Title: Wishing You Were(n't) Here
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Fandoms: B:tVS/Firefly
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not. I claim nothing but the plot.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Post-series for both; a challenge-prompt ficlet.

Summary: Anya's back. But the justice business hasn't gotten any more satisfying since the last time she tried it. 1100 words.

Link to: Wishing You Were(n't) Here (or at AO3)

Title: Stripping Away The Thorns
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Fandoms: Firefly/Angel
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not. I claim nothing but the plot.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Post-series and movie; Angel 4.18, "Shiny Happy People". Set in the same 'verse as Of the Wolf, Ram and Hart and Time to Stop Falling. This may be no interest to anyone but me, but I've been pondering the concept of how Zoe could be Jasmine for years, and this is what she had to say.

Summary: Zoë's ready to tell her story. But Mal's maybe not quite so ready to hear it. 3500 words.

Link to: Stripping Away The Thorns (or at AO3)

Title: Isn't That Always the Story?
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Fandoms: Firefly, Mummy Returns (2001)
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not. I claim nothing but the plot.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: For vialethe, for day seven of the 2011 Wishlist. Post-Serenity; mouseover translations.

Summary: River usually did have something like a reason for every wild hair she took. But this time, she better have her a reason that even her busted-up old Captain could comprehend. 3000 words.

Link to: Isn't That Always the Story? (or at AO3)

Title: Gather Seashells While You May
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Fandoms: Firefly, The Dresden Files (novels)
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not. I claim nothing but the plot.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: For dharkapparition, for the 2011 Wishlist. Prompt partially from Texts From Last Night. Set post-Serenity; tooltip translations provided.

Summary: Zoe's a bit better acquainted with Serenity's newest client than Mal had been expecting. 2000 words.

Link to: Gather Seashells While You May (or at AO3)

Title: Bent By Paths Coincident
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Fandoms: Firefly, Leverage
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not. I claim nothing but the plot.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Fusion fic. Tooltip translations provided. Title's pulled from the Thomas Hardy poem "Convergence of the Twain".

Summary: Mal would recognize the compact, long-haired man in the worn duds anywhere. 1500 words.

Link to: Bent By Paths Coincident (or at AO3)

Title: things worse than walls
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Fandoms: Angel, Firefly
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not. I claim nothing but the plot.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: From 24 Days of Ficmas, Day 12. Prompt from theotherwillow: Illyria & River Tam.

Summary: That even her control over her own mind should be taken from her-- she would not endure it. 1000 words.

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(linked at wishlist_fic; also at AO3)

Title: Five By Five, Sister
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Fandoms: BtVS/Firefly
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not. I claim nothing but the plot.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: 1600 words. Post-series and post-"Serenity". An interlude in the Ancient Slayers 'verse.

Summary: Buffy looked up as Faith reached the table, a faintly amused expression in her kohl-outlined eyes.

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Title: Time to Stop Falling
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Fandoms: Firefly/Angel
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not. I claim nothing but the plot.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Challenge fic. Post-series and post-"Serenity". Same 'verse as Of the Wolf, Ram and Hart.

Summary: It unsettled Mal a little, the idea that there had been folk doing to others what had been done to River-- or near enough-- even so many years ago. 2100 words.

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Title: First Impressions
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Fandoms: Firefly/Star Trek: TNG
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not. I claim nothing but the plot.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: For wnnb_darklord, who asked for Firefly and/or ST:TNG, with Wash and/or Data. Set post-series but pre-Serenity; general ST:TNG, with a tiny "Darmok" reference.

Summary: Even an eyeball estimate of their technology put this so-called United Federation of Planets light-years ahead of the Anglo-Sino Alliance. 2200 words.

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Title: Begetting Violence
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Fandoms: B:tVS/Firefly
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not. I claim nothing but the plot.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It hadn't taken Book long to discover the why for himself. 800 words.
Notes: For the "Remember When" challenge at Firefly_Plus. Set during the movie, not long after Annual Report, and also in the same universe as Skin.

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