Even though it had taken him approximately five seconds to pick a tie and less than two to know the things, it felt like he was wearing a nettle. Scores of well-wishers and expectant money lenders lurked around corners and the Square Sisters burst into his office, prodded and poked anything and everything (including him) and then did what he could ( Read more... )

Ben sighed and looked sternly over his shoulder at Shanks, who was lounging on his bed pretending not to be nursing a hangover.

“I still don’t understand why you won’t admit it to them. There’s only so many things you can blame on Lazlo’s monkey and they know it was you.”

Shanks fluffed up another of Ben’s pillows and smiled.

“Oh, of course ( Read more... )

Title: For His Amusement Only
Rating: G
Pairing: CobyMeppo
Word count: 450
Notes: Happy (belated) birthday Helmeppo! This wasn't really what I had in mind but my brain kind of took this week's ( Read more... )

Title: Flashy
Rating: PG
Pairing: Marco --> Maruko, Gaou/Kisaragi
Word count: 547
Notes: Inspired by a walk in the park on a spring day and ( Read more... )

Title: The Means Justify the Ends
Topic: Justice
Rating: PG
Pairing: CobyMeppo
Word count: 170

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Topic: Explosive
Pairing: Ace/?
Rating: Slightly NSFW?
Word Count: 218

( Boom? )

Crackfic concerning Marco Lucci, the cross-dressing brother of Rob Lucci inspired by a dream I once had about Lucci in a feather boa and in part created by ( Read more... )

Title: The Boardroom Bully
Topic: Kids
Rating: G
Word Count: 294
Pairing: None as such.
Note: Some time ago, a friend of mine was further ahead in the manga than I was and kept talking about some character named Spandam. Every time I heard this Spandam mentioned, all I could think about was Spandex. Somehow Spandex became related to Spandam and from ( Read more... )

Title: Captain Usopp vs. the Monkey King
Topic: Sniper
Rating: G
Word Count: 260
Pairing: LuSopp 
Note: ... I don't know where this tenuous piece of silliness came from, but it was fun to write.

( Luffy does not do guns. )

Title: Rain-deer
Topic: Umbrella
Rating: G
Word Count: 258
Pairing: May contain traces of Sanji/Chopper

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