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Title: Missing and Present
Fandom: Spooks/MI-5
Characters/Pairing: Ros/Lucas
Rating: R
Wordcount: Approx. 1800
Spoilers: Set in the immediate aftermath of 708, so contains spoilers through the end of Series 7
Summary: Ros bears burdens for colleagues both missing and present. But maybe she's not the only one.

Written for PetiteEtoile22 for Yuletide '08. She asked for Ros/Lucas hurt-comfort. I'm not sure if I quite managed the hurt-comfort, but I aimed for a similar kind of mood.


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For those who prefer visiting the Yuletide archive itself, my story is here.

Title: Gifts
Fandom: Spooks/MI-5
Rating: PG
Wordcount: Just over 2000
Characters/Pairing: Juliet, Ruth, Harry, and Oliver Mace; references to Ruth/Harry, Juliet/Harry, and maybe even Mace/Harry if you squint
Spoilers: Set during Series 4, although there are no particular spoilers aside from who the characters are.
Note: Written for green_bottles for the Spooks Secret Santa 2008 Challenge. She asked for Juliet, Lucas, Ruth, Harry, or Mace as characters (I managed 4 of the 5!) and Juliet/Harry, Ruth/Harry, Malcolm/Ros, Malcolm/Colin, or Harry/Mace as pairings (I got in 3, well, maybe 2 1/2 of 5), and her prompt was "biting piece of chocolate with dry exterior". I hope you like it!

Spooks Secret Santa Masterlist here.


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Title: The Monster At Home
Fandom: Spooks/MI-5
Rating: R (for references to violence and strong language)
Characters: Juliet-centric genfic, with appearances by Harry, Ros, and Adam, among others.
Spoilers: Contains spoilers all the way through the end of S6; certain scenes and snippets of dialogue borrowed from numerous episodes scattered throughout S5 and S6.
Wordcount: Approximately 7700
Summary: How could she have failed to notice such a dangerous threat? She hadn't thought to be vigilant for it, that's how. She'd spent too many years in Washington: she hadn't paid enough attention to the monster lurking at home.
Disclaimer and thanks: The characters and settings belong to the BBC and Kudos. Thanks to msgenevieve for the handholding and encouragement and to petite etoile22 for the beta! This is a new fandom for me, and constructive criticism is more than welcome!

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Title: Tango Circular
Fandom: La Femme Nikita
Characters: Madeline, Paul (Operations)
Prompt: 044. Circle.
Word Count: Approx. 768
Rating: PG
Summary: A visit to Argentina prompts a conversation that goes in circles.
Author's Notes: This is set pre-series, but one could say there are mild spoilers for Season 2. Written for the Fanfic100 challenge over on LJ, and also offered to nell65 for her birthday. Nell, may you break out of circles and forge an exciting, new path!

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House, Amber, and character arcs - contains spoilers for the season finale!

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I got back from Yosemite last night. It was as beautiful as ever, of course! However, I learned the hard way that snowshoeing is not necessarily very kind to my verging-on-messed-up knees. Maybe on a perfectly flat surface it would be fine, but tramping over lumps and sloped surfaces? Ouch.

On a fannish note: one of my travel companions brought a book along to read before bed. I did a double-take when I saw the author was the one and only Lee Goldberg! I stifled my cackle of glee because I knew it would be impossible to explain fandom_wank to a non-fan, but I did manage to sneak a look at it: a Monk tie-in novel, written at what looked to me like a 5th grade reading level. It was every much as trite as one might imagine. (Mind you, I find the TV series itself insufferably annoying, so I might not be a very impartial judge.) Still, it was exciting (if a little disconcerting) to stumble across an actual Lee Goldberg reader among my own acquaintances!

Real life has been kind of kicking my ass lately, in more ways than one, so I haven't done a lot of posting.

However, I leave tomorrow morning on a 3-day trip to Yosemite. I'm looking forward to waterfalls at their fullest, and hopefully avoiding the bears. ;-) This should be a nice little break, and I look forward to returning with a little more energy for online fun. Unfortunately, I'll miss the IJ content party tomorrow, but I'll catch up when I get back!

I collected some wonderful questions in response to my posting the 10 Character Meme the other day, so I'm now posting my answers. I'll combine questions from people on both my LJ and IJ flists, because the answers are too hilarious not to share.

( Answers include 24, Alias, Angel, BSG, Desperate Housewives, House M.D., Prison Break, Rome, Ugly Betty and Wicked )

This one's stolen from deborak because I saw what hilarious results she got:

Me: 1) Make a list of 10 characters.
Me: 2) Assign each character a number.
You, O Members Of My Flist: 3) Without knowing who's on the list or the character's assigned number, ask what you would like to know about these characters. (IE: "If 3 and 4 were trapped in a cave together with only a blanket and a toothpick, what would they do?" (The more random, bizarre and ludicrous the better!)
Me: 4) Post the answers and who was who on the list.

The more questions the better, so ask as many as you'd like.

I participated in the Yuletide ficathon for the first time this year, which was quite fun although somewhat intimidating! Now that the author reveal has happened, I can post a link to the story I wrote.

The fandom is Kill Bill, and my recipient is Hikario, who asked for Bride aka Beatrix Kiddo/Elle Driver/Go-Go Yubari/O-Ren Ishii, and added that "It's Kill Bill; violence, blood, introspection, s'all good. Character exploration would be especially nice." I made sure to include all these characters and did my best to include a bit of both blood and introspection. It was fun to write (my first fic in this fandom, so it was also hard and I was very very nervous!), and Hikario left me the nicest comment EVER. You rock, Hikario!

Rating: Maybe R for violent imagery. Spoilers for Parts I and II, plus some speculation about possibilities afterwards. Genfic, multicharacter.

Link is here: Dreams.

I had a wonderful holiday visit with my family and managed to suffer only one O'Hare-related flight cancellation (resulting in an extra night's stay in Michigan), so hooray! And what with all the Tiger Mauling!OMG coverage on CNN, I felt like I hadn't left home at all.

Of course, what is coming to welcome me back to the Bay Area? What the news is calling the biggest storm system to hit in years, starting tomorrow! Whee! I guess I'll be donning my wading boots and heavy raincoat for my commute tomorrow morning, and hoping that I don't arrive at work looking like a drowned rat. It's only a ten-minute walk from my apartment to BART, but there are several street crossings that flood at the slightest hint of rain. Ack.

I love winter (not!).

I'm scurrying to get work done at the office tonight, will be doing last-minute errands tomorrow, and then it's off to SFO tomorrow night for a red-eye east for the holidays! I have to change planes at the dreaded O'Hare, so please wish me good airport karma (as I think I'll need it)!

I'll be back home after the 2nd, so Happy New Year, all!

Title: Passing
Fandom: La Femme Nikita
Characters: Madeline
Prompt: 065. Passing
Word Count: Approx. 1340
Rating: PG-13 (for references to violence)
Summary: Everyone cheats on tests sometimes.
Author's Notes: This is set vaguely mid-Season 4, but there are no particular spoilers of note. Written for the Fanfic100 challenge over on LJ, which I am finally getting started on!

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I was sitting in my office doing exciting filing and sorting of my travel expenses this evening, when the building started moving around quite distractingly!

It wasn't too bad, really, just a 5.6 a little farther south of me, but it's always a reminder to stock up on emergency supplies. *Resolves to rotate water storage soon*

How boring is my life when the most exciting thing to happen this week is that a new Trader Joe's opened within walking distance of my home?

Still. I am psyched!

TITLE: The Pirate Queen and the Governor's Daughter
AUTHOR: jaybee65
FANDOM: House, M.D.
PAIRING: Cuddy/Cameron
RATING: PG
SUMMARY: If there's one thing Governor Cameron has taught his daughter Allison to do, it's to hold her head high. No matter what the circumstances.
A/N: Written for Prompt #255 of the cuddy_fest on LJ: "The Pirate Queen abducts the governor's daughter. But Allison never wanted to be a governor's daughter anyway. Sexy swashbuckling adventures ensue." This is fluffy, silly crackfic.

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TITLE: Hopeless Causes
AUTHOR: jaybee65
FANDOM: House, M.D.
PAIRING: Cuddy/Cameron
RATING: A hard R, maybe verging on NC-17
SUMMARY: They don't actually have a lot in common, aside from an accident of gender, a choice of profession, and apparently a bad habit of seducing people they don't much like when they're bored.
A/N: Written for Prompt #161 of the cuddy_fest on LJ: "They don't even really like each other, so why are they doing this again?"

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I always tell myself that on the weekend I'll be able to get plenty of writing done, and I almost always end up achieving *less* than I do during the week. I am too easily distracted by errands and entertainment, I think.

What I have done, ficwise: trashed my Cuddyfest ficlets and started them anew. I do think they'll be much better -- that is if they're done in time! Argh.

What I let myself get distracted by: a new weight training routine; an art exhibit held at a pinball arcade, of all places; grocery shopping under my new resolution to avoid anything containing corn syrup. However, I still have a day and a half of weekend time left. *Vows to be good and do more writing*

Thanks to the partner (well, practically speaking, the boss) taking an early day off (and telling me to do the same), I'm almost done with my Housefic contributions for the Cuddyfest over on LJ! If only there weren't other distractions tempting my idle mind -- the latest MsScribe kerfuffle to catch up reading and boggling at; a new disk in the mail from Netflix; a nearby brewpub on a hot afternoon -- I might have even finished this evening. Instead, my goal is by the end of the weekend.

Have I mentioned that I adore the new series "Damages"? (Yes, I know, I did.) But this cannot be mentioned enough! I'm a total dork about it, too: when Glenn Close's character referred to "the ERISA statute," I cackled aloud. /legalgeekishness

All right. Beer beckons. Ficwriting tomorrow.

Tagged by artisan447 over on her LJ, who didn't think I'd actually do this. Cross-posting here on IJ because I've met some new people, and thus it's a nice opportunity to introduce myself.

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.

( Seven Things About Me )

I'm going to break rules 2-3 and simply tag anyone who wants to do this. Does this mean that vengeful meme fairies will come after me?