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Fanfiction and Podfic by Rheanna
Welcome! This is Rheanna's very simple and extremely irregularly updated fanfiction page.
The stories here have been written purely to amuse myself and anyone who wants to read them, without intent of infringement or expectation of profit.
Some of the works of fiction here contain scenes of an explicit sexual nature. Please do not click those links if you are underage or think you will be offended by such material. I have a content labelling policy which outlines what types of content I will warn for.
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Last updated:
20 November 2011
Previous updates here
New this update:
Added two ficlets written for the Sharp
Teeth gen horror comment meme: Iterations
(James Bond movies) and The Last Post (metafanfic).
Added links to podfics of Lunch and Other Obscenities, read by
Sophinisba, and Fieldwork, read by Susan Voight.
Contact:
Livejournal: http://rheanna27.livejournal.com/
Dreamwidth: http://rheanna.dreamwidth.org/
My
fic at AO3
Podfic
There is now a page for my podfic
recordings of my own and other people's stories.
Podfic read by me:
I Am Your Image Dressed as the World, by mirabile dictu (SGA, PG)
Between the Lines, by friendshipper (SGA, PG)
With Intent, by Shaenie (SGA, NC-17)
The Hard Prayer, by me (SGA, PG-13)
Fanfiction
Fanfiction by Fandom
Jump to:
Metafanfic (1)
James Bond movies (1)
Fringe
(1)
Star Trek (2009 movie) (4)
Stargate
Atlantis (18)
Sarah Connor Chronicles (2)
Doctor Who (9)
New Battlestar Galactica (4)
Angel
(13)
Stargate SG1 (3)
The Rattle-bag - Miscellaneous fandoms (6)
Metafanfic
The Last Post
Fandom: Metafanfic
Summary: Is there anyone here?
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Completed: 2011/11
Length: 1,690 words
Notes: Written for the LJ horror multifandom comment meme, Sharp Teeth,
in response to spiffynamehere's
prompt.
Iterations
Fandom: James Bond movies
Summary: Written for the LJ horror multifandom comment meme, Sharp Teeth,
in response to ashen_key's
prompt: "Bond keeps dying in service, and they keep bringing
him back; every time they do, he has a different face."
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Timeline: Written with the Daniel Craig and Judi Dench versions of Bond
and M in mind.
Completed: 2011/11
Length: 2,396 words
Help Wanted
Fandom: Fringe
Summary: Astrid didn't want to be Walter Bishop's assistant. Unfortunately,
neither did anyone else.
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Timeline: First season, spoilers up to 1.04 "The Arrival"
Completed: 2009/12
Length: 5269 words
Notes: Gen; Astrid and Walter. Written for the Yuletide 2009 fic exchange.
Better
Fandom: Star Trek (2009 movie)
Summary: Two weeks after his sixth birthday, he took apart the family
holovid.
Rating: U
Warnings: None
Timeline: Pre-movie
Completed: 2010/01
Length: 650 words
Notes: Commentfic, Scotty, gen.
Lunch and Other Obscenities
Fandom: Star Trek (2009 movie)
Summary: Nyota liked her roommate just fine until she met her.
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: Pre-movie
Completed: 2009/06
Length: 9,793 words
Notes: Uhura & Gaila friendship, with a bit of Spock/Uhura. Written
for Yahtzee on her birthday.
Extras: Fanart by irrel. Podfic
read by sophinisba.
Don't Ask
Fandom: Star Trek (2009 movie)
Summary: Someone has to ask the embarrassing questions. On the Enterprise,
that someone is Leonard McCoy.
Rating: PG
Timeline: Post-movie
Completed: 2009/06
Length: 364 words
Notes: Gen; written for the prompt, "McCoy - don't ask" in yahtzee's
Drabble on the
Edge of Forever commentfic fest.
First Night
Fandom: Star Trek (2009 movie)
Summary: Swoosh.
Rating: U
Timeline: Post-movie
Completed: 2009/05
Length: 374 words
Notes: Gen; written in response to the prompt, "Kirk - first impressions"
in yahtzee's Journey
to Drabble commentfic fest.
A
Matter of Death and Life
Summary: John's problems started the day they nearly destroyed San Francisco
and he didn't die.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None.
Timeline: Post 5x20, Enemy at the Gate.
Completed: 2011/05
Length: 25k words
Notes: John/Rodney. Written for utterfrivolity for the Help Haiti fandom
auction, and inspired by the 1946 movie, A Matter of Life and Death.
Fieldwork
Summary: Ronon starts his e-mail correspondence with Sheppard's brother
more or less by mistake.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None.
Timeline: Seasons 4 and 5
Completed: 2011/03
Length: 3,160 words
Notes: John/Ronon, Ronon POV. This is a remix of Busaikko's story, Homework,
in which Dave Sheppard finds himself receiving e-mails from Ronon. I wondered
what Ronon's side of the story would sound like, and she very generously
gave me permission to remix her fic. I have taken some lines directly
from her story (chiefly the texts of some of the e-mails between Ronon
and Dave), and used many of the incidents she describes. The two fics
can be read independently, but if you've happened on this one first, please
go and read Homework and then come back here! ETA Nov 2011: there are
now podfic versions
of both stories, read by Susan Voight.
Might
As Well Live
Summary: John Sheppard made it through a year in Pegasus, multiple brushes
with death and a Wraith seige without losing his shit. But getting promoted
once he got back to Earth? Yeah, that'd do it.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None.
Timeline: Somewhere between 2.01 The Siege (part 3) and 2.02 Intruder
Completed: 2010/01
Length: 1,500 words
Notes: Slash, McShep, kissing.
The
Hard Prayer
Summary: One year after the end of the world, John meets another survivor.
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: AU, no spoilers
Completed: 2009/01
Length: 30,000 words
Notes: Slash, McShep, apocafic.
Extras: Podfic, read by me, Rheanna; cover
art by counteragent and davincis_girl.
The
Long Way Home (a fan comic with art by Astridv)
Summary: Trapped in a nightmare world, can the team find a way home?
Rating: U
Timeline: Season 5
Completed: 2009/01
Length: 9 pages
Notes: Fan comic. Gen, team, gratuitous hand holding.
Extras: Wallpaper
Mouthpiece
Summary: "Well, that's one way to get you to shut up."
Rating: R
Timeline: Vaguely season 3, no specific spoilers
Completed: 2008/12
Length: 4,500 words
Notes: McShep, PWP
15
Days
Summary: These are the things you will forget.
Rating: PG-13, implied slash
Timeline: Season 5, spoilers for 'The Shrine'
Completed: 2008/11
Length: 1,253 words
Notes: McShep, non-explicit slash, episode tag, angst
Extras: podfic, read by twilight (download link on story page)
Rewind,
Reboot, Restore
Summary: Liking Rodney McKay was very similar to how Douglas Adams had
described flying: the trick was to throw yourself at him and miss.
Rating: PG-13, implied slash
Timeline: Season 4, small spoilers for 'Missing'
Completed: 2008/08
Length: 24k words
Notes: McShep, non-explicit slash, amnesia
Kiss
the Groom
Summary: "Oh my God, you're jilting me."
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: AU
Completed: 2008/08
Length: 1,037 words
Notes: McShep, non-explicit slash, wedding nerves
Teenage
Kicks
Summary: It's not about changing the past. It's about letting the past
change you.
Rating: R
Timeline: Season 4, small spoilers for 'Outcast'
Completed: 2008/06
Length: 27k words
Notes: McShep, slash, time-travel.
Extras: Podfic, read by the incredibly awesome (and possibly slightly
insane for willingly podficcing a 27,000 word story) counteragent.
Choose between the 300
mb MP3 or the 84mb
m4b audiobook (right click and 'save as' to download.)
All
the Difference
Summary: "No, no, no," Rodney said quickly.
"No, you see, I won't be going to Atlantis."
Rating: U
Timeline: Pre-series
Completed: 2008/04
Length: 453 words
Notes: Gen; Rodney, teamfic.
Atlantis:
Quest for the Lost City (Chapter 5)
Summary: A chapter from a non-existent Atlantis steampunk AU with zeppelins
and giant mechanical spiders. No, really.
Rating: PG
Timeline: Completely AU
Completed: 2008/04
Length: 5,500 words
Notes: Gen; teamfic; steampunk AU inspired by fanart by Leyna.
Gravity
Summary: "This morning when I awoke / God was dead but I lived
on"
Rating: PG
Timeline: end season 4, spoilers for The Last Man
Completed: 2008/04
Length: 7,000 words
Notes: McShep; either slashy gen or gen-y slash, take your pick.
Extras: Podfic, read by Twasadark (download link on story page)
I-Don't-Spy
Summary: "All right, then, you suggest something."
Rating: U
Timeline: Season 4-ish.
Completed: 2008/03
Length: 430 words
Notes: John/Rodney comment ficlet for Cathalin, who asked for a game of
some kind.
Spring
Forward
Summary: Magic hour.
Rating: PG
Timeline: Season 3
Completed: 2008/03
Length: 440 words
Notes: John/Rodney commentfic for abbylee.
Windfall
Summary: A taste of home.
Rating: U
Timeline: Season 1
Completed: 2008/03
Length: 604 words
Notes: John/Rodney commentfic for monanotlisa; prompt words "windfall"
and "green".
Solitude
Summary: Solitude is not as difficult as Rodney thought it would be.
Rating: U
Timeline: end season 4, spoilers for "The Last Man"
Completed: 2008/03
Length: 100 words
Notes: Rodney. A drabble offshoot from Gravity.
Theory
of Everything
Summary: "'Maybe all you need is a vacation'," Rodney echoed.
"Please, I'm not stupid, you know." Then he looked stricken.
"I'm not stupid yet."
Rating: R for sexual content - slash
Timeline: mid season 3; mild spoilers for Tao of Rodney
Completed: 2008/02
Length: 20,000 words
Notes: Slash, McShep, angst, drama.
Extras: DVD commentary track
The
Time I've Spent
Summary: "I don't wait for people, Rory. I make them wait for me."
Rating: U
Warnings: None
Timeline: This is a post-ep scene for 5x12 and 5x13 (The Pandorica Opens
/ The Big Bang) and contains major spoilers for those episodes.
Completed: 27 June 2010
Length: 1,869 words
Notes: gen, Eleven and Rory
Chance
Encounter
Summary: "I'm putting the team back together. That's what they say
in the movies, isn't it?"
Rating: U
Warnings: None
Timeline: After Torchwood's "Children of Earth" and the DW ep
"The End of Time"
Completed: 2010/01
Length: 487 words
Notes: Commentfic, gen, Martha, Mickey, Jack
Friend
of a Friend
Summary: Shaun and Barney and Grandad and pizza and Strictly Come Dancing
on Saturday night -- these are the small building blocks which lock together
to form the solid structure of her contentment.
Rating: U
Warnings: None
Timeline: post-The End of Time
Completed: 2010/01
Length: 1,000 words
Notes: Commentfic, gen, Donna, Eleven
The
Road Taken
Summary: Donna, then and after.
Rating: U
Timeline: After 4.13, Journey's End
Completed: 2009/04
Length: 821 words
Notes: commentfic for kirbyfest
Find
the Lady
Summary: A good conman will always let you win the first game.
Rating: U
Timeline: Ninth Doctor
Completed: 2008/03
Length: 516 words
Notes: commentfic for Yahtzee, who asked for Nine and Captain Jack.
Home
Cooking
Summary: "Fish and chips? Has the oven broken?"
Rating: U
Timeline: post season 3; vague spoilers for Last of the Time Lords
Completed: 2008/03
Length: 347 words
Notes: Gen, Martha and her family; commentfic for kirbyfest, who wanted
Martha, anyone except the Doctor, and fish.
Ulysses
Summary: "I am become a name."
Rating: PG
Timeline: AU; spoilers for Human Nature / Family of Blood
Completed: 2007/07
Length: 3,750 words
Notes: Gen, John Smith, Martha (kind of); AU, drama, character study
Extras: Podfic, read by me, Rheanna. Download link on story page.
Doctor
Who and the Rambaldi Enigma
Summary: "I've done this kind of thing a lot," Sydney said,
"and this is definitely the first time this has happened."
Rating: PG
Timeline: Ummm, very vaguely Alias season 2
Completed: 2007/12
Length: 20,000 words
Notes: Gen, crossover with Alias, action/adventure, Three, Sydney Bristow
t
equals zero
Summary: "This is where it starts."
Rating: U
Completed: 2006/08
Length: 144 words
Notes: A villanelle for the ninth Doctor. Poetry warning!
Dolls
Summary: Riley had a doll, once.
Rating: PG
Timeline: Season 2, set before 2.17: Ourselves Alone
Completed: 2009/04
Length: 574 words
Notes: commentfic for Nestra: "dolls"
One
Hundred Seconds
Summary: What if she keeps her promise?
Rating: PG
Timeline: Season 1
Completed: 2008/03
Length: 355 words
Notes: commentfic for thepouncer: Sarah, John, love and betrayal.
Profession
Summary:
profession (noun)
1. an occupation, esp. one that requires specialist academic and practical
training
2. a declaration of religious belief made upon entering a religious order
Rating: U
Warnings: None
Timeline: pre-miniseries
Completed: 2010/01
Length: 380 words
Notes: Commentfic, Billy Keikeya and Laura Roslin, gen.
Twelve
Summary: "You are someone else / I am still right here."
Rating: R for sexual content
Timeline: AU, branching off just after Hand of God
Completed: 2005/05
Length: 86,000 words
Notes: Lee/Kara, Kara/Baltar, Baltar/Six, drama, angst, AU
Extras: Translation in Slovak by namuras
here.
Five
Deaths (Laura Roslin)
Summary: Five ways of living, five ways of dying.
Rating: R for mild sexual content
Timeline: AU
Completed: 2005/01
Length: 20,000 words
Notes: Adama / Roslin
Calliope
Summary: "We're all family now."
Rating: PG
Timeline: early first season
Completed: 2005/03
Length: 3,200 words
Notes: Gen; written for the Common People challenge
Bound
Summary: Doyle's last vision brings Angel and Cordelia closer in unexpected
ways.
Rating: R for sexual content
Timeline: First season
Completed: 2003/04
Length: 29,000 words
Notes: Angel/Cordelia. Originally posted as inamorata.
Another
Life
Summary: Even now, she finds it difficult to believe that this is real,
this is her life, that this is who she is.
Rating: R for sexual content
Timeline: AU
Completed: 2002/03
Length: 24,000 words
Notes: Angel/Cordelia. Originally posted as inamorata.
Blood
& Water
Summary: When LA's vampires start falling prey to a mysterious plague,
Cordelia's unsympathetic. Then Angel gets sick, and she and Wesley have
to find a cure -- before it's too late.
Rating: PG
Timeline: First season; set post "To Shanshu in LA"
Completed: 2000/07
Length: 32,400 words
Notes: Gen
Crave
Summary: Magic intended to help a recovering drug addict goes wrong, leaving
Angel increasingly unable to control his hunger for human blood -- and
Cordelia and Wesley facing the most difficult decision they'll ever have
to make...
Rating: PG
Timeline: First season, set post "Parting Gifts"
Completed: 2000/11
Length: 27,400 words
Notes: Gen
For
One Night Only
Summary: Angel's back, but Cordelia's not ready to forgive and forget
-- until she's forced to see things from his point of view.
Rating: PG
Timeline: Second season, set post "Epiphany"
Completed: 2001/03
Length: 23,700 words
Notes: Gen
Happy
Ever After
Summary: Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess.
Rating: PG
Timeline: AU
Completed: 2001/04
Length: 2,500 words
Notes: Gen
Last
Rites
Summary: Angel goes home.
Rating: PG
Timeline: AU
Completed: 2001/11
Length: 9,500 words
Notes: Gen, futurefic
Splinter
Summary: "listen; there's a hell / of a good universe next door;
let's go" - e. e. cummings
Rating: R
Timeline: Second season; spoilers up to "There's no place like Plrtz
Glrb"
Completed: 2001/08
Length: 66,500 words
Notes: Gen; co-written with Yahtzee
A
Stitch in Time
Summary: A story of one hundred and four years, and five months.
Rating: R
Timeline: Third season, spoilers to "Double or Nothing"
Completed: 2003/01
Length: 94,200 words
Notes: Various pairings, including Angel/Cordelia, Angelus/Darla, Spike/Dru;
co-written with Yahtzee
Vivere
Summary: What does it mean, to be alive?
Rating: PG
Timeline: AU
Completed: 2001/05
Length: 29,700 words
Notes: Gen
In
the Waiting
Summary: Angelus is back. Or is he?
Rating: PG
Timeline: Season 1
Completed: 2001/02
Length: 14,600 words
Notes: Gen
Mrs.
Simpson and the Chinese Grip
Summary: "Delicious, now, the thought of enclosing him in an even
tighter fist."
Rating: NC-17
Timeline: Season 4, set after "Ground State"
Completed: 2003/02
Length: 11,500 words
Notes: Angel/Lilah/Wesley; my very first attempt at pure PWP
Canadian
Shack drabbles
Summary: Two ways to end up in a Canadian shack
Rating: PG
Timeline: AU
Completed: 2001/12
Length: 600 words x2
Notes: #1 - Wes/Gunn, #2 - Lindsey. Written for Speranza's "Shacked
Up" challenge
Totality
Summary: At totality, anything can happen.
Rating: PG
Timeline: Season 1
Completed: 1999/06
Length: 64,200 words
Notes: Gen.
The
Midas Syndrome
Summary: Jack decides his team will bond if it kills him. It nearly does.
Rating: PG
Timeline: Season 1
Completed: 1999/03
Length: 16,200 words
Notes: Gen; Jack-centric.
Roses
in December
Summary: While
exploring an abandoned city on a dead world, Jack begins to suffer from
progressive amnesia. As his memories of the past slip away, the rest of
his team must find the cause - before the man they know vanishes entirely.
Rating:
Timeline: Season 1
Completed: 1999/02
Length: 23,800 words
Notes: Gen; Jack-centric. This is the first fic I ever posted online,
and the first thing I ever wrote that I was really pleased with. There
are things in it I'd do differently now, but overall I think it holds
up okay.
The Rattle-Bag (Miscellaneous Fandoms)
Shadowplay
(Pitch Black)
Summary: Johns was surprised when he woke up to find the ship had crashed,
and even more surprised when he found himself rescuing Riddick.
Rating: R
Timeline: N/A
Completed: 2004/12
Length: 6,000 words
Notes: Riddick/Johns, slash. Written for the Yuletide
ficathon.
The
Galactic Miscellany (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Summary: Ford's planning to write a book. Arthur's planning to have breakfast.
A fic with footnotes.
Rating: PG
Timeline: None, really.
Completed: 2003/12
Length: 3,000 words (including footnotes!)
Notes: Arthur/Ford, if you look sideways and squint hard. Written for
the Yuletide ficathon.
A
Thousand Words (Hellboy - movie)
Summary: How much is a picture really worth?
Rating: PG
Timeline: Pre-movie.
Completed: 2005/12
Length: 3,500 words
Notes: Hellboy/Liz. Written for the Yuletide
ficathon.
Under
the Twinkling of a Fading Star (Lost)
Summary: "You were never lost."
Rating: PG
Timeline: AU
Completed: 2004/10
Length: 3,300 words
Notes: Gen; Jack-centric. A very short and very AU fic written early in
the show's run, when we were all still debating what the hell was UP with
that island.
Eye
of the Storm (X-Men movieverse / Day After Tomorrow)
Summary: A single snowflake is a thing of beauty. A billion snowflakes
is a different proposition altogether.
Rating: PG
Timeline: N/A
Completed: 2004/05
Length: 1,300 words
Notes: Gen; apocafic; Ororo-centric. Written for a Day After Tomorrow
crossover challenge on LJ.
Like
Pebbles at the Water's Edge (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
Summary: When the last of the summer warmth sank out of the air and came
to rest as frost spun like strands of silk upon the hardening earth, Li
Mu Bai returned.
Rating: PG
Timeline: Pre-movie
Completed: 2004
Length: 15,000 words
Notes: Li Mu Bai/Yu Shu Lien.
Originally, this fic was going to be the first in a set of five stories, each one set in a different historical period and a different fandom. The idea was that each fic would be complete in its own right, but that they would overlap thematically and tell a longer story when taken as a whole. Unfortunately, I wrote the first story and then ran out of steam on the rest, although I still like the idea enough that it's in my list of "things I wouldn't mind coming back to some day." This story can be read as a stand-alone, though, so here it is.
Like Pebbles...is set some years before the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." In the film, Yu Shu Lien describes how she was once betrothed to a man called Meng Si Zhou, who was a fellow warrior of Li Mu Bai's, and that, following his death, she and Mu Bai became close but could not pursue a relationship which would dishonour the memory of her fiancé. "Like Pebbles..." is my take on that.
