Spoilers up to 5x06. Title is from the Robert Piguet perfume, which I'm currently thinking of buying online I have just bought on ebay. (Yes, I'm another brunette who orders her drinks straight.) Poem-fic, set in the same past as Straw Dogs. As missnyah astutely pointed out, there is a lot of Mike Carey's (less whiny) Lucifer in this fic.

Lucifer, Anna and Castiel. PG. The devil shares his lesson.



Bandit

( broken laughter/little brother little sister/is the song of emancipation )

Set in the future-verse of 5x04, "The End."

Castiel and Dean. PG. What use is he, like this?



( In Good Stead )

Set between 2.09 and 2.10.

Pam and Eric. PG. Do any of them still remember how to mourn?



Why do you worry
The infinite question with your finite spirit?
- Horace, 'The Odes 2.11" [trans. Eavan Boland]



( Pater Potestas )

Written for missnyah, who asked for a scene with Pam and Godric together, so I've only half-filled her request. I think in show canon, these two probably never met, but it's fun to imagine what they'd think of each other. I'm going to take Eric's word for it that he didn't see Godric for over 100 years before the show. Spoilers up to 2x09.

Godric(/Eric), Pam and Sophie-Anne. PG. Say good-bye, and mean it.



I grant the sea's not fit for swimming:
but last night the wind became more gentle.
Why did you neglect it? Why didn't you dare to come?
- Ovid, The Heroides XIX



( Hero )

Kristen Bauer has been giving out a lot of Pam's backstory in her interviews - nothing that buyers of the BluRay S2 DVDs won't know eventually. The most fascinating point I thought was that, unlike in the books, ( *spoiler* ) This is based partly on that. Set pre-series, so no real spoilers for the show.

Pam and Eric. PG-13. Her turning.



Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green;
Father's a nobleman, mother's a queen
- Traditional



( Noble Men )

Week off starts today! Drabble to celebrate!!!

Spoilers for season two.

Bill, Eric and Pam, circa 1950. PG. Their first meeting.



( Broken English )

This is partly based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries, partly on the characterisations on the show, and partly my own speculation. Spoilers for the season two finale.

Hadley and Sophie-Anne. PG. She knows that this is a compromise.



( Star )

*slumps* Oh my god. These TB prompts are addictive. But I have to get some work done now. If you left a prompt and I haven't written it yet, I'll try and have them done this week.

Written for calculare, who requested Jessica, and Arlene's kids. Spoilers for 2x11 "Frenzy".

Jessica, Coby and Lisa. PG-13 for language. Only Bill would think it was appropriate to leave her in charge of minors.



( How To Take Care of Small Animals )

Written for devohoneybee, who wanted a scene between Godric and Niall Brigant. Set c. 1300 A.D. Spoilers up to book 8 and episode 2x09.

Niall and Godric. G. It was the customary bargain.



Out of the earth to rest or range
Perpetual in perpetual change,
The unknown passing through the strange.
- John Masefield, 'The Passing Strange'



( Cold Front )

I remember, when I first came to Australia from China when I was six, being sent to school by my (divorced) father in clothes that would make my classmates laugh, and ask me if I'd never heard of such a thing as a uniform. I have all the love in the world for Tara.

Written for monanotlisa, whose gave me the prompt: Tara, and blithesome.

Tara, Lettie Mae, Stackhouses. G. Tara's seventh birthday.



But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.
- Traditional



( Bonny and Blithe )