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Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 5
Chapter Summary: Thorin and Balin show Saruman around Moria. Bilbo makes friends with the man traveling with him instead.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Gandalf, Balin, Dwalin, Saruman
Fandom: Hobbit/Lord of the Rings. Begins in 2968, twenty-six years after the events of "Clarity of Vision" and fifty years before the canonical events of "Lord of the Rings." Thus, characters' ages and the geopolitical situation will be different than LoTR canon!
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2300
Summary: Thorin Oakenshield and Bilbo Baggins have been parted for many years now, despite the love they bear each other. Now Thorin's research has uncovered a dire threat to Middle Earth--the Ring he carried a little while and then gave to Bilbo. Together with a group of companions composed of the different Free Peoples of Middle Earth, they must attempt to destroy the artifact before its Dark Lord can re-capture it.

( From the shadows slipped Bilbo Baggins, who, when he had realized the wizard on the doorstep was not Gandalf, had stepped into a darkened corner. If you had asked him why, he could not have said--only that a cold prickle had run down his spine at the wizard's exquisite voice and he had misliked the feeling. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 4
Chapter Summary: Thorin and Bilbo travel to Moria and are shown the wonders within by Balin, who rules there.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Gandalf, Balin, Dwalin
Fandom: Hobbit/Lord of the Rings. Begins in 2968, twenty-six years after the events of "Clarity of Vision" and fifty years before the canonical events of "Lord of the Rings." Thus, characters' ages and the geopolitical situation will be different than LoTR canon!
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2700
Summary: Thorin Oakenshield and Bilbo Baggins have been parted for many years now, despite the love they bear each other. Now Thorin's research has uncovered a dire threat to Middle Earth--the Ring he carried a little while and then gave to Bilbo. Together with a group of companions composed of the different Free Peoples of Middle Earth, they must attempt to destroy the artifact before its Dark Lord can re-capture it.

( Their rooms were in a wing next to Balin's quarters, and were as sumptuous as any king's yet as cozy as any hobbit's: warmed by hidden vents, with a large bed piled high with eiderdown pillows and rich velvet throws. )

Title: Action Figures
Relationship: Clark/Bruce
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Lex Luthor, Roy Harper, Hal Jordan, John Stewart
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion (click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG-13
Word Count 3500
Summary: Dick Grayson and the Titans start to create an entirely different style of high-flying wrestling. Billionaire Brucie gets interviewed by former-Country Clark Kent, and Clark and Bruce go shopping at Target to stock the Metropolis apartment.

( Dick's big blue eyes would have put a puppy dog's to shame as he gazed imploringly at Lex Luthor. )

Title: Midsummer Eve
Characters: Arwen, Celebrian, Elrond, Glorfindel
Fandom: Silmarillion, Lord of the Rings
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: G
Word Count: 770
Summary: A very young Arwen worries about Glorfindel, who lies ill in his chambers.
Notes: A little birthday present for starsandsea, the best person in the world to share a birthday with!

( Glorfindel always told the very best stories, full of battles and warriors and curses and dragons and secret cities, and with so much detail! Arwen always felt like she could smell the dust, hear the clash of shields. )

Title: Inferno Match
Relationship: Clark/Bruce
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd, Bane, Dick Grayson, Helena Bertinelli, Pamela Isley, Selina Kyle, Harley Quinn
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion (click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG-13
Word Count 4100
Summary: A show in Santa Prisca: Jason's first match against the Joker, Dick's debut as Nightwing, and an inferno match between Bane and the Dark Knight.

( Bruce had the cowl on, and Dick was wearing the costume with the popped collar and golden accents, gesturing as he explained something. They were both smiling--Dick's his open, wide smile, and Bruce's the small pleased smile he had when he was enjoying himself and didn't quite realize it. )

Title: An Innocent Cicisbeo (2/4)
Characters: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne; Wonder Woman, Perry White, Steve Lombard, Jonathan Kent
Fandom: DC Comics
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count: 4500
Summary: Unexpectedly faced with his husband in the salon of Il Pianeta, Kal Starr remembers their meeting, their wedding--and the unlikely path he took to his new career.
Notes: Written for the Unconventional Courtship challenge, and based on the summary for the Harlequin romance An Innocent Courtesan. "Cicisbeo" was an actual term of the time for a male "gallant and lover" of a married woman...I have manufactured a cheerfully pansexual Regency for the purposes of this story.

( Kal Starr had become everything Clark Kent had not been: polished, urbane, stylish and witty. )

Title: Fathers and Sons
Relationship: Clark/Bruce
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Jean-Paul Valley, Jason Todd, Bane, Dick Grayson
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion (click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count 2700
Summary: Clark and Bruce meet a new Robin at the beginning of their Santa Prisca trip--and then are reunited with an old one.

( Bane rules over his Santa Prisca prison with an iron fist. Any who dare challenge his rule he beats to a bloody pulp in the Pit at the center of the prison. He's calculating, brilliant, and utterly ruthless. Some matches he fights with the ring in flames, other times--when he wants a challenge--he fights with one hand tied behind his back. He never loses. He's been known to feed his victims to the sharks. )

Title: Tag Team
Relationship: Clark/Bruce
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle, Huntress, Power Girl, Barbara Gordon, Jean-Paul Valley, Joker, Killer Croc
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion (click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count 3600
Summary: Billionaire Brucie and the Dark Knight have a tag team match, and three new female wrestlers are brought up to team up against the Sirens.

( Joker and Brucie sparred and smiled and preened and flounced, and Clark felt a baffled jealousy churn in him that Joker could trade barbs with Bruce, while the Kryptonian was trapped in silence. )

Title: Letters from Erebor
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin, Kili, Fili, Balin, Dwalin, Dís
Fandom: Hobbit
Continuity: A continuation of "Clarity of Vision."
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1700
Summary: Selected and edited by Mr. Frodo Baggins from a trunk full of letters and documents bequeathed to him along with Bag End. There are many more letters, particularly from the King of Erebor, Thorin Oakenshield, which are not included. The letters of Bilbo Baggins over this time, while many and varied, are preserved in the archives of Erebor and are not replicated here. The letters excerpted below cover a span of twenty-six years: from Third Age 2942, when Bilbo returned to the Shire from the Lonely Mountain for the first time, to T.A. 2968.

( I must remember that is spring there now, and I have never seen your home in spring. I do not know how the spring sunlight looks as it slants across your kitchen table, or what birds sing outside your window, or how the air smells when scented with all those flowers whose names I cannot remember. )

Title: The World's Greatest Detective Has a Belated Epiphany
Pairing/Characters: Bruce/Clark, Alfred
Rating: PG
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Fandom: DC Comics
Summary: When Dick Grayson runs off with Roy Harper, Bruce Wayne is horrified--because he knows Clark Kent is on his way to the Manor to tell Bruce he's in love with Dick! Luckily, Bruce is ready to get through this with all the aplomb he usually has when dealing with interpersonal relationships. (Alfred wisely takes cover).
Notes: Basic plot gleefully and unabashedly swiped from Georgette Heyer's delightful short story "A Husband for Fanny."
Word Count: 2200

( Clark was going to do something old-fashioned and impossibly gallant like ask Bruce for the pleasure of courting his son, wasn't he? If it were anyone else, he would laugh at the thought, but of course Clark--considerate, kind, cautious Clark--would want to be sure he had Bruce's approval. )