The Black Sluggard

Title: Keep What You Kill
Series: A Once and Future Thing
Fandoms: The Chronicles of Riddick
Rating: PG
Genre: Romance, Supernatural, Science Fiction
Details: Slash, crossover, reincarnation, casual discussion of murder, galactic conquest and genocide, unbetad.
Wordcount: 3,457
Characters/Pairings: The Chronicles of Riddick—Richard B. Riddick/Vaako.
Summary: Riddick offers answers. Vaako should have been more curious about the questions. Sequel to "Til Underverse Come".
Details: At what point does a crossover stop being a crossover and become a fusion? At what point does a fusion stop being a fusion and just become a normal fic? I don't even know what this is anymore, or where it's appropriate to post it. Because on the surface, this is a story only about Riddick and Vaako, but beneath the surface its about so much more...

( "I'll ask you one more time, Vaako: When I looked into oblivion, do you want to know what it was I saw?" )

Title: 'Til Underverse Come
Series: A Once and Future Thing
Fandoms: The Chronicles of Riddick, The Eagle, The 13th Warrior, Castle, Terminator, Terminator: Salvation, Firefly.
Rating: PG
Genre: Romance, Supernatural, Science Fiction
Warnings: Canon character deaths, spoilers.
Details: Slash, het. Crossover (like whoa), reincarnation, unbetad.
Wordcount: 1,767
Characters/Pairings: The Chronicles of Riddick—pre-Richard B. Riddick/Vaako, Imam, Kyra. The Eagle—Marcus/Esca, Uncle Aquilla. The 13th Warrior—Ahmad ibn-Fahdlan/Herger. Castle—Javier Esposito/Kevin Ryan, Roy Montgomery, Kate Beckett. Terminator: Salvation—Star/Kyle Reese. Firefly—Zoe/Hoban Washburne, Derrial Book, Inara.
Summary: When Riddick crosses the threshold into Underverse, he sees all.
Details: This crazy mass-crossover is an expansion on the reincarnation saga previously explored in Deja Vu and Jamais Vu. I had a few of these ties in mind already, but the core of this only came on me today, and like the other entries in this series, the thing basically wrote itself.

( It is only when they are together that they truly live. )

Title: Deja Vu
Series: A Once and Future Thing
Fandoms: Castle, Firefly
Rating: PG
Genre: Romance, Sci-fi
Warnings: Character death, spoilers for Serenity.
Details: Slash, het, genre!crack, crossover, unbetad.
Wordcount: 1,750
Characters/Pairings: Castle—Ryan/Esposito, implied Castle/Beckett. Firefly—Zoe/Wash, Mal/Inara, Kaylee, Inara, Book.
Summary: From the moment they first met there was something about their new pilot had made Zoe uneasy. Something familiar that she hadn't quite been able to put her finger on.
Details: To be quite honest, I'm not even sure if this counts as a Castle fic, even though it was written as one. This exists somewhere in that grey area between "fusion" and "crossover". Inspired by a serendipitous occurrence on the ryanandesposito Anon-athon where one of the anon's accidentally had Esposito echoing Zoe's first impression of Wash, regarding his first impression of Ryan. I've thought before that the couples were very similar, so this idea just happened naturally from that...
Interestingly enough, rereading some older fics a few weeks later, I realized that pure_mornings also wrote a fic that put the same dialogue in Javier's mouth. Go figure.



( "Just somethin' about him bothers me." )