A listing of all my fic. My personal favorites are marked with asterisks.




( Crossovers )
( Stargate: SG-1 )
( Star Wars )
( Stargate: Atlantis )
( Babylon 5 )
( Battlestar Galactica )
( Batman )
( Superman Returns )
( Terminator )
( Doctor Who/Torchwood )
( Buffy: the Vampire Slayer )
( Star Trek )
( Miscellaneous Fandoms--Big Fish, the Bible, and Honor Harrington )

( Disclaimer and Creative Commons License )

Title: This is the Morning
Author: beatrice_otter 
Fandoms: Buffy/Narnia
Characters: Peter Pevensie, Reepicheep; Buffy Summers, Joyce Summers, Kendra
Pairings: None
Rating: G
Word count: 2,257
Spoilers: Season 5 of Buffy, The Last Battle
Warnings: canon character death
Written for: adaptiondecay in xover_exchange
Disclaimer: Buffy and Narnia belong to their respective creators
A/N: Thank you to laney_1974 for the beta

Summary: “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here.”

( This is the Morning ) This entry was originally posted at http://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/155244.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

Title: Unwilling Oracle
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandoms: Farscape/Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Characters: John Crichton, Kira Nerys
Word Count: 1869
Written For: Multiverse 2009 (multiverse5000), June 25
Summary: John Crichton has wormholes in his head. On Bajor, this makes him an oracle whether he wants it or not.
AN: I don't think I really did this prompt justice, not least because I had problems writing Crichton's voice. I would love to see what someone else could do with it.

( She’d worked with the Emissary for seven years; she could handle this. )

This entry was originally posted at http://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/138940.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

Title: Unreal Things
Author: beatrice_otter 
Fandoms: Battlestar Galactica/Stargate: SG-1
Spoiler Warning: BSG in its entirety
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Ellen Tigh
Written for: multiverse 2009, June 17
Original Prompt: Battlestar Galactica/Stargate Universe: BSG's Daniel turns out to be Daniel Jackson.
Word Count: 2312
Summary: Daniel knew what his mother looked like. He’d seen her in pictures. He saw her die. But he didn’t see her in his dreams.
Rating: PG

( When Daniel was young, when he first went into foster care, he had nightmares. ) This entry was originally posted at http://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/136906.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

This is a drabble series I've done for TTH drabbles, and I thought I'd post them all in one place and in the correct order.

Title: Gunn in Gotham
Fandoms: Angel: The Series/Batman: The Dark Knight
Author: beatrice_otter 

( Gunn in Gotham )

Title: They Say
Word Count: 200
Fandom: Babylon 5/Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
Challenge: #83: Virtue and Vice

( They say )





Title: On our own terms
Word Count: 100
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles/Angel: The Series
Challenge: #83: Virtue and Vice

( On our own terms )





Title: White Knights
Word Count: 100
Fandom: Batman: the Dark Knight/Angel: The Series
Challenge: #83: Virtue and Vice

( White Knights )

Title: Survivors
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandom: Doctor Who/Stargate: Atlantis
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some violence
Spoilers: early season 4 SGA, season 3 New Who
Word Count: 7,402
Written For: Tali (aworldinside) for the Multiverse 5000 (multiverse5000)
Betad by: lilbakht
Summary: The Doctor doesn’t know why he’s here, but he knows it’s not an ordinary stop.

( “This is all just a misunderstanding,” the Doctor protested )

And when you're done reading, go check out the cool manip Methos made for this story.

title: A Problem Like Maria
word count: 100
fandoms: The Sound of Music/Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
challenge: #73: favorite things
notes: Given the challenge, I couldn't resist.

( The Reverend mother looked down at the letter onher desk and sighed. )

title: Georg's surprise
word count: 100
fandoms: The Sound of Music/Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
challenge: #73: favorite things
notes: Sequel to the above, but can stand alone

( Georg's surprise )



title: Back in Atlantis
word count: 100
fandoms: Stargate: Atlantis/Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
challenge: #73: favorite things
notes: Sequel to Reflexes, but can stand alone

( When she got back to her quarters, Jennifer Keller took a deep breath. )

Title: A World of Difference
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandom: Doctor Who/Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
Rating: PG
Characters: Martha Jones, Rupert Giles
Warnings: none
Spoilers: The Sound of Drums, Last of the Time Lords
Word Count: 1823
Written For: choc_fic Round II, February 10
Prompt: we might die tomorrow - during the year that never was, Martha gets some help from an old hand at apocalypses
Betad by: historianheidi

Title: Voices in the Dark: Earth
Word Count: 100
Fandom: Babylon 5/Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
Challenge: #72: Forgotten and Remembered
Spoilers: Babylon 5: The Lost Tales: Voices in the Dark

(  The Pope wishes to meet us.  )

Title: Parallels
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandoms: Babylon 5/Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Characters: Vir Cotto, Alwyn
Word Count: 1,432
Betaed by: hobsonphile
Summary: “Surely you’ve heard enough stories of glorious triumphs to recognize the pattern.  And to know of the horrors you don’t see on the surface.”  Vir on Minbar, before Sic Transit Vir.



I got the idea for this from the Multiverse 2007 request list.  It's got three hundred requests, all of them crossovers between science fiction shows that take place in space.  Some of them are cool ideas, some of them are cracktastic, but if you're looking for a prompt it's an interesting place to check out.  Don't know if the site's still accepting stories--I emailed this in like it says on the FAQ, but it never got posted.  I don't mind, though, this was a fun piece to write.

There's a Pride and Prejudice/Lord of the Rings crossover on ff.net. And it actually kind of works. Wouldn't have thought that was possible.

So, after almost eight months, part two is finally ready to go. Sorry for the wait, folks. There will probably be more parts, but I'm planning on each part being relatively self-contained and ending at a logical stopping place, so don't worry about it being a WIP.

Fandom: BtVS/West Wing
Rating: PG-13
Summary: "Chosen" has repurcussions for Donnatella Moss.

Part One





Hopefully, the next installment will take less than eight months to get here.

Here it is, as posted by humanpawn in Scans_Daily. (Thanks to spiralsheep for pointing me to it).

All I can say is, there's gotta be a story somewhere about how it got there. And if not, somebody needs to write that story. Please!

Post a list of your top five fics favorite you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.

This is hard, because my "favorite" tends to be whatever I'm working on atm. But I'll give it a shot.

My favorite fics:

Caro's Choice. Well, the first one isn't a fanfic, it's an original short story about a teenage girl living on Mars. It's not a Mary Sue, but it comes closer than anything else I've written, I think; it's also closer to early SF shorts than anything I've ever written. Since I'm fairly sure it's not online anywhere, ( here it is )

Adrift. To fly a Wraith hive ship, you must be a Wraith. I love it because it's one of those stories that feels more like I was a conduit for it than that I wrote it.

Pale Battalions. Teal'c goes home after a glorious battle in Apophis' name. Because pre-series Teal'c doesn't get enough love.

The rest of my favorites are all currently WIPs, which means they're not posted anywhere, but if I had to choose favorites of the ones that are posted online, here's how it would go.

Family Relationships. When Carter visits her father, she finds they both have surprises. Season 8. Because I love the Tok'ra and there isn't enough good Tok'ra fic out there, and it's the first part in a series, the third part of which I have an intense love/hate relationship with, and have had since November of 2004.

What She Wants. Because Faith is Fun.

I'm gonna copy kellifer_fic shamefully, and take the easy way out by just tagging all of you.

The beginning of my entry to the Mod Birthday Competition on tthdrabbles.

Title: Stranded
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Rating: FR-7
Fandom: BtVS/Harry Potter
Words: 200
Challenge: 50. Going for a ride
Disclaimer: I do not own BtVS or HP.

( Stranded )



Title: 1969
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Rating: FR-13
Fandom: BtVS/SG-1
Words: 200
Challenge: 50. Going for a ride
Disclaimer: I do not own BtVS or SG-1.
( 1969 )



Title: A Quick Snatch-and-Grab
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Rating: FR-13
Fandom: BtVS/Atlantis
Words: 200
Challenge: 50. Going for a ride
Disclaimer: I do not own BtVS or Atlantis.
( A Quick Snatch-and-Grab )

Title: An Apocalypse in Metropolis
Fandoms: BtVS/Superman Returns
Summary: Faith, Andrew, and a newbie Slayer get sent to Metropolis when the Council's seers predict an apocalypse.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, it's not mine.

(  “But now that Superman’s back, I’m sure he’ll take care of any trouble.” )

Fandom: BtVS/West Wing
Rating: PG-13
AN: This is intended to be part of an ongoing story which I have not completed, but as it kind of stands by itself, here it is.
Summary: "Chosen" has repurcussions for Donnatella Moss.

( White House Slayer )

Part Two: Spandex and Go-Go Boots

Quote of the Day:
If you’re trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it’s a lot easier to hit your targets if you don’t yell going in the door.
-Lois McMaster Bujold, Warriors Apprentice

Sometimes it’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
-Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms

I get the heebie-jeebies when people talk about "the cool thing in fanfic is you can go change anything you want to suit your needs". Here's why.

The problem with changing canon to suit is this: the more stuff you change to fit your story, the more it forced the story as a whole feels to the reader, and the less plausible it is. There are many fics out there where things are radically altered because the writer is a fangurl/fanboi who is only writing the story because 'omg! teh ust between jack and sam is so hot they should have a alien love-child together!' and s/he doesn't care how much s/he has to change out of all recognition to make it happen. There are even more fics out there with major changes to the universe thrown in just because the author isn't experienced enough (or is too lazy) to figure a way out of plot holes without just waving a magic authorial wand and saying the plothole isn't there. Believe me, most people can tell right away if a fic fits one of those two categories, and a significant portion of readers will go read a different story if either phenomenon is too pronounced. The first type of story is just fanwanking and the second is usually the manifestation of deeper problems in the story that combine to make it less interesting. If there's a point to changing something--you want to explore the consequences of things happening differently, or it is a consequence of other things that happened differently--that's one thing; just changing stuff because you think it's cool or because you don't want to take the time to figure out a way around it is a horse of a completely different color.

Have you ever heard of the Two Step theory? James Walkswithwind gives a good explanation of it in the context of slash fiction at the Fanfic Symposium. Basically, with any story idea you can go to two removes from what you see on screen before you start losing your audience. You can make two interprative choices about characterization, canon, whatever, before people start to say to themselves "that's not the [INSERT FANDOM/CHARACTER HERE] that I know and love and watch each week" and go find themselves something they recognize. To keep their attention despite that, you have to be a really, really good writer. By which I mean you have to make the whole story--plot, theme, characterization--fit together in a coherent whole, in which the changes feel so right that the reader doesn't even really notice them as changes, because they fit so smoothly.

And the thing for crossover writers to remember is ... the mere fact that it is a crossover is at least two steps, maybe three or more depending on how the crossover happens. That the two universes intersect in some fashion is huge, at least a full step. How the crossover affects your characters is at least a full step in itself, and quite possibly more. And you're putting two (possibly more) universes together, which will inevitably have different views of life, the universe, and everything, which makes turning it into a harmonious whole at least ten times harder than it is when you're only working from one universe.

This is why good crossovers are harder to write than good non-crossovers, and why crossover authors especially need to be very careful about what changes they make The more changes there are the further you are from canon and the more limited your audience will be unless you're the next Great BNF Auteur. (Note: I said you need to be careful about what changes you make, not that you have to avoid them altogether, which is impossible. Just make sure you've got a good reason, and that it makes sense in the context of your story and (hopefully) in the context of the show as it appears on screen).

Thus endeth the sermon.

laney_1974 has been under a lot of stress lately, so to cheer her up I wrote this ficlet. It's a response to a tth100 drabble she wrote entitled Oops.

SG-1/BtVS crossover taking place in season three of BtVS (just prior to Lover's Walk, during the whole "clothes fluke" thing).
Rating: PG
Pairing: Willow/Daniel
Summary: A find-your-soulmate spell goes wrong.
Archiving: Laney's site, TTH, crossoverfic, ff.net, Wormhole Crossing. Anyone else please ask.



( Witching Hour (the Oops remix) )