Yay for fic exchanges!

[lady_sarai]

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday--or if you don't celebrate, at least wonderful days!

yuletide is almost overwhelming with fannish glee--over 2000 fics to read, JOY!

But LOOK--two just for me!

Fundamentals, Batman Begins: Oh, it's Alfred and Bruce and their oh-so-dysfunctional father-son/master-butler relationship. It's exactly what I wanted, and a perfect Alfred voice.

"Good morning, sir. I hope you weren't planning any trips to town while you're here. I recommend barricading yourself for the remainder of the weekend."

"Oh?" Bruce eyed the Englishman's hand with a deep frown. "What did I do now?"

"You were born a complete package. Quite unfortunate."

A grimace. "Oh."

"Just remember, Master Wayne - they're all ladies until they prove themselves otherwise."

"I think you overestimate my charm."

"On the contrary, it's difficult to overestimate the charm of a billionaire." He proffered the gift without fanfare. "Many happy returns."

The frown returned. "I thought I said no gifts." The youngest Wayne said a lot of nullifying things, and ignoring them was often exhausting.

And then a treat!!

In Strife, RENT.

This fic? Is the fic I have meant to write for years, the one I've been wanting to read for ages, too--it hits just about every fic kink I have, for crying out loud.

"Roger? You okay?" A familiar voice asked.

Roger turned, and there was Collins, trepidation in his eyes. "Yeah. It's Mark. He's had the flu for like a week, and it got bad tonight. His fever was so high, and the coughing... I had to call an ambulance."

They shared a look that showed the same thought: This wasn't supposed to happen. Mark wasn't sick, not like them. He shouldn't be the one they had to come here for.

God, I love yuletide.

zoe_chan and I also got jbbs fic!

Tim Remembers--it's Young Justice. All of them.

"Look," Robin said, stalking into Young Justice, "We can't just accept anyone."

"Why not?" Impulse asked, following him in.

"Yeah, dude!" Superboy said. "They're girls!"

Oh, YJ. ♥

And now, to bed, so I can get up and go visit zoe_chan tomorrow and see aradiachiba, too! YAY, my persons!

(I have read so many other amazing stories today too, but the recs will wait. I have fannish glee.)

Comments

[decidedly.livejournal.com]

Hello there! I wanted to drop by and thank you profusely for your kind words on "Fundamentals" - I am thrilled that you loved the story. I think we all fret about whether our recipient will like what we've written for them, and I was not immune to that. I worried it was a little too sad, that it was vague - well, I worried over every aspect of it, honestly. But I'm so happy that you felt it fulfilled your wish as yours was the only opinion that really counted at the end of the day. I wish you a spectacular New Year!

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank YOU for such a wonderful story! It was better than anything I could have envisioned, and I absolutely love it.

Thank you again!! :)

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your lovely comment on "In Strife". I am so, so glad you liked it. I myself am a fan of hurt/comfort-y stories, but have never really been able to write a decent one (until now, I guess)! Thanks again!

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank YOU for writing it for me! I was *so* thrilled to find that I had a Treat, and I made this request last year and repeated it in hopes of something *just* like this!

You know how it is when you want to read a fic and no one seems to have written it so you decide you have to write it yourself? That's sort of what happened with this, but I only ever started the story and never have even gotten Mark to the hospital--but when I read your story, my jaw dropped and I made noises and flapped my hands around because in that story I started once upon a time? Mark caught pneumonia and wound up on a respirator in the ICU.

So THANK YOU for writing it for me! :)