"But yes. The subject to hand, as it were."

Victor's maybe a little obsessed.

"For I have lost my all." - Aeschylus, 'Myrmidones'

Adrian renews an acquaintance, Dan is a reluctant booty call, and things aren't quite the way they were before. (Now with more surprise erogenous zones.)

or: anything that can go wrong in your tentative courtship of a miserable ginger vigilante, will. The first time Dan sees Rorschach without his mask, it doesn't go so hot.

Richard is witness to many things he does not understand during his first year at Hampden.

"We went about fighting crime in very different ways, Dan, but I felt like we could have understood each other. You were always very genuine with your heroics. I admired that." His eyebrows gave a sardonic little lift on 'fighting crime', but otherwise he seemed as earnest as Dan had ever seen him. 'Earnest' unfortunately not precluding 'full of shit', in Adrian's particular instance. Merry Christmas! Have a fanonically-Jewish character and his probably-definitely-an-atheist vampire boyfriend bickering.

Written for this crack prompt on Norsekink for inappropriately obscene-looking cookie-eating. Yep, it's pretty much that.

"Young Tom tries his hand at picking up a boy. No one will miss him. " One-sided Tom/Hannibal.

Crossover with the film Hannibal Rising. Disregards novel canon/illusions of continuity, as many of us would like to. (Archive warnings don't quite cover it, additional warnings in notes.)

He was not as frightened as he was before, and that worried him.

More importantly, and to the point: it turns out that there’s no seamless way to go about asking for what you want. There’s really not. Especially and definitely if you're trying for sexy. And Kuan-hung has tried for sexy, he has tried very hard, and very determinedly, for sexy, in all the dress rehearsals he’s run through in his head. But no dice. He's not living in a webnovel.