through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered . . .

Random little House ficlet that popped out when I should have been doing any number of other things, as fic tends to do. Just me sort of taking the fandom for a test drive. Spoilers for the season four finale.



( it's funny how he can't quite let go of using her surname, but appropriate for right now, because it does feel like old times. )

Okay, so! I seem to recall promising unfinished would-be epic Supernatural fic. I'm posting it now because I'm officially going to get Jossed Kripked tomorrow, and I've got enough of it so that I at least want to show it off a little to the flist.

In keeping with the accidental theme of my recent fannish life, it is a crossover of sorts. A while back - late last year, I think - I read a cute little fic that I've lost the link to that was a Supernatural-flavored spoof of Wizard of Oz, with Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the Dorothy role. I found the fic amusing, and then the premise kind of started to eat my brain. There are, I have found, very few fics involving actors transported into the fictional world in the SPN fandom (which, honestly, surprises me, because: SPN fandom), and of course the ones I did find that took the idea more seriously were about Jensen and/or Jared.

( So one night I started writing down bits of a 'verse wherein Jeff finds himself in the SPN world, and he's been brought there for a reason. I was just fooling around trying to get it out of my head, and somehow ended up with over nine pages of fragments. GENERAL SPOILERS through 3x08. )

Oh my god, it turned into a real fic. How did that happen?

TITLE: "Supply and Demand"
AUTHOR: Cathryn (catslash)
RATING: PG for a bit of language.
WORD COUNT: Approximately 1500.
GENRE: Gen. Crossover with the Iron Man movieverse.
CHARACTERS: Martha Jones, Tony Stark, the Master, Pepper Potts.
SUMMARY: Everything has changed, including what it means to be a superhero. Takes place during the year that wasn't.
DISCLAIMER: Doctor Who and Iron Man belong to their respective creators. I take no credit and make no money.
NOTES: Many thanks to nightanddaze for the beta, as well as starlasoma for inadvertently inspiring me to flesh out the original draft a bit more.
MORE NOTES: My knowledge of the Marvelverse is not what one might call detailed; since I'm operating in the new movieverse they seem to be creating, I just went with what I knew from that. If I've managed to commit any particularly egregious errors anyway, please let me know so I can tweak accordingly.
SPOILERS: Doctor Who 3x12 and 3x13 ("The Sound of Drums"/"The Last of the Time Lords"). General spoilers for the Iron Man movie, but nothing plot-specific.



( He hadn't expected to avoid Saxon's attention for long. )

TITLE: "Recognition"
AUTHOR: catslash/Cathryn
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 500
CHARACTERS: Owen, Jack, the Doctor. Genfic; no pairings.
SUMMARY: Torchwood has a visitor. Crossover with Doctor Who.
NOTES: This is an expansion of a drabble I wrote a couple weeks ago, from one hundred words to five hundred. I fully expect (though I have NOT read any spoilers!) to get Jossed (Russelled?) this weekend by one show or the other or probably both, so I decided to post while the posting was still good.
DISCLAIMER: Torchwood and Doctor Who are not mine and I make no claims otherwise.
SPOILERS: Up through 2x08 for Torchwood; very vague ones for 3x11 for Doctor Who.



( Owen arrives to work late that day and misses the first round of introductions. He doesn't need an exchange of names, though, to place the identity of the stranger wearing a pinstriped suit and trainers, wandering round the Hub with a mug of Ianto's coffee and remarking on things as if he has every right to be there. )

No Torchwood drabble yesterday, because I decided to take a whack at actually writing some of the damn recent-past-paradigm fic, like for reals. I think I've figured out the format, too. I'm planning on a series of ficlets of random lengths (no more strict word counts) from various points of view, split into three parts: "Things That Happened," "Things That Didn't," and "Reconciled." The first part will deal with S1, the second with the Year That Wasn't, and the third with some of the aftermath when Owen makes it back to his own present. I will probably have that happen at the end of "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," to increase the odds of actually finishing this thing and because nearfuture!Owen's presence could sabotage the events of "Adam" in a way it couldn't any other episode, and I can't figure any way around that plus I seriously don't want to watch that episode again.

I'll also keep posting bits of it every now and then, though no more drabbles, because I have decided that drabbles would be cheating. If I'm going to write this, I will do it properly. But I'll share bits because the very fact that I have solid plans for this to exist as a fic is owed entirely to the people who commented on the drabbles. Without you guys, this would have died a quiet death in the back of my head like so many other potential fic 'verses have done. So I'm gonna keep right on including you in the process, and should this get finished - and there are NO guarantees of that until I've typed the last word - there will be effusive thank you notes in the header. ;)

But anyway! Here is a bit. Shared bits, incidentally, are likely going to be first draft and subject to change. Spoilers for Torchwood 1x04 and 2x12.



( 'It's an autopsy, not a wedding, I don't need a witness.' )

Since so many of my Torchwood drabbles have been set in this 'verse, I thought it would be easiest to put them all together in one post in case anyone who is not me wants to refer to them. This 'verse may turn into a fic of its own; I've got plenty of ideas for it that won't fit the drabble format. If I do write it, I don't know if everything in the drabbles will end up in the fic. At this point, I'm exploring and trying things out.

Drabbles are in chronological order within the 'verse (yeah, it's a time travel 'verse, but there's chronology if I say there is!) rather than in order written. Oh, plus, the first drabble is in past tense and the rest in present. A tip for drabble writing: present tense can save you a precious word or two just 'cause you don't have to use extra verbs. Apparently, I forgot this for like a day.

Spoilers for Torchwood 1x04, 2x06-2x08; Doctor Who 3x12-3x13.



( Getting bounced into the recent past was - pointless, at best. )

Torchwood drabble. Just a random bit of pondering. Spoilers for 2x12, "Fragments."


( The day after that )

Torchwood drabble. Not really thrilled with this one, but kinda sick of looking at it.

Follows from yesterday's drabble; crossover with The Sarah Jane Adventures, inasmuch as a fic involving two shows that exist in the same universe can be considered a crossover. Spoilers for events in SJA from "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? Part II" and on.



( even with Sarah Jane nearby )

Torchwood drabble. Bet you thought you'd escaped, didn't you? Owen in the recent past 'verse, which needs a shorter name if I'm going to keep messing around in it before I try actually writing substantial pieces of it. If I do try to pull it into a real fic, I have no idea how much of the stuff from the drabbles I'll use; a lot of this is just getting a feel for things.

Actual slash in this one! I wrote it by hand, which is an absolute bastard to do. I have a page and a half of scribbling and rewritings and numbers and equations. It fucking better be a hundred words. I refuse to check in a word count program because if I managed to count wrong all eleventeen times I will cry.



( coffee and salt and lingering traces of blood )

Torchwood drabble, set in the Owen in the recent past 'verse. I should probably work on one of the three papers I have due on Wednesday or something.



( Ianto comes down to check on him )