Title: Retreat
Fandom: Dragon Age
Rating: T
Length: 940 words
Content notes: No content warnings apply.
Author notes: Written for the ‘Shelter’ prompt in fan_flashworks, and the ‘Fire and firelight’ prompt in genprompt_bingo.
Summary: Hawke finds an excuse to spend an evening outside of Kirkwall’s High Society.

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Title: Out Of The Rain
Fandom: BtVS
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Angel
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers: Early Season Two.
Summary: There’s always somewhere to take shelter in a cemetery.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 393: Amnesty 65, using Challenge 264: Shelter.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.



( Out Of The Rain... )

Title: everything you need
Fandom: Tomb Raider
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 84
Summary: Lara can't help but wonder what came before her.


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Title: On Being
Fandom: MCU
Rating: PG
Length: 252 words
Content notes: angst
Author notes: Set between the events of Infinity War and Endgame.
Summary: Valkyrie muses.



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The Shelter challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

Guardian. Fic. Self Defence for the Unpowered, by firestar
avengers (marvel): fic: there's a science to walking through windows, by burbujita
Who Killed Markiplier: Fanfic: Nothing Stays the Same, by milesy
Adventure Time: Haiku: The Life of a Party, by infinitum_noctem
The Vampire Diaries: Fanfic: i’m on fire (i’m rotting to the core), by elasticella
Stargate SG-1: Fanfic: No Shelter Beneath The Suns, by badly_knitted
Hamlet: Fanfic: Avoiding the Rain, by smallhobbit
Silmarillion: Fanfic: Glîtainbar, by lferion
The Hobbit: Fanfic: Shoemaker's Children - Balin, by lferion
MCU: Fanfic: fuse it back together, by samej
Silmarillion: Fanfic: In Need or In Plenty, by lferion
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy: Fanfic: Try imagining a place, by gloss
Guardian: fanfic: Real Science!, by teaotter
Fullmetal Alchemist: Fic: Meteorology, by jordannamorgan
Live Music: Photography: Home from Home, by caveat_lector
FFVII: Fanfic: Cat's Eyes, by ateanalenn
Silmarillion: Poetry: Sparks Fly, by lferion
Guardian: fanfiction: such a space to cross, by china_shop
Suits : fic : Trouble, by highlander_ii
Devil May Cry: Fanfic: Homecoming, by zabimitsuki
Torchwood: Fanfic: Wild weather, by m_findlow
Umbrella Academy: Please don't take my sunshine away: fanfiction, by sjnt
Silmarillion: Quilt: The Shores of Lindon, by lferion
X-Men Apocalypse: Fanfic: The Greatest Power, by clarasteam
Star Wars: Fanfic: I Love You, I Love You, I'm Here, by drabblewriter
Iron Fist: Fanfic: Nightsilver, by sholio
lord of the rings: fanfic: elements descend, by fiachairecht
Ghost Rider: Fanfic: Word On The Street, by rokhal
Adventure World: Fanfic: Matching Embraces, by naryrising
Magic Knight Rayearth: Fanfic: Gatecrash, by down


Also, congratulations to those who earned name tags and achievement badges this round:

caveat_lector, who earned Early Bird (GOLD), Complexity Theorist (GOLD)
china_shop, who earned Bingo! (SILVER)
infinitum_noctem, who earned Bingo! (GOLD)
m_findlow, who earned Bingo! (SILVER), Bingo! (GOLD)
ateanalenn, who earned a name tag
firestar, who earned a name tag
samej, who earned a name tag
fiachairecht, who earned a name tag


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Thank you to everyone who participated! You're now free to post your entries to your journal or wherever else you'd like. If you're archiving on AO3, you can add your work to our fan_flashworks collection there.

New challenge coming right up!

Title: Gatecrash
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Rating: General
Length: 900 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Random Umi-has-a-yacht AU? Umi and Clef. Also for ffwks bingo 'ship'.
Summary: It was the wrong time of year for this kind of weather

( Gatecrash )

Title: Matching Embraces
Fandom: Adventure World
Rating: R
Length: 2339
Author notes: also for the bingo square "Mountain"
Summary: Laris, Rufus, and Dianthea sleep together for the first time, and there are a few complications.

( Story )

Title: elements descend
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Lady of the Blue Brooch
Rating: G
Length: 250 words
Author notes: I like to write the lady of the blue brooch as a Caroldan noble who found one of the Nine Rings and became a Black Rider. While technically in the same 'verse as other fics I've written about her, it can definitely be read as a standalone.
Summary: A Caroldan Lady finds a ring, and tries to run from what comes next.

( Midsummer, and the safety of the trees is only enough for now. )

Title: Nightsilver
Fandom: Iron Fist
Rating: PG
Length: 2900 wds
Content notes: n/a
Author notes: n/a
Summary: Camping out in a cave in the rain. Post-season-two.

( Nightsilver )

Title: The Greatest Power
Fandom: X-Men Apocalypse
Length: 250
Rating: G
Content notes: no warnings apply
Author note: also a fill for the Metal square on my bingo card.
Summary: Charles knows the destructive force of Erik’s abilities, better than anyone alive.

( The Greatest Power )

Title: The Shores of Lindon
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Challenge: Shelter
Bingo prompt: Stripes
Rating: G
Length: 50"x60"
Content notes: 11 different cotton fabrics, batting, thread.
Author notes: Thanks go to various helpful quilt stores.
Summary: Sand and shells and sea-foam on the shore, made into a quilt, for use in a blanket fort, or as shelter against the cold.

( The Shores of Lindon )

Title: Please don't take my sunshine away
Fandom: Umbrella Academy
Characters: Allison, Patrick, Claire, Vanya, Luther; Allison POV
Author: sjnt
Rating: PG
Length: 2234 words
Author notes: Written for fan_flashworks challenge 264: Shelter. My first posting to this comm. (Fingers crossed I've done everything correctly.) I've been thinking about Allison's motivations and actions in S1. This prompt brought them into focus.
Content notes: References to post-pregnancy body changes and people's terrible, horrible, no good reactions to them.
Summary: Shelter is hard to find; or, Allison comes to a reckoning with herself.  

( Please don't take my sunshine away )
 

Title: Homecoming
Fandom: Devil May Cry - Vergil
Rating: PG
Length: 611
Content notes: angst, spoilers for DMC5
Summary: A dying Vergil returns to his childhood home, with one thing on his mind...

Author notes: For the fan_flashworks challenge shelter, and the bingo square flight. Thanks to ldybastet for the beta! :)

( Homecoming )

Title: Trouble
Fandom: Suits
Rating: PG-13
Length: 200 words
Content notes: none apply
Author notes: Suits bingo: Mike/Donna; ffw bingo: murder
Summary: Mike and Donna had a 'night' and are discussing a possible outcome while staying out of the rain.


( Trouble )

Title: such a space to cross
Fandom: Guardian
Rating: G
Length: ~3000 words
Notes: pre-relationship, set during episode 14. Many many thanks to trobadora for wonderfully insightful beta! Thanks also to mergatrude for asking just the right question when I got stuck. Title from Sylvia Plath's The Night Dances. Also for the FFW Bingo prompt, Glue. No warnings apply.
Summary: Already Zhao Yunlan can feel him wanting to retreat, to put his walls back up and pretend this will all go away. It makes Zhao Yunlan hold on tighter, push closer, get right up in his face. If those walls have to be rebuilt, they can encompass both of them this time.

( such a space to cross )

Title: Sparks Fly
Fandom: Silmarillion, Hobbit
Challenge: Shelter
Bingo prompt: Sleepless
Rating: G
Length: 60 words, 14 lines
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Morgynleri for encouragement & sanity-checking. Inspired by the opening scene in Bunn’s Return to Aman story “I Will Not Say the Day Is Done”.
Summary: Fire makes sparks

( Sparks Fly )

Title: Cat's Eyes
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: G
Length: 6.5k
Summary: There was something, a feeling in the air, that made him slow his steps and tighten his hold around First Tsurugi's handle.
Cloud stuffed his bags in a nearby barrel, mentally crossing his fingers, hoping they would still be there at his return, then climbed the church's front stairs, ready to use the Fusion Sword. He took a couple of steps inside and stopped, breath caught in his chest.
"Hello," Sephiroth said.

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( Cat's Eyes )