The Trick Is Not A Trick

Gaston said nothing. His head just seemed to sink deeper in the pillow. LeFou stood there for a moment, saying nothing, either. What else was there to say, anyway? Ask, “What about you, do you love me?”

When Captain Steve Rogers wakes from an injury-induced coma, a lot has changed in the battle against the Kaiju. There are new Jaegers with new pilots, new advances in the study of the beasts, even new rules in the Shatterdome. It’s starting to seem like they’re finally ready to defeat the monsters once and for all, but first Steve must learn to get along with his new team of pilots. Especially the troublesome Tony Stark, who’s proving to be harder to deal with than the Kaiju problem itself.

She finds comfort within a woman who doesn't even realize she's offering it.

“I just…” Her hands migrated from covering her face to clutching her hair. Her ears matched her suit but her eyes were glowing with — what was that? Love? Admiration? His chest tightened. “I can’t talk to him! I always get tongue-tied, or say something stupid, or trip over my own feet. It’s so embarrassing! I mean, I’ve gotten better since we first met, like, we’re actually kind of friends now, but it’s kind of a big leap to go from ‘I can sort of string more than two words together in front of you,’ to ‘Please date me, I love you,’ you know?” His breath hitched at the word “love,” but Ladybug didn’t seem to notice. “Plus, it’s not like we’re super-close or anything. I mean,” she tittered nervously, “we’ve known each other for years, but it’s not like talking to you.” If words could have killed him he would have been in his grave. ---In which Identity Shenanigans™ make everyone's life way harder than it has to be. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Canon divergent after season 1

Tony and Vision root out a Spider, Tony ups his dad game, and May Parker is fierce.

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”― Troll Albert Einstein In which a Jadeblood conducts scientific experiments regarding brood caverns, a Mutant leaks government conspiracies over his bubblr account and subsequently gets arrested, a Tealblood conducts her judiciary practice in opposition to the law makers, and a Blueblood takes the bureaucratic high road and makes things terrible for everyone else. Featuring three calignous dalliances, two functional redroms, several unhealthy quadrantal relationships, one vow of celibacy, pale/pitch vaccilation and a clusterfuck of heartbreak. Oh, and science.

Take off your clothes. The command brought a smirk to Yara's face that she did not bother to conceal. From the moment she had set eyes on this Dragon Queen, she had known that all the rumors were true: Daenerys Targaryen was the most beautiful woman in the entire world. ------------ + Daenerys thinks that she's still in command when they're in the bedroom. Yara is going to show her just how wrong she is.

Maggie is a waitress in an old broken-down diner in National City when she meets Alex for the first time. But things are not always what they seem.

Draco Malfoy is on Harry Potter’s doorstep and he really doesn’t seem like he wants to be there. What happens next involves hot tea, a date that isn’t really a date, the ugliest vase Draco has ever seen, balls, sacks and snakes, and unfortunately none of those last three are sexual in the slightest.

Clint gets hurt in a battle.

An incident at the Prosecutor's Office results in a dead woman and a comatose man, and the legal world is abuzz. But when Miles Edgeworth is accused of manslaughter, can Phoenix Wright clear the name of his client when he can't even speak to him? [This story is set after Spirit of Justice and contains some spoilers for the main game and the DLC case.]

Alexander had his system down-packed.All it took was for one mistake, one momment of being too absorbed in his writing to hear Lafayette say they were coming home early. One mistake, and his world turned upside down. Or Alternatively:Alexander is an age regressor and his partners find out.

Xander and Cordelia save Jenny from Angelus, she pays them back the best way she knows how.

Short fics originally posted to my Tumblr, edited and collected here.

As the galaxy picks up the pieces five years after the Reaper War, the only place that seems unchanged by the chaos is the crime-ridden space station Omega. Aria T'Loak, de facto ruler of Omega, continues to enforce her one rule with absolute authority: Don't fuck with Aria. Meanwhile, Solana Vakarian gets involved with the enigmatic Archangel, who has returned to Omega to break Aria's one rule--hard. As her brother tries to unravel the mystery behind Archangel's identity, she must decide whether to join in Archangel's increasingly drastic measures to free the station from its criminal roots--though she holds a dark secret of her own. . .

Paladins red and blue find calm in the storm on a treacherous uninhabited planet.

Nesta Archeron has always struggled with mental health; her self-hatred, and her anger. She thought that after everything with Cassian and the Queen, she had recovered. She was rebuilding her relationships and had friends now. But after she makes a decision her family can't understand, she falls deeper down than her family or she could have ever imagined. But, the further you fall, the better the view is once you reach the top. SPOILER ALERT: Takes place after HOFAS specifically the "Ember and Randall" bonus chapter so DO NOT READ if you have not read HOFAS or care about spoilers. This is an AU post HOFAS essentially TRIGGER WARNING: there will be graphic depictions of self-harm and suicidal thoughts and blood and injuries. Please be careful when you read this.

Hermione moves into Grimmauld Place to help Sirius and Severus with their housework. However, all isn’t as it seems and one night of drunken revelations changes everything.

For MegsKK who wanted sick/hurt Newt and Credence helping his papa take care of his daddy.

The first time Kurt and Blaine say I love you.

The story of Bahorel and Feuilly, how they went from colleagues to best mates and beyond. It is set in the same Verse as Life and Times of Enjolras and Grantaire. From chapter 4 onwards it looks at the five years between "Indifference Loved" and "Unhooking the Stars". There will (eventually) be lots of lovely overlap.

Written for this prompt: "Thranduil sits Kili on his lap and whispers in his ear all the things he'd like to do to him." Then I guess I slightly drifted away from there...or not? I don't even know!

Thousands of years ago humans set out to rid the world of all magical creatures. For the most part they succeeded. Stories of these epic battles were passed down as "fairy tales" that celebrated human triumph. Afterwards, creatures that managed to live through the wars stayed quiet in hopes of continued, undisturbed survival. Well, except for Bucky.

The shadow has her eye on a little pink rabbit and this bunny just doesn't know how to handle this mysterious hacker.

He noticed the way Clary’s hand would rub soothing lines up and down Simon’s back as they sat in meetings. He would watch, face hot with something like jealousy when Clary would kiss Simon’s cheek whenever she left the room. Jace saw it all. And to be honest, it was probably inevitable that he would start to watch Simon, too.

When Thomas wants to go to a party Anxiety and Prince end up having a debate and when Prince shrugs, Anxiety flinches - leaving both guys terrified by the implications of all that has happened. TRIGGER WARNING - Self-depricating thoughts, drug in drink mention, fear of abuse.

- Dean feels quite uncomfortable with the flirting attempts coming from the cashier at the grocery store, but thankfully Castiel comes to his rescue – though seriously not in the way Dean expected. -

When Yuuri comes home to find Viktor dressed up in pretty blue lingerie and teasing the hell out of him, Yuuri snaps and punishes Viktor in the best way possible