Title: Pickled Red Herring (Part III of ??)
Author: lareinenoire
Play: Richard III
Characters / Pairings: Stanley, Hastings, Elizabeth, Richard, and the corpse that was formerly George
Rating: M
Warnings: Violence, profanity, references to drug use, references to prostitution descriptions of murder scenes, shady economics, infidelity, bad life choices, Epic ( Read more... )

Title: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Author: lareinenoire
Play: Richard II
Characters / Pairings: Aumerle, Henry, Richard; Richard/Aumerle, Richard/Isabel
Rating: PG13
Summary: Edward York makes a deal with the devil.
Warnings: Epic Legal Fail (Chancery), gratuitous quotation, references to drug use, bad life choices,
Wordcount: 2844
NB: For angevin2, because no birthday in ( Read more... )

Title: To Take is Not to Give (Part IV of ?)
Author: lareinenoire
Play: 3 Henry VI / Richard III
Characters / Pairings: The York family, the Neville family, eventual Richard/Anne, Edward/Elizabeth
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 4103 (Part IV only)
Warnings: Violence (mostly offstage), character deaths, profanity. In this section, graphic depiction of childburth, ( Read more... )

Title: L'astre du jour
Author: lareinenoire
Play/Poem: Richard II
Characters: Queen Isabel, Richard II, Prince Hal
Pairings: Richard/Isabel, references to Richard/Anne
Rating: PG
Summary: It was in the Louvre that Isabelle Vaillant first saw Richard Perrivale.
Warnings: Misinterpretation of art
Author's Notes: Written for angevin2, 'since the way Sweet Fortune's ( Read more... )

Prologue
Part I
Part II
Part III

Epilogue: Et in Arcadia, ego

( For the first time in what seemed like decades, Anne Perrivale's once-famed roses bloomed, transforming the arbour at Carnarvon into a riot of white and yellow, framed by the red blooms Eleanor had ordered the gardeners to plant when the others refused to grow. )

Prologue
Part I
Part II

iii. Posterity, await for wretched years
When at their mothers' moistened eyes babes shall suck,
Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears,
And none but women left to wail the dead.
--Henry VI, Part I (I.i.48-51)

( Just a few words, love. The stories we've heard have been the stuff of nightmares. )

Prologue
Part I

ii. 'Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,
But more when envy breeds unkind division--
There comes the ruin, there breeds confusion.
--Henry VI, Part I (IV.i.192-4)

( Humphrey Lancaster hadn't intended to argue with his brother on his wedding day. )

Prologue

i. This quarrel will drink blood another day
--Henry VI, Part I (II.iv.133)

( Richard York had spent much of the journey to the Savoy trying to formulate the best way to introduce himself to Henry Lancaster. )

Title: Delirien
Author: lareinenoire
Fandom: Shakespeare - 1 Henry VI (roughly), with flashbacks to Henry V
Characters / Pairings: The York family, the Lancaster family, the Neville family, Richard/Cecily, Humphrey/Eleanor, eventual Margaret/Suffolk, Margaret/Henry.
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 21,332
Warnings: More disputed wills than strictly necessary, Epic ( Read more... )

Title: Drama Queens
Author: lareinenoire
Play: Henry VI, Part II
Characters / Pairings: Margaret, Suffolk, Henry, Gloucester, Winchester; Margaret/Suffolk
Rating: R
Warnings: Profanity, drunkenness, badly planned sex, cattiness, shameless backstage drama
Wordcount: 3755
Summary: Somewhere in the haze of disorientation that came with waking up after way too ( Read more... )