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A wonderful story that takes hints about who "Chief" is in the Wonder Woman movie and fleshes them out to a haunting story of displaced gods and vanishing cultures.

Older Than I Once Was (4979 words) by samalander
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wonder Woman (2017)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Chief (Wonder Woman), Steve Trevor, Charlie (Wonder Woman), Sameer (Wonder Woman), Diana (Wonder Woman)
Additional Tags: Character Study, Native American Character(s), World War I, Pre-Canon
Summary:

The people who believe in Napi say he went away to the West, and they are not wrong. But the nice thing about the West is that if you go that way long enough, it becomes the East.

Fandom: Primeval
Title: Hungry
Word Count: 100
Rating: U
Challenge: 573
Characters: Claudia, Team

It had been a long and frustrating shout: six muddy hours repetitavely repatriating small excited sauropods.

Claudia, sitting up front with Ryan, listened to the rest of the team in the back of the car. Stephen had been sulking for five minutes about the tranquilisation protocol. Abby was shouting at Connor for kicking the back of the seat. Cutter was mid-monologue complaining about Lester or the Dean, Claudia had lost track.

She saw a welcome sight up ahead.

"Ryan, pull in to that Happy Eater?"

She turned in her seat.

"The rest of you SHUT UP until you've been fed."

An eerie, atmospheric and tragic piece. Very much in keeping with the way the show's protagonists trod a fine line between humanity and inhumanity.

Final Flight (1639 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire/Steel
Characters: Sapphire (Sapphire and Steel), Steel (Sapphire and Steel)
Additional Tags: Death, Mortality, Airplane Crashes, Disasters, Trope Subversion/Inversion, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Community: hc_bingo, Trope Bingo Round 2
Summary:

When Time keeps a plane in flight, Sapphire and Steel have to ensure it falls…

Fandom: Primeval
Title: Ice Age
Characters: Connor mentioned. OCs.
Word Count: 100
Challenge: 571
Rating: U


Lyapanov watched as the scientists excitedly examined the remains in the melting ice. It was a woolly mammoth, they told him. Lyapanov had met the living version, but he knew it wouldn't do to say so.

"What's this?" Konev pulled something small and rectangular out from the melting ice. It looked to be plastic.

Minenkov squinted at it. "Connor Temple. Anomaly Research Centre? Do you think they got here before us? It looks old but..."

Lyapanov pulled his phone out of a pocket and dialled a number. He had a feeling the Vremya Anomaly Institute would enjoy hearing about this.

Fandom: Buffy
Rating: U
Characters/Pairings: Tara, Spike
Length: Short Story





What I love about this: This is a well-written little vignette about Spike and Tara shopping for Valentine gifts; beautiful, well-observed and sad.

Shiny Happy People

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Fandom: Angel (Buffyverse)
Rating: No Rating Given (PG-ish)
Characters/Pairings: Cordelia/Angel, Buffy/Angel
Length: Multiple Parts





What is this?: Anyone who has been unfortunate enough to see Barb Wire knows that just because you are taking Casablanca as your starting point things are not necessarily going to go well. Fortunately this Buffyverse Casablanca AU works incredibly well with Casablanca updated to an LA that is under the control of Wolfram and Heart and their allies. Cordelia gets the role of Rick while Angel is Ilsa. If I have one quibble it is that Whedon's dialogue is so distinctive that it's a little too obvious when words are being transferred directly from the original movie into this AU. That quibble aside, however, this is well worth a read.

As Time Goes by by Yahtzee.

Fandom: Primeval
Title: Spring is in the Air
Word Count: 100
Characters: Matt, Gideon
Rating: U
Challenge: 569

Matt stood at the entrance of the habitat and tried to assess his surroundings as his father had taught him. The air was thick with dust, as was usual, but nevertheless it didn't feel as oppressive as it had of late. He glanced upwards. Occasionally the thick yellow clouds parted and a patch of brilliant blue was visible. The wind was not quite as biting as it had been previously.

He glanced over at his father, doubtful about the subtle change he felt.

"Spring is in the air," his father said drily. "The predators will be coming out of hibernation."

A nice five things fic that has many of the virtues of the form - compressing short vignettes into a larger thematic whole. There are also a whole load of bonus fixits!

Five times somebody almost said ‘I told you so’ and one time somebody did by eriah211

Fandom: Primeval
Title: Lights Out
Characters: James Lester
Word Count: 100
Rating: U
Challenge: 568

"Would you do the honour?"

Twenty years ago, Lester would have responded with some quip, but he was tired and wanted this over, so he contented himself with a raised eyebrow as he pressed the switch.

The lights in the ARC went out. There was a smattering of applause. Lester smiled at the Press.

Someone, somewhere, was pontificating to camera... "And now, twenty years after the last recorded anomaly..."

"I hear they are planning to remodel the building as a gym," his minder said.

"Really? how enterprising." Lester headed towards the welcome respite of the reception and its free bar.

Genuine crossovers, where characters from both universe's meet and hold their own in balance with each other, are remarkably hard to write particularly when, as here, you are throwing a genuine plot into the mix. The Tenth Doctor meets the Firefly clue, facilitated by River Tam.

The Man With No Name (95869 words) by Frostfyre7
Chapters: 31/31
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Firefly, Serenity (2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tenth Doctor, The Doctor (Doctor Who), Malcolm Reynolds, Inara Serra, River Tam, Zoë Washburne, Simon Tam, Jayne Cobb, The Doctor's TARDIS, Serenity Crew, Serenity (Firefly)
Additional Tags: Crossover
Summary:

He hadn't really counted on getting into a pub brawl over the color of his coat on some speck of a planet, or signing up with a crew of petty criminals. Still, he'd always wondered what really happened to those Lost Colonists from Earth...

OK, so I have a bit of a thing for Donna fixits, but this one is lovely - it makes her both Doctorish and Donnaish and avoids undoing the mindwipe.

Experimental Science (3523 words) by entanglednow
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Donna Noble
Summary:

Donna thinks she's just about back to normal.