Fic: Small World

Rare Pairs 2021 is revealed! This was my assignment, and I had fun with it. It's been a while since I wrote anything Vorkosiverse, and I'm not a huge Ivan fan (don't dislike him, just kind of meh), but I do love his and Tej's dynamic together. They complement each other so well, and each is what the other needed. So this was fun to write.

Title: Small World
Fandom: Vorkosigan Series
Pairing: Ivan/Tej
Rating: gen
Length: 5k words
Written for: desertvixen  for rarepairsexchange  2021
Summary: In between one diplomatic assignment and the next, Ivan and Tej come to Barrayar for a visit.

AN: Barrayar has to have a ministry that handles all the diplomacy and foreign trade and whatnot. We are not given the name of this ministry. (We are given that the diplomats, specifically, are part of the "diplomatic corps" but there's a lot more than actual diplomacy that needs to happen, governmentally, on Barrayar's end. I have chosen to call this ministry the Ministry of Galactic Affairs. Yes, like the ImpSec department.

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Fic: the simple secret of the plot

This treat was actually the first thing I wrote for Rare Pairs this year; yes, I was a bad girl and wrote a treat before writing my assignment, but Picard/Guinan grabbed me by the throat a while back and there is so little content for the pairing I just had to. So here it is! (And if you're looking at this and thinking, "Picard/Guinan? What's she on?" you need to watch Time's Arrow and watch the way Picard looks at her. fans self) The title is from "I Could Write A Book," a classic song by Rogers and Hart. (Here's Harry Connick Jr. singing it on the When Harry Met Sally soundtrack.)

Title: the simple secret of the plot
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Pairing: Picard/Guinan
Written for: Huntress79 in rarepairsexchange 2021
Summary: Then the world discovers as my book ends/How to make two lovers of friends

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( The lunch rush was over, and Guinan's staff was setting things to right and cleaning around the few lingering stragglers when Picard walked in. He often took lunch later in his shift than most people did to avoid the crowd.  )

Fic: Sweet Beginnings

This is a quick treat I tossed off close to the deadline. I've always been intrigued by the idea of Worf and Deanna together, and I enjoyed puzzling through "how they might have gotten together."

Title: Sweet Beginnings
Fandom: Star Trek: the Next Generation
Pairing: Deanna Troi/Worf
Rating: gen
Length: 1630 words
Written for: Spacecadet72 for Rare Pairs 2021
Summary: Worf has noticed Deanna in a whole new way. Deanna has noticed him noticing.

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Even when he was conflicted and unsure, Worf was decisive and forthright; that was one of the things Deanna liked about him. It could occasionally get him into trouble, but Deanna had enough patients come to her who needed to be coaxed into admitting their feelings and thoughts, and then into taking appropriate actions to deal with their problems, that it was good to have friends who were more straightforward.

Which was why, when his attention started turning to her when they were both on the bridge during quiet shifts, she noticed. There was a bit more attraction in it than she was used to, from him, and also a bit of hesitance that was deeply uncharacteristic. It kept drawing her attention to him, but Deanna was a professional, and used to managing her response to others' feelings. Especially their feelings about her.

( Still. It did make her wonder. )