five stories i'm proudest to have written

kass followed shayheyred's example in talking about the five stories she's proudest of, and I like this idea, so I'm going to do it also. I don't think I'll rank them, but here they are:

• Fortune's Fool, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo/Mercutio, which I wrote for my first Yuletide in 2004 and have never matched before or since. (It wasn't even the best Romeo/Mercutio that year, in fact - but it's mine, and it is full of things that I meant to do and think I did successfully, and it has never stopped making me happy.)
  
• The Deep Dust of Years, Harry Potter, Remus Lupin/Bill Weasley. I'm pleased with this for what I flatter myself is the complexity of its characters (this may only be obvious to me, of course [g]), and particularly for the Snape/Harry in the background, and the way that relationship is kind of unfathomable to the POV character.
  
• Root and Branch, Harry Potter, in which I find all of Lucius Malfoy's relationships - with his wife, his children, his underlings, his victims - thoroughly unpleasant, but I'm proud of how uncomfortable a story I was able to write without (I believe) making it ridiculous.
  
• A Very Small Number of Immortal Beings, TorchwoodxHitchhiker's Guide, Jack Harkness/Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged; it doesn't seem an awful lot of people have liked or even read this, but I like it all the same. :-)
  
• Breaking Down is Hard to Do, Sports Night, Dan/Casey, which I'm including mainly because of how hard it is to do Sorkin-character voices, and how I think I did a good job with them.