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Never Entirely Free
by Branwyn

fandom: HP
pairing: Sirius Black/Rose Potter
notes: Part of my girl!Harry AU; set during Girl in the War, five months before Twelve Hundred Hours
rating: a hard R, I'd say. If you want to get an idea what to expect, see the Year Five section of "Girl in the War".
warnings: no actual sex, but themes of dubcon, indecent liberties with a minor, and the confused, burbling morass of teenage female sexuality that is the main character.

summary: Every relationship in Rose's life is more complicated than it ought to be.

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( here )

A Spark in Drought
by Branwyn

fandom: Mary Russell
pairing: Russell/Mahmoud
setting: Justice Hall
notes: Sequel to my other R/M story, "A Thousand Times"

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...I wanted only to die, moon-dark, blessed,

Poised beneath the driest arrows of my suffering,
Far from the flocks of burning, singing gulls,
Face to face with the God of my childhood.

Noelle Kocot

( here )

So I sort of stopped writing fic like a year ago, but a few weeks ago The Language of Bees came out and jump started my old passion for the Russell/Holmes books by Laurie R. King, and the next thing you know lizbee wanted a story, and I wrote it.


A Thousand Times
by Branwyn

fandom: Mary Russell
pairing: Russell/Mahmoud
spoilers: BEEK and OJER. AU that takes place in the Palestine adventure in 1919.
warnings: character death and torture
notes: lizbee made me do it.


Come, come, whoever you are.
Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow
a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come.

Rumi


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( They bury Holmes at night. )

one of these mornings
by Branwyn

fandom: Doctor Who
spoilers: through "Journey's End"
rating: PG
notes: Gratuitous 4x13-compliant fixit fic, with added baby. Not Doctor/Donna, exactly, but definitely DoctorDonna. Thanks to prof_pangaea for hand holding and idea-wrangling.

summary: Donna comes back to herself.

( cut. )

him in the clouds
by Branwyn

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fandom: Doctor Who
rating: R (I really mean that)
summary: Jenny is looking for her father.
pairing: Master/Jenny, Master/Doctor
warning: there's no actual sex in the story, but there are incest themes.

notes: bit_of_muslin and angevin2 kindly did not disown me when I made them read pieces of this, and, as usual, lizbee validated my id.

lizbee: [upon reading the final draft] Okay, that works. It totally works.
cesario: But I'm totally going to hell, right?
lizbee: Yes. You really are.

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( She was never a child. )

Twelve Hundred Hours
by Branwyn

fandom: HP
notes: part of my girl!Harry series. Prequel to Girl In the War. 5514 words.
pairing: heavy Rose/Snape UST, mentions of James/Sirius


summary: Sometimes Rose thinks her relationship with Snape is a lot more complicated than her relationship with any of her teachers ought to be.

Silence, and stealth of days! 'tis now
Since thou art gone,
Twelve hundred hours, and not a brow
But clouds hang on.

Henry Vaughan

( here )

A Moment's Grace
by Branwyn

Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Two, Martha, Sally Sparrow
Spoilers: just before 3x13 "Last of the Time Lords"
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: On the eve of her return to England, a weary Martha Jones meets an old friend for the first time.
Author’s notes: Blame doyle_sb4 for this. She sent me a DVD of "The Mind Robber", which made me fall in love with Two. And violetisblue wrote some meta on Martha that made me see he was just her type.

Thanks to rj_anderson, lizbee, and biichan for betas and hand-holding.

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( here. )

Ten Things That Are Almost Absolutely True About Martha Jones, and One Thing That's True About the Doctor
by Branwyn

fandom: Doctor Who
characters/pairings: Martha, the Doctor, Francine, Jack, Ianto
rating: PG
notes: It started off as a regular old list, and then turned into something more like a narrative.

( 2.) But then Martha took up with the Doctor, which is practically the same thing, only a million times worse. )

A Mutual Understanding
by Branwyn

fandom: Doctor Who
pairing: Four/Romana
rating: G, with a gag warning for utter fluff.
notes: This piece of short and utter silliness began life as a drabble, I think, and then...escalated. In any case, I wrote it for lizbee, which is usually how these things happen to me.

summary: "Doctor," said Romana, "I have a feeling."

( Feelings are wonderful things to have! )

Providence
by Branwyn

fandom: Doctor Who
rating: PG-13 for mindfuckery
spoilers: set just after 3x09 "Family of Blood"; also for Ghostlight and Curse of Fenric
characters: tenth Doctor, Martha, Ace, the Brother, mentions of Rose

notes: Thanks to lizbee, who suggested I should make up my mind whether I was writing a story or meta. :-)

summary: Not all the monsters in the TARDIS are locked safely in the attic.



( Martha Jones is dangerously sapient. )

with her own wings
by Branwyn

fandom: Doctor Who
pairing: Ten and Martha, Ten/Martha if you squint.
rating: PG
spoilers: 3x13
notes: This started off as crack and ended up as something dangerously close to schmoop.

summary: Martha was once the Doctor's maid. Now the Doctor seems to be Martha's secretary.


( In about thirty seconds I'm going to call the phone company and tell them my sister's mobile has been stolen. )

My first ever New Who story! *is proud*

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Dead Worlds


Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Ten, Lucy Saxon. There's some implied past Doctor/Master, but really it's gen.
Rating: PG-13 for extreme creepiness


Summary: The Doctor takes Lucy Saxon onboard the TARDIS to travel with him, and Lucy finds that one mad alien is much like another.


( a room of her own. )

Wonderful Tragic Mysterious
by Branwyn

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fandom: Harry Potter
rating: PG, Albus Dumbledore/Luna Lovegood WAIT WAIT DON'T RUN

summary: A few week after his sister's funeral, an eighteen-year-old Albus Dumbledore meets an odd young woman with a Time Turner, a secret mission, and a disarmingly comfortable relationship with death.

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( sinner sorry and wrecked by the Fall )

Girl In the War
by Branwyn

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fandom: Harry Potter
rating: PG-13 Glimpses of dub con (not in the main pairing) and lots of illicit professor/student snoggage.
notes: I think of this as Snape/Harry, with a twist. Canon through Deathly Hallows.


summary: Snape's life would have been so much simpler if Rose Potter had been born a boy.


thanks to rj_anderson and lizbee, best betas ever, and tangleofthorns who sent me that Josh Ritter song ages ago. Great taste in music, that girl.

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( Peter said to Paul, you know all those words we wrote/ are just the rules of the game, and the rules are the first to go... )

Well, that didn't take long. Except for the part where I would have posted hours ago, if not crazy LJ downtime.

one more such victory
by Branwyn


fandom: HP, spoilers for Deathly Hallows
rating: PG
summary: After the battle, Harry has one more job to finish. (Harry, Snape, gen.)



"The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one more such victory would utterly undo him." Pluarch, trans Dryden.

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( here )

Less than two months before it will be Jo'd, I present my very first post-HBP Potterfic.

The Hero of His Own Life
by Branwyn

fandom: Harry Potter
summary: Dumbledore gen. A not-nearly comprehensive biography of the greatest wizard of the age, and how he got that way. 3700 words

thanks, as always, to lizbee and rj_anderson for betas and handholding. title nicked from Dickens. Not like he's done anything with it lately.



( 1846-1996 )

Title: Tea Time Terror for Time Tots
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: G
Summary: The seventh Doctor writes a children's book.

Notes: I decided what a really wanted for my birthday this year was some humorous Who fic. So Liz obliged, and then I obliged myself.




Tea Time Terror for Time Tots

Being An Illustrated Guide to the Enemies of Gallifrey
and Peculiar Dangers to the Race of Time Lords

by
the Doctor

I. Daleks - II. Autons - III. Cybermen - IV. Sontarans - V. temporal paradoxes - VI. Prydonians - VII. boring lectures - VIII. critical K-9 units - VIV. TARDISes - X. Humans



( The first thing you should know about Daleks is that there’s a blobby bit inside the pepper pot, and it looks like the sort of thing you blow out your nose when you’ve got a cold. )

This was my first time participating in Yuletide, and it was great fun.

I wrote Je tire ma révérence, my first Brideshead Revisited story, for loneraven.

And here it is!

Je tire ma révérence
by Branwyn

fandom: Brideshead Revisited
rating: PG
summary: Charles has always been drawn to a certain kind of face.

( here )

In the Blood
by Branwyn

fandom: the Mary Russell novels of Laurie R King
notes: Jack is an original character belonging to lizbee.

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Jack was six the first time Russell caught him dismantling the wireless, seven when he learned how to put it together again, dramatically improving reception.

"Don't look at me," said Russell. "I haven't a glimmer of mechanical aptitude."

"His linguistic precocity, though," said Holmes. "That's you all over." A moment later, he added, "and the nail-biting."

"The moodiness? Long, sulky silences?"

Holmes chuckled.

"Well, you know what they say," mused Russell. "Art in the blood—"

"Don't," said Holmes, "quote that man in front of the child."

Jack smiled, and headed upstairs. Silver Blaize was airing on the BBC at nine.