AU. Ray Toro is a girl, Rae, but MCR is still just MCR. (Written for bandombigbang '08.)

Ridiculous dysfunctional high school romance. Thanks to oliviacirce at Dreamwidth for the beta and strobelighted and lovesongwriter at LJ for brainstorming with me.

Parker wakes up with wings.

Talking at someone is only fun for so long. That's all being a sect leader is: talking and talking to people bound by courtesy to listen to you. It's so fucking dull. A relief, then, to face one’s equal, and no less an old friend who is inclined to interrupt you whenever you ramble. He likes it. It’s one of Jiang Cheng’s best qualities.

In the years after Guanyin Temple, Nie Huaisang attends to unfinished business.

A celebration of all the queer characters you can't bury. Or, if you do bury them, they don't stay down for long.

Jin Guangyao thinks that, in another life, he would have been an excellent merchant. He is not so foolish as to commit certain things to written record, but in his mind, there exists a ledger. Considerations behind every action, what he has risked, and what he has gained. People who are beholden to him, people who fear him, people who want what only he can provide. People who want him.

Max is there with her, even when he isn't.

Seth and Kate's maiden voyage.

Claire is really damn good at giving home haircuts. Matt is an appreciative test subject.

Lunch, a mysterious fruit, revelations, and sex. In that order.