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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Derek realizes suddenly that he's about to change everything. He's never talked about this before when he didn't have to, and his responses in mandatory psych evaluations have been minimal; he likes to handle his problems himself, not to show weakness and not to break down in front of other people, not to expose himself to their sympathy and curiosity and even their genuine love and concern when there's nothing they can do for him, at all.

He's had a few crazy moments of wishing he could tell someone, the way you might wish you could fly, not as if he could actually do it because he always knew that he couldn't. They always passed without any real anxiety on his part, until now. But right now he wants to.

When it comes right down to it, though, nerves are eating him up. Derek looks at her couch, looks back at Penelope. "Should we - are you sure you're not busy?"

"I'm never too busy for you, sugar," she says playfully, but her face is sweet and sincere when she smiles up at him. She doesn't drop her hand on his arm coyly, but takes his hand in a strong grip and pulls him after her to the couch. "Just sit down."

After Derek sits, she fusses around with the cushions, arranging herself next to him, her bare feet curled up next to her, peeping out from the bottom of her silky pajamas.

"I thought maybe we could talk about something," says Derek. She looks at him steadily with those big beautiful blue eyes, solemn, waiting.

"Anything."

"I've just got to figure out how to start," he says.

"Darling, whenever you want to, whatever you want to say," says Penelope.

Her toes are curling next to his thigh. The big one is robin's egg blue, and the next one is red. Derek wants to touch her - or rather to touch more than her foot - so he looks up at her face, gauging, and slides his arm along the back of the couch.

She smiles slightly at that and immediately leans into the couch and scoots closer, until she can wrap an arm around his shoulder and he's got her softness through the slippery silk of that crazy kimono pressed all along his side. She smells not completely flowery up close - after a day at the office he can catch a hint of womanly sweat and musk, and it's comforting and real.

"I was in a club full of people in Miami and I couldn't get this case out of my head," he explains. "I wanted to get away from it, but I couldn't get away from it in my own mind. A girl asked me if I needed someone to talk to, and..."

"You jumped on a plane and ran straight into my arms," Penelope finishes for him, playful.