Simon - Phobias

Rating: G
Word Count: 300
Summary: Simon's found something huge and terrifying and needs backup...

( "Jonathan!" Oh God... )

Simon - What Would I Do Without You? / Yeuk

Rating: PG
Word Count: 617
Summary: For most people, an itch on the back of the hand would just be an annoyance. For Simon, it's a whole new level of irritating...

( The back of my hand itches. For anyone else, this would be a minor irritation: they'd play that game of 'scratch-me-if-you-can' and that'd be the end of it. Shame I'm not anyone else. )

Simon - You Don't Know What You're Missing

Rating: 15
Story: Radial
Word Count: 1,267
Summary: Simon waits for Ioann at an old station, but someone else turns up instead...

( God knows why Ioann asked me to meet him here. It’s late, much later than I’d like, and the cold is soaking into my leathers, seeping into my bones. It’s almost a tangible thing, the fog around me that steals every cloud of my breath for itself. )

Arkadian - Have It Your Way

Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Summary: Arkadiy drops everything for a personal grudge; Vanya disapproves.

( She's angry with him and he can see why, but he has no intention of changing his mind. )

Arkadian - Just What I Always Wanted

Rating: PG
Word Count: 502
Summary: Arkadiy isn't where he wants to be on his 36th birthday, but maybe the day isn't such a dead loss after all...

( Of all the ways he could think to spend his birthday, sitting behind a desk in a cramped office did not rank highly on his mental list of 'fun things to do'. )

HMG - See How They Run / Don't Look Down

Rating: PG
Word Count: 664
Summary: In a squad where almost everybody hates everybody else, sometimes 'accidents' will happen...
Notes: Partially based on a Malt Shoppe LJ prompt: He'd never realized that, deep down inside, what he really wanted to do was make things go splat. -- Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

( Suspended fifty feet up the warehouse wall, Yirien's mesh cage was not a perch for the faint-hearted. Although she'd never admit it, Aralelle's stomach did flip-flops every time she glanced down. )