The short story on "Baltimore": I loved it.

( The longer story on 'Baltimore!' With spoilers, obviously, and speculation on the promo. )

Many thanks to dictiongoddess for reading this in advance and shaping it into something coherent and much, much better.

The sequel to "Ten Nonlinear Moves." Upcoming in the series, the companion piece "Sine Qua Non." Slight spoilers for Season Four.

( In which everyone asks important questions such as, 'Doesn't getting back to normal mean ditching the obsessive list-making?' and 'What's in Spain, anyway?'; also, Tony eats a pretzel, McGee and Ziva differ on how to handle Tony's inner pain, and Gibbs doesn't know what to do about a locked drawer. )

"Ten Incomplete Regressions" is shaping up to be a little longer and a little sadder than "Ten Nonlinear Moves." Currently, seven of the ten regressions are finished: they feature snooping, normalcy, Bond girls, Freudian slips, Three Dog Night songs, bruises, and implied demonic possession. But I couldn't let "Requiem" pass by without responding ( Read more... )

And it's "Ten Nonlinear Moves" in a landslide! Sometime tomorrow, I'll probably also upload a commentary on "Caulk the Wagon and Float It" for donutsweeper and dictiongoddess, and after that, I'll do all the individual requests because, well, this is just a lot of fun. I already know that "Caulk the Wagon and Float It" is ideal for this, too, because I actually have an ( Read more... )

A tag, of sorts, for "Family." As a warning, you ought to know that I have an inherent desire to write stories that are fluffier and sweeter than cotton candy and, most of the time, I suppress them. (Or channel them into stories like "I Can't Wait to See Their Faces," where there is team!love in the beginning and a massive, everybody-dies ( Read more... )

( Still, he tried-he had saved Tony once and everything after that was just a reiteration, the two of them always coming full circle as best they could. )

( I have so much love for this episode, it has rendered me incoherent with joy. Do not click on the cut-tag unless you're prepared to be spoiled for this Tuesday's episode of NCIS and/or you would like to think of me as intelligent and well-adjusted. )

( He didn’t think about it because he knew the consequences of it: knew that Lucas had wrenched his neck around so that he was always looking backwards now, knew that his sense of time was now painfully out of joint, knew that if let himself realize it, he’d know that he was seeing Pete’s lab in his head and not Abby’s. But Tony had a good handle on what he did and did not let himself know and so he let it slip away from him into the dark, along with his knowledge of how he had looked to Gibbs as easily as a compass turned north. There were some things he just didn’t need to know. )

Considering The Third Day has a lot to do with Tony and Gibbs having some fairly serious communication issues in Season Four, I thought I needed something to paint the scene a little brighter. Be warned: I'm not sure how funny this would be without at least a little knowledge of Jimmy Buffet. In addition to the usual disclaimers about not owning ( Read more... )

Picture Season Four without the La Grenouille entanglements; then add Rictus.

( He was still angry. Still, in some ways, furious. It hit him sometimes when he didn’t expect it, when he’d almost forgotten it; the weight he thought he’d shrugged off rolled onto his shoulders again and he had to try once more to get rid of it. Sisyphus on the mountain. )