FIC: The Bodyguard (1/8)

[emmagrant01]

Title: The Bodyguard
Author: Emma Grant
Rating: NC-17
Fandom/Pairing: Star Wars Prequels, Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan
Summary: A slaver, a bodyguard, a Jedi, and a secret. Just add sex.
Category: adventure, Q/O, first time
Archive: MA and my site, others please ask first
Warnings: Some violence and non-consensual sex. Spoilers for the Jedi Apprentice books.
Disclaimer: Not my characters, no harm done, no money made.

Link: http://www.queerasjedi.com/emma/tpmfic/bodyguard1.html

Note 1: This is a finished fic, and I'll be posting one part each day over the next week, just for fun! Please leave comments and feedback here, and thanks in advance for reading!

Note 2: I started writing this fic in December 2002, so it's been 20 months in the making! Special thanks to jedirita, emila_wan, and helens78 for multiple betas, and for pushing me to make this fic the best it could be. They all read multiple drafts over the course of a year and spent hours giving me feedback on this story. I can't thank them enough! Thanks also go out to Lauranna, lauramcewan, clara_swift, and obi_ki, all of whom read and commented on drafts of this fic. Finally, thanks to mrshamill for the inspiration, though it's been so long ago now that she's probably forgotten!

*holds breath and clicks "post"*

Comments

[jedirita.livejournal.com]

Yay! It debuts! Hooray!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!!! Oh, and I meant to tell you that the version you sent me comments on yesterday wasn't the most recent one. Emila and Helens had sent me a lot of comments (many of them smilar to ones you made, actually!), and so what's getting posted is a lot more refined than the last version you saw.

Thanks for all of your help! I can't believe this is finally going up!!!

[jedirita.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Maybe that's why I never sent it, then, because you had sent/were going to send me a different one. Terri keeps doing the same thing with her Epic -- she sends me a copy, and by the time I finally get around to betaing it, she sends me another version and says, "Disregard the previous copy!" You writers! grrr

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

*wibbles* Sorry 'bout that! Actually, that particular re-writing took place while you were on vacation (after I'd gotten comments from Helens and Emila). I sent you another copy just before I left, just in case you hadn't gotten around to it yet. Still, it was interesting that you'd picked out some of the very things the others had! And I did make the little deletions you suggested, of course! ;-)

[jedirita.livejournal.com]

Oh that's okay! I know how it goes, believe me! I just use it as an excuse for why I get behind on my betaing. "They keep changing it on me!" *whine whine*

[helens78]

Yay SQUEE!!! Congratulations, babe! :D

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It's been a looong time coming, hasn't it? Thanks for sticking with me on this one! Your comments and suggestions have been greatly appreciated, believe me.