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Southland

Into the Grey by breakthecitysky PG Ben, Cooper. It's short and 100% amazing.

“You can’t save everyone,” Cooper says, and Ben knows that’s right.

It still takes everything in him though, not to turn and say, “Yeah. But you saved me.”

by the same author Ache is Hiding, Hoping

He watches Cooper, but Coop’s as hard to read as ever, that calm, easy face, the eyes that know how to keep secrets. He meets Laurie, which is weird, because it’s hard to imagine Cooper with anyone, really. They get in the car, they head back to Los Angeles. He gets a few more glimpses. He gets that glimpse.

He watches Cooper’s profile as he talks about his dead friend. About seeing him in gay bars, and getting ignored. He watches for any sort of flicker of reaction in that face, for regret, or loss, maybe even anger, but he can’t seem to find it. Just another peek into a part of Cooper that Ben’s never had access to and as greedy as he wants to be he can’t bring himself to ask for more. He just lets it go, hang in the air before dissipating, eyes moving back to the road.

It’s not like he stops thinking about it, though.

Star Trek

Earth Kids are Assholes Gen Spock and Kirk meet in a different way. When he gets back to his aunt's house, his mother asks him what happened to him, and he says, "I made a friend."

She arches one eyebrow. Others would say 'almost as well as a Vulcan,' but she is his mother, and he knows better. She says, "With your fists?"

He thinks about it. "Yes. With my fists."

His aunt laughs. "Congratulations, Amanda. He's finally mastered the culture of eleven-year-old human boys."

Spock doesn't understand the joke, but it makes his mother smile.


Supernatural

Vagabondage by rivkat NC-17 Wincest Dean shrugged. “What, I can’t have fantasies? Look, I do something crazy unsafe, it’s gotta be hunting evil. Otherwise it’s just stupid.” People who weren’t them were either dangerous or not yet proven dangerous, and he could handle that ordinarily. But letting himself get disarmed and under someone else’s control--he’d be taking too big a risk of leaving Sam behind, and no matter how hot the thought got him there was no way it was worth that price.

Sam closed his mouth. Then, with the deliberation of someone drunker than he ought to have been, he reached for the bottle on the nightstand between them and took three long swallows, throat rippling as he tilted the bottle up. When he put it back, it rocked and nearly tipped over, until Dean reached out to save it.

While Dean was occupied with that, Sam said, “There are ways. If you wanted.”

The Vampire Diaries - vids

The Little Things by silviakundera Who says Because Damon and Elena's friendship is 1 part honesty, 1 part coming through when it counts, and 3 parts making awesome faces at each other I'd watch a show of Damon and Elena hanging out, no questions asked so this vid is a very happy place for me.

Fic

A Corner of Your Heart by tigs PG Damon/Elena (Elena/Stefan, Caroline/Matt). This is a fun light hearted fic. I love the dialog and the characters getting a chance to be themselves without all the things that go bump in the night.

Elena says, "Care— Damon—" but Caroline grins and Damon just smiles ingratiatingly and holds out a single rose, because he knows how to play the gentleman. Those of Elena’s sisters that are on the first floor are looking between Damon and Elena and Elena knows that they're wondering if this is the infamous Stefan. Maybe Damon knows it too, because he says, loudly enough for all the gossips to hear, "My brother wouldn't want you to miss this night because of him."

So, under Caroline's direction, Elena gets pulled back upstairs. Halfway up the staircase, though, they pause so Caroline can say, "Most of the guys are hanging out in the basement. Try not to eat any of them alive, okay?"

Ignorance is Bliss Until They Take Your Bliss Away by devilc Mature Jeremy Gilbert/Tyler Lockwood

Tyler laughs and says, "You are so hung up on her. She's gone. Get over it."

Anger bubbles up in Jeremy like water from hidden spring. He's so fucking sick of it. Sick of the people he loves dying on him. Sick of Elena and Stefan and their secrets. Sick of people treating him like he's five. Sick of all the pretending. Sick of all the lies.

see us all as lonely fires by omfgsh Bonnie, PG When Bonnie Bennett falls apart, the world does the same. Bonnie doesn’t (shouldn’t) fall apart. She’s solid, reliable, and Bonnie. Her life is dull, the slots neatly aligning with no space left for the fantastic or the horrible.

But it does happen and this is how it goes: She leaves. She’s scared and she leaves.


2 ficlets that you can't miss by janie_tangerine Damon/Alaric, NC-17

“Oh, that is kinky. I bet you didn’t even know that yourself, did you?”

See this face? How can you not love this face? I've made this my default icon and also my wallpaper on my laptop which I debated naming Ed, Westwick, or Chuck last night [for other names being considered please see below]. Yes. I am that obsessed. No, I *don't* care that he's only 20 and plays a 16/17 year old on tv. IT'S ALL PRETEND PEOPLE. There's something about this photo shoot that puts me in mind of Jim Morrison and that makes it doubly hot.

Yes, I do listen to Ed's band. Not *quite* obsessively, but I listen to it and have them on at least 1 spin mix. Yes, he [and Blair] are really the only reasons I swoon all over Gossip Girl. I realize that he's not pretty like this all the time. In fact from some angles he's downright weird bordering on fugly.

I. Do. Not. Care.

He's also very hairy, has dubious hygiene, and his English accent is decidedly ... not upper-crust.

I. Do. Not. Care.

Move over Lex. Step aside Dean.

Now, see this face? That's really my *newest* obsession. This is Mitchell from a BBC pilot called Being Human Mitchell is a vampire that lives with a werewolf and a ghost.

Did you see that? Mitchell is a vampire.

Move over Spike. Step aside Deacon Frost. There's a brand new blood sucker in town. He smokes. He broods. He wears lots and lots of black and tacky silver jewelry. He has piercing eyes. He's too skinny to be healthy and he makes my heart go thumpa thumpa.

And my last [but not least] newest Brit crush, the incomparable Gareth David Lloyd, aka Ianto Jones of Torchwood.

He sings. Very well, particularly Doors covers [are we sensing a boys with bands theme?] Don't believe me? see for yourself

Now, I'd hate to tell one Draco Malfoy or one Severus Snape that they've been usurped so I won't. Let's just say I've sorted three new hotties into Slytherin to keep them company.

Please note --> icon of Mitchell by filmfreak16

Icon of Ed Westwick by blackbricks

And the owner of the photo of GDL is at the bottom of that picture. All images are hosted at my flickr account.

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