The Troubled Tales 2016 Haven fanfiction exchange collection is live!

(Names revealed early, because I opened the collection on my phone at a Halloween party last night and something appears to have Gone Amiss, even if 'anonymous' is still checked on the archive and so I am not sure... how... It must be a Trouble.)
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I'm still concerned about my ability to write any more in my life's current climate, because this fic ended up being a channel for quite a lot of feelings. But nonetheless, it's a reasonable length fic and the first thing I've written since the accident, so yay?

TITLE: White Noise
AUTHOR: roseveare
RATING: PG13
LENGTH: 9,000 words approx
SUMMARY: "This place," Duke said, hands fidgeting on the wheel as he drove them down toward the flat intertidal whiteness, paled from the salt and sun exposure. "There's something about this place, now. I like lonely areas, but this is giving me the creeps."
"Me, too." Audrey shifted at Nathan's side. "Nathan."
"Don't like it much," Nathan mumbled.
"You are weird today."
NOTES: Written for the darkfic exchange for Phoenixdragon, the prompt being "existential horror". I couldn't resist giving this one a shot, though I'm not sure if I'll have hit the target or not for such a grand esoteric concept. I was intrigued by the idea of a horror or darkfic where the primary motifs are open spaces and brightness.
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White Noise )

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Been sitting on this one a while because I'm thinking of writing more, but I feel I need something fun and distracting to post today.

Havenverse Random Prompt Generator

William Cross / Duke Crocker / terror


spoilers for the finale )
TITLE: Ghost on a Wire
AUTHOR: roseveare
RATING: PG13
LENGTH: ~6,000 words
SUMMARY: Paul hears a click on the line, and a rasp, and a shiver travels down his spine. He knows he's connected to something else and other even before the hissing, desperate female voice slides through, crackling with the interference of the unimaginable spaces it had to cross to get to him:
"Help me... Help me... I think I'm dying..."
NOTES: Written for Tanaqui in My Old Fandom exchange 2016. See the end for notes on the source of the paranormal tale.
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Ghost on a Wire )

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TITLE: The Future Is What You Make It
AUTHOR: roseveare
RATING: PG13
PAIRING: ~Dayna/Soolin
LENGTH: ~2,500 words
SUMMARY: "...It also can't be long now before they count up the bodies and review their security footage and realise they're missing two important ones."
"Not as important as Blake," Dayna said bitterly.
NOTES: Written for Raspberryheaven in My Old Fandom exchange 2016.
The mention of post Gauda Prime in the request it made me realise it had never occured to me to think about these two post Gauda Prime; I'd always assumed that like most of the cast, they didn't make it, so it had never been a possibility. Hence this fic decided out of nowhere that it was going to be about Soolin and Dayna surviving and how they might begin anew.
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The Future Is What You Make It )

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TITLE: Great Stores, Great Choices
AUTHOR: roseveare
RATING: PG13
LENGTH: ~16,000 words approx
SUMMARY: Jack visits Daniel on the West Coast to check out the set-up of the new SSR office. But it's about to be a resoundingly bad day for both of them.
NOTES: Set between season 1 and season 2. Case fic with a heavy dose of Jack Thompson torture. Written for Redrikki for SSR Confidential 2016.
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, no profit, yadda, yadda, yadda.
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Great Stores, Great Choices )

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TITLE: The Witchfinder's Whore
AUTHOR: roseveare
RATING: R
LENGTH: ~18,800 words approx
SUMMARY: Nathan Wuornos hid his magic and took up bartering his flesh for coin after watching his father burned at the stake. But one day, an aggressive client cries "witch!" and Nathan finds himself in the citadel jails. An unexpected reprieve appears in the form of shady priest Duke Crocker, who offers to release Nathan in return for his services... both physical and magical... in bringing down his hated enemy, corrupt Crown Inquisitor Lady Mara and her consort William. Nathan has no intention of betraying another witch, but he'll take the chance for freedom... and to play with the delectable priest's guilty lusts while he's about it...
NOTES: Crack fantasy romance novel AU written for the Unconventional Courtship challenge.
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, no profit, yadda, yadda, yadda.
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"It is a Dark Era, one when a lusty lad will do what he must to survive. Even if it means bartering flesh for a palmful of coins. . . Forced to watch his father burn at the stake, Nathan Wuornos knows the danger of the gift he inherited - a powerful magic that must stay hidden. Until one night when he's accused of witchcraft and Nathan finds himself behind prison walls, awaiting certain death with a roguish priest unlike any man of the cloth he has known. In reality, Duke Crocker is as far from holy as the devil himself, but his promise of freedom in return for Nathan's services may be his salvation. Locked into a dubious agreement, Nathan resents his plan to have him seduce and ruin his lifelong enemy. But toying with Duke's own lust for him is enjoyable, and he agrees to be his pawn while secretly intending to use him just the same..."

--Based on 'The Harlot' by Saskia Walker.


The roles could've gone either way. But I've been joking about writing hooker!Nathan since the season 3-4 hiatus, so~



The Witchfinder's Whore )

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TITLE: Hurricane Chasing
AUTHOR: roseveare
RATING: PG13
LENGTH: ~6,500 words approx
SUMMARY: "I think you were all the heroes of some big story, and now here am I, stuck in the Epilogue." Paige remembers, piece by piece.
NOTES: written for Rabbitt in the After Forever post-finale Haven ficathon. 'Something exploring the actual ramifications of Audrey coming back as Paige.' This didn't quite go the places I expected it to go, but I find myself quite pleased with it? Also, in which far too much is read into Paige's name. I'm not completely sure where the reference to Paige being a teacher came from, but I've seen it mentioned by a few people in fandom so I have written with that in mind. The fic quotes briefly from Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’.
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, no profit, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Hurricane Chasing )

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TITLE: Conversations With Ghosts
AUTHOR: roseveare
RATING: PG13
LENGTH: ~12,000 words approx
SUMMARY: Nathan's Trouble came back gradually, a little each day ever since he walked alone down the armoury hill and left his heart behind. A few days after he finally awoke with no sensation left in his body, they found the first corpse with aether-smudged eyes.
Now he faces questions he never wanted to ask. Are the Troubles coming back? Is the apparition of Duke seen in Haven responsible for the killings? Can Croatoan's reach extend beyond the walls of the new Barn, and even death itself?
PAIRING: Duke/Nathan, Audrey/Duke/Nathan
NOTES: written for PhoenixDragon in the After Forever post-finale fic exchange: Duke isn't dead, but isn't technically alive, either. Nathan had to make a choice, Duke was not that choice. But he feels haunted and wonders if he made the right one - as attacks on Haven begin by a serial killer and Duke is the obvious suspect, even as he is not really there to defend himself.
This story is set as an alternative to the last ~2 minutes of screentime in the finale; Audrey is still in the armoury, and Nathan is still trying to live his life and rebuild Haven.
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, no profit, yadda, yadda, yadda.
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Conversations With Ghosts )

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Summary: Decision time for Nathan and Duke -- and Audrey -- to try to map out a future for Haven... and themselves.

Notes: This is the last part, and since there is a definitive conclusion here, bear in mind that I am drawing the threads to a close while ignoring a good deal of the solutions that were suggested in season 5 canon, the first draft of the story having been written before those reveals. In a way, it's academic whether much of the information revealed in season 5 is true or not in this 'verse, because Nathan and Duke and co. don't have that knowledge and can only speculate in the absence of it.

Duke/Nathan - Explicit - 17,500 words

Part 4: Remains )

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Summary: After everything that has happened, with William and Audrey temporarily removed from the equation, Nathan and Duke have a brief window to try and fix their relationship, while Dwight and Nathan and HPD try to fix Haven, and figure out where they all go from here.

Duke/Nathan - explicit - ~28,000 words

Part 3: Three Days Grace )

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Summary: Nathan tries, using outside help, to determine the exact sequence of events that led to Duke killing him in the cave.

Duke/Nathan - Explicit - ~8,000 words

Shattered, Part 2: The Lost Week )

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EHm. This is the random nudity Trouble fic.

TITLE: Grin and Bare It
AUTHOR: roseveare
RATING: a really mild R? IDEK
LENGTH: ~14,000 words
PAIRING: Audrey/Duke/Nathan
SUMMARY: Nathan's caught a dose of a particularly embarrassing Trouble, Duke wants in on the hilarity, and Haven is just not letting up as Audrey and co struggle to keep a lid on the chaos. Some Troubles, you just have to grin and bare 'em...
NOTES: Written for Chiiyo86 in Holly Poly 2015. This is set in some happier season 1-2 mashup where the Chief is still around and Duke isn't obsessing about a tattooed man.
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Grin and Bare It )
I wrote about 3 fics for halfamoon on Tumblr. This is the only one I've brushed up for AO3 and FFN, but I'll post the others here too in the next day or so.

TITLE: Climbing Mount Haven
AUTHOR: roseveare
RATING: PG13
LENGTH: ~5,000 words
SUMMARY: Lexie, Jennifer and Jordan embark on a journey to the police station which Haven's geography conspires to make far more epic than usual.
NOTES: AU divergence set after Countdown. Written for the halfamoon female characters challenge, day #6 - hurt/comfort. I was quite taken by the idea of trying to write a story with hurt/comfort tones using an all-female cast.
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Climbing Mount Haven )
TITLE: The Bunny Returns
AUTHOR: roseveare
RATING: PG13
LENGTH: ~9,000 words
SUMMARY: 'If cuddling something cute and fluffy could keep a lid on whatever this Trouble was... Sorry, but Nate was taking one for the team.' A small girl and an exploding woman prove a Troubled challenge while Nathan is still stuck as a hare.
NOTES: sequel to Rage Bunny. Thanks to Rabbitt for beta-reading. :D
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The Bunny Returns )
I'm posting the sequel and just noticed the original crack had never been posted on here. Well, here it is.

TITLE: Rage Bunny
AUTHOR: roseveare
RATING: PG13
LENGTH: ~6,700 words
SUMMARY: Nathan gets turned into something small and fluffy with floppy ears. Nathan is decidedly unhappy about this.
NOTES: Based on the Haven Herald Book Club (on Tumblr) prompt of "Your favourite turns into an animal due to a new Trouble, and must seek help from the other characters".
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Rage Bunny )
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2014 meme: http://roseveare.dreamwidth.org/96122.html
2013 meme: http://roseveare.dreamwidth.org/37961.html


Total Stories: 17
Total Het Stories: 2
Total Slash Stories: 6
Total Femslash Stories: 1
Total Three or Moresome Stories: 8
Total Gen Stories: 2
Total Fandoms Written In: 4 (Haven, Agent Carter, Blake's 7, The Champions)
Total Word Count: 397,000 words... at least, that's what a quick count gets. Holy fuck.


Title: Rage Bunny
Fandoms: Haven
Pairings: gen
Summary: Nathan gets turned into something small and fluffy with floppy ears. Nathan is decidedly unhappy about this.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5561494

Title: Exchange of Views
Fandoms: The Champions
Pairings: Craig/Sharron/Richard ot3ish
Summary: Sharron, Craig and Richard have pooled their skills before, but when they're all isolated and in danger at the same time and no one has time to help the other(s), it triggers something none of them are anticipating.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5460845

Title: Seven Day Week
Fandoms: Haven
Pairings: Duke/Nathan
Summary: Duke has no memory beyond the last few days and seems to be existing in a life of hard labour he's fairly sure shouldn't be his life, but things aren't all bad -- not since falling in love with the likewise-amnesiac 111, of the blue eyes and compulsively helpful nature.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5452997

Title: Funerary Rites
Fandoms: Haven
Pairings: Audrey/Duke/Nathan OT3
Summary: The dead are walking in Haven again, variously a hindrance and a help. But the ghost in Audrey's head is called Mara and is steeped in ill intent.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5120129

Title: Redefinitions, or An Ode to Avoiding Commitment
Fandoms: Agent Carter
Pairings: Peggy/Jack/Sousa OT3
Summary: It begins because Jack’s an ass and Peggy needs a release and somehow it’s… easier… knowing that he’ll be an ass about it, to turn to him than anyone else...
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5114777

Title: CLOCKWORK
Fandoms: Haven
Pairings: Audrey/Duke/Nathan OT3
Summary: Steampunk!Haven. Amnesiac fugitive Audrey Parker hires privateer airship captain Duke Crocker's Cape Rouge to fly her safe passage out of the city-state of Heppa, but they find their escape pursued by police automaton Nathan Wuornos and a deadly mystery enemy.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5047384

Title: Fortress
Fandoms: Haven
Pairings: Audrey/Duke/Jennifer/Nathan OT4
Summary: "Not just one man, I find myself faced with a fortress. Four walls around you... Sooner or later I'm gonna blow those walls down." William sets about trying to take down Audrey's lovers one by one to win her back.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5001907

Title: 27 Years Bad Luck
Fandoms: Haven
Pairings: Audrey/Duke/Nathan ot3ish
Summary: "It's like one of those Star Trek episodes where everyone's suddenly evil and bi." Evil duplicates run amok in Haven, threatening the friendships between Audrey, Duke and Nathan.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/3367652

Title: Troublemaker
Fandoms: Haven
Pairings: Nathan/William
Summary: Centuries ago, William and Mara were punished, separately, for their collective crimes. While Mara was exiled to the void, William was cursed to come back every 27 years, his gifts and identity subsumed beneath other personalities who would help undo the damage they had done. Until in 2010, Aaron Pallister collides with Nathan Wuornos...
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4578783

Title: Control
Fandoms: Agent Carter
Pairings: Jack/Sousa
Summary: Agents Sousa and Thompson both fall afoul of one of Howard Stark's more lunatic inventions as SSR investigate the aftermath of the scene in the movie theatre. Slightly modified canon.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4622616

Title: Two Days//Twenty Years
Fandoms: Haven
Pairings: Duke/Nathan
Summary: Duke and Nathan's life together, twenty years on. AU from end season 4.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4516161

Title: House Divided
Fandoms: Haven
Pairings: Mara/Nathan/William, Audrey/Nathan, Duke/Jennifer
Summary: In which Nathan still has A Plan To Rescue Audrey, Duke wants to know if it's as lousy/suicidal as the last one, and Mara also has plans, too many of them to count. COMPLETE.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4394303

Title: The Choice
Fandoms: Haven
Pairings: Duke/Dwight, Duke/Nathan
Summary: Sleeping with the town fixer and the Chief's son was a sweet deal for Duke... until they both found out, along with the Chief and just about everyone else in Haven.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4431284

Title: Lightning Rod
Fandoms: Haven
Pairings: Jennifer/Nathan
Summary: "Consultant!" Jennifer darts her eyes at Nathan, nervously. Like Duke, right? "I'm a consultant?" Jennifer and Nathan are still reeling from the storm that hit their separate--potential--relationships yesterday, but now a much more literal storm approaches Haven, and it coincides with a Trouble that may rock the town to its foundations.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4377947

Title: Men Fear To Tread
Fandoms: Blake's 7
Pairings: Soolin/Dayna
Summary: Avon and Tarrant don't want to set foot on Navaru. Soolin and Dayna are happy to let them sit this one out.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4187412

Title: Trigger
Fandoms: Haven
Pairings: gen, kinda Nathan/OMC, past Duke/Nathan
Summary: Pre-series. Garland and Nathan go out-of-town to investigate the case of a sadistic serial rapist, which may be linked to an old murder in Haven.
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/3462905

Title: Sky Haven
Fandoms: Haven
Pairings: Audrey/Jordan/Nathan
Summary: Audrey and Nathan are sorely missing the third component of their relationship when a reality-bending Trouble changes the fabric of the town itself. Can an alternate Jordan McKee help them fix Haven and themselves from hundreds of feet above the ground?
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/3132401


~questions~

Favorite story of my own: Okay, so I was pasting in that list and already thinking that this year is all about House Divided and Trigger as far as I am concerned. I'm gonna say House Divided for this one because it was such a freakin' labour of love and effort and omfg. The whole breaking down masculinity thing? I enjoyed that. A lot. And fuck but it means a whole lot more after the ending the show gave us that I have my own universe where Nathan and Audrey saved Haven and stayed together, even if there was a cost, and Duke got a happy fucking ending.

My best story of the year: I'll call Trigger as more technically polished than House Divided, and for the original characters and the casefile.

My story most underappreciated by the universe: Lightning Rod. I love the Trouble, but hardly anyone is interested in the pairing and the fact that the major ships are all split up to bring it about.

My most fun story: Sky Haven and Clockwork tie! I honestly cannot make a decision between Haven being hung up in the air and Jordan with (artificial) wings, and Nathan as an automaton and the Cape Rouge as an airship under privateer captain Duke.

My sexiest story: Fortess is totally the smuttiest smutty thing, and it's four-way sex at that.

Story with single sexiest moment: I....... am rather fond of the smut in Seven Day Week when they're both trying to be top, and generally, the physicality in the fic ended up very raw and sensuous, and I loved writing it.

Story with single sweetest moment: I figure it's got to be in Two Days//Twenty Years.. Though the Garland and young!Nathan scene at the end of Trigger is very sweet in an anything-but-sweet fic.

Most unintentionally *telling* story: Two Days//Twenty Years takes its impetus from friends and relatives with chronic pain conditions, but it's not unintentional. Generally I don't do things that aren't at least aware, with subject matter? I think?

Holy crap that’s *wrong*: Probably most of House Divided, probably the *scale* of its wrongness depends on which corner of the fandom you ask. XD

Most disappointing story: I wanted to do so much more with the challenge fic that became Redefinitions, or an Ode to Avoiding Commitment but I ran out of time, although what I posted seems to have been reasonably well received.

Hardest to write: Probably Clockwork, in terms of sheer effort. It was relatively smooth until Part 3, in the latter half things got difficult. 27 Years Bad Luck wins most difficult to edit.

Easiest to write: Trigger wrote itself in a weekend away, Seven Day Week in a few days.

This year’s theme and the story that demonstrates that: A tie between polyamory and memory/identity. I'll go for Funerary Rites as representing both.

Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year? My biggest goal at the moment is to edit and post Unbreakable #3: Shattered.
TITLE: Seven Day Week
AUTHOR: roseveare
RATING: M
LENGTH: 11,500 words
SUMMARY: Duke has no memory beyond the last few days and seems to be existing in a life of hard labour he's fairly sure shouldn't be his life, but things aren't all bad -- not since falling in love with the likewise-amnesiac 111, of the blue eyes and compulsively helpful nature. Duke/Nathan.
NOTES: Slightly canon divergent late season 1 setting where Audrey already knows she's immune to Troubles. Second of two mid-length Duke/Nathan fics written while I was supposed to be doing NaNoWriMo. The Trouble in this one was inspired by the Farscape episode Thank God It's Friday... Again.

Seven Day Week )
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