On The Cutting Edge of Cocking About

Title: Everything The War Calls Out Of Us 2/2
Authors: foxtales & cocking_about
Artist: kikiriki23
Fandom: Top Gear
Genre: Gen, WWI AU
Characters: Richard, James & Jeremy
Rating: R
Word Count: ~17,000
Warnings: Language, violence and gore.
Disclaimer: Although an attempt was made to be somewhat historically accurate regarding the major events surrounding the Battle of Bourlon Wood, this is a fictionalised account and cannot be taken as truth. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is totally intentional but completely unauthorised. No money is being made from their names and likenesses.

Summary: Jeremy laid back as well, his head spinning a bit and not just from his wound. Greasy, tasteless food, toxic mud, an enemy that could stumble across them at any moment, seam squirrels and rats and flies and stench, and milk tablets, for god's sake. He wasn't a religious man, but he found himself praying they found the Allied lines, and soon.

Authors' notes: Enormous thanks to the mods of rpf_big_bang for all their hard work in putting this challenge together! foxtales and I also want to thank tarteaucitron so, so much for her excellent beta work and Britpick (even though Top Gear's hardly her favourite), and elmathelas and msilverstar for the additional and invaluable help in the beta department.

Link To Art: The perfect companion art.






Part One

( Fritz won't sneak up on you as long as Jez Clarkson's on watch. )

Title: Surfacing 2/? WIP
Author: Pip
Rating: this chapter PG for a few bad words
Wordcount: this chapter 4,530
Warning: AU, angst, drama, h/c
Summary: Principal Lighthouse Keeper William Boyd has a lonely existence as he watches over the storm-tossed seas from Dubh Artach Lighthouse. What happens when the sea deposits chaos on his doorstep in the form of Dominic Monaghan?

Thanks to tigertale7 for holding my hand through this whole thing and beta'ing along the way, to giddy_london, celtprincess13 and hyacinth_sky747 for the fantastic beta jobs, and to vensre for some last minute icon help! Most of all, thanks to voontah for the original idea and the song. None of this would have happened without her. ♥

Notes: Written for monaboyd_month, but it wound up being longer than I could finish in such a short time. It is therefore a WIP.

Chapter One


Dubh Artach Lighthouse

First posted May, 2008

( How can I possibly keep my wits intact on three hours of sleep a day, run up and down those bloody stairs and keep the light all night? )