I love good guys

This is the story I contributed to the December 2009 oldschoolfic ficathon.  My thanks to senmut for her prompt of "Nick and Lacroix, Family Bonding," and to batdina, amilyn, leela_cat and much_madness for beta-reading and discussion.  This prompt nudged me to reacquaint myself with some episodes I rarely watch, and revisit some themes I hadn't touched in years.

	•	Title:	"In a Family Way" (also on AO3)
	•	Length:	~7,700 words
	•	Date:	Posted to FKFic-L January 30, 2010
	•	Rating:	PG-13 (gen)
	•	Summary:	Nick makes friends on a flight to Paris to see Janette, but Lacroix is on the same plane.
	•	Setting:	December 2009
	•	Characters:	Nick, Lacroix, Janette, Others
	•	Quotation:	"Your denial of the natural law does not alter it, Nicholas." / "Your rejection of hope does not defeat it, Lacroix."

"How He Loves" was my return to writing fanfiction after a too-long break.  I posted it to fkfic-l on the tenth anniversary of the first airing of "Last Knight," not because it has anything to do with LK, but because, ten years on, we were still there.  Memorial and celebration.  Now it's twelve years on.  And here we still are.  And the airwaves bloom with new shows not entirely unlike our beloved Forever Knight.  Though of course none will ever again be FK, flashbacks and fantasy, mystery and metaphysics, dear friends and days gone by.

(In passing, while this is not a song-challenge story, it was very much inspired by the Air Supply hit "Making Love out of Nothing at All."  There's this game in which every song is an FK filk.  If FK were a pop-rock musical, "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" -- taken down an octave or more, natch -- would be to Lacroix what "Stars" is to Javert.)

	•	Title:	"How He Loves"
	•	Length:	~1,850 words
	•	Date:	Posted to FKFic-L on May 18, 2006
	•	Rating:	PG-13
	•	Summary:	Lacroix moves through Toronto, unable to stop thinking about Nick's feelings for Emily Weiss.
	•	Setting:	Immediately after "Stranger Than Fiction"
	•	Characters:	Lacroix, Nick, Others
	•	Quotation:	"Let him think me routed for the moment, if he must.  I know what he must relearn: this game never ends, and I never lose."

This song-challenge story is the Nick-narrated companion to my Lacroix-narrated "Whence the Truce."  Each stands alone -- that was important for several reasons, not least because "Whence the Truce" appeared in a zine, not on list -- but they are nevertheless a prequel/sequel pair, my only one so far.

	•	Title:	"That Ain't Love"
	•	Length:	~9,100 words
	•	Date:	Posted to FKFic-L on May 21, 1999
	•	Rating:	PG-13
	•	Summary:	Nick struggles to hold on to his new life and hopes when Lacroix confronts him with old demands and desires.
	•	Setting:	After "Stranger Than Fiction"
	•	Characters:	Nick, Lacroix, Natalie, Janette, Schanke, Brianna
	•	Quotation:	"Do you think that ignoring my feelings will make them go away?  Do you imagine that if you pretend I'm a vampire like any other, I will be?"

 

This LJ retrospective on my FK fanfiction now comes to "Billets Doux," which is one of my few stories that have never yet appeared on FKFic-L, and one of a handful to which no one has ever responded.  I wrote it in the winter of 1996, and a friend kindly recruited it for the zine Tojours Lacroix, which came out in 1999.

There isn't much to "Billets Doux," beyond a neglected line of "Fallen Idol" -- Nick says Fleur wrote to him -- but while I'm inclined to make light of it, eleven years out, and supposedly long recovered from my LC phase, well . . . re-reading the story tonight brought tears to my eyes.  If it never pleases anyone else, I'm still I'm glad I wrote it.

	•	Title:	"Billets Doux"
	•	Length:	~1,200 words
	•	Date:	Published in the charity fanzine Tojours Lacroix (1999)
	•	Rating:	G
	•	Summary:	Lacroix muses on his loss of Fleur and how it led to his loss of Nick.
	•	Setting:	Indeterminate, looking back at 1229-1247 from many centuries later
	•	Characters:	Lacroix, Nick, Fleur
	•	Quotation:	"He is what is left to me of her, and his hatred is what is left to me of himself."

[Crossposted from forkni-l. Backdated.]

A person wrote me from my website tonight, asking if I could point her to any Cousin-of-the-Knight fanfiction archives.  Are there any dedicated CotK archives or recommendation lists?  Actually, she didn't ask using the affiliation name; she specified that she was looking for good stories about Nick and Lacroix that do not happen to be slash stories.

Coincidentally, I had been thinking about posting to ask for recommendations on a different scenario.  I had gotten to thinking about how we never see Tracy in Nick's loft on screen -- unless I've forgotten a scene?  Even Vachon and Urs get there ("Fever" and "Ashes to Ashes," respectively), and they would seem less likely than Tracy, given how often Schanke popped by.  Would anyone like to recommend any fanfiction stories with memorable uses of Tracy in Nick's loft?  I've been thinking that might be fun.