Multifandom Het Recs

Fandom: RPF: Stargate: Atlantis
Pairing: Torri Higginson/Joe Flanigan
Fic Title: Certainties
Author: phrenitis
Link: http://phrenitis.livejournal.com/113467.html
Rating/Warning(s): PG-13, rpf, adultery
Genre: Romance
WIP? No
Special Rec: 31/31

Why This Must Be Read:
1. It's Joe/Torri RPF.
2. It's written by phrenitis.
3. The imagery is beautiful, the writing clear and descriptive.
4. The actorisations (heh) are awesome and perfect.
5. Did I mention it's Joe/Torri RPF??

Seriously, though. If you like RPF, if you like Stargate: Atlantis, if you like good writing and excellent storytelling with deft touches of romance and drama and angst... read this story. You won't regret it.

Fandom: House MD
Pairing: Lisa Cuddy/Gregory House
Fic Title: little bombs (thirty-five essays in love and friendship)
Author: zauberer_sirin
Link: http://community.livejournal.com/42number/49499.html
Rating/Warning(s): pg-13
Genre: Drama
WIP? No
Special Rec: 29/31

Why This Must Be Read: Set in the hiatus between season four and season five, this is an intelligent and well-written look at how House, Wilson and Cuddy could have dealt with Amber's death. All the characterisations ring true, and the relationship that unfolds between House and Cuddy is wonderfully handled.

Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Pairing: Kara Thrace/Lee Adama
Fic Title: a litany of love letters
Author: bantha_fodder
Link: http://bantha-fodder.livejournal.com/35941.html
Rating/Warning(s): PG
Genre: Drama
WIP? No
Special Rec: 27/31

Why This Must Be Read: Well paced, with spot on characterisations, this story (written in the early days of the BSG fandom) delivers in all the right ways.

Fandom: Lost
Pairing: Kate Austen/James "Sawyer" Ford
Fic Title: Leavin' My Cares and Worries Behind
Author: missy_useless
Link: http://missy-useless.livejournal.com/86504.html
Rating/Warning(s): PG
Genre: Drama
WIP? No
Special Rec: 25/31

Why This Must Be Read: Set after the finale, this is a story about surviving survival. Deftly written, with lovely characterisations, this is Kate and Sawyer (and Claire) finding their places in a life post-island.

Fandom: The Pretender
Pairing: Miss Parker/Jarod
Fic Title: Rule Number One
Author: juliefortune
Link: http://juliefortune.livejournal.com/27155.html
Rating/Warning(s): PG, child abuse
Genre: Drama
WIP? No
Special Rec: 23/31

Why This Must Be Read: Well written, pitch-perfect dialogue, and excellent characterisations -- this story shows us our favourite characters (and their relationships) at their best: strong, resourceful, and there for each other.

Fandom: How I Met Your Mother
Pairing: Robin Scherbatsky/Barney Stinson
Fic Title: metal heart
Author: the_spin
Link: http://community.livejournal.com/kartography/3846.html
Rating/Warning(s): adult
Genre: Romance
WIP? No
Special Rec: 21/31

Why This Must Be Read: Written before the PTB mishandled the Barney and Robin storyline on air, the_spin's story is a natural, in-character evolution of their relationship that is pitch-perfect in every aspect. This Barney and Robin are perfectly imperfect -- terrible at relationships, brilliant at their own non-relationship. metal heart is the story that should have happened.

Fandom: The Little Mermaid
Pairing: Ariel/Eric
Fic Title: seeing your world from the outside
Author: anenko_fic
Link: http://anenko-fic.livejournal.com/15152.html
Rating/Warning(s): PG13
Genre: Character
WIP? No
Special Rec: 19/31

Why This Must Be Read: While there's something to be said for a Disney ending -- the hero and heroine riding (swimming?) off into the sunset, good vanquishing evil, happily ever after's for all -- there's also something refreshing about reading a story about what what came after the after. In this story, Northlight shows us an Ariel who's beginning to realise that while she may have got everything she wanted, maybe she didn't quite understand what those wants were. Well written, this story will make you think about what happens when the music stops.

Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise
Pairing: T'Pol/Charles "Trip" Tucker III
Fic Title: Repairs
Author: nikitee
Link: http://triptpolers.houseoftucker.com/fiction/author_nikitee_repairs.shtml
Rating/Warning(s): R
Genre: Romance
WIP? No
Special Rec: 17/31

Why This Must Be Read: Set in season two, this is an alternate look at how the Trip/T'Pol and T'Pol/Archer storylines at that time could have gone. With an almost lyrical style of prose, this story will keep your attention until the end.

Fandom: Stargate: SG1
Pairing: Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill
Fic Title: Rationale
Author: elly427
Link: http://elly427.angstnromance.net/sg1/rationale.htm
Rating/Warning(s): R
Genre: Romance
WIP? No
Special Rec: 15/31

Why This Must Be Read: Old-skool, and still brilliant. Set after the episode Death Knell, this is what the show would never have even considered showing us but should have, damnit. This is a Sam who is broken, but still strong. Hurting, but still able to feel. Wonderfully written, this story is classic Sam/Jack.

Fandom: Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Anya Jenkins/Rupert Giles
Fic Title: All Your Tomorrows
Author: jennyo
Link: http://archive.shriftweb.org/archive/8/allyour.html
Rating/Warning(s): PG-13
Genre: Character
WIP? No
Special Rec: 13/31

Why This Must Be Read: There's something very beautiful about this story, in the way it's structured and paced and written. With an extremely well handled second person pov -- and an absence of quotation marks to separate the dialogue from the text -- their conversations flow smoothly throughout, keeping you enthralled from start to finish. Just lovely.