Chocolate Box is Live!

[thisbluespirit]

chocolateboxcomm has gone live and I have two marvellous gifts! I haven't even begun on the rest of the still-growing collection but it all looks very shiny from here, with around 1100 works.

Anyway, I have lucked out again, since my main gift is this, an amazing long Emma/Regina fic for OUaT that is a canon divergence reworking of S3B, in which it's Regina who goes to try and get Emma to remember and things work out in a way that Regina never expected (and isn't sure she wanted). Basically, it is really lovely with fairy tale edges but also spiky and awkward and funny and a bit painful in places, which is exactly how I want a Swan Queen fic to be and can so rarely find, and I love it.

would that i (10096 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Emma Swan, Henry Mills & Emma Swan, Evil Queen | Regina Mills & Henry Mills, Evil Queen | Regina Mills & Henry Mills & Emma Swan
Characters: Emma Swan, Evil Queen | Regina Mills, Henry Mills (Once Upon a Time)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, New York City Serenade Rewrite
Summary: In the ebbing daylight, the planes of Emma’s face are cast in shadow; she’s golden, a fairytale heroine come alive, and Regina marvels that she’d found it so easy to slip between the cracks of New York City. It seems so transparently obvious, that Emma is made for something more. 3B rewrite: Regina arrives in New York to restore Emma's memories. Things don't go according to plan.


I also had a treat for the Star Wars Prequels, for Obi-Wan/Padme, a delightful, fun mission-fic from an AU where they're the ones in a relationship. (No matter what AU he is in, though, Obi-Wan still has to put up with other people's dangerous driving, but this is only right and proper.)

under a sky of electric stars (1057 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Characters: Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Additional Tags: Politics, Speeder Chase, Established Relationship
Summary: Obi-Wan Kenobi has been assigned to escort Padmé Amidala on a mission to Corellia in hopes of convincing their government to align with the Republic in the early days of war. Unfortunately for Obi-Wan's nerves, these negotiations don't stay in the boardrooms, and he and Padmé end up in a speeder chase.


On the other side, I've had a comment on the gift I wrote, and am very relieved. I don't think I've ever been so nervous in an exchange before as I was with that and the treat, and not knowing whether I could trust they were any good. But the recip seems to have liked it, so that is a great relief, and the important thing in any case.