Discount Word Emporium

I have a truly astonishing number of story chunks and random scenes that I started for various prompts (mostly areyougame, I think?), and then either decided they weren't quite right for the prompt or weren't long enough or just... something, I don't remember. In an effort to give myself a kick in the writing pants, therefore, I am tidying some of them up and purging them from my "in progress" folder. Here's the first batch, all pretty PG-13.

Prompt: Tales of Vesperia, Yuri/Zagi: "Do you think he'd stop following us if you let him suck your dick?" 123 words, not to be taken seriously.

They watched from the Fiertia's rails as Zagi chased them-- on foot, waving his arms and screaming something that none of them could make out. "You have to admire his determination," Judith eventually said. "He doesn't give up."

"It's a little embarrassing," Yuri muttered, wearing a crooked grin.

Raven tapped his chin, looking thoughtful. "Do you think he'd stop following us if you just let him suck you off, or something?"

Karol and Rita both choked, turning beet red; Judith looked thoughtful. "He might take that as encouragement," she replied.

"True, true," Raven said with a sigh.

Yuri shook his head and dropped his face into his hands. Below them, Zagi finally passed out of sight as Ba'ul took them above the clouds.

Prompt: Tales of Vesperia, Yuri/Flynn: angel/demon AU - Lawful Good grew up with Chaotic Good. 190 words.

"Hear you got another promotion."

The voice startled him only a little. The room was still dark, the lamps not yet lit; he'd just barely returned from his vigil. So when he turned around, Flynn could only see a vague shape perched on his windowsill, a shadow against the stars. The aura that surrounded that figure, though, gave their identity away as clearly as if there were a hundred lamps burning. Flynn cast a narrow glance towards the door, wondering if his lieutenants were still close enough to feel it.

Yuri must have been feeling particularly fearless that night. He wasn't even making a token attempt to hold himself in.

"I made Captain," Flynn answered quietly. He took a step to the side, letting the moonlight fall across him and light up his new uniform.

Yuri made a soft sound, hopped down from the window and stalked forward. He walked a full circle around Flynn, looking, and Flynn stood and let him. "You always did look good in a uniform," Yuri eventually said.

"So did you," Flynn couldn't help but reply, though he expected the growl he got in return.

Prompt: Crossover, Persona 3/Tales of Vesperia, Vesperia cast: high school AU - Darkness descends on Vesperia Gakuen every full moon. 338 words.

Flynn finally took down his last shadow with a sharp jab, and stepped back to catch his breath. He shook out his hands and flexed his fingers inside his gloves as he looked around. Yuri and Repede were taking care of a knot of shadows to one side, and it was hard to tell with Yuri's hat pulled down low over his eyes but Flynn thought he was grinning as he swung his axe. A hissing cry from the other direction meant that Judith was finished with her opponent as well; the click of her bootheels on the floor started coming closer, regrouping.

It was better than he'd thought, having them all together again. It had barely taken them any time at all to get back to their old rhythms, following each others' cues as if the years apart had never happened.

As if Yuri had never left.

Estelle's voice came to him from nowhere in particular, making him pause before starting the last drive to the stairs. "There's something big ahead," she said. "Next floor up, I think."

Yuri caught his eye and shrugged one shoulder, just as Judith came around the corner and rejoined them; Repede, unperturbed, set his paw on the stairs and started up. They all paused in the hallway above to take the measure of their new enemy. It was big, as promised, and mechanical -- "Heracles", Estelle's voice murmured to them. "Emperor Arcana. It's strong; be careful."

Flynn let out a slow breath, considering. They'd been delayed too long on the previous floors, they were all tiring. But Rita was at the dorms resting off a cold, and Karol was studying, and Raven-- who knew what Raven was doing, but he hadn't shown that night. It was either take the thing on as they were or risk having to fight their way back here another night.

No, he thought, touching the reassuring bulk of the evoker at his waist, they could do this.

Flynn met the others' eyes, nodded, and started forward.

Prompt: Final Fantasy VII, Rude/Reno: tattoos and piercings - "Would it make you happy I got your name tattooed on my ass?” 175 words.

"I told you, it was nothin'! Just trying to make sure we got the good coffee from now on, 's all, instead of the sludge they serve the desk jockeys."

Rude just grunted.

"Awwww." Suddenly, Reno was perched on the edge of his desk. "Are you actually jealous? What, you want me to tell 'em all I'm taken, keep my distance? Maybe get your name tattooed on my ass just to really make sure?"

Rude snorted. He wasn't really jealous, just like Reno wasn't really anxious about it. "I should take you up on that just to call your bluff."

"You think I wouldn't?"

"You're crazy enough to do it," Rude said, studying Reno's grin. "But then you'd probably go moon the secretaries to show it off, I suppose, and what would be the point?"

"You never know," Reno said in that low, dangerous tone that never failed to make lesser men piss themselves and usually had Rude's pants feeling tight. "Maybe I'd save it just for you."

...damned if he wasn't tempted after all.

Prompt: Tales of Vesperia, Flynn/Yuri: bondage, punishment - I said you'd have to pay for your crimes. 100 words.

They're kissing when Yuri feels the unmistakable pinch of shackles fastening around his wrists. His eyes fly open. "What the--"

"I told you you'd have to pay for your crimes," Flynn says, low and fierce. There's a waiting look in his eyes, though, and he doesn't move any further than to rest his hands on Yuri's shoulders.

Eventually Yuri blinks, comprehension dawning, and he has to bite down a grin. "Oh yeah?" he says, deliberately defiant. "Give it your best shot."

Yuri sees Flynn's shoulders relax just before his grip tightens and he pushes Yuri roughly against the mattress.