And the Way Back Machine dials early spring of 1996. "Quid Pro Quo, Doctor Lambert" was the first fanfiction I wrote, and it remains my third most popular. I'm afraid it shows all the embarrassing characteristics of a first fanfiction -- it's a bird! it's a plane! it's a Mary Sue? and "cool aunt" Janette? -- and I hope I would do better today, but the story will always be distinguished for me by having reached fkfic-l before "the final four" episodes aired. Writing in FK as a live fandom was . . . unforgettable.
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Title:
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Quid Pro Quo, Doctor Lambert"
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Length:
~2,800 words
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Date:
Posted to FKFic-L in April 1996
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Rating:
PG
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Summary:
A debt is collected before the eyes of Nick and Natalie's grieving daughter.
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Setting:
Alternate Future, 2035, Toronto
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Characters:
Natalie, Lacroix, Janette, Others
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Quotation:
"And you bargained well, for someone with a table leg through his chest."