Title: Acceptance
Character Pairing: Tom/Ginny
Prompt: don't say yes
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,188
Summary: "And behind her, he bellows, ordering her once again to bow for him, to say yes."
Author's Notes: The thirteenth and final of my Tom/Ginny set for rarepair_shorts! I've seriously written five different fics for this, I had such a hard time. I may post one of the alternate versions in my journal if I decide to clean it up a bit.
Link to Prompt Table: The Complete Prompt Table!

( Acceptance )

Title: War
Character Pairing: Tom/Ginny
Prompt: some people stay
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,408
Summary: "She was a war-torn country herself, Ginny Weasley, stricken and hollow and torn in half by a dividing faction."
Author's Notes: The twelfth of my Tom/Ginny set for rarepair_shorts. I'm still not entirely happy with this, but I have no idea how to make it better. I think I've just been staring at it for too long, ha. It's slightly longer than the ideal length, but hopefully that's all right.
Link to Prompt Table: Prompts


( War )

Title: Triumph
Character Pairing: Tom/Ginny
Prompt: of the spectacular sort
Rating: PG
Word Count: 400
Summary: "He will have her completely now, he thinks, not knowing he has already won."
Author's Notes: The eleventh of my Tom/Ginny set for rarepair_shorts.
Link to Prompt Table: Prompts

( Triumph )

Title: Like Apples
Character Pairing: Tom/Ginny
Prompt: looking for more oranges
Rating: PG
Word Count: 888
Summary: "It's all she's done for years, the constant struggle to forget, to replace."
Author's Notes: The tenth of my Tom/Ginny set for rarepair_shorts. You've heard of the phrase "like apples and oranges"? That's how the prompt fits in; you'll see!
Link to Prompt Table: Prompts


( Like Apples )

Title: Weakness
Character Pairing: Tom/Ginny
Prompt: maladroit
Rating: PG
Word Count: 967
Summary: "Surely, my Lord, you cannot be fond of the thing?"
Author's Notes: The ninth of my Tom/Ginny set for rarepair_shorts. I'm playing with the timeline a bit, trying to squish this into canon somehow even though it's wildly AU. Also a little uncertain about how IC some of the figures are, let me know if I've gone overboard at all.
Link to Prompt Table: Ye Table


( Weakness )

Title: Heat
Character Pairing: Tom/Ginny
Prompt: as you were
Rating: PG
Word Count: 575
Summary: "She is fire personified, a blazing heat beneath his fingers, cascading waves of molten lava upon his nerves."
Author's Notes: The eighth of my Tom/Ginny set for rarepair_shorts.
Link to Prompt Table: Here Lies Ye Table


( Heat )

Title: Break
Character Pairing: Tom/Ginny
Prompt: fall to your knees
Rating: PG
Word Count: 560
Summary: "She has dreamed of this every night since her childhood, dreamed of dear Tom Riddle caressing her skin."
Author's Notes: The seventh of my Tom/Ginny set for rarepair_shorts.
Link to Prompt Table: Tables are shiny!


( Ginny whimpers when she hits the floor. )

Title: Pull
Character Pairing: Tom/Ginny
Prompt: to whet the appetite of a demand
Rating: G
Word Count: 269
Summary: "Ginny hears it crying, tumbling through her veins"
Author's Notes: The sixth of my Tom/Ginny set for rarepair_shorts. It occurred to me that I'm not quite doing the "pairing" in this set, and so I've decided to take this in a bit of a different direction. AU, here we come!
Link to Prompt Table: Ooh, table


( Pull )

Title: Discovery
Character Pairing: Tom/Ginny
Prompt: invisible line
Rating: PG
Word Count: 880
Summary: "he would not rest until he had encountered her in person."
Author's Notes: The fifth of my Tom/Ginny set for rarepair_shorts.
Link to Prompt Table: Table


( Discovery )

Title: Escape
Character Pairing: Tom/Ginny
Prompt: the sky has limits, too
Rating: G
Word Count: 445
Summary: "She is the sky, and she is free."
Author's Notes: The fourth of my Tom/Ginny set for rarepair_shorts.
Link to Prompt Table: Table

( Right now, the wind is all Ginny knows. )

Title: Presence
Character Pairing: Tom/Ginny
Prompt: a vision softly creeping
Rating: PG
Word Count: 578
Summary: "She's been so good for so long."
Author's Notes: The third of my Tom/Ginny set for rarepair_shorts.
Link to Prompt Table: Ye Table

( Ginny is almost asleep when she hears a creaking noise. )

Title: Inextricably Linked
Character Pairing: Tom/Ginny
Prompt: a million little pieces
Rating: PG
Word Count: 734
Summary: "Yes, it pained me to keep my greatest truth from you, dear Ginny. But now that the end is near, you must know who it is you gave your love to."
Author's Notes: The second of my Tom/Ginny set for rarepair_shorts.
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( Ginny wakes up and immediately wishes she hadn't. )

EDIT 12/5/2009: It is complete! =)

rarepair_shorts HP Rare-Pair Challenge Author: briony_tallis Pairing: Tom/Ginny Progress: 13/13

1. ordinary people

2. a vision softly creeping

3. invisible line

4. looking for more oranges

5. to whet the appetite of a demand

6. the sky has limits, too

7. fall to your knees

8. a million little pieces

9. of the spectacular sort

10. maladroit

11. some people stay

12. don't say yes

13. as you were