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While We're Waiting (Tommy/Merton | PG | 6,813 words) is Tommy and Merton adjusting to college life. Hee, Merton and Tommy are adorable with their cluelessness. And Merton is appropriately geeky.

Excerpt:
On Friday, they go see 'Hellboy', and Merton tells himself that anything that involves eight other people, can't possibly, in anyway, be constructed as a date. By anyone. Up to and including Jon.

The fact that Jon doesn't seem like the gaybashing type, means nothing. Nor does the fact that Tommy can definitely take care of himself. Tommy doesn't get the slurs anyway. Merton does.

Although the way Jon definitely checks Tommy out as he hands over the tickets (Not obviously so, but definitely not discretely either), stills that vague fear.

Merton blinks. Jon's also either very rude, or he agrees with Merton on the date thing. Merton's not sure which.

Tommy doesn't notice or doesn't care, because he continues reading out loud from a movie flyer he's picked up in the lobby. "--'Alexander the Great' is going to be the movie experience of the year, did you know that? Wasn't that one supposed to come out in July or something?"

Night of the Leaping Dead (Tommy/Merton | PG13 | 4,135 words) has the party from hell literally turning into the party from Hell. The style's very different and takes a while to get used to, but it works very well at capturing the absurdity of the original show. This story is crazy in the best way possible.

Excerpt:
Tommy's eyes have widened and sulphured and he's gone markedly pale

(not as pale as Merton, of course, which at any rate is probably impossible without a decade underground or some sort of Geisha make-over)

"-Merton! There's a Lovecraftian God in the dorm bathroom!"

"I know this looks bad Tommy, but we ca- You knew it was an Elder God? I had to cross-reference with my pocket edition of 'Dictionaire L'Infernale..."

-The Goth points to a torn flap of black denim clinging half-heartedly to the side of his jeans.

"... Which, between you and me, has no business being called a 'pocket edition'. But this is great, Tommy! You've developed a working knowledge of Lovecraft! All those hours of... research in the Lair paid off; you've read your first Occult book!"

The werewolf frowns. "- Occult book? I thought it was some kinda Gay Sex Guide."

"S... Sex manual?" Merton's eyes pop out in independent directions and he turns a colour that, whilst interesting, is not really associated with those outside of the reptile community.

Tommy, unaware of Merton's book-related apoplexy, returns to the bathroom door. "-Hey, which Elder God is it, anyway?"

Voodoo Schmoodoo (Becky, Merton/Tommy | G | 1,272 words) is a slightly different type of slash story. It uses Becky (Merton's sister) well, which I liked. This is a story that makes me smile. And! Very good exploration of Merton from Becky's point of view.

Excerpt:
Curiosity got the better of her, and she began to move along the row of shelves. Most of the stuff laid out there seemed to fit with the rest of the room: daggers, old books, crystals and pewter things. Every now and then, however, there was something that just didn't make sense. A jar full of something green and disgusting. A clock made out of what she hoped was a mannequin head. Rag dolls.

She paused in front of them. One looked vaguely like it fitted with the other weird stuff: its face was made up to look like a skull, and it was dressed all in black. Another looked kind of familiar, but she had to study it for a while before she realised it was actually a doll of Merton himself. Typical of him, she mused. It was the third one on the shelf that intrigued her, though. She picked it up and turned it a couple of times, trying to place the face. The clothes gave away nothing: while the Merton doll wore an outfit that no one else would be seen dead in, and had his trademark hairdo, the third doll just wore a grey sweater and blue pants, and looked like a cheaper version of a Ken doll.

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Big Wolf on Campus: While We're Waiting by Sascha

Big Wolf on Campus: Night of the Leaping Dead by Wirrrn

Big Wolf on Campus: Voodoo Schmoodoo by Jen