Spyfest After Dark 2025 - Author Reveals
I hope everyone had fun with their gifts and reading the rest of the fics! Now it's time to reveal who wrote which fic, were you able to guess any of them?
Had I Known by LastlyMatt for Strange_Soulmates (Yalex, E, 4.7k)
Yassen Gregorovich was a careful man, but he was still a man, despite what some may say. How was he supposed to resist golden hair and eyes that sparkled with joy? How was he supposed to know the boy next to him was Alex Rider?
If you were easy to kill I would have done it already by turtle_snail for fredbassett (Yalex, T, 6.4k)
The Target?
A London-based MI6 operative who’d recently dismantled a pharmaceutical smuggling operation. The client was offering triple his usual rate, which meant either they were desperate or they had a vendetta they wanted to settle, or both.
His phone dinged. It was an encrypted email. Good, at least the client wasn’t a total idiot. He scrolled to the message and opened the file.
It wasn’t the best image, pulled from a security camera on a building across the street. The man was in his twenties with blonde hair, a sharp jawline, and stood about six feet two. But, he didn’t need any more clarification. There was only one man he knew who fit that description.
Alex.
Recipe for disaster by Sergeant_For_U for coffee_was_a_mistake (Yassen/Ian, T, 4.9k)
When John and Helen decide to go on a few-day trip, they have to choose who will babysit Alex, Ian or Yassen, since they can’t stand each other. Then Helen gets an idea.
Nothing To Lose (But You) by Sirius4Life for inkandella (Yalex, E, 2.0k)
Yassen couldn’t pinpoint where it had all went wrong.
He couldn’t focus on anything other than Alex bleeding out underneath him as the van raced through the city.
”Stay with me Alex.”
Cause and Effect by coffee_was_a_mistake for Sirius4Life (Yalex, M, 5.5k)
Alex is betrayed by his mission partner and find himself in the hands of the enemy.
Yassen doesn't take it very well.
Next to You by countessrivers for Polarnacht (Yalex, T, 3.8k)
The room is dim, but not dark, and Yassen has no trouble recognising his cellmate.
“Hello, Alex,” he says.
Alex Rider looks up at him, his arms wrapped around his knees. He seems small, vulnerable almost. To anyone who didn’t know better.
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Post series and the collapse of Scorpia, Yassen and Alex (involuntarily) cross paths and have a chat.
December's Dodgy Deals by fredbassett for Sergeant_For_U (Yalex, T, 8.6k)
Alex would rather be on holiday in the Maldives, but Mrs Jones would rather send him to snowy Lancashire, to sniff around after a dodgy deal.
Ocean Swell Contiguity by inkandella for turtle_snail (Yalex, T, 27.1k)
He was beginning to think it might be something like fate.
Proprietary by Strange_Soulmates for countessrivers (Yalex, M, 4.5k)
After the death of his Uncle, Colonel Ian Rider of His Majesty's Army, Alex find his guardianship passed onto the odious Mr. Alan Blunt. Finding Blunt's plan for the Rider family fortune and Alex himself to be entirely unpalatable, he searches out an alternative. He has never met Captain Yassen Gregorovich before, but despite his unusual background the man was a friend of his father's. Surely whatever price Captain Gregorovich would ask of him is worth it to be rid of the odious Mister Blunt.
Clementine by Proodence for LastlyMatt (Yalex, M, 7.5k)
Ian thinks Alex is away every night on MI6 assignments. Alex may or may not be letting him think that.
He also may or may not be spending every single night shacked up with Yassen Gregorovich. But what you don't know can't hurt you, right?
Carte Blanche by Polarnacht for TheOtherBlue (Yalex, E, 11.8k)
Getting kidnapped at eighteen is not all that different from being kidnapped at fourteen, but there's a glint in Yassen's eyes when he looks at Alex now that most definitely wasn't there before.
Proxy by DantesThird for Rirren (Yalex, E, 5.5k)
When Yassen had declined his client's offer to rape the boy tied to the bed, he hadn't expected such a strong reaction.
The Affair at the Wedding by TheOtherBlue for Proodence (Yalex, E, 4.0k)
It’s just Alex’s luck that the next time he sees Yassen after Invisible Sword, he ends up hurt, stuck in a storage cupboard with Yassen, and fighting the effects of a rather potent aphrodisiac.
Thanks everyone who participated in the exchange and all the people who read and commented on the fics! I had a lot of fun with the event, I hope you did too. Happy New Year!
