Entries tagged with character:arkadiy

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Arkadian - Milk, Two Sugars

Rating: PG
Word Count: 594
Summary: Sometimes you really do get exactly what you asked for.
Notes: From 13th January 2009, rescued from an old laptop.

( Through the drug-induced haze, that blessed pain-blocking relief that made the world become soft-focus at the edges, she stared fuzzily up from her bed at the handsome man beside her. )

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Arkadian - Not Close Enough

Rating: PG
Word Count: 554
Summary: Arkadiy squares off against an old enemy.
Notes: Originally written on the 7th October 2008 as a NaNoWriMo prompt.

( The bullet whistles through the air, clipping my ear as it goes, and proves to be the distraction that he was intending; my aim went wild and my own shot embeds itself in the wall by his head. )

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Arkadian - I'm A Big Boy Now

Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Storms and arguments go together for Arkadiy and Vanya.

( The rain hissed over the rooftop and pitter-pattered steadily into the gutter. )

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Arkadian - The Last Word

Author: Regret
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Summary: Sometimes, just when Arkadiy feels just a little closer to Paradigm, the pilot has to go and ruin it.

( "You know, I never had you down as being 37." Paradigm broke the silence without turning toward him. )

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Arkadian - Smithereens

Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Arkadiy discovers some unwelcome news, and has his own way of dealing with it.

( The pile of paper was truly dispiriting. Arkadiy supposed he should deal with it, but it exuded a threat to devour his hours. Still, if he never started... )

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Arkadian - Lucifugous

Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Summary: Arkadiy has a hangover. Again.

( "Mmph." He closed his eyes tightly, buried his face into the cushion. Anything to get away from the searing pain blazing behind his eyeballs. )

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Arkadian - You've Outdone Yourself / Why Can't You Be More Like ______?

Rating: PG
Word Count: 975
Summary: Arkadiy has a very low boredom threshold and a talent for causing trouble; you'd think the nurses would never let him out their sight...

( "Oi, Jonesy, give me a hand." )

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Arkadian - It's Not What It Looks Like

Rating: PG
Word Count: 172
Summary: Or for Arkadiy, should that be... 'not what it sounds like?'
Notes: Set during a planet-hop where four people are sharing a space made for two and not getting along so well... (Or, in some cases, too well. Apparently.)

( "Mm... Oh God that's good..." )

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Arkadian - Cachinnate

Rating: PG
Word Count: 550
Summary: If Arkadiy ever expected a fair fight from Havoc, he'd be sorely disappointed.
Notes: Follows on from You Won't Get Away With This.

( It was three interminable days, dragged out like a dying breath. )

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Arkadian - When Hell Freezes Over / I'll Never Sleep Alone

Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Summary: Arkadiy remembers a phrase he wishes he'd never said.

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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'. )

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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. )

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Arkadian - Why Me?

Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Summary: Everyone deals with hangovers in different ways.

( Paradigm deals with his by retching his guts out: head in the toilet bowl, gripping the rim, knuckles porcelain white. )

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Arkadian - You Won't Get Away With This

Rating: PG
Word Count: 380
Summary: Arkadiy wakes up to a difficult situation and is reunited with an old 'friend'...

( He sat up. He tried to, anyway; he only got halfway when his head crashed against the roof. )

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Arkadian - Anniversary / Memorial

There's one day that Arkadiy will always remember. He doesn't need to mark it in the calendar; he only has to look down.

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Arkadian - On Second Thought

Rating: 15 / R
Word Count: 851
Summary: Arkadiy has to go into town, but doesn't quite pick up what he was expecting.
Notes: Contains references to sex and alcohol.

( There was one bonus: the pretty girl in the grocery store. Brown hair in thick curls, brown eyes that lit up whenever she saw him, it was enough to turn a man's head. Especially when the head was as easily turned as his. )

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Arkadian - A Storm

Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Summary: Arkadiy hates the rain.

( The rain pounded against the roof. He stared down at his legs - not his legs, but still his legs, for his sins - and thought of the storm. )

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Arkadian - Take That!

Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Summary: Kse isn't a woman who takes being flirted with lightly.
Notes: 'Ksuyshenka' is the Russian diminutive of the name 'Ksenia'.

( The hallway echoed with the sound of their footsteps. They sounded like a legion on the move. )

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Arkadian - Dying, Not Dead

Rating: PG
Word Count: 664
Summary: A nurse is both impressed and unimpressed with the very bad patient that is Arkadiy.
Notes: Written on the 1st August 2008 as a NaNoWriMo prompt.

( The world was black and suffocating around me, a dark veil drawn across my eyes, and I began to panic. You can't blame me: the world was closing in and I couldn't breathe... )

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Arkadian - Expected, Unwanted

Rating: PG
Word Count: 1459
Summary: Arkadiy's persistence gets him nowhere with Doctor Lebedeva... again.
Notes: Originally written on the 22nd February 2008, apparently, as a NaNoWriMo prompt.

( I'm sitting here and staring down at my legs. Technically they're my legs, anyway – very technically. )