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Title: This Year's Love
Author: kiltsandlollies
Characters/Pairing: Billy Boyd/Dominic Monaghan/Elijah Wood
Rating: R/NC-17 for series
Warnings: Angst. A smudge of violence in the late–middle chapters, but nothing too bad, promise.
Disclaimer: So incredibly untrue.
Summary:They’re operating on Penrith Standard Time.
Notes: Last month, magickalmolly issued a challenge to write a fanfic based thematically on each of the Twelve Days of Christmas, beginning, obviously, on December 26. Posts went up everyday in 12days. This was indeed a challenge—what on earth do you write for six geese a–laying?—but a fun one, and I really enjoyed it.

The goal of the challenge was not to necessarily jump off from the exact song lines. The community’s user info page talks more about that. So of course I had no intention of actually writing about nine ladies dancing, etc. Some participants also chose to explore different fandoms everyday, but I knew from the get–go that I couldn’t do that, so for better or for worse, I stuck with Lotrips, and BB/DM/EW specifically. I also chose to make each post a chapter of one fic, all set during the hunting holiday in Penrith. I know it’s probably been done to within an inch of its life, but I don’t particularly have the same respect for canon as other writers, so it was worth it to me to give it a try—and copious amounts of angst, natch. I also kept the first seven chapters to exactly one hour’s writing and 1,000 words, making it more of a challenge for someone as wordy as I am, but for chapters nine through twelve, I let myself off the hook on both counts. I think it’s pretty obvious why.

So there we go. On to the links.


A Partridge in a Pear Tree: All Apologies
Two Turtledoves: This Is What It Sounds Like
Three French Hens: Grey Sky Morning
Four Calling Birds: Trip through Your Wires
Five Gold Rings: Who Holds Your Hand (When You’re Alone)
Six Geese A–Laying: China Decorates Our Table
Seven Swans A–Swimming: A Long December (And There’s Reason to Believe)
Eight Maids A–Milking: Walking, Crawling, Climbing, Falling
Nine Ladies Dancing: The Smoke and Flame of Our Names
Ten Lords A–Leaping: It’s the Gift of What You’ll Notice More
Eleven Pipers Piping: Shotgun down the Avalanche
Twelve Drummers Drumming: This Is Your New Thing Now


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