A STORY OF FINDING THE LIGHT IN YOUR LIFE AND NOT LETTING ANYONE TAKE THAT SHIT AWAY FROM YOU.

The story of Cyprian Corvo, a botanist who just so happens to be one of the very last of an ancient, powerful race of mystics - called mystics, because they aren't remembered and feared for their powers of literary wit, you know - and who also has the unfortunate distinction of being pink-haired and male and having grown up in a town where other kids didn't seem to realize that pink hair was the sign of the second most powerful class of mystics so much as the sign of a boy-and-mama-loving pantywaist. Now, at twenty five, he lives a quiet, wealthy life in a loud, busy city, and prefers it that way. But one day, he ends up saving two kids, an amateur adventurer and the whore he's busy rescuing, from a mob boss, and Cyprian decides right away that they'd probably die from their own staggering levels of stupid unless he sticks with them, and does so. And pretty much promptly regrets it.

At the same time, the times are becoming dark. Since the solar eclipse, the vampires of the world have been getting more and more defiant of human laws, no mean feat. They appear to be migrating towards the vampiric hotspots of the world, as if under summons. And that the night of the eclipse saw the siring of Ragnar Merridan, a mystic who some call hero and others war criminal, by Mashiro Yuuki, revered elder of a prominent, skilled clan of vampires, is likely no coincidence. Very few will guess their purpose, and even fewer will be able to stop them. Just who would try, in this cynical age?

Warnings: men loving men, mentions of casual sex (both man/woman, woman/man (where the woman is dominating), and man/man), mentions of prostitution, implied human slavery, non-sexual violent imagery, foul language, and first-person POV

Chapter 1

• Conquer
  
• Bella Donna Amongst the Belladonna
  
• Courage and Stupidity and Soup
  
• Unless First a Dream
  
• The Way of Things
  
• The Side Affects of Tequila
  
• Unless First a Dream
  
• Dangerous Things
  
• Conversations With Ghosts
  
• The Five Uses of Love-Lies-Bleeding (And One Reason Why They Will Remain Unknown)
  
• A Moral Dilemma
  
• Cold Authority
  
  Extras
  • Changing Sides
  • Scar Tissue
  • Waiting, Impatiently

Elegant, beautiful B-list J-pop singer Nagisa Kaido moves with best friend Fuma Endo to Port Fugue, California to prolong their acquaintance. This turns out to be not so wise; an entire future awaits the two, and past lives they would never have dreamed possible, or wanted. Nagisa's destiny is to fight alongside the Earth icons, who embody and ultimately are the very essence of the elements of Earth. If one dies, then they are reincarnated, like Nagisa and Fuma were. Fuma, too, possesses iconic powers; however, his is the power of death, and, attracted to that power, long ago a demon attached his soul to Fuma's, and Fuma's destiny is at the business end of fellow icon and sometimes lover Tom Brand's powers. But Tom has always had the benefit of Fuma's cluelessness until the last moment; this time, the demon he houses, Sato, tells him everything in the hopes of perhaps being able to finally reap Fuma's soul and powers.

Can Nagisa and the icons fight off the Immortal Syndicate, who have found a way to take the essence of icons and kill them and their elements for all time, while simultaneously dealing with an alien icon cell and Fuma's demon? Perhaps this time, things will go right. Perhaps this time, Nagisa can find a way to free herself from the bondage of many lifetimes of servitude to the cruel icon of Earth. And perhaps finally Fuma can be free of the demon lurking within him.

Warnings: girls loving girls, boys loving boys, violence, enjoyment of violence, demons, obsessive immortal/mortal relationships and all that entails, foul language, sexual innuendo

AU-verse & Extras

• For Alexandra, Come What May (alternate Nagisa/Alex hookup)
• The Dark Rider
• Bone-Deep and Star-Crossed
• Who Wants to Live Forever?
• Same Song, Different Key
• Someone Worthy
• Not H1N1
• Knife Play
• The Talk
• Ghosts
• Lovesick
• Her Favorite Tragicomedy

Title: Quick Fixes
Characters: The Tenth Doctor
Word count: 161
Disclaimer: Belongs to someone else, probably the BBC or Sydney Newman.
Summary: "Then I suppose you can call me a...problem solver. Everywhere I go, I find things that have gone terribly wrong. ... Things only I would notice, or know how to fix." - The Doctor, Frostfyre7's "The Man With No Name."