Title: Will Everybody Stop Vanishing for Five Minutes
Authors: khilari and persephone_kore
Summary: In which Nikola charges all over revenant-filled Europa with the Jäger horde while pregnant.

( No, that's just like them. Idiots. )

Title: Things You Can't Plan For
Authors: khilari and persephone_kore
Summary: As promised in Interior Decorating, Bill and Barry take the Jägers out to stop other people's monsters from menacing the tourists. Somebody has gotten hold of mantis shrimp.

( Bill's talk with Lucrezia degenerated into shouting loud enough to penetrate (faintly) Castle walls that had been constructed to prevent screams of agony from interfering with anybody's reading time. )

Title: Things You Can't Plan For
Authors: khilari and persephone_kore
Summary: Sequel to Less Abduction, More Kissing, a rule 63 AU in which Nikola Wulfenbach is the Heterodyne Boys' friend. At this point, Barry and Nikola (as well as Bill and Lucrezia) have been married for a few years now. Nikola returns early from an adventure, not feeling well, and not in the mood ( Read more... )

These were too short to each get their own posts, and were written to a characters+phrase from a list sort of prompt meme.

Bill, Barry, "Breaking the Rules"
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Title: Refractory
Author: persephone_koreSummary: Lucrezia has Bill Heterodyne right where she wants him (and she likes the look of him shackled nude to the slab). He has other ideas and he's sneakier than she expected ( Read more... )

Title: Rebuilding Defenses
Author: persephone_kore
Warnings: Depression, forced prostitution, contemptuous language
Summary: Sequel to And Whose Army? Bill and Barry took the Jägers to fight the Other, and this way they both came back. But all is not well with Bill, and Europa may have more problems than when they started.

( Barry still felt like he'd been scraped raw inside. And Bill was still the same as before -- quiet, deadly, single-minded, as if he were living inside a lens. )

Author: persephone_kore
Summary: Klaus was, like everyone with any sense, planning to avoid the Heterodyne and his brother when they showed up at Transylvania Polygnostic University. Then he actually met them... and his apartment building blew up. (It wasn't their fault! They weren't even there!)

( Are you carrying anything that shouldn't be magnetized? )

"One of these vicious Heterodynes took to wife the daughter of a conquered house. Her good behavior was bought with the continued health of her family. She proved to be an extraordinary woman who, when her children were born, saw to their education with a strength of purpose that defied all of her husband’s efforts to pass on family tradition." -- ( Read more... )

Title: And Whose Army?
Author: persephone_kore
Summary: In the prologue to Agatha H and the Airship City, the first Girl Genius novelization, the Heterodyne Boys are still in pursuit of the Other and attempt to warn Lord Womak of Woggleburg that they've figured out the next attack will be on his town. He doesn't listen. This is not quite what they do next.

( The first fiery boulder smashed into the castle up on the crag, and every voice went silent. )

A Nightmare

Author: Sturzkampf

( Every year Bill and Barry Heterodyne visited the grave of their parents in Mechanicsburg Cathedral on the anniversary of their deaths )