Wide Awake and Dreaming

Title: Hopscotch
4 August 2003
Title: "Hopscotch"
Challenge: Games & Villian, 100 Words
Character: Mystique

As she walked away from the playground after her meeting with Rogue, she saw some girls playing hopscotch across the yard. It had been her favorite game, when she was very young. All of the little girls in her neighborhood, with their frilly dresses and swinging braids, had played. She, too, had played for hours every day, jumping back and forth as her yellow eyes searched for her stone in the faded chalk lines. She never missed, never slipped, always remembered to say "butterfingers" when she picked up her stone. She always won. Of course, she had always played alone.

Title: Love is Alive
4 August 2003
Challenge: Mark Wills Song (Love Is Alive)
Rating:PG-13
Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Notes: My first Stargate story... a drabble for the stargate 100 community.

The fire in the fireplace had long since burned to embers, but neither of them noticed. They were wrapped tightly in each other, on the floor next to the couch. The chill of the cold Colorado night was long left to a world outside of their embrace. Fevered kisses and the sheen of sweat that covered them was a testament to the warmth they had found in each other's arms. Tomorrow was literally worlds away, as Jack and Daniel held on to the love that had finally burned past all of their defenses. As always, they would face it together.

"As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses.... I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death -- if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach."
~Professor Severus Snape