i am mentally divergent

Title: Even Job Got A Break Eventually
Author: : xlivvielockex
Rating: : PG13
Pairing: Cordelia Chase/Charles Gunn
Prompts: Written for missambs for hetfic_minis who wanted Afterlife, hair, and snark. And wanted no fluff.
Summary: Set after The Thin Dead Line. Cordelia tries to find some kind of meaning and hope.
Word Count: 1,652
Author's Note: A HUGE thanks to my beta, boy_named_susie. I am not sure what I would do without her being able to beta my shit at the last minute. I love you, Sarah!

( For a place that most days seemed like hell, LA was a religious Mecca )

Title Stakeout
Author Kelly
Rating PG-13
Word Count 290
Prompt 024: Coyote Moon at still_grrr
Characters/Pairing (if any) Wes, Gunn
A/N: Not up for voting, like usual. The first club I ever danced at was named Coyote Moon. :)

( Cop shows do it all the time )

Title: Peripheral
Author: xlivvielockex
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action-adventure, humor, bit of angst. It has it all.
Prompts Used: An "ex" visits, mystical circle, Eternal Flame by The Bangles at ca_atlast
Summary: Set right after Spin The Bottle, Xander is sent to L.A. on Buffy's orders to get books on how to defeat The First. Once there, he notices that Cordelia is hardly herself.
Notes: I went a little nutty with the style here. The first part is seen through Xander's eyes. The second part through Angel's. The third part through Cordelia's. Total word count: 11,908. HUGE thanks to boy_named_susie who gave up time on Potter weekend to beta for me.

( Part One )

( Part Two )

( Part Three )

P.S. to lauratd: It has tentilc monsters!

Okay, this is round one...Buffy and Angel verses. I will probably be back tomorrow with round two. But everyone got at least one of their prompts done. :) Thanks again for spanking my muse into submission and I will honestly take more! Just hit me here

THESE ARE UNBETA'ED! FEEL FREE TO CORRECT!

For boy_named_susie

( Cordelia/Angel, Monkey )

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For sl_podcast

( Anyone, Angel dancing )

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For americangirl69

( Willow/Tara, magic )

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For skull_theatre

( Fred, Harmony, drunken girls night out )

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For bells_ringing

( Spike-centric, heaven )

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For lauratd (I am SO writing that Popular crossover but it is going to be longer than a drabble.

( Faith/Gunn, boots )

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For mystalkershrine

( Cordelia, Angel, BCBGirls pump )

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For not_purrrfect

( Joyce, Giles, anything )

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For wereleopard58

( C/A, crumping )

Title: We Got Ourself A Sheriff And His Name's Bobby Joe
Author xlivvielockex
Rating PG
Word Count 573
Prompt 010: Your Town at still_grrr
Characters/Pairing (if any) ATS Ensemble
A/N As some of you know, I've lived in about half a dozen cities all over the world. They are all "my town" so I just picked the one I am in right now. It's more fun that way. LOL (Bonus points to whoever knows what song the title and cut text are from!)

( This is a Tiny Town )

REJECTED: In the course of creating icons, a lot of them go to the trash pile. So here they all are. I figure maybe someone can add text to them or use them as a base or whatever.

PLEASE CREDIT. PLEASE DO NOT HOTLINK. PLEASE DO NOT REPOST/DISTRIBUTE WITHOUT PERMISSION. THAT MEANS YOU, FANPOP/TUMBLR USERS!!

Breakdown:
Faith: 3
Harm: 1
Wesley: 5
Spike: 2
Lindsey/Eve: 1
Miss Kitty: 8
Gunn: 2
Cordelia: 30
Jasmine: 1
Fred: 1
Buffy: 5
Willow: 2
Cordelia/Angel: 4
Angel: 8
Mal/Inara: 1
Xander/Anya: 1
Zoe: 1
Wes/Fred: 3
Total: 80


( REJECTED )

Written for the prompt of "Super" or "Bowl" or "Superbowl" at open_on_sunday

http://community.livejournal.com/open_on_sunday/1800399.html

Title: Bonding
Timeline: Pre-ATS

Cops never came to the Badlands. They’d haul a musty couch out from someone’s trash, put it in front of the Rent-A-Center. They had the universal remote someone got out of the dumpster behind the K-Mart. The buttons were worn down but it still changed channels through the glass. Gunn and Alonna were on snacks. Korean guy behind the counter kept his eyes on the towering black man while his more innocent looking sister was busy putting an entire container of jerky between her knees. Didn’t matter who won cause for a few hours, they could forget.

Title: Five Bits of Ink Charles Gunn Never Got
Author: xlivvielockex
Rating: PG-15ish
Character:Gunn
Word Count: 100

He watched the whole thing from the house. He watched his father, carrying groceries, fall to his knees. He looked like he was kneeling for Sunday service. But the boy on the porch knew better. He knew that a slug to your back from a drive-by was going to send you to your knees.

He couldn’t watch his father fall nor his mother rush out of the house, pushing the young boy aside. All he could watch was the way the groceries flew up out of the bag, like they were suddenly set free from their brown paper prison.

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“Stake him already, youngblood.” The voice came echoing off the alley walls and straight into Charles Gunn’s ears. It bounced around in his head to join the million thoughts running through his head at lightening speed as he looked at the vampire across from him. The vampire that he had pinned to the alley wall. He thought of his father’s death, his mother’s suicide, of the two foster homes he had been in before he escaped. He had a family now. He had to prove his place. He pulled his arm back quickly and then connected with the vampire’s chest.

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Nobody knew that he kept her in a box under his bed. Nothing fancy because they never did have nothing fancy. Just a box from a pair of shoes she always wanted, a pair of shoes he could have never gotten her. He kept her with her favorite teddy bear. Wasn’t much, it was something he had fished out of a dumpster and cleaned up for her. Nobody knew that he pulled that box out every night and he told what was left of her that he was sorry. He made a promise to her and he had failed her.

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He knew that he was her first and inside, his male ego swelled with pride. Wasn’t hard to figure out considering nobody had been able to touch her until now. But she moved with the same grace and skill as a predatory cat and he wasn’t complaining. He liked the way her skin felt, how smooth. It was like milk under his dark fingertips. It hurt her at first, of course it did, he was Charles Gunn. Then again, they had both had too much pain in their life, too much death, what was another little death between momentary partners?

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He fell to his knees in the rain soaked alley, the blood from the wound escaping freely. He tried to keep his insides in with a large hand as he looked up to see the vampire looming above him. He blinked the rain from his eyes. Why was he here? He made a promise. He already let them get Alonna, Fred. They weren’t going to get the rest of the world. He didn’t keep all his promises but this one, he would. He jabbed the stake up, missing the vampire. It was the last valiant effort as death closed in.

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A/N: This is my first time doing this kind of story so hopefully, I did it correctly. Gunn is my second favorite character in the series and I am working off the street culture that he was raised in, in which black men get black ink tattoos to mark significant events/memberships in their lives.

Other Standalone:

2006:
Birth of an Awakening by Mike: http://xlivvielockex.livejournal.com/2190.html (Angelus' POV upon waking up)

Hell of a Woman by Kelly: http://xlivvielockex.livejournal.com/798.html (Gunn takes Cordelia on a date)

Nature vs. Nurture by Kelly: http://xlivvielockex.livejournal.com/12740.html (Connor Post-Origin)

Tarts and Hearts by Kelly: http://xlivvielockex.livejournal.com/12463.html (Dru is planning a tea party)