( FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS )

( HEROES )

( PRISON BREAK )

( VERONICA MARS )

( MISCELLANEOUS )

( AWARDS )

Fandom: Veronica Mars
Title: Echoes Through the Phone
Characters: Lilly, Veronica, Logan
Spoilers: Season one
Summary: Lilly chose her best friend to avenge her murder, and Veronica got everything wrong.
A/N: Lilly Kane was awesome, and Rob Thomas sucks. Many thanks to gatheringlight and amj58 for the betas.

( Look, Veronica. I know you’re really busy and stuff, but I was murdered here and I’d like to be avenged one of these days. )

Fandom: Heroes
Title: The End of the Beginning
Characters: Claire, Peter, Hiro
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Season three promos
Summary: Claire travels back in time to kill Peter before he can become a monster.
A/N: Much thanks as ever to super-beta gatheringlight. Also, I totally ripped off many of these ideas from the brilliant cadesama.

( “The Peter you knew is dead already,” Hiro said. “You have to remember that, Claire. The Peter you loved doesn’t exist in the place we came from.” )

Fandom: Heroes
Title: The End of the Beginning
Characters: Claire, Peter, Hiro, Sylar
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Season three promos
Summary: Three fugitives from the future take the past into their own hands.
A/N: Inspired by cadesama's theorizing about the season three promos. Hope you don't mind! Thanks to gatheringlight for the beta, as always.

( Soon they were above ground, bursting through a fire door just as the alarms within the building began to wail. Claire closed her eyes for a moment and turned her face towards the sky; it was the first time she’d felt the sun on her skin for months. )

204 days, 36932 words and three extra chapters later, it's finished!

Fandom: Heroes
Title: Winter in Elysium
Characters: Claire, Peter, Adam
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: 2.10
Previous: One / Two / Three / Four / Five / Six
Summary: When Peter and Adam are too late to stop the virus escaping, three unbreakable people find themselves stranded in an entirely new world.
A/N: Infinite love to super-beta gatheringlight, who's been there from the moment her mouth dropped open and she said "are you serious?" when I told her this idea, through every authorial freak-out of mine, to the very last word. And thanks so much to everyone who's practiced the extreme patience necessary to read this story; I appreciate your feedback more than I can say (last chance to become one of these fine people, lurkers, don't wanna miss it!) It's been quite the learning experience, both good and bad, and I can't think you all enough for sticking with me.

( A heavy, guilty feeling settled over Claire's chest. She’d only ever kept one secret from Peter, and she hadn’t done it very well. )

Fandom: Heroes
Title: Winter in Elysium
Characters: Claire, Peter, Adam
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: 2.10
Previous: One / Two / Three / Four / Five
Summary: When Peter and Adam are too late to stop the virus escaping, three unbreakable people find themselves stranded in an entirely new world.
A/N: So, you know when I said that this was going to be the last chapter? Yeah, I totally lied. Sorry! (But the next one is the last one, I SWEAR). Many thanks to dear gatheringlight for making me not suck.

( Staring up at him and the tight, angry clench of his jaw, Claire realized for the first time how powerful Peter really was and how frightening he could be. )

Fandom: Heroes
Title: Winter in Elysium
Characters: Peter/Adam/Claire
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: 2.10
Previous: One / Two / Three / Four
Summary: When Peter and Adam are too late to stop the virus escaping, three unbreakable people find themselves stranded in an entirely new world.
A/N: Many thanks to the long-suffering gatheringlight for the never-ending beta.

( “Claire, this is Adam Monroe,” Peter said, suddenly remembering he was there. Then something seemed to occur to him, and his expression changed, sobering. He turned to the girl, took her hand and said, “He’s like you.” )

Fandom: Heroes
Title: Ordinary Boy
Characters: Lyle, Claire, Nathan, Peter, Angela
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Season 1
Summary: Lyle Bennet, the world's most ordinary boy, has a ring-side seat for the Petrelli Family Circus.
A/N: Much thanks to gatheringlight for the brainstorming and the beta. If I'm at all funny, it's because of her.

( Lyle keeps a mental list of things that only happen on TV or in the movies, and he checks them off each time they happen to him, which is distressingly often now that he lives with the Petrellis. )

Fandom: Supernatural
Title: Being Human
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: 3.9
Summary: Five hundred years before Dean sold his soul, Ruby was just a girl with a brother of her own.
A/N: Much thanks to sadcypress for her excellent beta.

( In a moment James would disappear into the crowd, darting between labourers and carts and children begging for scraps to find the boys down the street for a game of soldiers played with broken bits of wood for swords. She didn’t know why something so familiar should make her so sad, but it did. )

Fandom: Heroes
Title: Winter in Elysium
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Peter/Adam, Claire
Spoilers: 2.10
Previous: One / Two / Three
Summary: When the virus gets out, three unbreakable people find themselves stranded in an entirely new world.
A/N: Many thanks to gatheringlight for the beta.

(  It was true they were penned up here, like prisoners or animals in a cage, but their captivity kept them safe from the virus, and surely that was worth the sacrifice. )

Fandom: Firefly
Title: Home
Spoilers: Series and film
Summary: It's just the three of them left, Simon and River and the captain.
A/N: Written for gatheringlight, in celebration of her newfound Firefly love and in defiance of my own writers block.

( The little makeshift family they’d made around Serenity’s kitchen table proved itself to be a single golden moment, not the way things were and would always be, the way they’d all naively imagined. )

Fandom: Supernatural
Title: Benediction
Rating: R
Spoilers: 3.9
Summary: Dean and Ruby each have something the other needs.
A/N: Many thanks to sadcypress for her mad beta skillz.

( He's not sure why she does it. He’s not even sure why he does it, but it’s not like motivations make a damn bit of difference anyway. )

Fandom: Firefly
Title: Companion
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Through 1.11
Summary: They hold tight to whatever scrap of happiness they can find.
A/N: Everyone talking about Firefly in that meme last week got me thinking about it again. Many thanks to gatheringlight for taking this on when she's never seen the show (gasp!) and to ellenscult for the FF specific picking.

( She feels the shift beneath her feet as their battle of wills begins, because Inara’s learned to recognize a defining moment when she sees one. )

Fandom: Heroes
Title: Winter in Elysium
Rating: R
Spoilers: AU from 2.10
Previous: One / Two
Summary: Peter and Adam are too late to stop the virus, and three unbreakable people find themselves stranded in an entirely new world.
A/N: Thanks to gatheringlight for the beta and the occasional bitch-slap.

( Before she could stop to think about it too much, Claire punched her fist through the glass, wondering vaguely to herself how people who weren’t unbreakable were surviving in this new world of theirs. )

Fandom: Heroes
Title: Four Fathers
Rating: PG
Spoilers: 2.1
Summary: Molly has four fathers.
A/N: Thanks to the fabulous gatheringlight for the beta.

( Later, when Molly tries to find her first father again, push-pin gripped painfully tight between her fingers as tears roll quiet and heavy down her cheeks, she finds that she can’t. For the first time in her life, her gift betrays her. )

Fandom: Heroes
Title: Midland Carousel
Rating: PG
Characters: Nathan/Meredith, Angela, Peter
Spoilers: Season One
Summary: His wandering had been permanently derailed, knocked off its tracks by a perfect, lazy summer and a girl who had no expectations of him.
A/N: You never thought I'd do it, did you? Well, it's only a few months late. Thanks as ever to gatheringlight for her mad beta skills.

( Midland Carousel )

Fandom: Heroes
Title: Winter in Elysium
Characters: Peter, Adam, Claire
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Peter and Adam are too late to stop the virus, and three unbreakable people find themselves stranded in an entirely new world.
Previous Parts: One
A/N: Thanks to the ever-fabulous gatheringlight for the beta.

( 'Drive to New York' was never going to qualify as the best plan ever devised, but it wasn't until she was on the road that Claire began to understand just how ill-conceived this idea of hers had been. )

Fandom: Heroes
Title: Kiss the Sky
Spoilers: Season 1
Summary: Peter just wants to be like his brother, not fully understanding the tragedy that entails.
A/N: Thanks to gatheringlight and takethesky87 for the betas, and apologies to Joss Whedon and Matthew Graham/Ashley Pharoah for the stealing.

( In the next moment he was falling, tumbling down to meet him, safe in Nathan’s arms for a split second before being torn away. )