(Prequel to Don't Come Closer.) Laguna loves an underdog. The former journalist in him loves a good scoop. Seifer Almasy, awaiting execution for war crimes in Esthar, is both. His interviews with both his estranged son and a self-proclaimed monster have unexpected consequences.

During a long night in which Seifer is making up an exam, yet again, Quistis decides she needs a little pick-me-up. It's really too bad that Seifer took Zell's advice and brought her back ... something else [Successor Challenge 2017] [Seifer x Quistis, pre-war].

[Post-game / Squall & Rinoa / Oneshot] It's the empty moments that have become the most dangerous. For the 2017 Successor Challenge.

Ten years is a long time, and for two people with a history as long and complicated as Seifer and Quistis's, a lot can change - even if you were already given a second chance [I can feel the draw, I can feel it pulling me back] [Rating for language] [Successor Challenge 2017].

Elizabeth and Darcy meet at the scene of a car crash. They do not politely exchange insurance information. Modern AU. Completed.

Whatever it is she's gotten herself into, she's gone too far to get herself out. [Rinoa, Irvine, and the carousel clock. In-game filler.] [If the sniper fails...]

He burns himself alive, but still his heart beats. [Phoenix Rising]

Two dorks bond while stranded in the midst of a hurricane. Fluff prompt for Matrixaliesie.

In the aftermath of a mission gone wrong, there is only one place Xu can go. (Danse Macabre)

What gets said while locked in a maintenance closet stays in the closet. Fluff prompt for Silentstarlight!

They knew it wasn't right, but they were young, carefree and living in the moment. A series of Seifer x Rinoa drabbles encompassing significant points of their relationship before and during the game. REVISED & COMPLETE 4.2.17! Previously titled The Perfect Flaw. Please read and review!

Stranded in Trabia, Quistis and Rinoa learn they may have more in common than they realize. [Here, everything is on pause.] [Quistis-Rinoa friendship!fic.]

Xu has never had any love for Seifer Almasy. So why does his death taste like ash on her tongue? [Phoenix Rising]

When Rinoa met the SeeD assigned to free Timber, she never expected to say goodbye so soon, or to care so much. Now, burdened with guilt, she stays with the friends he left behind, driven by a need to give his death purpose, and the hope from a stranger's hints that she may still see him again. [AU/Canon-Divergence. Based on the "Squall Is Dead" theory. Rinoa/Squall, Rinoa/Seifer]

They thought in time their passion would fade to routine, but it has only become an addiction. While absence leads to weakness, their time together grows into a power they might not be able to control. [SquallxRinoa, post-game. Even if you become the world's enemy...]

There is only one thing Seifer truly regrets: what he will never get the chance to tell her. [Phoenix Rising]

She is shrouded in a darkness of her own making, and he is a man lost in time. They are both of them changed. [SquallxRinoa, and bonds re-forged.] [For The Successor 2016]

Xu offers Seifer a kinder end than he deserves. [Phoenix Rising]

She could be happy here, but she cannot remember where she is supposed to be. In the distance, she hears the closing of a door. [Rinoa, Julia, Time Compression.]

Together, they await the rising of the sun. The tradition starts in Trabia, but she will carry it with her wherever she goes. [Selphie, tradition, and the Longest Night.]

She helps the souls depart, and takes the pain of those they leave behind. [Edea, post-game. Eat the pain. Send it back into the world as love.]

Balamb is different, after the war. Or is he the one who's changed? [Zell, homecoming, and the things he left behind. He'll risk his life for a life he might not remember, but not for a life he isn't going to live. Post-game, for The Successor challenge.]

It's only forever. Not long at all. -Seifer, the Sorceress, and paths that aren't.- [You have no power over me]

Irony, by definition, carries a sense of morbid realism. -Edea, Rinoa. The stars will still shine, and the moon will still glow.-

Sometimes things move so fast, you forget there's more to the world than the two feet immediately in front of you. -Selphie. Trabia, Rebuilding, and who you really are.-

They are co-conspirators, then, and now, and always. -SqualxRinoa. This year, and the one after that, and the one after the one after that.-

It is what they dreamed of, and what they feared. It is what they never expected they would live to see happen. Now, there is only the question: was it worth the price they paid? -SquallxRinoa, the succession, and the myth of life according to plan.- [Written for the Where I Belong - Inspired challenge.]

He wonders how long he's been on this river. -Seifer, Ultimecia, and things better not remembered-

Love and destiny. Betrayal and fate. Every legend has a beginning. Every story must have an end.

Irvine deals with his own personal issues after coming back from time compression. And he's doing what he thinks is best until he gets a few visitors. Rated 'T' because I got a little salty with the language.

What are you afraid of? -Heroes, stress reaction, and the price of saving the world.-

It's business as usual for private eye Seifer Almasy, until a blonde bombshell walks into his office with a request to help her brother, who's fallen for the untouchable Rinoa Heartilly and landed in deep with her father: the Boss of the Caraway Mob. AU.

He thought he had found the limits to love, but now he knows, there are no limits to love. [SquallxRinoa. Post-game. The way we grow together.] [Written for the Where I Belong Challenge.]

He wonders what they're doing to him, but then, he wonders what they're doing to all of them. -SeiferxQuistis, pre-game. Everything is a battle, everything is a dance.-

Challenge fic: Origin Story of their battle clothes. -SquallxRinoa. Almost-fluff.-

She is the blue ghost that haunts this universe and the next and the one after. — Rinoa. One-shot.

She whispers, 'you promised.' -SquallxRinoa. Promises, and the end.-

Erased, over, out. -Squall. Time is nebulous, at best.-

Zell and Irvine investigate the rumor of what Quistis does after curfew when no one's around. They will come to regret their curiosity.

There's always a price. Quistis/NORG ficlet.

SquallQuistis. Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.

Mal finally fences the Lassiter. Balthier is much obliged.

Let me go .. and plunge me into the dead spot again.

There are a lot of things in the world that aren't important. Fujin/Seifer. Double drabble.

I'm fine. I don't need them, I don't need anyone.

One-shot. Fly too close to the sun, and you’ll burn your wings to ash. Shame he doesn’t remember the story until it’s too late. Seifer in the Lunatic Pandora.

SeiferRinoa. 30 breathtakes. Witches are meant for burning.

VIIVIII Sephiroth is not a mess easily cleaned up. In their Garden, the SeeDs find themselves with two new problems on their hands: a psychotic, silver haired mass murderer, and Cloud Strife, determined to finish what Jenova started.

She was waiting for a banjo when [she] walked in, like a desert dust storm riding in before the tease of rain. [ElenaxTifa]

One-shot. I’m recording this now, because I don’t know when I’ll get another chance. I’m recording this now, so you won’t blame me if it looks like I’m letting go. Tidus, Yuna, and one last message before the end.

Giftfic. Nine - and possibly ten - times Zell made Seifer bleed. Seifer/Zell.

Seifer and Quistis. One man's redemption. One woman's awakening. Two souls journey into an uncertain future...with even more uncertain feelings. Finished.

And if El Capitán is determined to dismiss every last childish fancy that crosses his path, let it be known that he does so with very good reason.

Quistis is looking for another promotion. Zell is looking for some action with that cute library girl. And Seifer? He’s just looking for trouble.

A baby that isn’t his. A home that isn't hers. A trust that grows, and a love that emerges... nine months can change everything. RikkuGippal.

Will, Davy Jones & Calypso: Immortals die young.

It's all about Seifer and redemption. Birthday request for irish ais. COMPLETE

Pre canon. The death of Rinoa, the birth of Leon and why Aerith became a healer.

They're both much too stubborn to move aside when they pass each other in the hallways. / Seifer/Quistis, fifty oneliners.

Their entire relationship has been built on silence and glances. Seifer & Fujin.

Years after the war, Fujin tries to convince Seifer to come back home. :post.game:

The Impala may be pregnant and that's just the start of Sam and Dean's problems. Humor fic, not to be taken too seriously:

But death is ... it's people being gone, that's what I think. But then you miss them. You miss them a lot. [Rinoa, and deep wounds]

I was so scared, Elle. [Selphie Tilmitt was not going to let them destroy Balamb Garden, not after Trabia.] Just breathe, I told myself, and stop talking in third person.

Up is what he chooses, the kisses and the bruises. Squall, Seifer, and Rinoa, after everything's been resolved.

And Selphie does not cry. [Selphiecentric. The Trabia graveyard.]

Is he eight or eighteen? Man or boy? Set ingame, Seifer meets the sorceress in Deling City.

Fortune favors the brave.

She's like a fast river, lively and rushing and completely unstoppable. [50 themes, one sentence each. Irvine and Selphie.]

It takes him three seconds to catch his breath after she's gone. [squall, in between the lunar base and the sorceress memorial. one shot.]

Fifty sentences in response to the challenge at the Livejournal community 1sentence. [Squall & Rinoa]

She is unlike anything he has ever seen.

Nothing can contain him. [50 themes, 1 sentence each. Vaan and Penelo.]

He might have made a mistake. [20 mostly unrelated facts about the orphans. And Rinoa. One shot. All main characters, including Seifer.]

When someone near and dear to them is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, Lieutenant Squall Leonhart and Rinoa Heartilly are forced to delve deep into the twisted legal system, into a realm of corruption and indifference. Sequel to The Force.

Cloud's motorcycle and a nameless ShinRa chopper meet in the middle of nowhere as their respective pilots also meet in the middle of nowhere. Can a sturdy hardriding machine meet the erotic demands of an anonymous, exquisitely engineered stranger? Oh yes.

It's selling your past in fragments to kill an enemy with the greatest of ease. [Power alone isn't enough to call the GF. Quistis, postgame, challenge entry.]

Irvine realizes that a waltz brings to mind three, not two. Drabblish.

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Squall Leonhart, Balamb's best and brightest detective, is on the trail of a deadly serial killer. But when he's partnered with the inexperienced rookie Rinoa Heartilly, things get so out of control that it may cost Leonhart his badge...or his life.

Yuna encounters a problem with one of her Guardians.

He is not evil. This is the mantra. This is what he tells himself. [Seifer, in Lunatic Pandora. Oneshot.]

Lambietoes..? What's up with that? Great minds ponder the great imponderables. My mind ponders this. Zoe/Wash

The title pretty much says it all. A single 24hour slice of Cloud's life, in which he is owned by everything from breakfast to Fenrir to Reno to waitresses in pasties, and then owned a few more times. Never gets a break, does he?

[Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs] We all know how, in the end, Snow White was carried off by her Prince in yet another one of those cliche HappilyEverAfters. But did she ever stop to think about what she was leaving behind..? A one sided romance.

It might not have been a royal flush, but a straight was good enough. A series of related drabbles about the crew of the Bebop.

Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of a GREGORY HOUSE unit! Inspired by the Owner's Guide series, started by the wonderful Theresa Green.

Currently a oneshot, may be continued. The twins are kicking back at the chateau, chatting and complaining. Humor.

In which Chloe buys a litre of milk. It's done. Overdone, for great grammar.

To regain the life he once knew, Squall Leonhart must face a foe impossibly alien... and as familiar as the back of his hand. Parodies don't always have to be funny.

[One Shot] AU, 1xR. Seventeen years spent missing someone. Forty four years spent loving them.

Kento can't sleep. His armor isn't making it any easier. One shot. For once not angsty.

Sirius wonders about death. Remus just wants to be left alone. Dialogue!Fic. Three different conversations, three different time periods. Written for livejournal comm.

Leon Orcot has fallen, and he just can't get back up. Post book 10, Leon!Drabble. Angst and swearing abound.

When Scully & Mulder find two small children after their parents have been murdered, Scully decides to adopt. But Scully is a single, unmarried careerwoman, so she turns to Mulder for some help.

SeiferxSquall, SquallxRinoa. One last fling. For the themes 'bitter' and 'isolation.'

She has been with him for seven minutes exactly. Somehow, they’ve managed to start another argument. Utterly stupid, and oh so typical. After!ParaKiss fanfiction. YukarixGeorge. Pointless fluff.

After thirteen years with the Preventers, Wufei has all but given up on himself.

Scully, slightly dazed from a lack of sleep, can't resist temptation when Mulder falls asleep at her house and initiates a change in their relationship she couldn't imagine.

Mulder's in a mood about a woman who criticized his kissing style and asks Scully for advice.

When Scully is visited by her friend, Beth, who loves to tease her about Mulder, Scully finds her relationship with Mulder changing immensely.

Mulder surprises Scully with a kiss.

As the tears fell, she wished, but didn't hope. YukarixGeorge. What If? fanfic. No flames, please.

They'd saved the world, but they're still mercenaries after everything. SeeD through the eyes of a student. Oneshot.

A story about a girl named Mary Sue, a ghost named The Jackal, and the beautiful love that they shared. Next week on Jerry Springer: Men without pulses, and the women who love them!

In which there is: a lot of Rin making Nooj sweat, a lot of things not being what they seem, and one game of Sphere Break. [Gen!Fic]

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Nine months after a needless tragedy, Squall finds himself caught between forgiveness and revenge.

At what point does faith become fanaticism? How far does belief go before it becomes a betrayal? Gabriel and Carl face a man whose crime is one of conviction. [Sequel to LAEVA DEI.]

Justice in Esthar is swift, their mercy — cruel. AU, or not. No ending can ever stay happy.

Postgame oneshot: Rinoa and Squall, and a brief exploration of unusual coping mechanisms.

Perhaps if James didn't like her, life wouldn't be so hard. Perhaps if she wasn't in love with his best friend, things would be less complicated. Lily Evans' life, starting in her sixth year.

It must be such a burden, such a curse, to be the Left Hand of God . . . Van Helsing struggles to regain his memories and his true identity, as an evil from his past threatens the Order and the life of a young boy hangs in the balance.

She is no longer the girl she once was, and her dreams are no longer what they once were. [The Little Mermaid Ariel & Eric]

A short, tearjerker ficlet for anyone who ever tried to get into Narnia . . .

Squall and Rinoa and Squall, post-game. A fairy-tale princess and her Prince Charming. One-shot.

The sorceress' knight returns to Balamb Garden. A bargain is struck.

Post-game; Rikku deals with her red-coated ghosts the best way she knows how. It's tough being newly sixteen, sticky, and heartbroken.

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Minerva is given the thankless task of coming up with a set of rules to keep the students off of each other.

Ginny stood at the top of the Astronomy Tower wearing nothing but her most flimsy lingerie. Black, lacey, and utterly un-insulated. Five minutes, thirteen seconds down, nine minutes forty-seven seconds to go. And it’s all Draco Malfoy's fault.

We follow the path of Ginny Weasley's declining personal morale. Just read it. One-shot, DG. Don't care if you review, though I appreciate it, and will do the same with yours. Inspired by Hanson's "Believe" NOT A SONGFIC

What, exactly, has Ron's big mouth done now, and why does Harry have the horrible suspicion that it has something to do with Hermione? NOT set in "Daughters" universe Post-Hogwarts, RHr with hints of HG

There may be a war going on, but Minerva McGonagall is still a teacher.

Sirius leaves his home. [ONE-SHOT]

In a land where magic has become outlawed, a headstrong young witch and an arrogant warlock must learn to work together to save themselves and, eventually, their world. But can the raven put aside her own needs and find it within herself to tame the hawk

[ONE SHOT] Hermione Granger had a rather embarrassing infatuation, and she, know it all that she was, knew exactly what to do to get rid of it.

Xu and Quistis, across the years.

Written for a "dead naked elf" challenge. That's all I'm saying.

Something's up with Carl, and it's not just the edges of his pageboy 'do! Something wrong's happened, and now he wakes up in somebody else's body. Humorous adventures and mishaps ensue. RnR, pleez! :D UPDATED! Chapter 4 up.

Eventually lemonscented sequel to Government Bloodhounds. Seifer sits on a beach and thinks about what he did, and Quistis helps him to forget.NOW COMPLETE

Behind every hero is a wounded boy. The night before his destiny is set, Squall comes to terms. SquallRinoa.

{UA} A dangerous yet beautiful lady & a fedora does not a detective make...[Finished]

Saying and seeing are entirely different. QuistisXu yuri.

Seifer. Ponderings on time, place, and destiny.

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Irvine, the "odd one out", was the only one who remembered the past. Now he must decide what - and who - he wants in his future. How will his precious memories affect everyone else? [Completed]

Co-written by Mysty and Nanaki, laugh out loud at collection of short stories where Duo translates Heero's Hn speak, and Heero runs out of donuts. Part Fifteen - Trowa's birthday!!! And the Pianist. And the breaking of the fourth wall.

Doggett finds something interesting in Mulder's desk...and it isn't just the tapes. {FINISHED}

NEW CHAPTER! Follows "Pas De Deux". Seven years after Message, the guys are grown and living normal lives as they gather for Sage and Carey's wedding. But a new, deadly evil stalks the Ronins...and it wears a familiar face (it's not who you think).

Veronica Yuy has a reputation that was acquired at sixteen. At twenty, her life is finally catching up with her. Vaughn Winner, the empath, has seen and felt what it has done to her. And with who he is, he tries to help her. But will she let him?

Inara has a story.

Abstract on Death and Rebirth. Vaguely 1xR. No one ever remembers the pink.

A knight and his lady...addiction, devotion, servitude. Seifer & Ultimecia. Revised 9/09.

A story seemingly to do with romance and domestic situations until war erupts, friends die, lovers are parted and good people are dealt great evil. Detailed writing, focus on painstakingly crafted OC, 1xR, OCxOC, violence, language, sex. RR

Get your kleenex out for this one, peoples. It's sad and I admit it, but it's also very moving. The thoughts of someone at their lovers grave. H/R. Character death. (Thanks to all those who read and reviewed.)

Sequel to Gundam Fling! Will the schmaltz never end? Will Bandai be able to continue selling its action figurines? That is the question. I'd really appreciate feedback on this one, since I feel it can use a lot of improvement. [One-shot]

A rhythm-impaired Ronin meets a feisty ballerina with a passion for salsa dancing...and learns a lesson in love. Language and implied sex. Completed! YAY!!! Feedback always welcome!

archived: If insanity without justification is your thing, then this is the fic for you! songfic to the Aquabats' The Baker

Link has a hangover, Mido is gay, Navi's become a druggie, Saria has PMS, and Malon needs Tylenol for her dad. They're made it to the market, but when the suddenly stumble onto the set of a popular British TV show, what will happen? Can anyone say "hoe-do

...maybe he should look into an answering service? D Gluh, finally fixed.

Doubt, death, and disillusion the true face of Garden? Squall must face what he has done and what he may become but is it too late to do anything about it? Rated for language, violence, disturbing themes.

Rated for gore. [she knows what's good she'll make it good for you]

(Songfic) Heero and Relena learn the meaning of a truly beautiful day.

Don't you hate those unexpected marriage proposals? :)