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La Femme Nikita WIP updates (AU edition)
This time around I've got five AUs in the fandom that I've been working on. I wanted to do a similar post as a way of keeping myself accountable. Hopefully, in a year's time I can come back and proclaim that I have successfully posted all those stories. Or, at least the majority of them.
strategic automation (android AU)
Strategic Automation involves the fandom tendency to refer to Michael during missions as going into “Machine Mode” This is 100% fanon. It’s never been on the show, but it was a pretty common way to describe Michael. It describes the very focused headspace that he enters and how very methodical and indiscriminate he is and how detached he gets when the success of a mission is paramount. So I wanted to do an Android AU where Michael is an actual machine. It’s currently at about 11,000 words, which honestly surprises me. Lately, this story has gotten much more complicated as other elements that I hadn't expected started popping up and got incorporated. I can see the ending though. My current guess is perhaps around 16,000 words.
“You’ve desired him physically…romantically even.”
To have Madeline put it out there so boldly caused Nikita to flush, her skin to feel oppressively overheated.
“There’s nothing to feel ashamed about. You were trained in close proximity by one of our best. Michael represents the initiative at its most successful."
“He feels human,” her observation came out whisper quiet.
“He’s supposed to. We’ve used Michael on a number of Valentine missions. Your attraction to him was expected, anticipated even.”
Madeline’s words of cold facts left Nikita unbalanced.
She’d kissed Michael. Felt what she thought was his desire for her, at least the physical manifestation of it. She could still feel the heat of his hand as it eased under her sweater and moved across her lower back, his oddly erotic and sensuous touch when he raked his nails across her upper thighs and as he teased the nerve endings on her hands. He spoke to her pretty words of longing and companionship. His mouth was pliant and passionate against hers. Michael had felt very male.
She felt like a fool.
you are the space in my bed (movie star AU)
My favorite child right now is a Movie Star AU based on a fanvid that I saw. I absolutely LOVED the idea of doing something with this concept. Nikita is a rising Hollywood starlet filming in Europe and Michael is this boat restorer that she encounters and eventually has a love affair with. Of course Michael is extremely pragmatic and when Nikita’s film wraps, he advocates for the relationship’s end. Nikita wants to try long distance, but Michael is set on protecting his heart. This one has an obscene amount of smut. It’s actually kinda embarrassing. It’s also at around 42,000 words right now and about 80% of a satisfactory first draft. It went from under 1000 words to about 15,000 over the course of a week. I REALLY got into writing this story. I've currently got a 40+ song playlist, a Pinterest pinboard, and a curated list of Nikita's fictional movie career. I'm in deep with this one.
A woman unfamiliar to him answers the door to Nikita’s suite at the hotel and she looks at him cautiously.
“Nikita,” he tells her.
“Is that him?” Nikita’s voice carries from inside. “I’m expecting someone, Louise.”
The woman at the door, Louise, allows him in and he sees Nikita inspecting a display housing an assortment of undoubtedly expensive jewelry.
She’s clad in a silk blue kimono and her blonde hair is up in a multitude of large brightly colored rollers. Her eyes light up when she sees him and Michael momentarily forgets that they’re not alone.
Smiling brightly, she rushes towards him and kisses his cheeks.
“You came!”
She carries with her a long stemmed flute filled with champagne. In her zeal to get to him, some of the liquid sloshes over the rim, but she doesn’t seem to notice. Michael takes in her happiness and looks at her with amusement and fondness.
“I had a facial and a massage earlier. It was very decadent. I also fell asleep on the table,” she adds half embarrassed and with an impish laugh. “Although, I have to say that I definitely prefer your hands on me.” She whispers into his ear and he can see that her eyes are dark with desire.
Michael looks behind her and sees a small group gathered to style Nikita for the evening’s event. They eye him with curiosity but otherwise keep to themselves. To them, he was likely a strange interloper into their world of glamour and celebrity. That in itself doesn’t bother him. It’s not his world. Nor does he care for it to be, but the woman standing before him is primped and ready to don a designer haute couture gown and network with a cadre of rich and famous does.
the world is falling (apocalypse AU)
Another story is an apocalypse AU based on the trailer to another Roy Dupuis project from 2021. He did a short film called, “Take Me To A Nice Place” in which he plays a man who roams an apocalyptic Quebec collecting genetic material for a cloning project. Roy is older and grizzled with long and graying Michael-like hair. His weapon of choice is a semi automatic with a laser scope. The movie shows him surveying abandoned buildings with the proficiency he would often display when playing Michael on missions. So I wanted to do a story where he and Nikita have managed to survive in the aftermath of an earth destroying event. I want this one to be short so I’m shooting for a story around 3000-5000 words.
They found solace in each other.
Her mouth on his is needy.
“Michael.”
He thrusts into her with increasing urgency. He could have lost her, but he didn’t. Instead her body envelops him and reminds him that they’re both still alive.
“I can’t get pregnant,” she later says. “We’re in no position to care for a child.”
Nikita’s words are spoken quietly. Their bodies are pressed up against each other with Michael’s arm curved around her. In addition to the rise and fall of her chest, her voice vibrates through him.
Nikita’s IUD was good for 10 years. It was Section’s preferred method of birth control. After that, they’ll need alternative means.
a stubbornly persistent illusion (parallel universe AU)
Nikita is accidentally transported into a parallel universe where an older, solitary Michael is now Operations of Section One. This one is based on a portrait photograph of Roy Dupuis from a 2015 edition of Elle Quebec in which his styling is so very elegant and very reminiscent of what I imagine an older Michael would look like. There’s some timey wimey stuff doing on with this one. There’s also a squint or you’ll miss it borrowing from the spy series Counterpart that dealt with parallel universes and how the portal between the two worlds works. It’s more Section based so I’m struggling with that portion of the story.
He’d lost her. With all his skills and all his experience Michael couldn’t keep Nikita safe and he lost her.
It was a private shrine where Michael kept his memories of her. Deep down Michael knew that Nikita would never have wanted to be deified but over time, it simply happened. Everything that was Nikita he hoarded for himself. In the beginning, hardly anyone would dare speak her name, especially in his presence. Eventually it became an unspoken mandate. As the years went by and Michael continued to survive and then eventually outlive those who knew Nikita, it became far easier to continue construction on the very structure where everything Nikita resided. When he ascended to command of Section One, Michael commandeered any and all Section files that even mentioned Nikita. She was his and his alone. It wasn’t healthy. He knew that. Michael didn’t care.
i'm bareboned and crazy for you (high school/college AU)
I started this high school AU a few months ago. It probably shouldn't even be included yet. I have no business writing this one because I definitely have enough stories to keep me occupied. However, it’s based on a line in season 3’s "Third Party Ripoff" from Michael to Nikita in which he asks her if Madeline instructed Nikita to stay away from him. The line delivery and scenario really struck me as being like some high school bad boy asking his girlfriend if her mom told her to stay away from him. I’ve got about 13,000 words for it. It really grew about two weeks ago. I got inspired. Nikita is this exemplary student enrolled in an international high school in Paris while she stays with her parents’ close friends Paul and Madeline. As she's nearing graduation, she's starting to question whether what she's been working for is really what she wants. She meets University student Michael and they start seeing each other. Paul and Madeline are concerned about the intensity of the fledgling relationship and are worried that Nikita dating an older and clearly more experienced man might derail all her potential. Nikita is 17 and Michael is 21. Michael is also involved with L’Heure Sanguine and they are showing signs of being the volatile group that they become. Questions of Michael's dedication to the cause come up as he spends more time with Nikita. And yes, Nikita does lose her virginity to Michael.
“You look nervous,” Michael tells her as he tucks strands of her hair behind her ear. “We don’t have to do this. There’s no need to rush. I like spending time with you.”
“I want this…with you. It’s just that I always told myself that having sex for the first time wasn’t a big deal.
“It is a big deal. It’s a beautiful thing. It’s also fun,” he adds in an easygoing way. “And exciting and tender. Sex is all those things individually and all together. It can be a way to get lost and forget or to connect on the most intimate level with someone. It is a big deal.”
Michael cups her face and kisses her. Their lips meet as they have previously, gliding over each other. His tongue teases the seam of her lips and Nikita opens her mouth to allow him entrance. She wraps her arms around his neck and Michael wraps his arms around her waist.
She feels protected and special in Michael’s arms. His warmth and strength seeps into her body. He rests his forehead against hers.
“I want this to be good for you.” He tells her, caressing her face with the back of his fingers.
“It will be. It’ll be with you…I trust you.”