This little subsection is devoted to general Liberty madness, both of the slash-related and the non-slash-related kind. In the end, I have the most fun with these. This really is a weird team, even if Blaze is trying her damnedest to kill any sparks of actual personality the team might have.
this shot was obviously thefted from gettyimages.com; the small shot is an AP photo
The fic
Behind Closed Doors: And no one knows what goes on behind closed doors... Written for the "if you tell anyone I'll kill you!" challenge at contrelamontre. Sequel to Give and Take and Love Bites, though it was never meant that way.
Chocoerotic: In which Dre is in serious need of Ruby but will take chocolate instead.
Crazy: Crystal is sick, Becky is gimpy, and no one seems inclined to help. Written for the "world at its knees" challenge at contrelamontre.
What It Feels Like For a Girl: Dre has been through some sh*t, and Ruby is the only one who can bring her all the way through. Part of Fic-mas 2002.
Kaleidoscope: Crystal sees the future. Lots of futures. Written for Emi and Monica's 'five years in the future' challenge.
Love Bites: Crystal finds time. Written for the contrelamontre food challenge, and a sequel to Give and Take.
Pushing Me Away: Everything unwinds. Songfic.
Suppose...: you could get what you want? Inspired by contrelamontre's fortune cookie challenge.
Give and Take: They don't know how to express it, but there's got to be a way. Written for contrelamontre's 'love without being obvious' challenge.
The Trouble With the Two-Step: Why is Becky such a lousy ballhandler? Written for contrelamontre's traveling challenge.
Trying to Come Clean: The only way she might save herself is to lose herself. Written for contrelamontre's water challenge.
Who's That Girl?: Ruby and Dre meet Mini-Dre. Second in the Liberty bobble-head series. Hmm, that reminds me, I need to buy a Crystal!Bear for my Bobble!Becky.
Wish Fulfillment: How it all starts. Only the first chapter is linked over yonder.
Not Pretty Enough: Where the love starts to show. Songfic.
Take Me Away: Ruby fantasizes. Songfic.
Stranger: Decisions, decisions. Written for the contrelamontre three-part relationship challenge.
Goddess from the Machine: It's destiny. Written for the contrelamontre deus ex machina challenge.
Color Perception: Becky and Crystal doubt.
Home: Home is the one place they'll never find.
Bells: Fannie's love life, divided into small pieces.
Bored: The ladies are in Salt Lake City, and thusly are bored out of their minds.
Butterflies: The brunette worries about the blonde and the blonde worries about the brunette.
Moments in the Life of Furniture: Sue's couch takes a beating. Written for the contrelamontre couch challenge.
Dim All the Lights: 2001 coming home, creating odd situations.
Flashback: Fannie has a flashback. A little more mature than most of my fic.
Gossip: The blonde and the brunette gossip.
If Only For Your Good: She's loved enough for this to be done. Written for the contrelamontre sacrifice challenge.
Immature: Food fight! Written for the contrelamontre food challenge.
Journey: Sue can't stay and Becca doesn't know how good she's got it. Written for the contrelamontre poetry challenge.
Love (and Denial) Letter: Advice, dark secrets, and sarcasm from a long time ago. Written for the contrelamontre letter challenge.
Love Makes You Do Crazy Things: Taking place in the fic-verse that took a sharp left, and at the Valentine's Day game between Rutgers and UConn.
Moondance: Blonde. Brunette. Sex. Yeah, that covers it. For reasonably mature readers only.
Nights of Light: The lonely woman cries for love and has all too much. Written for the contrelamontre non-songfic song challenge.
Pillow Talk: Sue and Becca talk. A lot. Written for the firstlines1000 and part of Fic-mas 2003.
Sexuality For the Modern Basketball Player: Becca figures it all out. Written for the contrelamontre character development challenge, my first clm attempt.
Shadows of Love: My first sportsslash, in which the blonde and the brunette start figuring out the getting together thing. Only the first chapter is linked here.
Some Bad Dream: She's surrounded by her own mistakes. Written for the contrelamontre regrets challenge.
Something to Cherish: It's a start. Written for the contrelamontre hospital challenge.
Something Weird This Way Comes: A violin, a tutu, three mysterious packages, and Kym unable to keep her mouth shut- what's not to like? Written for the contrelamontre shopping list challenge.
Talking Baseball: Something comes up between the New Yorker and the Massachusetts native.
Target Acquired: Fun with Mini-Coach. Third in the bobble-head series.
The Storm: Trade winds blowing in the 2002 Apple. Only the first chapter is linked here.
Two Ways: Miscommunication leads to mistakes.
Vocabulary Loss: Thingy. Written for the firstlines1000 Empire Records challenge
Welcome to Bracketville: While Fannie is filling out the brackets, she finds out what Lena did.
WHAT?!: The official wander-off for the aliased slash, as it involves a pregnant blonde.
When Sightseeing Goes Horribly Wrong: This only happens in New York, doesn't it? Written for contrelamontre's fortune cookie challenge.
Wishing it Was: The blonde and the brunette wist.
Stay With Me: AU in which Lena breaks the news to Fannie, and Fannie doesn't take it well.
I Don't Have to Wonder: It hurts too much. The file name should be enough warning for you.
Nothing In Between: Dealing with the aftermath.
Last Straw: Vickie's had enough of Teresa's bull. Written for contrelamontre's fight challenge.
Laundry Service: Set in the future, Louisa attempts to do laundry. The debut of Taylor Johnson, who only exists in fiction and in the Sims.
Oh...: Sometimes it takes Crystal a while to notice these things. Written for contrelamontre's epiphany challenge.
Explanations: A pair of improvs written after I was a complete jackass to Emi, cast in the frame of mind of Oh....
Present: My first sexy piece, in which Lou has a very nice birthday indeed. Plot? What plot?
The Complicated Truth: Free agency rears its ugly head.
Question and Answer Session: In which I shamelessly use VJ to vent at Spoon for departing. Sequel to The Complicated Truth.
She Don't Know: The braidsters muse on their favorite topic- each other. Part of Fic-mas 2002.
Taking Care: A shamelessly sappy moment between Spoon and VJ, which seems really bittersweet now. Written for the firstlines1000 and part of Fic-mas 2003.
Just Say Yes: Ronnie has a conversation.
Iron Sharpens Iron: The mentor teaches the student, but the student has some lessons for her teacher. Written for the contrelamontre fire challenge.
Angel and Devil: She has to have it out with herself.
untitled, in which Teresa changes her hair and Vickie is blamed.
The Itch: Teria meets her match, prompting Fannie to ponder. With Minnesota guest stars.
Unemployment: Teria's in love and Reese is unexpected. Set in a very narrow window of 2003.
Mississippi Blue: AU deathfic, in which Reese pays her respects and does her penance.
Just Another Day: Rebecca watches her team. 2000, Becca/Sue inserted rather crudely.
Cuddle: Lou has a cunning plan. This is generally not a good thing. Implied blonde/brunette, implied braidsters.
Kidnappings: Sequel to "Cuddle" (which makes no sense because one is aliased and the other isn't, but *shrug*), in which Becky and Crystal take up the mantle of comforting a teammate. Implied Spoon/VJ, with a dollop of Becky/Crystal.
Forbidden Friendships: Focusing on the two most fucked up interpersonal situations on the aliased team, an attempt to break down the walls. Implied braidsters, reference to Ruby/Dre.
I Don't Want to Say Goodbye: The blonde departs. Implied blonde/brunette, implied braidsters, reference to Ruby/Dre.
Old: The team's reigning elders must face the fact that they're getting older, but younger teammates are more than willing to help them face it. Only the first chapter is linked here.
The Flame: Playing with fire might get you burned. The link here is to the intro to the miniseries, which is utterly aliased and has to be that way.
Inferno: Two-chapter piece in which evil!Kelsey arrives in New York. Braidsterness and Ruby crushing.
To Carry the Torch: Two-chapter piece in which the blonde runs off at the mouth and pisses off her teammates. Implied braidsterness, implied Ruby/Dre.
Adventures With the Pod People: The Liberty sucked their first game of the season. Did you think I was going to let that go by without explanation? Implied Ruby/Dre, somewhat less implied braidsterness.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Breakfast: One of my favorite titles, it assumes that the ladies of the 2002 Liberty have taken up residence together and are enjoying a nice normal breakfast. Well, okay, except for the normal.
Competition: Two talented young women. One spot within an elite program. Of course, it helps that one of them was recruited by a famous alumna. Set back in 1992.
Free Flight: The Liberty go on a road trip. Translation amusement, evil pranks, imaginary music, and card games with rookies- what's not to love?
Roomies: Drabbles focusing on the by-play between roommates after a bad loss to the Sparks.
Round Two: The aliased ladies of Liberty are given carte blanche to do what they want- on the road. This was not the most brilliant of moves.
Let the Heartache Ride: Crystal tries to get Vickie to let go. Draw whatever implications you like.
Arkansas Lament: Putting it together makes it not make sense.
Bookend Musing: Listen to the woman and don't hit on Mormon girls. Unrequited K.B./Erin.
Identity: What's in a nickname?
Split: Two sides of the same coin.
Postgame: Vickie's reaction to Teresa's DNP. Up to three couples can be implied.
Awakening: They're learning more about themselves, and it scares them. Shameka and Erin being slashy, but not with each other.
Tantalus: You hunger and thirst for what dances just out of your reach. Erin/K.B., for reasons beyond my understanding.
Tender Little Blade: It's a short, sharp cut to the quick. Blonde/brunette.
Intensity: With great responsibility come great hair tricks. Blonde/brunette.
Advantage: Becky will always be at home at the Garden. Written for fanfic100's "home" prompt.The mini-fic
Twist Sue is too pleased with herself.
Night Ambush: Becky is on the attack. Dark Garden #2
Seeing Something We Don't: Becky and Crystal conclude something.
Going For a Ride: Becky and Crystal stick it in.
Mischief Becky's shirt gets soaked.
Suffering: various women are injured and angry.
Plagued: Crystal's day can't get any worse.
Hair: Crystal makes Becky crazy.
Volleying: The Liberty starting lineup claims to take in a tennis game.
Prankster: Crystal's a prankster.
Bibliophilic: Becky does have a softer side.
Rimshot: Becky has yet to get it right.
Rimout: Doubt bites.
Bewitching Hour: Crystal can only dream.
Almost but BetterIt's not Christmas, but-
Three Little Words: Crystal has a mission. (challenge- goals)
Defining Moment: Becky figures it out. (challenge- the moment she first knew she was in love)
Photographic Memory: She should have known before. (challenge- photograph)
It: It's time to do it. (challenge- in the locker room)
Wired: Crystal surprises Becky. (challenge- long-distance call)
Sushi Bar: Rebecca experiments. (challenge- first times)
Everything's Changed: Rebecca is flummoxed. (challenge- first times)>Complicated: Sue meets Steve and Steve meets Sue. (challenge- walked in on)
Mother Knows Best: RuthAnn explains it all. (challenge- walked in on)
Audience Participation: No one's really supposed to be there. Dark Garden #3
To Taste: Sue makes fried rice. (challenge- food)
Talented: Rebecca can't cook. (challenge- fire;water;burn)
Calling Home: Rebecca and Sue discuss work. (challenge- phones)
Callback: Rebecca and Sue discuss friends. (challenge- phones)
Petite?: Rebecca and Sue get revenge for me. (challenge- shopping)
Landing: Becca arrives in Houston. (challenge- new beginnings)
The Food of Love: Sue remembers. (challenge- gifts)
Opinion: Things not to do at the Garden. (challenge- rimming)
So This is What It's Like...They figure it out. (challenge- a new beginning)
Unwanted: Sue was left out. (challenge- heartbreak)
Birthday: It's Becca's birthday. (challenge- surprise)
Traitor in Secrets: What Becca doesn't know will hurt her.
Studies: Becca doesn't learn easily. (challenge- lessons)
No Good Excuses: Becca has no good excuses, but she's got plenty of regrets. (challenge- regrets)
Love, Want, Need, Like, Lust: Sue only wants tonight. (challenge- selfish)
Pattern of Behavior: Forgotten and forgetting. (challenge- forgotten)
Crazy Nights: In which Sue celebrates Hanukkah. (challenge- Christmas; yo soy rebel!)
Not Sick: Spoon refuses to be honest. (challenge- sickness)
Diving In: VJ never does learn to swim. (challenge- first times)
Unexpected: Spoon and VJ are so caught and so don't care.
Steal a Moment: Spoon and VJ know exactly what to do. Dark Garden #1
The Unsaid: Spoon gets mad. (challenge- all dialogue)
Study in Contrasts: They are so different. (challenge- fire;water;burn)
Skeleton at the Feast: Spoon refuses to get it. (challenge- bad day)
Face: Spoon is somethin' else. (challenge- body parts)
The Perfect Gift: VJ eventually figures out what to get Spoon.
Hot Water: Spoon and VJ weather the blackout. (challenge- weather)
The Girls of Summer: VJ's all grown up. (challenge- summer activities)
End of the Line: Spoon doesn't want to let go. (challenge- argument or fight)
Delay of Game: We misplace Spoon and VJ. (challenge- bathroom)
Volleying: The Liberty starting lineup claims to take in a tennis game.
Levels: There's not knowing, and then there's not knowing.
Almost but BetterIt's not Christmas, but-
Imperfect: Vickie takes her chances. (challenge- mirror)
Common Miracle: Teresa should have known before. (challenge- discovery)
Forgotten: This is all she knows. (challenge- forgotten)
Wired: Vickie is surprised. (challenge- long distance call)
Gone in 60 Seconds: CG is very embarrassed. Dark Garden #4
Catalyst: CG is embarrassed again, but not as much.
Madhouse of Lust: What does Richie think about the slashtastic Liberty? (challenge- boys)
untitled: K.B. Sharp/Erin Thorn, August 2003Return to main sports fiction