Title: What He Never Said
Rating: T+
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Summary: Still waters run deep. After the first time he makes love with Seto, Tristan discovers a slightly unsettling change. He never brings it up, but that doesn't make it any less real. Drabble-ish commentary for the roleplay log linked below.
See Also: "Kriskrindlemarkt" in the Roleplay Section.
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Title: Nightmare
Rating: T+
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Summary: Seto wakes Tristan from a random nightmare. With Seto's brand of personalized wake-up service, Tristan has no trouble forgetting his bad dream.
Music Key: "Crazy For You" - Madonna
See Also: "Dance With Me" in Sorchafyre's section for a story written for the same song.
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Title: Dixie
Rating: K+
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Summary: Two snapshots concerning a trip into the wilderness; how Tristan managed to talk Seto into going to Colorado is anyone's guess. Tristan turns out to be excellent at handling off-road driving. Seto isn't quite what one would call grateful, but given the circumstances it's understandable. Gratuitous Dukes of Hazzard references (the good, old kind, not the new flick).
Music Key: "Good Ol' Boys" - Waylan Jennings
See Also: "Midnight" in Sorchafyre's section, a companion piece to this story.
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Title: One Too Many
Rating: T+
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Summary: Tristan has a knack for talking Seto into things. This time, it's three months of down-time in the Wild West. At a hotel in Wyoming, amid country music and half-empty bottles of beer, Seto realizes just how far outside his comfort zone he's gone. But who's complaining?
Music Key: "Nothing On But the Radio" - Gary Allen
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Title: The Letter
Rating: T
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Summary: Call it Tristan's catalyst. Some words are just too hard to say out loud the first time. Read it and then visit the correlating roleplay log linked below.
Music Key: "Far Away," Nickelback; "Open Arms" - Journey
See Also: "The Letter" in the Roleplay Section.
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Title: Boundaries
Rating: M
Word Count: 628
Summary: Even the most balanced person has boundaries. One evening, during an otherwise inane discussion, Seto discovers that the outwardly calm exterior of his mate hides a powerful phobia. Being Seto Kaiba, however, he simply can't leave it be, and the two work together to find a creative solution.
See Also: "Darcy" for the lead up and the partial reasoning behind this story.
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Title: Terminal
Rating: T+
Word Count: 782
Summary: WARNING: CONTAINS CHARACTER DEATH.
This is not a 'truth,' but rather a 'what if.' Tristan quietly loses control, leaving Seto with no choice but to follow suit.
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Title: Walking in Memphis
Rating: T
Word Count: 881
Summary: Tristan accompanies Seto on a business trip to Memphis. While at the Peabody Hotel, Tristan spies the piano in the lobby and does his level best to challenge his reluctant companion into recreating a moment from their shared past. Seto, however, has other ideas.
Music Key: "Walking In Memphis" by Marc Cohn
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Title: Darcy
Rating: M
Word Count: 743
Summary: Three women; three stories. Three pieces of the puzzle that make up Tristan's psyche. This is Darcy's story.
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Title: Forever Autumn
Rating: T
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Summary: Blue Eyes loses his battle against the inevitable. Seto deals with the loss in the only way he knows how. Pre-relationship. "Nothing gold can stay."
Music Key: "Forever Autumn" - Moody Blues
See Also: "Reliving Loss" in the Roleplay Section.
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Title: Why Kaiba Will Probably Never Get Laid
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Seto's. Got. ISSUES.
Rating: M
Word Count: 673
Summary: After spending the evening in the backyard of his home, Seto's in for a rather rough night. Controlling one's waking mind is a simple matter of discipline, but even for someone as rigidly self-possessed as Seto Kaiba, control of the dreaming mind is another situation entirely.
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Title: Seto's Research
Rating: T+
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Summary: Twenty-three years old and still a virgin, staring at the serious possibility of losing that title in the near future. What's a sexually inexperienced CEO to do? Fortunately, frank information about the human condition is ludicrously easy to come across via the internet, and Seto takes an afternoon to study. In so doing, he discovers more about said human condition than he really cares to know.
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Title: Moments In Stillness
Rating: T+
Word Count: 1315
Summary: Telling snapshots of Seto's life from childhood to adulthood.
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Title: Shopping
Rating: T
Word Count: 546
Summary: Finding the right Christmas present is hard work, especially when you're a perfectionist like Seto Kaiba. Onward towards the holiday, running out of time, in desperation Seto visits The Mall (Horrors) and makes both a settling decision and a valuable discovery.
Music Key: "Possession" - Sarah Mclachlan
See Also: "Kriskrindlemarkt" and "Christmas Eve" in the Roleplay Section.
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Title: Getting Ready
Rating: T
Word Count: 586
Summary: Seto prepares for Christmas Eve with Tristan. The weight of what he's doing gets to be a little much, and in order to handle his own nerves he pays a visit to an old friend.
See Also: "Kriskrindlemarkt" and "Christmas Eve" in the Roleplay Section.
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Title: Lazer Tag
Rating: T+
Word Count: 643
Summary: KaibaCorp takes a chance on the recurring fad of laser tag - a low-key 'war game,' or a high-tech version of the popular schoolyard game, depending on your preference. Seto and Tristan volunteer to test the newly finished facilities. What begins as a "lesson in futility" changes as two dominant forces learn to combine their efforts and work as a team.
Music Key: "Possession (Rabbit in the Moon Remix)" - Sarah Mclachlan
Link / Mirror - Winner of the Hondaments First Annual Fanfiction Challenge
Title: Dance With Me
Rating: T
Word Count: 132
Summary: Close to a drabble. Tristan talks Seto into a slow dance.
Music Key: "Crazy For You" - Madonna
See Also: "Nightmare" in Scylla's section for a drabble-ish story written for the same song.
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Title: Midnight Movie
Rating: T
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Summary: Seto can't resist Tristan's invitation to a midnight double-feature at the movie theater. Though the movies fail to impress him, he finds his own source of entertainment.
Music Key: "Hero" - Chad Kroeger of Nickelback
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Title: Midnight
Rating: T+
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Summary: Tristan accompanies Seto to an upscale New Years' Eve party. Tristan feels like he's treading treacherous waters, but with Seto beside him there's no need to worry. Seto's interruption of the power games late in the evening comes as a mixed blessing to Tristan, who was taught not to have sex in a stranger's home. But who's complaining?
See Also: "Dixie" in Scylla's section, a companion piece to this story.
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Title: Japan
Rating: T
Word Count: 857
Summary: Seto travels to Japan for a business trip.
Music Key: "Homeward Bound" - Simon & Garfunkel
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Title: Knowing You
Rating: T
Word Count: 353
Summary: Seto catches Tristan in an unguarded moment alone. No matter how well you think you know someone, how much you want to know everything about someone, there is always more to learn.
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