Arctic Light

And now the other exchange revealing in the past few days, hurtcomfortexchange, and my wonderful gift!

Sanctuary (7500 wds, Biggles/EvS, EvS + Algy, mature)
"I don't wish to be a burden, nor do I wish my continued presence here to endanger you or your friends. There's really no need—"
"Erich," Biggles interrupted firmly. "You're not a burden, and we're well able to protect ourselves, and each other. And you too. You came here tonight because you knew you'd be safe here," he reminded him. "So please, allow us to keep you safe."

A luxurious comfort-filled "settling in several months after Buries a Hatchet" fic, in which Erich seeks sanctuary at Biggles's flat, and gets all that he hoped for and more.

And don't miss the rest of the amazing Biggles fic bonanza. Truly, we are having an excellent month.

WHEEEE.

https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/14131

Please note what we have already done to the Biggles category.

Which also means it's time for the freeform tag game of watching them shuffle and pair up in different combinations as new tags are added, thus suggesting stories.

For example:

A & B have to cancel planned date because A's ill/injured; B comforts and makes evening romantic → Caring for character's injured wings ↓

This CLEARLY involves winged Biggles unable to make his planned dinner date with EvS because his wings are injured AGAIN.

(Winged Biggles probably hurts his wings all the time because he strained, broke, or otherwise injured a wing doing some incredibly risky flight maneuver. Then he mopes around being landbound while his wings heal.)

The tagset has been good to me with wingfic so far; for a while the bottom-most tag was "Wingfic - Wing injuries", which gave me these delightful combos as the tags reshuffled:

Sharing a bed to keep a close eye on hurt character's well-being & needs → Wingfic - Wing injuries ↓
Waking up from nightmares while sharing a bed → Wingfic - Wing injuries ↓
Temporary Blindness → Wingfic - Wing injuries ↓

The bottom one is honestly kind of hilarious and tragic at once - the WORST combination! clearly the wings are injured because of accidentally flying into obstacles! - but the others ... I would read 50K of this.

Anyway, go forth, add tags, have fun and give me new inspiring combinations to post about.