#riverlace

[shanastoryteller]

Happy holidays!! More Percy & Luke, please!

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It's not that Luke is with Percy because he considers him to be particularly sane. In fact, his insanity is part of the appeal.

This, however, seems a little much.

"There's a magic time dilation hotel and we're going to get some kids from there who've been there since the thirties?" he asks.

"More or less," Percy answers, eyes scanning the hotels as they walk down the strip. "Aren't you happier when you don't ask questions?"

Yes, not that he'll be telling Percy that. "And we're doing this why?"

"The barrier to the underworld surrounding and protecting the camp, mostly," he answers.

Why does he even bother. "Okay. Great. Any chance that we'll be able to resume our vacation after leaving the magic casino?"

Percy seems to seriously consider that for a moment before saying, "Low."

Uhg. It had been a fun three days anyway.

"Here," Percy says, standing in front of an alleyway that looks more like a prime location to get hepatitis than the entrance to a magic casino. "Let your eyes unfocus a little bit, that helps. It's usually trapping distracted kids and drunk adults."

Luke huffs, but does his best.

One moment it's a dirty alleyway, the next there's a shining entryway with lotuses carved into it and way too much bronze to be mortal made. "Woah."

"Told you," Percy says, then grabs his hand. "Make sure you don't let go. I've got some resistance to getting distracted, but I don't want to have to go looking for you in there too."

Luke slips his fingers through Percy's and squeezes tight. At least there's one upside to all this.

[blackkatmagic]

Quessssstion! I was rereading your Cry Havoc 'verse today (and it's so good, seriously, I love every interpretation you have of Orochimaru) and I'm wondering if the ShikaNaru in that is a short fling or a long term relationship? Also, how does Orochimaru feel about Sasuke in that universe?

As it stands now, ShikaNaru is the planned endgame pairing there, so long-term! As for Sasuke, Orochimaru hasn’t had much of any contact with him at this point, since he’s simply the second son of the Uchiha clan head and not otherwise particularly noteworthy. With Sasuke on Naruto’s team, they’re going to be coming into contact more often in the near future, though. 

[shanastoryteller]

Happy Halloween, Shana! 🎃🌻How about a continuation of Hokage's Daughter OR Ed & Ling Are Betrothed?? Ty ty!!

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Kakashi doesn’t know what to make of Naruto.

When Kushina and had first announced her pregnancy, he’d been prepared to be shoehorned into the role of big brother, no matter how unqualified he felt for it. Sensei was the only family he had left, so of course his kids would be family too.

Then he’d been betrothed to her and Kakashi did everything he could to stay as far away from her as possible. Because if he was going to marry her, he sure as shit wasn’t interested in being her big brother. Any marriage between them was going to complicated and awkward and terrible already, there’s no reason to make it worse by adding the complication of a pseudo-sibling relationship.

By the time their engagement had been broken and he’d been replaced by Sasuke, avoiding her had just become a habit. He didn’t know her, really, and it was on purpose. He figured he could get to know her later, when she was older, and they could both pretend it was a relationship they had any choice in.

But now he doesn’t know her at all, except that he knows she’s hiding something – lots of somethings, by the way she’s sneaking around and the people she’s talking to. He wonders if Minato knows about any of it and comes to the conclusion he doesn’t, which seems like it should be impossible, but.

He’s not the only one that’s been avoiding Naruto.

Minato can’t look at her without seeing his failure as a father, husband, even hokage. Kushina fusses over her like a doll on the mantle, always so worried over her heath and her chakra and what the demon is doing to her, but Kakashi wonders if Kushina knows anything more about Naruto than he does.

It’s occurring to him for the first time that in a lot of ways, Naruto grew up lonely.

It’s not what any of them wanted for her.

He drops down next to Tsume, not bothering to try and sneak because it probably wouldn’t work. “Hey.”

She doesn’t look up from her scroll. “Nice stunt you pulled there. I’m surprised Minato hasn’t skinned you alive.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he says. Luckily Minato just thinks he didn’t prevent it from happening, rather than actively setting it up, so he’d gotten out of it with just some bruises. “Do you know what’s going on?”

That gets him her attention. Considering how derisive it is, he sort of wishes he didn’t have it. “You don’t? And you still arranged it?”

“She asked,” he says, wincing beneath the mask when it comes out more defensively than he’d intended. “Last time she asked me for something she’d uncovered an almost coup and found Madara.”

Tsume’s a clan head. She’s one of the few people that know the truth of exactly what happened back then.

“Makes you wonder what could possibly get her this worked up, doesn’t it?” Tsume asks mildly.

His heart sinks. “So you don’t know.”

She shrugs. “Naruto doesn’t tell me things. Sasuke or Itachi might know, but good luck getting any Uchiha to flip on her. You could probably torture something useful out of Sakura.”

“I’m not really at the point of torturing civilian born genin,” he says testily.

Yet, anyhow.

“Guess we’ll just have to trust her,” Tsume says, going back to her scroll.

Great.

[shanastoryteller]

Happy Valentine's Day, Shana! 💕🌈🌻 Hedgewitch Yuri AU or Professor Riddle AU continuation, please? ☺️✨🎉

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There's so much magic in Draco's home.

It had been easy enough for Harry to accept Hogwarts - that was a magic school, after all - but seeing how integral and seamless magic is in every corner of the Malfoy Manor is different. It brings up a surge for his own muggle upbringing, where the only magic he saw was what was performed by his parents and godfathers.

He loves his home and his family. But he doesn't understand why they live a muggle city when they could live like this.

"Everything okay, Harry? Draco isn't being too mean, is he?"

He looks up to see Regulus grinning down at him. He looks so much like Sirius, especially when he smiles. "No, he's fine. Being mean is how he shows affection, sort of."

Regulus snorts, but doesn't disagree. "Then why the long face?"

"Do you ever talk to Sirius?" he asks and then immediately regrets it.

He doesn't get mad, instead humming then saying, "Sirius and I never really talked. We wanted different things out of life."

"Oh," he frowns, trying to find some other way to ask the question he wants answered. It'd help if he knew what it was.

"Oi, Harry!" They both turn to see Pansy waving at him from around the corner. "We're going to jump off the weeping willows and see what catches us first, the branches or the lake."

He stares. "What?"

"There are safety charms on the lake and weeping willows are just anxious about falling children," Regulus says. "Also, you really aren't supposed to be doing that."

"Don't be a spoilsport," Pansy retorts, coming forward to grab Harry's arm and yank him down the hall. "Come on, everyone else already left, hurry up."

Well, it's not like he's going to say no.

[chelseaverse]

lawyer au

riverlace replied to your post “Do you have any fic projects you want to work on next?”

Hello yes, I will happily read ALL OF THESE THINGS (And am hella rooting for lawyer!AU sequel and Jonny's coworkers meeting his husband. XD)

The lawyer sequel is from Patrick's perspective, and it's about being in a relationship where both parties are successful in their careers. Pat and Jonny are in the same city again but Jonny is always overworked and Patrick's first book has just blown the fuck up (Pen/Faulkner Award blown the fuck up), and Pat's on a book tour, which means he and Jonny are apart for most of the story. 

And while Pat is giving a reading at like Cal Tech or something, he meets Jeff Carter, who teachers Queer Theory at Pomona but what's interesting is that he used to be a hockey player and now he's in a relationship with a man (and has been, for a long, long time. Guess who). He's also dying of AIDS.

A lot more happens, including a road trip to Vegas. Mostly, it's a story about living your life as a writer which basically means your a professional appropriator and what it means to be a professional and how is it possible to have love and a career all the while you deal with the hardships of being part of the academy and being mentally ill and being friends with someone whose story you unknowingly appropriated for your bestselling novel (fucking Sharpy telling stories that he's "heard") who is also in love and also dying. 

I'll give you three guesses for who prompted me for this story, but you're only gonna need one. 

[swingsetindecember]

riverlace replied to your post: xmen days of future past casually igno...

They purposely chose to ignore the events of X-Men 3 when they started the First Class series, which I think we can all agree was an excellent decision. ;)

except they use the footage of jean being killed by logan from x3 in dofp. so they're still using that film for continuity