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FIC (Avengers): "Coming Home" (Tony/Pepper, Pepper & Bruce) - 2012

2012-10-19T16:10:43Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Title: "Coming Home"
Fandom: Avengers Movie!Verse
Characters and/or Pairing(s): Pepper & Bruce, Tony & Bruce, background Tony/Pepper,
Rating: PG
Word Count: 4314
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Nothing to speak of. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Summary: It may be Tony Stark's name on the tower, but the final word on who gets an invitation to live there will always belong to Pepper.

( Coming Home )

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FIC (HP): "Finding Closure" (Snape/McGonagall, PG.) - 2012

2012-09-03T10:48:32Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written for Kelly Chambliss as part of Reversathon 2012.

Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Title: "Finding Closure"
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters and/or Pairing(s): Severus/Minerva, possible Poppy/Hermione [one-sided...for now].
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3470
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Snape isn't really dead? Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Summary: Years after the Battle of Hogwarts and the loss of so many loved ones, Minerva McGonagall can't help but feel she still owes an apology to one particular absent loved one.
Author's Notes: Also available on AO3

( Finding Closure )

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FIC (Avengers): "Situation Report: August 1, 2062" (Gen, Team) - 2012

2012-08-20T01:31:39Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

My first Avengers story, and I couldn't even give them all a happily-ever-after ending. *sigh*

Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Title: "Situation Report: August 1, 2062"
Fandom: Avengers Movie!Verse
Characters and/or Pairing(s): Thor/Jane, Clint/Phil(implied), Clint/Natasha (implied), Steve/Bucky (implied), Tony/Pepper, Bruce
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1390
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Character death(s). Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Summary: The earliest members of the Avengers Initiative, fifty years down the line.
Notes: Thanks to musesfool and midnitemarauder for the betas.

[A podfic of this story by sisi_rambles can be found here]

( Situation Report: August 1, 2062 )

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FIC (House): "What Isn't There" (Wilson/Cameron) - 2005

2012-04-20T00:58:24Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written as part of the houserareathon on LJ in 2005

Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Title: "What Isn't There"
Fandom: House, M.D.
Characters and/or Pairing(s): Wilson/Cameron (mention of Cameron/Chase, semi-implied House/Cameron, implied House/Wilson)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1100
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Mention of Infantilism play. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Summary: Sometimes, the most obvious thing is what isn't there.
Author's Notes: A riff on the metaphoric notion of phantom limbs, based on the following assigned fest prompt: "The body is not an allegory--it can't help that it looks like one, any more than it can avoid not being able to stay." -Carl Phillips

( What Isn't There )

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FIC (HP): "An Unexpected Gift" (Snape/McGonagall) - 2012

2012-01-21T17:30:47Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written as a gift for albalark as part of HoggyWartyXmas

Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth
Title: An Unexpected Gift
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters and/or Pairings: Snape/McGonagall
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2080
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Some briefish and mostly-only-suggestive hetero-sex, and a bit of 'bad language' scattered throughout. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Summary: What they shared that night had been largely unexpected and very sweet, but for Severus, the gift she'd given him the following morning had been even more delicious..

( An Unexpected Gift )

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FIC (HP): "Contra Saligia..." (Snape/Hermione) - 2011

2012-01-17T14:54:24Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written for geminiscorp for the 2011 round of the SSHG Exchange

Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Title: CONTRA SALIGIA, or how Gilderoy Lockhart proved to be almost useful at last.
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~6400
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters and/or Pairings:: Snape/Hermione, implied background pairing of McGonagall/Sprout.
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Nothing in particular. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Notes: Canon compliant up to - but not including - the Epilogue (or the alleged demise of Mr Severus Snape).
Summary: After many months spent working closely with her former professor, Hermione Granger is absolutely certain that Severus Snape's near-death experience in the Shrieking Shack transformed him completely - and all for the better. However, judging by the comments about Severus that Hermione has been noticing recently from her other colleagues, it's clear that her positive opinion isn't shared by everyone. What could explain the vast gulf between the Severus she's come to know and the Snape that everybody else seems to be seeing? Hermione has no idea what the answer is, but she's determined to find out.

( CONTRA SALIGIA, or how Gilderoy Lockhart proved to be almost useful at last )

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FIC (RPF - F1 Grand Prix) - Unless I'm very much mistaken... (OFC/OMC, Senna/Prost)

2012-01-17T14:02:15Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written as a gift for kangeiko for the 2011 edition of Yuletide.

Title: "Unless I'm very much mistaken..."
Fandom: RPF - Misc (Formula One Grand Prix)
Characters and/or Pairing(s): Julie (OFC)/Richard (OMC), Ayrton Senna/Alain Prost
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2916
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Nothing in particular apart from some teen angst. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Summary: In the middle of the 1986 Formula One season, a sometime romantic - and ridiculously naive - fifteen year old girl believes she has found her soul mate. Now if only she could actually meet him. A mostly unbelievable fable of second love featuring, in a supporting role, the background pairing of Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.)
Author's Notes: Title taken from the much-quoted catchphrase of legendary British race commentator, Murray Walker. With thanks to Malcolm Folley's 2009 book Senna Versus Prost (although very little from the book was actually incorporated in this story), the usual online sources (wikipedia, youtube, etc), and some dimly remembered in-person encounters. (Note: if Julie - i.e., the OFC - were in fandom, she'd probably be wishing her name was "Mary Sue" so that she could have a little more influence on the events taking place around her. With any luck, she'll grow out of this phase. With even more luck, someday she just might be awesome.)

( Unless I'm very much mistaken... )

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FIC (HP): "Love Potion Number 9" (Snape/Various) - 2006

2010-09-28T14:08:07Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written June 9, 2006 for HP Short Fics with the following prompt: Love Potion No.9, Snape

Title: Love Potion Number 9
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape/Various
Rating: R
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Underage Sex, Masturbation, Non-graphic BDSM, Potions Abuse. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Word Count: 864
Summary: Nine opportunities should have been enough.

( Love Potion Number 9 )

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FIC (HP): "Anything But Temptation" (Snape/Slughorn, others) - 2006

2010-09-09T07:40:32Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written - before Deathly Hallows - for the Kinda Lush 2006 Challenge, with the prompt "Recipe."

Note for the Australians: the story takes place in Severus's seventh year...in late January. In other words, he just turned 18.

Many thanks to Femme for the beta.

Title: Anything But Temptation
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape/Slughorn, Snape/McGonagall, Snape/Lily, Snape/HisRightHand
Rating: R / NC-17
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Wanking, Fondling, Frotting, Dub-con, Potions Abuse. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Word Count: 2360
Summary: Even the most brilliant of young potions prodigies occasionally have something other than potions on their minds.

( Anything But Temptation )

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FIC (HP/Discworld): "A Matter of Life and Death" Snape/Hermione) - 2010

2010-08-31T18:39:23Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written for iulia_linnea for the 2010 Severus Snape/Hermione Granger Exchange (masterlist here). To see the story in situ, click here)

Title: A Matter of Life and Death
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Characters: Severus/Hermione, DEATH, various others of the HP and Discworld Universes.
Rating: PG-13
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)DEATH...but that's a good thing in this story. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Word Count: ~4600
Summary: In the end, Death comes for us all. For Severus Snape and Hermione Granger, it came with cups of tea and offers of employment.

Author's Note #1: Crossover with Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (for more on this, take a look at the Discworld Wiki), as well as a bit of a crossover with Neil Gaiman's Sandman. To learn more about what might seem like unlikely coincidences in this story, read the Discworld wiki entry on Narrativium *g*
Author's Note #2: I swear I tried to get Severus and Hermione to do something, but they flat out refused. Blame them!
Author's Note #3: Many thanks to vulgarweed for the sterling beta...and additional thanks to the ever-patient Mods.

( A Matter of Life and Death )

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FIC (HP): "Second Chances" (Dumbledore/Hermione) - 2005

2010-08-13T04:20:49Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Based on the theory known as ~~Knight2King~~ (now here) (Ron = Dumbledore)

Title: Second Chances
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Written in: May 2005
Fandom(s): Harry Potter
Pairings/Characters: Albus Dumbledore/Hermione Granger (sort of), Minerva McGonagall, Phineas Nigellus Black
Words: 1130
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Attempted Dub-Con. Portrait Voyeurism. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here

( Second Chances )

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FIC (HP): "Beauty and the Beast" (Snape/McGonagall) - 2006

2010-08-12T21:39:19Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written for Fairy Tale week over at hpshortfics. Prompt: Snape/Anyone.

Title: Beauty and the Beast
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Written in: January 2006
Fandom(s): Harry Potter
Pairings/Characters: Snape/McGonagall
Words: 372
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Nothing to speak of. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here

( Beauty and the Beast )

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FIC (HP): "Friends Like These" (Snape/Narcissa, Lucius/Narcissa) -

2010-08-01T16:39:16Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

This story takes place between HBP and DH. Many thanks to Femme for beta'ing!

Title: Friends Like These
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Written in: December 2007
Fandom(s): Harry Potter
Pairings/Characters: Snape/Narcissa, Lucius/Narcissa
Words: 3339
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Cunnilingus, Breathplay, Pegging, Voyeurism, random dirty talk. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Summary: Lord Voldemort has arranged for Lucius to be freed from Azkaban, but Lucius' punishment hasn't ended just yet.

( Friends Like These )

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FIC (HP): "Under the Sign of the Silken Robe" (Snape/Narcissa) - 2007

2010-08-01T16:24:25Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written for ms_katonic for hp_springsmut 2007.

Title: Under the Sign of the Silken Robe
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Written in: March 2007
Fandom(s): Harry Potter
Pairings/Characters: Snape/Narcissa
Words: 2825
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Prostitution. Alcohol. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Summary: War makes strange bedfellows, So does peace.

( Under the Sign of the Silken Robe )

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FIC (HP): "Home Studies" (Snape/McGonagall) - 2005

2010-06-02T21:56:39Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

I had intended to write this pre-HBP/DH story for the LJ community Close Contrast's 'Severus and Minerva MiniFest', but life got in the way, as it so often does. However, here - a mere five months later than planned - is the story I would have posted if I had actually written it on time.

Many thanks to Luthien for beta and for prodding me to actually finish the story.

Title: Home Studies
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Written in: June 2005
Fandom(s): Harry Potter
Pairings/Characters: Snape/McGonagall, Hermione.
Words: ~5000
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Death Warning for Albus Dumbledore (which, yes...he dies in canon, but this story was written before HBP was published, so the death may come as a surprise for some readers). Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here.
Summary: "The best laid plans of mice and [wo]men gang aft agley..."

( Home Studies )

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FIC (HP): "Safe as Houses: A Wizard's Guide to Home Repair" (Snape/Luna) - 2010

2010-06-01T00:56:50Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Title: Safe as Houses: A Wizard's Guide to Home Repair
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Beta Reader(s): femmequixotic
Recipient: iulia_linnea
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~3050
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Nothing to speak of, apart from a touch of meta.
Recipient's Prompt: After months of searching, Luna and Severus purchase a lovely old home that Luna adores; upon moving in, however, Severus is forced to accept that the house despises him. How does he solve the mystery of this animus without destroying the house or his relationship with Luna?
Summary: For Luna, it was love at first sight, but Severus took quite a bit longer to learn how to love.

( Safe as Houses: A Wizard's Guide to Home Repair )

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FIC (HP): "A Holiday Entertainment" (Narcissa Malfoy/Viktor Krum, suggested) - 2007

2010-05-31T16:06:54Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written in February 2007 for a HP Shortfics" (Pick and choose among: Ron, Viktor, Narcissa, knife, cavalier, body, heat, young)

Title: A Holiday Entertainment
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Written in...: February 2007
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing/Characters: Narciss Malfoy (mentions of Viktor Krum, Igor Karkaroff, etc)
Possible warnings - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): Considerations of infidelity. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here.
Words: 393
Summary: The holidays are going to be so very gloomy with Lucius away.

( A Holiday Entertainment )

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FIC (The 10th Kingdom): "La Ronde" (Multiple pairings) - 2004

2010-05-27T20:17:43Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written for Taskir as part of Yuletide 2004.

Title: La Ronde
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Written in...: December 2004
Fandom: The 10th Kingdom
Pairing/Characters: Tony/Evil Queen, Evil Queen/Virginia, Virginia/Wolf, Wolf/Wendell, Wendell/Tony.
Possible warnings - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): Possible future incest. Possible future cannibalism *g* Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here.
Words: 3202
Summary: A 'five things that never happened' variation, with apologies to dramatist Arthur Schnitzler for the use of his title.

( La Ronde )

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FIC (HP): "To Touch The Spaces" (Snape/Hermione)

2010-03-28T23:57:42Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written for the sshg_exchange, December 2006

Title: To Touch The Spaces
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Characters: Snape/Hermione
Rating: PG-13/R
Possible warnings - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): Some alcohol use. Please leave a comment if anything else seems problematic.
Word Count: 4592
Author's Note: Many thanks to Arsenic, Flora, and Meri for sterling beta workl
Summary: Severus Snape's post-war existence is not quite so bad as he feared it might be. But perhaps it could be just a bit better.

( To Touch The Spaces )

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FIC (HP): "What Yet Remains" (Snape/Hermione)

2010-03-28T23:34:45Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written as a pinch hit for the sshg_exchange, July 2007.

Title: What Yet Remains
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Characters: Snape/Hermione
Rating: PG-13/R
Possible warnings - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): Nothing in particular. Please leave a comment if anything seems problematic.
Word Count: 7,658
Author's Note: Many thanks to Femme for an insanely fast beta, on the phone, two seconds before she was moving!
Summary: As memories of the War start to fade, a relationship begins to develop between Hermione and Severus. However, it may not be wise to put all memories of the War aside.

( What Yet Remains )

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FIC (HP): "The New Man" (Snape/Hermione)

2010-03-28T23:19:45Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written in January for the sshg_exchange 2009 on LiveJournal (here) for bluestocking73 (and tangentially for eeyore9990")

Title: The New Man
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Possible warnings - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): Nothing in particular. Please leave a comment if anything seems problematic.
Pairing: Snape/Hermione
Word Count: 8300
Author's Notes: This was written as a combination of some elements from the original prompt (see below) and as an homage to, well, that would give it away, wouldn't it? Click here to see the [possibly spoilery] source of the aforementioned 'homage.' Generally canon compliant, apart from the Epilogue.
Summary: Ten years have passed since the War, and Hermione is happy with her great job, her wonderful flat, and even her social life. It's true that her love-life is practically non-existent, but Hermione isn't particularly bothered by that. Then she meets a new man . . . but just how 'new' is he?

Original Prompt: Years after Snape's assumed "death," Hermione randomly encounters Snape, who's living as a Muggle and remembers nothing of his past, his magic or his former identity. All he knows is that he's an average man who was horribly injured in an accident and that he woke up in hospital afterward. Hermione's drawn to the mystery of how his memory was deliberately erased (and by whom). UST and eventual romance would be great.

( The New Man )

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FIC (HP):: "An Inexpressible Comfort" (Snape/Luna)

2010-03-28T14:17:07Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Originally written in April 2009 for the Snuna Exchange on LJ.

Title: "An Inexpressible Comfort"
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Pairing: Snape/Luna
Word Count: 3205
Possible warnings - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): References only made to past rape. . Please leave a comment if anything else seems problematic.
Note 1: Many thanks to Femme for beta'ing!
Note 2: The title is taken from Luna's farewell to Ollivander in Deathly Hallows as he's leaving Shell Cottage: "You were an inexpressible comfort to me in that terrible place."
Summary: All he was looking for was a new wand. What he found was much, much more.

( An Inexpressible Comfort )

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FIC (HP): "Home is the Sailor" (Snape/Luna)

2010-03-28T14:08:40Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Originally written July 13, 2007.

Title: "Home is the Sailor"
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Pairing: Snape/Luna
Word Count: 7135
Possible warnings - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): Nothing in particular. Please leave a comment if anything seems problematic.
Notes: Written for Reversathon 2007 (on LJ)
Summary: In his effort to prepare for any eventuality, Snape finds an almost perfect hideaway. However, he soon discovers that he's not alone.

( Home is the Sailor )

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FIC (HP): "Press. Release." (Snape/Luna)

2010-03-28T13:52:53Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Title: "Press. Release."
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Pairing: Snape/Luna
Word Count: 6390
Possible warnings - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): Nothing in particular. Please leave a comment if anything seems problematic.
Notes: Written for i_octopus for smutty_claus 2006. Many thanks to Kalena, Meri, Rex Luscus, and Venivincere for beta'ing!
Summary: A Ministry directive gives new hope to certain prisoners in Azkaban, but its distribution list is rather smaller than Severus Snape might have hoped.

( Press. Release. )

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FIC (HP): "Rebirth-Days" (Snape-centric)

2010-03-28T05:11:03Z

Posted by: bethbethbeth

Written for the 2010 Severus Shorts Brief Birthday Celebration. Originally posted February 3, 2010.)

Title: Rebirth Days
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Characters: Severus, others (primarily gen, but with a Snape/Hermione pairing in the background at the end)
Rating: G
Possible warnings - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): Nothing in particular. Please leave a comment if anything seems problematic.
Word Count: ~2600
Author's Note: Many thanks to the Divine Miss Iuls, for always-patient Modding, and to the lovely Femme for beta'ing!
Summary: Five times Severus Snape was reborn.

( Rebirth-Days )

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