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1. "The Lucky Ones." Original. The Beauty and the Beast story where Beauty doesn't fall in love with the beast at all.

“Belle,” the Beast says eventually, and Belle says, “Yes?”

“Will you marry me?”

She jerks away so quickly he might as well have slapped her. The music stills abruptly. “No,” she says. “No, I can’t. I won’t,” she corrects.”

2. "Dangerous Heroes." Original. She's a genetically-engineered killing machine on the run from the government. He's a guardian angel trained to kill anything with a pulse. This can't end well.

“I’m always careful,” Vittoria said.

“Only if ‘always’ is another word for ‘never’.”

Vittoria snorted. “I don’t need to be careful,” she said. “I know you have my back.”

There was something gratified in Barney’s face as he let go of her. “Deal with your sister,” he said. “I’ll find the angel.”

3. "Strange Angels." Original. X-series weren't designed to live alone.

“You took him from his unit,” Lucas said flatly. “And you lied to him about it. That’s a great way to start out a trusting relationship, soldier.”

4. "The Years of Ghosts and Shadows." Original. This time, high school really is hell. With a marching band.

He would have been buried with coins on his eyes, Alan is sure of that. His parents would have performed the proper ceremonies, slid gold and silver over his eyes and a sword into his hands for the passage of the dead, and burned him in the night, a fantastic pyre stretching up to the heavens. Cremations for the Auberon, yes, but not in the urn and oven of the mortuary. The White bury their dead, but the Auberon hold to the old ways. The thought makes Alan silent and a little sad.

5. The Spaceforce story. Original. That story where the U.S. gets tired of meddling in international affairs and goes to meddle in intergalactic affairs instead.

"There aren't any aliens in this part of the galaxy!" Berrier protested as the doors banged open.

Young didn't glance up from his console. "Ma'am, we've lost visual, guns, and our shield is disintegrating fast. I'm working on establishing contact."

"Yes!" Berrier said gratefully. "Talk to them! This is all a horrible mistake; it's probably the United States being gunhappy again."

6. Untitled. Star Wars. The story where Obi-Wan is reported dead and Anakin goes on a rampage.

“You will know fear,” Kayan said, her voice gathering Dooku’s cultured, aristocratic tones.

Obi-Wan Kenobi’s severed head rolled across the floor, coming to rest at the foot of Master Yoda’s chair. His hands, darkened and burned at the wrist, lay where they’d fallen, one still clutching his deactivated lightsaber.

Anakin Skywalker screamed.

7. Untitled. Star Wars. Skimming a black hole is a bad idea. You never know what you might find on the other side.

Han only blacked out for a minute, breathing a sigh of relief when he opened his eyes and found the Falcon had successfully made the jump to hyperspace – despite what he’d told Luke and Leia, he’d cut it a little too close for comfort. The relief dissipated quickly when he realized that not only was Luke still unconscious, but all the lights in the Falcon’s cockpit were blinking frantically.

“Shit,” he muttered, hands on the console again. Where the hell were they? How far had they gone, their trajectory warped by the black hole’s influence?

8. "The Last Open Door" (working title). Space: Above and Beyond. Nathan West/Cooper Hawkes. Post-"...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best." You can't go home again, but maybe you can make your own.

Ross glares. Then he says, "Lieutenants, as Colonel McQueen saw fit to remind me once a week on the clock, you've seen nothing but action, and plenty of it. Don't be so quick to get yourselves killed."

"Why not?" Nathan says sharply. "You are."

"West, I'll pretend I didn't hear that," Ross snaps. "Go home. Visit your families. See that girl of yours."

Nathan flinches again. Cooper says stubbornly, "The 58th was my family."

9. Untitled. Space: Above and Beyond. Shane Vansen/Vanessa Damphousse. Mid-season.

"Have you seen the way they look at us?" Damphousse shivers. "It's like we're already dead."

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Ooh. I love new takes on fairy tales, and I can't wait to see your reworking of Beauty and the Beast. :)