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Jun. 13th, 2020 12:53 pm
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Nameless Orphans (786 words) by Morgyn Leri
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Borgias (Showtime TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, Cesare Borgia
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, 16th Century CE, Post-Canon, Off-screen Character Death, Temporary Character Death, GFY
Series: Part 2 of Secrets In Crimson
Summary:

Once he called himself a nameless orphan in service to God, the Church, and the Borgia family. At least he's still one of those things when Cesare Borgia does no better at remaining dead than he did.

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Bridging Universes (10693 words) by Morgyn Leri, skipthedemon
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: The Master | Koschei, Tenth Doctor, Romana II (Doctor Who), Toshiko Sato, Jack Harkness (from S1E12 of Torchwood), Harriet (Torchwood), Ms. Roberts (Original Character)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Crossing Timelines, GFY
Series: Part 15 of Fairytales and Nightmares
Summary:

The Master finds himself translated from one universe to another, without anyone being quite sure how he got there. Least of all his alternate.

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(Also, Maul's first efforts in dealing with clingy Jedi apparently involved making concussed Jedi.)

Anakin:

Anakin pulls Zett with him to the edge of one of the long drops, and grins at the Padawan a moment before jumping, wind rushing by him as he falls. It's exhilarating, and he takes a moment to revel in the sensation of free-fall before he touches the Force to steady his descent a little. Looking up, he sees Zett has followed his example, though there's a hint of sheer terror threading through Zett's Force-presence, and reaches out to make sure Zett's fall is stable as well.

They land on a lower walkway - not down to the surface, but deep enough into the city there are far fewer lights, and Anakin thinks they'll mostly pass unnoticed. He reaches out a hand to make sure Zett is steady on his feet, and catches the euphoria the Padawan is wrestling with.

"Enjoy it for the moment." Anakin grins at Zett's stare. "You don't have to let it go right away, no matter what the Jedi tell you. It's good to feel."

"And what if I get us killed?"

"You won't, and keeping you safe is my job." Now, since Zett's Master has to be dead in the Temple. Anakin tugs the boy closer, keeping him close as they start walking. "I promise, Zett. You won't be left alone again, and you're not going to die before you're knighted."

Anakin knows he can't promise anything after that, but unless someone takes really drastic measures, he's not going to leave a Padawan in danger. Even if he has to take Zett on as his own apprentice, of which he doesn't know if anyone here or at home would approve. It doesn't matter, though, not if there's few choices. Someone has to teach him, and Anakin doesn't know how many Jedi might be left here.

He can feel the surprise from Zett, but pretends not to notice as they make their way further into the warren of walkways that wind between the bases of tall buildings. Hopefully making their way to a rendezvous with Master Windu.

"Are there even enough of the Council left to arrange Trials or Knightings?" Zett's voice is quiet, just audible over the background hum of the city.

"Master Windu is still alive." Anakin shrugs. "My masters didn't look to the Council to decide when my training was done. They decided it themselves." And if he trains Zett, he will decide when the Padawan is ready to be on his own, and call himself Jedi Knight or whatever he wants to call himself. "We'll figure it out together."

Zett doesn't respond to that, though Anakin can feel him mulling it over, and he lets the boy do so as he follows the thread of Force that draws him on toward Master Windu. He smiles sharply at a Weequay who is watching for marks for his little gang, shaking his head slightly. Letting some of the Dark Side swirl about him, the oppressively cold feel of it usually enough to keep all but the Force-null away from him.

"What are you doing?" Zett is watching him with the same wariness he'd had at the Temple, rubbing his arms to fend off the cold. "It feels wrong."

"For a Jedi, it would be." Anakin gestures the boy closer, wrapping the side of his cloak around Zett's shoulders. "It's meant to intimidate, and frighten. Maul taught me it."

"Who's Maul?" Zett glances up at him a moment, curiosity winding its way through the wariness.

"One of Sidious's former apprentices, and a Sith." Anakin lets Zett move away, amusing at the thrill of fear that runs through the boy. "He's not here, or we wouldn't be running through the underworld of Coruscant."

He'd not be alone here - he might not be here at all - and while he and Maul might be running, Zett would have been safe in the Temple and Sidious dead. Or dead on the platform outside the speeder bay, slaughtered like the other Jedi.




Obi-Wan:

"Sometimes," Obi-Wan admits slowly, watching Cese for a long moment. It's easier than looking at the scarred face of a man who moves and sounds and almost looks like his dead Master. "Does Anakin here help you with the visions?" Or his alternate, but he should ask that question of the man directly, as he's in the room.

Cese shrugs. "A little. So does my padawan-brother. Darth Maul taught me a meditation to help, too." She glances back at Qui-Gon, a cheerful smile crossing her face. "Master tries to keep me focused on the here and now, though that doesn't always work."

"Because foresight and truesight are both irritatingly persistent, as well as inconsistent." Mace Windu crosses his arms, looking over Obi-Wan with his usual inscrutable expression - though it seems underwrit with a peace the Mace Obi-Wan knows does not have, rather than the exhaustion of war. "I hope you don't have the same bad habits as your counterpart, Master Kenobi."

"I would imagine I have at least some, though perhaps not all of them." Obi-Wan shrugs, looking around the room for his boots, and his lightsaber. "I don't tend to steal other Jedi's lightsabers, certainly."

"I didn't steal it. Maul did." His alternate shrugs, crossing his arms. "Your boots are next to mine in the outer room."

Obi-Wan raises an eyebrow. "Why so far away?"

"They're less likely to be thrown at my head in the morning."
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Title: The Old and the New
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
AU: Last Stand of Valor
Rating: Teen
Characters: female Finis Valorum, a reporter, Sei Taria (briefly)

This reporter may think he's more clever than most, sneaking in questions he's not supposed to ask cold, and asking them on the heels of asking about the resurgence of rumors about her love life. Finis Valorum isn't going to make it that easy.

The Old and the New )
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... and I have posted to [community profile] betaplease, without any nibbles. Does anyone on my list want to beta-read a 10k Star Wars fic, or know other places to post a request for a beta-reader that are fandom-specific?

The story in question is set prior to The Phantom Menace, and my canon is the first release on the DVDs for the prequel trilogy, and a very few random bits picked out from Wookipedia, as I do not have any Star Wars books. The primary character is an original alien, and a woman of color, roughly of an age with Qui-Gon Jinn. The only canon characters to make their appearance so far are Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, the rest of the cast are originals.

10,000+ words, in 15 ficlets spanning fifty years, to right before TPM. Rated teen for non-graphic violence, frank discussion of sex and procreation, one fade-to-black scene. Mentions of character death, grief and coping with grief, mourning customs, and familial rejection. A few scenes of fluffy cuteness with tiny!Jedi.

I am particularly looking for someone to double-check continuity despite large gaps of time left unexplored, readability, and consistency of characterization/character development. Familiarity with the movies is nice, but not absolutely necessary.
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Asset (3049 words) by Morgyn Leri
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Loki (Marvel), Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Thor (Marvel), Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanov
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe
Series: Part 4 of Heroes Are Villains
Summary:

When he fails to complete one mission, his memories are wiped and the parameters of the mission changed. The target is the same, the order is no longer to kidnap but to kill. Too bad his masters underestimated Loki's abilities, and thus, failed to prepare their asset.

Now, the Winter Soldier wakes in an unfamiliar place, and is told his former masters have passed him on to someone else. He has to learn to live in a world where he has choices to make, the ability to ask questions about anything he likes, permission to feel and be a human being, and a chance to be James Barnes again.

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Title: Fear, Fury, and Madness
Fandom: The Borgias (2011 Showtime series), Harry Potter
Genres: Alternate Universe, Crossover
AU: Shadows and Shades
Rating: PG13
Characters: Cesare Borgia, Bellatrix Lestrange
Word Count: 300

Notes: This will make far more sense when one of the other stories in the AU is complete enough to post. For now, though, have a snippet. In the same AU as Washed Clean, and while I have a thought on where the connection is, I'm going to leave that for another snippet.

Summary: "I don't like it when people try to kill me, and I especially don't like people who have already tried to kill my sister."

Fear, Fury, and Madness )

Also posted to consci_fan_mo on LJ and AO3
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Title: Washed Clean
Fandom: The Borgias (2011 Showtime series)
Genres: Alternate Universe, Supernatural
AU: Shadows and Shades
Rating: Teen
Characters: Cesare Borgia, Lucrezia Borgia
Word Count: 411

Notes: Takes place several years post-canon for the show. The mechanism of their return from death isn't named, though I have some ideas what that might be.

Summary: Lucrezia looks at him, and he wonders if that fear in her face is not just for what's happened, but for him. As she hasn't been afraid for him in years. "What bargain did you make for this?"

Washed Clean )

Also posted at consci_fan_mo on LJ, and on AO3
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Title: And In His Wake, Death
Fandom: Shakespeare, Historical RPF
Genres: Alternate Universe
AU: Mistress to Queen
Rating: Teen
Characters: Montjoye King of Arms
Word Count: 392

Notes: A companion ficlet to Admit Me, Chorus to This History.

Summary: Above the battle, a herald watches for princes and kings alike.

Men and horses, cloyed with sticky mud, fight and die below his position )
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Title: Death Comes As the End
Fandom: Sanctuary
Genres: Character Study, Alternate Universe
AU: A Language I Don't Speak
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Major character death, spoilers 1.13, Revelations (Part 2)
Characters: James Watson, Death
Word Count: 703

Notes: Title borrowed from Agatha Christie.

Summary: It is not the spectre of his approaching death, no matter what fanciful ideas lesser mortals might come up with.

James has never believed in a life after death )
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Title: The Art of Surrender (Without Submission)
Fandoms: Harry Potter, Highlander, Sanctuary, Stargate SG1
Genres: Character Study
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 720

Summary: It begins with a choice, as all things do. And it ends with a decision, though perhaps not the same as the beginning.

Four by three )

Notes: I don't know if this is entirely finished, but it is finished for now. The characters were deliberately left unnamed. And if anyone wants to take a snippet and make use of it, they're welcome to it.
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Prompt: exhibitionism

Title: Flouting Taboos
Fandom: Highlander
Genres: Alternate Universe, Kink
AU: Alysse!verse
Rating: Teen
Kinks: Exhibitionism
Characters: Alysse, Nick Wolfe
Word Count: 611

Notes: Written for [community profile] kink_bingo's prompt "exhibitionism".

Summary: Alysse doesn't much care for the nudity taboos of many modern cultures.

Stretched out on the deck of her ship, Alysse smiles to herself at the gasp from the dock, and the admonishment that she should cover herself. )
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Prompts: Highlander; Amanda; antenna, scatter, kill, streak, giggle

Title: Jewels of Memory
Fandom: Highlander, Doctor Who, Harry Potter
Genres: Alternate Universe, Crossover, Future, Historical
Rating: Teen
Characters: Amanda, Donna Noble, Romana, Koschei, Duncan MacLeod, Methos
Word Count:

Notes: An eclectic mix of crossover, future fic, and historical.

Summary: Snapshots of Amanda through the ages and across universes.

Jewels of Memory )
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Prompt: Hospital (#425/1000)

Title: Between Nightmares
Fandom: Stargate SG1
Genres: Alternate Universe, Mirror-verse
AU: Night Mirror
Rating: Teen
Characters: Cameron Mitchell, Osiris/Sarah Gardner
Word Count: 926

Notes: Set a significant amount of time, canon-wise, after the others. Set sometime around the time of Connection in the Night Mirror continuity.

Summary: He wishes he could conduct this uneasy alliance at a distance, but he can't.

When he wakes up, he has to remember to tell Doctor Lam to cut down on the dose of whatever pain killers she's giving him. )
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Title: Here
Fandom: Highlander, Mythology
Genres: Crossover
Rating: Teen
Characters: Anat
Word Count: 200

Summary: Here, she can make herself in her own image.

Here, she isn't the Destroyer, the Warrior, the Winnower of Death. )

Title: Differences in Faith
Fandom: Highlander, Mythology
Genres: Crossover
Rating: Teen
Characters: Darius, Anat
Word Count: 521

Notes: I think this is actually a scene from a larger story, but I don't know what that story is yet, and it is sorta needed to make the double drabble above make more sense.

Summary: "Not as different as you might think, Darius. Gods, after all, can die."

Once he worshiped her as a goddess of war. )

Crossposted:

Livejournal, Here on AO3, Differences in Faith AO3, my website
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Title: Half-Dreaming of Death
Fandom: Highlander, Historical RPF, Shakespeare, Mythology
Genres: Alternate Universe, Crossover
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Henry/Montjoy
Time Period: World War I
Characters: Henry of Monmouth (as Captain Henry Leroy), Haerviu (as Chaplain John Mccrae), others as dream-figures
Word Count: 1929

Notes: A sort of crossover between my Eternal Plantagenet AU and the mostly-canon Highlander AU which Haerviu/Montjoy inhabits.

Summary: He grips the hand as tightly as he might, and surrenders to the strange half-world that lies between death and waking.

He knows he cannot die like this, but the feel of blood running out under the hands that try to staunch the flow still brings with it the terrible fear of the unknown. )

Crossposted:

Livejournal, AO3, my website
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Title: Imperfect Balance
Fandom: Iron Man (movie-verse)
Genres: Alternate Universe
AU: One Night In Moscow
Rating: Teen
Characters: Pepper Potts, Tony Stark
Word Count: 809

Notes: AU for movie-verse. Story seven in the One Night In Moscow AU.

Previous Stories: Unexpected and Unspoken, Half-Open Expressions, From Audio to Visual, Eavesdropping, She's Not Yours, Tony, Koshka

Summary: He thinks she's studying him, maybe evaluating him for something, though what scale he's being measured against, he doesn't know.

Pepper holds out her hand, lips pressed together in a thin line, almost as soon as she steps into his workshop. )

Crossposted:

my LJ, AO3, my website
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Prompt: Waiting (#944/1000)

Title: Silent Vigil
Fandom: Highlander
Rating: Teen
Characters: Haerviu, Darius
Word Count: 431

Summary: Haerviu rarely comes here if he isn't looking for conversation, no matter how long it takes for him to find the words for it.

Silence surrounds him, the falling snow outside muffling what sounds the stone walls of the church do not. )
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Prompt: Coffin (#159/1000)

Title: Chivalry, Honor and Love
Fandom: Highlander, Shakespeare
Genres: Alternate Universe, Crossover
AU: NOS
Rating: Teen
Characters: Haerviu (Montjoy, Jeannot)
Word Count: 400

Summary: Better to remember him as he lived than that cold tomb which held bones and dust.

It is the second casket of a king he's seen this year. )
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Prompt: Noble (#585/1000)

Title: Spring Floods
Fandom: Highlander
Rating: Teen
Characters: Haerviu
Word Count: 429

Summary: Another sheet, and another sketch, details drawn from old memories of people and place.

The place seems nothing special, just a mountain valley with a swift-running stream tumbling down the center. )
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