Jack's House of Buggery

As regular readers of this journal should already be aware, the lovely LaT issued this spiffy cool Isn't It Iconic? challenge back in March (see here for the original challenge) and, having fallen into a bit of a monofannish rut after the "While We Tell of yuletide Treasure" rareslash challenge, I decided an excuse to stretch my writing muscles would be a good thing.

On top of signing up to write not one but two stories for the challenge, I also expressed willingness to "pinch-hit" in case another writer(s) was unable to finish the story assigned to them on time. Well, I was called upon, around this time yesterday, and I somehow managed to get this story done in that time. (And without huffing any crack, though I know no one will believe that.)

I've again gone over the 250-to-750-word parameters, but again kept it under a thousand words. The person whose icons I was assigned to write for, master_flea (doesn't he have the best LJ handle?) when writing his own challenge stories (like me, he'd signed up for two), chose to cross over the two fandoms in each of his recipients' icons, rather than picking one or the other. Since I didn't know either of the fandoms especially well -- I mostly know the X-men from the animated series, and I saw Queen of the Damned once a year or two ago, after reading the book once even longer ago -- I decided I'd try the crossover thing, too. (I swear that reasoning made sense to me at the time...)


Anyway. Here are the icons:



and here is the story: ( à La Fois Magique et à La Fois Perverse )


Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice) and X-Men comixverse crossover. PG-13 rating.

Thanks to lcsbanana, liviapenn, thete1 and weirdnessmagnet for their various audiencing, resources, characterisation tips, and general supportiveness, and a special nod to my new friend zing_och for helping me out with that German word.


master_flea's original request at sign-up

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