Title: Stake, Outed.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Torchwood.
Rating: PG-13. Innuendo, voyeurism, and a little angst.
Characters/Pairing: Jack/Ianto; Johnson/Gwen (if you squint); Johnson’s Tech Guy/Tosh.
Disclaimer: All the pretty belongs to Auntie Beeb.
Summary: It is hard to watch and not be changed by the watching.
Word Count: 2188.
A/N: Spoilers for 2x11 “Adrift”, 2x13 “Exit Wounds”, “Children of Earth: Day One”, and “Children of Earth: Day Two”.

Title: Five Pre-Raphaelite Muses Who Did Not Quite Pan Out.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Desperate Romantics/AtS/Torchwood/ Primeval/ Doctor Who/ Merlin (BBC).
Rating: PG-13.
Characters/Pairing: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Fred Walters (Desperate Romantics); Darla, Angelus (Angel); The Tarot Girl (Torchwood); Sarah Page, Abby Maitland (Primeval); Donna Noble (Doctor Who); Morgana (Merlin).
Disclaimer: The Beeb, Impossible Pictures, Mutant Enemy, and that harsh taskmaster, Real Life™, own the goods. Just visiting. 
Summary: Lizzie Siddal was not the whole story. Some of the other chapters were life-threatening.
Word Count: 1623.
A/N: No significant spoilers. Gabriel is caught plagiarizing a couplet from Tennyson’s Locksley Hall.

Title: Intervention.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Torchwood/The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Rating: PG-13. Much more TW in tone and content than SJA: angst, dark themes, and references to character death.
Characters/Pairing: Gwen Cooper, Sarah Jane Smith.
Disclaimer: All the Beeb’s. Not for profit.
Summary: Sarah Jane has had too much practice at watching the watchmen.
Word Count: 2249.
A/N: Spoilers for TW “Children of Earth” and DW “The Stolen Earth”.

Title: A Room Somewhere.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Torchwood/Dollhouse.
Rating: PG-13. Angst.
Characters/Pairing: Tosh-centric.
Disclaimer: The Beeb and Mutant Enemy share custody. Not for profit.
Summary: It is not always good to be needed.
Word Count: 412.
A/N: Spoilers for TW 2x12 “Fragments” and Dollhouse 1x01.

Title: Towards an Archaeology of Cucumbers.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: BtVS/Strontium Dog.
Rating: PG-13.
Characters/Pairing: Anya (Aud)/Wulf; Wulf/Johnny (if you squint).
Disclaimer: One sesquipedalian demon and one malapropistic mercenary come courtesy of Mutant Enemy and John Wagner, respectively. No infringement intended.
Summary: The untold story of Wulf Sternhammer and his One That Got Away.
Word Count: 1474
A/N: Minor spoilers for the whole of BtVS. This one is more than usually for arachnekallisti and valderys, after a rather rough month in fandom. It has fluffy bunnies. Kinda.

Title: Side Quest.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Torchwood/Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
Rating: PG-13. Smut; innuendo; some violence and swearing.
Characters/Pairing: Jack/Everyone.
Disclaimer: Not mine, any of it.
Summary: Dongalor’s latest plan bids fair to crush all with its evil. The Golden One and his boon companions must put their faith in a mysterious stranger. But does the one they call “Captain Jack Harkness” have reasons of his own for lending aid?
Word Count: 5794.
A/N: Spoilers for Kröd Mändoon down to 1x03: “Our Bounties Ourselves” and Torchwood 1x01: “Everything Changes”.

Title: Four Ghosts Stood on the Sea-Wet Rock.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Lost/Alias/Doctor Who/Fringe.
Rating: PG.
Characters/Pairing: Jacob (Lost); Milo Rambaldi (Alias); The Seventh Doctor (Doctor Who); The Observer (Fringe).
Disclaimer: What Bad Robot does not own, the Beeb does. Not for profit.
Summary: Not everybody plays by Jacob’s Rules.
Word Count: 300 (three drabbles).
A/N: Spoilers for Lost 5x16 and 5x17 “The Incident” and Fringe 1x04 “The Arrival”. The title comes from the poem “Emperors of the Island” by Dannie Abse.

 

Title: A Book by its Cover.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Demons.
Rating: PG-13.
Characters: Mina Harker (with mentions of Galvin, Luke, and Ruby).
Disclaimer: This version of Mina belongs to Shine Productions. The present fic is not for profit.
Summary: The (half-)life of Mina Harker, through successive editions of the most important book in it.
Word Count: 1168.
A/N: Spoilers for Demons 1x04: “Suckers”. The bibliographical details are, to the best of my knowledge, accurate (and much indebted to the works of John Sutherland). Philip Larkin’s “Annus Mirabilis” lurks behind the opening paragraph of part four.

Title: Busman’s Holiday.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Doctor Who/DC Comics
Rating: PG.
Characters/Pairing: Christina de Souza (Doctor Who); Catwoman [Selina Kyle] (DC Comics); mentions of Christina/Ten and Selina/Bruce UST.
Disclaimer: These two belong to the Beeb and DC Comics respectively. No infringement intended.
Summary: Experts on good form have seldom addressed the awkward social situation that arises when a lady of breeding attempts to steal that which is already being stolen by someone else.
Word Count: 1294.
A/N: Spoilers for Doctor Who “Planet of the Dead”. Christina steals (appropriately enough) a saying of J. F. Roxburgh for her own purposes.
( I thought that Brits were meant to be good at deciding priority. Isn’t the instinct to queue encoded in your DNA? )

Title: Hunting the Dragon.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)/Torchwood/Lost/BtVS
Rating: NC-17. Angst; Het; Slash (Dub-Con); Femslash.
Characters/Pairing: The Great Dragon, Arthur/Merlin (Merlin); Toshiko Sato/Tommy Brockless (Torchwood); John Locke/Benjamin Linus (Lost); Willow Rosenberg/Tara Maclay (BtVS).
Disclaimer: Three angsty magicians, two brave warriors, a pair of wayward prophets, one lonely techie, and one slash-happy fire-breathing reptile belong to Bad Robot, Mutant Enemy, and the BBC. No infringement intended.
Summary: There are two sides to every coin, and The Great Dragon’s currency is good far beyond the borders of Camelot.
Word Count: 1062.
A/N: Spoilers for Torchwood 2x03 “To the Last Man”, Doctor Who 1x04 “Aliens of London”, and the Old!Who story “Battlefield”. Headings from “The Hunting of the Dragon” by G. K. Chesterton. This fic was inspired by the slashdragonsays community, although it was completed too late to be an entry.

 

Title: Groundwork.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Burn Notice.
Rating: PG.
Pairing: Michael Weston/Fiona Glenanne.
Disclaimer: Michael, Fi, and their 'Leet Snogging Skills belong to FOX. No defacement or profit intended.
Summary: Michael Weston is a man who likes to keep all his bases covered. Sometimes in lipstick.
Word Count: 300.
A/N: This shameless fluff was originally a contribution to the "Kissing" comment!fic bonanza here. Reposted with slight changes as a bit of a contrast to the industrial strength angst I have been serving up lately.


( Kissing Fiona Glenanne: some dos and don’ts. )

Title: Memento.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Torchwood/Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Rating: PG-13. Angst, somewhat dark themes, and a little swearing.
Characters/Pairing: Gwen Cooper, Willow Rosenberg.
Disclaimer: These two ladies belong to the Beeb and Mutant Enemy, respectively. Their present pub trip is not for profit.
Summary: Gwen will go to considerable lengths to find a sympathetic ear.
Word Count: 1468
A/N: Set late in S1 (for Torchwood) and after S7 (for BtVS). Spoilers for TW 1x11 “Combat”. One of the “Pub Talk” series. The comic which Willow mentions is Daredevil, Vol. 2 #5.

Title: Something Unspoken.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Heroes.
Rating: NC-17. Smut and a little angst.
Characters/Pairing: Charlie Andrews/Hiro Nakamura; Maya Herrera/Mohinder Suresh; Noah Bennet/Sandra Bennet.
Disclaimer: Tim Kring and NBC own the pretty. I return them only a little soiled.
Summary: Sometimes the lies that lovers tell are sins of omission.
Word Count: 300 (three drabbles).
A/N: Spoilers down to 3x05 “Angels and Monsters”

Title: The Trade in Tears.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Merlin (BBC).
Rating: PG-13. Much angst.
Characters/Pairing: Uther, Morgana, Gwen.
Disclaimer: All the Beeb’s.
Summary: There is a right way and a wrong way of doing things.
Word Count: 1200.
A/N: No spoilers.

Title: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Primeval.
Rating: PG-13 (mild swearing).
Characters: Helen Cutter; Nick Cutter.
Disclaimer: This pair belong to Impossible Pictures; I am just visiting.
Summary: Why is Helen so cryptic about her goals?
Word Count: 100 (drabble).
A/N: Spoilers to the end of Season One. I have definitely seen this idea used in other fandoms, and it may already have been done here too. If so, apologies in advance.

Title: Five (and a bit) Times Helen Cutter’s Plans Did Not Go Smooth.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Primeval (crossover with Sanctuary, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Torchwood, and The Sarah Jane Adventures)
Rating: PG-13.
Characters/Pairing: Helen Cutter (Primeval); Sir James Watson (Sanctuary); Warren Mears, Andrew Wells (Buffy the Vampire Slayer); Gwen Cooper, Captain Jack Harkness (Torchwood); Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith, Clyde Langer (The Sarah Jane Adventures).
Disclaimer: Impossible Pictures are responsible for Helen Cutter; Mutant Enemy, Kebet Holdings Ltd., and the BBC own those who are proving vexatious to her.
Summary: The life of a transtemporal Machiavelli is not always a bed of roses. Helen Cutter is a clever and manipulative individual, who knows what is really going on. But she isn’t the only one.
Word Count: 1187.
A/N: Serious spoilers for Primeval to the end of Season Two. Small ones for Sanctuary 1x07: “The Five”; BtVS Season Six; and Torchwood 1x01 “Everything Changes”.

Title: A Study of Reading Habits.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Heroes/Other.
Rating: PG-13.
Pairing: None.
Disclaimer: Not mine at all, any of it.
Summary: A fan of Isaac Mendez makes a discovery.
Word Count: 682.
A/N: The title is taken from a poem by Philip Larkin. No significant spoilers.

Title: The Lady by the Lake.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Heroes/Merlin (BBC).
Rating: PG-13.
Pairing: None.
Disclaimer: Heroes and Merlin belong to their respective owners. Neither is I.
Summary: There has been more than one Camelot.
Word Count: 704.
A/N: Spoilers for Heroes down to 3x08 “Villains” and for Merlin down to 1x07 “The Gates of Avalon”.

Title: Power Struggle.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Torchwood (with a nod at Old!Who).
Rating: PG-13. Smut and a touch of angst.
Pairing: Gwen/Tosh (a little)
Disclaimer: Torchwood belongs to the Beeb.
Summary: How Gwen ended up in charge by the start of Season Two, based on the premise that one should never assume Jack Harkness is joking.
Word Count: 1422.
A/N: The essay Tosh mentions is in Roland Barthes’ Mythologies (Paris, 1957).

( “Right, Tosh,” Gwen frowned, and wished that she had a hand free to scratch her nose... )