Yuletide Reveals: Treats (Upstairs Downstairs, Hammer Horror)

[thisbluespirit]

yuletide has now been revealed! I now know that I have to thank Lyrstzha for my lovely S&S gift. They are new to me and it seems to be their first S&S fic - I very much hope it's not their last!

I also wrote my assignment and two treats, somewhat to my surprise after feeling so ill for so long I thought I'd have to default. More about my assignment anon, but here are the last minute treats, beta-ed by the sterling persiflage_1 who still doesn't flinch when I throw things at them like this shortly before the deadline.


There were a lot of requests I'd have loved to have a go at, but these were the two that fell out in the end. Having watched my way through the entirety of Upstairs Downstairs (TV 1971) in the weeks before Yuletide, I hoped I'd manage to write something for philomytha, and finally did. (I originally thought of this as an x times fic, with also a bit with Hudson as footman, coming for Lady Marjorie & finding common ground with Mr Bellamy for the first time, but given that this one still went to 1.5k, it's probably as well.) It's very simple, but it was lovely to do - it's pre-canon, with Rose, newly arrived, getting her first chance to bond with an even younger Elizabeth:

All the Way Home (1647 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Upstairs Downstairs (TV 1971)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth Bellamy & Rose Buck
Characters: Rose Buck, Elizabeth Bellamy (Upstairs Downstairs), Angus Hudson (Upstairs Downstairs), Richard Bellamy, Kate Bridges
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Pre-Canon, Servants, Victorian
Summary: It had been supposed to be such a quiet evening…


I was assigned to calliopes_pen, which was great. Not only were there shiny prompts for Dracula (1968) written precisely to tempt me (possibly deliberately, given the circumstances XD) but I technically knew every single fandom requested. Obviously, I couldn't write them all - I nearly didn't write anything - but the first thing that struck me was this cracky idea for The Kiss of a Vampire about what happened to that army of hell bats Professor Zimmer unwisely conjured up at the end. And, you see, I actually watched Kiss and Scars of Dracula back to back, and in the latter, Dracula has suddenly acquired a whole army of attack hell bats and, er, well... I was a bit worried about the timeline, but honestly, there's no way all of that happened before 1872 anyway. (I reason that there's nothing to say that Roy Kinnear didn't take all of Dracula's remains to London with him that time and that Klove II came along and got the rest and so then there were two halves, which might have been why things got so more difficult for the poor undead soul after that. ;-p /handwaves) Also calliopes_pen told me that Peter Cushing absolutely refused to have Van Helsing do such a thing and, well....


Hell Bats are Not Just for the Night of the Conjunction of Capricorn With Saturn (1024 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Kiss of the Vampire (1963), Dracula (Movies - Hammer)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gerald Harcourt/Marianne Harcourt
Characters: Gerald Harcourt, Professor Zimmer (Kiss of the Vampire), Van Helsing (Hammer), Klove (Scars of Dracula)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Timeline What Timeline, Hell bats, Post-Canon, Epistolary, Crack, Hammer Horror Universe
Summary: Professor Zimmer begins to fear that the acquisition of an army of Bats out of Hell is for life, not just the long-awaited night of the full moon.


I think there should be more excerpts in it, but time was short. I think definitely something like:

ETA: added. Now I'm happy, even if it's a bit belated!

Comments

[philomytha]

I suspected my treat was from you! It really is a very lovely, sweet, happy-making fic, thank you again for it and I’m glad you ended up enjoying Upstairs Downstairs as much as I did <3

[thisbluespirit]

I was going to be secretive about watching it just in case, but then I felt so ill I couldn't imagine I would be. And also it was so good! I couldn't not talk about it! I was really glad it finally worked out, though. ♥

[persiflage_1]

LOL I'm not going to try to get myself a reputation as 'the unflinching last minute beta', but if I were, I'd be grateful for your testimony!

[thisbluespirit]

I shall be ready to give it whenever you do want it!! ♥

Thanks once again.

[persiflage_1]

Heehee. Okay.

And, as ever, you're welcome!

(Happy New Year, BTW. Don't think I said that yet!)

[thisbluespirit]

No - happy new year to you as well!!

[liadt]

Upstairs Downstairs Hammer Horror would be intriguing;p But you couldn't fail to please with an army of Hell bats for Yuletide, yeah!

[thisbluespirit]

I don't know, frankly, Miss Marple is much more use than any number of attack Hell Bats!