Happy Bering and Wells Day! This year, @apparitionism gave me a wild set of prompts to play with, so here's what I ended up with.

Summary: Myka goes on a supposedly easy artifact retrieval with Helena. She won’t believe Claudia’s theory about a ghost being involved, no matter how much it may seem like they are stuck in a haunted house!

4k, rated T, no archive warnings apply

Written for @apparitionism as part of the 2025 @b-and-w-holiday-gift-exchange! I hope you like it :)

submitted by: anonymous

Flare (57175 words) by @apparitionism Chapters: 20/20 Fandom: Warehouse 13 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells Characters: Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells, Steve Jinks, Claudia Donovan, William Wolcott, Artie Nielsen, Vanessa Calder, Amanda Lattimer, Pete Lattimer, Liam Napier, Jane Lattimer, Dickens the cat, Caturanga, James MacPherson, Leena (Warehouse 13), Trailer (Warehouse 13) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Firehouse Summary: So fires are fires… and people who get caught up in them may get burned. Or not. We'll see.

Please tell us why you like this fic so much!

One of my favs! A little cliché heroism + a bookshop, how can you not like it? Plus there is this one sentence Helena says that just melts my heart. I love this one so much.

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Hello hello hello, oh do I have some great Warehouse 13 fanfiction recommendations for you! 

* Bedroom (Let’s start with this fun, light, read! It’s medium length and rated T), by apparitionism.

* Choice and Chance (A great fill-in-the-holes fic, which also fixes things and deals with mental illness. Novel length, rated M), by kla1991. 

* In Which Helena Attempts to Ask Myka Out (Cute, short little fic, rated G), by ace.

* (lady i will touch you with my mind) (A light and sexy fic, not rated but I think M fits, medium length), by corchen.

* Unscenes: A Canon-ish Fix (Novel length, satisfying fill-in-the-holes fic, rated T-M), by deathtodickens. 

* Falling Is Like This (Short, cute!, rated T), by Arbryna. 

* Moscow (Missing scene, vulnerable Helena, caring Myka, feelings! Relatively short, rated T), by NuMo. 

* Hotels in America (They meet accidentally and proceed to have sex after the grappler-day! Medium length, rated E), by Roadie. 

* Today's Kind of a Holiday (This one is about Helena & Claudia, very short, rated G, lovely), by Typey.

* Claudia’s Family (Warehouse family, short, rated T), by tellany. 

* The Future An Experiment (Helena moves into the B&B! Medium length, rated M), by thrace. 

* Drink the Day (Soft and fun, sexy and filled with feelings. Medium length, rated E), by kla1991. 

* Against All Odds (Angst? Strong feelings, a slow, drawn-out story about coming together at last. Medium length, rated M), by Redlance.

* Zip It! (Pete & Myka talk about H.G. and gay stuff, short fic, rated G), by kathryne.

* We Were Lovers (Now We're Not Even Friends) (Follows the show during S2 but delves deeper into Myka and Helena’s developing relationship. A short fic, rated E), by pirateygoodness.

* Catalysis (Artifacts cause them to get intimate with each other (but it’s not creepy). Medium length, rated E), by winged_mammal.

* The Long Way Home (A long fill-in-the-holes fic that deals with Helena’s history – she goes through some really bad times in this one, but it’s also a Bering and Wells slow burn. It’s a great, unfinished story, but that’s okay. Rated M), by Roadie.

* Time Traveler of Mine [song] (Yes! This one is a song! And it’s great!), by justsing17/just_sq. 

* Vibe (Short, sweet, and Claudia is included in this one! Rated T), by kla1991.

* You are all I've ever wanted (An artifact makes Helena act on her subconscious urge. People are present. Medium length, rated E), by Crimsoncat.

* Soon (1950′s AU where Myka is a CIA translator and Helena plays the violin, among other things. Terrible things happen in this fic, but everything gets a little better because of love. Novel length, rated M), by apparitionism. 

* show don't tell (They don’t know each other very well – yet... A short fic, rated T), by ellenm (quasiradiant).

* Balance Beam (Helena is moving into the B&B (here, as well). A short fic, rated M), by cjmarlowe. 

* Blood and Bronze (One of the first fics I read, I remember it fondly. Long distance, developing relationship, with lots of feelings. Somewhat AU, novel length, rated E), by green78.

* I've found a whole new way to love you (Established relationship, video call! Relatively short fic, rated E), by winged_mammal. 

* Family is Triumph (Helena watches Fringe (and you should have done that too to properly enjoy this fic). She identifies with the story and the characters as we do with our favorite characters. Relatively short, rated G), by amtrak12.

* Stages (Cool opera AU! Novel length, unfinished but ends in a good place, rated M), by mrsdaphnefielding. 

* Sacrifice (What if Helena had been in that alternate reality Christmas episode? You are right, she and Myka would have been very much drawn together, without even knowing who the other one was! A great fic, rated T, medium length), by apparitionism. 

* Can't Help But Stare (You Can Look) (Very short and very nice, rated M), by Rinari7.

* All for Love (Marriage of convenience AU with so, so, much pining. Novel length, unfinished (but we still get updates!), rated M), by JDaydreamer.

* Many of My Lovers (Short, lovely, rated G), by kla1991. 

* Expertise (There are things Helena and Myka are experts at and some they aren’t, yet. A short fic, rated E), by LalaGen.

* Thirsty, and In the Beginning (You get to “watch” these short, new fics by a new writer! (Welcome to the fandom and this list!) Rated T), by BeneathTheWillowTree.

*And lastly I'm just going to add myself! Hi, I'm vestwearer on ao3.

Remember, this is by no means a complete list of all the good Warehouse 13 fanfiction! Our fandom has so many great writers!

Happy reading!

me: *thinking it’s a comment on my own story* oh yay!!!

email: @apparitionism has posted

If you make it, it'll be great.

This post is part of Femslash Revolution’s I Am Femslash series, sharing voices of F/F creators from all walks of life. The views represented within are those of the author only.

Apparently I’m femslash. Of some sort… in truth, I’m a ghost on the internet, and I’m made of words, and those words are about women who love women, or rather two women in particular who love each other, and thinking about those women led me to what to say here: I’d like to talk a little bit about beauty.

Elaine Scarry begins her book On Beauty and Being Just with these words: “What is the felt experience of cognition at the moment one stands in the presence of a beautiful boy or flower or bird? It seems to incite, even to require, the act of replication. Wittgenstein says that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. Beauty brings copies of itself into being. It makes us draw it, take photographs of it, or describe it to other people. Sometimes it gives rise to exact replication and other times to resemblances and still other times to things whose connection to the original site of inspiration is unrecognizable.”

I suspect that many people who create fanworks understand, viscerally, that incitement to replicate. That’s certainly what happened to me: I saw Warehouse 13’s Joanne Kelly, as Myka Bering, interact with Jaime Murray, as H.G. Wells. My eye saw their peculiar, beautiful chemistry, and I… well, I wasn’t moved to draw, because I can’t draw. What I can do—what I do, as my profession, for my living—is write. So that’s what I did.

Not at first, of course. At first, I did what most of us do: I read what was out there already. Fanfiction as such wasn’t new to me; I’m old enough to have lived through lots of it, including Xena and the explosion of internet-based fandom. (I also remember physical fanzines. Printed on paper, sent through the mail. If you do too, come sit by me.) I read as much Bering and Wells fanfiction as I could find, way back when LiveJournal was the hub, back before the good ship “Bering and Wells” had been named by our lovely shippees themselves.

I did read it, but let’s be honest: a lot of the fanfiction out there isn’t great in the sense of literary quality. (A lot of the fanfiction out there isn’t great in the sense of punctuation.) Some of it is very good, but when a fandom is in its ascendance, here in this no-barriers-to-entry online world, it’s difficult to sort the wheat from the chaffy mass of words those enthusiastic fans generate. And in general, due to profession and temperament, I’m a very picky reader. So what drove my own impulse—in general, what drives the impulse—to inhale as much of it as possible? My best, most honest response, which brings us back to beauty, is “desperation.” Because the original text—for me, Warehouse 13—often provides tiny, tiny, far too tiny glimpses of beauty, a keyhole view of the Promised Land, and reading fanfiction is a way of slaking the desperate need to see it. Fanfiction’s very existence stands as proof that other people see it too. And the fan writers I like best are those who work hard, at whatever writing skill level, to enable their readers to see more of it.

With regard to Bering and Wells specifically, the fandom, too, particularly as it coalesced on Tumblr, was beautiful. (It’s far, far smaller now, but still beautiful; you will never meet a more delightful group of nerdsbians, I assure you.) Thus my felt obligation, in attempting to participate, was to bring something worthwhile to it, to show that I would be respectful and painstaking in response both to the fandom and to the gunpointing and grappler-ing and gazing that inspired it.

Which leads me to the particular fanfictional semblance of the beautiful that interests me most: the AU. AUs can illustrate how a peculiar chemistry might transcend its (usually pretty limiting) original setting—they can show, that is, that that spark of chemistry need not be defined, or confined, by the initial conditions of its expression. It’s like finding a shiny new quarter: you can of course pick that quarter up and use it as the money it was minted to be. But you could choose instead to deploy it as part of, let’s say, a magic trick.

The beauty of an AU lies, for me, in its alchemy, the transmutation it works on base elements. AUs perform that alchemy by creating a reaction: taking the base elements and combining them with something else. And the AUs that I find most persuasive are those that intersect the Bering-and-Wells (or, more accurately, Kelly-and-Murray) chemistry with alternate circumstances that I already find, or can be made to believe are, commensurately beautiful. Harmonizingly beautiful. For example, in “The Goblet,” the brilliant mrsdaphnefielding situates Bering and Wells within the Tristan and Iseult myth: an easy reach for commensurate beauty, and oh so convincing. Me, one of my devotions is to cinema history, so in “Studio,” I put our intrepid elementals into 1930s Hollywood, at MGM.

Historically grounded AUs, in particular, do something distinctive: by placing those beautiful elements into a real history, they intervene in that history. This is true of any historical fiction that participates in the broader project of drawing attention to women loving women, and it is essential. My own Exhibit A here is a rather lengthy story called “Soon,” which takes on certain aspects of the 1950s, specifically the exhilarations of that decade’s popular music and the depredations of its Lavender Scare. That music is beautiful (to me), and I have placed them in relation to it; that history may not be beautiful in itself, but it is illuminated by their presence. (A shiny quarter was really worth something in the 1950s.)

I’ll close with one more thing Scarry notes. She says, “ancient and medieval philosophers always referred to it acoustically: beauty is a call.” What this fandom experience has shown me—what it is still showing me—is that if you hear that call in a particular way, on a particular frequency, you must respond. If you hear that call, you must heed it. Heed beauty whenever it incites you. I’m a ghost on the internet; you don’t know me, and I don’t know you. But I will nevertheless advise you: if you hear that call, you should respect it, and you should heed it. It’s an invitation, but it’s also an imperative. Pay attention. Be moved.

submitted by: anonymous

Helicobacter (71787 words) by @apparitionism Chapters: 17/17 Fandom: Warehouse 13 Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells Characters: Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells, Steve Jinks, Abigail Chow Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting Summary: Someone named “Helena” and someone named “Myka” happen to meet, happen to click in unexpected ways, and happen to encounter obstacles to exploring said clicking. Will these two crazy kids find a way to work things out? Well… this is a (very romantic) comedy, so let’s hope so. It’s about urban planning and medicine and fake engagements and koans and a lot of other things, including various flora and fauna and what the universe has in mind for each of us. As I’ve said before to kick off a story or two: now let’s have some fun.

Please tell us why you like this fic so much!

It's. Just. So. Enthusiastically. Bizarre.

It's got everything I love: breathtakingly awkward situations. Clever screwball comedy dialogue. Fake dating. Pedantry. A rake who's trying to be good. A good girl who's trying to make her stop. Koan. Abigail being Abigail. Marginalia (omg the marginalia!). A story about Myka and raccoons. Codewords. Charles and Helena being snarkily loving siblings.

And best of all it's a 'Helena is desperately trying to convince herself and everyone else that she is on top of the situation and she is absolutely not' fic, and I love those.

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