Antarctic Heat Chapter 1 - An Omegaverse AU of the Polar Siren AU - By xenanigans
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CW explicit, omegaverse
Summary:
The year is 1911. Anthony J. Crowley (Royal Navy surgeon, passionate zoologist, and official photographer of the Northern Party) is preparing to go into heat, all by his lonesome on a remote beach in East Antarctica.
Everything changes when he catches an odd scent in the air.
Fully written. 30k words. 70% smut. Updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
This story can be enjoyed on its own, but youāll probably have more fun if you read I have my ways of knowing first ;)
Excerpt:
The sun didnāt even set that time of year, but all six members of the Northern Party rose bright and early in the morning of November 7th, 1911.Ā
Anthony J. Crowley took care of breakfast that day, although that wasnāt typically his job ā he was a Royal Navy surgeon, after all. But everyone else was busy as they finished preparing for the last sledging trip of the season: Commander Shadwell was supervising; his three petty officers (Warlock Dowling, Eve Young, Newton Pulsifer) were finishing loading up their sleds; and Anathema Device, civilian geologist and meteorologist, was outside the hut jotting down a few last measurements before they left for the week.
Their meal consisted of porridge, bacon, and crab-eater seal steak. Crowley could have served penguin steak instead, but heād been growing more and more uneasy with the idea of eating penguin meat as of late. In addition to being a surgeon, he was also a passionate zoologist, and it just so happened that the Northern Party had been living on the south end of an AdĆ©lie penguin rookery for most of that year.
Ridley Beach, Cape Adare, Antarctica had been teeming with flightless birds when Captain Scottās ship, the Terra Nova, had dropped them off with all the necessary supplies and provisions at the end of February. The AdĆ©lies had all left by late March, only to return in mid October for their new breeding season. Crowley had spent the last few weeks observing them closely, and was considering writing a book about them once he returned to Britain.
āAre you sure you donāt want to come along?ā Device asked as she blew on her porridge.
āLike I said, I think itās better for the science if I stay here. Wouldnāt want to miss anything important now that the penguins have begun laying their eggs.ā
Science was only one of the reasons why Crowley wanted to spend some time by himself.
Heat was the other, much more urgent one.
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xenanigans passed away on 28/04/26Ā
This fic is published in his memory by blackjeans93 as his fannish next of kin.
All words were written by xenanigans.
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