March 6th, 2007 
09:07 am Breaking the Code by Bone (NC-17)
Fandom: HIGHLANDER
Pairing: Duncan/Methos Methos/OFC Methos/Kristin
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] thisisbone
Author Website: Bone's Slash Fiction
Why this must be read:

Some people are mean drunks. Methos is vicious when he's had a Quickening. And along with an absolutely raw aftermath to killing Kristin in Chivalry, this story has one of the best and most compelling flashbacks I've seen.

Without the meager light from the loft's windows, the small bathroom was pitch dark, can't-see-a-hand-in-front-of-your-face dark. The kind of dark that lets a person do things he never would otherwise.

"This should be your Quickening," Methos burned against his shoulder. "Your hard-on, your insomnia, your fucking mean streak."


Breaking the Code
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01:16 pm Authority by EntreNous NC-17
Fandom: BtVS
Pairing: Giles/Xander
Author on LJ: [personal profile] entrenous88
Author's Website: Just Between Us

Why this must be read:  EntreNous has been recced here before and with good reason. She knows the characters well and inhabits them. She paints vivid pictures with her words and makes the reader believe that what is on the screen might actually have happened in the show.

In this story we have Giles and Xander in season four. Giles is no longer a Watcher or a librarian, Xander is left behind as Buffy and Willow go to college. What are they to do? They end up hanging out, patroling together and generally get in each other's way. Until one evening, Xander does something wrong. Giles takes him to task for it and what we the reader get is something smoking hot and yet still very true to who these men are.

Authority (in four parts, link leads to part one, each part linked to at bottom of the page).
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01:22 pm Fools Everywhere by Rhiannon (R)
Fandom: HIGHLANDER
Pairing: Haresh Clay/Carter Wellan
Author Website: Rhiannon's Eyrie
Why this must be read:

For some, Immortality is a gift. For others, it's a curse. And for a very few, it's a waste. Here, a young Watcher who ses his assigned Immortal as an embarassment and a joke has to bear witness as she squanders her immortality. Plus, definitely the most innovative Immortal weapon I've seen.

Fools Everywhere
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04:37 pm I'm Not Shining Tonight by SadieKate (NC-17)
Fandom: Smallville
Title: I'm Not Shining Tonight
Pairing: Lex/Chloe
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] sadiekate
Author Website: list of fic in memories
Why this must be read:

Way back in the day, my early SV pairings were Chlark and Chlex with a side of Lex/Lana. Years passed, I stopped reading a lot of Chlex.

Then this got posted.

I sat down to skim it and...Several hours later I got up to like, EAT. I hadn't done anything but read and go ZOMG. And lemme tell you, waiting for part two? Killed. *G*

It's just Lex and Chloe and everything that fascinates me about both characters is here and it's got the fun cliches and this? Fannish chocolate. SO my fannish chocolate.

To borrow a summary format from an old friend? This could be: Lex, Chloe, fun with cliches! Because seriously.

I'm Not Shining Tonight
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09:21 pm Regarding Elijah by Sophrosyne (NC-17)
I promised I'd try my best to rec some other pairings... This one definitely deserves it!

Fandom: LOTRIPS
Pairing: Dom/Elijah
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] sophrosyne31
Author Website: LJ memories

Why this must be read: This is just such a beauty, it'd be a shame to pass it up because of a pairing bias. Images painted with words, the sensation of helplessly falling and the warmth of trees in the sun. Simply beautiful, stunning even.

Extract )

Regarding Elijah
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10:13 pm Mobius by L.A. Ward (R)
Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Author on LJ: n/a
Author Website: eclectic fiction
Why this must be read: Today being the anniversary of Mulder and Scully's very first meeting, I thought it ironically appropriate to rec a fic where it didn't happen. Well, sort of.

This is a post-Requiem AU, in more than one sense of the term. No events from season eight have happened, and Scully isn't partnered with Doggett--she's on her own. And on her own, she comes across an X-File that throws her into an alternate universe where she's a neurologist and married to Daniel Waterston, and her counterpart Dana Waterston has taken her place in her own world.

This is one of the better casefiles I've read--full of extreme possibilities and scientific explanations, with mytharc in one universe and regular X-File in the other. Scully gets to see Mulder again, but is faced with what she might have to sacrifice to be with him, while Dana Waterston walks awhile down the road not taken, and both versions of Scully come to a new understanding of themselves and their lives. It's wonderfully well-done.

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Mobius
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