FIC: Careful What You Wish For [Darker than Black x Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Amber&Pai&Kyubey&Hei]

Title: Careful What You Wish For
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tensai Okamura & co’s Darker than Black: the Black Contractor anime and Akiyuki Shinbo & co’s Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
Warnings: Blood, death, canon-typical Puella Magi issues.
Characters & Relationships: Amber &/x Pai, Kyubey, Hei
Summary: A magical girl going only by ‘Amber’ saves Li Xing from a Witch. The human race is never the same afterwards. / a Puella Magi Madoka Magica fusion // 2109 words
Author’s Note: Tian is a Chinese name meaning ‘sky/heaven’, just as Xing means ‘star’. Various other writers have used that as Hei’s birth name before me (I got it from tsuki-llama, who shares a lot of headcanons – including this one – with starrycontractor/major-victory/lolgirl607/darkerthanevanescence, but I also know of FFN’s desy). I love it, okay. I haven’t stopped cackling since I first discovered it. I’m going to use it in everything for the rest of ever.
Yes, I am aware that the modern romanization for the Chinese word for ‘white’ is ‘bái’, but I cannot be held accountable for Tensai Okamura’s weirdness, okay? I imprinted on ‘Pai’ at an impressionable age.

( Spoilery Puella Magi Madoka Magica context, for the uninitiated. )

Enjoy!

( Careful What You Wish For )

FIC: Living the Dream [Darker than Black, Hei & Pai]

Title: Living the Dream
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tensai Okamura & co’s Darker than Black: the Black Contractor anime.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Relationships: Hei & Pai
Summary: Pai spent five years as a disembodied superpower dispenser. It’s about time she got to let herself go a little. // 1096 words
Author’s Note: Enjoy!

( Living the Dream )

Accommodations Upgrades
Pai lives! And she’s not stuck in the quantum limbo of Hei’s subconscious anymore. Party at the Li siblings’ place!
   Living the Dream
Pai spent five years as a disembodied superpower dispenser. It’s about time she got to let herself go a little. // Hei & Pai, 1096 words
   A Whole New World
Pai having her own body again means experiencing her own hormones again too. It’s awesome. // Hei & Pai, 1324 words

FIC: Lilith the Morning Star [Darker than Black, Amber x Hei]

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FIC: The Human’s New ’Do [Darker than Black, Hei & Pai & Amber]

Title: The Human’s New ’Do
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tensai Okamura & co’s Darker than Black: the Black Contractor anime.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Relationships: Hei & Pai & Amber
Summary: Sadly, Hei does not have the power of invisibility. // 397 words
Author’s Note: Enjoy!

( The Human’s New ’Do )

FIC: Straight Across [Darker than Black, Hei & Amber]

Title: Straight Across
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tensai Okamura & co’s Darker than Black: the Black Contractor anime.
Warnings: Mild violence.
Characters & Relationships: Hei &/x Amber
Summary: If he had hurt her more, would she have shown something, anything more satisfying than momentary surprise? // 543 words
Author’s Note: Enjoy!

( Straight Across )

FIC: And Many Happy Returns [Darker than Black, Amber x Hei & a Kid]

Title: And Many Happy Returns
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tensai Okamura & co’s Darker than Black: the Black Contractor anime.
Warnings:
Characters & Relationships: Hei x Amber & a kid
Summary: There was a time when he looked more like an old pervert with every year they spent together. // 1568 words
Author’s Note: Enjoy!

( And Many Happy Returns )

FIC: Debts Are Like Children [Darker than Black, Hei & Kiko & OC Coworker(s)]

Title: Debts Are Like Children
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tensai Okamura & co’s Darker than Black: the Black Contractor anime.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Relationships: Hei & Kiko
Summary: ‘The smaller they are, the more noise they make.’ When Hei learned that saying from a Peruvian mercenary back in the war, he hadn’t expected the noisy party to ever be the person who owed him money, though. // 1686 words
Author’s Note: Enjoy!

( Debts Are Like Children )

Work Ethic
a.k.a. "that other DTB Office AU". :)
Three years after the Tokyo-Explosion-that-wasn't, Hei returns to Japan, where Misaki promptly arrests him - and recruits him to Section Four as their first openly acknowledged Contractor police officer. These are their stories. *DUN DUN*
Loosely inspired by the Office AU first thought up and written about by darkerthanevanescence, starrycontractor (here, here, and here), major-victory here and here), lolgirl607 (here and here), and tsuki-llama, who are all awesome and let me play in their sandbox.
Jet Black Flower, Origins/Gaiden and Gemini of the Meteor never happened in this 'verse and never will, though I might repurpose one or two things I liked from them.

   The Milk of Human Kindness
The Public Safety Bureau has hired a Contractor, and Tokyo is less than pleased. Luckily, Hei was Li Shengshun before he was Officer Li of Section Four, and Li Shengshun was never as friendless as Hei considered himself to be. // 5510 words
   Debts Are Like Children
‘The smaller they are, the more noise they make.’ When Hei learned that saying from a Peruvian mercenary back in the war, he hadn’t expected the noisy party to ever be the person who owed him money, though.
   Many Hands Make Light Work
From a certain point of view, Hei is just a walking, talking phone charger with an appetite. His coworkers at Section Four notice. Hei almost wishes they didn’t. Almost.
   From the Mouths of Babes
Contractors either make the best or the worst babysitters in the world. The jury's still out.
   Gesundheit
He does not have hay fever. No way. Absolutely not. Never. // 855 words

FIC: Many Hands Make Light Work [Darker than Black, Hei & Ootsuka & Misaki & OC Coworker(s)]

Title: Many Hands Make Light Work
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tensai Okamura & co’s Darker than Black: the Black Contractor anime.
Warnings: None.
Characters & Relationships: Hei & Ootsuka & Misaki & misc OC coworkers
Summary: From a certain point of view, Hei is a walking, talking phone charger with an appetite. His coworkers at Section Four notice. Hei almost wishes they didn’t. Almost. // 4076 words
Author’s Note: Enjoy!

( Many Hands Make Light Work )

Work Ethic
a.k.a. "that other DTB Office AU". :)
Three years after the Tokyo-Explosion-that-wasn't, Hei returns to Japan, where Misaki promptly arrests him - and recruits him to Section Four as their first openly acknowledged Contractor police officer. These are their stories. *DUN DUN*
Loosely inspired by the Office AU first thought up and written about by darkerthanevanescence, starrycontractor (here, here, and here), major-victory here and here), lolgirl607 (here and here), and tsuki-llama, who are all awesome and let me play in their sandbox.
Jet Black Flower, Origins/Gaiden and Gemini of the Meteor never happened in this 'verse and never will, though I might repurpose one or two things I liked from them.

   The Milk of Human Kindness
The Public Safety Bureau has hired a Contractor, and Tokyo is less than pleased. Luckily, Hei was Li Shengshun before he was Officer Li of Section Four, and Li Shengshun was never as friendless as Hei considered himself to be. // 5510 words
   Debts Are Like Children
‘The smaller they are, the more noise they make.’ When Hei learned that saying from a Peruvian mercenary back in the war, he hadn’t expected the noisy party to ever be the person who owed him money, though.
   Many Hands Make Light Work
From a certain point of view, Hei is just a walking, talking phone charger with an appetite. His coworkers at Section Four notice. Hei almost wishes they didn’t. Almost.
   From the Mouths of Babes
Contractors either make the best or the worst babysitters in the world. The jury's still out.
   Gesundheit
He does not have hay fever. No way. Absolutely not. Never. // 855 words

FIC: From the Mouths of Babes [Darker than Black, Hei & Matsumoto & Kouno & misc OCs]

Title: From the Mouths of Babes
Author: Omnicat
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: Tensai Okamura & co’s Darker than Black: the Black Contractor anime.
Warnings: Past harm to children.
Characters & Relationships: Hei & Matsumoto & Kouno & Matsumoto’s OC relatives
Summary: Contractors make either the best or the worst babysitters in the world. The jury’s still out. // 5180 words
Author’s Note: Enjoy!

( From the Mouths of Babes )

Work Ethic
a.k.a. "that other DTB Office AU". :)
Three years after the Tokyo-Explosion-that-wasn't, Hei returns to Japan, where Misaki promptly arrests him - and recruits him to Section Four as their first openly acknowledged Contractor police officer. These are their stories. *DUN DUN*
Loosely inspired by the Office AU first thought up and written about by darkerthanevanescence, starrycontractor (here, here, and here), major-victory here and here), lolgirl607 (here and here), and tsuki-llama, who are all awesome and let me play in their sandbox.
Jet Black Flower, Origins/Gaiden and Gemini of the Meteor never happened in this 'verse and never will, though I might repurpose one or two things I liked from them.

   The Milk of Human Kindness
The Public Safety Bureau has hired a Contractor, and Tokyo is less than pleased. Luckily, Hei was Li Shengshun before he was Officer Li of Section Four, and Li Shengshun was never as friendless as Hei considered himself to be. // 5510 words
   Debts Are Like Children
‘The smaller they are, the more noise they make.’ When Hei learned that saying from a Peruvian mercenary back in the war, he hadn’t expected the noisy party to ever be the person who owed him money, though.
   Many Hands Make Light Work
From a certain point of view, Hei is just a walking, talking phone charger with an appetite. His coworkers at Section Four notice. Hei almost wishes they didn’t. Almost.
   From the Mouths of Babes
Contractors either make the best or the worst babysitters in the world. The jury's still out.
   Gesundheit
He does not have hay fever. No way. Absolutely not. Never. // 855 words