January 6th, 2008 
10:30 am Ill Season by Ana (PG-13)
Fandom: HOUSE
Pairing: Cuddy Gen
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] sinquepida
Author Website:
Why this must be read:

There are a fair number of different takes on Cuddy's time in college, on how she and House met. I like many of them. I might just like this one the best. We see a solemn and focused Lisa Cuddy, with glimpses of the sassy, brilliant Dean of Medicine she's going to be. We see her moments - the ones she'll use and the ones she'll keep to herself.

I don't leave the house on Fridays. I'm very religious. )

Read Ill Season.
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12:57 pm Carry Me Through by White Wolf (PG)
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: Leroy Jethro Gibbs/Donald 'Ducky' Mallard
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] timothy_quinn
Author Website: The Last Vampyre

Why this must be read:

Some of you may well know [livejournal.com profile] timothy_quinn from other fandoms, so will already know what a superb writer she is. This story is her first venture into writing Gibbs/Ducky and I am still impatiently waiting for her next story. Carry Me Through is a song fic, which Tim describes as 'fluff', but don't let that fool you into thinking insipid, out of character or overly fluffy. The story isn't.

It's very much a love story of two men, two men very much recognisable as their on-screen characters, that has the simple premise of Jethro contemplating his life over his inevitable cup of coffee. He looks at how people see him, what he is really like, and how only one person (Ducky) really sees the true Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Tim intersperses the lyrics with the story to great effect, so that they appear to be part of the story and not just put in so that it can be called a songfic.

Yes, I guess it is technically 'fluff', but it moved me to blink very hard indeed and have a lump in my throat more than once. It is deep, tender, moving, loving, full of affection, and shows the deep friendship the two men have, a friendship that almost transcends and at the same time compliments the fact that they are lovers. It contains rich mix of emotion, bitter-sweet in parts, chock full of love, affection, tenderness, understanding and spot on characterisation.

Extract )




Carry Me Through
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