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Title: Natural
Relationship: Sherlock/John
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 1800
Summary: Sherlock is back in John's life. At the moment he is--rather inexplicably--asleep in John's bed. In completely unrelated news, for some reason John is aroused. This is awkward.
Notes: Set just after whatever is going to happen at the beginning of Series 3.

( Sherlock was there, his eyes closed, breathing softly. His long limbs were drawn up close to his body, one hand curled up against his own mouth. In sleep, without that manic intelligence animating his face, he looked both more and less human, somehow. )

Title: Lord Mandos' Unexpected Party
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Aule, Mandos, Thorin's Company
Fandom: Hobbit
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count: 680
Summary: The Lord of the Halls of Mandos finds himself reluctantly hosting a celebration to end all celebrations.
Note: A coda to Slumbers Deep and Dreams of Gold

( Mandos sighed and gazed disconsolately at his guests. Time was difficult to measure in his halls, but it seemed they had been there a very long time, going from head-smashing to raucous laughter to tearful embraces and right back to the head-smashing. )

Title: Physical Violence and Bizarre Innuendo
Relationship: Clark/Bruce
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Guy Gardner, Fire, Mr. Miracle, Maxwell Lord, Harvey Dent, Booster Gold, Ted Kord
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion (click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count 4800
Summary: The nefarious Lex Luthor once again strikes a blow against the JLI, and Clark Kent has ethical issues with his feud with Bruce.

( Guy Gardner slammed his hand into the locker again, oblivious to the torn knuckles leaving a smear of blood on the metal. )

Title: The New Tenant
Characters: Mrs. Hudson, A Mysterious Man Who is Definitely Not Sherlock Being a Total Troll
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: G
Word Count: 720
Summary: Mrs. Hudson finally decides she must let out Sherlock's old flat, but the new tenant proves extremely annoying.

( The man moved about the living room, humming tunelessly beneath his breath. He ran one hand along the patterned wallpaper, moved to touch the forlorn skull on the mantel. )

I wrote a few drabbles recently...here are my five favorites of the bunch.

Confession (406 words) by mithen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU - Comicverse
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne
Additional Tags: Jealousy, Surveillance, Confessions, Humor
Summary:

When Superman confesses to reading Bruce Wayne's email, some explanation is in order.

A Mysterious Offer (570 words) by mithen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU Animated
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne
Additional Tags: Humor, Fluff
Summary:

Batman is feeling slightly bored until an enigmatic phone call drags him into a new mystery.

Normal, Sane, and Not All Right (1170 words) by mithen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mycroft Holmes
Additional Tags: Amnesia, Angst, Reunion
Summary:

John Watson is fine now, although he doesn't remember why he wasn't fine.

A Spot of Tea (608 words) by mithen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Hobbit (2012)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield
Additional Tags: Tea, Friendship/Love, Fish out of Water
Summary:

When Bilbo Baggins discovered a tea shop in Laketown, he drags Thorin Oakenshield along.

Together (312 words) by mithen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin
Characters: Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort
Summary:

After rescuing Stephen from torture, Jack deals with his own reactions.

Title: High Flying Moves
Relationship: Clark/Bruce
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion (click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count 4500
Summary: Clark and Bruce practice their first match together, but there are some problems to overcome.

( The most I'm risking is getting the wind knocked out of me, maybe a broken arm at the absolute worst. You're the one putting your body on the line, the one who's going to get badly hurt if I don't catch you right. )

Title: Mortal Combat
Relationship: Clark/Bruce
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Booster Gold, Ted Kord
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 start planning out their first match together.

( The New York streets were quiet in the pale gray of dawn as Clark Kent walked to the gym down the street from where the wrestlers were staying. )

Title: Slumbers Deep and Dreams of Gold
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Aulë, Thorin
Fandom: Hobbit
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3000
Summary: Bilbo Baggins, late of Bag End in Hobbiton, now of Avallónë in the Undying Lands, is invited to go on another journey with Gandalf.

( I've been here such a long time now. They've been happy times, but even Frodo and Sam have gone on now, and I'm still here. I don't know why I don't feel ready to leave yet. )

Title: The Last Guardian
Relationship: Background Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Dwalin, Elrond
Fandom: Hobbit
Warnings/Spoilers: None beyond the Lord of the Rings trilogy
Rating: G
Word Count: 1300
Summary: Dwalin and the remaining member's of Thorin's Company travel to Rivendell to bid farewell to their burglar.

( He had always expected to fall before them, in battle, his weapons bloodied. But they had all gone on before him somehow, the gentle and the noble, leaving only the rough warrior behind. )

Title: A Small Song in the Dark
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo Baggins
Fandom: Hobbit
Warnings/Spoilers: Giant spiders
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2300
Summary: The Company encounters the spiders of Mirkwood and Thorin's trust in Bilbo is tested again.
Notes: Departing from the book-canon a bit (because there's no way Peter Jackson is going to cheat Thorin out of slaying spiders!)

( Not like this, it cannot end like this! Let me die at Azog's hands rather than be eaten by insects and my bones left to moulder forgotten in the darkness of the wood! )

Title: The Sleeping Dragon
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo Baggins
Fandom: Hobbit
Warnings/Spoilers: Discussions of addiction and mental illness. Follows book canon in major events, although I smudged a few details of timing.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2300
Summary: Two conversations on the doorstep of Erebor: a glimpse of the past and a wish for the future.

( Now that you have seen the beauty of its halls, and the glory of its treasure, I had thought that...perhaps you would not wish to return to the Shire. )

Title: Living the Gimmick
Relationship: Clark/Bruce
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Guy Gardner, Captain Marvel, Maxwell Lord
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion (click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: Non-graphic description of someone deliberately cutting themselves.
Rating: PG
Word Count 3800
Summary: After months of bad treatment at Captain Marvel's hands, Clark gets an unexpected break.

( He'd been trying to sell himself as doggedly determined, but with little mic time, he wondered if Country Clark just came off as too stupid to know when to quit. )

Title: Kayfabe
Relationship: Clark/Bruce
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Guy Gardner, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Captain Marvel, Maxwell Lord
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion (click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count 3800
Summary: Clark learns a valuable lesson about going out drinking with wrestlers, makes an enemy, and finds out more about Bruce Wayne's gimmick.

( Clark glanced over to where the heels were laughing and drinking beer together. Guy was talking animatedly with--well, Clark would have said Bruce, but it was most definitely Billionaire Brucie, all wide white smile and glittering eyes. In character even off the clock, thought Clark, unsure whether to be impressed or appalled. )

Title: Handshakes and Opening Bells
Relationship: Clark/Bruce
Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Guy Gardner, Mr. Miracle, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Fire, Ice, Captain Marvel, Maxwell Lord, Iron Munro
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion (click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count 4100
Summary: Clark graduates from wrestling school, gets a job offer, and meets his new co-workers.

( Guy Gardner steered Clark toward the back of the locker room, where a man in jeans and a t-shirt was sitting in the corner, reading. He looked up as they approached, neither smiling nor frowning, just watching them with icy blue eyes. )

Title: A Weapon Forged in Anger
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo Baggins
Fandom: Hobbit
Warnings/Spoilers: The standard ones from the book
Rating: G
Word Count 1600
Summary: In Laketown, Thorin forges a new weapon for himself to replace the sword that the elves took from him.
Notes: In the book, Thranduil takes Orcrist from Thorin. I doubt that'll happen in the movies (it's just too awesome a design to give up!) but if it did...

( Thorin Oakenshield brought the hammer crashing down as if what he struck was not red-hot steel, but the invincible scales of Smaug. )

Title: Two Songs for Harp
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin, Bilbo, the rest of the Company
Fandom: Hobbit
Warnings/Spoilers: Book-canon compliant
Rating: G
Word Count: 2800
Summary: Two songs played on two harps: one in Laketown, one in the heart of Erebor before the Battle of the Five Armies.
Note: Thorin's song in Erebor is adapted from the Irish ballad "The Foggy Dew," by Charles O’Neill.

( Outside the store were hung various fiddles, drums, and pipes. Thorin Oakenshield stood before a small wooden harp, sized for travel, and his gaze followed its curves. )

Title: Prologue: Justice Intelligible
Relationship: Clark/Bruce (eventually)
Characters: Clark Kent, Pete Ross
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion (click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: G
Word Count 1800
Summary: When Clark Kent was eight, he realized what he wanted to be when he grew up.

( The Topeka Memorial Hall's floor was sticky under his feet as made his way to his seat, goggling at the people setting up the ring. He had never seen so many people in one place, and the low roar of more than three thousand voices rose and fell around him like a swelling tide. )

This series will require a more detailed set of notes than many. :)

"Heroes of the Squared Circle" is an Elseworld story in which all the characters of the DCU are professional wrestlers. There are no superpowers, everyone is an ordinary human being--for example, Clark Kent is really the farmboy from Kansas that he appears to be. However, the heroic/villainous alter egos will still be there in the story!

Basically, I've taken the history of the DCU and the history of professional wrestling and smashed them against each other, then picked up the pieces and glued them back together to make a story I hope will be as fun to read as it has been to dream up. Nothing will be exactly as it is in the DCU, but I'm hoping you'll find enough there that's familiar to enjoy. Knowledge of the world and history professional wrestling shouldn't be necessary, as if I did it right everything is explained in the text (if something is unclear, let me know in comments!) There may be some Easter eggs for people who do know who Vince McMahon and the Undertaker are, though. :)

I'm really excited about this one, and I hope you'll enjoy it too!

Chapters
Prologue: Justice Intelligable

Title: Daisies, Poppies, and One Red Rose
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin, Bilbo, Fili, Kili, Durin, Dwalin, Ori, Gandalf
Fandom: The Hobbit
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: G
Word Count 2100
Summary: Bilbo's birthday arrives while the Company is on the road, and hobbits and dwarves disagree on both birthday protocol and the value of certain gifts.

( The sight was nothing to a dwarf who had seen rivers of gold or the Arkenstone pulsing like a living heart, but the flowers were pretty enough, Thorin supposed. )

Title: The Scent of Sun-Warmed Stone
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin, Bilbo, Gandalf, Kili, Fili, Bofur
Fandom: The Hobbit
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count 2800
Summary: In which baths are taken, hair is braided, and Bilbo and Thorin take turns being embarrassed.

( At the base of the rock was a broad, shallow river, clear and cold, with a ford of large flat rocks. At the sight of clean water, Thorin suddenly became aware that he was filthy, covered with blood, sweat, dirt, and warg-drool. He heard a yearning sigh from Balin and caught Fili and Kili sharing hopeful glances, and decided that the search for shelter could wait. )

FIC: Natural

FICLET: Lord Mandos' Unexpected Party

Heroes of the Squared Circle 7: Physical Violence and Bizarre Innuendo

Ficlet: The New Tenant (BBC Sherlock, Mrs. Hudson & Sherlock)

Various Drabbles and Ficlets!

Heroes of the Squared Circle 6: High Flying Moves

Heroes of the Squared Circle 5: Mortal Combat

FIC: Slumbers Deep and Dreams of Gold (Hobbit, Thorin/Bilbo)

FIC: The Last Guardian (Hobbit: Thorin/Bilbo, Dwalin)

FIC: A Small Song in the Dark (Hobbit, Thorin/Bilbo)

FIC: The Sleeping Dragon

Heroes of the Squared Circle 4: Living the Gimmick

Heroes of the Squared Circle 3: Kayfabe

Heroes of the Squared Circle 2: Handshakes and Opening Bells

FIC: A Weapon Forged in Anger (Hobbit, Thorin/Bilbo)

FIC: Two Songs for Harp (Hobbit, Thorin/Bilbo)

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Heroes of the Squared Circle (Clark/Bruce): Master Post and Notes

FIC: Daisies, Poppies, and One Red Rose

FIC: The Scent of Sun-Warmed Stone (Hobbit, Thorin/Bilbo)

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