Three dollars and some change

Results Round I of Round IV of Summaries for Dummaries! There are still some other prompts I'm working on, so fret not.

This time is a bit different because I expanded on some of these, into scenes from a story I'm not going to write, as well as a few ficlettes. There's also one other one where I ended up writing over 3,000 words of SG1/Glee Kurt fic and have hit a wall, but hopefully I can rescue that one (I believe in me).

Without more rambling on my part, the crossover fic!

(results of Round I, Round II, Round III)

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( The Forgotten Heir (Bones/Harry Potter; Booth-centered) (summary) )

( The Diary of Helga Hufflepuff (Highlander/Harry Potter) (snippet) )

( Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Browncoat (Firefly/NCIS) (Summary)  )

( A Walk Under the Arch (Anita Blake/Criminal Minds) (Snippet) )

( Second Son (White Collar/Gilmore Girls) (ficlette) )

( 2,790 Miles Of Road (White Collar/Angel) (Drabble) )

( Just Another Quirky Neighbor (Gilmore Girls/Doctor Who) (Ficlette) )

Anyway, today's fic is a drabble for firefly100. And it's River-centric, b/c I <3 River.


Title: Just Breathe
Character: River
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG for content
Note: Set any time mid-season. River thinks about what the Academy did to her. Joss is Boss etc.

~~*~~

In.

Life needs air. Without air, everything stops.

Out.

In.

They gave her too much air, made her scream and beg before they took it away and made spots dance in her eyes and her lungs burn to cinders.

Out.

Now she was in a metal box in space, with tin air and loud voices and no one knew what they did to her.

In.

She knew, in her head and in her fingernails and in her vertebrae.

Out.

She didn't want to know any more.

Stop.

Spots danced in her eyes, lungs burned.

She wouldn't let them win.

In.

As a follow-up to yesterday's drabble, I present Judith's side of the story. It's about as depressing as you can imagine, the missed chances. I'm going to go have a good cry now.

Title: Illusion (A follow-up to Card)
Fandom: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (master list here)
Characters: Judith, Anita
fanfic100 Prompt: 99 -- Writer's Choice
Word Count: 200
Disclaimer: Laurell K. Hamilton owns all things Anita Blake. Only the story is my own.
Rating: G
Note: Set immediately before Card. Judith thinks about her nine-year-old stepdaughter, Anita, on Mother's Day. (Just assume that Paul is Anita's father's name)

~~*~~

It was Mother's Day, the second since Judith had married Paul, and she didn't know how she was going to survive it.

When she had accepted Paul's marriage proposal, two years after his first wife's unfortunate death, she had been so excited. Andrea would finally have a sister, and she'd have another daughter, little Anita.

That delusion hadn't lasted long. Andrea started showing off immediately. Judith knew it was because she was scared of the new situation, but Anita didn't react well to her new step-sister. At all. She'd withdrawn immediately, pulled back from her father, becoming secretive, sullen.

No, not sullen, Judith corrected. There was a strange stillness about the girl some days, something Judith couldn't explain. It was almost frightening.

Then the stillness left, and Anita went back to being her tiny, quiet self.

Any way Judith looked at it, there was no way Anita would let Judith into her heart.

Overhead, two sets of footsteps pounded down the stairs as Judith came to a decision. She'd tried for two years, putting herself out there and having every advance refused. Maybe it was time to give up the illusion of having another daughter. She'd never be Anita's mother.

~~*~~

And while I'm at it, my first offering for firefly100.

Title: Better Now
Fandom: Firefly
Character: River
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: Joss Whedon et al. own all things Firefly. Only the story is my own.
Rating: G
Note: Set after the BDM, no real spoilers.

~~*~~

River was better now.

People came and went, with whispering eyes and dancing tongues, and River alone remained untouched.

She heard things, strange things, from all the people Serenity touched. Their secrets wandered through her head, like she wandered through the ship, never getting too close. If one touches the fire, it burns, and all her secrets would burn like ash up to heaven.

Simon worried when she tried to explain, so she stopped, stopped talking, stopped dancing, stopped everything. She hoarded her secrets to her breast like a lover, waiting to be left alone.

Secrets never left her alone.

This is what I've been working on for the past two days. Please read the rating note.



Summary: When everything falls apart and the people you love are dying, you need to go back to where it all began...
Disclaimer: The Firefly universe belongs to Joss Whedon et al. Merry Gentry belongs to Laurell K. Hamilton. I'm only borrowing and will return them at the end of the fic.
Rating: R. Please note this is a dark story, dealing with issues of off-screen violence and rape.
Author's Note: A follow-up to my Firefly/Merry Gentry crossovers, Secrets and Stories. This story is set in the Firefly timeline (after Serenity), referencing Merry Gentry stuff. This is not a pairing fic, but deals with the relationship between Mal and Inara.
Word count: 7,251
Phonetic Chinese: Tyen-sah duh uh-muo -- Goddamn monsters. Wuo duh ma -- Mother of Jesus. Source is the FireflyWiki.

( Promises: Part I )

Oh man, I am so late for a party. But that's okay. Here, have some fanfic with a very ironic icon.


Characters: All of them!
Disclaimer: MGM/UA, Gekko Productions et al. own all things Stargate SG-1. Joss Whedon et al. own Firefly. I'm only borrowing and will return them at the end of the fic.
Author's Note: silver_venus42 wanted some Stargate SG-1 meets Serenity's crew in the Ficlette Fiasco III. This story is set after Serenity for FF, and in season seven for SG-01, before Heroes, and contains no real spoilers except for the name of a place that we don't talk about. Daniel POV.
Word count:: 2,350
Summary/Introduction: Daniel Jackson has seen plenty of strange things in his life, but the battle spilling through the Stargate may be one of the strangest.

( Never Lie Down )

I am officially on the crack. This isn't my fault, I swear.

Title: Secrets
Characters: Inara and Mal and everyone else from Firefly; Merry and Frost and Doyle et al. from Merry Gentry. Set after Serenity, but only tiny spoilers for that.
Disclaimer: The Firefly universe belongs to Joss Whedon et al. Merry Gentry belongs to Laurell K. Hamilton. I'm only borrowing and will return them at the end of the fic.
Author's Note: waterfall8484 wanted some Firefly/Meredith Gentry, with a theme of blood. (Ficlette Fiasco III master list found here). This story is set in the Firefly timeline, referencing Merry Gentry stuff.
Word count: 1,789 or so
Summary: Serenity is flying to a world of magic, and only Inara knows what lies in store.

( Secrets )

Title: Alice's Room
Author: Mhalachai
Summary: River lives in a world of her own... more true than even she knows. Rather AU.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Timeline: Set after Serenity, after a fashion.
Disclaimer: Joss Whedon and company own all things Firefly and Serenity. I am merely borrowing the characters and story, and will put them back at the end.
Note: This is the idea I had a few days ago. I'm not sure what to think of it, frankly. Tell me what you think. Marcus and Mah are my characters, in case you are wondering. The story will be explained by the end of the 678 words.

( Alice's Room )

Title: Screams
tth100 prompt: Dawn
Crossover fandom: Firefly
Characters: Dawn, River (also Mal and Zoe and Jayne and Simon)
Prompt: 006 -- Blood (master table)
Word Count: 1101
Rating: PG-13/FR15
Disclaimer: Joss Whedon owns all things Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and all things Firefly. Only the story is my own.
Note: Follows Dance. The second in a series within the tth100 challenge. The story is set after Serenity, but has only the tiniest hint of a spoiler.

( Screams )

Two fics. One, an Asher/Anita drabble over at abvh100, called Lack of Understanding. Two, a ficlette about Serenity that has been rattling around in my head for a while. Let me know what you think.

Title: Memories of Flowers
Author: Mhalachai
Summary: Kaylee thinks about changes, and what it means to be strong.
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Kaylee
Spoilers/Timeline: Set a week after Serenity. Big damn spoilers for the movie.
Disclaimer: Joss Whedon and company own all things Firefly and Serenity. I am merely borrowing the characters and story, and will put them back at the end.

( Memories of Flowers )

Different Eyes part 5/6
by Mhalachai
Rating: PG
Spoilers: All of Firefly, same for Anita Blake.
Disclaimer: Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy own all things Firefly. Laurell K. Hamilton owns all things Anita Blake. I am but borrowing the characters for a brief time and shall return them intact at the end.
Note: This story is, and will remain, SPOILER FREE for the movie.
Summary: Serenity gets four new passengers and, as usual, things are not as they seem.

~~. Part One .~~ ~~. Part Two .~~ ~~. Part Three .~~ ~~. Part Four .~~ ~~. Part Five .~~ ~~. Part Six .~~


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