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Dira Sudis ([personal profile] dira) wrote2012-04-01 05:00 pm

Generation Kill/Vorkosigan Saga fic: Tactical Shit

So a while back the challenge at [community profile] fan_flashworks was Anywhere But Here, and I let that rattle around in my head, and it immediately came back with my strongest fic-association with that phrase: AJ Hall's Time Shall Not Mend, a Vorkosigan/Harry Potter crossover which begins with Ekaterin thinking that phrase--Anywhere but here--before magic obediently whisks her away into the war against Voldemort.

So naturally I found myself plotting out the story about Brad Colbert wishing so passionately for one real recon mission that he finds himself whisked out of Iraq and into the Dendarii Mountains, coming face to face with twenty-something General Piotr Vorkosigan and his resistance.

Then I got distracted by something shiny, and didn't write it until yesterday, during the [community profile] fan_flashworks Amnesty challenge. So here it is:

Generation Kill/Vorkosigan Saga. Gen.
Brad Colbert, Piotr Vorkosigan.
PG-13. 2500 words.

Tactical Shit
spatz: caption "Ah the motivations of men: money, power, sex... and elephants." (quote from Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold) (MVK elephants)

[personal profile] spatz 2012-04-02 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
*dies* Oh Brad. Strategic use of dysentery, I love that boy.

[This actually reminded me strongly of a different LOP-verse story that vanished for awhile but now appears to be on AO3 and relevant to your interests: Count Piotr and the Vengeful Widow]