A c h r o m a t i c . S t o r y . C h r o n o l o g y

Chronology
2005

This is probably of interest to no one but me, but I was thinking about the order in which I wrote these stories, and started wondering if there were any patterns or trends I might pick up if I looked at them all, regardless of fandom, in chronological order. I wondered about my influences - i.e., what was I reading/watching/listening to when these stories were written - and what stories that came after that I might have influenced.

You can use this as a one-stop big list of all my fic, if you're so inclined. All drabbles, challenge ficlets and other assorted miscellany are listed. I've also got a big list of all my fic in alphabetical order, if you prefer that.

The list was getting too long for one document - all that crazy scrolling. So I've split it.

Go to Chronology 2000-2002 for my oldest stories, Chronology 2003-2004 for stuff written in, hey, look at that, 2003 and 2004, or Chronology 2006-present for the more recent stuff. Right here is Chronology 2005, which is stuff I wrote in 2005.

A Key:
XMM = X-Men Movieverse
BtVS = Buffy the Vampire Slayer
A:tS = Angel
H:LotS = Homicide: Life on the Street
SV = Smallville
WW = The West Wing
SW:AotC = Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
LotR = Lord of the Rings
E = Earthsea cycle
FF = Firefly
HP = Harry Potter
GG = Gilmore Girls
Sandman = Sandman
The Matrix = The Matrix
Alias = Alias
SN = SportsNight
Lucifer = Lucifer
Ult-X = Ultimate X-Men
GO = Good Omens
O11 = Ocean's 11/12
The Wire = The Wire
VMars = Veronica Mars
Iliad = The Iliad
FFH/TPB = Fire from Heaven/The Persian Boy
KA = King Arthur
ASP = A Separate Peace
Lost = Lost
F4 = Fantastic Four (movieverse)
AA = Absalom, Absalom
TBG = The Brothers Grimm
HWY = Highway
Rome = Rome
House = House
CoN = Chronicles of Narnia
NR = Nightrunner
D = Chronicles of the Deryni
LE = L'Engleverse
LAC = LA Confidential
GA = Grey's Anatomy
SPN = Supernatural
S60 = Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

The Means to Make Amends (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Sirius makes it up to Remus.
Date: January 8, 2005

A Christening of Wild Apples (FFH)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Hephaistion will always answer yes when Alexander calls.
Date: January 13, 2005

Pale Shelter (LotR)
Rating: PG
Summary: Éomer says goodbye to Éowyn.
Date: January 14, 2005

Between the Emotion and the Response (HP)
Summary: In this last of meeting places / We grope together / And avoid speech
Rating: Adult
Date: January 23, 2005

Older and Far Away (HP/BtVS)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Remus wondered what kind of trouble he'd got himself into.
Date: February 9, 2005

One Foot On the Floor (HP)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: "One foot on the floor, Moony. Stops the room from spinning."
Date: February 11, 2005

The Best Man's Fall (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "As the best man, I think you might do more than glower at me and scare the bridesmaids," Remus murmurs with a wry smile.
Date: February 14, 2005

your skin like a whole almond (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. / I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body
Date: February 15, 2005

The Vig (O11)
Rating: General
Summary: Rusty pays his debts.
Date: February 28, 2005

A Thousand Rainy Days (Firefly)
Rating: General
Summary: Mal wants to earn that smile.
Date: March 1, 2005

Dirty Laundry (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Sirius hated himself for doing this to Remus, and Remus for not making him stop.
Date: March 2, 2005

A lousy history of tomorrows (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "You don’t know it yet, but this is the last time you will ever touch him like this."
Date: March 3, 2005

Spin the Bottle (HP)
Rating: General
Summary: Remus and Sirius have them all fooled
Date: March 4, 2005

Promised Eternity (A Ring of Endless Light Remix) (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "Sirius deserved this happiness, this second chance, and he wasn't going to question it too closely."
Date: March 15, 2005

I Am a Camera (Cobra Flash Remix) (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "Blaise likes to be in control, or to believe he is, anyway, and Draco finds that useful."
Date: March 15, 2005

Confiteor (Suite for the Unforgiven) (HLotS)
Rating: General
Summary: Pembleton considers what he's done and what he's failed to do.
Date: March 16, 2005

Triangulation (Pythagorean Overdub) (TPB)
Rating: General
Summary: Hephaistion and Bagoas share a little wine, and a little conversation.
Date: March 19, 2005

Remembrance of a Weeping Queen (Rosemary and Rue Remix) (Firefly)
Rating: General
Summary: River would like to remember.
Date: March 19, 2005

Who Is Like God (Lucifer)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Lucifer has always been the engine of Michael's change.
Date: March 25, 2005

A Place Where Nobody Knows (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "For a moment or three, the world existed for them alone, and no one else could find them."
Date: March 30, 2005

things that stay (HP)
Rating: General
Summary: "It's not as though he hasn't done this before."
Date: April 1, 2005

To Speak Is to Lie (ASP)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: "Touch is just another language Finny speaks -- the one he's most fluent in, and the one Gene doesn't quite understand."
Date: April 4, 2005

Have Yourself a Merry Little... (Sandman)
Rating: General
Summary: Daniel spiffs up the joint.
Date: April 7, 2005

Heirloom (GG)
Rating: General
Summary: Lorelai has some news.
Date: April 7, 2005

She Will Be Loved (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "So you would have--" "Still would, if you--"
Date: April 14, 2005

Eclipse (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "In the daylight, when James is around, he knows Sirius doesn't even see him."
Date: April 15, 2005

Sirius v. the Pie (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: All Sirius wanted was a piece of pie.
Date: April 19, 2005

And Ye Shall Find (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Seekers seek and keepers keep.
Date: April 21, 2005

Lay Upon My Altar Now Your Love (KA)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "You are as you ever were, Lancelot, and always, always what I have believed you to be."
Date: April 22, 2005

There's a Stick That Talks? (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Truth will out.
Date: April 25, 2005

Bed's too big without you (HP)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: I can't sleep with your memory / Dreaming dreams of what used to be
Date: April 29, 2005

The Hungry and the Hunters (HP/BtVS)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Remus is primed for the hunt.
Date: April 30, 2005

Fight Your Secret War (BtVS)
Rating: PG
Summary: You said I scared you, well I guess you scared me, too.
Date: April 30, 2005

Not Your Sister's Seeker (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Mates don't go around kissing or groping each other, no matter how much Ron wants to.
Date: May 5, 2005

A Good Idea at the Time (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "Oh, no, Potter. I want to make sure you know exactly who's got his hand on your prick right now."
Date: May 10, 2005

It's Hard to Leave When You Can't Find the Door (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "Let's go to the Hog's Head and get royally pissed."
Date: May 18, 2005

The Bridle and the Rudder, Too (FFH)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Hephaistion has become good at being whatever Alexander wants him to be, whenever he wants him to be it.
Date: May 19, 2005

Oleander Heart (Lost)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Kate is deadly.
Date: May 19, 2005

Nameless (HP/BtVS)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Tonight, he's just a nameless fuck in a nameless Muggle club, and he finds that oddly comforting.
Date: May 23, 2005

Cherchez la femme (O11)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Danny's looking for a diamond, but he keeps coming up with glass.
Date: June 1, 2005

Propitiating Saint Cordelia (BtVS)
Rating: General
Summary: Cordelia and Faith, post-NFA
Date: June 2, 2005

Interstitial (O11)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "I'm a thief and a con man. How the hell am I the responsible one?"
Date: June 4, 2005

Enjoy the Show (O11)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Linus doesn't have to imagine now. Now he can watch.
Date: June 7, 2005

De Nobis Fabula Narratur (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: "This is the fairytale of Moony and Padfoot."
Date: June 14, 2005

Lie to Me (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Remus's relationship with the truth has always been casual.
Date: June 15, 2005

In Honey Drown (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: They've wasted too much time already, and Sirius wants to get it back, get it all back with interest.
Date: June 20, 2005

The other foot, obliquely run (Firefly)
Rating: PG
Summary: "Such wilt thou be to me, who must, / Like th' other foot, obliquely run; / Thy firmness makes my circles just, / And makes me end where I begun."
Spoilers: MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SERENITY: THE MOVIE
Date: June 25, 2005

The Ninth Beatitude (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: "If he wants to do something nice for me, then maybe he should ask me what I want."
Date: June 26, 2005

When you were the brightest star, who were the shadows? (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: "You're my brother," Sirius says, though the word doesn't conjure up Regulus's face, but James's.
Date: June 29, 2005

lovers alone wear sunlight (HP)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Sirius loves Remus, but he doesn't love Remus. Or does he?
Date: June 29, 2005

Fire on Babylon (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: I am the last, and now, the only. The omega and the alpha.
Date: July 6, 2005

Jézabel (VMars/Ats)
Rating: PG
Summary: The lawyer Lilly's father is meeting with isn't the usual run of corporate suit. for fox1013, requested by pearl-o
Date: July 7, 2005

Let the Circle Be Unbroken (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Three is a perfect number, complete, a closed circle, and they don't need anyone else. for sanj, requested by kassrachel
Date: July 8, 2005

Dinner (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: Charlie knew he would have to tell her about him and Remus eventually, but for now he preferred to keep it a secret. for Flora, requested by Marks
Date: July 8, 2005

Stop Your Mouth (SW)
Rating: PG
Summary: "Peace! I will stop your mouth." for Rynne, requested by Thistlerose
Date: July 8, 2005

A New Beginning (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: It's as thrilling as their first kiss, so many years ago. for thysanotus, requested by xylodemon
Date: July 8, 2004

Defying Gravity (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: "It, er, sings until you kiss the person you fancy." for schocolate, requested by tarie.
Date: July 8, 2005

The Flavor of Goodbye (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: "I will love you forever, but it's over." for eumenides1, requested by underlucius
Date: July 8, 2005

The Story (Absalom, Absalom)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: This is the story and they are the story and the story never ends. for Karen, requested by dancinguniverse
Date: July 8, 2005

Sneak Attack (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: Percy kisses the way he does everything else -- with precision and focus. for macteague, requested by semielliptical
Date: July 8, 2005

Last Dance (Firefly)
Rating: PG
Summary: Inara's leaving Serenity. Mal's not happy about it. for madkrazyghetto, requested by obssessivemuch
Date: July 8, 2005

One Reason (FFH)
Rating: PG
Summary: There are many reasons to love Alexander, though Hephaistion doesn't need one. for Devil Doll, requested by cschoolgirl
Date: July 8, 2005

Before the Feast (The Iliad)
Rating: PG
Summary: Achilles would rather not go to the feast. Patroclus convinces him. for mousapelli, requested by sociofemme
Date: July 8, 2005

The Long Kiss Goodbye (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Remus is safe, Remus is gay, Remus is in love with Sirius, and all of that is true, except this is Lily.
Date: July 11, 2005

Differential Equations (F4)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Victor can't afford to be sentimental
Date: July 12, 2005

You're Finally Here and I'm a Mess (HP)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Sometimes people ask him questions and he answers before he can think, with answers that aren't his to give.
Date: July 13, 2005

The Most Gorgeously Stupid Thing (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: James and Sirius share everything.
Date: July 14, 2005

Mexican Standoff (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: Mexican standoff : n : a situation in which no one can emerge as a clear winner
Spoilers: Major spoilers for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Date: July 19, 2005

Come Undone (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "I'm going to fuck you now."
Spoilers: None
Date: July 20, 2005

Ten Thousand Years (FFH/Sandman)
Rating: G
Summary: "His life has been ruled by desire, by longing; he has attempted to keep the delicate balance between desire and necessity and has not always succeeded."
Date: July 28, 2005

It's No Secret (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: It's no secret that a liar won't believe in anyone else.
Spoilers: none
Date: July 28, 2005

Buffalo Girl, Won't You Come Out Tonight (O11)
Rating: PG
Summary: Rusty always wondered. Danny never did.
Date: July 31, 2005

The Only Truth That Sticks (HP)
Rating: G
Summary: "She feels like a foolish old woman, taken in by a man who had probably been laughing up his sleeve at her the whole time."
Spoilers: Major spoilers for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Date: August 5, 2005

Out with a Bang (O11)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "I thought after LaJolla, we agreed not to do this on jobs anymore."
Date: August 6, 2005

No Harm, But No Certain Good (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: None of this romance shite for us, she says.
Spoilers: None.
Date: August 7, 2005

Drive-by a Go-Go (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: And I hate myself / Just enough to want him / But I hate him just enough to get off
Spoilers: Minor HBP spoilers
Date: August 14, 2005

Leave the Fire Behind (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "This house is killing you, and I can't bear it. I let you down once, let you rot in Azkaban. I'm not doing it again."
Spoilers: None
Date: August 16, 2005

Only One Honour (FFH)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "There's only one honour I want tonight."
Date: August 20, 2005

Without Reservation (A/H)
Rating: G
Summary: "I think you have your reasons, beyond the obvious, which are known only to you."
Date: August 22, 2005

Ease Your Troubled Mind (HP)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which Oliver and Charlie drink firewhisky and old secrets are revealed.
Spoilers: HBP spoilers
Date: September 1, 2005

Mortify thy flesh (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "There are worse things one can do in the Black family than shag one's close relatives."
Warning: Incest
Date: September 2, 2005

Not With a Thousand Swords (HP)
Rating: G
Summary: Sirius is still too thin, with too-long hair and a grin that cuts like a razor.
Spoilers: Minor HBP spoilers
Date: September 5, 2005

Jacob Have I Loved (HP)
Rating: G
Summary: They are brothers, after all.
Spoilers: Minor HBP spoilers
Date: September 6, 2005

Two Princes: A Fractured Fairytale (TBG)
Rating: Adult
Summary: She has never imagined a charming prince for herself, and she hasn't got one. Instead, she has two brothers in her bed.
Warning: Incest
Date: September 7, 2005

Until You Hit the Ground (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: For once, he was going to trust Sirius, and let himself fall.
Spoilers: None
Date: September 13, 2005

I Ain't Here on Business, Baby, I'm Only Here for Fun (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "I have about half an hour before I have to be in Moscow."
Spoilers: None
Date: September 13, 2005

The Other Woman (O11)
Rating: PG
Summary: "Generally speaking, it's a good idea to duck when someone takes a swing at you."
Date: September 17, 2005

Take My Waking Slow (HP)
Rating: G
Summary: Draco needs to know.
Spoilers: major ones for HBP
Date: September 19, 2005

Light a Candle (HP)
Rating: G
Summary: Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Spoilers: None
Date: September 21, 2005

Filthy/Gorgeous (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: "He shoves Remus into the alcove formed by the speaker, hands already working at his belt, and Remus leans in and kisses him, hard and hungry."
Spoilers: None
Date: September 23, 2005

Virtuous Service (FFH)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Hephaistion knew himself blessed beyond measure.
Date: September 24, 2005

Something Like Prayer (HP)
Rating: G
Summary: "They are walking back to the cottage after a furtive late night visit into town for groceries when Sirius lies down in the middle of the road."
Spoilers: None
Date: September 27, 2005

Everything Looks Perfect from Far Away (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: "He knows he will never have Sirius, has made peace with it, and if he hasn't actually moved on, he's at least given up waiting for Sirius to come around."
Spoilers: None
Date: October 2, 2005

My Favorite Was Yours (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: Sirius is tired of this shite.
Spoilers: None
Date: October 5, 2005

I am for you (FFH)
Rating: G
Summary: Hephaistion wanted to keep the evidence of Alexander's promise with him always.
Date: October 6, 2005

The way you fall (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: For Remus, it will always be too late.
Warnings: Second person, future tense, Faulkner-esque
Date: October 7, 2005

A Cup of Tea (HP/HLotS)
Rating: PG
Summary: Remus stumbles into a murder investigation.
Sopilers: For HBP
Date: October 10, 2005

Showing, Not Telling (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Remus learns why showing is better than telling.
Date: October 12, 2005

Sparkle and Fade (Firefly)
Rating: Adult
Spoilers: Oblique movie spoilers.
Summary: River is better at this, too, tracing curves with fingers and tongue, seeking out dark, secret places and making them sing.
Date: October 14, 2005

False Idols (Firefly)
Rating: Adult, barely
Summary: Serenity never let him down, not when he kept her up, cared for her like his own flesh and blood.
Date: October 17, 2005

Half-whole (Firefly)
Rating: G
Summary: It would be easier if she hated him.
Spoilers: movie spoilers.
Date: October 19, 2005

Making the Grab (O11)
Rating: PG
Summary: Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. ~MFK Fisher
Date: October 25, 2005

Whiskey and Wry (Firefly)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: There's a difference between what a man wants and what he knows is right.
Spoilers: None
Date: October 26, 2005

Nine Voices, and the Search for a Tenth (Firefly)
Rating: G
Summary: It's easier when they're flying -- a billion voices fading to white noise, drowned out by the hum of Serenity and the song of the stars, and the nine voices she comes to know even better than her own.
Spoilers: None
Date: October 27, 2005

First Signs of Spring (HP)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Just before he defeats Voldemort, Harry brings Sirius back, Orpheus successful at last, but there is almost nothing left of the Sirius Remus remembers.
Date: October 28, 2005

Different Dreams in the Same Bed (Firefly)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: He wants to believe her, kisses her to stop her words so he don't have to wonder if they're lies.
Spoilers: vague ones for the movie
Date: October 31, 2005

Danse du petit cygne (Firefly/House)
Rating: G
Summary: "I'll never be a real girl, but I don't want to be a swan anymore."
Spoilers: None
Date: November 2, 2005

The King of Wishful Thinking (HP)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: "I've even got a cauldron somewhere. We can heat some water if you'd like to have a bath."
Date: November 4, 2005

Beautiful Solution (Firefly)
Rating: Adult
Summary: River knows where she's not wanted, and, more importantly, where she is.
Spoilers: obliquely for the movie
Date: November 6, 2005

The Odds of Faith in the Face of Doubt (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: Remus learns to believe in the fairy tale.
Date: November 9, 2005

Let Your Hips Do the Talking (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: Remus wishes Sirius would stop touching him. Or does he?
Date: November 11, 2005

And Bind Up Every Wandering Tress (Firefly)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Like Rapunzel, she will let down her hair, and they can all climb inside her.
Spoilers: none
Date: November 12, 2005

To Be a Man (Rome)
Rating: Adult
Summary: He remembers what it means to be a man.
Spoilers: through the second-to-last episode
Date: November 15, 2005

Lazy Mornings (BtVS)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Rise and shine.
Date: November 18, 2005

In Small Degrees (Everybody Falls) (Firefly)
Rating: PG
Summary: Shipboard romances never work out, but damned if she don't make him want to try.
Spoilers: for the movie
Date: November 23, 2005

Rewriting the Stars (House)
Rating: PG
Summary: Their story may have started once upon a time, but she doesn't think it will end happily ever after.
Spoilers: through "Three Stories"
Date: November 27, 2005

Throwing Waffles through Hoops (HP/SN)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Nobody quite knows where the waffles fit in.
Date: December 1, 2005

Cold Feet (Firefly)
Rating: PG
Summary: Everything was ready for the wedding. The only thing missing was the groom.
Spoilers: None
Date: December 4, 2005

Touch of Rue (FFH)
Rating: PG
Summary: In a nomad camp near the border, he had turned nineteen. ~Fire from Heaven, Mary Renault
Date: December 5, 2005

The Long Way Home (HWY)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Maybe they've been heading toward this their whole lives.
Date: December 11, 2005

The Hush of Waiting (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: He wants to make this moment last, and he wants to remember it forever.
Date: December 12, 2005

And I Shall Be Healed (D)
Rating: PG
Summary: "I can't trust myself, after what I've done. How can I possibly expect you to trust me?"
Date: December 12, 2005

Small Victories (HP)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Sirius is content to take victory where he can find it.
Date: December 13, 2005

The Alarm Is on Love (NR)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Stuck on a job, Alec and Seregil find a way to pass the time.
Date: December 16, 2005

Practical (CoN)
Rating: PG
Summary: Susan learns to be practical.
Date: December 18, 2005

Beat the Devil (HP)
Rating: Adult
Summary: The frustration is likely to kill him before the Death Eaters do.
Date: December 23, 2005

He Comes in Colors (HP)
Rating: PG
Summary: Every day, Remus put on his grey office clothes and went to work in his grey office building, and ate his lunch in the grey office lunchroom.
Date: December 24, 2005

Teach Me to Hear the Mermaids Singing (Firefly)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Theory ain't practice.
Spoilers: for the movie
Date: December 24, 2005

Xue Bai, Xue Hong (Firefly)
Rating: Adult
Summary: Curled between them, River has never felt safer than she does at this moment.
Spoilers: none
Date: December 31, 2005

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