Otter's Rock

Title: Darcy's Surprise
Author: beatrice_otter 
Rating: PG
Source: Temeraire—Naomi Novik. Pride and Prejudice
Characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Bennet Bingley, Admiral Portland
Warnings: none
Word Count: 4432
Betaed by: lastscorpion 
Summary: While investigating Mrs Bingley’s secret, Mr Darcy receives an unwelcome shock.
Timeline Note: His Majesty’s Dragon takes place in 1805; Victory of Eagles in 1808. Pride and Prejudice takes place 1811-1812. Therefore, I’m trying to avoid war events, as I have no clue what’s going to happen next. (The real-world timeline isn’t exactly a help.) This is convenient as I suck at writing action.
Sequel to: Lieutenant Bennet's Visit

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( Ah, Darcy, I cannot tell you how glad I am to see you, Bingley said )

So!  For Yuletide, this year, I was assigned to Cinaed, for A Chorus Line.

I wrote "The Beat Goes On," about Diana and Paul after the movie, and their friendship, and his injury, and Diana's family, and the show.  I am so thankful to kristin for the beta, because I know pretty much nothing about Puerto Rican or Puerto Rican society besides what you find in A Chorus Line and  West Side Story.  I don't even know any Spanish; my high school language was French.  She was very helpful, and I'm quite happy with how it turned out.  I love this musical, and Diana is one of my favorite characters, and I love her strength and her defiance, and all about her, and I wanted to do something as part of dark_agenda's chromatic_yuletide_2010.

When the pinch hits came through, I failed to snag the one for starlady about the Disney Princess Superheroes, but I wrote it anyway because how can you go wrong with Disney Princess Superheroes?  I finished A League Of Their Own weeks before finishing my assigned fic, but then it was a lot easier and less nerve-wracking to write.

And on December 24th, I went in to the office but had nothing to do because everything was already ready for Christmas.  So I went through the Deary Yuletide Author letters, spotted a Temeraire/Pride and Prejudice crossover request, and threw something together in a couple of hours.  Didn't even bother to get it betaed, because there wasn't time.  So that's how Lieutenant Bennet's Visit came about, which is almost certainly the most popular thing I've ever written.  I've got some story ideas for more stories in this line, but also I think other people have lots of ideas (though whether they would get written I have no idea.  So I created a DW com (lieutenant_bennet) and started an AO3 collection.

This is my entry to the asexual_fandom Commentfic/Kinkmeme.

Title: A Comfortable Life
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice
Characters: Charlotte Collins
Word Count: 632 words
AN1: An asexual is someone who does not experience sexual arousal.
AN2: I am assuming that Mr. Collins has Aspergers, and my portrayal of how that affects his sexuality is taken from So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in Pride and Prejudice by Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer, an excellent work on both Autism and Aspergers, and on Pride and Prejudice, which I cannot recommend highly enough whether you're interested in the autistic spectrum or P&P.

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( Charlotte appreciated a handsome man, but not as other girls did. )