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ffutures ([personal profile] ffutures) wrote2011-10-21 02:38 pm

Fanfic - Warehouse 13 / Young Wizards - License Agreement

Here's a Warehouse 13 / Young Wizards crossover drabble, everything you need to know (if you don't know the fandoms) is in the end notes.

later Changed the last few words very slightly



License Agreement

Marcus L. Rowland

Claudia was never a fan of taking inventory, especially when it came to dangerous artifacts, but knew that it had to be done.

Sometimes items vanished. Sometimes, as now, they appeared. A state of the art MacBook Air, with nothing to indicate how it got there. And, weirdly, the Apple logo missing its trademark bite.

The opening screen showed a block of text; at first it was gibberish, then suddenly she could read it.
"In Life's name and for Life's sake..."
"That's a weird license," she thought, scrolling down to the usual prompts, [Cancel] [Agree], hesitated, then clicked an icon.

end

Notes for the perplexed: Claudia Donovan is the youngest employee of Warehouse 13, a repository for artifacts that have to be removed from circulation to protect the world. They probably have the Ark of the Covenant in there somewhere... She's a computer genius in her early twenties, with a habit of getting into trouble with the artifacts. In the Young Wizards universe anyone who potentially has the ability to use magic will sooner or later receive a copy of the Wizard's manuai - originally it was disguised as a book called "So You Want To Be A Wizard," but more recently computer versions have become available. If you read and agree to the wizard's oath (the full text is here) you can carry on reading and start to learn magic, with a strong possibility that you will soon be in great danger; if you don't, you soon forget that you ever saw it. Claudia is unusually old to become a wizard, but it isn't unprecedented.



Comments please before I post to archives.

[identity profile] keristor.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! As a fan of both the YW books and W13, I like it and think it entirely plausible.

(I'm also amused that the explanation has more words than the story...)

[identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
The long explanation is all too common with crossover drabbles.
bellatemple: (Warehouse 13 - Science!)

[personal profile] bellatemple 2011-10-21 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
That's adorable. Claudia would make a fabulous wizard. (Haven't read the Young Wizards books in yeeeeeeears, but I always loved the stumbling upon the manual.)

[identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com 2011-10-21 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks - just changed the ending very slightly, but I don't think it will affect anyone's enjoyment.

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