"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.
"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.)
Written for the Watchmen kink meme. Adi's adolescence isn't a very smooth transition. (Additional warning for mentions of eating disorder.)
He was not as frightened as he was before, and that worried him.
This, Sui Zhou knows: the grief that whets a body so keen that it draws blood in the handling.
They are not in Zhoujiatai anymore. Tang Fan can tell that much from this little. Whether they've come north into the mountain, or gone south into the plains, though — or ended up somewhere else entirely, east or west by providence — he'd need to see the stars, first, to even have a hope of a guess at it.
So much for simple and for supposed good fortune. What a day they've had, and what a night it's apparently promised them.
He’s done his fair share of fucking up in this line of work, but this might be the worst he’s ever done it.
How do you seduce a man like Salieri?
Paul and Julian spend the morning together.