Um, please excuse the awkward self-promotion, but I was just skimming through the comm and noticed this. The first fic sounds awfully like one of mine - 'On Beauty' - that was a re-telling of The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist. I've recently had to remove it from my journal, since it's been published as part of a collection but... yeah. That might be why you're not able to track it down.

*End of self-pimping, slinks away*