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Title: Sun, Sand, Surf
Author: Grundy
Rating: FR13
Summary: Anariel takes up a new project.
Word Count: 1025
Note: Running a day behind, as a head cold meant I crashed fairly early after Christmas dinner. 

( Sun, Sand, Surf )

As seen at starspray 

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

A - As Below, So Above (BtVS/Neverwhere crossover)
B - Blood Like Wine (Knives Out, Linda & Ransom)
C - Chewing The Fat (Silmarillion, Elrond, Elros, dwarves)
D - The Deep Breath Before the Plunge (Silmarillion, Maeglin)
E - Et Eärello (Silmarillion, Original Numenorean character)
F - First Impressions (Silmarillion, Doriath ensemble)
G - Good Night And Good Luck (Silmarillion, Elros & Maglor)
H - Having Walked In Darkness (Silmarillion, Findis & Lalwen) 
I - Intermezzo (Silmarillion, Findis & Finrod)
J - Just (Silmarillion)
K - Keeping Faith (BtVS/Star Trek 2009 crossover)
L - Lovers of the Sea (Silmarillion, Eärendil & Elwing shading into Eärendil/Elwing
M - Mereth Aderthad (Silmarillion, ensemble)
N - Not His Strength (Silmarillion, Celegorm & Amrod & Amras)
O - Oathkeepers (Silmarillion, Elwing)
P - A Parting of the Ways (Silmarillion, Elros & Elrond)
Q - Queens' Gambit (Silmarillion, Finwë/Indis/Míriel)
R - Return (Silmarillion/BtVS crossover)
S - Scattered Pearls (Silmarillion, Olwë)
T - This Is The Way The World Ends (Silmarillion, Elrond & Elros)
U - Uncertain Seas (Silmarilion, Galadriel)
V - Valour Without Renown (Silmarillion/LotR, Celeborn, Galadriel, and Thranduil)
W - What A Tangled Net We Weave... (Silmarillion, Aredhel, Galadriel, Amras, Amrod)
X - Xander, Brother of Death (BtVS/Percy Jackson crossover)
Y - You Can't Go Home Again (BtVS/CSI crossover)
Z - 

25/26. (And X and Y only had one title each.) Clearly I need to make an effort with the end of the alphabet...

Title: Back To The Beginning
Author: Grundy
Rating: FR13
Crossover: LotR/Silmarillion
Summary: Guess who's back?
Word Count:  1530
Note: Did I skip a fair bit timeline-wise to get here? Yes. Anariel had plenty of fun and adventure in Formenos before I hurried things back to Tirion. But I was hoping to get here this Fic A Day. Also, it won the poll. (Not that I explained to anyone that was what the poll was about.) And I wanted to do that before the last day...

( Back To The Beginning )

Title: It's All Fun And Games Until...
Author: Grundy
Rating: FR13
Crossover: LotR/Silmarillion
Summary: Festival fun.
Word Count:  457
Note: Speed write before bed...


( It's All Fun And Games Until.. )

Title: Watch Them Go
Author: Grundy
Rating: FR13
Crossover: LotR/Silmarillion
Disclaimer: All belongs to Whedon & Tolkien. No money is being made here, it's all in good fun.
Summary: For once, it's not Anariel at the center of the family drama.
Word Count:  1025 says Word (before I edited while posting)


( Watch Them Go )

Title: Learning Curve
Author: Grundy
Rating: FR13
Crossover: Miss Marple
Summary: Edna Fairweather, future Watcher, doesn't see what good this will do.
Word Count:  460 says Word
Note: Maybe I'm going about this in the wrong way. If I say I expect tomorrow to be crazy busy, maybe I'll end up with writing time?


“Must I?” Edna Fairweather sighed.

She didn’t see what she was expected to learn from this. She’d been training for eight years now. St. Mary Mead was a quiet little village, nothing supernatural about it. Her mentor had been extremely clear on that point. Nor did she see why she needed to pose as a servant.

“Yes, if you wish to successfully complete your education.”

Dunworthy’s answer was brusque and entirely without sympathy.

“You are intent on being a Watcher. You show promise. But you still have much to learn, about normal humans as much as about vampires or demons. Think of this as a field assignment.”

“Playing housemaid to a spinster who isn’t quite advanced enough in years to be called a little old lady just yet? What do you expect me to learn from her?”

“The standards your class traditionally hold mine to, for a start.”

Dunworthy’s tone was sharp enough that Edna bit back her retort.

“But more than that, if you disabuse yourself of the notion that you already know everything, you may learn a great deal about people, observation, and deduction from your employer. She’s one of the sharpest women in England. If her name isn’t widely known, it’s certainly not because it isn’t worth knowing.”

“Why isn’t it known, then? And what exactly does she do?”

“It isn’t known because she chooses not to be known outside her own circle. Fortunately for you, that circle includes a Watcher or two in addition the current head of Scotland Yard.”

Edna blinked. The Council had connections in high places, of course, but she did not normally think of the Metropolitan Police and the Watchers in the same breath. Or even the same paragraph, really.

“As for what she does, she solves things. Mysteries, if you prefer. Generally based solely on her experience of village life and things she’s observed. A useful mentor for someone who’d quite like to run the Council someday. You’re lucky she’s willing to take you on, and luckier still she needed a new girl and thought that would be an excellent cover for your presence.”

Edna nodded dutifully, though privately she thought ‘niece’ would have done better. Ladies of this Jane Marple’s sort, who had not married because of the Great War, inevitably had any number of nieces, young cousins, daughters of cousins, and goddaughters. One of them visiting would hardly be out of the ordinary. And they would be in the room for all sorts of things a servant would be dismissed for.

“Mind both your manners and your attitude,” Dunworthy advised as she turned to go. “Miss Marple doesn’t suffer fools gladly – and girls who have an overly high opinion of themselves are dangerously close to fools in her book.”

Title: The Merry Widow
Author: Grundy
Rating: FR13
Crossover: Pride & Prejudice
Summary: Lydia isn't terribly upset at being widowed.
Word Count:  445 says Word
Note: In the same 'verse as Not What She Intended. Unfortunately, I have to call it an early night tonight. Otherwise there would have been more Lydia the Vampire Slayer...
 

( The Merry Widow )

Title: Settling In
Author: Grundy
Rating: FR13
Crossover: LotR/Silmarillion
Summary: Anariel is starting to feel at home.
Word Count:  1150


( Settling In )