beboots | in-progress meme

In a continuing effort to procrastinate on my homework (my thesis draft is staring as balefully as a pile of papers can at me from the corner of my desk), and, encouraged by the AWESOMENESS of everyone who seems to read this journal and their participation in that let-me-tell-you-a-history-story meme I held a few days ago... (People can still post prompts, by the way! It is by no means closed! You may even post a second prompt if you wish!) I've decided to participate in another meme that's been making the rounds of my f-list...

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Upon request, I will post a random line or two from any of these you choose. Assuming that the file adds up to a full line, that is.

I'm not sure if very many people know, but I do write quite a bit of random bits and pieces of fanfic. My problem is that they're generally just snippets of scenes and dialogue at best... although I have a LOT of sometimes incredibly long outlines. So my WIP folder is actually quite large. My problem is that they always seem to STAY as WIPs, and never, well, progress to completion. In any case, I will post bits (or even more than bits!) for those curious.

On a completely separate note, I'm also planning on making a picture post to go with all of the responses to the history meme, possibly tomorrow or maybe later today. You shall get a historical image to go along with the story, so that you can put names to faces! :)

Anyway, here is the list of documents in my bulky "My fanfic" folder... Some of the titles you may recognize from pieces I have posted before, but others, not so much... I also tend to have rather descriptive titles (some with fandoms, some mysteriously without!), so hopefully some will strike your fancy! Feel free to request up to three at a time. :)

A Night Fury in the King's Service - Temeraire HTTYD cross
A Traitor Redeemed - Avatar(2009)
Against Thy Own Kind
An Extension of Trust
Avatar(2009) - Time travel
Aziraphale & the Werewolf - Crossover GO & HP
Azula's Revenge - timetravel
Blue Spirit Joins the Gaang, more or less
Carlisle & House
Chid on the Dragon Throne
Childhood Friends - Toph in the Fire Nation
Chinese Formation - Temeraire
Crowley the Familiar
Dr. Horrible, turning on the League
Draco Timetravel actual fic
Dragon!Zuko fic idea
Fangs and Flamethrowers
Far Removed - hetalia idea
Fire Lord Iroh AU
For the Greater Good - Good Omens
Forgotten
Genderswitch Temeraire idea
Good Omens - HP crossover Idea
Good Omens X House crossover idea
Guillaume Laurent - Temeraire idea
Hallucination - a temeraire fic
Hikago - ghost busters
In a Land Without Technology
Invader Dib
Language barrier - hetalia idea
Laurence's privateers - Temeraire AU
Left for Dead - temeraire fic idea
Lieutenant Laurence - Temeraire idea
Meeting Fire Lord Zuko - timetravel
Nunavut Ascendancy - hetalia fanfic
Phenix!Zuko
Possession - Hikago
Professor Fell crossover idea
Reincarnation - Temeraire idea
Sasori Sensei of Suna
Star Command Zim idea
Strange, Norrell and Potter
Tea Cart Zuko & Iroh
The Betrothed - Mulan
The Tides of War - Temeraire
Tumnus in Spare Oom - Narnia HP crossover

Um... yeah. I get distracted easily...? Some of these fic bits have been sitting there untouched for several years...

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Phenix!Zuko Yes, I am predictable.

This one is a little bit strange. It's actually more of a deaged!Zuko fic, in that the phoenix thing is metaphorical. The summary I have written at the beginning of the file is this: "Zuko died beneath Ba Sing Se, but was reborn in fire." The plot is pretty much the following: Zuko is killed by Azula => body is burned on traditional fire nation funeral pyre => magical authorial hand waving => Zuko is now an unscarred eight year old with all of his memories intact => Katara meets strange firebending kid in the catacombs beneath Ba Sing Se and, not recognizing him, takes him with her.

This bit is from some scenes at the Western Air Temple. "Li" decides to teach the Avatar what firebending he knows, because any and all loyalty he felt towards his father and sister were completely extinguished when Azula actually KILLED him. (Also, whenever Prince Zuko comes up Li totally tries to do damage control on his reputation. He can't help it. He doesn't see himself as a bad guy.) This scene follows a training session with Aang that resulted in Li accidentally getting punched in the face:

There was something eerie about the child’s face.

“I’m going to make some ice for you to put on that black eye for now. The bruising could turn nasty. Come here. Sit down.”

Katara told herself she was just being silly. Children got bruises all the time. They were resilient. Katara held Li’s chin and turned his head back and forth, examining his black eye critically before reaching for her waterskin.

She was just being irrational. Still, what was it about this bruise on the left side of Li’s face, making his eye squinted and puffy, that gave her the shivers?

AND THEN THE NEXT DAY IROH TOTALLY SHOWS UP, having escaped the prison in the capital city. (Zuko is off exploring the temple with Teo and Haru)

“So where’s Prince Ponytail?” Asked Sokka, absently. “Didn’t you used to follow him around when he was following us around?”

“My nephew,” Iroh intoned stonily, “Is dead. Azula killed him, and burned his body in the catacombs beneath Ba Sing Se.”

There was a shocked, awkward silence.

“I- I’m sorry,” Sokka muttered. Everyone around the circle murmured their agreement. “I mean… you must have loved him.”

“Yes.” Iroh settled down next to the fire, joints creaking. “Yes, very much so. But he had changed. I believe that… in the end… he would have wanted me to help you.”

Yeah, because his sister and country betrayed him, Toph thought. But that didn’t make what Iroh was saying any less true.

“I will teach you, Avatar. On the condition that you stop this war, so no-one else loses a son – sons – like I have.”

Aang swallowed, and performed a traditional Fire Nation bow. “I will honour your request.”

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Phoenix!Zuko