Chocolate Box Reveals

[thisbluespirit]

So, chocolateboxcomm has now been and gone, and I can thank lurking_latinist and romanajo123 for my gifts, both for Five/Tegan - Doubt and Doubles and Just This One Time. (Again, lurking_latinist! ♥)

I was assigned to calliopes_pen, and wrote three stories for Dracula (TV 1968) - and thanks to Pers for beta-ing for me again! The first two were Canon Divergence AUs based on their prompts and the other a post-canon fic (I - sort of - had made this one earlier!)

I wrote a Lucy/Mina ficlet for their prompt about an AU where Mina interrupts Dracula's nighttime visits to Lucy...

Morning Prayer (902 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mina Harker/Lucy Weston
Characters: Mina Harker, Lucy Weston, Dracula
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Vampires, Fix-It, Implied harm to a bat, but it is not an actual bat anyway, it is a vampire having a bad night
Summary: Dracula's visit to Lucy is interrupted. It's not a good night for the Count.


And then for their Van Helsing & Dracula prompt, about Van Helsing's giving in to Dracula tempting him with all his knowledge at the end, which was too fascinating not to write. This version has a rather more severe Van Helsing than many of them, so it was a fun AU to explore.

To Catch A Spider... (2082 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968), Dracula & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Dracula & Abraham Van Helsing
Characters: Dracula, Abraham Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, John Seward, Mrs Hoskins (Dracula TV 1968)
Additional Tags: Dark, Evil Wins, Major Character Undeath, Character Death, Vampires, Alternate Universe
Summary: Van Helsing gives into temptation. The Count will learn to be sorry for it - and so will everyone else.

And, finally, for their Jon/Mina/John request, I actually had almost all of this piece written out in rough from a previous Yuletide, but wasn't able to do what I'd planned with it at the time due to illness. I wasn't quite sure if I'd be able to get it into shape and typed up for Chocolate Box, but I did, so here it is:

Inner Demons (3867 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker/John Seward
Characters: John Seward, Mina Harker, Jonathan Harker, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Demonic Possession, Victorian, Blood and Injury, The forces of darkness do not take holidays
Summary: If there's one thing this supernatural business has taught Dr Seward, it's that wherever the Harkers go, there'll be trouble. Unfortunately, it seems that wherever the Harkers go now, so does he...

I had meant to write some other treats because there were so many fun requests, especially in the Doctor Who fandom (there were even other Five/Tegan requesters! Unheard of!) But I got a tad carried away with my assignment mostly because I just had to dust off the would-be hellfire club in the Hotel in Bridlington (although I still did not even get to use the whole Wold Newton Triangle thing).