beatrice_otter | Fic In A Box Recs

There are so many awesome fics for

ficinabox this year! Here are some of my favorites.

That my Days have been a Dream (2101 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mace Windu, Anakin Skywalker
Additional Tags: Time Travel
Summary:

He could feel the Force swirl around him, like he was standing in the middle of a Force nexus. He could sense millions of shatterpoints all around him, and had to close his eyes to the fault lines swirling across his vision, dancing and twisting. This was unlike anything he had ever experienced. He closed his eyes, centred himself, and reached out.

You will find that the world has changed forever (5455 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mace Windu, Katooni (Star Wars), Barriss Offee
Additional Tags: Mace Windu Lives, Jedi Training (Star Wars), Post-Order 66 (Star Wars), Injury Recovery
Summary:

Mace survives his fight with Palpatine and Anakin, with help from a friend.

Lightbringer (5104 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shmi Skywalker/Original Female Character(s)
Summary:

Aovor Xau, Jedi Shadow, crashes on Tatooine. The Force leads her to a doorstep that has seen Jedi before.

Ask A Manager: Help, I’m Being Transferred to My Mother’s Work Unit! (2240 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alys Vorpatril & Ivan Vorpatril
Characters: Ivan Vorpatril, Alison Green (Ask a Manager)
Additional Tags: Advice Column, Book: A Civil Campaign, Time Period: Reign of Gregor Vorbarra
Summary:

A reader writes:

So, I’m not experiencing any problems yet, but I’m about to enter a very professionally (and personally!) awkward position at work, and I’d really like your advance on how to handle it. Long story short, my mother is about to become my direct supervisor. For a year. And there’s literally nothing I can do about it. Help??

Harry Potter and the Cedric Diggory Fanclub (1795 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Harry Potter, Cedric Diggory, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger
Additional Tags: Don't copy to another site, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Harry Potter and the Year of Hormones, Crushes, One-Sided Crush, Fix-It, Somewhat, Fic in a Box 2021, Humour, in which 'Mad-Eye Moody' trips at the beginning of fourth year, and this fixes everything
Summary:

In a universe where Harry's name never enters the Goblet of Fire, Harry has to face his toughest foe yet: Cedric Diggory’s stupidly perfect face.

A Day In The Life (8954 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Filius Flitwick
Summary:

Filius Flitwick really loves being a teacher.

Birthday Boy (3398 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dudley Dursley & Harry Potter
Additional Tags: Time Travel Fix-It, Fix-It of Sorts, Good Dudley Dursley, Dudley is just trying to help, Unexplained Time Travel, Dyslexic Dudley Dursley
Summary:

Dudley relives his eleventh birthday. He's trying to make things better, honest. Why is the past so hard to change?

inside down and upside out (9672 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dudley Dursley, Harry Potter, Minerva McGonagall
Additional Tags: Magical Dudley Dursley, Diagon Alley, Dudley is a brat but mainly because he was taught to be, he gets better by the end, Fantasy Racism, aka pureblood bigotry
Summary:

A woman knocks on the door and changes Dudley's whole world

Out of Step (9220 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cho Chang/Blaise Zabini
Characters: Cho Chang, Blaise Zabini, Mrs Zabini (Harry Potter), Original Male Character, background canon characters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Aurors, Undercover as a Couple
Summary:

Cho Chang is an auror, and a good one at that. So when Blaise turns up at her office with intel on the smuggler she's been trying to bust for months, she'd be stupid not to take the lead. Right?

Escaping Fate (10583 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Black Malfoy, James Potter/Lily Evans Potter, Narcissa Black Malfoy/Lily Evans Potter
Characters: Narcissa Black Malfoy, Lily Evans Potter, Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Dobby (Harry Potter), James Potter, Lucius Malfoy
Additional Tags: Lily Evans Potter Lives, Character Death, Kid Fic, Motherhood, Friendship, Friends to Lovers, Secret Identity, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, POV Lily Evans Potter, POV Narcissa Black Malfoy, POV Multiple, Bisexual Lily Evans Potter, Lesbian Narcissa Black Malfoy, War
Summary:

Two mothers meet on a playground, and bond over common interests. But will the growing war tear them apart?

The Untangled Weave (15313 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Harry Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black
Additional Tags: Wizarding Culture (Harry Potter), Harry Potter & Wizarding World Lawyer
Summary:

All Harry had expected from his meeting with the Gringotts account manager was a bank statement. Maybe some financial advice.

we never summoned the devil (1289 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Nymphadora Tonks, Ted Tonks, Andromeda Black Tonks
Additional Tags: War, First Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter), Second War with Voldemort, Character Study
Summary:

Tonks’ life is defined by war—not of her choosing, but still it looms.

Five Letters Dudley Didn't Send (And One He Did) (6046 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dudley Dursley & Harry Potter
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Character Study
Summary:

All Dudley really wants to know is whether Harry's all right.

too nice for a jacket (i'm yours) (6044 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: DC Extended Universe, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Friends With Benefits, Pining, Gift Giving, Idiots in Love, 5 Things, Confessions
Summary:

Bruce and Clark are sleeping together, but it doesn't mean anything in particular. Bruce has started—giving Clark things, too. But that doesn't mean anything either.

Right?

(Or: five things Bruce gives Clark, and the feelings Clark has about them.)

Peculiar Cordiality and Fervent Interest (6698 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Persuasion - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sophia Croft, Admiral Croft (Persuasion), Frederick Wentworth, Anne Elliot
Additional Tags: POV Sophia Croft, POV Outsider
Summary:

In Bath, Sophia and her husband wonder why Frederick is no longer as enthusiastic for finding a wife as he had seemed at first.

Parapraxis (14774 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson
Additional Tags: Love Confessions, Trauma, Light BDSM, New York City, Action & Romance, Bickering, Partnership, Communication, Arguing, they're just really bad at being in love with each other
Summary:

“We get it, Buck, you’re a New Yorker.” It is the last thing Sam would have suspected to transcend both time and brainwashing, but Bucky’s Brooklyn born and bred hatred of the Garden State was alive and well. “Does it really matter what side of the turnpike the flying murder drone was built on?”

Sam Did Not Consent to this Roadtrip (8045 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Road Trips, rose colored dubcon, because bucky is sure sam is his soulmate, and sam isn't so sure, Kidnapping, Bickering, but they like each other, also there was only one bed
Summary:

Sam knew his head hurt before he knew he woke. And that consciousness had found him sooner than he’d want. His hands were bound in front of him and tied off somewhere above, elevating them enough to lose feeling even when he slowly flexed. At least nothing else hurt any more than it had after he’d taken stock from jumping out of a collapsing building into a moving helicopter. He peeked out one eye to see if there was anything worth seeing.

What the fuck.

It was a minivan, and he was trussed up like a hog ready for the Cajun microwave. Someone had shoved a blanket down between him and the seat, saving him from being jabbed by the seatbelt buckles. The car moved at a good clip, streetlights flashing by a sky that wasn’t quite as dark as when he’d left Steve’s bedside. Sam knew he hadn’t been out too long, body still in too good of shape for anything longer than a couple of hours.

The Winter Soldier had gone easy on him again.

Give You an Edge (5088 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Previous Hunger Games, Explosives, Canon-Typical Violence
Summary:

"I realize it's just another disadvantage the District 12 tributes have faced over the years. We don't go down in the mines until we're eighteen. It looks like most of the other tributes learn something about their trades early on. There are things you do in a mine that could come in handy in the Games. Wielding a pick. Blowing things up. Give you an edge. The way my hunting did. But we learn them too late."
-Catching Fire

District Twelve's first victor set the path in defying the Capitol; the others merely followed in her footsteps.

Doubt and Philosophy (1412 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blade Runner (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rick Deckard/Rachael
Summary:

Once again, Deckard takes his time. Ankles cross. Shoulders settle. Hands float from armrests to pockets to face as Deckard lights a match and pulls a cigarette close. His exhale is as gruff and measured as the words that come with it. "Heard tell of such a thing, once. Is this about me being a Blade Runner?"

Rachael straightens, shoulders back, chest high, chin up. She may not be as formally composed as she once was, but she still cuts a striking picture of elegance. "No, it is simply a matter of being."

An Utter Shambles (17023 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Additional Tags: Case Fic, York, Epistolary, hurt holmes, Holmes Family, Gratuitous Use Of Weather, Rain, October 1894
Summary:

Holmes is summoned to York by a distant cousin with an unusual problem.

Watson is never letting him go anywhere else on his own again.

Another for Working Days (13172 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Beatrice/Benedick/Don Pedro (Much Ado About Nothing)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Beatrice Marries Don Pedro, Benedick Realizes His Feelings Too Late, Pining, Polyamory Negotiations, Politics, court intrigue
Summary:

Don Pedro proposes, Beatrice accepts, and Benedick never saw it coming.

Hope In Dust (27980 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock
Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek), Leonard "Bones" McCoy, background Thomas Leighton
Additional Tags: Tarsus IV, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Trauma, PTSD, survivor's guilt, Fasting, Illness, Nightmares, dark themes, Five Year Mission, Worldbuilding, Episode: s01e12 The Conscience of the King
Summary:

A year after his final encounter with Kodos, a new mission to a dead planet forces Kirk to confront his memories of Tarsus IV again.

But least this time he doesn’t have to face the past alone.