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Here's what I wrote:

Title: our hearts like holy hostages
Fandom: Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
Characters/Pairing: Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa
Rating: M
Word Count: 9,541
Summary:

It’s Inej’s voice he hears in his head, calm, wise, an octave lower than anyone would expect it to be (like caramel, like milky-sweet coffee, like velvet and a thousand other things two little farm boys had fantasized about as they set eyes on Ketterdam for the first time). This is exactly the kind of intelligence you most want people to bring to you. You’ve paid for years for lackluster news just so that when this news arrived, anyone who discovered it would run to you without hesitation. Don’t ruin that now.

As much as he resents it (it feels like weakness), Inej’s voice in his head is always right. He knows that as surely as he knows anything, and yet it still takes him a long, long time to get himself under control enough to respond.

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A simple job goes wrong, leaving Inej in the hands of an enemy. Kaz handles it about as well as you'd expect.

And I received a lovely Yunmeng Siblings fic that you can find here.

So after weeks of stressing; working on and then rejecting not one, not two, but three separate stories; whipping this up out of thin air yesterday; and then getting it whipped into shape by betas who clearly know way more about what they're doing than I do, I have posted my seasonal_spuffy entry.

Whew!

Title: Basiare
Written for: seasonal_spuffy
Rating: PG
Timeperiod: post-“Not Fade Away”
Warning: some Buffy/Other
Thanks to: My betas: angearia for perspective, encouragement, and some of the best bits of dialogue; and snickfic for squee, snark, clarity, and saying, “Um, I think this needs a shape. You know, an actual arc.” Y’all constantly save me from myself. Thanks as well to quinara for Latin-y type help with the title.
A/N: This is a prequel to Infinitas Infinitio Infinitus. It’s not necessary that you read that fic, though you might enjoy it after you’ve finished this one. :D
Summary: “She didn’t kiss him hello, and she doesn’t kiss him goodbye.” This is Buffy and this is Spike and they’ve never done anything the easy way.

( Basiare )