Preview Post: Summaries

Jul 03, 2012 11:17

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--. Aboard the Tumbler’s Fall (mini-bang)
[Leverage || Parker/Sophie, past Spohie/Nate]
Warnings: violence, badly executed steampunk tropes

Stripped of name and rank, the former Queen Sophie takes up with a band of brigands and miscreant thieves aboard an airship, The Tumbler's Fall. Captained by a strange young girl and crewed by the oddest assortment of people Sophie could imagine, the plans is to ship out for lands unknown and treasures undreamed of. Unfortunately, political strife, a wicked king, and the hand of fate itself is close by to distract them from their quest.

--. About a Girl
[Criminal Minds || Emily/Ian, Rossi/Strauss, Elizabeth Prentiss/Tom Barton]

Life is about to change for 13 year old Emily Prentiss. The daughter of a famous actress, she’s living in a new city, going to a new school, and meeting exciting new people. But the life of a teenager has its shares of ups and downs. She’s going to need guidance from her mother and nanny even as their lives are changing too. New York City just got three new citizens who are ready to sample all it has to offer.

--. all the weirdos in the world (become friends at Harvard)
[The Avengers/The Social Network || Mark Zuckerberg/Peter "Eduardo Saverin" Parker, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark/Steve Rogers]
Warnings: some violence

At 10, Peter Parker is a little angry at the world because his adoptive guardians have died and he's been freshly adopted by the Avengers, public relations disaster. At 15, Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider and becomes Spiderman. At 18, Peter Parker is about to go to college when it's decided that being Peter Parker is really conspicuous and he becomes Eduardo Saverin. At 20, Peter Parker is outed as not actual being Eduardo Saverin and has to go save the world. Sometimes, he wishes his life were a little more normal.

--. An Angel without Wings
[Supernatural || Gabriel/Adam]
Warnings: mpreg, PTSD, trauma, POV character is triggered, abandonment issues, character with a genetic defect (it's a made-up one but the consequences he faces are real)

In a world where angels are known and live together with humans Adam lost his mother in a horrible way but has since then started to put his life back together. A few months ago he met Gabriel, a charming man who managed to make Adam fall for him and who gained his trust.

But after the night that they slept together for the first time, Adam giving his virgnity to Gabriel, Gabriel disappeared and went out of his way to make sure Adam couldn't contact him, leaving the younger man heartbroken and facing reopened wounds.

One night Adam finds Gabriel on his doorstep again, claiming that he is pregnant and an angel - despite the obvious lack of wings. It turns out he is right and Adam is indeed the father.

Now the two of them need to find their way between the wonders and worries of having a child, broken reltaionships and trusts and the trauma that is still haunting Adam and making every day a challenge. Both of them need to figure out what they want from each other and for their child and how to be good parents while they fight with their issues and with each other.

--. Angels in the Architecture
[Sherlock (BBC)/Supernatural (fusion) || John Watson/Sherlock Holmes]
Warnings: violence, mild swearing, bungling of Christian mythology

John Watson is human. Humans are fragile. Breakable. Impossibly strong, too, in ways that anything that's not human can barely understand.

John is human, and so he is loyal. He has faith. But he has doubts, too, and courage. Anger and sorrow. Hatred, and love enough to spare.

John Watson is human. Sherlock Holmes is not.

--. Apocalypse, Please
[The Avengers/Supernatural || Tony/Steve, Clint/Natasha]
Warnings: violence

Tony Stark had gone to Afghanistan to see a miracle.

According to the official story, he'd died in a cave in the desert, hit by shrapnel from his own bomb. Only a few scattered people know that Tony found his miracle, and finds himself burdened once again with his father's legacy - Howard Stark was a hunter of monsters. Only things can never just be simple for any Stark, so he finds himself hunting alongside a man that you wouldn't really like when he's angry, and a relic of an era long gone. At least he has the owners of the Hawk's Nest and a man named Nick Fury to turn to for advice.

Oh, and an angel named Thor thinks that he's supposed to avert the Apocalypse. Naturally.

--. baby, i got your number and i know you got mine (mini-bang)
[Thor/Avengers || Clint Barton/Darcy Lewis; Natasha Romanov/Steve Rogers]

Clint Barton thinks he knows how exactly to woo a girl like Darcy Lewis. Captain America keeps letting him know he dosen't. Darcy meanwhile, has her own plans.

--. Buying a Stairway to Heaven
[The Avengers || Clint/Natasha, Steve/Tony, Tony/Bruce]
Warnings: language, violence

Avenging Angels AU, based on this gifset from tumblr. They may not want to save the earth (if you ask Remiel--seriously, they're not going to call him Thor--they should just let it rot, who gives a damn about the little planet anyway), but you can be damn sure they'll avenge it.

--. Chasing Memories
[Doctor Who || Ian/Barbara]

When Ian and Barbara return home in a Dalek ship they're relieved to find it's the day they left. However, they soon find that a two year absence coupled with the dangers lurking around Coal Hill School means they're not going to be able to go back to their old lives that easily.

--. Common Goals: The Three Rockerteers
[The Three Musketeers (Dumas) || Athos/Aramis, d’Artagnan/Constance, Milady/Rochefort, Porthos/Everything]
Warnings: sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll. Also crack, “historical accuracy”, and blatant Dumas imitations.

The young d’Artagnan, yearning to become a rock star, joins the ranks of the world famous band, Common Goals. The band’s members, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, are inseparable friends who most likely live by the motto "all for debauchery, and debauchery for all." But their rock’n’roll paradise is being threatened by a nefarious ex-wife and an ex-bandmate with a grudge who are doing everything in their power to bring down the band. Can these rockers pull off the most Epic Concert of All Time, and also find love along the way? Read this amazing fic to find out.

--. Cry “Havoc”: All Honorable Men
[Generation Kill (HBO) || Nate Fick/Brad Colbert]
Warnings: violence, bad language, death of a minor character

An Adaptation of The Bourne Identity. In Paris, France, Nate Fick is called back into work at four a.m. two hours after he just left it. In Langley, Virginia, Joe Dowdy's morning, which had been looking promising, does a complete 180'. Sixty miles off the coast of Marseilles, Jean-Paul Lefebvre pulls three bullets and one mystery out of the body of a stranger. Each of these events, in each of these locations has a single cause, but Brad Colbert doesn't know that. Yet.

--. Dance with the Devil
[RPF: Adam Lambert || Adam Lambert/Tommy Joe Ratliff]
Warnings: swearing, blood, werecats, violence, death, serial killers, psychic, violence, past trauma, emotional scars, physical scars, loss, death, sex

When werecats from the same pack start going missing without a trace, Isaac Carpenter, FBI agent with the supernatural, is called into investigate. Adam, the leader of the weres, is sceptical about Isaac being able to help. But Isaac doesn't come alone. He brings his work partner, Tommy Joe Ratliff, a psychic who works for the FBI tracking down serial killers and missing people. Can Adam learn to trust outsiders enough to let them help? Can he win over the icy psychic?

--. Daylight
[Harry Potter || Sirius Black/Harry Potter, Hermione/Ron, Snape/Draco]
Warnings: godfather/godson (underage in America, but not in England)

A rewriting of Half-Blood Prince where Sirius lives.

--. Discord and Rhyme
[RPF: American Idol (season 7) || David Cook/David Archuleta]
Warnings: minor OC!character death

Werewolf!AU. David Archuleta is just a regular guy trying to deal with his jerk of a roommate and get straight A's in college. But when he's attacked on the road in the middle of the night, his problems abruptly get a whole lot bigger. Suddenly, he's the newest member of David Cook's ragtag pack of werewolves, and he's struggling to get used to the idea of being able to smell how people feel, and casual cuddling all the time, not to mention, oh yeah, turning into a wolf. Just when he's starting to find his place in the pack, he begins to develop feelings for his Alpha which threaten to turn everything upside down once more.

--. Gringotts Partnership (mini-bang)
[Harry Potter/Naruto || Gen]
Warnings: violence, off-scene deaths

Hermione never imagined the doors opened to her when she accepted a job as a Gringotts ward-creator. When she receives an opportunity to study she cannot pass up on it and is introduced to a young jounin Minato Namikaze. This changes everything.

--. Heart of Gold (But Not Literally, Because That’s Not Science) (mini-bang)
[The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes || Clint/Steve, Thor/everyone]
Warnings: gang violence (PG-13), prostitution, sex, street life

The Hooker With The Heart Of Gold is just a stupid cliché from movies and television, Clint knows this for a fact. His days on the street and his work at a run-down community centre on the bad side of town have made him nothing if not a realist. Until one night he gets jumped by some gangbangers and subsequently saved... by a hooker with a heart of gold. It's like a bad rom-com, complete with the ever-helpful matchmaking best friend, the boy with the smile that makes his knees weak, Abraham Lincoln, and one or more cracked ribs, and Clint gets to be Katherine Heigl starring in his very own life.

--. I’ve Got Nothing to Confess
[Dragon Age II || Hawke/Anders]

A typical college AU where Hawke is the popular football player and Anders is Bethany's eccentric latin tutor. Sparks fly.

--. As If a Map Was Given
[Supernatural || Gen]

The Winchester brothers are angels and they don't like the things are going in heaven. It's the angels who are the hunters, this time, and Castiel is the righteous man.

--. In Spite of Everything
[Merlin || Arthur/Merlin, Merlin/Percy, Merlin/Gwaine, Merlin/Elyan, Lance/Gwen]
Warnings: infidelity

Arthur has rejected his father's way of life so that he can become his own person. With no money and few friends, he moves in with Morgana's friend Merlin, who is cheerful and sweet and attentive, and with whom Arthur easily finds himself falling in love. Merlin seems equally smitten, but seems to have his own ideas about what a relationship is and should mean, and Arthur struggles to balance wanting to be with Merlin and wanting to live his life as he has always dreamed.

--. An Introduction to the Woman
[Sherlock/Doctor Who/Torchwood || Sherlock Holmes/Amy Pond, Jack Harkness/Irene Adler]

After returning from a honeymoon spent traveling the stars and to other times, Sherlock Holmes is called away by his brother Mycroft for a case on behalf of the royal family. He is to retrieve pictures from Irene Adler, a dominatrix also known as The Woman, that compromise a young royal. Retrieval of the pictures goes almost as planned with the exceptions of a naked Irene and the arrival of Americans trying to get their hands on other information she has. One thing leads to another and Sherlock retrieves the pictures, only to be drugged by Irene, who is promptly knocked out by John Watson. Sherlock, in his last moments of lucidity, tells John to call the Doctor and take Irene with them. When Irene comes to she's in a room with the former Torchwood agent known as Jack Harkness. He begins to shed light on just how little she actually knows about Sherlock, and she becomes more fascinated with the man telling the stories then the man she set out to seduce and steal away for her own. When Sherlock comes to she's given a decision to make, and a suggestion from Jack leaves her with a new life in a new time with a companion of her own. Meanwhile back in London Mycroft drops a bombshell about just how much he knows of his younger brother's life and choices in friends. This is a re-write of the Sherlock episode "A Scandal in Belgravia."

--. Lifeline
[Naruto || Kakashi/Iruka]
Warnings: graphic sex, prostitution

Iruka's never known a life outside of the Scarlet Lantern until enemies of Kakashi kidnap him to use as leverage against the powerful jounin. Unfortunately for them, Iruka isn't as powerless as he thinks he is.

--. A Little Divided
[Jericho || Jake/Heather; Freddy/Anna, Hawkins/Darcy, Eric/April, Eric/Mary]

The third part in the time travel series I have written in the past two years of ”au_bigbang”. Sent back in time, Jake Green has successfully prevented the September attacks - at the cost of his relationship with the woman he loves, Heather Lisinski. While he rebuilds his life and his relationships with his family in this changed world, fate throws him back into Heather’s path and he is able to rescue her for a second time. Having won her admiration, he now has the opportunity to win back her heart. As their relationship develops, he finds it increasingly hard not to mix up the past he shared with the Heather in that other life with the history he’s creating with the Heather in this one. How can he build a successful relationship with this Heather while concealing the truth of who he is and what he’s done?

--. A New Dawn
[Fullmetal Alchemist || Gen]

An impromptu "assignment" to Xerxes reveals Maria Ross' true fate and leaves Ed seething with humiliation and anger. He returns to Central, determined to confront Mustang for the insult, but instead finds him in the hospital with another homunculi attack looming overhead. Can he and Roy learn to work together or will their differences continue to divide them? (Set after Ed’s trip to Xerxes and Roy’s fight with Lust then goes completely AU)

--. The One about the Chitauri
[The Avengers/Stargate: Atlantis (fusion) || Phil Coulson/Clint Barton]
Warnings: violence (in line with canon)

Clint was a Specialist in the Satedan army, until the Chitauri destroyed his world. Taken in by a long-time friend and trading partner, Tasha of Athos, together they have just met the new occupants of Atlantis, when the Chitauri attack Athos and take Tasha, along with other Athosians and Bucky Barnes of Atlantis. Clint will do whatever he has to, to rescue Tasha, including allying with the Lanteans from Terra. He also finds himself wanting to ally himself with the Director of the Atlantis expedition, Phil Coulson.

--. Phoneix Hours
[Harry Potter || Gen]
Warnings: violence, character death, alcohol abuse

Draco Malfoy, newly promoted in the Dark Lord's organization, is once again given a mission he is expected to fail. Determined to prove himself, to survive at any price, he soon learns the true cost of his circumstances.

--. Primary Season
[Stargate: Atlantis || John Sheppard/Rodney McKay]

Governor John Sheppard is widower and aspiring Presidential candidate. Rodney McKay is his new communications manager. With Rodney's help, John's campaign manages to close the distance to the favorite to win, Cameron Mitchell. However, with the nomination and a likely general election win within reach, John has to realize that his feelings for Rodney could be the one issue that can still stop him.

--. Scion of Two Worlds
[InuYasha/Star Trek (AOS/2009/Reboot) || Kagome/nu!Spock, Sesshoumaru, Sarek/Amanda]
Warnings: off-scene deaths, violence

The aftermath of the Final Battle does not go as expected. Kagome is trapped within the Shikon and Sesshoumaru is her reluctant caretaker. In an attempt to break the curse he gives the Shikon to a young Spock who grows up under the care of a compassionate and accepting Kagome. When the Narada comes calling, the Enterprise has allies.

--. Secrets Were Never Meant to be Kept
[Supernatural/Buffy the Vampire Slayer || Ellen/Bobby, Dean/Faith, canon Buffy season two pairings]
Warnings: implied violence, language, underage drinking

At thirteen, Faith comes to live with John Winchester and his two sons. Three years later she starts to have dreams about being a Slayer, it's a secret she tries to keep from John since she knows the truth of her destiny, but in the end it's a secret that will end up having dire consequences.

--. To Settle Matters, Once and for All
[Sherlock/Doctor Who || Sherlock Holmes/Amy Pond; Doctor/River Song, Rory Williams/Molly Hooper]
Three months have passed since Sherlock Holmes succesfully rescued his fiancee, Amelia Pond, and their daughter Melody from the clutches of Madame Kovarian, who was working on behalf of the religious organization known as The Silence. They've settled into life in London and all is going well until someone tries to break into 221B Baker Street. Amy identifies the person from a photograph as her ex-fiancee, Rory Williams. Sherlock is determined to find Rory and get answers, but in a twist Rory has no clue what he's doing, having been brainwashed. Sherlock is shot while confronting Rory and nearly dies while saving Rory's life. Determined once and for all to get rid of the threat of The Silence and to keep his family safe, Sherlock, Amy, John Watson, the Doctor and others travel to Washington D.C. in 1969 and interrupt an important meeting between President Nixon and Canton Everett Delaware III, where the Doctor offers to solve the President's problem. While trying to ensure that certain events happen and a little girl escapes the clutches of The Silence, the Doctor and Sherlock stumble on a way to eliminate the threat once and for all. This is a re-write of the Doctor Who episodes "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon."

--. Sons of War (mini-bang)
[Stargate: Atlantis || Evan Lorne/Radek Zelenka, David Parrish/Laura Cadman, John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan]

It's the roaring twenties and rising painter Evan Lorne seems to have finally steady work as he meets the renowened Czech scientist Radek Zelenka on a party. But falling in love is not Evan's only problem because the society he frequents is rife with drama and sex and stained by the memories of the Great War. But the decade is drawing to an end and as everything unravels and his life is once more uncertain Evan has to make a live-changing decision.

--. Sorry, Wrong Number
[Stargate: Atlantis || John Sheppard/Rodney McKay]

When John, an IT guy, mistakenly answers a client's phone at the Dream Boys phone sex hotline, he isn't expecting the things coming out of Rodney's mouth to turn him on like they do. But since they do, maybe Rodney doesn't need to know that John doesn't technically work there if it means Rodney keeps it up. (NC-17)

--. Soul-Bonded
[RPF: CW || Jared Padalecki/Jensen Ackles]
Warnings: sex, magic, and rock ‘n roll

Jared has been the public face of the rock group Soul Bonded for the last two years. Jensen, lead singer and Fae Prince, seems to barely acknowledge his existence. Having an unrequited crush on the heir to the Fae throne isn't the smartest thing Jared's ever done.

But when the King of the Unseelie finds a gap in wall between their worlds, Jared saves Jensen and sets off a chain reaction that ends up with Jared in the Queen's chamber in Seelie, unable to explain why he can't stop touching Jensen without passing out.

And suddenly it looks like Jensen is seeing Jared in a whole new light.

--. Stone Heart
[Avatar: The Last Airbender || Gen]
Warnings: R; war of invasion/occupation; disturbing themes/situations

(Part of a quartet of nation switch AUs; each story is its own separate AU and stands on its own.) Earth Kingdom!Azula AU. Ba Sing Se falls in a hail of fire when she is thirteen, and the Lady Zula escapes with her brother and mother. Zula swears retribution… but before she can have her vengeance, she has to stay alive in a war-torn land. Very, very loosely based on the Snow White fairy tale. Rated R for violence, warfare, death, and other mature themes.

--. Tomorrow’s Holding on to Another Day
[RPF: American Idol (season 7) || David Cook/David Archuleta]
Warnings: language, drinking

David Cook is a B-list rockstar with an attitude problem. When he arrives in Murray (or as he privately thinks of it, middle-of-nowhere, Utah) to perform for the Winter Festival, not even David Archuleta, the cute festival coordinator can make him enjoy it. When he gets stuck in a time loop and is forced to relive the same day in Murray over and over, he think it's the worst thing that could have ever happened to him. But what he doesn't realize is that it just might be exactly what he needs.

--. Tameness of a Wolf
[Numb3rs || Charlie Eppes/Ian Edgarton]
Warnings: violence (in line with canon)

Wolf-shifter AU. With a newly formed pack that hasn't quite found its way, Don needs all the help he can get to stop a serial killer before he strikes again. Charlie has always been a wolf in academic clothing, stranded between a world of math and logic and one of instinct. Ian is happy to be a lone wolf, his unusual capabilities making him perfect for his solitary job and unwelcome by most alphas.

When they come together to stop a rogue shifter hell-bent on destroying as many packs as possible, each will end up re-evaluating their place with pack, wolf and each other..

--. Tombstone Space Station (mini-bang)
[In Plain Sight/Firefly (fusion) || Mary Shannon/Marshall Mann; past Marhshall/Abby, Brandi/Peter]
Warnings: violence, character death, consensual m/f sex

Twenty years after the events of Serenity, the planet Miranda is still an all-but-forbidden zone, guarded by an orbiting space station known as Tombstone. Once a legend in the Allied Marshal Service, Marshall Mann has become the Sheriff of Tombstone, accompanied by his two brothers. The newly-made widower just wants to lead a quiet life as a good lawman. But his former partner and lover, ‘Doc’ Shannon has other ideas. So do the ruthless crew of the ‘Ride ‘Em Cowboy’, and it will all come to a head outside the OK Docking Station.

--. Trials and Trevails of Time
[Charmed || Gen]
Warnings: discussion of character death

In the present, the Charmed Ones prepare for the birth of Piper's baby. And in the past, Chris and Josh fight to save their family from evil. The future? What happens there is anyone's guess.

--. Unexpected Song
[Glee || Rachel Berry/Finn Hudson]
Warnings: NC-17/R (romance-novel-esque sex scenes)

Broadway star Rachel Berry is taking a ‘seachange’ to perform in Las Vegas. Then her high school crush, Will Schuester, brings his glee club to Vegas for the National championships, and one of them is a particularly lovely senior named Finn Hudson.

--. Unseemly Acts, Unsuitable for Princesses (mini-bang)
[Harry Potter || Bellatrix Lestrange/ Lord Voldemort]
Warnings: “first time” sex, slightly questionable consent

Historical!AU. Lord Voldemort is visiting the court of the king, and the three princesses - Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narcissa - are warned to stay away from him. Bellatrix chooses not to.

--. Untitled
[Black Jewels/Primeval || Becker/Abby/Stephen; Becker/Abby; Stephen/Abby; Morton/Wilhelmina; Jaenelle/Daemon; Kaetien (OC)/Daemonar]
Warnings: mentions of violence and kidnapping; potential smut

The ARC team reacts to what they think is a normal anomaly situation. What they don't expect is that the anomaly will not only reunite them with someone they thought lost forever, but will also bring them to a new world that not only unlocks Abby's past, but Becker's as well.

--. The Village (and What Tosh Did There)
[Torchwood || Gen]
Warnings: graphic violence

Was the memory of Tosh being imprisoned in "Fragments" a truth, or was it a fabrication? In 2009, after Torchwood Three's headquarters was blown up, a draft of a report written by Tosh stated she was kidnapped by a "Milton" and imprisoned in a Welsh village for over a year. The story of how she escaped this village and eventually joined Torchwood is as astonishing as Tosh's short life and career with Torchwood.

--. War and Love (mini-bang)
[Marvel comics || Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Carol Danvers/Jessica Drew, Peter Parker/Mary Jane Watson]
Warnings: minor character death

In a post-apocalyptic world, the hope of fighting alien invasion lies on the shoulders of a group of teenage pilots. During the course they experience trust and doubt, love and anxiety, life and death. What'll become of them?

--. Warlord of Glacia
[Black Jewels || Morton/Wilhelmina Benedict]
Warnings: violence, language

A tangled web is changed when a certain Warlord takes matters into his own hands; he finds himself fighting for his life instead of embracing death. He also finds love, but could lose it by a few careless words.

--. The world you have to live in
[Primeval || Becker/Ethan, Connor/Abby]
Warnings: violence, character death

16 years ago Patrick Quinn and his friend Matt were stranded on the wrong side of an anomaly and were shortly separated as well afterwards. When chance brings Ethan Dobrowski back to the present he joins the ARC to wait for Danny's return, to reenact his revenge on the brother who he believes abandoned him.

Matt, having returned after being stranded in a desolate, dystopian future filled with monsters, has returned as well to prevent said future from ever happening by any means necessary.

As Ethan becomes more and more drawn to Becker he begins to question his decisions and Matt's as well but all that holds them in the ARC is a closely spun net of lies that would unravel as soon as one of them would tell the truth. But time draws near and in the face of the looming extinction on most life on earth and his personal feelings Ethan will have to make a decision.

--. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
[RPF: The Move/Wizzard || Ace Kefford/Trevor Burton]
Warnings: mental illness (psychosis, body dysphoria); transphobic and ableist language; misgendering

Azriel, the Archangel of Death, had not meant to fall, but living as a human has sorely tested xyr sanity. Living as a queer, kinky, transgendered, mentally ill Archangel, xe's has been kicking around the BDSM clubs of Birmingham, trying to keep xemself sane by taking any submissives xe can find, savouring the Domspace xe needs to function. But when that's taken away from xyr, when all anyone seems to notice is xyr mental illness, xe's left on xyr own, excluded from the safe places xe used to belong to, left hiding xyr true nature from everyone in fear of being discovered. Being a queer, schizophrenic, introverted Archangel, bereft of anywhere to call a community, Azriel struggles to fit in and find another safe space, chasing the Domspace that keeps xyr sane. Xe discovers it in the last place xe'd ever have though to look.

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