Assorted 9-word Ficlets

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For today's comment_fic theme.

Nine Word Ficlets:

MCU, Natasha, Never a Child

Innocence is a strange thing: ephemeral and easily lost.

Any (Artemis Fowl), Any (Foaly + Root), Almost Doesn't Count

"Close enough?"
"You've never played Gnommish Roulette, have you?"

Any (Assault on Precinct 13), Any (Wells & Wilson), Only Fair Way

Playing potatoes for a suicide mission. Hell, why not?

The Hobbit, Dwalin/Ori, Protection

"Balin likes you."
"I don't think that'll save me."

Event Horizon, The Event Horizon, Memories to Show Her Crew

She flays frail forms to perceive her untold vistas.

Any (The Hobbit), Any (Thorin's Company), Rumblings

Dwarven stomachs form a chorus, hobbits lead the band.

Any (Les Miserables), Any (Les Amis), Cobblestones & Cinders

Fires of revolution die in ash on city stones.

Rivers of London, Peter/Thomas, Sweet

Some things you savour first, lest they be taken.

Beauty & the Beast, Beast, He Preferred Being the Beast

He misses the privacy, the strength, the honesty of fear.

LotR, Merry/Pippin, Fool

A matched pair, surviving by the luck of fools.

OR

The fool and the bigger one who followed him.