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She’s been eyeing Mr Farnon over Charlotte’s shoulder as he wanders closer, having managed to extract himself from Mr Dobson’s questioning. He looks so handsome in his Sunday best, well put-together, his pocket square just so. Audrey can’t help but be proud — of his well-pressed suit, of course.
He doesn’t comment on finding Audrey in the middle of the gravestones, just holds his arm out for her. “Shall we?”
They share a private little smile as she hooks her arm with his, the rest of the congregation fading into the background, his eyes twinkling in that way she’s noticed they do when she catches his gaze lingering on her.
They walk down the path arm in arm, only separating so he can open the Tapsel gate for her to pass through first — once their arms are linked again, she tries to go right, towards home, but he pulls to the left.
She looks over at him, raising an eyebrow.
“I thought it would be nice to go for a little walk,” he says.
(It's Audrey's birthday and Siegfried has a surprise in store — but, as usual, it doesn't go quite according to plan.)
One-shot, set post-6.06 "Our Hearts Are Full"
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“I’ve nearly got it,” Siegfried says, strain in his voice as he reaches for the knee again. His brief attempt at reassuring eye contact with Mr Seacombe is foiled by the strands of his hair that are falling into his eyes — he should’ve combed it back before he left Skeldale House, but the call-out was an emergency one. Mrs Hall had answered the telephone, relayed to Siegfried that this ewe had been in labour for hours with no progress and Mr Seacombe needed help — urgently.
Siegfried has a late night call-out to a ewe experiencing lambing difficulties.
One-shot, pre-series.
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Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
19 Aug 2025
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Then it’s the scythe’s turn, with its long, two-handled shaft and huge, curved blade attached at an angle. Beside him, Ellie straightens up in her chair from the slump she’d fallen into like someone’s dumped a bucket of ice water on her head.
“Oh, shit,” she whispers, near breathless.
Joel straightens too, glances around. “What?”
“I’ve never seen one in real life before,” she tells him, watching the scythe, her eyes practically sparkling. “That’s the Grim Reaper’s stick.”
Joel is frazzled, but he has been listening — it helps that he already knew what this one is called from Before. “It’s called a scythe.”
Ellie’s delighted grin is only getting bigger. “Sick.”
(Joel and Ellie attend a town meeting to discuss the upcoming barley harvest, Joel worries about the future, and Ellie picks up a new hobby.)
One-shot, set after season 1, and almost a year after "creatures, great and small".
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- Part 2 of all, who live
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creatures, great and small by RandomRuth
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
21 Jun 2025
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“Ellie? That you?”
Joel’s home early.
Halfway between the front door and the stairs and in full view of the kitchen, Ellie freezes. “Fuck,” she mutters, low. “Yeah,” she says, loud enough to carry.
She has no choice but to stay hunched over herself like Quasimodo from that movie — it’s suspicious as fuck, but she manages to manoeuvre her arm to mostly obscure the squirming of the tell-tale bulge under her hoodie.
(Ellie and Joel have settled in Jackson. While Ellie goes to school and, Joel hopes, makes some friends her own age, he tries to keep their house from tumbling down around them. Ellie does befriend some Jackson locals, and tries to sneak them into her room — without Joel noticing that they’ve all got four legs.)
One-shot, set after season 1.
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- Part 1 of all, who live
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"Arguing with god is probably not one of the best plans Root has ever had, but the alternative — working with Reese, ugh — is much worse."
One-shot, set in late season 3.
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Ellie and Joel and life in Jackson.
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These drabbles are a select few of my favourites from a couple of drabble challenges I used to take part in over on fanfiction.net — the E/O Drabble Challenge and the SPN100 Challenge. In both cases you were emailed a word every week and asked to write a 100 word drabble containing that word. While I always got the word of the week in, I very often went over my total word count!
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These stories are only loosely drabbles, really. Back in 2014 I was a member of the POI Discussion Forum (now apparently defunct, I can't find it online), where there was a prompt: write a 250-word drabble about Team Machine completing an ordinary task.
I took that idea and ran with it, but never really managed the word count, always going over. I've rewritten a few of my favourites and brought them here.
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In the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, a Catholic plot against the queen comes to the attention of spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham. To protect Elizabeth, he develops an unusual plan: hide the passing of intelligence between two agents by a false romance. When Lady Sarah Walker and Chuck Carmichael meet, though, their pretend flirtation becomes much more.
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26 Sep 2026
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Sarah reconnects with Chuck while performing a mission on a Tokyo-Paris flight. Post-Chuck vs. the Goodbye.
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19 Sep 2026
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What Sarah was thinking during Chuck vs. the Other Guy and what she did afterwards.
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16 Sep 2026
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For Chuck, it’s a chance encounter. For Sarah, it’s a mission. But what happens when the spy remembers she’s also a woman and the man realizes he could be a spy?
Reposting due to accidental deletion. Sorry!Series
- Part 1 of Finding Home
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13 Sep 2026
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Former CIA agent Sarah Walker has been cut adrift. Her memory of the previous five years was erased, and then she was sent to kill a man whom she discovered was her husband. This is the story of the day he tried to win her back.
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11 Sep 2026