FK Recommendation February 2009

[brightknightie]

What's good?  I'm pleased to get to feature "The Night Was Dark, and She Was the Owner" by Elisabeth as February's recommendation-of-the-month.  This ficlet crosses over with Highlander, but requires no HL knowledge to enjoy its full FK potential.

"Buy the lady a drink?"
       The question, asked in the patois of her childhood by a

Comments

[havocthecat]

Hey! I found two FK fics! Of course, I immediately thought "I have to go and tell brightknightie right away!" :)

They're both by fickitten. I'm rather gleeful, and will probably be posting nearly the same thing on my journal as I'm commenting on here. :) They're Natalie/Janette, but both are certainly readable as friendship only, if that's what you'd rather. (And knowing you, I'm sure you'd rather. *g*) ETA: Actually, the first one is Natalie/Janette, the second one is friendship only. Oops!

The first, Unfinished Business, is a post-series Natalie and Janette friendship fic, with Natalie as a vampire, and the premise of how Natalie has changed is both heartbreaking and realistic. (The ones that have her coming to terms with it before more than a few decades have passed have me blinking a few times.) I think the author didn't know Vachon's fate in AtA, or maybe she ignored it. It was always unclear anyway, and I like to think he dug himself up after a short period of time.

The other, Hiding Out at the Raven, is a human Natalie and vampire

[brightknightie]

Thank you so much for these links and compelling recommendations! I'm looking forward to them very much.

>"(And knowing you, I'm sure you'd rather. *g*)"

On Nanette? Yes, you're right, but in the end, as long as there's a sincere attempt at keeping the characters like themselves, I'm not going to quibble at where they end up romantically. Mostly. (Okay, okay, but my standard couple-faction quibbles totally fall under the rubric of "keeping the characters like themselves." ~g~)

>"I think the author didn't know Vachon's fate in AtA, or maybe she ignored it. It was always unclear anyway, and I like to think he dug himself up after a short period of time."

I used to read a lot more Vachon fiction, when I was close to a Vaq, and it seems to me that they always buried him with blood and then dug him up, except in the very rare cases of a pure Tracy mourning story.

I wrote the digging-up scenario myself once, but I left him in the ground for several years first! :-)

>"...feels like a case that was dealt with by the characters