#warehouse thirteen

[wesleyagrace]

Allison Scagliotti as Claudia Donovan | Warehouse 13

[lilolilyr]

For today's @duckprintspress May Trope Mayhem prompt, and for @septemberbells who prompted 'body swap' for Bering and Wells (Warehouse 13), another ficlet in my fake dating on an artifact hunt series!

I'm cross-posting this series to Ao3 with bonus material: more connecting scenes info about the artifact, and an epilogue. You can read it here: Fake Married in May! 10k words, rated T, no warnings apply.

3k shorts on tumblr: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4:

"...well, that explains why none of the whammied people came forward and explained what exactly happened to them," Myka muses, her voice sounding strange to her ears; "they probably thought we'd think they've gone insane."

"Or they thought they actually had gone insane." Through the Farnsworth, Myka's voice answers in Helena's British accent. "Well, I daresay we are on the right track to find this artifact!"

Nodding, Myka looks around the room, finding the book she had just put back on the shelf. She bags it, and the customary sparks fly, but apart from that nothing happens - she is still stuck in H.G.'s body.

"Helena? You're up - it must be a two part thing, and the second half is more likely to be something you touched."

"Lovely." Helena sighs. "That could be anything!"

"If the artifacts activate whenever someone new touches each half, it can be anything you touched since the last people got whammied - and from the scene I saw at the bakery this morning, that limits it to the afternoon at least."

"Something in this house, then. Well, I just have to go through everything in here."

Myka laughs at Helena's disgruntled tone, and them quickly quiets - her laugh sounds eery in Helena's voice, wrong somehow. "Well, I'll settle in to wait, or do you want help?"

After Helena assures her that she will be fine and Myka should go and secure the first part of the artifact, Myka-as-Helena goes 'home', awkwardly trying to walk like Helena does, and gladly hides indoors.

~

Having locked the artifact in their safe, Myka is at lose ends. She could go and find Helena, but while it might speed up the process of finding the artifact, it might also attract undue attention…

Sitting down, Myka curses when something digs into her backside - why does Helena have to keep her phone in her back pocket? That's the best way to get it stolen! Well, maybe not in the middle of nowhere in a suburb in Maine, but still.

Taking out the phone, Myka is surprised when it unlocks in her hands. Right, fingerprint activated… security measures never take possible artifact induced body swaps into account. Oh, it opened to Helena's photo gallery! Holy fuck, how many pictures did she take alone yesterday? Helena's seemingly incurable need to take a snapshot of anything she considers beautiful is turning her into some kind of data hoarder!

Scrolling incredulously through the hundreds of pictures of Kazul the iguana, the flowers on their front porch, and their breakfast spread, Myka is startled to see her own face a surprising number of times as well. She lingers on one of herself on their porch swing, smiling with her eyes closed, having fallen asleep with a book in her hands. It has definitely been taken to capture Myka, not anything else in the background. 'Beautiful things', indeed…

Myka feels a flutter in her chest. If Helena is secretly photographing her, does that mean…?

Before Myka can really contemplate whether her feelings for the other woman might be returned, there's a disorienting sensation and she suddenly finds herself in front of a moving box filled with books and journals, one of them in a plastic bag, she must have dropped it when she switched back into her own body.

"Well, that's that…" she feels a bit disappointed about having already found the artifact after a mere week of her and Helena's fake married life. On the other hand - maybe, if she can find the courage to ask Helena out, and if she is reading Helena's picture gallery correctly, she will be able to be with her for real?

~

Part 4 of 4 • more Warehouse 13 by me • my Ao3

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Helena G. Wells…

…be if they decided to become a pro-wrestler?

Yes on the microphone skills / Yes on the wrestling skills

Yes on the microphone skills / No on the wrestling skills

No on the microphone skills / Yes on the wrestling skills

No on the microphone skills / No on the wrestling skills

Voting ended onSep 6, 2025

Would you like to submit a character? Click this link if you do!

[warpedpuppeteer]

10 shows, 10 people game!

Game: Add 10 gifs from your favorite shows and tag 10 people.

Tagged by the ever sweet @snowviolettwhite 💜

9-1-1 (my emotional support family 🥹)

Warehouse 13 (another found family show 🥺)

Grimm (I can't explain how much I love this one it's like spn but happier) (911 lovers Lou Ransone is in this one and he has so many shirtless scenes lmao)

The Guest (Korean horror) (I'm actually not into horror but the fact that this is one of my fav is so funny. It's more the 3 main characters than anything, I loved their interaction)

From Today It's My Turn (Japanese) (this one's so silly and hilarious)

The Librarians (another found family show!) (yes Albert from 911 is in it. so is Elliot from Leverage)

Person of Interest (literally my babies 😭 i'm sorry i couldn't add root/shaw 😭 also you WILL sob)

Unbelievable (heavy but so 🤌🏽 based on a true story)

Beyond Evil (Korean) (Lee Dong Sik 😭😭 this WILL destroy you)

Dark (German) (actually haven't completed it yet but s1 is exquisite)

Honestly there's SO MANY shows that I love but I tried to include diverse ones and some not so popular ones.

Honourable mentions: Haven (if you know this one I'll love you forever lol), Kotaro Lives Alone, Ragnarok (Norwegian), Kingdom (Korean), Signal (Korean), Tunnel (Korean), The Following

No pressure tags @scknight05 @lemotmo @eddiediazismyhusband @jackwhiteprophetic @diazguzman @begebege28 @mazzystar24 @syfygirl1998 @monroemary @ofqueensandwitches and anyone else who wants to do this!

[whichgreathousewouldtheybepartof]

Myka Bering from Warehouse 13

If Myka Bering (Warehouse 13) was in Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire, which Great House of Westeros would they be part of or at least the most affiliated with?

House Targaryen

House Stark

House Lannister

House Baratheon

House Greyjoy

House Tully

House Arryn

House Martell

House Tyrell

Voting ended onAug 23, 2025

Ways to approach the poll if the character isn’t a royal:

If you think they’d be from a smaller house, go with the Great House that that smaller house is sworn to (ex: House Manderly —> vote Stark)

They don’t have to be a nobleperson, they can be someone working for the house or being ruled by them. Roles could be a sworn-sword, a septa, a butcher, a blacksmith, or even a lowly peasant.

You can consider the region itself. For example, if you feel the character would be from Dorne, pick House Martell.

You can consider the personality of the character. For example, if your character is all about honor, then consider either House Arryn or House Stark.

Last, but not least, be creative with it! For example, there was a comment I read that the character who was the subject of the poll would be pulling a Littlefinger, so they went with either Lannister or Tyrell as that would be that character’s target houses.

[canonlgbtcharacters]

The canon LGBT+ character of the day is

Helena George “H.G.” Wells from Warehouse 13, who is bi / pansexual!

[counterspellthisyoucasual]

Should I watch warehouse 13? I remember watching episodes here and there with my stepdad when I was younger and enjoying it but I don’t know if it was actually good or worth watching now?

[lithiumseven]

Running Up That Hill

Okay so we all remember THAT moment in Warehouse 13 in the hangar and how it ripped out all of our souls, and how the song Running Up That Hill playing over it compounded the effect, but I want to appreciate WHY. The chorus is what is really most important and the reason it has such an impact:

If I only could/ Make a deal with God/ Get Him to swap our places/ Be running up that road/ be running up that hill/ be running up that building/ if I only could

and I think the reason it’s so perfect is because the song shifts perspectives

The music actually starts long before they walk into the hangar and find Jinksy, it starts in the woods when Steve explains his plan to Claudia. He tells her he’s undercover and that he is doing this to protect her, that he is going to make it all okay for her and keep her safe like a good brother, and as they say goodbye and he starts to run off the music starts. 

Here the song is his. He is putting himself in danger, seemingly betraying his team and even pretending to reject Claudia, going against everything he believes in so that he can get the information that they need to keep Claudia safe. He is putting himself in danger so that she won’t be. He swapped their places

Then, the music gets quieter as we see the events between the woods and finding Steve unfold, and it isn’t until they open the hangar door that we can really hear the lyrics all that well again

But as soon as they do, as soon as Pete, Myka, and Claudia come into the hangar we can suddenly hear the lyrics loud and clear again, in fact louder than ever before. 

Here the song becomes Claudia’s. Because here is where she figures out something is wrong from Pete’s face (something Jinksy always does, and said in the forrest he wished she could do), and rushes up to find her best friend dead, killed in an effort to protect her. And there she wishes nothing more than to make a deal with God, and swap their places