Fic: Far Above Rubies

I did not do Not Prime Time, but I did write two treats, and had fun doing so.  The first one was a P&P fic, a what-if Mary had married Mr. Collins instead of Charlotte; once fics were posted I found that ChronicBookworm had written a fic that was not only from the same prompt, but used a different part of the same Bible passage for the title.  It's a great fic, you should totally go read it.

Title: Far Above Rubies
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Fandom: Pride & Prejudice
Written for: jeannamarin in Not Prime Time 2018
AN: I generally use the date Austen started writing Pride and Prejudice (1797), rather than the date she published it (1813), and this fic reflects that.
AN 2: Title is from Proverbs 31:10-31. "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies…. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates."

Summary: All in all, it was a highly eligible match and Mary was quite pleased with herself for securing it. She might wish Mr. Collins paid more attention to his scriptures and the writings of the great theologians than to the edicts of Lady Catherine, but Mary's own scholarship in that area was more than sufficient to remedy the lack.

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Fic: Finishing The Race

My other Not Prime Time treat! B5 was one of my first fandoms, and it will always have a special place in my heart. I love that show. I had never considered Susan and Stephen together,* either platonically or romantically, but as I thought about it the obvious hook would be his work on the Underground Railroad for telepaths escaping the PsiCorps, and Susan's hatred and fear of the PsiCorps for what they did to her mother and other telepaths who won't toe the line. Then I watched the episode about the underground railroad, and a) Susan doesn't find out it's Stephen behind it and b) the plotholes. Why the heck does Stephen tell Sheridan ANYTHING? He wasn't about to find out on his own, and Stephen doesn't need his help with anything, and with something like that each new person in the know is a possible way for the PsiCops to scan you and find something! It's a huge breach of security for no gain.

*Stephen and Marcus, oh yes. Come to think of it, that would be a great poly triad: Marcus/Susan/Stephen. Someone should totally write that.  I headcanon Marcus as ace romantic whereas both Susan and Stephen are very sexual people, and Marcus and Stephen had chemistry but would need a buffer, and Marcus loves Susan but she finds him a bit too romantic and much for her so she and Marcus would need a buffer too, and if you balanced it right it could be really good.  Maybe a poly V?

Title: Finishing the Race
Author: Beatrice_otter
Fandom: Babylon 5
Characters: Susan Ivanova, Stephen Franklin
Written for: deservixen for Not Prime Time 2018
AN: Episode coda for A Race Through Dark Places.

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( It was a dangerous thing to speculate about, Susan knew. What she didn't know, she couldn't betray. )