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Title: Phoenix Invictus Book One: Child of Light (On AO3)
Series: Star Trek AOS crossover with X-Men: The Animated Series
Rating: R/NC-17 for epilogue
Content: graphic depiction of injury including radiation poisoning, explicit sexual content in epilogue, major character death with a twist, minor character deaths throughout, constant swearing
Words: 46,953
Betas: maypirate, tresa_cho
Artist: enkanowen here
Mixer: ivycross here
Banner: avictoriangirl
Summary: The Enterprise has successfully completed the first year of its five year mission, but not all is going according to plan. When a race called the Shi'ar attempt to make contact with the Federation to preserve an artifact called the M'Kraan Crystal, and when Bones becomes the host for a mysterious force known only as "Phoenix," the crew of the Enterprise get sucked into a battle that could have devastating consequences for the entire galaxy.
Notes: At the end of the Epilogue
Disclaimer: Leonard McCoy, Jim Kirk, and everyone else from Star Trek is owned by the estate of Gene Roddenberry, Paramount Pictures, and Bad Robot Productions. Lilandra Neramani, Corsair, the Starjammers, the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, and other characters are owned by Marvel Comics and were created by Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, and Grant Morrison. I am only borrowing them in the spirit of transformative works.



Prologue | Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four | Chapter Five | Chapter Six | Chapter Seven | Epilogue

Same headers apply from prologue.

( Chapter Seven )

Chapter Six | Epilogue

Same headers apply from prologue.

( Chapter Five )

Chapter Four | Chapter Six

Same headers apply from prologue.

( Chapter Three )

Chapter Two | Chapter Four

Same headers and notes apply from last prologue.

( Chapter One )

Prologue | Chapter Two

In the past day I've spent $100 on Nail Polish between Sephora.com, Ulta in person, and Ulta online. (In my defense, at Sephora if you spend $50 you get free shipping, and Butter London was buy two, get one free on Ulta.com.) Guys, I already have so much nail polish I never wear. Why am I doing this?

I will share what I bought though!

At Ulta in person, I bought Kiss Me on My Tulips (hot pink) and Nein! Nein! Nein! Okay Fine (a dark non-metallic gunmetal gray.)
On Ulta's website I bought Butter London in Slapper (eletric blue), Teddy Girl (pale baby neutral pink), and Shag (a coppery metallic red the color of fall leaves). I have never tried Butter London before so this is exciting!
On Sephora.com I bought Sephora by OPI's matte top coat, Sephora by OPI in A-Ha Moment! (bright white), Illamasqua in Scorn (matte black...I'm excited to try matte nail polish even though I hear it looks like crap after a day or two), Illamasqua in Radium (metallic lime green), and Sephora by OPI in Slushied (robin's egg blue).

I am trying to branch out and not just wear black/dark purple/everything by OPI all the time. I just had mustard yellow on my fingers (OPI's The "It" Color), and my friends in New York loved it. (Stupid thing started chipping after three days, which is weird because the place I go to normally takes a week to start chipping. Oh well.) I normally just buy OPI because I really like their polishes a lot, but I'm trying different brands. I'm staying high end, though, because it's my experience that with nail polish you get what you pay for. The cheap drug store brands chip like the day I put them on, but the nicer brands don't. Or maybe I'm just a big giant snobby-pants, who knows?

In other news, I got rear-ended at a stop light yesterday. I'm fine, my friend who was with me is fine, and the car has very very minimal damage to the back bumper. However...the dude drove off. He rear-ended me and we pulled into a parking lot. I told him I had called the police, as one does. He said "Oh I don't think we need to get them involved." I was like "Yes we do. You rear-ended me."

Like...I'm not stupid. If I don't have a police report number, I can't get his insurance to pay for the damage to my car. I've seen it happen to friends of mine where they didn't call the cops when they got hit and got screwed over. I'm not letting that happen.

Well I should have taken a picture of his license plate when he said that, because he waited for like two more minutes and then drove off before I could get one. I got the make and model of his car and his physical description. (He didn't even give me his name!) The cop had no choice but to file it as a hit and run. Good luck to you, buddy, when you get caught. Shit's a felony as opposed to a moving violation.

Popular theories as to why he ran: he has a bad driving record/lot of accidents or he was on drugs/had drugs in the car.

The important thing is that I'm fine and I only have two tiny scratches that need to be buffed out of my bumper. Progressive said it's unlikely my insurance will go up, but I need to double-check that with my claims adjuster on Monday.

Mostly I'm just pissed off that the dude ran. I rear-ended someone back in 2007 when it was raining, and like...I called the cops on myself. I don't understand why it's difficult to do the right thing in situations like this. Especially in North Carolina, because for fuck's sake when you get your court date, if you take them a certificate from your insurance saying the damages to the other person's car was paid for, you get off with no points on your license and not even having to pay court costs! WHY WOULD YOU NOT JUST DO THAT? Jesus Christ.

He had to have been high or something. It's the only thing that makes sense. Or driving illegally with no insurance. (In NC, you have to carry insurance to drive.) I just...why on Earth?

Oh. Also. Next Friday. Six days. Phoenix Invictus. Probably as soon as I get up that morning. Be here.

I don't know that I can get this done by September 1st.

Dark Phoenix is 62,000 and then some words alone. The prologue is 3,533. I have not even begun Phoenix yet. And I (finally) got a job this week, and school starts the 16th.

There's not enough time.

I just had to take a week off of writing, primarily because my dog hurt himself on his foot (we think it was a spider bite), the wound got infected, and I've had to keep him under surveillance and in the Cone of Shame (until he figured out how to get it off, lousy intelligent dog) ever since. The wound initially ulcerated, and I was very afraid he would lose his leg. He's fine now, and healing properly, but I just could not write while that was going on.

Also I found out that three and some change weeks doing nothing but writing is my limit. I was disgusted with being on the computer, so this past week I went offline in every way imaginable. And I feel much better, and reinvigorated, but taking an entire week off from writing has set me back.

I don't know that I can do this.

If I don't make it, I will still finish it. I've been waiting for two years to tell this story, and the time to tell it is now. Just getting that RD done for the 1st is looking less and less likely.

I hope this doesn't disappoint you guys too much.

I don't have much to say or a snippet, but I just need to vent for a moment.

Making the Hellfire Club a) exist in the AOS universe, b) exist in a way that makes sense in the AOS universe, c) exist in a way that makes sense without the existence of mutants because that is a can of worms I seriously do not wish to open in the AOS universe is like...some of the hardest writing I have ever done.

Also my inner...well and outer...feminist really rankles at the dress code. With the men it's all opulent fabrics and lush colors and coats, and breeches and with the women it's...corsets and stilettos. >.> THANKS COMICS.

No, Bones does not get to wear a corset. It's not that kind of fic.

I finished the prologue to my big bang, and it's at 3,523 words. So now I can concentrate on the eighty other WiPs I'm working on. Hooray!

Speaking of, if I make a filter for my Big Bang, would anyone want to be on it? I may or may not be posting snippets, crying a lot, or drinking heavily on it.