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Fics! Fics for all! I forgot to do promos for these originally whoops!

Title: Hiding in Plain Sight
Rating: T
Fandom: Divergent - Veronica Roth
Pairing/Characters: Eric/Tris Prior
Critical Tags: Soulmate AU
Summary/Excerpt:

Tris was still Beatrice when her mark appeared. She noticed after getting in the shower morning, figuring it first to be some idle note from class that she forgot about.

The circles were too precise, too perfect, as were the familiar symbols contained within. Beatrice leaned heavily against the wall of the shower. She stared at the markings until the water ran to ice.

There was no mistaking it. Two circles, carefully linked but unmistakably taboo.

Title: mold me like clay between your palms
Rating: T
Fandom: Among Us
Pairing/Characters: Crewmate/Impostor
Critical Tags: Soulmate AU, Alien Impostors
Summary/Excerpt:

One of the first things that fresh changers learned was, of course, the physical characteristics that they would need to impersonate for their tasks in infiltration situations. What the average height of a species was, whether they had eyes or other sensory organs, how delicate their exterior plating might be - those were all critical factors to fooling the cursory observations of their marks. The last thing that a changer wanted to do was get caught because they had a prehensile tail that wasn’t supposed to be there.

The second thing that was taught was a species fate mark. Most species functioned this way. It was known to the changers that their own fates were unusual. Physical marks didn’t mean anything to changers; their fates were known in their hearts and minds by the song the universe sang to them and their partners alone. The first time that White had seen one of the MIRA crewmates on the exam table, they had been utterly fascinated - and a bit horrified - by the mark that the instructor pointed out.

Title: The Waffle Job
Rating: T
Fandom: Leverage
Pairing/Characters: Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer
Critical Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Injuries, Established Relationship
Summary: Jobs go sideways. At least they've got each other to help in the aftermath.
Excerpt:

Whenever they got the cops involved, Parker got twitchy. Twitchier than usual, that was. She was rattling off everything around her into Eliot’s ear in an attempt to detail how very not present Hardison was. Eliot was torn between shutting her out, the cops, and the thread of tension in his gut that came from no longer being in control of the situation.

That was how he missed the footsteps behind him as the mark’s remaining lackeys escorted him out, or at least that was what Eliot suspected later on. It was tricky remembering the exact details after getting walloped upside the head with an expandable baton. Stars had exploded behind his eyes. Even with the best pain tolerance around, there was always a physical limit to what a man’s skull could take before the brain decided to kick off and let things cool down from there.

What Eliot did remember, however, was getting peeled off the ground by two pairs of hands and being dragged bodily from the scene.

Title: Lavaliere
Rating: T
Fandom: Shadow and Bone (TV)
Pairing/Characters: Aleksander/Alina Starkov
Critical Tags: Fluff, Jewelry
Summary: There's one last thing that Alina is missing from her outfit before she can be presented at the Fete.
Excerpt:

Aleksander’s mood didn’t remain sour. He had been searching in the front pocket of his kefta while he spoke, and then he was pressing a small box into Alina’s palms. It was black, naturally. Even if Alina hadn’t been handed it directly, she would have known that it was from him.

Her cheeks warmed. “What’s this?” she asked even as her pulse quickened in her veins. She wanted to open it. That was the intention, right? When one received a gift, they were expected to open it.

“Something the Fabrikators were supposed to include when they sent over the kefta,” Aleksander answered.