october-y fics for your spooky reading pleasure
Witches! Creepy forests! Sentient houses! Black cats! Candles! Delightful dogs! Magical battles! Smut! If you enjoy any or indeed all of these things, here are some fics of autumns past that you might enjoy (re)visiting.
As Soon Kindle Fire With Snow
Emma Swan lives alone and likes it that way. Still, she has needs. Needs that since she moved to the small town of Storybrooke have decidedly not been met. Then one snowy afternoon Killian Jones appears at her door, and Emma realises that he can give her everything she needs… and more.
This was my contribution to CS Cocktoberfest 2018. At the time it was the smuttiest thing I’d written. Possibly still is. Certainly I made a powerful effort with the smut. Also the notable first appearance of witch!Emma and the house that talks to her, plus my cat Hester in a supporting role.
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The Very Witching Time
Emma Swan is a hereditary witch, last in a long line of wise women who for centuries have guarded the coast of Maine and the small village of Storybrooke with their homemade cures and their ancient magic. She holds the delicate balance between magic and mundane, but now that balance is threatened by a new foe, one capable of bringing an end to everything Emma is and everything she loves. To defeat it she will need all her power, help from her friends and neighbours, and the loyalty of a very unusual dog who answers to the name of Killian.
2019′s Supernatural Summer contribution. Witch!Emma in her full glory, another magical house (this one with a magical garden) and hands down the most adorable version of Killian I’ve written.
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The Sleep of the Sun
It’s eighteen years after Emma and Killian defeated Cora and her plan to flood their world with dark magic, and the story moves on to their son Liam. A sweet and loving boy with the ability to shift into a dog at will, he is also more observant than his parents give him credit for.
And now, as Samhain approaches, something dark is brewing in the forest yet again...
Written for Pupstravaganza, this is a follow-up to The Very Witching Time. There is a third part to the tale that I planned to write for this year, but alas... SOME DAY I promise.
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come sit at our feast
“…for we all have stripes, and we all have horns, we all have scales, tails, manes, claws and thorns
and here in the dark is where new worlds are born…”
It’s Halloween, when all the weird and wondrous beasts of the world creep out of the shadows and throw themselves one hell of a party.
For Emma Swan and Killian Jones, witch and shapeshifter respectively, it’s a chance to kick back, get high, and watch the mayhem unfold…
The most truly Halloween-y story on this list, and properly weird.
Embrace the weird.
Written for the Halloweek Role Reversal to accompany @allons-y-to-hogwarts-713‘s amazing art which you can see in all its glory here.
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