Miya's 2023 Fanfic Recs Part 3

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Here are all the cool, complete fics I’ve read this year. Separated into 5 posts because there’s nearly a hundred of them.

PART 3: TELEVISION (16)

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2)
• Julie and the Phantoms (1)
• Merlin (5)
• Sense8 (2)
• Stranger Things (4)
• Teen Wolf (2)

Part 1: Boku no Hero Academia (33)
Part 2: Other Anime and Cartoons (20)
Part 4: Video Games, Movies and Books (16)
Part 5: Crossovers (11)

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Title: Seeing Is His Superpower
Author: Shadowscast
Pairing: Xander Harris/Spike
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 8,185
Summary:
A post-Chosen AU in which Xander finds Spike’s amulet in the wreckage of Sunnydale. When he picks it up, something interesting happens…

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Title: Witch boy
Author: applecrumbledore
Pairing: Rupert Giles/Spike
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 12,730
Summary:
Spike was an embarrassing memory tucked into the recesses of Giles’ brain along with other rare, sweet moments from his Ripper Era that he couldn’t leave behind, and instead pulled out of mental storage once in a while, dusted them off and luxuriated guiltily in the hedonistic days of his youth. Spike was a memory he hadn’t pulled out in so long that he’d forgotten it was him.

Fandom: Julie and the Phantoms
Title: Ghost Story
Author: breakaway71
Pairing: None
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count: 1603
Summary:
Julie visits her mother’s grave on Halloween, and meets someone unexpected.

Fandom: Merlin
Title: Theory / Practice
Author: queerofthedagger
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 1,000
Summary:
He had known in the same way that he had looked at Merlin on that first day in the market square, his clever mouth and dusk-sky eyes, and somehow knew him.Familiarity. His magic feels like that, too.

Fandom: Merlin
Title: Oh Noble Hearts
Author: queerofthedagger
Pairing: Gwaine/Arthur Pendragon
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 1,700
Summary:
The thing is, Gwaine may be a bit of a bastard, but he knows that it’s bad form to go around kissing people—especially people who mean something—when they are missing some rather crucial bits of information about you.
Gwaine has a confession; Arthur, as so often, manages to surprise him.

 

Fandom: Merlin
Title: Splitting the Road
Author: queerofthedagger
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Word Count: 3,000
Summary:

“Emrys,” the woman says, impatient, and Merlin, well. Merlin reacts.
Arthur wants to pretend so, so badly that there isn’t a pit opening in his stomach but—
But. Merlin reacts, eyes snapping towards her, narrowing. Above Merlin’s head, the cold iron groans, a sound the way that Arthur’s heart feels.

Merlin and Arthur get kidnapped. Unfortunately for their captors, it really is a tremendously stupid idea to put magic itself into cold iron.

Fandom: Merlin
Title: Detect Magic 
Author: Jabber_Moose
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count: 979
Summary:
There’s a strange, shimmering blue orb above them, and the dark haired man’s eyes are glowing gold.

"Police say they arrived at the scene to find one of the muggers knocked out, the other dead on the scene,” Percy says. “The victim was being held by his companion, who was said to tell anyone who approached ‘You can cut me, bruise me, skin me alive, but you will not take him from me.’”

Fandom: Merlin
Title: Long Enough (Forget Me Not)
Author:Jabber_Moose
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count: 1,595
Summary:
Maybe the fates are telling him that it’s time to let go, that Arthur is not going to return to him.
Maybe it is time to stop, for his own sake, before he has to deal with the fallout of forgetting.

Fandom: Sense8
Title: Worth It
Author: FunkyinFishnet
Pairing: Wolfgang Bogdanow/Kala Dandekar/Rajan Rasal
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 6,386
Summary:
She visits Wolfgang, on his way back to the Paris apartment and concerned about Kala’s mood as she asks, “Have you heard from Rajan?”
Wolfgang’s concern sharpens, “Nothing since the day before yesterday. He hasn’t called yet?”
(The cluster mobilises to solve Rajan’s kidnapping, and Kala and Wolfgang think about him and their love.)

Fandom: Sense8
Title: I’ll settle for the ghosts of you
Author: FunkyinFishnet
Pairing: Wolfgang Bogdanow/Kala Dandekar/Rajan Rasal
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 8,894
Summary:
When Rajan witnesses Wolfgang and Kala embrace, Wolfgang lifting her up off her feet while smiling more broadly than Rajan has seen so fat in the few hours that he has known the man and with Kala’s happiness seeming to make her face sparkle, he thinks, “Oh, I *see*.”

Rajan thinks Kala really doesn’t love him in the same way that he loves her, and there’s no way that Wolfgang can love him at all.

Fandom: Stranger Things
Title: Deathbed Endearments
Author: breakaway71
Pairing: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 2,074
Summary:
Eddie and Steve have a heart-to-heart while trying to keep Steve from bleeding out all over the ground. Actually, Steve thinks it’s one of their better chats. He just hopes he lives long enough to remember it later.

Fandom: Stranger Things
Title: More than They Make You Out to Be
Author: breakaway71
Pairing: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 2,451
Summary:
Eddie was never guilty of the things they accused him of, but that hasn’t stopped Hawkins from treating him like he was.
Steve needs to make it better.

 

Fandom: Stranger Things
Title: Color Correction
Author: entanglednow
Pairing: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 3,186
Summary:
Steve can always be relied upon to help a friend out, and it makes a nice change to be the one with the answers.

 

Fandom: Stranger Things
Title:  Never Look Back (A Breath Away from Heaven)
Author:breakaway71
Pairing: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 5,000
Summary:
Eddie summons a traumatized demon to his bedroom. It was an accident, but it might also turn out to be the best thing he’s ever done.

 

Fandom: Teen Wolf
Title: Next Thursday
Author: wldnst
Pairing: Danny Māhealani/Stiles Stilinski
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 18,210
Summary:
In which Stiles Stilinski has a werewolf for a best friend, a support group for that, hot chocolate with Lydia Martin and Danny Mahealani every Thursday evening, and an extremely anticlimactic coming out experience.

 

Fandom: Teen Wolf
Title: A Grimm Affair
Author:oshjoshmgosh
Pairing: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Word Count: 2023
Summary:
Derek brings Stiles to an alpha convention for established packs. Or rather, Stiles brings himself along as Derek’s mate, in spite of the fact he will be one of the only humans present. It should be full of sane alphas, so what could go wrong?
So what if he has to remind some overreaching wolves that Disney’s fairy tales were originally a lot darker, and that no one messes with Little Red Riding Hood.