The Uncle's... Pet? - a story continuation for "Finish It" Bingo.

After Uncle, a story of fae apoc. To the Finish It! Bingo.

They’d named the creature — the fae, the sentient being Bruce was now Keeping — they’d named the thing Bjorn, or, at least, Bruce’s niece Kikyo had offered the name and it had stuck.

Bruce couldn’t get another name out of the thing, but, then, he hadn’t been able to get much at all in the way of language out of — out of him, out of Bjorn.

That made it harder to remember that the creature, that this Kept Bruce had now, that it was sentient, human-ancestried just as Bruce and his kids were. The fur everywhere didn’t help, either.
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When my tablet runs out of battery...

...I write long-hand.


This comes after Acquiring Students and is the beginning of a series of character-establishing notes/stories/ficlets.

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The Crew Continues, a ficlet of Doomsday Academy

After/part of When my tablet runs out of battery..., which is after Acquiring Students

Doomsday Academy, a little over a decade before Cya Keeps Leo.

Kerr was not talkative. He communicated when Miss Ascha pushed him in class. He told the cook what he wanted, at lunch. With Aron and Sunny, he preferred gestures and a minimum of words.

When he brought Astarte over to Aron and Sunny, the day she arrived - the first day of their second year of school and her first year - he did so without words. He took her hand and gave a tug; she followed. He tugged again, and she walked with him, her white-pale hand in his dark one, until he tugged her one more time to pull her in front of him, presenting her very clearly to Sunny and Aron.

Aron understood. "Hi," he said, if for no other reason than to prove that one of them actually talked. "We're a crew, or we will be when we're old enough. Want to join?"

She was as small as they had been a year ago, her eyes wide. But she smiled. "You're funny," she told Kerr. "I like that." She tilted her head at Aron, looked down at her hand, still firmly held in Kerr's, and giggled. "I think I already did."

next: http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/1114010.html

Dragons Next Door Landing Page

The ogres next door have moved out, but the new neighbors have a joyriding teen and a new infant whose cries can wake up the neighborhood. Sure, the wee little thing is adorable, but he belches fire when he’s colicky and needs asbestos diapers.

This series of short pieces follows the mostly-human family in their interactions with their magical neighbors.

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Best Places to Start
Get Off My Lawn! (LJ Link)
Backpack Gremlins (LJ)

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Resetting the Timeline
Beginning - a slightly different take (donor perk)


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meeks'sketch of Diapering Dragons (mikaspace.net)

meeks'sketch of Over the Wall (mikaspace.net)

anke's drawing of Aud & Sage

Icon of Baby Smith, Icon of Gremlin by djinni

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Crew, a continuation, a ficlet of Doomsday Academy

Acquiring Students
When my tablet runs out of battery...
The Crew Continues

Doomsday Academy, a little over a decade before Cya Keeps Leo.



"So what do we do about cy'rees?" The four of them were flopped in the fourth-year students' dorm all on Aron's bed. He, in turn, was studying the long tail Kerr had recently grown.

"Do?" Astarte peeked up at him through a fringe of hair. "We pick them, right?"

"But we're not all going to pick the same one, are we? I mean, we could... 'cause if we don't, they're going to split us up." One hand went protectively over Astarte and the other over Kerr, leaving Sunny to snuggle into his arm on her own.

"Well..." Sunny mused... "it's a small school. It's not like they can actually separate us."

Next: http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/1118332.html

Edally Academy Chapter 31B: Teamwork

Enrie barely managed not to stiffen or pull away as Saydrie pulled her into a hug and suggested intimate things at her while he held her cuddled against him.  He smelled interesting, she noticed, like a soap she only remembered encountering deep in the south.

She cleared her throat.  “The..."

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http://www.edallyacademy.com/2016/05/27/31bteamwork/