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What's good? I'm running late on the recommendations project this month; my apologies. Now that we're here, I am so pleased to get to highlight the energetic, enthusiastic, insightful, 1995 novel "Protect and Serve" by

butterflykiki! This unique angle on the Enforcers focuses on the human characters.

Natalie:	"Do you ever think that our lives would be a lot simpler if we just gave up on the secrecy and published the truth in the Enquirer, Nick?"
Nick:	"I don't need my life simplified that much."

What's new? In October, fkfic-l saw one new story, a one-parter titled "Hallowe'en" by Walt D. (Yea, Walt!) November, by comparison, has gotten off to a sprinter's start, with three stories by three authors already!

What's good? For June in the recommendations project, I'm pleased to get to spotlight Ell's "Keeping it Together" (2008). This tiny song-challenge ficlet concisely captures Tracy in that period after Lacroix takes her memories of "Ashes to Ashes." (Interestingly, however, not only does the vignette leave Lacroix's involvement unhinted, it appears to leave Tracy's knowledge of Vachon's vampirism intact, which imparts a certain extra spin.)

(Anyone who's presently subscribed to fkfic-l and feels shortchanged by a recommendation of something she just read on list in April ... speak up, and I'll privately email you a link to a never-yet-recommended story worth reading. Consider it your prize for having emailed Ell with a comment already. ~g~)

What's new? In May, fkfic-l saw two new stories posted, both originally written for Medie's comment-fic-fest:

"Clearing the Air" (1 Part), that Tracy and Natalie drabble by me
"Cutthroat Business" (1 Part), Janette's purchase of the Raven by abby82

This was my first lengthy fanfiction. I'm still pleased with it. It shows traits of its age (among other things, I appear to have owned stock in semi-colons), but it musters an actual mystery, and builds a future and a past for the characters. When writing it, I didn't make an outline, and I'm not sure I even knew how it would end when I began -- imperatives when writing today -- but it came like an onrushing wave, covering all the ground, and then there it was.

Tracy's guy, Paul, is my best original character yet. Her coworkers and the people from whom she gets clues aren't just stick figures, either. I seem to have felt much more free to invent guest stars in those days, for some reason. You can't let them overshadow the canonical characters, of course, but the presence of guest stars is certainly canonical; rereading this story has made me wonder where that's gone for me.

•	Title:	"Corners of the Mind"
•	Length:	~32,200 words
•	Date:	Posted to FKFic-L in June 1997
•	Rating:	PG-13 (m/f)
•	Summary:	Resurging memories plunge Tracy into the unsolved mysteries of Natalie's murder and Nick and Vachon's disappearances.
•	Setting:	Three years after "Last Knight"
•	Characters:	Tracy, Reese, Lacroix, Janette, Vachon, Screed, Bourbon, Jenny Schanke, Others
•	Quotation:	"She told him everything she had learned about that wrinkle in their reality -- everything, except that her own blood spoke of apricots and calla lilies. For now, she kept that to herself."

I wrote "Guitars and Roses" in the week between "Ashes to Ashes" and "Last Knight," and posted it to fkfic-l a few hours before I saw LK. I had a Hamlet quotation in my signature line at the time, and with all the fannish grief in the air -- the story was written with someone mourning Vachon in mind -- many people naturally read the "sweet prince" as a reference to their own characters (well, the factions with male leads, anyway). In rereading this piece, I was interested to rediscover that the story's Lacroix is convinced that Tracy was in love with Vachon; I've personally since been swayed to the position that she was not, or, at any rate, was doing her best to choose not to be. Not that that makes her loss any less. Or changes what Lacroix would have seen.

•	Title:	"Guitars and Roses"
•	Length:	~1,100 words
•	Date:	Posted to FKFic-L in May 1996
•	Rating:	G
•	Summary:	Lacroix approaches Tracy at the Raven after Vachon's death and Nick's request.
•	Setting:	After "Ashes to Ashes," before "Last Knight"
•	Characters:	Lacroix, Tracy
•	Quotation:	"He had promised Nicholas, after all. But when he had promised, he had not known she was in love."

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Entries tagged with ship:foreverknight:tracy/vachon

FK Recommendation November 2008

FK Recommendation June 2008

FK Fanfic: "Corners of the Mind"

FK Fanfic: "Guitars and Roses"

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