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space_swap pinch-hit: Augment (Young Wizards)

Not as detailed as I wanted it to be: I had too many ideas and they all pulled in different directions - or required rather more time than I had to give it. And it was tricksy and difficult and awful and...

It's good enough, but not brilliant. I feel like it needs a jolly good sand and polish. *grumps*

Still, in the end, the recip liked it. So, small and very grateful mercies!

ship_swap: Gravity's A Bitch (Pacific Rim)

I wrote this pairing once before, and while I like it and the sex is hot, I'm just not that into white males sexing each other. It's not that I dislike white males, I just think female characters are more interesting. (And the feminist in me insists that it's more important to stretch the boundaries for women than to retread the comfort zones for men. Plus, I have the emotional and psychological wherewithal to do so, as well as the will and desire, which I gather a lot of female authors don't.)

It's really just a scene in a bigger emotional picture. Believe it or not, there's enough a plot and a psychological profile behind the sequence. I put it off and put it off and put it off, and in the end, just finished the scene, polished it off, and put it out there.

Better than nothing, although I think it was the recip's "emergency fandom" - "break glass in case of lack of matches" - and it wasn't quite what she was hoping for. (All her other requests were for a single fandom with multiple branches - think Marvel comics.)

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Other fics I have committed in the last couple of weeks:

The Odd Couple - Maria/Steve, Maria&Sam, Steve&Sam, post-AoU. WIP - 1/5. Or how a changed outlook on his life gives Steve new options.

People We Are Not - Clint & Natasha, Clint & other, with an intent to portend Clint/Natasha. Basically a fix-it (alternate universe?) for AoU. WIP - 1/2, although reads as complete.

Maybe Why - Maria/Steve, post-AoU. Comment fic for scribble_myname. A little mood piece - a quiet moment of interaction and intimacy.

Once Worshipped - Maria & Thor & kitten. Comment fic for geckoholic. Pretty much complete fluff.

His Mother's Son - original character, Maria, Steve, background Maria/Steve. I had a trope bingo square. And I started writing it. And somewhere along the way, this story happened.

So, I've been kind of busy. Two fusions (one Pacific Rim into HDM, one Young Wizards into Pacific Rim) and one regular fic.

TITLE: Echoes Of Who We Are
CATEGORY: Alternate Universe - Daemons
CHARACTERS/PAIRING: Mako Mori, Raleigh Becket, Stacker Pentecost
WORD COUNT: 287
NOTES: What happens when canon creators Tumblr - Part One. (With thanks to Travis Beacham.)
SUMMARY: Frustration beats in her breast; Mako strives to conquer her expression. Whatever she thinks of Raleigh Becket and his suitability to be Gipsy Danger’s pilot, she will not show it externally.

TITLE: what we were meant to be
CATEGORY: Alternate Universe - Fusion, The Drift, Sparring
CHARACTERS/PAIRING: Nita Callahan, Kit Rodriguez, Carl Romeo, Tom Swale, Raleigh Becket
WORD COUNT: 938
NOTES: What happens when canon creators Tumblr - Part Two. (With thanks to Diane Duane.)
SUMMARY: By the end of the first month, Nita's already decided she's not here to pilot a Jaeger, she's going into Drift technology. The interface between human and machine intrigues her: is it a dialogue between different kinds of sentience, or just humanity imposing its will on the machines they've created?

TITLE: His Brother's Keeper
CATEGORY: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship, Brothers, Parallels
CHARACTERS/PAIRING: Mako Mori/Raleigh Becket, Raleigh Becket & Yancy Becket
WORD COUNT: 593
WARNINGS: Canonical Character Death
NOTES: I have an epic 'Yancy survives' fic idea, but I'm not sure if it'll ever be written. We'll see. I like the idea, but I'm not sure how it ends and I need to know the ending before I can start. This is the small "Yancy and Raleigh" fic that I've been wanting to write for the last three weeks.
SUMMARY:
"It is rare for Jaeger pilots to survive the death of the other - rare out of the Drift and even rarer when one pilot dies in-Drift. In a moment of violent death, during a battle, it would take a strong and determined will not to psychologically reach for the person they feel closest to, whom they know best, who is theirs beyond all shadow of a doubt."
~ Dr. Helen Jiang, Jaeger Psyche Analyst ~