RR -- Marriage of Convenience

[jane_elliot]

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

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[jenna_marianne]

Smallville (all Clark/Lex

[jenna_marianne]

Stargate Atlantis (all McKay/Sheppard

[jane_elliot]

Thank you, thank you! This is the best RR *ever*:)

[lothy]

Star Wars:

Drive You Mild by Obaona
"How would two powerful, individualistic people unite? Emperor Luke Skywalker, meet Jedi Knight Mara Jade." Long, single file.

As the summary suggests this is totally AU, so you should be able to read it without having read any of the Expanded Universe - you'll miss some of the foreshadowings that run through it but that's probably all.

[jane_elliot]

This one's going in my read now file:) Thanks!

[lothy]

Enjoy!

[elspethdixon]

Oh God, I love this trope (as the zillion Harlequin regencies I've read solely because they contain it can attest).

All the good fannish ones I can think of off the top of my head have already been recced, but I do have one other bandom one:

A Marriage of Convenience by jae_w. 40,000 word Regency AU involving this one guy from Panic at the Disco and some other guy he was in a band with before that and numerous other people who are all musicians of some kind but whose names I only know from fic. If you can get past an alternate version of Regency England allowing gay marriage for their aristocracy without any explanation for how this affects the inheritance of titles and law of primogeniture, it's awesome. (and really, most slash version of this trope have at least a few small "don't look at the logic, don't look!" issues in order to pull the marriage part off).

[jane_elliot]

Thanks!

[eponymousanon]

Ha! One of my bookmarks on delicious hasn't already been recced in here!

Title: Stay
Author: Gypsyflame (written for HP Cross Gen Fest)
Prompt Number: 18
Rating: NC-17
Main Pairing: Sirius/Draco
Summary: War is coming, and Narcissa is scared for Draco. So she turns to the only person she can think of - Sirius Black.
Warnings/Kinks: Dubious consent; may be considered underage (Draco is 16)
Word Count: 23,589
Author's Notes: This fic takes place immediately following OotP. It’s AU in that Sirius didn’t die; otherwise, it’s compliant with OotP canon. Some lines are taken directly from HBP. Many thanks to my always-excellent beta, without whom I would be completely lost at sea.

http://community.livejournal.com/hp_cross_fest/24300.html

It's an AU in which Narcissa has Sirius marry Draco in order to keep him safe.

[jane_elliot]

Thanks!

[green_grrl]

SGA - John/Rodney

Torch's Title of the Story
The one with the chaperone and the quaint local customs and the museum and the virgins and the plot device and the ceremony and the user manual.

SG-1 - Jack/Daniel

maab_connor's Ordinary is All Perspective
They touched each other, so Aliens Made Them Get Married.

Merlin - Merlin/Arthur

pennyplainknits's Lord Drake's Bequest
AU. To my great-nephew Arthur I bequeath Tintagel Distribution, wholly and without reserve, save for one condition. You must marry, and stay married, for a period of no less than six months.

Harry Potter - Snape/Harry

Dementor Delta's Dumbledore's Folly
Dumbledore wills his old family home to Harry and Snape, and it appears the only way out of the bequest is for them to Court.

Diana Williams' A Convenient Marriage
In order to escape Lucius Malfoy's challenge, Harry must marry Snape.

Isolde's Between a Rock and a Hard Place
After a naming ceremony gone awry, it's discovered that only marriage to Snape will save Harry from a disastrous connection to Voldemort.

Leela's The Betrothal

[jane_elliot]

These sound great, thanks!