Title: No Rush
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Marcus Cole, Susan Ivanova.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers/Setting: Shadow Dancing.
Summary: Marcus had joined the Rangers to atone for his brother’s death, but he’d gained far more than he’d expected to.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 477: Amnesty 79, using Challenge 346: Waiting.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Triple drabble.

Title: An End To Waiting
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Jeffrey Sinclair.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers/Setting: War Without End.
Summary: Sinclair finally knows what he’s meant to do.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 465: Amnesty 77, using Challenge 346: Waiting.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.

Title: Enduring
Fandom: BtVS
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Angel, Buffy.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers/Setting: Shortly after Beauty and the Beasts.
Summary: Angel is waiting at the mansion for Buffy.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 381: Amnesty 63, using Challenge 346: Waiting.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.



( Enduring... )

Title: A Goddess' Tears
Fandom: X-Men
Author: Apache Firecat
Characters: Storm, Ensemble
Rating: PG-13/T
Summary: The dreamers try and cry.
Word Count: 1097
Written For: Fan FlashWorks: 363: Amnesty: 346: Waiting, 344: Screw, 342: Protection, and 318: Drop
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: All characters within belong to their rightful owners, not the author, and are used without permission.




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

Ender's Game: Fanfic: Cold and Thawing Rain, by schoolsasaint
Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Fanfic: The View from the Gate, by smallhobbit
Harry Potter. Fanfic: Coming Home, by digthewriter
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters: Poem: fun to lose and to pretend, by schoolsasaint
FAKE: Fanfic: ER Visit, by badly_knitted
The Hobbit: Fanfic: grief to refrain, by schoolsasaint
Romeo and Juliet: Acrostic: as you know, I am on fire, by schoolsasaint
Swallows and Amazons: poetry: Mothers, by elen_nare
Fairy Tail: Acrostic: Wait, by infinitum_noctem
Locked Tomb: fic: the things I touch are made of stone, by thatyourefuse
Babylon 5: Fanfic: To Wait In Hope, by badly_knitted
Silmarillion: Poetry: Three Glimpses, by lferion
Star Wars: Fic: Welcome, by rivulet027
Torchwood: Fanfic: Patience is a virtue, by m_findlow
Fullmetal Alchemist: Haiku + Image Edit: Patience, by jordannamorgan
Magic Knight Rayearth: Fanfic: A ringing clear and sweet, by down
MCU : fanfic : A Little Night Bondage, by highlander_ii


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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: A Little Night Bondage
Fandom: MCU
Rating: NC-17/Explicit
Length: ~1700
Content notes: none apply
Author notes: fills like 3 bingos along with FFW
Summary: Peter's had a rough time on patrol and Tony has ideas for making him feel beter. Set in some nebulous AU somewhere with adult Peter and alive Tony.


( A Little Night Bondage )

Title: A ringing clear and sweet
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Rating: General
Length: 900ish
Content notes: None
Author notes: Post-canon, Presea/Hikaru this time?
Summary: Waiting wasn't really in Presea's skill set. So it was probably a good thing it took so many years to notice the way she'd come to feel about Hikaru.

( A ringing clear and sweet )

Title: Patience
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Rating: G.
Summary: An original haiku verse on an image edit.
Content Notes: The story I wanted to write for this prompt ended up being way too ambitious for the time allowed. So here's a little something featuring the first character the prompt made me think of: Alphonse Elric.

( Patience )

Title: Patience is a virtue

Title: Welcome
Fandom: Star Wars
Pairing/Characters: Plourr Ilo/Lina Graff
Challenge: Waiting
Rating: PG-13
Length: 100
Summary: Lina is waiting as Plourr lands her X-wing.

( Welcome )

Title: Three Glimpses
Fandom: Silmarillion
Challenge: Waiting
Other prompt: Sounds of Silence by Disturbed
Rating: G
Length: 66 in 3 Stanzas
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zhie, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: Waiting, Listening, Watching
( Three Glimpses )

Title: To Wait In Hope
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Delenn, John Sheridan.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Spoilers: The Hour of the Wolf.
Summary: John has gone to Z’ha’dum, and all Delenn can do is wait in hope that he’ll return.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 346: Waiting.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble.



( To Wait In Hope... )

Title: the things I touch are made of stone
Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series (Tamsyn Muir)
Rating: T for Terrible Sixth House Coping Mechanisms
Length: 2,307
Content notes: "As Yet Unsent" spoilers. Grief; numbness; canon-typical light self-injury; Coronabeth Tridentarius is uncomfortable when we are not about her.
Summary: I didn't need a calendar. I could have counted it out in seconds, if not for the various times I'd been under sedation.

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Title: Wait
Fandom: Fairy Tail
Characters: Lucy Heartfilia
Rating: G
Length: 25
Summary: Lucy is done waiting for her father to treat her like his daughter.

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Title: Mothers
Fandom: Swallows and Amazons
Rating: G
Length: 14 words
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: A septolet - a 14-word poem in seven lines and two parts.
Summary: When the Swallows and Amazons sail away each summer, their mothers are left waiting for them.

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Title: as you know, I am on fire
Fandom: Romeo and Juliet
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 65
Author's note: I am ... not entirely sure this meet the requirements of poetry. Prose, perchance?
Summary: Thought spared for those left behind.

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Title: ER Visit
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: After Vol. 7.
Summary: Sitting in the waiting room at the ER isn’t a new experience for Dee and Ryo, but it’s not something they ever enjoy.
Word Count: 477
Content Notes: Blood and injury.
Written For: Challenge 346: Waiting.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.



( ER Visit... )

Title: fun to lose and to pretend
Fandom: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Rating: Teen & Up
Length: 52
Content note: referenced character death
Summary: Objects under pressure break, or they learn to bend.

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Title: Coming Home
Fandom: Harry Potter. Neville/Charlie
Rating: G
Length: 400
Content notes: Light Angst.
Author notes: Unbetaed.
Summary: Waiting.

( Coming Home )