Full Tilt: def. - a poker term for a state of mental or emotional confusion or frustration in which a player adopts a less than optimal strategy, usually resulting in the player becoming overly-aggressive. Elizabeth Westfield is the newest socialite to arrive at Constance Billard. She is rich, beautiful, smart and now the girlfriend of Nate Archibald. She has it all. Unit she meets the Upper East Side's notorious bad boy. Carter Baizen always gets what he wants. And when he spots a beautiful girl across the room, he makes it his mission to have her. She may be Nate's girl, but Carter's mind games may well push her into his arms. As in poker, going full tilt in the game is half the fun. After all, all's fair in love and war. *~* A Carter Baizen Story *~* Based on the characters from Gossip Girl. **** Some chapters have adult situations and will be marked with a (*) with a warning at the beginning of the chapter. Read discretion is advised. The Spotify playlist link is available in my bio. Cover art by @just-a-writer-and ** As always I don't any of the characters from Gossip Girl except for Ellie and her storyline.

Brook has just moved into the apartment next to her sister Ally's and she couldn't be more disappointed in herself. She just got fired and doesn't know what to do with her life. Brook is a very insecure woman who wanted to loose her virginity to the love of her life but it doesn't work out that way. So she try's to find the one ex boyfriend she had that made her happy so she can at least say that her true love was her second. Meanwhile Ally's trying to find all her exes to see if one of them is the one. She gets the help of her sister and the guy who lives across the hall from Brook, Colin. Also does Brook start to have feelings for Colin?

Scarlett Fitzroy, daughter of Donald Fitzroy. She's always known how to handle herself. She knew that her life was going to go to shit but she didn't expect it to happen like this. She's always been a fighter, but she'd much rather be a lover. ocxcourtgentry(six) The gray man fic

Rowan Thompson hates Lloyd Hansen with a passion. What happens when they are partnered together for a three month mission? Mature story.

*~ COMPLETE~* Ransom and Faith had what seemed like the picture-perfect relationship, but it didn't start off that way. He could stand her when he first met her thinking she was hardheaded and not good enough to plan a party for his grandfather. After 25 years Faith wanted commitment, Ransom did not which would lead to their demise. Ransom knowing he screwed up is going to do anything to win her back. What happens when Faith find outs somethings that she knows would change everything forever?

*~COMPLETE~* Cole Turner is about to get some of the worst news he was ever expecting, his girlfriend Sadie Rhodes has been killed on her job. The person to inform of him of this horrible news is Sadie's sister Trixie. Trixie and Cole can not find a common ground while she is in town planning the funeral. What happens when they constantly butt heads and then some truths come out about Sadie that Cole had to choose to believe or not?

Sequel to: Beyond the Sun. Life was never an easy feint, it would be asking too much for life to be easy now. Establishing himself as a resident hero of Metropolis, plus reporter by day; how could life possibly get any more hectic? Like before Zod's failed invasion was bad enough, honestly, Clark didn't think he was asking for too much for life to calm down now. Sadly, as ever, life had other ideas. Gotham's resident bat's kicking up a fuss and hitting headlines in all manner of ways, it clearly wouldn't take long before he set his sights firmly in Clark's direction; not that he was wholly wishing to fight Batman, but if that's what it took for him to back off, then so be it. If that wasn't enough, Bruce Wayne and his sudden injection into his and Annie's life proves to be more harmful than good, but then this is Bruce Wayne, what else could anyone expect? It is not exactly a shock when it's learned that himself and Batman are one and the same. Competing companies, madmen creating monsters from Kryptonian's, a God from space, a child and a possible wedding. It was definitely safe to say that life was only just starting to get a bit hectic.

Captain Jolene "Jo" Jackson is probably the toughest girl you'll ever meet. She carries around a gun everywhere she goes. She's trained in many different kinds of martial arts and, she has one of the deadliest weapons known to man. Charm. Captain Jake Jensen is the opposite of Jo. He's tough, but he's more like nerd tough. When he talks, he doesn't know when to shut up, he can annoy just about anyone and he is incredibly awkward under pressure. Jo and Jensen are complete opposites, but you know the old saying. Opposites attract.

Ayden Winters loves to get under Lloyd Hansen's skin just as much as Lloyd loves to get under Ayden's. But somehow, they still end up being partners in every mission they're on. What happens when a mission goes wrong and they're stuck? Mature story.

Kayla is offered a chance of a lifetime to go to space alongside her brother and three other astronauts, one of which won't stop flirting with her. But the mission goes haywire after the five get blasted by cosmic radiation in which they gain extraordinary powers. Now, aside from a certain hot head, Kayla and her friends have a bigger challenge: Victor Von Doom. ° Book One. Based on Fantastic Four °