Artificer & 'Phile / by anamatics (PG-15)

Title: Artificer & 'Phile
Author: anamatics 
Fandom: Warehouse 13
Pairings: Myka Bering/Helena "H.G." Wells
Genre: Romance, AU
Length: Long (Words: 62,741)

Author's Summary:
Myka is not currently a secret service agent. She has the credentials but after Denver she needed to get away from the bad memories. So at 29, she takes a leave of absence and is presently an associate professor at Hudson University, a totally made up college in NYC. She studies and teaches 19th century literature and teaches one class every semester on early science fiction and fantasy. It is her most popular class. Circumstances and a few twists of fate lead her back to the Warehouse, because some things are set in stone.

Review:
This story stands out in my memory in part because of how fascinating H.G.'s voice and manner are in this.  It really captures her character - how out of place she is due to the time travel, being involved with the Warehouses, and just generally being so clever, and really playing up the sort-of-villain that she is at this point in her story arc.  I find this fic interesting from a writer's craft perspective too because I actually have to remind myself to slow down and hear the actress's elegant, casual manner of speaking sometimes because usually the only people who are written so differently than others in the story are the camp villains but that's not how this is at all and I think it's really cool how that characterization has been worked  into this story.  Plus, again, this story has a lot of great literature references to go along with the history references that pepper canon.

Artificer & 'Phile (on AO3)