[Fic] "Weregild" directory post -- Inception/Anita Blake

Summary: Ariadne survived Nikolaos by keeping her head down and playing as harmless as a young master vampire can; Jean-Claude's rule is better, but she still dreams of freedom. When bounty hunters Arthur Levine and Dominick Cobb come to St. Louis seeking revenge for the death of Dom's wife, they set off a storm of events that may grant Ariadne's wish in a most unexpected way. Arthur/Ariadne/Eames, past Dom/Mal, Robert/OFC, background Anita/Jean-Claude and Anita/Richard tension.

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Which, you know, tells you next to nothing about the actual story. So. Details! :)

Inception is an awesome movie about a group of criminals who go into people's dreams to steal ideas -- corporate espionage via applied phlebotinum, in other words. The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series is about a woman who raises zombies and moonlights as a sort of private investigator into supernatural crimes; if you can get through the reams of bad softcore porn with dubious consent issues, there's some really neat world-building going on in the background.

"Weregild" is what happens when I transplant the characters from the first fandom into the world of the second fandom, and alter them so they appear to have always existed there. In other words, it is complete and utter crack... but crack I take very seriously and am writing as close to realistically as I can. :)

The story is set during the gap between Obsidian Butterfly and Narcissus in Chains. All world-building and character developments from the first nine Anita Blake books applies, but anything from Narcissus in Chains onward will be ignored unless I specifically bring it in. I am pretending, for my convenience, that Guilty Pleasures is set in 2009, which places "Weregild" in 2011. Please ignore any technology discrepancies this causes and pretend Anita always had a cell phone in the early books. Okay? Good.

The "chapter" links go to the final version on AO3. The "part" links go to the beta draft sections on my journal, because I am writing this story in pieces and sticking it together later on.


Chapter One: (11,200 words)
--part 1 on LJ/part 1 on DW (1,050)
--part 2 on LJ/part 2 on DW (1,125)
--part 3 on LJ/part 3 on DW (1,400)
--part 4 on LJ/part 4 on DW (1,600)
--part 5 on LJ/part 5 on DW (1,825)
--part 6 on LJ/part 6 on DW (1,425)
--part 7 on LJ/part 7 on DW (1,625)
--part 8 on LJ/part 8 on DW (925)

Chapter Two: (10,400 words)
--part 9 on LJ/part 9 on DW (1,775)
--part 10 on LJ/part 10 on DW (2,000)
--part 11 on LJ/part 11 on DW (1,400)
--part 12 on LJ/part 12 on DW (1,100)
--part 13 on LJ/part 13 on DW (1,800)
--part 14 on LJ/part 14 on DW (2,200)

Chapter Three: (9,850 words)
--part 15 on LJ/part 15 on DW (1,725)
--part 16 on LJ/part 16 on DW (1,650)
--part 17 on LJ/part 17 on DW (1,475)
--part 18 on LJ/part 18 on DW (1,600)
--part 19 on LJ/part 19 on DW (1,600)
--part 20 on LJ/part 20 on DW (1,450)

TBC...