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 )

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Title: To the Lord I will Sing

Written by: beatrice_otter

Rating: PG

Book/character: Miriam (Exodus) and Deborah (Judges)

Warnings: brief non-graphic mention of torture.

Summary: Deborah and Miriam: singing the word of the Lord in times of trial.

Word Count: 3,739

Betaed by: devohoneybee

Notes: Written for in_the_beginning .  The English translation of the Song of Deborah (Judges Chapter 5) is taken from the NRSV translation.  The Song of Miriam (Exodus 15:2-21, and I am using the scholarly theory that the whole thing originally belonged to Miriam and not just the last verse) is taken from Everett Fox’s translation The Five Books of Moses.  The word of God is always a direct quote.  Verses quoted in order are: Judges 5:3, Exodus 15:2, Judges 5:11, Exodus 15:21, Exodus 15:7, Judges 4:6-7, Judges 5:12, and Exodus 15:13.  The Hebrew text is taken from the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia; all errors are mine.

 

( Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; )

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Title: Looking In
Author: beatrice_otter 
Summary: They are all children of Earth.
Fandom: Torchwood
Character: Jack Harkness
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,227
Betaed by: alixtii 
Notes: Post-CoE, but NOT a fixit.

( The first place Jack went was a nice house in a quiet neighborhood. ) This entry was originally posted at http://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/148011.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

Title: Out of the Depths
Author: beatrice_otter 
Fandom: Star Trek
Rating: PG
Characters: Spock!Prime
Word Count: 2,417
Betaed by: ljc 
Summary: Though much is taken, some things remain.
Prompt: treknovelfest 57--The Pandora Principle, Spock Prime & Saavik. Spock!Prime goes to rescue everyone a decade or so early.
Note: Pthak’sahaisau means “cast out fear” (thank you, Vulcan Language Dictionary) and refers to Surak’s writings: “Here is the first part of the secret: Cast out fear. There is no room for anything else until you cast out fear.” (Spock’s World, p. 312)

( Spock surveyed the cavern, the largest chamber on Thieurrull, which in Standard was Hellguard. ) This entry was originally posted at http://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/146765.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

Title: X is for Xenophobia
Author: beatrice_otter 
Summary: Little Jake Carter knew all about people who Weren’t Like Us.
Fandom: Stargate: SG-1
Character: Jacob Carter
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,090
Written For: Jacob Carter Alphabet Soup

( Little Jake Carter was never a science fiction fan, growing up. ) This entry was originally posted at http://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/146609.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

Title: Knocking at the Door (the Things Unspoken Remix)
Author: beatrice_otter 
Summary: In the years between the Game Station and the end of the universe, Jack Harkness has a lot more time to think than he really wants.
Fandom: Torchwood
Character: Jack Harkness
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,084
Original Story: Unspeakable Lists by glinda_penguin
Notes: Title is taken from “Question” by The Moody Blues. Thanks to alixtii for the beta.

( In the years between the Game Station and the end of the universe, Jack Harkness has a lot more time to think than he really wants. )

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Title: Hard to Swallow (the Percolation Remix)
Author: beatrice_otter
Summary: Ianto Jones. Tea, coffee, and the transition from London to Cardiff
Fandom: Torchwood
Character: Ianto Jones
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,597
Original Story: Ianto Jones/Coffee by glinda_penguin
Notes: Title is taken from “Question” by The Moody Blues. Thanks to alixtii for the beta.

( Ianto, like all proper British citizens whether Welsh, English, Scottish, or Irish, was raised to be a tea drinker. )

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So, this year I wrote not one but two fics, both Torchwood: Knocking at the Door (the Things Unspoken Remix) and Hard to Swallow (the Percolation Remix). They're not exactly a pair, but they do complement each other. They have to do with Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones, respectively, and their early days at Torchwood, learning to deal with (or really, not deal with) their lives before this point. For Jack, it's about being abandoned by the Doctor and Rose, and all the abandonment issues and other issues he already had at that point compounding on one another. For Ianto, it's about surviving the destruction of Torchwood One and Lisa's conversion. Both of them are trying desperately to ignore their issues and go on as if nothing's wrong. And, of course, Torchwood isn't helping.

I was spoiled for choice this year; my remixee, glinda_penguin, has a lot of stories in three fandoms I write (SG-1, Doctor Who, Torchwood). And while the earlier stories from when she was starting out aren't very good (as she admits herself), well, sometimes that leaves more doors for remixing than wonderfully written stories do. Not only did she have a lot of stories to choose from, I had a whole list of her stories jump out at me as having great possibilities for a remix. Even with a tight writing schedule, it was easy to pick one (Unspeakable Lists) and remix it.  The story was about Jack keeping lists of questions to ask the Doctor when he finds him again, and naturally I wanted to know what questions were on the list, so I wrote it.  But it was only just over 1,000  words long, barely over the minimum,  and I just felt like maybe I should do something more for my remixee, and I had the time, so I thought I would do another one.  And it would be nice if it related, so I went to one of the other Torchwood fics that had caught my eye--a humorous ficlet about Ianto's love affair with coffee.  Which caught my eye because you know as an American, I'd always thought that Brits were all tea-drinkers.  So how Ianto became a coffee drinker might be an interesting story, particularly if you intertwined it with how he came to Torchwood Three, and then it would complement my first story.  It turned out to be longer, but no harder to write; like the first, it pretty much wrote itself.
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I was working on my treknovelfest story tonight, just adding a few lines before going to bed. (I got distracted yesterday, and stopped writing in the middle of a sentence, and I wanted to finish that paragrah, basically.) And all of a sudden my short little Reboot twist on The Pandora Principle took a left turn at Albuquerque. And that scene is going to be the end of the story, and the scene I had all plotted out that I thought was going to be the heart of the piece isn't even going to be written, and now the story's got a theme and everything that I now have to go back and make sure is actually present throughout, and possibly re-watch an episode of Babylon 5 to pick out a quote to use as a title. (Hint: see icon)

Also, my remixredux09 beta has reappeared, and that's taken care of. I can't wait for the reveal, and I hope that this year everyone gets their stories done by the date the archive is supposed to open.

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Title: Danse Macabre
Author: beatrice_otter 
Fandom: Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles
Rating: PG
Character: Kate Brewster
Warnings: none
Spoilers: all of SCC
Word Count: 1607
Written For: lilhobbit in scc_reloaded 
Betaed by: jebbypal 
Prompt: "What if we could reprogram them?"

( When Kate was twelve, she used to go to her father's office and hang out with the programmers who worked on the floor below him. )

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. )

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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.

Title: No Place Like Home
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandoms: DCUniverse/Star Trek.
Word Count: 2,346
Written For: Multiverse 2009 multiverse5000, June 11
Prompt: Kal-El, Amanda Rogers—Stop me if you've heard this before: an alien child with superpowers turns up in Kansas as an orphan, and is raised by humans until learning of their true nature as an adolescent...
AN: In the course of writing this, I realized that another DC/Star Trek crossover that absolutely cries out to be made is Q and Mr. Mxyzptlk. Please tell me that this has been done somewhere.

( The first time Clark Kent met Amanda Rogers, he didn’t pay much attention. )

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Title: Some Way Out
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Characters: Boomer, Cavil
Word Count: 592
Summary: If all this has happened before and will happen again, what does that say about God?


( Cylons don't have religious services in the same way that humans do. ) This entry was originally posted at http://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/134590.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

Title: Great Minds
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandoms: DC/Torchwood
Characters: Barbara Gordon, Toshiko Sato
Rating: G
Word Count: 3,580
Written for: Multiverse 2009 (multiverse5000)
Summary: There's a little problem aboard Watchtower.

( Frustrated was too mild a word, Barbara Gordon decided as she dragged herself out from under the consele. )

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Title: Five Things That Didn't Suprise Sam About Being A Cylon
Author: beatrice_otter 
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Spoilers: all seasons
Word Count: 772
Rating: PG

( Five Things )

Title: Five Things Caprica Six Never Did
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Rating: PG
Characters: Caprica Six, Head!Baltar, Laura Roslin, D’Anna Biers, Ellen Tigh
Warnings: None
Spoilers: the whole series.
Word Count: 2,210

( Six bent over the stroller, looking down at the human baby. )

Title: Just Like Old Times
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandom: Stargate: SG-1
Rating: PG
Characters: Teal’c, Daniel Jackson
Warnings: none
Spoilers: whole series.
Word Count: 5045
Written For: sg_betty in tealc_ficathon
Prompt: Teal'c and Daniel Jackson combining their knowledge, Drama and/or adventure, A happy ending
Betaed by: redbyrd_sgfic


( Just Like Old Times )

Title: Priorities
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandom: Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles
Summary: Cameron, at the end of Born to Run
Rating: G
Characters: Cameron, John Henry
Word Count: 1414
Betaed by: hradzka

( The structure and organization of the computer banks that served as John Henry’s central processing unit are far different from the chip that served the same purpose in Cameron’s body. )

So, I submitted four fics to the finish-a-thon and the one that was chosen I'm having more difficulty than I thought I would. It's just ... not inspiring me to write, at all. I feel very blah about it. It would actually be easier to write if I hated it than it is feeling indifferent, I think.