melannen | 100 days of enemy recs: 33. Vorkosigan Saga

A third of the way through! Only 83/100 left on the spreadsheet! :D

Most of the really popular ships in (English language) Vorkosigan fandom aren't particularly enemy-ship-ish, so it's easy for me to sometimes forget that actually Shards of Honor is, among other things. an absolutely iconic enemies-to-lovers romance novel. And that basically the rest of the entire series is about the ripples that original cross-cultural romance is still leaving on Barrayaran society.

So here are some stories that may not be entirely classically enemies-to-lovers but are still about that.

Shelter and Solace (10432 words) by Dira Sudis
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aral Vorkosigan/Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Civil War, Childhood Trauma, Sad Kid, Refugees

An AU that branches at the end of Shards of Honor where, instead of Cordelia seeking refuge on Barrayar, Aral comes to seek refuge on Beta.

Never Meant To See The Light Of Our Armistice Day. (3365 words) by Lanna Michaels
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aral Vorkosigan/Aral Vorkosigan's First Wife, Aral Vorkosigan/Cordelia Naismith
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Everybody Lives, Character Death Fix-It, Burying The Hatchet, Exes, Time Period: Reign of Gregor Vorbarra, Book: Mirror Dance, POV Aral Vorkosigan

An AU where Aral's first wife lives, is a person, and thirty years later they even manage to talk civilly to each other.

Vorkosigan's Day (4580 words) by Philomytha
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Duv Galeni, Aral Vorkosigan
Additional Tags: Military, Character Study, Seminar, War Crimes

Aral gives his annual talk to the Barrayaran Imperial Academy about ethics and the Komarran conquest, and the first Komarran cadet really wasn't prepared for who Aral had become since then.

Lilies of the Field (7814 words) by raven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Simon Illyan/Alys Vorpatril, Aral Vorkosigan/Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan
Characters: Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan, Alys Vorpatril, Simon Illyan, Gregor Vorbarra

Cordelia gets a small taste from the other side of what you have to deal with when your head of state decides to marry someone for love from a planet that half of you still consider mutual enemies.