For
comment_fic prompts. *grins*
Avengers movieverse, Tony & Thor, ElectricityThor's lightning is too clumsy, imprecise, but baby, oh baby, that's where he comes in - the lightning rod, the transformer, the goddamn conduit - and distantly he hears Thor whoop, pure joy, over the roar of electricity in his ears, and the rumble of masonry as the armour channels the lance of god into the fucking finger of man.
Discworld, Vimes & Vetinari, QuarterThere must never be visible quarter given between them - only reward and punishment, anger and remorseless law, the bristling defiance of an honest man against the powers that be - but sometimes, seeing the strange, flinching mercy in Vimes' eyes, feeling the bizarre turning in his own chest ... Havelock wishes it were not so.
African Diasporic Myth, Anansi, Nothing StrangeThey say, his adversaries, that there is nothing strange in this world - nothing subtle or hidden, secret or sly, nothing turned from true, nothing new or different, nothing rebellious, nothing magical,
nothing at all but what they know - this, he thinks, this soft belief, is the greatest gift they have ever given him.
The Snow Queen (fairytale), Snow Queen/Kai, Certain As The SunThough she had been given three kisses - once to touch, twice to keep, thrice to send them down to sleep - she knew, even as she looked at him, falling slowly frozen before her, waiting for the cold death of her touch, or the melting warmth of another, that certain as the sun, certain as the cold ... he was never hers to hold.
Nikita (Luc Besson), Nikita & Amande, AllureShe had learned allure, the softness of it, the killing of it, in front of a mirror - two faces, side by side, the resting of a soft, papery cheek against hers, the pull of her lips against the paint, and the ancient, serene knowing in Amande's eyes: we are infinite, we are soft, we are beloved ... and we are, at out hearts, the most dangerous things in all the world.
Saiyuki, Hakkai, Hold NothingFree of all (lost in the lakes of blood, a thousand demons, one love), bound by nothing (torn free in losing of an eye, sheared from the past by the changing of a name), you live your life (six oranges, because we're all gonna eat, umbrellas because it's always going to rain, a never-faltering smile because we're all gonna die) ... simply as it is (
Hakkai).
Book of Enoch, Raphael/Azazel, Before"Do you know what I find amusing," Azazel whispered, a dark curl in Raphael's ear, a searing chain holding him to the dark, "that I was Grigori, and yet it was you ... who watched us fall."