(forgive my absence) though i was never really here, Anna Ivers, PG-13

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Title: (forgive my absence) though i was never really here
Author: immortality
Fandom: The Uninvited/The Ruins
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mild descriptions of violence, attempted suicide, and discussion of mental illness.
Prompt: A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. -- Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), Belgian-born French novelist. First woman elected to the forty-member L'Académie française.
Summary: Sometimes Anna wonders if Alex regrets what they did.
Author's Notes: Post-movies, slight AU. Thanks to aphrodite_mine for the beta.

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ready to fight, Tara Gregson, R

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Title: ready to fight
Author: aphrodite_mine
Fandom: United States of Tara
Rating: R
Warnings: Discussions of sexual abuse, dubious mental illness (treatment and discussions of), mentions of self-harm.
Prompt: 47) One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world. --Hannah Senesh (or Chana Szenes) (1921-1944), Hungarian-born Palestinian Jew who volunteered to be trained by the British to be a rescue commando. She parachuted into Yugoslavia with the intent of crossing into Nazi-occupied Hungary and rescuing the Hungarian Jews who were about to be taken away to the death camp of Auschwitz. She was captured and tortured, but refused to tell anything about the remaining commandos. She was tried for treason and executed by firing squad.
Summary: Post season 3 finale, Tara enters therapy with a new doctor in Boston.
Author's Notes: Thanks to damaris for the beta

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grav_ity - Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained, Kate Freelander, H

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Title: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Author: grav_ity
Fandom: Sanctuary (Kate Freelander, Helen Magnus)
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Prompt: 14) Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.---Margaret Mitchell (1900 - 1949), Pulitzer Prize-winning American author.
Summary: After "Awakenings", Helen and Kate have a talk about what it means to be the best at what they do.
Author's Notes: Thanks to shadadukal and oparu for the beta!

[Lighthouses, Yuzuriha, G]

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Title: Lighthouses
Author: lilacfield / Eve
Fandom: Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Prompt: There is no comfort in numbers. Every unhappy person thinks her unhappiness is unique. -- Arlene J. Chai (born 1955), Filipino-Chinese-Australian award-winning author.
Summary: Yuzuriha muses on travel expenses, the price of survival, and bedfellows.
Author's Notes: Post-series, possibly AU. Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas © Teshirogi Shiori, Kurumada Masami, et al.

Lighthouses

thesmallhobbit, Not Just A Pretty Face, WDC Annie Cartwright, PG

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Title: Not Just A Pretty Face
Author:  thesmallhobbit  
Fandom: Life on Mars (WDC Annie Cartwright)
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Prompt: We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light. -- Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), 12th-century German mystic, author, lyricist-composer, playwright, poet, botanist, healer and abbess.
Summary: It may be a man's world, but Annie can hold her own
Author's Notes: Thanks jinxed100  for the beta

The Road to Asgard, Jane Foster, G

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Title: The Road to Asgard
Author: curia_regis
Fandom: Thor (2011 film)
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: No profit is being made from this, and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Prompt: #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
Summary: It's after six years, seventy-eight false starts, and being half-drowned at least five times that Jane realises that the pathway of rainbows is just a metaphor and that there are other ways to travel to the stars.
Author's Notes: Thank you to aigooism and thisgirl_is for being awesome betas!

The Road to Asgard