RR -- Marriage of Convenience
It's Marriage of Convenience Week (my personal favorite theme week) here at Epic Recs! Arranged marriages, forced marriages, forced bonding, accidental bonding, and plain-old marriage of convenience are all covered under this theme, so bring on the recs!
Things to keep in mind:
-Recced stories can be any length, any fandom, and any pairing, as long ( Read more... )
Things to keep in mind:
-Recced stories can be any length, any fandom, and any pairing, as long ( Read more... )
When It Crackles by lyra_wing
http://lyra-wing.livejournal.com/117308.html
(22,400 words) Season 2 era. "A cult is rumored to be guarding the Fountain of Youth. Oh, and while investigating it, Sam and Dean get roped into getting married. Yep." The case is actually pretty cool, like a good episode of the show, and the Sam/Dean romance is good as well.
[Harry Potter - Draco/Neville]
Theft of Assets, Destruction of Property by Helen
http://helenish.talkoncorners.net/theft.html
(23,000 words) AU post OoTP. One of those Harlequinesque Big Misunderstanding style stories, but. you know. Better. ;) Before I caved and read it, I saw this rec'd a bunch of times but was like, 'er, forced marriage fic about Draco baking?' and scrolled by -- BUT turns out it is so not really about that at all. My personal summary of the story would be: In which Lucius tries to strip Draco of value & dignity, and yet Draco finds inner strength and purpose by grasping what joy & accomplishment that's left for him to find. Also, Neville is kind of a hero and also kind of a dick - but luckily not unforgivably so. "Lucius breaks Draco's arm in two places when he catches him kissing Matthew in the barn over Christmas break in fifth year. Matthew works with the horses and smiles at Draco when he finds him hiding out in the empty stalls, avoiding the house. He has long warm fingers which he hooks in Draco's waistband when he kisses him and Draco never sees him again."
[Bandom, Panic! - Jon/Tom; warning for AU RPS]
A Marriage of Convenience by Jae
http://jae-w.livejournal.com/158412.html
(40,000 words) "Regency AU. Jon was not opposed to marrying to his advantage in principle, but he'd never thought to wed himself to the season's scandal."
[SGA - Rodney/Ronon]
In the Hands of Yes by Hth
http://web.archive.org/web/20070814052418/hth.gatefiction.com/handsofyes.htm
32,834 words of Aliens Made Them Get Married. The rare 'established relationship' forced marriage fic. I love Ronon in this SO MUCH.
[Smallville - Clark/Lex]
Omiai
http://members.shaw.ca/waytoomuchplor/omiai.htm
(115,000 words) Arranged marriage AU, in which Lex is still basically Lex & Clark is mostly still Clark but he and Clark never met in Smallville. And now wacky-legal-will-hijinks cause a forced marriage. Less horrible than it sounds. Really!
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