"Clean" by meyerlemon - Battlestar Galatica

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Fandom Category: Battlestar Galatica
Pairing: Kara Thrace/Lee Adama
Fic Title: Clean
Author: meyerlemon
Link: http://meyerlemon.livejournal.com/45937.html
Rating/Warning(s): PG
Genre: Character Study
WIP?: No.

Why This Must Be Read: Even with the series being over for years one of the questions still being asked is “Why did Kara leave the party with Baltar?” back in season one.

This story is the best answer to that question that I have read (and is now part of my head canon).

unclothed you are true by smilla02 (NC-17)

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Fandom Category: Supernatural
Pairing: Ellen Harvelle/Dean Winchester
Fic Title: unclothed you are true
Author: smilla02
Link: here
Rating/Warning(s): NC-17
Genre: pwp, romance
WIP?: No; 1,500 words.

Why This Must Be Read: Smilla is incredible at setting up a credible pwp that is not so much a pwp as it is a glimpse into a moment of character motivation that just happens to involve very hot sex— and this fic is spot-on for this particular talent. Dean and Ellen come together with sparks but also in a way that honors their canon characterizations while pushing them a bit farther.

Special Recs: 24/25

Take Me Home by Lea (Unrated, PG-13)

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Fandom Category: Beauty and the Beast (1987)
Pairing: Catherine Chandler/Vincent Wells
Fic Title: Take Me Home
Author: Lea
Link: here
Rating/Warning(s): Unrated; reccer's rating PG-13.
Genre: amnesia, first times, romance
WIP?: No; 13,800 words.

Why This Must Be Read: This is my last special rec for the month so I decided to go with the first fan fiction I loved enough to bookmark on del.icio.us and I've read it several times over the years — a feel good read, if you will. BATB fandom seems to adore the amnesia trope and so do I (it also helps that a lot of amnesia is canon) but most of the time Vincent is the victim and Catherine assists him in remembering his life and her. Lea turns the tables by setting up a plausible scenario in which Catherine is the one with amnesia and has turned her private dreams into a reality for ten days. A wonderfully romantic AU that hits the spot for a bit of all genres.

Special Recs: 25/25