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Because there was some interest, here is the fic wot I wrote! I have been in one hell of a Bond/M hole since I got back into writing it.

Title: to beckon me in languages i’ve never learned
Fandom: James Bond (Craig era)
Pairing James Bond/M (Olivia Mansfield)
Rating: E
Length: ~8700 words
Summary After weeks of flouting her instructions and leaving a trail of bodies behind him in Bolivia, Bond knows he must return to M and beg for mercy. But there is more than one way to do penitence, and M is as creative as she is demanding.

Do you think this is a game, Bond?
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Many thanks to kelly_chambliss for her beta efforts, and to Tayryn​ for her enthusiastic cheerleading, which helped me get this fic off the two-year backburner and into the world. The title of this fic is from this Sunset Rubdown song, from which I have also pilfered some imagery and a few lines for dialogue.

Happy Birthday, tetleythesecond!

At long last, here is the fic you commissioned from me in the help_japan auction. I've actually been sitting on this (in various stages of beta) for the last two months, having weighed up finishing the editing quickly and posting with the surprise of 'happy birthday, here's 15K of Amelia Bones'. I decided on the latter, and hopefully by now the fic is the best it can be. I hope it was worth the wait. (And also, since you don't list your birthday on your LJ, that I and the mutual friend I consulted on the matter got the date right, since this will be hilariously embarrassing if we didn't!)

Thanks to an_fhanai and cranky__crocus for betaing this for me. The former wins all the awards for most dedicated beta ever (here's hoping that the posting of your baby's 'ink and paper twin' might magically trigger your long overdue labour) and to the latter, thank you for listening to me ramble on about this story and not bopping me over the head with your cane while we wandered around London. The Auror's Oath in the fic is adapted from the Oath of Allegiance taken by English police officers. I hope that my historical references are oblique enough to convince my recipient the historian; any mistakes on that front are my own.

Enjoy!


Title: Scenes from a Very Special Friendship
Characters: Amelia Bones, Alastor Moody (mostly gen)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 15,800
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to view) : *Implied consensual sex between teenagers, queer identified character in a heterosexual situation, mild violence, untreated PTSD, character death*
Summary: These belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal. A lovely sentiment for the Sorting Hat, and so very easy when you are seventeen. But how does it hold up in the wider world, or incorporate varying definitions of justice and loyalty?

( Scenes from a Very Special Friendship )

Title: Sexy Tunes
Fandom: Eddie Izzard - Standup Routines
Characters: Mrs Badcrumble and her husband, Mr Badcrumble
Rating: PG
Summary: During the 1418 war, Mrs Badcrumble invents orgasms, to the tune of Snug as a Bug in a Rug. On a hang glider.
Notes: 340 word Yuletide treat written for fictionalknight. Based on this Izzard routine.

( It's a terribly sexy tune )

Title: After the Storm
Fandom: Losing Chase
Characters: Chase Phillips, Elizabeth Cole, Jason Phillips, Original Characters (mostly gen character study, with dashes of femslash and het)
Rating: PG
Summary: After that summer, Chase Phillips and Elizabeth Cole move on with their lives, but their time together affects them both in important, sometimes surprising ways.
Notes: Written for mammothluv for Yuletide 2010. Many thanks to an_fhanai for being the Bestest Beta Ever.

( Elizabeth drove the red sprite for years )

This is just a little something I wrote a while ago. It was the beginning of a story that never did get finished (maybe next year) that I had already cut from the fic for being too tangential. I kind of like it on its own, though, so I thought I might post it just in case you guys do too.

Title: How to Catch a Unicorn
Characters: Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank, a unicorn
Rating: G
Summary: Patience and respect (also, apples)

( How to catch a unicorn )

I have been flailing around in this thread all day. It has been quite an enjoyable Sunday. Something for everyone, here.

Contributions so far:

Harry Potter: Minerva/Albus, 'Burning', R | he's an infuriating, manipulative bastard, but she likes the sounds he makes when he's on his knees

Have Dreamwidth! Will add people soon. I'm featherxuill over there too. Add me if you like! I've posted my Beholder fic there, because it allows larger posts so I was able to put my whole fic up there in one hit. Apparently crossposting doesn't work, though, if the post is too long for LJ. So. Linkage.


Title: Apart
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Draco Malfoy/Rita Skeeter
Word Count: 15,000
Summary: After the war, Draco doesn’t know who he is apart from the mark on his arm. Rita is unlike anyone he’s ever known and her difference aids him in discovery.
Author's Notes: Written for ldymusyc for HP Beholder. Thanks to florahart for the beta!

( Apart )

Title: My Heart, My Life
Fandom: St. Ives (1998 film)
Pairing: Susan Gilchrist/Farquhar Chevening
Rating: NC-17
Summary: On his wedding night, Major Farquhar Chevening learns, among other things, that the tongue isn’t such an overrated organ after all.
A/N: Thanks to mme_giry_phan for looking it over.

( he knew a lot of things he could talk about like guns or what they’d be doing back at the prison right now if it was still a prison, or the weather, but none of it seemed appropriate for when you were standing in your bedroom with the woman you’d just married, and he had no idea what to say )

I just watched Gideon's Daughter again. Clearly, I'm procrastinating my hp_lovebirds fic, which I need to write liek whoah, but I was inspired to a Stella ficlet, which I hope you will all enjoy. It's about the events of her life, but not really spoliery.

Title: Rebirth
Characters: Stella Hawthorne, Gideon's Daughter
Rating: G
Summary: She takes pictures now. She never did, when Adam was alive. Didn’t even own a camera.

( It seems important now, to capture life and smiles, the all to brief moments of light in human existence )

Title: The Difference
Pairing: Rita Skeeter/Poppy Pomfrey
Rating: PG
Summary: For all you know, this could be the difference between what you are and what you want to be.
A/N: This is a very, very belated Christmas er... Chinese New Year (heh) gift for fey_spirit. I'm sorry it took so long, but I hope you enjoy it, Fey. The title and summary are Matchbox 20 lyrics. I decided just as I finished the story that they worked very well.

( I was just about to go home. You’ve been in your animagus form too long. )