Hee. Probably no one's reading this but I'm going to post it anyway because it's awesome. I won a writing award! Yay, me. Okay, it's for fanfic but it's not like I've published anything original and it's a first for me. Even if it wasn't first, though, it would still be awesome.

I mentioned earlier that a story of mine had been nominated in the Crossing Over Awards for Twisting the Hellmouth. It was nominated in two categories which is pretty excellent by itself because that puts it in a Top Ten (or so) situation. It lasted in both categories through to Round 2, which puts it in the Top Five in both categories, which I was also pretty chuffed at. Thank you so much to everyone who voted (and especially to everyone who voted for me).

Well, the voting is over and here are the results:

Crossing Over Awards

And here's where I stand in them:

Winner in Best Portrayal of Xander
Second place in Best Stargate Crossover (178 votes to 195).

Yay for me!

 

Eternal Father, Strong to Save (Chapter 9)
Author: thecrystalkey
Summary: Jack Bauer has been framed for the murder of a navy petty officer. Local NCIS calls in the best of the best, Jethro Gibbs.
Spoilers: Season 5 of 24, Season 2 of NCIS

Disclaimer: See Chapter List.

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Eternal Father, Strong to Save (Chapter 8)
Author: thecrystalkey
Summary: Jack Bauer has been framed for the murder of a navy petty officer. Local NCIS calls in the best of the best, Jethro Gibbs.
Spoilers: Season 5 of 24, Season 2 of NCIS

Disclaimer: See Chapter List.

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Eternal Father, Strong to Save (Chapter 7)
Author: thecrystalkey
Summary: Jack Bauer has been framed for the murder of a navy petty officer. Local NCIS calls in the best of the best, Jethro Gibbs.
Spoilers: Season 5 of 24, Season 2 of NCIS

Disclaimer: See Chapter List.


 

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Eternal Father, Strong to Save (Chapter 6)
Author: thecrystalkey
Summary: Jack Bauer has been framed for the murder of a navy petty officer. Local NCIS calls in the best of the best, Jethro Gibbs.
Spoilers: Season 5 of 24, Season 2 of NCIS

Disclaimer: See Chapter List.


 

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Eternal Father, Strong to Save (Chapter 5)
Author: thecrystalkey
Summary: Jack Bauer has been framed for the murder of a navy petty officer. Local NCIS calls in the best of the best, Jethro Gibbs.
Spoilers: Season 5 of 24, Season 2 of NCIS

Disclaimer:  See Chapter List.


 

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Eternal Father, Strong to Save (Chapter 4)
Author: thecrystalkey
Summary: Jack Bauer has been framed for the murder of a navy petty officer. Local NCIS calls in the best of the best, Jethro Gibbs.
Spoilers: Season 5 of 24, Season 2 of NCIS

Disclaimer: See Chapter List.

Author’s Note: Special thanks to Abs and BD for helping me out of the corner I’d written myself into, you both know what I mean.


 

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Eternal Father, Strong to Save (Chapter 3)
Author: thecrystalkey
Summary: Jack Bauer has been framed for the murder of a navy petty officer. Local NCIS calls in the best of the best, Jethro Gibbs.
Spoilers: Season 5 of 24, Season 2 of NCIS

Disclaimer: See Chapter List.

Author’s Note: Special thanks to BD for the title suggestion. It’s the Navy hymn and I hope no one takes offence at my using it for a title.


 

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Eternal Father, Strong to Save
Author: thecrystalkey (aka. evil_hobittess)
Summary: Jack Bauer has been framed for the torture and murder of a navy petty officer and her daughter. Local NCIS, out of leads, calls in the best of the best, Jethro Gibbs.
Spoilers: Season 5 of 24, Season 2 of NCIS

Author’s note: It's worth noting that since the end of S5 of 24 (Hour 16) this is AU in the 24-verse. In my version, Jack and Chloe went rogue basically immediately after Homeland took over and took down Henderson et al, including Logan, more or less by themselves. Also, if you haven’t seen NCIS, don’t worry, it’s not strictly necessary to understand this fic. That said, it’s a quality show and worth catching some episodes. Lighter than 24 but if you like Jack Bauer, you’ll like Gibbs.

Disclaimer: Nothing in ‘24’ is mine, especially not the characters that appear, or are mentioned, here. It all belongs to Twentieth Century Fox, Real Time Productions and its creators Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran. Nothing in ‘NCIS’ is mine either, especially not the characters that appear, or are mentioned, here. It all belongs to Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television. Mike, Jacquie, and Francine Seldler are mine.

Chapter List:

1. Interrogation
2. Negotiation, Part 1
3. Contact
4. Briefing
5. Negotiation, Part 2
6. Compromise
7....

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“I’m going over this once, so listen carefully. These are the best ways to kill a vampire: fire, beheading, stake to the heart,” Xander ticked the points off on his fingers. They were in a van borrowed from the base with O’Neill driving. The teen sat in the first bench row in the back running an impromptu seminar on how not to get killed while hunting vampires. “Sunlight works, too, but that’s gonna do us much good. Holy water burns like acid but unless you feel like stopping at a church, that’s not gonna matter, either. Crosses’ll keep ‘em at bay for awhile; if the cross is big enough and the vamp isn’t too old. Otherwise, stake to the heart’s the best way to go. But if you’re doing that? Don’t miss. That would be bad.” He paused. “You still sure you wanna do this? ‘Cause we could just…go for ice cream or something.”

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Jack O’Neill accepted the glass of scotch his CO handed to him without a word. They’d retreated to the general’s office as soon as the team and Xander had left. The two sat in silence for a little bit, Jack having decided that letting Hammond have the first word would be the better part of valor in this case. That the general had resorted to the bottle he kept hidden in his office was a bad sign. That he’d given Jack a glass was a good one.

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They moved through the woods as quickly as they could, sacrificing stealth for speed in a gamble to get to the ‘gate before the Jaffa boiling out of the temple could close their search net and block them from getting home at all. Hoping like Hell that Daniel and Teal’c were already there waiting for them, possibly even already in control of the Stargate itself. It had been lightly guarded and the two men, with stealth on their side, were more than a match for a few Jaffa.

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Xander looked again at the door before letting his gaze sweep the main room. He tried not to let his eyes rest on the body- bodies- on the bed even though that was where they wanted to linger.

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A/N: I've rated this 18. It kinda disturbs me, and I wrote it.
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They took him to a different room this time and Xander wasn’t sure if that was a good sign or a bad one until they arrived and he got a look at the place. That was when he decided it was the worst possible thing after torture.

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The kid was unconscious when the guards brought him back to the cell. Or, at least, he seemed unconscious until the guards had dumped him on the floor and retreated, hauling Teal'c away with them.

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Rated FR-18. You have been warned.
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Xander woke up but the world stayed dark. He waved an experimental hand in front of his face. Nothing. Next he carefully felt his own face and assured himself that both his eyes were still there and that his eyelids were actually working. The last thing he remembered was a bright flash of light and noise of a decibel level that beat out even the explosion that had taken out his high school.

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The mayor looked up at the sky as the eclipse began, early, and tried to continue his speech even through the pangs of the changes beginning to alter his body. It wasn’t long before he gave up, speaking regretfully about the paragraphs on civil responsibility that he’d written.

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Daniel Jackson, knowing his friend, had expected Jack’s little prank and was standing in about the right place to catch Xander and prevent him from falling completely on his face. The young man was cursing the O’Neill name under his breath; fairly imaginatively actually, Daniel noted. He also noted that about a third of the curses were in some language other than English. The archaeologist wondered how long the “Archaeology Club” excuse would work on Sam and Teal’c before they’d a need a better explanation for why a teenager would have learned long dead languages in high school.

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He wasn’t sure what he’d said to convince the kid but, not about to question his luck, Jack had whisked Xander down to the armory and begun quizzing him on makes and models of guns while pulling out the ones that every team carried with them off-world. He disassembled them, laying out the parts on a handy table. When he was done he gestured Xander forward.

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“Sir, I’d like to take Harris through the ‘Gate.”

They were standing in the general’s office. The kid wasn’t budging on his refusal and Jack, seeing opportunity slip away, had asked to speak to Hammond in private.

“Are you insane, Colonel?” Hammond asked. “Why is recruiting this…child so important to you?”

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Xander Harris had agreed to, and signed, a non-disclosure form and then Jack had escorted him up to the briefing room. When they got there the blast doors had been closed to cover the windows into the embarkation room. Waving Harris to a seat, General Hammond pulled Jack aside for a whispered conference.

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A/N: Sequel to 'A Sarcophagus in Sunnydale'. I love Xander and Jack.

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Xander Harris could not believe his luck. He’d left Sunnydale after graduation, Jack Kerouac under his arm…well, okay on the passenger’s seat, but who was counting. His graduation trip, his first and probably only chance to get completely away from the Hellmouth for three whole months, and what happens? He ends up sitting in what he can’t help but think of as the stockade of a military base in Colorado.

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Disclaimer: All characters copyright MGM or Joss Whedon/Twentieth Century Fox/Mutant Enemy. Only the plot is mine. This is a non-profit fan story not intended to infringe the rights of MGM, Showtime, Gekko or Double Secret productions. Nor those of Joss Whedon, Twentieth Century Fox, or Mutant Enemy. Besides, I have no money, suing me would be a waste of time. :)

Chapter List:

1. What The Hell Was That?
2. Doubts, Fish & Secrets
3. A Vacation From Your Vacation
4. Into the breach...For The First Time
5. Trips and Treks
6. Of Dreams & OLBs
7. Interrogation (rated FR-18, you have been warned)
8. Escape Plans and Local Myths
9. The Great Escapes (rated FR-18, you have been warned)
10. Running Blind
11. Flights of Escape
12. Conversations with Non-Dead People
13. Vampires and Vacations

Link to the TT...

...being nominated for the Crossing Over Awards over on Twisting the Hellmouth, in not just one but two (count 'em, two) categories for the same story, I will be posting said story here, in the following post.

I encourage you all, if you haven't discovered this site yet to go visit as there is a lot of very good fiction to be found there. They're all based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the tv series) crossed with various shows, though there are also non-crossover stories posted there.

And while you're there, you can vote for me. :)

Seriously, as you can probably tell I'm honoured just to be nominated. Still...I figure it doesn't hurt to put out some shameless plugs for my own work.

Later days.

Hey,
Hope you have a great birthday.
Nadia