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She’s been eyeing Mr Farnon over Charlotte’s shoulder as he wanders closer, having managed to extract himself from Mr Dobson’s questioning. He looks so handsome in his Sunday best, well put-together, his pocket square just so. Audrey can’t help but be proud — of his well-pressed suit, of course.
He doesn’t comment on finding Audrey in the middle of the gravestones, just holds his arm out for her. “Shall we?”
They share a private little smile as she hooks her arm with his, the rest of the congregation fading into the background, his eyes twinkling in that way she’s noticed they do when she catches his gaze lingering on her.
They walk down the path arm in arm, only separating so he can open the Tapsel gate for her to pass through first — once their arms are linked again, she tries to go right, towards home, but he pulls to the left.
She looks over at him, raising an eyebrow.
“I thought it would be nice to go for a little walk,” he says.
(It's Audrey's birthday and Siegfried has a surprise in store — but, as usual, it doesn't go quite according to plan.)
One-shot, set post-6.06 "Our Hearts Are Full"
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“I’ve nearly got it,” Siegfried says, strain in his voice as he reaches for the knee again. His brief attempt at reassuring eye contact with Mr Seacombe is foiled by the strands of his hair that are falling into his eyes — he should’ve combed it back before he left Skeldale House, but the call-out was an emergency one. Mrs Hall had answered the telephone, relayed to Siegfried that this ewe had been in labour for hours with no progress and Mr Seacombe needed help — urgently.
Siegfried has a late night call-out to a ewe experiencing lambing difficulties.
One-shot, pre-series.
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safely, gathered in by RandomRuth
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
19 Aug 2025
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Then it’s the scythe’s turn, with its long, two-handled shaft and huge, curved blade attached at an angle. Beside him, Ellie straightens up in her chair from the slump she’d fallen into like someone’s dumped a bucket of ice water on her head.
“Oh, shit,” she whispers, near breathless.
Joel straightens too, glances around. “What?”
“I’ve never seen one in real life before,” she tells him, watching the scythe, her eyes practically sparkling. “That’s the Grim Reaper’s stick.”
Joel is frazzled, but he has been listening — it helps that he already knew what this one is called from Before. “It’s called a scythe.”
Ellie’s delighted grin is only getting bigger. “Sick.”
(Joel and Ellie attend a town meeting to discuss the upcoming barley harvest, Joel worries about the future, and Ellie picks up a new hobby.)
One-shot, set after season 1, and almost a year after "creatures, great and small".
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- Part 2 of all, who live
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creatures, great and small by RandomRuth
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
21 Jun 2025
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“Ellie? That you?”
Joel’s home early.
Halfway between the front door and the stairs and in full view of the kitchen, Ellie freezes. “Fuck,” she mutters, low. “Yeah,” she says, loud enough to carry.
She has no choice but to stay hunched over herself like Quasimodo from that movie — it’s suspicious as fuck, but she manages to manoeuvre her arm to mostly obscure the squirming of the tell-tale bulge under her hoodie.
(Ellie and Joel have settled in Jackson. While Ellie goes to school and, Joel hopes, makes some friends her own age, he tries to keep their house from tumbling down around them. Ellie does befriend some Jackson locals, and tries to sneak them into her room — without Joel noticing that they’ve all got four legs.)
One-shot, set after season 1.
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- Part 1 of all, who live
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"Arguing with god is probably not one of the best plans Root has ever had, but the alternative — working with Reese, ugh — is much worse."
One-shot, set in late season 3.
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Ellie and Joel and life in Jackson.
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These drabbles are a select few of my favourites from a couple of drabble challenges I used to take part in over on fanfiction.net — the E/O Drabble Challenge and the SPN100 Challenge. In both cases you were emailed a word every week and asked to write a 100 word drabble containing that word. While I always got the word of the week in, I very often went over my total word count!
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These stories are only loosely drabbles, really. Back in 2014 I was a member of the POI Discussion Forum (now apparently defunct, I can't find it online), where there was a prompt: write a 250-word drabble about Team Machine completing an ordinary task.
I took that idea and ran with it, but never really managed the word count, always going over. I've rewritten a few of my favourites and brought them here.
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How hard can it be? by Moreta1848
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)
25 Feb 2024
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They've defeated V'Ger, saved the Earth, and finally confessed their feelings for each other. Everything is going great.
And then Spock's ten-year-old niece shows up on the doorstep, demanding to be taught the Vulcan way.
Neither of them has ever raised a child before. But she seems pretty well-behaved. How hard can it be?
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- Part 1 of Saavik Bites
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Bookmarked by RandomRuth
06 Feb 2026
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A shuttle crash leaves Spock, Sulu and Chekov adrift on a deserted ocean world. As Chekov fights for his life and Sulu tries desperately to save him, Spock reflects on the strong bond that exists between the two men and starts to wonder what it is he’s really afraid of in his friendship with Kirk…
Originally published in the KiScon 2012 zine. Massive thanks to T'Lara, beta reader extraordinaire, and arminaa for editing and compiling that incredibly beautiful zine.
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02 Feb 2026
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Where it Stops, Nobody Knows by WerewolvesAreReal
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series
31 Mar 2014
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Spock wonders, sometimes, if perhaps there is nothing at all he can do to fix time. If the loop will continue forever, or if perhaps in a million days the timeline will abruptly flow again, smooth and flawless, while he remains mad
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02 Feb 2026
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McCoy isn't too crazy about the Vulcan first officer on his new posting, the starship Enterprise, and has no hope of understanding him. Especially since the idiot has been dodging his mandatory physical for four months. "That's almost impressive," says Jim.
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01 Feb 2026
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Give Thy Thoughts No Tongue by WerewolvesAreReal
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series
25 May 2024
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Spock gets captured on a mission. He returns acting strange, refusing to speak about what happened. Everyone considers this a sign of severe trauma.
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Bookmarked by RandomRuth
01 Feb 2026