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I offered to do art for the story A Couple Of Days by boombangbing @ misfit_fandoms.

Title: A Couple of Days
Pairing/Rating: Peter/Claire, R
Summary: Set immediately after the end of Powerless, Claire's rushes to be with Nathan and Peter. Her blood saves Nathan's life, but things spiral out of control as they're forced to go on the run. With Noah and Sylar on their tails and Peter beginning to unravel, can Nathan and Claire keep things together long enough to survive the threat from the Company and the threat that Peter might pose?

Preview:


( A Couple Of Days: art for the Heroes BigBoom challenge )

Dood!

I see why people said that the story started to get interesting in the back-end of the season. Early season = meh, whatever; later season = OOOH.

( In which Sarken Is Evil (again), Kristen Bell Does ' Minx', and Claire has Daddy Issues, Oh Yes She Does... )

So, yes. A 'meh' start, building to an 'OOOOH'.

I tried watching Heroes back when Season Two started up, but it failed to grab me.

However, having recently signed up as an artist for the heroes_bigboom, I'm forcing myself through the S2 episodes - at least to get as far as the episode after which the BigBoom story begins.

I should probably start checking out Heroes art while I'm at it, too - see if there are any trends.

( The Kindness Of Strangers )

I'm not going to enjoy this series as much as I do Bones, I suspect. And I'm not as attached to the characters as I am to Stargate Atlantis. But Heroes might turn out to be something I can watch without too much wincing.

Actually, a friend has been catching me up on episodes of Dexter - definitely an intriguing show, although I doubt it's one I'd ever write fanfic for. How the hell do you write a serial killer, anyway?

I haven't done half enough reccing of late. Probably because I haven't been reading too much of late, either. :(

Anyway, a couple that I spotted and am instantly reccing!

Arm's Length by blade_girl.
Genfic. Missing post-episode. Ronon POV. Just the right tone of voice and angle and attitude for him. And a fantastic look at the friendship and connection between Teyla and Ronon, post-Missing.

She doesn't overtly shun him, doesn't get up and leave the table when he comes to sit down in the mess, and when they're all together, she treats him exactly as before. There is nothing that anyone else might witness and conclude from it that she is shutting him out.


Conversations - Part 1 and Part 2 by agriope23
Genfic. Conversations between characters up to Tabula Rasa. I think they're all supposed to be Teyla and John, but at least one of them feels more like Teyla and Rodney to me. Anyway, the tone of each of the conversations is perfect: serious and playful in one.

"If you apologize to me, I'll have to do the same to you and considering how not enough that would be, what do you say we just leave it at 'what a crap day!'"


Five Things Our Fathers Taught Us (Inadvertantly) by smilebackwards
Genfic. Awesome characterisation - even though they're just children, there's the kernel of who they will be as adults, their nature. It's awesome and adorable and yet also a little heartbreaking in some ways.

Claire says, "I love you, Daddy!" with such fervor. Like it will save her.


I Loved France, But Did France Love Me? (Heroes/Spooks crossover) by the_grynne
Hetfic. Harry(Spooks)/Angela Petrelli (Heroes). Set pre-series. The characterisation is good - from what I remember of Spooks, anyway - and Angela Petrelli would so screw whoever she needed to screw in the service of whatever or whoever it is that she serves.


the descent by ohhfantastic
Genfic. The Petrellis in old age. This is incredibly powerful in the way the story takes us down, layer by layer, a blurring of the years as the Petrelli's head towards death.

It had taken many, many years for Claire Bennet to reach a conclusion: her blood was not an elixir.

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and an old SGA rec:

Mysterious Ways by mahoni

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I think that genfic is the way to go in my Heroes fic reading.