Beyond the Roundels

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).

I've been getting back to the overdue AU Meme, and finished the Three & Jo & the Brig one the other day, so was determined to do the Lucy/Mina/John one for today since it was Hallowe'en and I just about did, so here they both are. Hopefully the last three will also follow soon!


AU Meme: Mina Harker/John Seward/Lucy Weston (1508 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mina Harker/John Seward/Lucy Weston
Characters: Mina Harker, John Seward, Lucy Weston
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Chalet School Fusion, Ficlet, Vampires, Major Character Undeath, Jonathan dies a lot off-screen, Dr Seward doesn't even faint once
Summary: 10x scenarios for Mina/John/Lucy written for a Dreamwidth meme.

(I might have got a tad evil in some of them. Also I couldn't think what things get used for Fusions in fandom - I'm not doing that category next time! - and so I wound up doing a Chalet School one.)


AU Meme: Three & Jo & the Brigadier (1221 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Third Doctor & Jo Grant & Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Characters: Third Doctor, Jo Grant, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Ficlet, Humor, Request Meme, Mentions of the Master - Freeform
Summary: 10x AU scenarios for the Third Doctor, Jo Grant, and the Brigadier, for a Dreamwidth meme.

I am not doing well at keeping these as short as possible, though, whoops.

I managed to write three mostly slight fills for the Commentfest, and here they are :

Predictable (605 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Zodiac (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: David Gradley/Esther Jones
Characters: Esther Jones (Zodiac TV), David Gradley
Additional Tags: Obscure and British Commentfest, Ficlet, Horoscopes
Summary: Grad finally asks Esther to draw up a horoscope for him...


Not So Much Awry (1736 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mercury (Sapphire & Steel), Iron (S&S), Emerald (Sapphire & Steel)
Additional Tags: Obscure and British Commentfest, original elements, Original Character(s), Haunted Houses
Summary: There are ghosts in the basement.


Restless Spirits (1093 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mina Harker/Lucy Weston, John Seward/Lucy Weston, Mina Harker/John Seward, Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker
Characters: Mina Harker, John Seward, Abraham Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, Lucy Weston, Dracula
Additional Tags: Humor, seances, Post-Canon, Obscure and British Commentfest, Possession, Ghosts, For Science!, More of Van Helsing's Necromancy
Summary: Professor Van Helsing feels it is their duty to hold a séance, for science. Needless to say, it doesn't go well.


(It's not too late to make fills! Or, indeed, even to leave prompts, although their chances of being filled are inevitably smaller by this point.)

For john_amend_all in the Fic Commentary Meme, a commentary on In The Blood, a Lucy/Mina ficlet for Dracula (1968).

( Cut for 60s vampire femslash )

And so my treats. I wrote the first for calliopes_pen, chiefly in a hopeless attempt to remain anonymous, so that she might at least wonder which one was me. (I had vague plans for a rather different one, but I got seized by this idea while reading through her likes in the letter):

Influence (1368 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968), Dracula & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Abraham Van Helsing & John Seward, Count Dracula/Jonathan Harker, John Seward/Lucy Weston, Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker, Mina Harker/Lucy Weston
Characters: Abraham Van Helsing, John Seward, Dracula, Jonathan Harker, Lucy Weston, Mina Harker
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Implied/Referenced Mind Control, Dark
Summary: Some personalities are magnetic, they exert an irresistible pull on others.


Then there were two prompts in particular that jumped out at me this year, the first being Wasuremono's great prompt about Miss Marple being a goddess, the genius loci of St Mary Mead, which I obviously had to write:

The Spirit of St Mary Mead (4005 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jane Marple, Griselda Clement, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Historical, Multi-Era, Roman Britain, English Civil War, 18th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Misses Clause Challenge, Miss Marple is a Goddess
Summary: St Mary Mead has had an unusual guardian down through all these centuries.


The second was for moemachina, about Feste & Olivia from Twelfth Night. As I've loved Feste since I did the play for A-Levels mumble years ago, I couldn't resist. I had an idea, but then remembered that writing Shakespeare fic is TERRIFYING. So I watched BBC TN twice in a row, found some 16th C jokes and riddles on the internet, built my fic around those and then went for it. And then typed it up while mentally going LALALA not writing Shakespeare etc. Happily, it seems to have got some really lovely comments, so I clearly didn't mess it up too badly.

movements of the mind (1892 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Feste & Olivia (Twelfth Night)
Characters: Feste (Twelfth Night), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Friendship, Backstory, Jesters, Implied/Referenced Character Death
Summary: ”Look you now, he’s out of his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged.”


That done, I decided to write a couple of treats for Madness if I could, but the Adam Adamant Lives! fic for Liadt grew large enough for the main collection, even if it was probably too frivolous for Yuletide (and I don't think Liadt was fooled by my anonymity for a minute, either):

Battered and Bruised (1812 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Adam Adamant Lives!
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adam Adamant & Georgina Jones
Characters: Adam Adamant, Georgina Jones, William E. Simms
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Cake Fic Meme, Cake, Humor, Hijinks & Shenanigans, I was going to label this crack, and then thought soberly about canon, and didn't
Summary: Mr Adamant suffers a truly traumatic incident at a village gala. Unfortunately for him, Georgie is on hand to help...


And lastly, this tiny bit of post-canon for Gerry and Sandra from New Tricks, for Dynapink:

Vintage (532 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: New Tricks
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sandra Pullman & Gerry Standing
Characters: Sandra Pullman, Gerry Standing
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Ficlet, Yuletide Treat
Summary: "You look as if you've seen a ghost..."

With many thanks to Pers who patiently beta-ed all three full treats and a second beta of my long assignment! (Those who have been around these parts a while: I think you can probably already guess which one got the influential rec. Oh, yes. It is my fate, my doom, my only claim to fame. :lol:)

The first few results of the writing meme, plus a birthday ficlet:

( Under the Cut )