5 Things Meme—of the Ficlet Variety

[scribblemyname]

This entry is part 44 of 51 in the series 365 Challenge

Gacked from penknife:

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in comments. (examples: "Five SG-1 Mission Reports That Were Less Than Entirely Truthful", or "Five Times Bruce Banner Lost His Toothbrush," or "Five Ways Nikola Tesla Failed to Take Over the World"). I'll answer with a list of five things.

Ideally fandoms that I know something about, unless you want me to guess, which could be entertaining but probably not the way you want. Or (and preferably) original fiction. All storyworlds on the table, i.e. Seven Days, Kingdoms and Thorn, the Alliance, Vardin, etc.

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Completed Ficlets & Scenes

Kingdoms and Thorn:

• Rachelle + Justus – Without a Reason
• Shift + Justus + Red Wolf – It's Own Absolution
• Rachelle + Justus – It Came Up
• Rachelle/Justus – Simply Because
• Rachelle + Justus – Defining Love
• Rachelle + Shift + Meld – Playing with Knives
• Killinger + Special Unit ensemble – Technicalities
• Killinger + Special Unit ensemble – Call Me If You Need Me
• Killinger + Special Unit ensemble – Element of Uncertainty
• Marc + Cate – A Simple Question
• Marc + Cate – The Nameless Below
• Killinger + Special Unit ensemble – Tracing Trouble

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Tracing Trouble [4/4]

[scribblemyname]

Killinger gently gestured Rede and Cate away so she could look over Jarod’s shoulder herself. Countermands to standard schedules and rules layered in underneath with a buried tracer signature.

“Where’s the signature?” Rede asked, looking at Cate. She had mentioned tracer work was always noted at some level.

She leaned over and hit the authorization pad on Jarod’s portable computer.

“Whoa. Didn’t you just fry a computer?” Jarod protested.

Cate silenced him with a glare that was not playful. “Security override, level nineteen.”

Everyone around her sobered. Level nineteen security clearance was generally unheard of.

“Please state voice code,” Jarod’s computer chimed.

Profane thoughts floated off the top of his mind, but he bit his tongue and didn’t speak at the moment of truth.

Cate wanted to cringe at what she gave away next, but she had spent too many years doing whatever she needed to do to get the job done. “Thought, 7.05, security code…” She rattled off the last string of eighteen digits from memory.

“Code accepted.”

Jarod breathed out in relief. “You think you know a girl.”

But there it was, the signature of a tracer.

Cate looked at Ilsa Killinger and grinned. “Think you can do something with that?”

Rede shook his head as if he disliked her choice of words. Killinger simply nodded. And Jarod Walters took his cyberpathic snapshot of his nemesis’ handiwork as he muttered unmentionables about certain telepaths sticking their fingers into his computer.

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Tracing Trouble [4/4]

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

This is me, rubbing my hands together at all the meat and potatoes of this piece. It's chock full of information, which you know I like, but it's not overdone and not really under-explained. Is it perfect? Nah, I have my red pen handy, but I can see that like you said, it is going to explode. It's a whole episode by itself, and uncharacteristically (for me) I really like Jarod a lot in this one.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Tracing Trouble [4/4]

[scribblemyname]

My red pen's itching so much I had to tell it to lay off until I wrote the whole thing. :grins: I'm glad you liked it. As I write each one, I start to settle a little more into the unfamiliarity of this genre. Keep pulling on Pretender and Awake and Sue Thomas to help me get it right.

I like to write Jarod, even if sometimes that means teeth-grinding, but he's a good kid and less annoying when he's not trying to show off. :grins:

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

So... You are going to finish this, right? Do a fic with the whole case?

I had one of those, "that ended just when it was getting really interesting" moments at the end.

[scribblemyname]

Well, like I said in the A/N, this one's going to sprawl. They all will.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

I like sprawling. :)

I guess I just wish that it was easier to get the whole case in instead of just the glimpses of it. I start to get a sense of the team and their work, and then it kind of... shuts off, and as someone who enjoys mysteries, I want the whole case.

Then again, you know me and my annoying habit of wanting everything long.

[scribblemyname]

And I did that with all of these. Ficletized them, got in and got out after I covered the vitals of the prompt. I intend to build out all four when it comes down to it and finish a couple other started cases in my WIP files.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Okay. I will look forward to seeing the cases when you get to them.