pairings i have loved. there are a lot of them.

[cimorene]

I'm going to try to make an exhaustive list of my OTPs (which I define as 'important ships which I read/ship', because occasionally I have two that overlap even if in general I refuse to break OTP and read the characters involved with anyone else). If I forget any of them, and you manage to remind me, I lose! And then, uh, I don't know, this seems like it should result in a drabble promise. I suck at short things, and I probably won't forget any anyway (I am forbidden from checking my recs page/delicious/tags/wip folders/etc!), but... what the hell. Drabbles, okay, drabbles of any pairing that I forgot.



LOTR:
Sam/Frodo
Merry/Pippin
Legolas/Gimli

LOTR RPS:
(at one time, then abandoned) Sean A/Elijah
Dom/Elijah
Dom/Billy
Karl/Viggo
Viggo/Orlando
(I've read other pairings, but they weren't OTPs. Orlijah, for example, or Billijah - I read a bit, but I never really liked it.)

Popslash:
Justin/Chris
JC/Lance
(I wrote a little bit of everything in this fandom, but I had my preferences.)

Star Trek TOS:
Kirk/Spock
Sulu/Chekov
Scotty/Uhura

TNG:
Picard/Q
Data/Geordi

DS9:
Garak/Bashir
Odo/Kira

HP:
Harry/Draco
Harry/Snape
Sirius/Remus
Luna/Neville
Percy/Neville

random RPS:
Tim Roth/Gary Oldman
Patrick Stewart/Brent Spiner
Those swimmer dudes from the '04 Summer Olympics, Ian Thorpe/some European guy
Richard Dean Anderson/Michael Shanks
Santino Rice/Andraé Gonzalo (Project Runway)
Johnny Depp/Orlando Bloom
Keira Knightley/Clive Owen/Ioan Gruffuld
(I've written a handful of rps pieces in other pairings that were one-offs, which I didn't seek out to read or ship)

Askewniverse: Jay/Silent Bob
Batman: Batman/Gordon
comics: Superboy(Kon-El)/Robin (Tim Drake)
Die Hard 4: John/Matt
Due South: Fraser/Kowalski
Finding Nemo: Nemo/Gill
Gokusen: Yankumi/Shin
Good Omens: Aziraphale/Crowley
Highlander: Duncan/Methos
Hikaru no Go: Hikaru/Akira, Isumi/Waya
Hot Fuzz: Nicholas/Danny
I ♥ Huckabees: Albert/Brad
Jeeves & Wooster: Jeeves/Wooster
King Arthur (movie): Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot
Labyrinth: Jareth/Sarah
Meantime (although I've only written, not read it): Coxy/Colin
Phantom of the Opera: Christine/Phantom
Poirot: Poirot/Hastings
POTC: Jack/Will/Elizabeth
RAGAD: Rosencrantz/Guildenstern
Sentinel: Jim/Blair
SG1: Jack/Daniel
SGA: John/Rodney
She-Ra: She-Ra/Frosta
Sherlock Holmes: Holmes/Watson
Singin' in the Rain: Don/Kathy/Cosmo
Smallville: Clark/Lex
Sports Night: Dan/Casey
Star Wars TPM: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan
Starsky & Hutch: (you guessed it) Starsky/Hutch
The Dark Is Rising: Will/Bran
The Pros: Bodie/Doyle
The West Wing: Josh/Donna, Josh/Sam, CJ/Toby
Tombraider: Hilary/Brice (the butler and the hacker)

Bandslash:
Frank/Gerard
Ray/Bob
Pete/Patrick
Pete/Mikey
Ryan/Brendon
Bill/Travis
Alex/Ryland
(It's probable that I've read pairings not in this list, but if they're not here I probably actively disliked them, or even hated them with fiery passion)

Prince of Tennis: (in paragraph form because there are too many of these bitches)
Seigaku: Tezuka/Ryoma, Fuji/Taka, Eiji/Oishi, Momo/Kaidoh, Fuji/Inui, Inui/Kaidoh; Crossover: Inui/Yanagi; Hyotei: Oshitari/Gakuto, Ohtori/Shishido, Atobe/Jiroh; Crossover: Atobe/Sanada; Rikkai: Yukimura/Sanada, Yanagi/Kirihara, Niou/Yagyuu; Fudomine: Kamio/Shinji; Jyosei Shonan: Kajimoto/Wakato; Rokkaku: Bane/Davide; St Rudolph: Mizuki/Yuuta; Yamabuki: Akutsu/Dan, Akutsu/Sengoku

ETA:

Criminal Minds: Garcia/Morgan (bluesbell spotted it)
Arashi: Ohno/Nino (kegom and aeslis spotted it) and Aiba/Jun (jain spotted it)

ETA again the ones I forgot that no one mentioned:

CSI: Nick/Greg, Catherine/Warrick, Gil/Sara
CSI NY: Danny/Mac
The Fast and the Furious: Dom/Brian
Master & Commander: Aubrey/Maturin
Lawrence of Arabia/A Dangerous Man: Lawrence/Feisal

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i don't know, okay, this is just what's in my head 1

[cimness.livejournal.com]

It's ironic that it's a beach bunny who sends Derek to Penelope.

Derek knows his triggers and his own temper, handles his weaknesses, so he was well aware already when they uncovered the child abuse case that he was going to be going off the handle by the end. He figured at the time that it was just good he had a long weekend coming up, and he stayed behind in Miami when the rest of the crew jetted back to Quantico, figuring getting lost in the glittering lights and then getting laid, maybe reading a thriller on the beach, was just what the doctor ordered.

It was just taking him a while to gear up to the losing himself part, and the glittering lights, sulking in a corner of the club between dances with an untouched drink, unable to hold the smile pinned to his face. He was jolted out of reverie by a spectacular pair of tanned breasts, and straighetened up only to meet a pair of big brown eyes ringed in glittery makeup. The beach bunny was dressed in pastel hotpants and a shirt more like a bikini top, highlighted hair out to there, but she wasn't licking her lips and looking him over: her eyes were lit up with concern and sympathy.

"You okay?" she said.

Derek tried to laugh it off, "Sure, beautiful, how are you," but she wasn't having any. One hand landed on his arm and she leaned closer, so Derek could see that she was older than she looked, maybe not a college student at all.

"Honey," she said, "I'd love to dance with you if you want, but you don't look like you want to be here."

Derek laughed at himself, then. "Let's have that dance and then I'll work it out," he said.

She pouted doubtfully, and in between shaking her ass and shimmying around him on the floor (uncoordinated, but sexy), she said "You sure?" and then "Listen, if you just need somebody to talk to..." lifting the hair off her neck while Derek's eyes absently tracked a drop of sweat trickling between her breasts.

But -

"You know what," said Derek, "thank you. I think I do." He didn't get her name, just went straight to the airport after a stop for his bag, and from the airport straight to Penelope's apartment.

It doesn't occur to him until he's walking up the stairs that it's almost midnight on Saturday, and Penelope might not be there - she could have a date. But he pushes the bell, anyway.

"Yeah?"

"Hi, baby girl," says Derek, "hope I didn't wake you."

"Sugar lips, are you kidding me? I'm still on my first microwave pizza, not that I wouldn't love to be awakened by your sexy voice. Come on up and I'll have you for dessert."

Derek comes on up, and he pushes through the door when Pen calls out, "It's unlocked." Her back is to him, wrapped in a pink and green satin kimono robe that's about as loud as the music in the club he just left, draping around the ample curve of her ass. "Derek Morgan, you scrumptious delight, what brings you to my humble abode when you're supposed to be on vacation?" She turns around from the microwave a moment later, a plate of faintly steaming pizza gripped in a wad of paper-towels and a crocheted pot holder.

She's wearing the red-framed glasses and her hair is piled up with a pencil stuck through the mess, white-blonde wisps all over her face and neck, and she's beautiful, even if he's sorry to see a t-shirt in the V of her robe, with not nearly as much cleavage on display as the beach bunny offered (and Pen's would be nothing like that anyway - creamy white, just a hint of peach, and her skin is perfect and smooth, not sun-baked and leathery).

Derek summons up a little smile and the answer he's been rehearsing in his head through the whole plane flight: "You know I missed you, mama! You got a minute?"

But his underlying anxiety must be showing through; he knows that his smile didn't come off right, exactly, he can feel the energy in the room changing as she looks right into him, and puts the pizza down barely on the edge of the table so it almost falls off, comes right up into his space so he can smell the fruity, girly smells of her perfume and shampoo and lipgloss. "Of course," she says gently, "What is it?"