Searching for VA
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Academy, they, unfortunately, belong to Richelle Mead and her publishing house. I am just using them for the express purpose of trying to write my stories and to find fics I have misplaced :3p
Author's Note: This story is just simply a writing exercise combined with a plea for help to the other fans of VA literature for me as I get use to writing fanfic, please don't take the antic here to seriously the story portion is just for fun.
DL's Point of View
It was a quarter 'til seven on a Friday evening and I was the only one home. Sitting at my desk I stared at the monitor as I finally completed sorting through the massive amount of VA links I had saved to my bookmarks. Ever since I started getting into the Vampire Academy series I had gotten into the habit of bookmarking all the fics that caught my attention; which I figured was better than favoring them directly on my account. It was good in theory since I could label the links with my own tags for easy locating later but terrible in practice as I was constantly putting it off for later. A costly mistake I paid for when a car accident took out the transformer for my neighborhood, just as my computer going through an updating. It took me forever and a complete system reboot to fix that mess when I realized I had a bigger problem.
I lost all my current bookmarks! On top of that the last time I saved a backup was a couple of weeks ago. To quote Deadpool, "F #$ me!" would be very accurate descriptive right now. So I buckled down and imported my last save and went to work reorganizing, tagging and sorting all the links back into their proper folders. As I work I noticed I was still missing a few of the better links. I opened up a sticky note on my desktop and typed down what all I remembered about each fic and set it aside for later. It took me two days to get it done, but it was so worth it in the end.
One obstacle took care of I turned my attention back to my list, I was fairly confident that it would not take me long to find these fics given the amount of detail I remembered about each of them so I went to do a do my search first on google using keywords and phrases but nothing turned up, so I tried again, and again, again. I was starting to get really frustrated. I needed to find these fics before Rose and the others came over at eight pm to give me their input on a new VA story I was working on. Everyone in that group had mixed feelings when it came to fanfiction is written about them, it was certainly a love/hate relationship, Rose, and Dimitri most of all because they are usually the main pairing in all the fics I read.
I had to bite back a laugh as I remembered the first time Dimitri came across one the fics I left open on my laptop. Kessfan's 'My New Life', one my favorites of her and certainly one of her better stories. His Guardian Mask cracked and the look on his face as he read one of steamy sex scenes in the story before burying his face in his hands nearly had me choking on my soda and rolling on the floor laughing it was so priceless. I didn't have the heart to tell him Rose has more than a few similar stories to her own laptop.
Getting back on track, I decided to try a different approach. If I couldn't find my fic the normal way then I would just have to resort to using some unorthodox manner of getting the job done.
"That's easy. Just ask the other readers directly." Adrian said, startling the crap out of me in the process. I had been so preoccupied that I hadn't realized my muses had arrived or that that I had spoken my thoughts out loud. It seemed the couple had all paired off on seating arrangements. Rose and Lissa were sitting on the couch sitting up in their respective men's laps, Eddie and Jill were cuddled up on the love seat while Danila and Athear claimed the maroon Papasan between the couches. And Cassandra seemed to have made herself right at home in the room's only recliner.
Adrian continued leaning casually against the wall next to my desk looking more than a little smug as I turned my attention back to him. "So, what? Write a little piece and stick the requests in there?"
"Couldn't hurt to try."
He had a point. Did I really have anything to lose by trying? Dammit, I hate it when he's right. Thirty minutes later I slapped a short piece together and wrote out each request in its own chapter and ready to be uploaded.
To use a favorite phrase of the 11th Doctor, "Geronimo!"
If anyone could actually help me find these fics I would be more than willing to reward them by adding an Oc of their choice to my story. If they wanted to reach me they could leave a review or pm me with their answer.
