Unfit for Society Recs

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Sovereign District by raven
Lovely Diaz/Santiago for Galentine's. <3

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Fringe

Family Business by wendelah1
Really nice look at what it must have been like for amber!Nina when she first took Olivia and Rachel in.

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XMFC

write this number down (you can call it anytime) by pocky_slash
When Erik upsets his children, they have a habit of running away from home--and straight to Charles' school for cookies and consolation. Charles doesn't mind the visitors, but as they appear more and more frequently, he realizes that sooner or later, he and Erik are going to have to talk about what happened on the beach and what it means for their future and the future of Erik's children. this is really lovely.

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Crossovers

Angel/The Middleman

A Succubus Walks Into a Bar by st_aurafina
Roxy Wasserman visits Caritas. Perfect little crossover.

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Sherlock/Fringe

The Case of the Empty Eyes by jaune_chat
When something about a case strikes Sherlock as familiar, he and John are off to Boston to consult with Dr. Walter Bishop. (Spoilers for Fringe through s4; none for s2 of Sherlock.) I enjoyed this a lot, mostly for the Sherlock-Walter interaction.

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Firefly/Captain America

Time Watches From the Shadow by shadesofbrixton
Steve has the common sense - or good grace - to look a little bashful now, like that'll do a gorram thing for Mal's opinion of him. "I'm looking for someone - I was told you were the man to come to. That this ship did things other people wouldn't."

"She maybe does," Mal monotones, tipping his head at Inara, who rolls her eyes.

Steve sighs, obviously fed up with his treatment of the "lady." Well, good. He deserves as much frustration as Mal's feeling. "A - a friend of mine is trapped in a facility." He's searching Mal's face, those baby blues suddenly real sharp. "I heard your crew had experience - "

Mal's gun is out and tipped up under Steve's chin before he can finish the sentence. "Heard from who."

To the stranger's credit, he doesn't stammer under the press of steel. "Shepherd Book," he says calmly. Eeee! Steve and Bucky 500 years in the future! Bucky trapped by the same people who had River and Steve asks Mal's help to get him back! Mal being frustrated that everything is out of his control. I love this so much!

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The Big Bang Theory

The Paladin Protocol by SpaceAnJL
Long, satisfying, if a little overly repetitive (and full of unnecessary emotional exposition) story that takes what Leonard and the others did to Sheldon's research seriously, as a cruel "joke" that had serious consequences, and melds that with a lovely, believable burgeoning Penny/Sheldon romance.

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Parasol Protectorate

Corps-a-Corps by violet_quill
Biffy and Lyall fence. Nicely subtexty.

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Fringe

Olivia... In the Bathroom... With a Razor by ziparumpazoo
Peter's always fancied himself as a smooth-talking ladies man with a 'Sweetheart' thrown in here or there to either charm or provoke, depending on his target, but he's starting to suspect Olivia prefers more of a James Garner over his Humphrey Bogart act. I enjoyed this a lot.

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MASH

these are the days of miracle and wonder by raven

There are women everywhere on the Mall, camped out and lined up and standing holding their signs: Women Need Constitutional Equality Now; Say Yes to the ERA. Hawkeye's stuffing ballot boxes for it up in Maine now. When they first started organising he sent her a cheque with an obscene message on the back; Margaret cashed it for the VA and sent him a note, put that damn mouth where your money is, Pierce. She misses him. *sniffle* Hawkeye et al, before, during, after. This is like checking in with old friends to see what they've been up to while you've been apart. Lovely.

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Crossovers

Captain America/DCU

Star-Spangled Eyes by feverbeats
He's not allowed to feel bad about Steve. This isn't Bucky's story. "This isn't my story," he says angrily to the dark water.

"Never is, is it?" a voice by Bucky's ear asks.

When he whips around, there's no one there.

Fuck Gotham. Bucky and Jason hook up and try to move on. Sharp and lovely.

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Fringe/X-Files

as companionable as solitude by eruthros
This story is amazing. It is the Fringe/X-Files Dunham/Scully fic of my dreams. Nails all the character voices and features mentions of Scully mentoring Olivia and Astrid at Quantico and old X-Files cases popping up for the Fringe team and just ALL the awesome Dana Scully and Olivia Dunham bring to the multiverse. ♥

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Supernatural/X-Files

Veritas, Veritas by moorishflower
Dean feels special, for knowing the truth: that the F.B.I. guy is just this dude who's getting older and who's trying to do the right thing. He can't kill a vampire with only the power of his mind, but Dean knows that he's got floppy hair and a big nose and the sort of smile that lights up a room. Dean and Mulder cross paths a few times over the years. Nicely done.

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Crossovers

Fringe/The X-Files

Reason by wendelah1
Mulder and Scully on the Other Side. Mulder gets ambered. Scully will do what it takes to get him back. I enjoyed the way they fit into the altverse.

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Leverage/Sherlock

The Crossover Job by scrunchy
Really lovely Sherlock/Leverage crossover. Sophie and Lestrade have known each other from way back. "Why aren't you Chief Inspector Lestrade yet?" Sophie ran her fingers over the letters on his nameplate, "Someone I need to take care of?"

"Please don't Sophie any of my colleagues."

"'Sophie' them? I'm a verb!"

"Oh, you're a verb, all right."

"Do you know what I missed the most? Well - one of the things. It's how when you say things in that low voice, they don't even have to make sense - 'oh, you're a verb all right' - they're just incredibly sexy. It's a talent I don't think you know you've got."

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Leverage/White Collar

Twice is a coincidence by Petra
Adorable crossover where Jones ends up with a pet felon of his own, one Alec Hardison. Things do not go as planned, at least for the FBI. Adorable and hilarious.

Jones does not punch him; that would be brutality. But he's tempted. He grits his teeth for a second and thinks about all the cases he's chased Hardison on--tax fraud, messing with international bank accounts, hacking systems Jones had never heard of--and how fast they all turned to nothing. "Don't let him touch anything with buttons or a battery; he's been convicted on two counts of computer-related fraud and those are just the ones we could finally pin on him. He's here as a--" Jones is really coming to hate the word "--consultant."

Burke raises his eyebrows. "I didn't realize I was setting a trend."

"I kind of wish you hadn't," Jones says.

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Fringe

Spare by chaila
Really lovely missing scene where Astrid comforts Olivia after her return.

What selfishness, to be alone by blackeyedgirl
A brief story about one of the many things Olivia has to replace on her return home. Heartbreaking and perfect. She can't lie in the bed. The sheets are clean now but she can't lie down there and think of anything else but them. It's stupid, she knows that. She could ask Peter where she can stand safely in this place, what she can touch; she won't.

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Fringe

The Art of Fugue by BlackMamba
Astrid dreams in numbers. She knows that life is all about patterns and symbols, codes that say things, mean things, and so in her dreams she counts because it’s the only way understand it. Really great look at Astrid. *heart*

everything in its right place by vnilla
Really nice look at alt!Astrid.

The Shape of a Sooner State by CherryIce
Nature versus nurture. You look at the hurt that she's caused and the damage she's done and the record of her easy smiles, and you wonder. Nature or nurture, because it could have been either. They are still guinea pigs caught in experiments of purpose and hubris, Cortexiphan bound up in your neurons and her world an experimental maze, identical twin studies with too many variables and Walter, always Walter, the architect and creator of you both, who cared too little to even remember your name. Beautiful look at Olivia, from both sides.

13 Ways of Looking at a Betrayal by RivkaT
Amazingly sharp and heartbreaking look at Olivia, dealing with Peter's betrayal and all the complex emotions her return home evokes. Highly recommended.

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Dark Angel

Foolproof Plan by rivkat
An interesting twist on the Alec helps Max out with heat trope - very matter-of-fact about things, with some nice stoical pining from Alec under the surface.

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Fringe
in this universe by menzjj815
Peter and Olivia, through various universes. Lovely.

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Inception

untitled Arthur/Eames cuddling fic by jibrailis
Arthur prizes himself on three things in life:

1) His skill with firearms
2) His ability to demolish any building with only a handful of materials
3) His epic cuddling skills

ARTHUR IS AN ANGRY CUDDLE NINJA! ♥

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Fringe

Like the Best Ever by randombattlecry
Olivia smiles down at him, and anyone else would be frantic. But she’s humming with energy, pent-up and waiting, practically pulsing with the effort to sit still. She’s got a gun, and she knows to outrun everyone, ever. Really lovely story where Peter asks questions and Olivia...doesn't really answer them, except the one that matters. Gets the voices just right.

Maculae by ciderapples
Now instead of John and sex and happiness there were mental hospitals and petrified buses and people pissing themselves 'just a squirt' in her car.

Olivia looked at the little lit-up name on her phone and groused, "This is not my job," except that now it kind of was. At least, that was the impression she'd been getting from the people in nicer suits than she wore.

She hit send and said, "Dunham," at the same time Peter did.

"We can't both be Dunham," he said. "You take today and I'll take tomorrow." Olivia and Peter, in the wake of the s2 finale, trying to get their connection back. Intense and heartbreaking.

One Hundred Reasons by ShaneVansen
Some of Olivia's hundred reasons why Peter should come home. Lovely, and really feels like Olivia to me. Odd as it seems to her now, Olivia had forgotten the reason why she wanted Peter to join Fringe Division in the first place: he keeps Walter grounded. As far as he's come in recent months, with his son gone, Walter either isn't able or isn't willing to keep working. Olivia's carefully assembled team is falling to pieces around her, and she feels helpless to do anything to stop it. A little over a year ago, she wouldn't have imagined that so much of her life could depend on the presence of just one person.

This is Your 3 a.m. Wakeup Call by ShaneVansen
Peter tilts his head. "You don't sleep, do you?"

Although her expression doesn't change, he's pretty sure that she's trying not to smile. "Not often. Can you go get Walter?" Six times Olivia wakes Peter. I enjoyed the easy give and take between them in this set of vignettes.

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Fringe

Five Things Peter Remembered (In)correctly by smilebackwards
Sharp, achy look at young Peter's sense of dislocation and the discrepancies that crop up for him after he's recovered from his illness. Really well done.

Frequency by alchemyalice
Olivia reaches out from the other side, and Peter hears her. Nicely done.

Make a Deal with God by monroeslittle
Alt!Livia doesn't like Gene, Walter only wants Peter to smile, that is not Ella's Aunt Liv, Elizabeth Bishop isn't going to pretend anymore, and somebody . . . somebody has to set the universes running right again and bring Olivia Dunham home. Smart, enjoyable take on how season 3 might open. (Unbetaed and it shows in spots.)

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