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So while I wasn't looking, The Good Wife seems to have ascended from Yuletide status. I may have to do Not Prime Time after all.

Not coincidentally, I have one more nomination slot for TGW and four for SGU. Any ideas? (The ones that have been approved are shown here. I have in addition just added Leora Kuhn and Laura Hellinger, who may not be approved yet.)

I think I won not_primetime! Of my three prompts, all of three of which I was kind of desperately yearning for, I got the one (DS9 - Kira and Garak, awesomeness, thank you so much!) that was secretly the one I wanted most (I know, not supposed to have favorites, and I did want all three very much, I just wanted that one more), I wrote one (a lot of my own prompt/issues just dovetailed so nicely with the prompt I received that it would have been difficult not to), and Bujold wrote me the third one by writing Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (spoilers) (well, except for Ekaterin, but I'm so happy right now I'm not going to hold it against her too much ;) ).

Anyway, the one I wrote! This fic was harder to write than any fic I have ever written (okay, fine, this is less than a year I've been doing this, but still), even though there were so many things going for it -- I loved the prompt (soooo happy to get a prompt that acknowledged the inequality in Belle/Rumpel, and I love the Emma-Gold interactions in canon, and honesty-in-interactions is one of my Things) and had a good time thinking about it. For some reason the fic just fought me every step of the way and went through an insane number of drafts. I'm not displeased with how it turned out, although I still feel like there's something in it that has remained resistant to my trying to hammer it into shape. I think a large part of it is the tension between a) I love shipping Gold because Carlyle has chemistry with everything, including inanimate objects, and b) there really needed to be (at least) one more level of honesty in there that this fic doesn't... quite... address. Though I, uh, may be working on that. YES. IT IS INDEED AN ADDICTION. I ADMIT IT.

Title: As on a Darkling Plain
Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV)
Rating: PG
Characters: Emma Swan, Mr. Gold
Relationship: Emma Swan/Mr. Gold
Summary: Honesty isn't the best color on Mr. Gold; Emma's talent is finding people. Emma and Gold make a deal.

Notes: AU from "Desperate Souls"; spoilers for the first season of OUAT. Thanks to my betas Beatrice_Otter and ensconcedinya, who saved this fic from utter disaster.

jedibuttercup, thank you for a great prompt! I enjoyed writing this.

AO3 link here.

( Emma stalked into Mr. Gold's pawnshop, slamming the door behind her. )

Dear not-primetime writer,

Thank you for writing me a fic! I am so excited to get a fic in any of these fandoms!

( Cut for random thoughts about Once Upon a Time, Deep Space Nine, Vorkosigan Saga, and general likes/dislikes: )

[Edited 7-26-12]