Saturday, a Fic Rec, and a WIP Excerpt

Sunny and warm, chickadees and the kite singing to themselves outside. Ran errands yesterday; got my car inspected and picked up a few things at the store, including fresh blueberries, some of which I had with shredded wheat this morning.

So. There are actually two fic recs -- one is a prequel to the other, but they don't need to be read together if for some reason you don't want to read one or the other.

( Spoilers for episode 8.20, 'Post Mortem' ...  )

Also, I was thinking ficly thoughts, and I realized the last three stories I've written (Bodhisattva, Bonfire, and Word for World Is Mountain) have all been (relatively) hopeful tales, one might almost say happy. Obviously this is not like me at all. So for anyone who'd like to read something a bit more down, here's an excerpt from a WIP I work at fitfully. It doesn't have a name yet -- I just call it The Icelandair Saga. There's nothing graphic or gory in the excerpt, but if you don't want to read about a major character death, don't click the cut.

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Doc Martin tonight, Sherlock tomorrow, House on Monday. :-D