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Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count. (Using whichever fic I feel like when there are options.  God.  I feel like I could have just done crossovers...)

• A And Sinister, X-Files/Greek myth (just trust me) It's perilous to bargain with dark women at crossroads.
• B Bad News on the Doorstep, Highlander/Marvel Hopefully, they're going to get along. Maybe like a bar afire.
• C Cherries In Winter, Victor/Victoria In the winter of 1935, soon to be 1936, Andre Cassell's club has a new opening act.
• D Double Vision, Marvel (various canon) Steve Rogers learned his guilt-trip glare from his mother. It can have interesting effects.
• E Exemptions and Indulgences, Highlander/Discworld I AM AFRAID YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION.
• F Fire In The Hole, Highlander/X-Files/Buffy Possibly the weirdest part of Mulder's night so far -- and it said a lot about the whole thing -- lay in the wolf being the one that tried to get out of his way to let him shoot the basilisk again.
• G A Game of Cat and Cat, Highlander/Blood Ties Two acquaintances from the court of Henry VIII, five hundred years later: who's playing with whom?
• H Hot Pursuit, due South/Highlander Law enforcement officers can't resist hot pursuit. 800 year old FBI agents are no exception to this rule, especially when it's a Mountie in a speeding carriage chasing a wolf through Chicago.
• I The Innocent Sleep, Highlander New Year's Eve at Joe's bar. Written for Amireal's International Nap Day challenge.
• J Joe Dawson, BAMF, Highlander/Stargate SG-1 https://archiveofourown.org/works/763847
• K Kindred Spirits, Highlander/Leverage Rebeca learned about cons from one of the best.
• L Life Cycles, Marvel Sometimes 'daddy's girl' isn't a description so much as a warning label.
• M  Mismatched Pieces, Marvel/Highlander (Opportunities 'verse) Very few targets survive the Winter Soldier.
• N Not To Plan, X-Files/Stargate SG-1 The second stupid thing the goons did was throw Mitchell in the same cell with Krycek.
• O Open(ing) Doors, Leverage Game and negotiation theory suggests that opening up and vulnerability can in fact lead to the best mutual outcomes. Grifters use their own apparent vulnerabilities to achieve their aims. Mix well, stir, and add an angry Eliot Spencer, who grifts quite well for a hitter retrieval specialist.
• P Parched, Highlander Blood cleans off a blade so easily, really. Some days it's dry and difficult work. Other days it's as easy as running that blade through a man. This morning, though -- this morning was easy, both the killing and the aftermath.
• Q Quiet Breaks, Numb3rs Ian hasn't talked to either Eppes brother since they hunted down a black box together. He's been a little busy with this.
• R Respite, Buffy/X-Files Two heroes sorely in need of a vacation run into each other. They also run into tea, cocoa, conversations about vampires, and really good pancakes.
• S The Scent of Salt and Wood, Rivers of London/Forever Kissing a perfect stranger in an alley is unusual behavior for both of them.
• T Time Upon A Once, Amber Chronicles/Wizard of Oz/Fairy tales A thorny tale of 1 missing prince, 2 princesses, 2 cats, 3 witches, and a silver bird. Some overlap possible among categories; partridge in a pear tree not included. Drinking while reading not recommended.
• U Unanswered Riddles, Riddlemaster of Hed She woke in the night knowing that her doom had missed her by an hour at most... and that it was still waiting for her. So Lyra got up, and packed, and went to meet it.
• V Vintage Appreciation, Forever Knight/Southern Vampire books (Charlaine Harris) Two vampires discussing rare vintages.
• W White Horses and Tails, Nero Wolfe/Highlander Saul Panzer never forgets a face, or where and when he saw it. Connor MacLeod has lived, and done business in, New York City for two centuries, off and on. In combination, that can lead to a problem.
• Y You See Two Geek Geniuses and Several Computers, Leverage/Warehouse 13  They were in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

X & Z don't have titles.  I shall have to fix this. 24/26, and 291 works.  Nice!
(If any links go to the wrong fic, let me know and I'll fix it.)

Two stories so far this year (I'm trying to finish the third):

No Rest For The Licked (3678 words) by Gryphonrhi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Tony Stark, JARVIS the AI (Marvel), Hulk (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Spook Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon
Summary:

"Eight foot frogs in Central Park? J, the sun's not even up."

"The people reporting it sounded awake and sober, I'm sorry to say. Sir will make pickup in six."

Steve was in a warm bed, pleasantly tired from the night before, and he'd been promised a very good breakfast. "This job," he sighed and went to get changed. Maybe there'd be a coffee cart open when it was over.

Operation Shock and Claw (2610 words) by Gryphonrhi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Scarecrow, Tim Drake (DCU)
Additional Tags: Spook Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon
Summary:

Fear gas is an ongoing experiment, not yet perfected.

Hope you enjoy!