marycrawford | But wait, there's more! The New Year's resolution challenge (Reply)

The yuletide challenge has been transformed into the New Year's resolution challenge, where anyone can look at the list of unfulfilled requests and write a story for a pairing that takes their fancy. (The participants in yuletide were asked to give three or four pairings, so there's a lot of requests left over even though everybody got a story. I asked for Hercules/Iolaus, Hornblower/Archie, Hornblower/Pellew and Inigo/Fezzik.)

I didn't know about this challenge, so imagine my delight when I found out that I'd gotten a story!

therienne wrote it, it's called Bed and Breakfast, it's a deliciously snarky Hercules/Iolaus story, and I love it. I couldn't have gotten a better start to the New Year. Here's an appetizer:

The room was about what could be expected from the rest of the inn, and the roof was leaking directly onto the small straw mattress. Wordlessly, they each went to one end of the bed to move it to the other side of the room. The rotted top of one of the posts snapped off in Iolaus' hand. He threw it to the ground in disgust.

"I'll sleep on the floor," he announced.

"On that floor?" Hercules asked, too aghast to remember their feud.

Both of them scrutinized the floor for a moment. Iolaus shuddered.