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H50: Three Basic Rules (gen)

2011-01-25T01:20:19Z

Okay, I feel like I need to explain the hell out of this thing. You'll notice that it's a really, really significant departure from what I usually write. My defense? I had to! They made me! No seriously, it was the first challenge for sd_ldws. The prompt: Write crackfic. Word limit: 300 (And yes, that did damn near kill me. My first draft? 534 words.)

Title: Three Basic Rules
Fandom: Hawaii 5-0 (2010)
Pairing: Gen
Rating: PG
Length: 300
Written for: sd_ldws Challenge #1
Summary: Steve figured there had to be a reason Danny hates the beach, hates the sunlight and refuses to surf, but he never expected this.
Warnings: none

Steve thought the bullet had only hit the headlight, but as Danny’s car died on a moonlit backroad at quarter-to-one, he realized he may have been wrong.

Danny glared at him. “’Only cosmetic damage’. Why do I listen to you?”

Steve hit the hood-release, certain he could repair the damage and get them home before dawn. “I’ll fix it; you sit there and whine. Once I’m done, I expect you to spring for burgers on the way back.”

Danny flipped him off. “I cannot eat this late at night.” He climbed out to watch Steve tinker. “So… what’d you do to my car?” Steve fiddled with a hose - which promptly popped loose and sprayed water on Danny.

“Oh fuck! You did not get me wet!” Danny jumped back, swearing and trying desperately to wipe the water off on anything available.

Wondering how the hell a little water rated that much drama, Steve turned and saw something rolling and pulsing under Danny’s shirt before three little fuzzy balls plopped out.

“Holy shit!” Steve barked, eyes wide. “This is why you won’t surf? Why you hate the Hawaiian sun? You’re a damn Gremlin?”

“Mogwai, fuck-you-very-much,” Danny mumbled as the three furballs uncoiled into small critters with abnormally huge eyes.

Steve blinked owlishly. “Christ, this is where Grace came from?”

“That’s what you want to say to me, right now?”

“That’s what sprang to mind first. This is why you hate the beach. The water, the sun. And no burgers… it’s after midnight.” Steve was practically giddy with figuring it out.

“Yeah, well, I figure, you’re the one with a dark basement for these guys.”

Steve’s eyes got wide. “Wait, did I just become an unwed-father, Gizmo?”

Danny grinned as he got back in the car and Steve went back to work.

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White Collar: The Lion's Historian (Gen)

2011-01-11T00:59:05Z

Title: The Lion's Historian
Rating: PG
Length: 1549
Written for: Fandom_Stocking 2010
Fandom: White Collar
Pairing: Gen, Peter & Neal friendship
Summary: Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb

( The Lion's Historian )

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NCIS: LA - Conspicuous Failings - Gen

2011-01-02T21:35:36Z

Title: Conspicuous Failings
Rating: PG
Pairing: None, gen
Length: 1544
Written for: Yuletide 2010
Summary: "An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."

- Walter Bagehot

( Conspicuous Failings )

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NCIS LA: Five Minutes to Grieve (Callen/Hanna)

2010-05-08T23:42:15Z

Title: Five Minutes to Grieve
Rating: PG-13
Length: 310 words (Hey, I said word counts were just guidelines! :)
Summary: Post-"Found". What comes next?
Written for: callenhanna Three Weeks for Dreamwidth challenge. Prompt words: foreign and domestic

Callen is under absolutely no illusions about what his team expects of him now. Sam is dealing with his grief and helplessness by escorting Dom’s body to the morgue. Nate is filling out the paperwork necessary for Dom’s parents to receive his death benefits. Hetty is filling out Dom’s termination paperwork in between bouts of counseling agents and techs who have never lost a teammate before. Kensi is mopping up the crime scene, combing it relentlessly for bullets and casings and anything else they can use to bring down anyone within a lightyear of this clusterfuck.

Eric has been staring at the freezeframe of Dom’s face on the video – just before he was shot, Sam’s name still on his lips in warning – and crying for at least the hour Callen has been back.

Callen has called Vance, arguing the point and winning that he should make the first call to Dom’s parents. Vance could call once their shock had worn off. He called, asking for Mr. Vaile and trying not to sound as detached as he’s starting to feel.

Sam’s back by the time Callen’s off the phone – Callen can hear the rhythmic thwap-thwap-thwap of his hands on the bag hanging upstairs.

Callen opens his laptop and begins to comb through the various forms and reports on the server for the ones he needs before just searching for ‘terrorism’. When it comes back with the reply ‘FOREIGN or DOMESTIC’ Callen leans back in his chair and stares at the blue text on white.

Suddenly he has to think about exactly how this happened. That it happened in their own backyard. That Sam literally had Dom in hand and they still managed to lose him to foreign terrorists.

Hoping everyone else is too wrapped up in their own grief, Callen pushes his laptop aside and rests his head on his folded arms, letting the first tear fall. He’ll give himself five minutes to get it back under control, and then he’ll go back to being what his team needs.

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NCIS: LA fic - Personal Entertainment Committee (gen)

2010-03-14T01:00:34Z

Title: Personal Entertainment Committee
Rating: PG-13
Length: 994
Summary: G had started talking about staging a 'jail break'. He was starting to get restless. He was past being bored.
Written for: NCISDaily Prompt #13 - games

( Personal Entertainment Committee )

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Motherly Advice II: Close the Door. Were You Born in a Barn?

2010-03-12T02:19:14Z

Title: Motherly Advice II: Close the Door. Were you Born in a Barn?
Rating: PG
Length: 1204
Summary: Honest to Goodness Radioactivity terms:

Milk: To elute a cow.
Elute: To separate by washing (to milk).
Cow: A radioisotope generator system.

G wants to know why Sam knows this. And how it applies to their current case. And if the farmer with radioactive animals will foster Sam's Chernobyl-esque frog-swan-duck thing.

Written for: NCISDaily Prompt #11 - animal
Notes: I was actually well into this story before I looked up a list of radioactivity terms. I saw 'cow' and about fell over. So yeah, those are real terms. The puns on the other hand, are all mine. I take full blame and offer abject apologies up front.

( Close the Door. Were You Born in a Barn? )

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NCIS LA Fic: SEALs in the Antarctic (Gen)

2010-03-04T01:15:15Z

Title: SEALs in the Antarctic
Rating: PG
Length: 456
Summary: G screws up and now they have to sit through a stake-out. Predictably, weird conversations ensue.
Written for: NCISDaily Prompt #3 - The Simpsons
Notes: Prompt was "The Simpsons". I hate that show with the firey passion of a thousand suns, so this has as little to do with them as I could manage. :p

( SEALs in the Antarctic )

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NCIS LA Fic: Tea and Sympathy (gen)

2010-02-20T21:00:28Z

Title: Tea and Sympathy
Rating: G
Length: 645 words
Summary: After a cold shower, in a mall, Sam and G could use a little looking after.
Written for: Cedara in a comment fic exchange. Her prompt: Tea, Hetty style.
SPOILERS: LD50. This is a Missing Scene for the same.

( Tea and Sympathy )

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WC Fic: Monsieur Vol du Furet (Gen)

2010-01-31T01:46:36Z

Title: Monsieur Vol du Furet
Rating: G
Pairing: Gen
Word Count: 932
Author's Notes: Written for Misura who donated to Help_Haiti in return for this story. She turned my habitual ferret prompt back on me.
Summary: "Ferrets are illegal in New York," Peter told Neal.
"Well, that's just stupid."
"Speaking of stupid, Neal, did you notice he's trying to eat your hand?"

Peter and Neal ferret out the evidence.

( Monsieur Vol du Furet )

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WC Fic: Mostly Harmless (Gen or Peter/Neal)

2010-01-09T16:19:25Z

Title: Mostly Harmless
Rating: PG
Pairing: Gen or Peter/Neal, read as you like
Word Count: 769
Author's Notes: Written for JoyfulFeather at Fandom_Stocking. She wanted Peter/Neal and sweet little moments.
Summary: Neal sees a grossly disfigured body. It does not sit well. Peter doesn't want to be obvious, but he does want to take care of his partner.

( Mostly Harmless )

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NCIS: LA - ICE (In Case of Emergency) - Gen/Pre-slash

2009-10-08T21:44:17Z

Title: ICE (In Case of Emergency)
Rating: R
Pairing: Gen/pre-slash Callen/Hanna
Word Count: 2626
Author's Notes: Written for the talk_bingo challenge at Dreamwidth. Prompt: "suppertime"
Summary: Tag to "Legend". Sam doesn't want to be the one to make that call.

( ICE (In Case of Emergency) )

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NCIS: LA - Counseling Session - Gen/Pre-slash

2009-10-08T21:22:00Z

Title: Counseling Session
Rating: PG
Pairing: Gen/pre-slash Callen/Hanna
Word Count: 1691
Author's Notes: Written for the talk_bingo challenge at Dreamwidth. Prompt: "Counseling Session"
Summary: Callen will talk when he needs to, just not to Nate if he can help it.

( Counseling Session )

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NCIS: The Power to Make Others Happy (gen)

2009-08-03T01:27:43Z

Title: The Power to Make Others Happy
Pairings: none (gen)
Genre(s): angst, tag
Rating: PG
Warning(s): Takes place about one month after "Aliyah" and contains potential spoilers for everything from "Ice Queen" and "Meltdown" to "Aliyah"
Word Count: 1729
Author's Notes: This was my story for the last round of NCIS_LFWS. The prompt was to write a cliffhanger. And before you ask, no, I don't plan to follow this up.
Summary: “Every person has the power to make others happy.
Some do it simply by entering a room --
others by leaving the room.
- William Arthur Ward

( The Power to Make Others Happy )

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NCIS: Punching Bag

2009-06-09T02:37:05Z

Title: Punching Bag
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Gen
Genre: Character Study
Word Count: 2271
Author's Notes: Written for ncis_lfws session 2, round 2. The challenge was to write any given character's pov for a character study piece. I got a +11 (the only other story with positive points in the round was +3). This story follows Iced.
Summary: Tony knows he has issues. But just knowing that doesn't resolve them.

( Punching Bag )

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BSG: Get the Frak Out

2009-05-31T21:56:47Z

Title : Get the Frak Out
Pairing: L/K if you want to see it that way, but really gen
Rating: PG-13 for made up swear words
Summary: Apollo bets Starbuck she can't go a week without her favorite word
AN: Written for as a series of drabbles and double/triple drabbles. Posted here as one document.

( Get the Frak Out )

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SGA: Pink Eye

2009-05-31T21:37:59Z

So there was this silly challenge on one of the yahoogroups...

Title: Pink-Eye
Pairing: None - Gen
Challenge: use the line: "Did they have to paint it pink?" I had to tweak the line just a tiny bit.
Words: 700
Summary: John had finally gone to his lab and pulled Rodney's head away from the microscope by the hair at the back of his head. "Briefing. Now." He damn near bit through his tongue trying not to laugh at what he saw.
Originally Posted on: 9.01.05

( Pink Eye )

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BSG: Unforgivable

2009-05-31T20:42:12Z

Title: Unforgivable
Ratings: PG
Word Count:100
Character: Starbuck

For the first time in her life she didn’t pray before launching. She’d seen people die in a ball of fire before, several times, and had always prayed that it wouldn’t be her.

But now, after seeing the hurt in Lee’s eyes, she didn’t pray to come home alive. Coming home would mean explaining what she’d done and why she’d never told him.

And even worse, it could mean explaining it to the old man.

No, this time she’d do what she could to help the fleet, but if she didn’t come back, that would be just as well.

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NCIS - Blast from the Past (gen)

2009-05-31T01:26:53Z

Title: Blast from the Past
Season/Episode: 2/"Twilight" (just after Tony tells McGee and Kate to run before the car blows up.)
Character(s): Tony, Gibbs, Ducky
Pairing(s): none (gen) (if you're Gibbs/DiNozzo inclined, you can read it that way - I certainly won't be offended ;)
Written for: ncis_lfws challenge #1 - Write a missing scene for any episode in seasons 1, 2, 3 or 4. Word limit: 750
Author's Note: I tied for first place with this story. I had an aggragate score of +5 with no negative votes. *squee*

( Blast from the Past )

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NCIS: Aftermath - Gibbs/DiNozzo

2009-05-17T02:50:21Z

Title: Aftermath
Author: Waldo.
Words: 1000
Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo-ish... kind of gen-ish too...
Rating: R for the 'f' word.
Summary: Tony knows exactly how pear-shaped things went in Ziva's apartment.
Notes: For this particular fic, they could dwarf the story.

In one of the commentaries on the DVDs Michael Weatherly states that in his personal canon for DiNozzo, Tony never wears underwear. (Which begs the question of the red ones in his filing cabinet that Gibbs finds.)
This story contains *actual* SPOILERS for "Semper Fidelis" and conjecture based on the preview for "Aliyah."
This is the sign: This story was written for ncis1000words where one of the picture prompts was the sign.

( Aftermath )

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