2010 stories
I thought I was going to get another one in before 2011, but it's become long, so here we are. I've been pretty darn writerly this year, and I hope you enjoyed the girls of 2010. And who knows; maybe you'll find some you missed on the list, and there will be new to you fic! Stories are listed in chronological order by fandom.
American Gods
Body and Soul (Bast, PG)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series
The Day of Grief (Buffy/Angel, PG)
Figments (Cordelia/Angel, PG-13)
The Book of Love (Gunn, PG)
In Bocca al Lupo (Buffy/Veruca, PG-13)
Fixer Uppers (Dawn/Faith, Buffy/Angel, R)
Mile High (Buffy/Angel, PG)
Sugar (Fred, PG)
Rapunzel (Buffy/Cordelia, Buffy/Angel, Cordelia/Xander, PG-13)
Elemental (Cordelia/Dawn, PG)
Role Model (Ensemble, PG)
Oases (Kaylee/Kennedy/Serenity, PG-13)
Plan B (Buffy/Tara, PG-13)
Hand Me Downs (Buffy/Cordelia, PG-13)
Buffy's Guide to Winning Arguments with your Boyfriend (Buffy/Angel, PG)
Believe it or Not (The Courtship of Rupert Giles Remix) (Giles/OFC, R)
Coyote (Eve/Harmony, PG-13)
Hide and Seek (Buffybot/Fred, PG)
A Whole New World (Buffy/Angel, PG)
Man of Many Hearts (Buffy/Angel, Darla/Angel, Gunn/Wesley, NC-17)
Kin (Bethany Chaulk/Gwen Raiden, PG-13)
Portatelo nella tomba (Darla/Angelus, PG)
French Kiss (Dawn/Kennedy, PG-13)
Bitter Cold (Angel, PG)
Burn Notice
Notes from the Frontlines (Sidelines) (Michael Westen, Sam Axe, PG)
The Collector
The Fall (Morgan/the Devil, Morgan/Maya, PG)
CSI
Old-Fashioned (Nick Stokes, Catherine Willows, PG)
Firefly
Oases (Kaylee/Kennedy/Serenity, PG-13)
The Ghost and the Darkness
Fields Dark with Night (John Henry Patterson/Helena Patterson, PG)
Glee
Candle (Rachel Berry, G)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Nobody's Pool Boy (Harry Lockhart, Perry van Shrike, R)
The Saint
The Laying on of Hands (Emma Russell/Simon Templar, Emma Russell/Martin de Porres, PG)
The Salton Sea
A Different Kind of Time (Jimmy the Finn, hints of Danny Parker/Jimmy the Finn, PG-13)
Star Wars
Gravity (Princess Leia, G)
Thunderheart
Homecoming (Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, PG-13)
Marrow (Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, NC-17)
Sweet and Easy (Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, PG)
Stealing Home (Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, NC-17)
Bone Deep (Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, PG-13)
Working Conditions (Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, PG)
Sea of Waking Dreams (Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, PG)
Frozen in Ice Songs (Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, PG-13)
An Ace That I Could Keep (Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, PG-13)
Red Violations (Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, R)
It's a Wash (Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, R)
Tombstone
A Man of Wealth and Taste (Doc Holliday/Johnny Ringo, PG-13)
Top Gun
The Restoring Force (Iceman, G)
Veronica Mars
Fairytale Ending (Veronica Mars/Weevil Navarro, PG)
And my favorite stories from 2010:
The Book of Love (Angel, Charles Gunn, PG)
In the offices, Wes and Fred have fallen into the kind of arguments only NASA is used to hearing, bandying twelve-syllable words about in defense of their preferred organizational styles. Gunn started dusting and organizing the weapons cupboard, but gradually lapsed into seeing if he can teach himself to use nun chucks. Angel and Cordelia’s reorganization of the lobby furniture somehow devolved into the two of them collapsed over the couch, limbs intertwined in a cattish display of shared languor.
Gunn deserved better than what Joss & Co gave him, and I am also very interested in The Book of Love and The Book of Peace and The Book of Death, the idea that there are these huge, mythic tomes out there that contain everything.
Marrow (Thunderheart, Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, NC-17)
Ray lifted his face, and waited to be kissed. Walter indulged him, threading a hand through Ray’s hair, cradling Ray’s skull in the palm of his hand. This made one less hand to hold Crow Horse’s weight, and slowly he gave it to Ray to bear, settling along his body by inches. The familiar force of Crow Horse’s body weighing down upon his pinned Ray to the bed, sinking him further into the plush of the mattress. The veil of Crow Horse’s hair all around him, the blanket of his body atop him; Ray was made an island, a country solely Walter’s domain.
Walter stripped Ray’s shorts from him. After all this time, Ray was still overwhelmed by the reverence with which Walter touched him, looked at him; like he was a sacred object. More than he had ever wanted anything, Ray wanted to be worthy of that reverence.
I really enjoyed spending so much time with the boys, and I really like the way the story turned out, too. It had a plot, and my first ever NC-17 m/m slash, and I got to talk about a lot of different things.
A Man of Wealth and Taste (Tombstone, Doc Holliday/Johnny Ringo, PG-13)
You don’t make a deal with the devil and not ask for anything in return. What Ringo really wanted was an end to the hunger, but he didn’t know how to say it, so instead he asked for good hands. There were tales from far east-way beyond the coast of Boston and Philadelphia, which was pretty damn far east in Ringo’s estimation-about wishes, and the mistakes you made when the genie was smarter than you, but Ringo’d never been much for stories. It was a real shame, because he could have used the advice. If he still had to be hungry, he wanted the best hands, but he wasn’t careful when he asked and it turned out, like in that goddamn Snow White story-not that Ringo was one for stories-that his wish had only made him second best. Holliday, by nature, without ever giving anything up, was better and faster and it was just a goddamn shame that Ringo hadn’t been careful, because now his hunger just grew, and he wanted to swallow the whole world so long as Doc Holliday got swallowed up, too.
I love Doc Holliday, and I love writing myth, and the two came together here.
Bone Deep (Thunderheart, Ray Levoi/Walter Crow Horse, PG-13)
Ray’s hands ached like they were broken. He cupped them and filled his palms with his own breath, but it wasn’t much warmer than the air sputtering from the cruiser’s vents. He rubbed them together, then stuck them in his coat pockets, but it was colder in there; the artificial material did not hold the heat. Teeth chattering, Ray stuck his hands between his thighs, hoping for enough warmth to at least ease the pain of a six degree January morning with no fucking gloves.
“Hey, chief,” Crow Horse said, peering at him from over the tops of his Raybans. “I’m paying you to nab speeders, not to play with yourself.”
Seriously, how can you guys not love them?
Final story count: 48. Fandoms: 16. New fandoms: 14.