SCC: "Though I Walk Through the Shadow" (John/Savannah)

Title: Though I Walk Through the Shadow
Fandom: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Pairing: John/Savannah
Timeline/Spoilers: "Born to Run"
Summary: Only two people in all the world know what it is like to live in the shadow of John Connor.

( Though I Walk Through the Shadow )

Arthurian Legend: "Ere That Last Weird Battle"

I was in high school when I wrote most of this. It shows in the gender dynamics if nothing else. Indeed, the main reason I haven't more heavily revised this is that I can't; I'm not the sort of Nietzschean I was when I wrote it, and this just isn't the sort of story I can tell anymore.

Title: Ere That Last Weird Battle
Fandom: Arthurian myth and legend
Pairings: Arthur/Morgan, Arthur/Guinevere, Mordred/Guinevere, Merlin/Nimue
Word Count: ~12,000
Summary: Mordred has captured Caerleon and Guinevere, and Arthur wants back his crown and his wife, while Morgan tries to make peace between her brother and son.

( Ere That Last Weird Battle )

RPF: "Deck of Cards" (Miracle Laurie, Felicia, Summer, Joss)

This has to be the least anonymous anonymous fic I've written since "Incurable (The 'All You Zombies' Remix)," I mean, really.

Title: Deck of Cards
Fandom: Jossverse RPF
Pairings: Miracle&Summer&Felicia&Joss, Miracle/Summer, Joss-->Summer
Summary: After "Epitaph Two," Miracle Laurie wonders if she's going to have to wake up from the dream now.

( Deck of Cards )

2009: A Year in Fic

January

Not Quite Queen of the Damned. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Veronica Mars crossover. Faith and Vi hire Keith Mars to investigate the Phoenix Land Trust. Is its business being conducted from beyond the grave? [Started long ago but finally completed last January.]

How I ----ed Your Father. Jossverse RPF, Jewel/Nathan/Summer. An unlikely beginning, in a world where The Sarah Connor Chronicles ran for five seasons and Dollhouse for seven. [Written for Pretty Lights 2008, before the announcement of SCC's cancellation, but revealed after I wrote up last year's list.]

You Just Can't Choose What She's Gonna Do. Angel, Faith/Connor/Spike. They're both fucking her, and each of them knows the other is fucking her and doesn't like it, but they both like their balls attached too much to try to tell Faith who she can and cannot sleep with. Post-apocalyptic pregnancy and babyfic.

Spectres of Hope. Angel, Wesley/Cordelia/Gunn, Fred/Wesley. Courtesy of Illyria, Wesley relives a moment with Gunn and Cordelia.

February

Silence. Buffy the Vampire Slayer comicsverse, Buffy/Satsu. Sometimes words aren't need; sometimes, they just simply aren't wanted.

March

Some Thing to Watch Over Me. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, John/Riley/Cameron. Termination's not an option, so Cameron is going to have to draw on other methods in order to neutralize the threat that Riley poses. 13,000 words.

Camp Camelot. Merlin (BBC), Merlin/Gwen/Morgana/Arthur. American summer camp AU: There's not much to do for the counselors at Camp Camelot to amuse themselves once the campers get put to bed, but one night's strip poker game may end up having summer-long ramifications.

May

Unfulfilled. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, John/Savannah. In 2016, a teenaged Savannah about what he saw in the future.

Substitution Rule. The Parent Trap. Annie isn't as fond of boys as her sister, but there are few pleasures she enjoys as much as sex with a boy that Hallie's fucked. Double drabble. Warning: rape via impersonation.

Confirmation Hearings. Veronica Mars. Mac shows up to Veronica's Senate confirmation hearings with her hair dyed pink.

June

Master and Commander. John Connor thought he knew how to be a soldier, but he was brought up to be a leader, not a follower.

July

Echoes of the Past (The Holographic Businesswoman Remix. Crossover between Dollhouse and Firefly. Someone in the future comes across Adelle DeWitt's imprint, and negotiations ensue.

Beside the Still Waters. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, John/Savannah, John/Savannah/Allison. In 2024 and 2016 (in that order), John goes swimming with Savannah.

August

Four Times Tony Stark Met Erik Lenscherr (And One Time He Didn't). Iron Man and X-Men movieverses. They're each a member of a different type of ruling class, but as their understandings of power evolve over the decades, they find they're not as different as they think.

November

Fever. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy/Faith. Faith turns to Buffy for help as she struggles with a demonic fever.

Caretakers. Doctor Who, Reinette/Ten, Reinette/Lucy, Reinette/Martha. Reinette finds herself in 21st-century London taking care of the broken wife and unborn child of the two Time Lords who changed her life forever, and she can't do it without help.

The Whipping Girl. Ender's Game, Peter/Val. He loves her for her martyrdom. [A revised and expanded version of a fic written for a porn battle and lost to the ravages of the internets.]

December [*deep breath*]

Glories Stream. "Alleluia" by Dar Williams, The Honesty Room. Heather's not a big fan of Heaven, but Liz makes it worth it.

If on a Yuletide morn a slasher. If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino. The cursor hovers over the link and you sloppily strike the touchpad with your finger, summoning the fic to you from its sleeping place somewhere deep in the inner workings of the AO3. [Be sure to read the full summary at the AO3; it's an integral part of the fic itself.] With bonus genderswapped space opera AU Platonic Dialogues!

Beleza and the B.E.A.S.T.. "Beauty and the Beast," Beleza/B.E.A.S.T. Belaza was angry with her father for selling her to the B.E.A.S.T. in order to settle some old shipping debts, but mostly she was frightened--frightened of what her life would be like on the space station, of the empty corridors and the lonely days, and, more than anything else, frightened of the B.E.A.S.T. itself, the Biomechanical Electronic Ahuman Sentience Transfer which was responsible for all of the station's functioning.

Skasis. Crossover between Doctor Who and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. Thomasina solves the Skasis Paradigm.

Last Day on Earth. Ender's Game. It's strange for Valentine, knowing it's her last day on Earth.

Dancing Lessons. Arcadia. Septimus teaches Thomasina to dance--and then he teaches her to dance. A semi-porny insertion into the play's final scene.

The Fires of Love and Wrath. Arthurian myth/legend. [Mostly written while I was in high school, God help me.]

• Book II: The Orphans. Arthur/Morgan. The education of Morgan le Fay in the art of sorcery, and her romance with Arthur Pendragon. 12,000 words.
• Book IV: Ere That Last Weird Battle. Arthur/Guinevere, Mordred/Guinevere, Merlin/Nimue. Mordred has captured Caerleon and Guinevere, and Arthur wants back his crown and his wife, while Morgan tries to make peace between her brother and her son.

The Children's Crusade. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Sarah, Savannah. Sometimes children have to fight the battles of adults.

Though I Walk Through the Shadow. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, John/Savannah. Only two people know what it is like to live in the shadow of John Connor.

Life is Just This. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy/Willow. Buffy's not sure that Willow has figured out, even after all that's happened, why she knew she wasn't able to live without Buffy, why she had to resort to ripping Buffy's soul from heaven itself.

Deck of Cards. Jossverse RPF, Miracle & Felicia & Summer & Joss, Miracle/Summer, Joss-->Summer. After "Epitaph Two," Miracle Laurie wonders if she's going to have to wake up from the dream now.

2009 in Starts and Finishes

The first line of the first public nonfiction post of each month:

1. January: I closed my eyes, just for a few seconds, at 11:20 p.m. last night . . . and opened them at 12:30 a.m. this morning, Jan. 1, year of our Lord two thousand and nine. (...2009 Enters)
2. February: From a WiP: When Cameron returns, it's in the truck, with John and there's a large mass in the back covered by a canvas which Riley assumes is the remains of the T-101, to be destroyed later. (Playing with POV)
3. March: I have the first disc of season 2 from Netflix. (BSG S2 Reaction)
4. April: I'M GOING TO WRITERCON! (Writercon!!!)
5. May: My BFF, ladyphoenixmage, has created an illustration to go with my XMM fic "I'm Awfully Fond of You" (which is the fic that "My Girlfriend is a Telepath," one of my all-time favorite fics, is a sequel to). (I can has illustration!)
6. June: I still need a beta for my SCC John/Savannah/Allison threesome fic, under 3,000 words, NWS, and spoilerly for "Born to Run." (SCC Beta Request Redux)
7. July: Apparently, I won a couple of awards at the Kinda Gay Awards? (Awarded)
8. August: I arrived in Minneapolis around 8 o'clock local time, and managed to get to Nicollet Mall around 9:30 or so, I suppose. ("There is no 'H' in 'Alixtii'": WriterCon 2009 Con Report, Part I)
9. September: Suzie at Echidne of the Snakes, on how Dollhouse is and isn't (and should and shouldn't be) feminist, here. (People Who Have Expressed What I Think Most Articulately So That I Don't Have To)
10. October: One of the things about fanfic is that things which are ambiguous in the original text need to be resolved, even if you like them ambiguous. (Is John Connor a virgin?)
11. November: If you check out my userinfo, you'll find a 'thon policy which implores that you be true first and foremost to the prompt and your muse, and to consider whether I'd like a story as, at most, a secondary concern. (Dear 3_ships Sailor)
12. Does anyone have any McKeller recs? (Call for recs)

The first line of the first fiction post of each month:

1. January: Mary Lennox was twelve years old when she arrived at Misselthwaite, and Neville could not see past the familiar brown eyes looking out from a black dress. (The Life of a Flower)
2. February: Buffy and Satsu don't speak to each other. (Silence)
3. March: Summer's got the number from Jewel. (Summer Loving)
4. April: No fic posted. :(
5. May: John woke up to find Savannah sitting on the end of his bed, watching him sleep--the way his mother had used to do so many times, the way Cameron did that one time right after they had rescued Savannah, right before John's trip into the future. (Unfulfilled)
6. June: John thought he knew how to be a soldier. (Master and Commander)
7. July: "No, the other coaxial node!" (Echoes of the Past (The Holographic Businesswoman Remix))
8. August: The first time Tony met Magneto, Master of Magnetism, he was just a boy, fifteen years old. (Four Times Tony Stark Met Erik Lenscherr (And One Time He Didn't))
9. September: No fic. :(
10. October: No completed fic.
11. November: The doorbell rings. (Fever)
12. December: It's a strange sort of thrill to stand in a middle of a crowd, knowing that nobody can see or hear you, and hear people who have never met you utter your name in hushed tones of awe. (Glories Stream)

The closing line of the last (completed) fiction post of each month: ( cut for spoilers )

 

Dark Angel/VMars: "The Trials of a Hacker" (Original Cindy/Mac)

Title: The Trials of a Hacker
Fandom: Dark Angel/Veronica Mars
Pairing: Original Cindy/Cindy Mackenzie
Summary: It's come time for Mac to give up her cushy desk job, and she's not sure she can do it.
A/N: Tia Nuestra is from "glum olitory obfuscate gazebo" by soundingsea.

( The Trials of a Hacker )

A03 Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/43923