HELLO MY LOVERLIES! IT'S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN! REVEALS!

( Who wrote what, cut for people still reading. )


( And some round up stats! )

Just a reminder that we have a collection over on AO3, right here!

It was lovely hosting you all again. I love doing this. ♥

Today is the last day to get your guesses in before reveals! The official guessing posts are here:

Day One through Five, and Day Six through Nine.

And if you want to take a stab at who wrote our community gift, Messing With Lazarus, feel free to do it here!

AWW YEAH.

Title: Messing with Lazarus
Author: Double Duty Author aka merriman
Written for: Everyone!
Characters: Joe, Methos, OMC Watcher
Rating: PG for some language
Author's Notes: The title is taken from the song Po' Lazarus. Than you to D for taking a look at it on short notice.
Summary: Watcher politics, a book of folklore, a couch with bad springs and a night spent making notes.

( It wasn't the first time Joe had been called into his superior's office and he was damn sure it wouldn't be the last, but that still didn't make it a barrel of laughs. )

Hello my children! That is the end of gifts for the fifth year of the Highlander Holiday Exchange! Tomorrow we have one final story for you all! Please enjoy all the stories from the past week, and leave as much feedback as you can!

A few cleaning up notes:

1. There are two guessing posts. Day One through Five, and Day Six through Nine. Both pages compile links directly to the stories. People have already started to guess!

2. The reveals will be on Wednesday the 28th. That gives you time to read everything you want, and get over the lol!yay of Yuletide.

3. Please consider adding your story to the collection over at AO3 after the 28th!

4. Also, I'd like to say a special thank you to our five-year alumni, those who have posted stories with us all five years so far: idontlikegravy, lferion, dswdiane, mackiedockie, morgynleri_fic, carenejeans, merriman, unovis_lj, hafital and jinxed_wood! Many of you have also put in three or four years, and for that I am grateful!

OF COURSE THIS MEANS IT GETS HARDER TO ASSIGN YOU TO EACH OTHER EVERY YEAR, YOU INCESTUOUS BASTARDS.

5. FOR THE FIRST TIME, EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO SIGNED ON TURNED IN A STORY. THERE WERE NO EARLY WITHDRAWALS (THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID) OR DEFAULTS.

YOU ARE ALL ADORBS AND AWESOME.

6. AND NOW, SOME STATS. ( Keep in mind that some of these might be a little off because I am a counting idiot. )

I love you all, and thank you for making this a fantastic year in Highlander fic!

This is your second guessing post! A wrap up post will be soon, but the first five days of stories are HERE As with the previous guessing post, I shall make comments that you may guess under.

( Days 6 through 9 )

( Authors! )

This is the end of the stories, but we have one more tomorrow, for all of you! Look for the wrap up post this evening!

Title: The Tam Lin Clause
Author: True Janet aka Diana Willams (dkwilliams)
Written for: enviropony
Pairing: Duncan/Methos
Crossover: Highlander/The Dresden Files
Characters: Duncan MacLeod, Methos, Joe Dawson, Harry Dresden, Thomas Raith, Molly Carpenter, Mouse, and a host of Fae
Rating: PG13
Author’s Notes: This is a crossover with The Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher. Hopefully, no knowledge of that series is needed for this to make sense. For Dresdenphiles, this is set pre-“Turncoat”. Mouse has a cameo role but, alas, I couldn’t find a way to work in Bob. As far as Highlander-verse is concerned, this story is set past Season Six but has its fingers plugged in its ears regarding any movie featuring either Duncan or Methos.
Summary: When Duncan MacLeod is abducted by one of the Queens of Faerie, it is up to Methos to rescue him, no matter the risk. Fortunately, there is someone in Chicago who can help him.

( The view out over the city of Chicago from atop the Trump Hotel was incredible. )

Title: Firebird
Author: I am out of holiday names aka Unovis (unovis_lj)
Written for: silvercobwebs
Characters/Pairings: Duncan/Methos, Methos/Byron
Rating: R
Author's Notes: This takes place post-series, so after The Modern Prometheus. All non-canon names are of real persons. Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev was known in the West as Serge. L'Oiseau feu (Zhar-ptitsa in Russian) = the Firebird, a ballet with music written expressly for it by Igor Stravinsky, which debuted in Paris in June of 1910. Its plot includes a magician villain, the immortal Kaschei, who is killed by the hero with the Firebird's aid.
Thanks to *** and *** for commentary and support. And Amand-r, for patience.

(  If not for you, then for me. )

Title: Grave Goods
Author: The Holiday Bandit aka Taz (lj user=tazlet>)
Written for: adabsolutely
Characters/Pairings: MacLeod/Methos
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Some things happened once.
Author’s Note: Quoted poem is William Butler Yeats’s ‘Brown Penny’
Summary: Road Trip! Two good friends taking a sentimental journey to visit old friends and dearly loved places -- what could possibly go wrong?

( ...he was calling the rain. )

Title: Entre chien et loup
Author: The X-Mas Flasher aka amand_r
Written for: carenejeans (Carene)
Characters/Pairings: Duncan/Methos, Joe, Amanda
Rating: NC-17
Author's Notes: Happy Christmas, Carene. Thanks to my betas.
Summary: Most assuredly not, I agree. And then, before I can help myself, Have you ever taken someone by surprise in public? For sex?

( There's a pleasant shimmer to the air when the rain falls this lightly, as if the very substance of it has solidified and turned to water. )

Title: The Vanished Voyeur Job
Author: SANTAR, OF THE HILL PEOPLE aka mackiedockie
Written for: fractured_sun
Crossover: Highlander, Leverage
Characters: Methos, Duncan, Amanda, Eliot, Hardison, Parker, Joe, Nate, assorted bit players.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Gen, with adult poly overtones, bring any goggles you like.

Author's Notes: The timeline is a hopeless mashup between HL post season 6 and Leverage up to season 4, with references to ‘The Experimental Job’. Pick your favorite year and go for it. The HL movie timeline has no meaning here at all. And Joe’s Bar is Immortal.

Thank You!: To my kind and incredibly patient beta readers, who worked beyond the last minute to get this little story finished. It would have been impossible without you. All errors in the end are mine alone.

Part One
Part Two

( What happened? )