"He was exempt from normality, entitled to his weirdness, and it felt so good she couldn't possibly argue, and could only feel a little guilty about it."

   [ Naru, after the series, with rarehet ]

  Spoilers - through end of series
  Canon - taking the specials as canon

"He cannot taste anything in his mouth, but he rinses with souring wine anyway, obsessively, until even the twisting chaos of his subconscious could not pretend it was there--ashes and blood. Was that what they'd tasted, all those women?"

   [ Damien and Tarrant, en route to the new continent, in dreams ]

"Touching. Brushing up against the surface of each other's minds, like skin against skin. Letting the fuzzy parts go together."

   [ Jack and Rose, with background Nine: a lesson in telepathy ]

"Oh, come off it. If I were swinging the other way tonight, what would you have done, thrown Cooper at me?"

   [ Jack's got a lot to make up to Swanson, and thus ensues random smut ]

"Quarter past midnight as the two boys laze about; the old cat sleeps in the corner; Gellert leans against the inlaid coffee table in his thin white under-robe, spinning his wand slowly in one hand and smiling."

   [ Albus, Gellert, and magic tricks, during that summer together ]

  Spoilers - bk. 7

"He's a brand spanking new universal constant!"

   [ the Doctor (Tenth), the Master (Simm), and Jack (there can be only one!) play some games; pure smut ]

  Spoilers - characterization (sortof) in ep. 3.11 - 3.13
  Canon - takes place in slashfic la-la land outside of continuity

"You come with a kiss, go for days, come back all needy and looking like you've been starved, you sure they're treating you right, Gwen, I think you should talk to whoever does the personnel over there..."

   [ Gwen, very lost ]

  Spoilers - through season 1
  Canon - written before season 2 aired
  Beta - Lily
  For - the June challenge, runes, on dwliterotica
  Ref. - author's notes

"His mother drops by for afternoon tea and asks him why that awful girl is still here, and Tom snarls that she's his wife and doesn't answer when she asks why."

   [ Merope, sometime in 1926 ]

"When she looks back at Jack, for a moment, he's still watching her, and there's something like need in his eyes, and for a moment she's happy, really happy."

   [ one big mess of Suzie and Gwen and Jack and Owen ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 8

"The Doctor only looks at his face to clean it, flaking dirt off with his fingertips as the soap cuts through it, no reaction at all when it stings in his eyes and he flinches."

   [ the stranger the man, the stranger the ways of mourning ]

  Spoilers - through 3.13

"They walk on. Gellert kicks stones with his pointed German shoes; Albus is chewing on a blade of grass. The sun is blood-red between the hills."

   [ concerning the fear of death ]

  Spoilers - bk. 7

"Go teach your children, eat your candy, preen your bird and bury me. But we were brilliant together, Albus, and not even you can change history."

   [ a correspondence between Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald ]

  Spoilers - bk. 7
  Beta - Mattador of the Hot Pants
  For - Blogathon 2007, to benefit Heifer Project International
  Ref. - author's notes - art by Black Adder

"Yuna blinks, eyes watering, at the haze of pyreflies, and lets go of her, and steps away. Tidus is holding out her staff, not quite looking at her; she takes it, runs fingers over the worn painted wood, and, at last, begins to dance."

   [ three years after defeating Sin, Yuna lays the dead to rest ]

  Spoilers - through end of game