My Top 5 Crossover Fics
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buffyversetop5I don't often read these. But there are some amazing people who are doing crossovers. And here are just a few...
1. Dead Haul Cargo by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
twilightofmagic (NC-17)
Pairing: Spike/Mal
Fandom: Btvs/Firefly
It's set in the Firefly world - Spike has lived for all of these thousands of years, and now has purple hair (at least at the beginning). And of course he's a friend of Inarra's. And of course Mal doesn't like him. YET. But Mal learns. The characterization is fabulous (but that's because Twilightofmagic is amazing at that kind of thing), the descriptions are totally rich and I think fairly dead on, and there is this amazing and toe-tingling sex scene that absolutely blew me away the first time I've read it, and every time since.
2. Some Kind of Heaven byemeraldswan (NC-17)
Pairing: Buffy/Mal
Fandom: Btvs/Firefly
Buffy accidentally gets portaled into the Firefly world, and like recognizes like (ie: Buffy and Mal do well together). It's a really lovely character piece, and I adore how Emmy's Buffy sees Mal's defense mechanisms and doesn't try to break him down. And I adore the two of them together. It's an absolutely lovely read with a happy, but slightly bittersweet, ending.
3. The Key's Watcher/Dark Havens series byelementalv (Key's Watcher is Gen-mostly PG13, Dark Havens is NC-17)
Pairing: Giles/Jean-Claude
Fandom: Btvs/Anita Blake
The first set of these are about Giles and Dawn getting sucked into the Anita Blake verse - totally Gen, totally interesting. ElementalV has done a fabulous job of hopping into the Anita world without brining the baggage that LKH (the author of that verse) insists on shoving into it. And her Giles/Jean-Claude pairing, IMHO, is far more believable than the cannon JC/Anita. Hotter too. So much fun to see the mash of two vampire worlds!
4. Three Men & A Book (To Say Nothing of the Dog) bybethynyc (G)
Pairing: None (Gen fic)
Fandom: Btvs/Stargate/Indiana Jones
This is an adorable (and short) little fic that anybody who likes wry crossovers with the characters acting like themselves will like. Bethy is fabulous at characterization, and it reads a bit like an adventure story - which is so much fun!
5. Where No Man Has Gone Before by chanceofrainne (G)
Pairing: None, Gen
Fandom: Btvs/StarTrek: TNG
Giles gets tossed into a future where he's walking and talking with TNG crew. But vampires are still out there somewhere. This is a lovely, kind of sad, little fic that I think does great stuff with the Watcher and with the TNG cast.
1. Dead Haul Cargo by
twilightofmagic (NC-17)Pairing: Spike/Mal
Fandom: Btvs/Firefly
It's set in the Firefly world - Spike has lived for all of these thousands of years, and now has purple hair (at least at the beginning). And of course he's a friend of Inarra's. And of course Mal doesn't like him. YET. But Mal learns. The characterization is fabulous (but that's because Twilightofmagic is amazing at that kind of thing), the descriptions are totally rich and I think fairly dead on, and there is this amazing and toe-tingling sex scene that absolutely blew me away the first time I've read it, and every time since.
2. Some Kind of Heaven by
emeraldswan (NC-17)Pairing: Buffy/Mal
Fandom: Btvs/Firefly
Buffy accidentally gets portaled into the Firefly world, and like recognizes like (ie: Buffy and Mal do well together). It's a really lovely character piece, and I adore how Emmy's Buffy sees Mal's defense mechanisms and doesn't try to break him down. And I adore the two of them together. It's an absolutely lovely read with a happy, but slightly bittersweet, ending.
3. The Key's Watcher/Dark Havens series by
elementalv (Key's Watcher is Gen-mostly PG13, Dark Havens is NC-17)Pairing: Giles/Jean-Claude
Fandom: Btvs/Anita Blake
The first set of these are about Giles and Dawn getting sucked into the Anita Blake verse - totally Gen, totally interesting. ElementalV has done a fabulous job of hopping into the Anita world without brining the baggage that LKH (the author of that verse) insists on shoving into it. And her Giles/Jean-Claude pairing, IMHO, is far more believable than the cannon JC/Anita. Hotter too. So much fun to see the mash of two vampire worlds!
4. Three Men & A Book (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by
bethynyc (G)Pairing: None (Gen fic)
Fandom: Btvs/Stargate/Indiana Jones
This is an adorable (and short) little fic that anybody who likes wry crossovers with the characters acting like themselves will like. Bethy is fabulous at characterization, and it reads a bit like an adventure story - which is so much fun!
5. Where No Man Has Gone Before by chanceofrainne (G)
Pairing: None, Gen
Fandom: Btvs/StarTrek: TNG
Giles gets tossed into a future where he's walking and talking with TNG crew. But vampires are still out there somewhere. This is a lovely, kind of sad, little fic that I think does great stuff with the Watcher and with the TNG cast.
