Passion & Profession Master Post
Fandom: Eagle/Jane Eyre crossover.
Pairing: Marcus Aquila/St. John Rivers.
Rating: explicit, NC-17, think-of-the-children, etc.
Warnings: AU continuation of Jane Eyre. Many warnings apply: full explanation here.
Word Count: 129K or so.
Disclaimer: Entirely fictional; any historical characters in the story have been selfishly manipulated to fit the narrative. A 100% transformative, not-for-profit work. Creative Commons copyright information is at the bottom of this post. More specifically: I do not own the Eagle, and thus have not profited in any material way from this fic (although Jane Eyre is past copyright, so I suppose I could in theory do a big rewrite, drop the Eagle bits, and produce the next Pride & Prejudice & Zombies...).
motetus has produced six wonderful pictures for the story. Thumbnails of the art are located at the end of the appropriate chapters; click on them to link back to her journal for the full pictures. Please bear in mind that some of the pictures contain spoilers (which is why they're at the end of the chapter, rather than the beginning). Also, some of the pictures are NSFW. Yay!
LiveJournal Author's Note
Print Version Author's Note & Acknowledgements
Prologue art: The Reverend comes upon a New Land
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5 art: On Safari in a Howdah
Chapter 6
Chapter 7 art: Second Attempts are better than Firsts
Chapter 8 art: The Perils of the Afternoon Nap
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13 art: A Charming Companion at a Kite Festival
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Epilogue art: Fulfilling his Domestic Duties
Map of Calcutta, 1840
Appendix A: Travel Adventures
Appendix B: Tentacle Porn
Postscript: the First Anglo-Afghan War
For those who would prefer to enjoy this on an ereader, rather than LJ, a very generous soul has made epub and mobi versions of the text. Feel free to take and share:
Mobi Format
Epub Format, lo-res
Epub Format, hi-res
and if you'd like to see what the actual print copy of the book looks like, here it is in pdf form
finally, here's the lyrics that inspired it all: Sigh No More, by Mumford and Sons
Passion & Profession is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Feel free to share it. Also feel free to alter it, adapt it, or transform it, just so long as you mention me, demon_rum (so I can read it, too!), and keep it not-for-profit.