what was in the Chocolate Boxes

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Reveals were this morning! It was a fun fest. I received two delicious gifts:

One Year is Paper (526 words) by The_Plaid_Slytherin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: England Series - K. J. Charles
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Archie Curtis/Daniel da Silva
Characters: Archie Curtis, Daniel da Silva
Additional Tags: Dinner, Anniversary
Summary:

Archie tries to surprise Daniel with a special meal.

Handover (921 words) by Merit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Page & Sommers - Cat Sebastian
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James Sommers/Leonard Page, Cora Delacourt/Edith Pickering
Characters: James Sommers, Leonard Page, Cora Delacourt, Edith Pickering, Wendy Smythe
Summary:

Leo settles further into life at Wychcomb St. Mary.

And -- partly because I got caught up in the challenge to get the number of fandoms over 500 -- I ended up writing a dozen short fics.

Uncollected (514 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Future Fic
Summary:

Bran doesn't know why Will seems both familiar and remote.

The Conquest of Thy Fury (903 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Will Darling Adventures - K. J. Charles
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Will Darling/Kim Secretan, DS/Will Darling
Additional Tags: Post-Canon
Summary:

Will and Kim discuss a meeting he had with DS.

Your Fists and Open Hands (634 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: England Series - K. J. Charles
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Archie Curtis/Daniel da Silva
Additional Tags: Mission Gone Wrong, Hurt/Comfort, Hand Massage, Spies & Secret Agents
Summary:

“Bring me your bodies blood sweat tears
    and piss and vinegar
     your fists and open hands”

- “New Sodom,” by Hal Duncan

Watch Not One Another Out of Fear (600 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: England Series - K. J. Charles
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Archie Curtis/Daniel da Silva
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Mission Gone Wrong
Summary:

Archie wasn't prepared for things to go wrong. But.

And She Dwelt (786 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Band Sinister - K. J. Charles
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Amanda Frisby/David Martelo
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Canon Jewish Character, Judaism
Summary:

"Will I have to study a lot?"

"You'll have to take instruction." David looked stunned. Amanda could have that effect when she'd made up her mind about things. "If you're sure you want to, once we've talked properly about what it means for you. which we are going to do first," he added, with decision. Guy wished him luck.

          -- Band Sinister, chapter 12

Phases (1119 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: England Series - K. J. Charles
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Daniel da Silva, Patricia Merton
Additional Tags: Friendship, Canon Gay Character, Canon Lesbian Character
Summary:

Pat's first impression of Daniel had been "too flashy by half."

He's still an absurd creature, but there's room in her life for that, and more.

Thorough Lust and Laughter (357 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Will Darling Adventures - K. J. Charles
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Will Darling/Kim Secretan
Additional Tags: Dirty Talk


Hunting in Trousers (335 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Will Darling Adventures - K. J. Charles
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Phoebe Stephens-Prince, Kim Secretan
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Male-Female Friendship
Summary:

“I have thought of becoming one of those women who goes to Africa to shoot buffalo in trousers—me in the trousers, obviously.” —The Honourable Phoebe Stephens-Prince, in The Sugared Game

Phoebe's a modern woman, and she's always been frank with Kim.

Many Strange Things (390 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers, England Series - K. J. Charles, The Will Darling Adventures - K. J. Charles
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: joan murchison & kitty climpson
Additional Tags: Epistolary, rescue lesbians
Summary:

"Why she should be surprised to learn that Miss Climpson was absent from Town 'engaged on a case' she could not have said."
- Gaudy Night

A missive from Paris to Somewhere in England during this interval.

Even with the Adding Years (433 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Don't Touch Me - Refund Sisters (Music Video), 환불 원정대 | Refund Sisters (Band)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Eun Bi, Man Ok, Sil Bi, Cheon Ok
Summary:

The dress is a fucking tent, and Man Ok wears it like a queen.

Swerves (300 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Midnight Bell - Bourne
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Albert/Frank
Additional Tags: Pining, Drabble Sequence
Summary:

"And so all else above
I'm dreaming of the man I love"

- George Gershwin

The Whole World's Hungry (300 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cyrano de Bergerac/Roxane
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

As prompted: "Maybe, just maybe, Roxane actually catches on much sooner that Cyrano was behind the letters all along, and makes her own attempt during the war to get him to admit it."

The title is from Act 3 of Anthony Burgess's translation -- which, who knows why, doesn't include Ragueneau and Roxane bringing food to the men: "Distraits par la galanterie . . . Il's n'ont pas vu . . . la galantine!"