The Boy Who Spoke With Ghosts by AvocadoLove
Crossover with The Sixth Sense.
No one suspects Arthur. He’s too practical, too organized, too sensible to believe in the supernatural.
Based on the kink meme prompt: Arthur’s real name is Cole Sear.
Action // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Teen // Words: 21,794
Skin Deep by Starlingthefool
A story that starts with a spiral, ends with a fire, and is stained with ink and blood in the middle.
(In other words, a tattoo shop AU that totally took on a mind of its own.)
Action // AU // Mature // Words: 16,613
In Our Line of Work by Fee
Arthur wakes up and realizes the last ten years of his life have been a dream. He is nineteen, and he can barely remember where he is. What he can remember is the ghost of Eames’ hands pressed down on his chest trying frantically to stop the blood flooding up around his fingers as Arthur died (as he woke up).
Seriously gorgeous fic told in alternating present and flashback.
Action // AU // Mature // Romance // Words: 15,500
Love is the New Feel Awful by 1001 Cranes
My Chemical Romance
Gerard Way, a Cartoon Network peon in possession of the world’s worst taste in men, may have finally found the perfect boyfriend. Or a serial killer. (Based on the movie Head Over Heels)
Action // AU // Humour // Romance // Teen // Words: 20,777
Belleville and Wilmette ‘Verse by Blind Madness
My Chemical Romance
Scroll down the page for Part 1 of the first story, and i dream of what i need. Gerard is a princess who goes on a quest, meeting Frank the stable boy along the way. Fairy tale AU.
Action // AU // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Teen // Words: 37,100
Someone on Your Side by Isagel
Like so many awesome stories in Figure Skating fandom, this story is a WIP that was started for a kink prompt and may not everbe finished (although the author has said she? would like to, so there’s a chance!)
This was a much, much better story than I expected. The dialogue and some of the situations are very funny, managing to hit the right note of absurdity without becoming annoyingly stupid or improbable. Johnny and Evan’s tense ceasefire is fun to watch, and the mystery is interesting so far.
Johnny comes back to his hotel room to find a man’s corpse in his bed and the police outside his door. He makes a run for it to try to prove his innocence, and ends up taking Evan Lysacek with him.
Action // Humour // Mystery // Romance // Teen
Refractions by Big Mama G
Reboot
Q-Squared-style universe convergence fic. Three different (almost)Reboot!verses come together. There are some extra stories set in Universes B and C. The warning are (mostly) for the Universe C prequel rather than the main story.
Action // AU // BDSM // Darkfic // Explicit // Future Dystopia // Non-con // Rape // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Torture
Matchmaker, Matchmaker by 1lostone
Reboot
An agreement between Guinan and Q leads Jim to meet his biggest fan. Somewhere in there, he and Spock get together.
Action // Mature // Romance
One Wing by Pepperlandgirl
Reboot/TOS
A slightly confusing crossover between Original!verse and Reboot!verse, involving Picard, the Nexus, Kirk!Prime, and a bet between Spock and Q. The plot would probably be easier to follow if it hadn’t been many years since I saw Generations.
I think this story suffers slightly from having too large a cast for its length. I would have liked to see more of Spock!Prime and Kirk!Prime’s reunion/relationship, and a lot more of Nu!Kirk and Kirk!Prime interacting. It’s still a great story, though, with a sequel, Deeper Down.
Action // AU // Crossover // Explicit // Non-con // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Torture
Twice Shy by Sarka
Reboot
AU where Bones is a werewolf. Sounds like crackfic but it isn’t, really. It is awesome, though. Stories where one character pines for another are pretty much my favourite, so the idea of Jim being Bones’s mate but not knowing about it, and Bones angsting about it, really works for me.
Action // AU // Explicit // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy
All the Past We Leave Behind by Northatlantic
Reboot
Wild West AU which somehow manages to stick pretty closely to the plot of the movie. Although amazingly, Spock’s even more of a bitch than he is in canon (but he gets over it.)
Action // AU // Explicit // Het // Historical // Romance
Only Good for Legends by Leupagus
Reboot
An AU where Spock grow up on Earth after his father’s death and becomes a police detective rather than a Starfleet officer. After he gets embroiled in a political situation, he’s sent away from San Francisco to keep him out of trouble. If course, he ends up in Riverside and meets Iowa’s Most Wanted.
There’s some initial Spock/Uhura, which is so not my thing, but it didn’t bother me too much.
The link is to the secret epilogue, which has a list of links to all the previous chapters at the top.
Action // AU // Mystery // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Teen
sealed by a fragile touch by Vixys
Reboot
Full of angst, but not in a melodramatic teen way. Bones gets stuck on a desert planet where time moves faster than it does on the Entreprise. First in a series; highly, highly recommended.
Action // Explicit // Extreme Violence // Non-con // Rape // Romance // Torture
Leave No Soul Behind by Whochick
Reboot
An AU in which both Kirk and Spock end up in the Federation’s Emergency Personnel Ambulance Service, a search-and-rescue operation semi-independent from Starfleet.
So far, this story is really, really good. It’s a WIP, but it’s updated about once a week (for example, it was updated once between the time I bookmarked it and the time I wrote this review.) It does look like there are quite a few parts left to go, though, so if you’re not keen on WIPs, you may want to wait until it’s finished. So far, it’s up to part 4.3. New parts are tagged leave no soul behind.
Action // AU // Mature // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // WIP
Illogical series by Waldorph
Reboot
A slightly AU series which is mostly true to canon, except that Kirk gets to Starfleet by a slightly different route. Don’t be fooled by the first story in the series – it’s good, but not as amazing as all the others.
More than anything, this series is excellent because it adds a depth and breadth of character development and world building that the movie never touches. Many, many pairings that I didn’t bother to list because they aren’t central to the series.
Action // AU // Character Death // Explicit // Het // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy
Home by Lanaea
Reboot
Unfortunately still a WIP, at 33 parts and counting. Spock goes with Kirk to visit Iowa, and their relationship kind of takes off from there. Angst, romance, adventure…all-around fun, really.
Action // Explicit // Romance // WIP
Keep Your Distance by Masterofmidgets
Reboot
Anti-sex pollen. Angstier and more plotty than that makes it sound.
Action // Explicit // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy
Evolution by Rhaegal
Reboot
The first year of the five-year mission, and Kirk and Spock’s evolving relationship. I’m way too tired to be very coherent, but it’s an excellent WIP with only two parts still to be posted (one of which has already been written.)
ETA: It’s finished! Run, don’t walk, to read this fic.
Action // Explicit // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy
Reboot Duo by Seperis
Reboot
The first story in this series is You’ll Get There in the End (It Just Takes a While), a pon farr story. A Jim Kirk has pon farr story, no less.
There are some cut scenes set between the two stories.
And there is the second story,War Games. It has the most wonderful original characters and the best plot of any story I’ve read in this fandom so far. The Romulan Empire and the Federation may be on the verge of a war–one that not everyone seems interested in preventing.
Action // Explicit // Mystery // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Top 100
So Wise We Grow by Deastar
Reboot
I am in awe of this story. Reading it made me so happy. It’s kidfic, which can be pretty awful, but it manages to be cute and funny without being precious or sappy. I love everyone in the story. I especially love Kirk and McCoy’s relationship, but all the character interactions are wonderful.
Also, educational anecdotes? Funniest idea ever.
Seriously, don’t miss this story.
(Another reviewer and the author both mention that Uhura gets short shrift in this story; her relationship with Spock ends unrealistically quickly. Which I’m actually fine with; I don’t read K/S for Spock/Uhura, so I’m happy to get that relationship out of the way. Not that I don’t love Uhura, but she and Spock together just don’t work for me. In fact, Deastar wrote another excellent story, How Many Roads? or, 27 Times Jim Kirk Hit On Nyota Uhura, which I loved because it is wonderful but hated because it is Spock/Uhura, and apparently I can’t deal with that. I am not usually one for OTPs in any fandom (with the exception of Farscape) but it seems I have one now.)
Action // Humour // Mature // Romance // Top 100