances by James Ellison. ~ 3,000 words.
Notes: Spoilers for the entire TV series and Terminator 2. Many thanks to beccatoria for the beta.beccatoria

( Terissa's nightmares always start and end the same way. They start with Sarah Connor and they end with death. Their predictability does not mute their horror. )

beccatoria

xahra99- Isn't That What Friends are For? (FFXIII, Lightning, PG)

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Title: Isn't That What Friends are For? 
Author: xahra99 
Fandom: FFXIII
Rating: PG
Prompt: #7; Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth: Joan of Arc (circa 1412-1421) 15th-century French visionary, warrior, saint and martyr.
Summary: Mid-game. Lightning meditates on the meaning of companionship with a little help from her friends.


I didn't know you believed in the gods...

xahra99- On a Sea of Fleur de Lys (Dragon Age; Origins, Leliana, PG-13)

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Title: On a Sea of Fleur de Lys
Author: xahra99 
Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: #7: Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth: Joan of Arc (circa 1421-1431) 15th century visionary. warrior, saint and martyr. 
Summary: Prequel to Dragon Age: Origins. Leliana spies out treachery in the Orlesian court.


The bards of Orlesia were legends...