The Tarantula story, and request-a-fic!

[lillian13]

OK, researchgrrl asked for the Tarantula Story, to go with her possum story:

OK, I grew up in Midland Texas. My mother was fond of the long road trip, and on one of these though the "picturesque" desolation that is far West Texas on the way back from New Mexico, we saw a "tarantula migration":
http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v27_n2/arac_27_02_0503.pdf
(Somehow I thought an article from the Journal of Archeology was appropriate).
I guess my brother was 16. He insisted that we stop the car and he caught one of them in a jar he'd punched holes in the lid of. Jar went into trunk, we went home.
Opened trunk.
Jar had been unscrewed. No tarantula. We left the trunk open for a while, but assumed that it had been squished already. Then my brother had to go to the store, and like a good little sister, I wanted to go along. But I wanted to finish my book, so I waited in the car.
I was reading one of those Doc Savage novel reprints. I just remember that I'd gotten to a creepy part, when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye.
There was an enormous (at least to 8-year-old eyes) tarantula walking across the dashboard.
I'm pretty sure I teleported out of the car.
When my brother got back, it was gone; I kept my feet on the seat all the way home. We left all the doors open for a couple of hours, and when I went outside later to check, one of the neighbor kids had lined up perfectly along the spider, and all that was left was an oozy tire track with 8 pathetic little legs around it.
You know, I kinda like tarantulas. I think it was the "smart stalker tarantula" that got to me.

And nemo_gravis wrote me a fic! Very funny BtVS/Dr. Who crossover. Read and enjoy.
So the way these things work, I now owe fic to folks?

Bring it on. I can try SGA, BtVS, Dr. Who, NCIS, Highlander, Firefly.... I am personally very fond of crossovers.

It's been a while, I wrote my first attempt at fic in oh, TWENTY YEARS only recently. So, first 5 requests get fic!

Comments

[ltlj.livejournal.com]

Gah! Eek! Having a tarantula creeping up on me would freak me out a lot.

[crimsonquills.livejournal.com]

Hey there! Just noticed that you friended me (I'm a little slow some days *g*) and wanted to ask if you'd like to be on a filter I use. It's called the "Fics In Progress Babble" filter and the idea is that that's where I post all my word counts of stories I'm currently writing, or discuss what stage they are at in the writing, or wail about editing them, or chat about what's coming up in the series I'm writing. I leave people off of it by default because I don't like to tease, but I figure if they ask to be on it, it's their own fault. *grins*

Interested?

[lillian13.livejournal.com]

Of course! Me = fic whore. :-)
Plus, me = beta human, if needed.

See you in a week! (MediaWest)

[crimsonquills.livejournal.com]

You've been added to the filter! And thanks for the beta offer. I think I'm good for the moment--I've just auditioned a new beta and we think we're going to do okay together--but I shall keep you in mind if I need another. *smiles*

Seven days until MWC! Whee! Although I shall probably not see anyone but my roomies for the first day, since I arrive at 11:30pm on the 25th. :-(

[researchgrrrl.livejournal.com]

OH DEAR GOD! *flails* I'm not even scared of spiders and that would have been enough that I probably would have pitched myself out of a moving car. Serious points to you for being able to ride home in the car and without smacking your brother with the book every few minutes, too.

You seriously win on Teh Creepy Story, dude. Yow.

(And, woo, thanks so much for that journal link. Sweet!)

I'll be back for your fic after I've been to the doctor today. :) Cheers!