4 Answers2026-06-28 10:49:21
I was searching for this exact thing a while back because I read everything in the 'Ava & Alex' tag on Ao3 and wanted more. Honestly, your best bet is to go straight to Archive of Our Own and use their filtering system. Tag 'Ava & Alex' (or whatever the specific pairing tag is, sometimes it's character/ship names) and then add the 'Crossover' tag. You can also filter by fandom and just browse the crossover section of whatever other universe you're interested in, looking for 'Ava & Alex' characters tagged. I've found some really weird but fun ones crossing over with 'The Magnus Archives' and even 'The Locked Tomb' series, which shouldn't work but somehow does.
Some writers will tag the relationship but not necessarily list it as a primary fandom if the crossover element is light, so you gotta dig a bit. I remember one where Ava and Alex were mysteriously transported to the world of 'The Witcher' and had to navigate that. It was more of a fusion than a strict crossover, but the character voices were spot-on. Don't overlook tumblr blogs dedicated to the pairing either; sometimes they recc lesser-known crossovers from smaller fic archives or even google docs links.
Word of warning though: the quality varies wildly. A lot of crossover fics lean heavily on one fandom's rules and kind of force the other characters in, so Ava and Alex can feel out of place. I usually check the comments and kudos count to see if it's worth my time. Happy hunting! It's a bit of a scavenger hunt but finding a good one is so satisfying.
4 Answers2026-07-08 10:07:29
Man, that pairing either hits you like a freight train of angst or does nothing at all, doesn't it? I tend to lean toward the 'does nothing' camp most days, but I read this one a few months back that actually stuck with me. It was less about the romance and more about the quiet, shared trauma of their respective situations. The emotional tension was in the silences, the way they'd talk around everything that happened without ever naming it.
What I liked was the author didn't force a resolution. They just let the characters be a mess together, which felt more realistic than a grand love declaration. I think the title was something like 'In the Stillness Between'. It's not a classic 'best of' rec, but it's the only one I've read where the tension felt earned instead of melodramatic.
Honestly, I usually find fics for them overly sentimental, but that one managed to pull back at all the right moments.
4 Answers2026-07-08 08:49:35
Liz and Jason? Honestly, that pairing always felt like an uphill battle to make work, which is maybe why the best fics about them feel so earned. I'm thinking of one specific longfic, can't recall the title, that was basically a slow-motion train wreck where Jason was forced into a diplomatic role after some 'Red Hood gone corporate' premise. The conflict wasn't about big fights, but about how Liz’s meticulous, by-the-book nature constantly chafed against his impulse to tear the whole system down. Their growth came from finding a third way—not him becoming a rule-follower or her becoming an anarchist, but them building a new protocol together, one that acknowledged the messiness he saw but retained the structure she needed. It turned their ideological clash into a creative engine. They had to invent a new language to talk to each other, and watching that language evolve chapter by chapter was the real payoff. The moment that stuck with me was Jason finally admitting that some of her 'pointless' procedures actually created a kind of safety net he’d never considered, not for physical safety, but for psychological stability.
Other fics lean harder into the mutual damage angle, which can be hit or miss. When it's done poorly, it’s just trauma Olympics. When it’s done well, the conflict is about competing coping mechanisms—her need for control versus his self-destructive defiance—and the growth is in them recognizing those patterns in each other and, sometimes, calling it out. It’s less about fixing each other and more about refusing to let the other person get away with their own worst habits. I tend to skip the ones where they 'heal' each other magically; the interesting part is the friction, not the resolution.
4 Answers2026-07-08 13:02:50
Man, the amount of creativity in the 'Liz & Jason' tag (usually for 'General Hospital,' right?) always surprises me. They’ve got decades of soap history to play with, so the tropes run deep.
A huge one is the 'Forbidden Love/Star-Crossed' angle, but cranked up to eleven. It's not just family disapproval; it's him being a mob enforcer and her being the police commissioner's daughter, or later, a doctor sworn to do no harm. That intrinsic moral clash is the engine for so many stories. Writers love putting them in high-stakes scenarios where Jason’s ‘work’ directly threatens Liz’s family or hospital, forcing impossible choices between love and safety.
Another staple is the 'Amnesia/Identity Reveal' plot. Given Jason’s actual history with memory loss, fics explore what happens if he remembers everything about being Jason Morgan while he's with Liz. Or flip it: what if Liz discovers a secret about Jason’s past that he himself doesn’t know? The drama is in the unraveling and whether their bond can survive the truth.
I’ve also seen a ton of ‘Co-Parenting’ and ‘Domestic AU’ fics. These often spin off from their time raising Jake. They imagine a world where they just... stay together. The appeal is the quiet, settled warmth contrasted with the chaos of their canon lives—Jason helping with homework, Liz patching up a minor injury, this fragile normalcy they built and protect.
What I find most interesting is how the fandom often writes Jason softer than canon, but through Liz’s perspective, which makes it feel earned. His loyalty shifts from the mob to her, becoming his new code.