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Another deleted* Yuletide scene! Disclaimer: Characters are numbered by appearance in the scene and have nothing to do with who was who in the previous scenes. Thank you.

Character 1 lifted her sword. It weighed nearly nothing. Instead of cold steel it consisted of generated hard light, with an edge as small as an atom. Character 1 didn't know if it would be enough to stop Character 2.

Character 3, in all his wisdom, had told Character 1 that the Star Cleaver, as the sword was known, could take any enemy. Even one that was a eighteen foot killer android.

Character 1 sighed. It was one thing to tear that android apart, but it was another to face yourself after you'd torn it apart knowing that it was programmed with the brain engrams of your dead mother. And... deep inside, Character 1 suspected she was just as likely to slice herself in half with the damned sword as actually do injury to Character 2's metal carapace.

*of a fic that never existed

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In other news, another deleted scene from the Yuletide fic*:

It was king of dinosaurs against king of dinosaurs! Roars tore through the peace of the night like it was so much tissue paper, followed by the first splinter of wood as a lance shattered against the hide of the old bull.

With a jerk of his massive gnarled head, the old bull got his teeth into the throat of the younger t-rex and applied sudden, deadly pressure. An inhuman almost undinosaur cry rang out and then the smaller t-rex fell, body twitching with dying spasms. Character 2 barely had time to roll off her dead steed to safety when the old bull slammed his foot down on top of his dead opponent in triumph.

"You've lost, Character 2," said Character 1 calmly as she looked down at Character 2. "Accept it with grace and abandon your mad mission. Give me the red diamond."

"You don't understand!" screamed Character 2. "You never did! Not in school, not when we were together, and certainly not now!"

"What didn't I understand, Character 2? Your knavery? You're right, I never did." Character 1 put steel in her voice, but she blinked back tears.

*That doesn't exist