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bitterfic (bitterfic) wrote,
@ 2007-07-07 11:05:00

Entry tags:

drabble, fandom: buffy the vampire slayer, fandom: heavenly creatures, femslash/yuri, multi-fandom

multifandom drabbles for femslash100

Two drabbles for femslash100 challenge #112: Pirate.

Disclaimer: The following stories are works of fiction. Any illegal acts taking place within that fiction are NOT condoned by the author. Depictions of any questionable, illegal, or potentially illegal activity in said fiction does not mean that I condone, promote, support, participate in, or approve of said activity. I grasp the distinction between fiction and reality and trust that readers will do the same. I do not profit from the fan fiction I write, and all rights to the characters remain firmly in the hands of their creator.

Author: Bitterfig

Title: Juliet of the Pirates

Fandom: Heavenly Creatures (film)

Pairing: Juliet/Pauline

Word Count: 149

Warnings: References to mayhem and murder, real and imagined.

Juliet of the Pirates

After Pauline’s mum was killed, Juliet was sent away without being allowed so much as a good-bye.

On the ship to England, Juliet tried to tell stories as she always had, to replace uncooperative reality with a preferable fantasy. She tried to imagine that the ship would be besieged by pirates, who learning her history would take her in and make her one of them. Then Juliet with her pirate crew would turn the ship back to New Zealand, raze the towns, marauding and pillaging till she found Pauline in whatever juvenile detention center they’d locked her away in. The girls would be reunited and sail the seas together…

Juliet tried but this time she couldn’t lose herself in her dreams. The weight of reality crushed her fancies, pressed in on her.

She and Pauline had killed a woman.

They would never be allowed to see each other again.

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Author: Bitterfig

Title: Playing Pirate

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

Pairing: Darla/Drusilla

Word Count: 160

Warnings: Gore

Playing Pirate

What should have been a simple crossing to join Angelus and William in Ireland took a grotesque turn when Drusilla took a fancy to playing pirate. Amused by the idea, Darla indulged her and quickly enough they’d killed the other passengers and turned the crew to vampires.

They ran a black flag up the mast and Drusilla caressed the skull of one of her unfortunate victims singing gleefully; “Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s death for me.”

For the next few weeks they ran rampant, terrorizing any ship they chanced upon, murdering and robbing, piling the blood-stained decks of their vessel with jewels, dolls and dresses.

Angelus and William eventually came to collect them, but for many years to come sailors in the Irish Sea spoke in terror of a ship that sailed only at night, crewed by the undead and captained by two beautiful, pale women who strolled hand in hand amidst the death and carnage they brought, laughing.

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	juliette 2007-08-17 04:39 am UTC (link)
	I had to find this HC fic over here since you gave me the LJ link but I wanted to comment on it. Short but perfect in its emotional impact: the sad finality of their situation. Thank you again for writing/sharing it. <3 (Reply to this) (Thread)

bitterfic
2007-08-17 01:32 pm UTC (link)

Thanks for reading and commenting, I'm glad you liked it. I would love to try something longer involving Juliet/Pauline. I was always intrueged by the real life twist in their story-- the girl Juliet was based on went on to become a very popular author of historic murder mysteries as Anne Perry (one of my 89 year old grandmother's favorites no less). I always throught it would be cool to do a story ala Henry James the Aspen Papers where a modern hipster dkye reporter is interviewing an aged, celebrated Juliet and gradually coaxes from her the story about her past and her affair with Pauline.

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juliette
2007-08-22 04:53 am UTC (link)

That's a very interesting premise for a story. I knew about Juliet becoming an author of murder mysteries (and Pauline finding God), although I've never tracked down any of her stuff. Have you read any of it yourself?

I remember reading an interview with Kate Winslet who spoke to her during the filming of the movie. She (Kate) said that she came away with a feeling of guilt for how they were portraying the relationship in the film (I think it was on the fourth world website, I'm not sure now, it was ages ago) and that in turn left me feeling rather disappointed. But I wonder whether it wouldn't just be denial and the distance of time; lord only knows that sort of thing happens with plenty of other people.

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bitterfic
2007-09-01 04:12 pm UTC (link)

I haven't read any of Anne Perry's novels. My grandmother and mother are crazy for murder mysteries but I've just never gotten into them. I did notice when I was in a used bookstore a couple days ago that she's written a fantasy novel, something Druidy looking involving a large bear. I'm rather tempted to pick up a copy of that as it seems more in line with the fantasy sequences of Heavenly Creatures.

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