NCBROWNCOAT

I just checked and most of my fics have been restored. That is except the last 2 or 3 that I posted. I do have a question though about reposting and I'd like to hear your thoughts. I was thinking about rediting and rewriting some of my older fics before they mysteriously reappeared. Is that a good idea? Or do you leave them alone even if your early writing really sucked and you think you could do it much better now?

COSMICFUGITIVE

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HOBBLEIT

Hi there, Yes, I'm finally biting the bullet and applying for job seekers allowance. I don't want to but the job hunt is going nowhere, I'm quickly running out of money and apparently if you apply for job seekers they throw jobs at you so I'll see how that goes. I just need to find my savings account statement. TTFN Jennifer -x-

JANE0904

All hail Haken! I've already left my thanks on the Appreciatin' Haken thread, but I thought I'd just add that here too. As for my stories still missing from the BSR, so that I don't clog up the uploads, I will put them on as complete items. I know that means a number of them will be l-o-n-g, but if folks want to go back, re-read, re-comment, please do. That means that the following stories will be uploaded in their completeness over the next weeks (I will call them reposts and number them so that it's easier to tell where they come in the MAYA sequence): THE BEQUEST SNAKE IN THE GRASS THE MORNING AFTER LETTERS UNDERSTANDING THE WHY BABY TALK CHAINWAVE HOPE NIGHT WATCH MICE RELIEF RAIN SINS OF THE FLESH GARDEN RESPITE TASTE THE CAPTURE ANTICIPATION SHADOW'S GRAVEYARD HOMEWARD BOUND TOGETHER REUNION WAR WOUNDS TIME BOMB RECOLLECTIONS TANGLED WEB SAYING GOODBYE SAYING HELLO IN THE MOMENT IN HIS CUPS TURNING THE CORNER GET OF THE UNICORN THIRD CHANCE AIRFLOW WORKING FOR THE MAN Wow, I didn't know I had so many! That will then bring us up to date with PLAYING PARTS. Hope you continue to read and enjoy, and Haken and Joss rule!

STEAMER

[i]The Old That Is Strong, Book IV: Fire and Water[/i] brings us this one. Here's hopeful for some whetted appetites. :wink: But first.... Warning space. This excerpt is a bit on the violent side and may be disturbing for the fainter of heart. ********** [i]Thunder.... Flashes.... Fire....water....burn the land, boil the sea.... Burn and boil. Fire and water.[/i] Silently fitful, River Tam jolted from her side onto her back, unfeeling of the bedsheet entwined in her legs. The nightmares once again had her in their heartless grasp. In the depths of her bunk, none bore witness to her agonised tosses and turns, her whimpers went unheard: just as it had been three years ago, they, and she, were completely unheeded, alone in the middle of eternal night. [i]Danger.[/i] She was danger, and danger meant her. She was between experiments, a time bomb that might level the place if mishandled. Wrapped in a straitjacket and doped half delirious, she was prone on the floor, leaning against the jet-black, soundproof glass door of her tiny, dimly blue-lit cell. She could not see out, but in her mind's ear she could discern the approaching danger, the heavy, determined footsteps approaching, coming straight for her. Two men. Them? No, [i]them....[/i] The footsteps boomed closer, and in a sudden flash River saw the feet. One pair shod in gleaming black dress shoes. The other encased in heavy work boots. Their thunder, their fury, made the ground tremble, and in another flash of light from overhead River could see the forms. One form she knew implicitly - she had grown up with it, and it hadn't changed at all since she last saw it. The other was tall and powerfully framed. The forms and the footsteps grew, forbidding, and then all at once the faces flashed before River's recognitive eyes and she knew the two men. Two men who loved her very much. Mistake unmade, they were coming for her. Side by side they strode onward, thundered toward her: hidden though she was, they seemed to know intuitively where to look. The floor trembled and so did River: come what might, violence was going to ensue. In shadow they advanced, and the closer they came, the more palpable the fury - a fury borne of unconditional love. Another flash and River could see the face to the left. Her brother, calm and collected as ever but still determined. Head level, yet racing without end for the means to release River from her darkness. Then the face to the right caught her eye - and her fear. Her lover, passionate and powerful. He would die for her. He would kill for her, and it was apparent that he was about to do just that. They surged forth through the black passage, pace never increasing beyond a booming stride - until an Alliance agent, in all his blank-eyed, blue-gloved abomination, appeared from nowhere in front of them. His supersonic disruptor was already in his hand, but her brother, showing barely a glimmer of a thought about the act, had smacked the device clear out of sight in almost the same instant it appeared: before it even shattered against the wall, her lover had grabbed the agent by the hair and crushed his larynx in one swift punch. There they left him, struggling to breathe, as their relentless march resumed. [i]No power in the 'verse can stop me....[/i] They were barely a dozen paces onward when a side passage seemed to open out of nowhere. Therein lurked a guard, unarmed but large, unamused and on the offense. Her brother was inexplicably ready for him and the ham of a fist he swung at him in a downward arc, but River cringed as she sensed the guard's superior strength and speed swat her brother aside. His shock quailed her, but the harshest was yet to come, as her lover, physically equal to the guard and possessed of an emotionally driven strength far beyond his, sidled around her hunched brother and locked both hands on his adversary's head. The guard's agony smote River as her lover's fingers dug into his eye sockets and hurled him into a darkness all