Fic: Stranger Things by Beadslut & Jenna_Thorn

[hermionemods]

Title: Stranger Things
Author/Penname: Beadslut & Jenna_Thorn
Artists: Goodsally, mamabasto, & tbranch
Pairing/Characters: Hermione Granger / Tim McGee
Summary: An NCIS investigation into the disappearance and murder of US Marines is complicated by a werewolf attack on one of their agents and the appearance of a young Englishwoman who is chasing a cure. With carte blanche from the Ministry

Comments

[abigail89]

This was excellent! I am a MAJOR MAJOR NCIS fanatic and I can honestly say y'all nailed the team perfectly. The humor, the interplay, GibbsGibbsGibbs' awesomeness, Abby's perfection, and Tim--oh, Tim is a shy, sexy beast, isn't he?

Great story! I very much enjoyed all the time I invested this weekend to reading it. Well done!

[jenna_thorn]

Thank you. We realized early on that we are both Abby girls and I'm afraid it's pretty obvious when you look at it that we tend to see the world from her point of view, which makes the art from goodsally all the funnier.

We wanted to share the joy we had in both canons, and I'm very pleased to hear that we did so for you.

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[cynaera]

I'm prolly not in the best frame of mind to comment, but I wanted to let you know I've delved into this work, and I'm sadly lacking in the whole "shift-gear" factor. I know I'll get into the flow of the story once I've had adequate sleep.

So far, though, you've got the NCIS cast down pretty well. Gibbs could stand to be a little more terse and, uh, fwappish.

I have the house to myself tomorrow, so I'll try to finish this read - failing that, I'll at least print it (don't worry - I have two reams of paper and a Lexmark T522 printer that kicks out 28 pages a minute) and read it while I'm sprawled on my lawn chair in my very undisciplined garden, totally invisible to the outside world, with the last of the bumblbees and hummingbirds whirring around my head...

[jenna_thorn]

No worries. It's probably better read in a mellow moment and I kind of wish I could join you in your garden with print outs. I've been reading some of the other Big Bangs and the ones I've randomly clicked on have been significantly less action- and more character-driven, so I think we'll throw a lot of people, given that we are indulging our love of snark and dialogue and not really exploring the psyche or anything like that.

(Gibbs has a shining moment later on. I think you'll get a grin out of it.)

[tenar10r]

That was fantastic!

[jenna_thorn]

Yay! I'm glad you read it and liked it. Thanks for letting me know.

[cluegirl]

Well I will tell you this, and not be even a little reserved for having betaed the first draft: You girls did a great job polishing this. The dialogue (Jenna, you know I'm looking at you,) is spot on, patteriffic, and funny as hell, and the action's nicely tight and still flexible enough to really sneak around and smack the reader from behind.

And the artists you guys got really did great in support of your story.
Brava, bellas!

[jenna_thorn]

I was really pleased by the art we got. 8-) Beadslut did art, too! For inell, when we found out that the mods weren't planning on getting art.

Thank you again for beta-ing and for your help in pointing out where we needed to work. We made some fairly significant changes after the last time you saw it, but I didn't want to burden you again and P. had volunteered to look it over. I'm glad that you can see the changes you suggested and that the final result is worth the time investment to read.

Thanks for reading and letting me (us) know.

[lucyanferr]

Just a couple of days ago I was wondering if anyone had ever written a Hermione/McGee fic. (I normally ship Hermione/AnyoneButRon and McGiva.) And now I found you wrote one! Woohoo

[jenna_thorn]

Your comments bring not just amusement, but delight. I'm happy that you read and enjoyed the story and thrilled that you dropped by to let us know.

I'm tickled at how you pulled some of my favorite lines.

We both love Abby (and I think it shows) and agree that we would much rather have not had Rowling's "Happily Ever After" epilogue and been free to imagine other futures, not just for Hermione, but for all of them. Draco's a particularly good example. I do understand that with her background, clear lines of good and evil are comforting and perfection is growing old with a Twu Wuv and raising babies, but she gave us so much to play with, I rather wish she'd seen fit to acknowledge that her world has room for her and us, too, and let us play in peace. Ah well, 'tis the author's prerogative, I suppose.

Thank you again for commenting to let us know you enjoyed this story.