FanFiction...

I admit it.

I read fanfiction. I started with the X-Files. It took Chris Carter too bloody long to give us fans what we wanted. So, I went searching for someone else to do it, and discovered, at 13, the deep and sometimes scandalous world that is fanfiction. I've read a little bit of everything: X-Files, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dukes of Hazzard, Gilmore girls, Bones...you get the idea.

I admit the following with even less shame than I admitted the above: I write fanfiction. I don't mean the occassional one shot every so often because Hart Hanson let the UST go too far or because someone thinks that Harry and Hermione got drunk in the tent while Ron was off being a wanker and had really awkward sex (which, if you give it more than a half second of thought, you realize could not possibly have happened, and your fanfiction sits undone and a blotch on your pride as a Pot-Head appears). No, I write long, involved, details fan fictions. One of these is a multi-hundred page piece which crosses Pirates with Potters. We probably should have let that one RIP after Pirates 2 and Potter 6 came out (we did start the fiction in 2004. And yes, I said we...I have help in this insane endeavor). Instead, we strive to include every Pirates movie and Potter book into our story. Cannon? It's more guidelines than actual rules. It's a testament to my pride that I can go in public with my co-author, order breakfast at 9 PM on a Friday night, and sit at a table, discussing how Jack Sparrow interacts with Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape's pet Mongoose, named Wum (co-incidentally, be ready for Wum to star in his own children's book series). Well, either my pride or my sanity.

Aside from Of Potters and Pirates, I write fiction all the time. One shots, set in and around Hogwarts. Time travel pieces that allow my OC to meet and marry Luke Duke. Murder-mysteries with lots of Bones/Booth UST. Hell, Bones and Booth, along with Mulder and Scully, have arrived in Potters and Pirates. So has Edward Cullen-Bella left him for Barbossa (that whole time travel thing comes in handy when you want to get rid of annoying, brainless twats and leave their manipulative, possessive boyfriends behind to torment).

Some one is bound to read this and say "wow, she needs a life." Thank you for giving me the same line that I would give myself when I was sitting at Country Kitchen at 10:30 on a Friday night. however, I have one: I work full time as a teacher, and my students kicked ass on state tests this year. I coach volleyball from June to March, hang out with my friends, read my way through the public library, and am 200+ pages into my own novel.

No fan intends to infringe on a copyright. NO ONE would read my fanfiction and get their "fix" for any of their fandoms. If they are...well, I need to quit writing FanFiction and finish that novel of mine. Maybe then I can retire to the Keys.