The Labyrinth Fic Exchange

It's been a long, hard haul this year, but we have a bunch of fantastic new stories and everybody deserves a round of applause for all their hard work! Without further ado, your master list...

	Recipient	Title	Author
1.	cimmerianwishes/ startraveller	Be Careful What You Wish For	slobber_neck
2.	lady_kurina	The Girl Who Forgot Everything	jinx1764
3.	surelady	Let's Dance	kyndsie
4.	jinx1764	Someone True: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six	faeries_midwife
5.	tainted_peaches	When the Siege and the Assault Had Ceased	merellia
6.	moon_lover68	The Private Diary of Mr. John Tobias Williams, Esq.	owl_songs
7.	themsmine	Vanishing Act: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four	rachael1918
8.	faeries_midwife	Therapy Session	surelady
9.	lady_rhiyana	What the Saints Forgot	aliasheist *
10.	kyndsie	213 North Mystic Avenue or: A New Career In a New Town	nexttosomething*
11.	tallulah99	Awakening of a Mother	gabbie217
12.	wiccarowan	The Adventure of the Miserious Stench	knifeedgefic
13.	slobber_neck	The Key to the Cage	moon_lover68
14.	c_u_kid	Breaking the Seal	rikkitsune
15.	wizzcat01	The Rescue: Part One, Part Two, Part Three	tallulah99
16.	owl_songs	An Entire World, Within Its Bounds	jamethiel_bane *
17.	rachael1918	Falling	wizzcat01
18.	knifeedgefic	Lost in Translation (or, A Study in Aboveground Courting Rituals)	lady_rhiyana
19.	gabbie217	Bells	tainted_peaches
20.	styxandstonez	Kin and Kith	c_u_kid
21.	lady_kurina	Pristine Snow	jinx1764
22.	merellia	The Romantic Misadventures of Sarah Williams: Part One, Part Two	lixxle *
23.	dmacabre	Of Abstruse Affections and Curious Consequences	themsmine
24.	rikkitsune	En Fuego: Part One, Part Two, Part Three	dmacabre
25.	knifeedgefic	The Great Goblin	lady_rhiyana

* Pinch hitter

If you haven't yet thanked your Mystery Author, please go ahead and take care of that as soon as you can. Writers, feel free to post your fanfics to FFnet, AO3, personal journals or wherever you prefer to archive them. A huge thank you to everyone who participated, and special thanks go to our fabulous pinch hitters, aliasheist, jamethiel_bane, lixxle and nexttosomething!

And that brings our exchange to an end for another year. :) We've got twenty-five stories total, and it's been another exchange full of wonderful variety. Even though this is our fifth one, I'm not over the novelty of how inventive and amazing you all are, and how much everyone tries to add a little something new to the fandom. You deserve a round of applause, so congratulations and thank you very much, everyone!


A bit of administrative business-- we did have a lot of fics this year (some of them rather long!) and it might take a while for people to catch up on their reading. If you haven't thanked your Mystery Author yet, please try and do that within the next couple weeks. Sooner is better than later, though we all understand what it's like to have pesky Real Life distract you from fandom! Reading and commenting on gift fics other than your own isn't mandatory, but I hope you'll want to see what your fellow participants have made. One of the neat things about the exchange is that there's usually a little something for everyone-- you can check out our tags in the righthand column, or go straight to the tags page to sort through by length, characters and genre.

I'll be putting together the master list this weekend and identities will be revealed next week. We've got too many people (and a lot of newcomers) to play the guessing game, but if you want to speculate wildly about who wrote what, fire away in the comments. Thank you again, and I hope you guys had fun! :)

The actual identity of the writer will remain secret until all the submissions are in and posted.

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Title: The Great Goblin
Author: lady_rhiyana
Recipient: knifeedgefic
Prompt: Jareth is trapped (?) in a different form (owl form is fine, though it might be interesting if he was stuck as something silly or as a goblin). How and why, and how Sarah breaks the spell on him is up to the author.
Summary: A mysterious Orb throws Jareth and Sarah far, far back into a (rather surprising) past. Crossover with ‘The Hobbit', plot devices yanked from the classic TOS/DS9 Star Trek crossover episode, ‘Trials and Tribble-ations'. Crack!fic, un-betaed and hastily cobbled together, with my deepest apologies to the recipient for this very loose interpretation of the prompt.

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Title: En Fuego, Part Three
Author: dmacabre
Recipient: rikkitsune
Prompt: Jareth abdicates the Goblin Throne and chooses a normal mortal life with Sarah, Aboveground. Unfortunately, the bored and lonely Labyrinth has other plans for the power couple...
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Broke and desperate for work, Chicago's only professional wizard is hot on the trail of a stolen relic from the Oriental Institute when he unexpectedly lands not one, but two additional cases. Turns out that nothing livens up a slow work week like a little demon trouble, a pair of star-crossed royal lovers, and a bored faerie kingdom who wants her king and queen back at all costs.

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The actual identity of the writer will remain secret until all the submissions are in and posted.

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Title: En Fuego, Part Two
Author: dmacabre
Recipient: rikkitsune
Prompt: Jareth abdicates the Goblin Throne and chooses a normal mortal life with Sarah, Aboveground. Unfortunately, the bored and lonely Labyrinth has other plans for the power couple...
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Broke and desperate for work, Chicago's only professional wizard is hot on the trail of a stolen relic from the Oriental Institute when he unexpectedly lands not one, but two additional cases. Turns out that nothing livens up a slow work week like a little demon trouble, a pair of star-crossed royal lovers, and a bored faerie kingdom who wants her king and queen back at all costs.

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The actual identity of the writer will remain secret until all the submissions are in and posted.

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Title: En Fuego, Part One
Author: dmacabre
Recipient: rikkitsune
Prompt: Jareth abdicates the Goblin Throne and chooses a normal mortal life with Sarah, Aboveground. Unfortunately, the bored and lonely Labyrinth has other plans for the power couple...
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Broke and desperate for work, Chicago's only professional wizard is hot on the trail of a stolen relic from the Oriental Institute when he unexpectedly lands not one, but two additional cases. Turns out that nothing livens up a slow work week like a little demon trouble, a pair of star-crossed royal lovers, and a bored faerie kingdom who wants her king and queen back at all costs.
Author's Notes: I had major plot bunnies for all of your prompts, but in the end I decided to attempt a Labyrinth/Dresden Files crossover. It, uh... sort of got out of hand. The story's set pretty early on in the Dresdenverse, roughly between Storm Front and Fool Moon.

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Part Three

The actual identity of the writer will remain secret until all the submissions are in and posted.

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Title: Of Abstruse Affections and Curious Consequences
Author: themsmine
Recipient: dmacabre
Prompts: 1) After moving into her new house, Sarah discovers a mysterious door in the attic/basement/garden/your choice that she swears wasn't there before. 2) Three things you must never trust: talking worms, unsolicited offers of fruit, and games of chance with the Goblin King! What is Sarah playing for this time? 3) Jareth (without Sarah) in the time period of your choice, interacting with a famous historical figure. Bonus points if he's got a legitimate role to play in whatever's happening, but if he's just there for the lulz (and the snark) that would be equally nifty.
Rating: T/PG
Plot Summary: Sarah has a weakness—she just can't stop playing the game.
Author's Notes: Rather than ordering off the menu, I approached the prompts buffet-style and picked bits and pieces to make something somewhat resembling standard fare. And then I mashed it all together because I don't believe in all that food-not-touching stuff. Hopefully it's palatable after all that! (And no, all this food metaphor stuff does not necessarily foreshadow food pron in the following story, I'm sorry to say. Because that takes skillz I do not have.)

Thank you to ************ for beta-ing part of this for me (only part because of my lateness)! Mistakes, plot holes, and things that don't make any sense are all mine.

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The actual identity of the writer will remain secret until all the submissions are in and posted.

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Title: The Romantic Misadventures of Sarah Williams, Part Two
Author: lixxle
Recipient: merellia
Prompt: Anything with Sir Didymus. I love when he—and other minor characters, too— show up in Labyrinth fanfic. A story doesn't have to be all Didymus All the Time, but a glimpse of what he's up to is always welcome. 
Rating: T
Plot Summary/Author's Notes: Sarah Williams experienced her first romantic disappointment just two days shy of her sixteenth birthday. For the record, it was all Hoggle's fault (even if he did have the best of intentions).

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Mod note: This fic was written by another incredible pinch hitter who deserves a round of applause for swooping in to deliver a gigantic fic on such short notice! :)

The actual identity of the writer will remain secret until all the submissions are in and posted.

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Title: The Romantic Misadventures of Sarah Williams, Part One
Author: lixxle
Recipient: merellia
Prompt: Anything with Sir Didymus. I love when he—and other minor characters, too— show up in Labyrinth fanfic. A story doesn't have to be all Didymus All the Time, but a glimpse of what he's up to is always welcome. 
Rating: T
Plot Summary/Author's Notes: Sarah Williams experienced her first romantic disappointment just two days shy of her sixteenth birthday. For the record, it was all Hoggle's fault (even if he did have the best of intentions).
Although I was given some marvellous alternative prompts, I, too, have a soft spot for the minor characters so I threw as many as I could. I hope you enjoy it! All mistakes are mine (and there are many. Oh so many...)

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Part Two

Mod note: lady_kurina's Mystery Author wrote her two fics! The first one is The Girl Who Forgot Everything.


The actual identity of the writer will remain secret until all the submissions are in and posted.

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Title: Pristine Snow
Author: jinx1764
Recipient: lady_kurina
Prompt: Sarah and Toby find something unusual while playing in the snow.
Rating: K
Plot Summary/Author's Notes: Now an adult, Sarah has established a strong relationship with Toby. While playing with him in the snow, a mysterious surprise gives her the opportunity to prove her maturity.

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