Sanctuary Stories

RowanD's Sanctuary Fic:

...and her worst enemy is all she's ever truly known of love...

(more recent stories link to their corresponding entries my LiveJournal)

Interview With the Protege -- In his last years, Will sits down with a visitor and shares his memories of life beside Helen Magnus. -- This an unfinished WIP (on indefinite hiatus), though in many ways each chapter is a story unto itself. The link takes you to the first 8 Chapters on my LiveJournal. Scroll to the bottom entry and read up.

Not On the Agenda -- "At least while his hands were busy, he wasn't talking." - Helen/Nikola, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, NC-17

In a Century -- "He asked. He asked because he dared to think he might be the only one who would." - Angst, Helen/Tesla friendship and UST

Home -- "She is living a century without anyone she has ever counted on or loved." - Angst, a bit of Helen/James, bits of Helen/OC

Time and Beat -- "He took the wheel, while Helen leant on the passenger door and let the chill winds ravage her hair and dry any trace of tears." - Helen/James, reference to Helen/John, a bit of Helen/Nikola friendship, angst, hurt/comfort

Year Two -- "Her Old Friend woke her with a grunt and a nudge, drew the furry backs of his fingers down the clipboard marks on her cheek, and ordered her to bed." - Helen/Big Guy friendship, hurt/comfort, missing scene for the end of "Metamorphosis", tiny hint of implied Helen/John

Ten Little Indians -- "They knew one another in all the best ways. In all the worst. In tangled flesh and blood and intimate knowledge that sank to the bone." - Helen/Nikola, with references to various past 3/4/5 combinations of The Five

In Light of Knowledge -- "He would prefer the memory slip away, fade into the years like colored draperies in decades of sunlight." - Helen/Tesla friendship and UST, a bit of Helen/John, set during "Animus", and back at Oxford

No Talk -- "She is proper and British and poised, and she knows how to bring a man to his knees with a slip of her tongue." - Helen/Will, angst, hurt/comfort, smut

Like Sunlight -- "She was moving forward on drugs and adrenaline, but the longer she pushed, the more painful the fall." - Angst, hurt/comfort, Helen/John

By the Light of Day -- "Kate can tell Magnus didn't see the question coming." - Angst, Kate/Helen friendship, implied Helen/FemaleOther in the past

The Ties That Bind -- "She moves behind Helen like a ghost, shadows of the Ceylon sun low and long across the lush upholstery of the hotel room." -Helen/Other, femslash, bondage, angst

Drive -- "This was the Helen he knew, the Helen the Sanctuary executives would never know, the abnormals, the crime lords, the presidents and senators and czars." -Helen/James friendship and UST, hurt/comfort, Implied Helen/Other, TIMELINE: 1965

Sans Défense -- "The job isn't the hard part. The challenge is maintaining her façade of control. Because it's been slipping for days." -Helen/James friendship (maybe UST), hurt/comfort, Implied Helen/John, TIMELINE: 1986

One Night -- "Helen and Will's first time was incredibly simple, for the exotic complexity of their lives." -Helen/Will, futurefic, hurt/comfort, angst

Echoes -- "She folds her arms across her chest as though she's cold, but the air is warm from the fire. She moves in close, scuffling the toes of her shoes just barely against his..." -Helen/Tesla friendship and UST, Helen/Will friendship and UST, Post-'Sleepers'

Night Music -- "Her dark lashes cast butterfly shadows on her skin, and he wanted to wrap himself around her and never let go." -Helen/John, 'Veritas' missing scenes

Equilibrium -- "But she's been living through hell and here she is still on her feet. It's all any of them could expect." -Helen/Will friendship, Implied Helen/John, Post-"Pavor Nocturnus"

Color -- "The nightmares break the rules. They reside in the place she can't control with the brisk manner and determination
with which she rules the Sanctuary of her own creation." Text File

Don't Say a Word -- "He's never seen her quite this way before." Text File

You might also wish to visit The Private Journals of Dr. Helen Magnus as transcribed by Rowan Darkstar