Title: Ephemeris, Ch. 14

WC: ~2800 this chapter, ~34,000 total

Summary: "It's too familiar, despite the crowd she can just see out of the corner of her eye. Despite the noise and the scent of smoke on salt air. The shadows and the tell-tale metallic click are too familiar. That stupid baseball cap pulled low and the barest glint of blue eyes. She ( Read more... )

Title: Ephemeris, Ch. 13

WC: 3,000 this chapter, ~32,000 so far (my word count got off somewhere along the way)

Rating: T

Summary: "It's for the best. The part of her she wants to be-the part she's been growing into since she met him- believes. But it's small and fragile. It's been built up like this. In loss and pain and more kinds of fear than she ( Read more... )

Title: Ephemeris, Ch. 12

WC: 2700 this chapter, ~30,000 so far

Rating: T

Summary: "When it's dark, and the wounded places inside fill with fear that whispers that this is something awful she's dreamed up-something awful she's done to them all-she lays her head in Martha's lap without a word. She slips on to the couch at Alexis's side. She strokes the ( Read more... )

Title: Ephemeris, Ch. 11

WC: ~2700 this chapter, ~29,000 total so far.

Rating: T

Summary: "The outside world is hungrier now, and that's good for the plan. That is the plan, even though she hates it so much of the time. Even though it goes against every professional instinct she has, the game is different now. They're not solving a murder, they're ( Read more... )

Title: Sleeping Bag, Ch. 4/Epilogue

WC: ~3900 this chapter, ~9500 total

Rating: M

Summary: "It all comes and goes in waves. Worry about the minutiae of right now. The crushing weight of everything this doesn't solve. Delaware and a sleeping bag. What feels like the first time she's touched anything in him in weeks."

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Title: Sleeping Bag, Ch. 3

WC: ~2400 this chapter, ~5600 so far.

Rating: M

Summary: "There's something savage in it. Something not quite anger, but close kin to it. Something bright and hot and alive that drives the sorrow out, and she's so relieved."

A/N: In editing what was the third and final chapter of this, I found myself unhappy with the wrap up ( Read more... )

Title: Ephemeris, Ch. 10

WC: ~3000 this chapter, ~22,000 total so far.

Rating: T

Summary: "Brady keeps her in the loop. Daily updates, and he's always kind. He thinks this is just about closure, though. That she's looking for a murder-something to solve. He's kind about it but she knows how it must look in pieces like this. A series of coincidences ( Read more... )

Title: Ephemeris, Ch. 9

WC: ~2500 this chapter, ~18,750 total so far

Summary: "She's grateful to have the two of them with her. That they'd dropped everything without a word and driven halfway from the city to pick her up, engine running at the back door of a no-name restaurant, and no one's acting like this is crazy, even though it might be. It ( Read more... )

Title: Sleeping Bag, Ch. 1

WC: ~1400

Rating: M

Summary: "She thought it would be fun. And they could use "fun" right now. Something to lift the pall of this so-careful, so-uneasy detente they've fallen into since . . . since everything they're not talking about."

A/N: I wrote this last year. It's AU from Watershed onward, set between Seasons 5 and 6. ( Read more... )

Title: Ephemeris, Ch. 8

WC: ~2300 this chapter, ~16,000 total so far

Summary: "It's him. It's the absurd little details she's missing. Connections. True things and the stuff he makes up out of whole cloth. The pathos and intrigue. The way evidence becomes a story."

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