The Dark Is Rising Fanfiction Links
4/23/08 - I'm no longer actively updating these links, but if you have a DIR story you'd like to have linked here, drop me an email (kestrelsan at aceweb dot com) and I'll add it.For your other DIR needs:
Yuletide - Dark Is Rising. Yuletide's Dark Is Rising section, with 30-odd stories.
The Dark Is Rising Slash Archive. About 90 stories on there currently.
DIR LJ Community - all genres/pairings.
DIR slash LJ Community - slash fanfiction and art.
The Dark Is Rising Slash Mailing List
Torn
Author: Anne Olsen
Will/Bran
When Will returns to Wales, he and Bran discover a force greater than even High Magic.Six Ribbons
Author: Anne Olsen
Will/Bran
Six months after confessing their love for each other, Will and Bran have yet to share this news with the rest of the world. A visit home for Will's 21st Birthday is the perfect opportunity to tell his family that he is gay…that is… if he can find the nerve. Sequel to Torn.
The Morning After
Author: Aly
Will/Bran
Takes place the morning after the ending of Kest's "Summer's Men."
Something Different
Author: Aristide
Pairing: Will/Bran
Awakening: part 1, 2, 3
Author: Ashura
Will/Bran
Loneliness, friendship, love and High Magic--a match even for the power of the Light. And if Bran remembers, Will won't have to be alone anymore.Dance, Traditional, in Two Movements
Author: Ashura
Bran/Barney
A reunion holiday for the Six and their families leads to quiet musings and empty comfort.Duet, Unfinished
Author: Ashura
Will/Bran
Encore to Dance. What happens after Bran leaves Barney's room.Light Breaks
Author: Ashura
Will/Bran
Will and Bran spend a summer getting to know each other better.Midsummer's Country (in progress): part 0, 1, 2, 3
Author: Ashura
Will/Bran
At the end of Silver on the Tree, Bran makes the decision to retire with Arthur. But an eternity of youth isn't everything it's cracked up to be.Departure: part 1, 2, 3, 4
Author: Ashura
Will/Bran
The Dark does not play by the rules. The Watchman of the Light is failing, forgetting, and by the time he asks for help it may already be too late.While Shepherds Watched
Author: Ashura
Will/Bran
It's Christmas Eve, and some secrets are just not meant to be kept...but maybe they turn out all right anyway.The Empty Room
Author: Ashura
Bran/Barney
There’s music drifting down the corridor, spilling in the windows, lilting and tender and melancholy, breezy as the air that lifts the curtains and tickles Barney’s hair from his face. He thinks it must be summer.Sunset
Author: Ashura
Gwenhwyfar wishes her son well, and mourns for what will never be.The End of Summer
Author: Ashura
Will/Bran
When it is all over, a visitor comes, and a prince goes home.
Enough to Go By
Author: Bonibaru
Pairing: Will/Bran
Summary: Love is stronger than anything.
Christmas Wishes
Author: Clear Skies
Will/Bran
For Ash's Christmas challenge
Cornish Encounter
Author: Daegaer
Good Omens crossover. Jane coming across Merriman talking to Aziraphale.
Abort
Author: E.E. Beck
PG-13, Bran/Will.
Bran has made his choice, and now he has to live with it.
A Winter's Tale
Author: Gabihime
Summary: I think David Lynch wrote this fanfic.
To Remember for Always
Author: Genarti
Pairing: Will/Bran
Summary: Bran visits Will, and discovers that memory is an uncertain thing. Mild slash.
Harry Potter and the Legacy of the Light
Author: Gramarye
Dark Is Rising/Harry Potter crossover.All Through the Night
Author: Gramarye
A sleepless January night allows Will's guilt and anger over his mother's injury to emerge.All Through the Night: Reprise
Author: Gramarye
A sleepless midsummer night in Wales forces Will to confront his past, present, and future--and Bran can only watch.Of Loving Bondage
Author: Gramarye
Will/Bran
All Will Stanton wants is one good, long, and above all uninterrupted...well, you'll see.
Handsome
Author: Gunbunny
Will/Bran
Bran and Will just before the Drews arrive in Silver on the Tree.Strangeness
Author: Gunbunny
Will/Bran
Crossover with Highlander.Drinking Problem
Author: Gunbunny
Will/Bran
New Year's Eve party. Will isn't sober by any stretch.
What The Cat Knew, or The Romance of the Six Sleepers
Author: Jay Tryfanstone
Pairing: Will/Bran
Summary: What The Cat Knew bridges the gap between The Dark is Rising and Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar books, so it probably helps if you know a little about either series.
Stagger
Author: jenni
Will/BranCharmed Existence
Author: jenni
Barney povStreet
Author: jenni
Will/Bran
On This Short Day of Frost and Sun
Author: J.J. Taylor
Pairing: Remus/Bran, Will/Bran
Summary: Crossover with Harry Potter
Summer's Men
Author: Kest
Will/Bran
Will goes back to Wales to see Bran, eight years after Silver on the Tree.That Other Place
Author: Kest
Will/Bran
Will and Bran in a Candian shack.
The Youngest and the Oldest
Author: Kirstin Jones
Will/Methos
A Highlander/Dark is Rising crossover vignette
Keeping the Watch
Author: Laura J. Valentine
Will/Merriman
Merriman comes back to visit.
The Waiting Game
Author: Natalka
Will/Bran
December 20th. Will gets a letter.A Plentiful Waste of Time
Author: Natalka
Will/Bran
Late May. Bran moves back to the valley and gets an unexpected visitor.September Song
Author: Natalka
Will/Bran
Early September, 1983. (Post A-level results, pre-university: limbo.)Things that Go Bump in the Night
Author: Natalka
Will/Bran.
October 31st. Dreams, reality, and the line between the two.Shepherd's Pipe Carol
Author: Natalka
Will/Bran.
Christmas Eve. Going through the hills on a night all starry.
Long Way to Go
Author: Nope
Will/Bran
Half-Suite
Author: oddcellist
Pairing: Will/Bran
Summary: Written for Yuletide 2004
Alignment
Author: Pares
Pairing: Will/Bran
Summary: The pub was smoky, dark and crowded but Bran glimmered at the bar like the moon on dark water.
Ghosts of Christmas Present
Author: Polly
For Ash's Christmas challenge.
Dream Catcher
Author: Princess Faerie
Pairing: Will/Bran
Summary: Every night Bran dreams, and only Will understands.
Walsingham's Christmas Carol
Author: psychomachia
Summary: Christmas is the time for telling tales. Not all of them can end well.
Shared Watch
Author: Quiara
Will/Bran
Will goes back to see Bran.
Anniversary
Author: Raye Johnson
Will/Bran
A happy immortal story.Discovery
Author: Raye Johnson
Will/Bran
One's first encounter with the DiR fandom usually is a bit of a shock....
Unexpected
Author: riverflame
Will/Simon
For Ash's Christmas challenge
Bright Hair
Author: Rowan
Various pairings (het and slash)
Ten years later, Will gets jolted out of his comfort zone.
Don't Go Back
Author: Sarah
Paul/RobinTwo Into One
Author: Sarah
Paul/RobinWatching
Author: Sarah
Will/Bran
Will's watching.
Waltz in a Minor Key
Author: Sefilin
Summary: Jane's living arrangements are somewhat different than Barney expected.
Sea and Hawthorne
Author: sevenall
Pairing: Bran/Jane; Bran/Will
Summary: Since he had no wish to be Arthur to her Guinevere, he told her that they should see other people.
The Appointment
Author: sheldrake
Will/Bran
Will's not going home for his birthday. Written for Ashura's fic challenge.Protection
Author: sheldrake
Will/Bran
Will is the watchman.She Shows You a Picture
Author: sheldrake
Will/Bran
The city will show you - if you want.The Changes of the Sea
Author: sheldrake
Will/Bran
Will, Bran, the sea.
For a Season
Author: significant owl
Will/Jane.
Jane wants Will to let go.
Pawns and Players
Author: Sigrina
Bill (Will Scarlet)/Barney Drew, Robin/Will implied, Will Stanton/Simon Drew
Crossover set in the eighties with Robin of Sherwood.
Going Home
Author: Shira
Will has to return home.
Our Weakness Is No Stranger
Author: Sweeney Agonistes
For Ash's Christmas challenge.
Loving Bonds
Author: Taryn
Will/Bran
Will and memories.
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
Author: Tayla Firedancer
Will/Barney.
A reflective Christmas morning for Will.
Good Girl
Author: Zelda Ophelia
Pairing: Jane/Bran
Summary: Sometimes Jane Drew hates being a good girl.
