| Author (if available): Hatstand |
| Title: I’m-Trying-To-Keep-This-Under-Sixty-Pages-And-How-Come-Nobody- Knows-Anything-About-Martial-Arts?, The |
| Category: H/C:p (HURT/COMFORT: PHYSICAL) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B is sore from running up and down lots of stairs. D takes him home and pampers him – aspirin, hot bath, food, massage. One Thing Leads to Another, gently and lovingly. Then they fall asleep. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 28 |
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| Date written: 1990 |
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| Author (if available): Hauer, Kendall and Phillips, Lee |
| Title: Twelve Days of Christmas |
| Category: POEM |
| The Twelve Days of Christmas, Pros Style |
| by Kendall Hauer and Lee Phillips |
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| On the twelfth day of Christmas, |
| My True Love gave to me: |
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| Twelve Lords-a-Bribing |
| Eleven Agents Shooting |
| Ten Cowley Lectures |
| Nine High Speed Chases |
| Eight Terrorists Fleeing |
| Seven Bombs-a-Ticking |
| Six Birds-a-Flirting |
| Five Silver Capris |
| Four Plaid Jackets |
| Three French Kisses |
| Two Bisto Kids |
| and |
| A Cow in a Bottle of Scotch! |
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| Dec. 2, 1996 |
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| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 6 |
| Word count (thousands) |
| Date written: 2 Dec. 96 |
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| Author (if available): Hauk, Vicky |
| Title: Photo Finish |
| Category: DEATH |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): D, an old man, looks at some pictures (wife, daughters, a man called Andrew) and remembers how B died to save him, and told D at the last moment he loved him. Both D and his wife are leaving, but she to a daughter’s and he to a holiday. The wife is taken to the airport by Andrew, B’s son. D is going to “The Old Man” and *Bodie* is driving him. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 17 |
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| Author (if available): Hayden, Debra |
| Title: Sitting in the Darkness |
| Category: POEM |
| Sitting in the darkness |
| Watching the lights flash |
| On and off |
| Wondering how many more Christmases |
| They could have. |
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| To know such love |
| And to know how easily love |
| Can be ripped away |
| Nothing more frightening. |
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| Wondering whether it’s worth it |
| To be so attached to someone else |
| That being alone is not enough |
| Anymore. |
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| But remembering everything |
| In the past |
| Makes him realize that it is all |
| Worth it. |
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| And it always will be. |
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| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 6 |
| Word count (thousands) |
| Date written: December 1996 |
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| Author (if available): Hayden, Debra |
| Title: Some Weeks Later… |
| Category: EMCON |
| After his back injuries (see Fancy Dancing) D is plagued by anxiety attacks, and B is also upset as he has to watch impotently. |
| ___________ |
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| The anxiety attacks had started. How much time had he spent, lying in hospital, waiting for them? That realization that he may never be able to use his legs again. His legs. The things that made him what he was. The returning sensation to his legs had been…interesting. Interesting, painful, scary..but interesting. And to feel was to be able to use those muscles, to depend on them again, instead of hesitating and feeling very, very weak. And now, so many months later, with everything in his life returning to a reasonably ordered status, unlike the time before the fall, why -now- would these realizations and fears occur? Why, after all the pain and work it had been to return to this feeling of finally returning to normal, did the anxiety start and threaten to debilitate him all over again. |
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| Bodie sighed and continued to watch his partner go through his personal nightmares. When Doyle had ceased tensing and groaning, Bodie reach over and pulled Doyle closer and thought to himself about how he had again failed someone he loved and let them be hurt. |
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| And so we all have our personal demons. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): |
| Word count (thousands) 200 |
| Date written: June 17, 1999 |
| Sequel to: Fancy Dancing |
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| Author (if available): Helen Raven |
| Title: Freezing |
| Category: RELAT (RELATIONSHIP) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B&D’s relationship is still rocky — B starts to seriously need a stronger and more open emotional response from D, whom he thinks does not love him. All the while D is distancing himself in defense against the intensity of B’s feeling — to the point that D strays and sleeps with another man. When B realizes, he decides they just aren’t meant to fit, and calls the relationship off, ostensibly thinking that it is best for D (who will find someone more compatible and whom he loves) and for himself (before he starts hating D). D is frozen, so out of touch that he is unable to react openly enough to convince B of his feelings, even if D does say that he would like to keep the relationship going. So they split, and both endure as best as they can the excruciating separation, all the while managing to work together, in the hope that eventually they will be able to be just friends thereby salvaging some of their feelings. The stall is resolved when D thinks that B is having a relationship with a new CI5 recruit: his attempt to tell B that he is not jealous, but unerstands and just wants B to be happy finally allows D to express, and B to recognize, that D really has always been loving him, but was too scared of failure to be able to show it. They talk, and B is satisfied that they can resume their relationship, knowing that they are now both more aware and ready to cope. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 19 pp. |
| Word count (thousands) |
| Date written: March. 1993 |
| Sequel to: Siren – Bound to The Mast – Going for the Shore – Going for the Shore 2 |
| Prequel to: |
| Originally published in zine: UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT 3 |
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| Author (if available): Helen Raven |
| Title: Transients |
| Category: RELAT (RELATIONSHIP) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): D is a physiotherapist and B his client after he got kneecapped and invalided. D has admittedly a record of losing interest in his relationships and flitting to new pastures — B has problems adjusting to his disability and this blocks him from having relatioships with women, despite being the romantic type looking for permanent relationships. D falls in lust/love with B, and after some angst (unethical to covet thy patient) he tells B — B first turns him down as he is not in love, then thinks it over and decides to accept — he missed D’s friendship a lot, and the relationship could help him transition back towards a proper relationship with a girl. This temporary and mutually advantageous arrangement would also fit D, since he is likely to eventually lose interest and leave B. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 25 pp. |
| Word count (thousands) |
| Date written: July 1994 (mostly) |
| Sequel to: Dream Lover |
| Prequel to: |
| Originally published in zine: UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT 6 |
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| Author (if available): Hestia |
| Title: Deck the Halls |
| Category: XMAS |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): D creeps into B’s flat to deliver his present after unexpectedly beeing girl-less and therefore crashing B’s usually lavish Xmas celebrations. But, surprise! There is nothing arranged and B is sleeping, drunk. D realizes that all the celebrations were for his sake’s only and that he is the only one B wants to be with for Xmas. D decides to fix the problem, and gets food, drinks, decorations and a xmas tree (stolen from CI5 HQ!) B wakes up, and Mutual Realization Occurs. Hot Celebrations and much happiness. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 65 |
| Word count (thousands) 8.6 |
| Date written: Xmas 1996 |
| Sequel to: |
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| Author (if available): Hestia |
| Title: Flowers for Bodie |
| Category: DEATH |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): D buys flowers for their anniversay. As he goes, he remembers all of their affair year by year. Then he gets to a graveyard and puts the flowers on Bodie’s grave. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 33 |
| Word count (thousands) 4.8 |
| Date written: |
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| Author (if available): Hestia |
| Title: Out of the Frying Pan |
| Category: LIGHT |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B&D camping in the woods. B cooks sausages, but they end up on the grass as they have sex. They end up eating hedgehog flavored crisps. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 11 |
| Word count (thousands) |
| Date written: Oct. 1997 |
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| Author (if available): Hestia |
| Title: When in Rome |
| Category: HUMOR |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B&D are in a hotel in the States escorting C. There is a mysterious “MediaWest CI5 Party” going on, and as they investigate it, they are abducted by this horde of women and asked for a prolonged demonstration… |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 22 |
| Word count (thousands) |
| Date written: May. 1997 |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Blood Still Cries |
| Category: RELAT (RELATIONSHIP) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): After “Wild Justice”, B is sent to a cottage to cool for a while, and D clears up the case. D finds out that the pattern of deaths in B’s batallion is not random and indeed the son of a dead SAS colleague is the killer (thinks his father died because of the batallion). D rushes to warn B, but B has already been wounded and the killer waits in ambush, preventing D from taking B to hospital and wounding D too. They almost die but are saved in extremis, understand mutual feelings and overcome resentments and misunderstandings from Wild Justice, and are happy ever after. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 97 |
| Word count (thousands) 12.6 |
| Date written: |
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| Originally published in zine: BRITISH TAKEAWAY 5 |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Darts to You |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): D takes B to a darts tournament where the prize is a trip to Florida. B has to play with DM (Penfold is away on a date). The more the mouse drinks the better he gets at darts, so they are winning when everyone in the pub – it is a pub for (fictional) detectives – is called back on duty. DM has meanwhile passed out, so B&D (whose R/T ‘accidentally’ had no batteries) take him home. The mouse has a hangover cure, so he goes after the other heroes to save the world – B&D go to bed. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 32 |
| Word count (thousands) 4 |
| Date written: |
| Sequel to: Mouseketeers; Short Tails; Of Mice and Monsters |
| Prequel to: Werehamster of London; Halloween; Kingdom of the Frog; Humerus. |
| Originally published in zine: CHALK & CHEESE 6 |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Free Trader |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): D is a Star Fleet officer who is almost killed by Bad Aliens, but for the intervention of free trader Bodie. While they crawl on, warpless, they get near and fall in love very sweetly and gradually. They manage to avoid the crazed jealous computer’s attempt to kill D, and they uncover a bent Star Fleet officer, who destroys B’s ship – but the Enterprise saves the day. D resigns his commission, and B&D live happily ever after as free traders on a new ship donated by the Federation. Data learns a bit more about Human Sexuality. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 160 |
| Word count (thousands) 26.5 |
| Date written: |
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| Originally published in zine: IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST 3 |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Halloween |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): It’s Halloween and B gets to choose the fancy dresses – so D has to dress up as a woman. At the party, DM turns up. He has been enlarged tohuman dimension by Greenback, and now needs help. They go. The Baron manages to reduce B to mouse size, so he flies with Penfold in the flying car and captures the Baron which gets reduced to mimimum. Then they are all put back to their regular dimensions. B wonders if the device works only for some select body parts. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 22 |
| Word count (thousands) |
| Date written: |
| Sequel to: Mouseketeers; Short Tails; Of Mice and Monsters; Darts to You; Werehamster of London |
| Prequel to: Kingdom of the Frog; Humerus. |
| Originally published in zine: |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Humerus |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): This time D is in hospital wounded, and B, DM and Penfold are after the Cronk, superbaddie with monster helpers and a monster nose. They make it with much laughter, and have even time to visit D in hospital. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 22 |
| Word count (thousands) |
| Date written: |
| Sequel to: Mouseketeers; Short Tails; Of Mice and Monsters; Darts to You; Werehamster of London; Halloween; Kingdom of the Frog. |
| Prequel to: |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Incident in a Stairwell |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): Solo & Ilija come to recruit B&D but an escaped terrorist guns and takes hostage D and Ilija. B and Solo save them. All’s well. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 65 |
| Word count (thousands) 5.9 |
| Date written: years ago – appeared in C&C 3 |
| Sequel to: Waiting Room Affair |
| Prequel to: People Bending Broken Rules |
| Originally published in zine: CHALK & CHEESE 3 |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Kingdom of the Frog |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B&D are on their trip to Disneyworld (see Darts to You) together with DM, Penfold and the she-hamster. They are called back on duty because Greenback wants to conquer Disneyworld to substitute Mickey Mouse as a first step towards Earth domination. They find him in the computer room – he wants to use a virus – and he tries to transform them into cartoons. Luckily Merlin the wizard saves them and stops Greenback. The computer is fake anyway, and the place runs on real magic. And Merlin knows C. Can wizards get drunk? |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 32 |
| Word count (thousands) 3.9 |
| Date written: |
| Sequel to: Mouseketeers; Short Tails; Of Mice and Monsters; Darts to You; Werehamster of London; Halloween |
| Prequel to: Humerus. |
| Originally published in zine: |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Knows No Laws |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B&D are after a drug trafficker. S&S are his unaware bodyguards. B&D spy on them and discover thath they are lovers too. The following day, during the shootout, they discover they are brothers and that they are not baddies. Surprise and shock overcome, understanding for their love prevails, and everything ends well. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 48 |
| Word count (thousands) 7.7 |
| Date written: |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Lethal Combinations |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B&D have to protect a conference of policemen in London. They meet the Lethal Weapon guys and make friends with them. The menace of a couple of drug dealer is dealt with by the 4 of them. All is well. SWS |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 162 |
| Word count (thousands) 14.8 |
| Date written: |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Mouseketeers |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): Dangermouse and his sidekick Penfold ask D a favour in exchange for having saved his life once. B, even though he thinks they are hallucinating (the story is from his point of view), goes along. They have to ‘retire’ a dangerous mechanical copy of the Queen’s corgi dog and replace it with the legitimate canine. They manage – barely – to foil the evil plan of DM’s enemy, a frog, and B saves Penfold’s life to boot. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 32 |
| Word count (thousands) 4 |
| Date written: |
| Sequel to: |
| Prequel to: Short Tails; Of Mice and Monsters; Darts to You; Werehamster of London; Halloween; Kingdom of the Frog; Humerus. |
| Originally published in zine: CHALK & CHEESE 2 |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Of Mice and Monsters |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): C sends B&D to look for the Loch Ness monster (which C saw while on holiday home), with the help of DM and Penfold. They find that there is a mechanical monster controlled by the evil Greenback, who also captures DM and B. As the mechanical monster is almost capturing D and Penfold, the real Nessie arrives and grabs the mechanical creature, whom she has fallen in love with. DM and B free themselves but let Penfold “rescue” them since he usually never manages it. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 65 |
| Word count (thousands) 5.2 |
| Date written: |
| Sequel to: Mouseketeers; Short Tails; |
| Prequel to: Darts to You; Werehamster of London; Halloween; Kingdom of the Frog; Humerus. |
| Originally published in zine: CHALK & CHEESE 3 |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Patterns in Walls |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): D is kidnapped in the USA and B asks Sable to help him in return for saving his life in Africa. They save D, despite Sable’s reluctance to carry weapons & kill. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 65 |
| Word count (thousands) 6 |
| Date written: |
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| Originally published in zine: BRITISH TAKEAWAY 3 |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: People Bending Broken Rules |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B&D, Ilja and Solo are human bait for a gang of arab terrorists. B&D realize they are in love, are tempted not to talk about it, but seeing how this was a mistake for Ilja and Solo (they had to separate for 15 years) B&D decide to give it a try. Even though the siege hurts them a bit, they survive and both couples acknowledge their feelings. All’s well |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 130 |
| Word count (thousands) 12 |
| Date written: |
| Sequel to: |
| Prequel to: Waiting Room Affair – Incident in a Stairwell |
| Originally published in zine: CHALK & CHEESE 5 |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Short Tails |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B is sick at home while D is in Scotland. Penfold comes to visit; to get him to talk about how D was saved by DM, B makes him drink. Unluckily, the hamster has a hollow leg, but he tells how D thwarted an attempted theft by the Frog Baron Greenback, helping DM, but was taken by human thieves – only to be saved by DM himself. The funny (and unexplained part) is that D was wearing a dress. The morning after, greatly hungover, B is called by C. C says it was him who sent Penfold to visit B, but that now Penfold’s boss wants him back. Bushytailed – hamsters dont have hangovers – Penfold leaves, without explaining the details of how D and DM binged together once. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 17 |
| Word count (thousands) |
| Date written: |
| Sequel to: Mouseketeers |
| Prequel to: Of Mice and Monsters; Darts to You; Werehamster of London; Halloween; Kingdom of the Frog; Humerus. |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Stone Magic |
| Category: SUPER (SUPERNATURAL) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B & D go to visit D’s family (introduce fiance) – granny gives B a Òdream stone” – a charm that makes the owner dream possible dangers to himself or the people he loves. Thanks to it, B saves D’s life – D then tells him it was his brother’s charm and the bro died trying to save little sister from fire. B wants to keep it but D doesnt since it would mean hell – especially if one of them were killed despite the charm. They send it back. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 22 |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: To Forgive the Soldiers |
| Category: CASE |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): D finds out B has been abducted and charges to the rescue – and finds B under trial by an african tribe for the killing of a 14 year old during his merc days. B appears resigned to his fate, thinking he brings bad luck to the ones near him – D however insists on defending him even though the tribal custom is to punish equally the guilty and his lawyer. D does his defense, saying that both the boy and B were soldiers, under orders, and that it is time to forgive and go on. They win the case, and even though the boy’s sister shoots at them, they are unharmed – B is not resigned to his bad luck anymore and between B&D there is a strong even though yet unspoken feeling. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 65 |
| Word count (thousands) 7 |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Waiting Room Affair, The |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): D & Solo are waiting at the hospital for their hurt partners – little understanding dialog, then both partners are declared out of danger. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 11 |
| Word count (thousands) |
| Date written: years ago – appeared in C&C 3 |
| Sequel to: |
| Prequel to: Incident in a Stairwell – People Bending Broken Rules |
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| Author (if available): Hicks, Debra |
| Title: Werehamster of London |
| Category: CROSS (CROSSOVER) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): DM asks for B&D’s help to rescue Penfold, who hamster has been taken by evil Greenback and turned into a werehamster. B, D and DM enter Greenback’s cove – B is saved from a crocodile by Agent 57 disguised as a spider – B finds the werePenfold and rescues him, but the werehamster is hit and crushed by a statue. Luckily, it was a fake mechanical replica – DM has freed the real Penfold from the basement. B&D get back home to bed, but since B has a small cut, he says it was the fake werehamster, then he secretly call Penfold arranging for a large, hairy hamster to pay a visit for the next full moon night… heheheh |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 65 |
| Word count (thousands) 3.6 |
| Date written: |
| Sequel to: Mouseketeers; Short Tails; Of Mice and Monsters; Darts to You |
| Prequel to: Halloween; Kingdom of the Frog; Humerus. |
| Originally published in zine: CHALK & CHEESE 4 |
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| Author (if available): Higgins, Anne |
| Title: Beautiful Bodie – Part 1: Nightmares of the Past |
| Category: EPSOD (EPISODE) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): After his father death on duty (he was a cop) the young, wayward D decides to join the police to continue his work. All the while, B is a prostitute in Paris, suffering the sadistic attentions of John Coogan, who is obsessed by B. B is C’s illegitimate son (C had had to seduce an IRA woman in the line of duty and B happened) but his abusive mother kept him away and unawares of C. When his nice stepfather died B run away to be variously raped and exploited in Africa and then Paris. C finally finds him, rescues him from Coogan, has him treated (psychiatrically) and helps him to start a career in the army and SAS. When B&D meet, sparks fly. Both are attracted physically, but are wary of messing up – so they take it slowly, courting and falling in love. till consummation happens. To B’s joy, this new relationship seems to keep his recurring nightmares at bay — but still there is much to be discussed, from B’s parentage to his lurid past. And all the while Coogan has been plotting in the background, using corrupted Barry Martin, to get B back (like almost everyone else, he ignores B is C’s son). To be continued… |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 40 pp. |
| Word count (thousands) |
| Date written: Oct. 1997 |
| Sequel to: |
| Prequel to: |
| Originally published in zine: MOTET OPUS 2 IN B & D |
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| Author (if available): Higgins, Anne |
| Title: Bodie and the Chief |
| Category: CADE |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): It is 1995; B is 27, C 55 and Cade 49. D never existed. B is in Eastland for a job and gets hurt. Cade takes care of B as he is the son of old friend C, but is also angry at C running an op behind his back: so he obtains B as liaison for a coordinated op. Initial attrition, then attraction, (Cade is protective and paternal, B needs protection after his experiences as Krivas’ bumboy in Africa); finally Cade and B end up in bed. However, B has to notify CI5 of all his partners and C gets quite upset — my friend fucked my son! Cade’s daughter is equally upset, and Cade is upset too when he learns that B reported their liaison. The fracture is recomposed after B is hurt in closing down the op, but at this point things get difficult — B has to be back in London, and Cade cannot leave Eastland. After three miserable weeks Cade gives up and starts looking for a job in London (he was truly fed up with his position in Eastland): C unexpectedly helps him by offering to be CI5 Deputy Controller — C wants someone to cover for the period before B can become Controller, and also wants B to be happy, as the man has been miserable away from Cade. Despite quite a few divergences in methods, outlook and politics, Cade accepts and all is well. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 47 pp. |
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| Date written: Oct. 1997 |
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| Author (if available): Higgins, Anne |
| Title: Mad Scientist Strikes, The |
| Category: AU |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): While D is away visiting his mother, B and C are kidnapped by a crazed scientist who turns B into a woman (experiment and revenge together) then releases them. They all have to come to terms with the situation, and they do their best, but as time passes it becomes clear that the situation is impossible — B’s sense of self cannot tolerate the situation, and so cannot D, who wants his man back. (They do marry, however, since now they legally can). Luckily, they find the scientist — he was protected by a homophobic minister who was hoping to make his transvestite lover become a ‘real’ woman. B’s gender is restored, and all is well (almost–B was pregnant and in the change the baby is lost). |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 8 pp. |
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| Date written: Oct. 1997 |
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| Author (if available): Higgins, Anne |
| Title: Role Playing |
| Category: FTGG (For the Greater Good) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): It is 1997, but B is 33, C 61 and Balliol 44. D never existed. Balliol has just divorced and is lonely: on the job, he is helping the Home Secretary to keep an eye on the too-powerful CI5. When C has a heart attack and has to retire, Balliol has to keep an eye on C’s son and possible successor, B. B is also lonely, after short and unsuccessful relationships with Jax and Susan (now happily married to each other) and Anson — wrong orientation, wrong gender and just plain asshole. B, stressed and overwrought, ends up in bed with Balliol — after some attrition, and a period of courtship, they realize that they are what they need, each the opposite of their appearance (butch B needs someone to take care of him, and is bottom; wimpy Balliol likes protecting and is top). The practical problems of their relationship are smoothed by them being appointed joint successors of C (the action man plus the politician). All is well. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 8 pp. |
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| Date written: Oct. 1997 |
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| Author (if available): Higgins, Anne |
| Title: Whatever Happened to Raymond Doyle? |
| Category: RELAT (RELATIONSHIP) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): 1997. B is head of CI5 Hong Kong and C is ready to retire so he calls him back to London. B had left England after D had been shot in the head and on waking had forgotten who he was and he thought he was Alan Cade. Since taking back to reality was deemed dangerous and impossible, B had left, heartbroken. Both for the good of CI5 and of his son (B), C wants to make B and Cade co-controllers of CI5 — he hopes that “Cade” is now ready to remember. D had used Cade as a long-term undercover identity since the late seventies (there was a real Cade but he had died ) and with time Cade had become the ideal and perfect person while D was the “bad” part, down to the point of D’s daughter ending up officially as Cade’s. A series of misfortunes (shooting a child by mistake, his mum dying etc) just before the shooting have pushed D’s self-esteem so low that he eventually rejects himself-as-D and wakes up being Cade. Now Cade is instantly fascinated by B and they start a relationship (B hopes that D remembers) but things aren’t well as Cade feels there is someone between them — D. Incensed, Cade starts his own investigation on this mysteriously disappeared D — all the while C is manouvering so that the discovery is gradual. Eventually, Cade remembers and becomes D again. He goes to B, and all is well. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 47 pp. |
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| Date written: Oct. 1997 |
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| Author (if available): Holcombe, J. |
| Title: Interruptus (FAULTY) |
| Category: PRUR (PRURIENT) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 6 |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Acropros |
| Category: POEM |
| Talk to me, Bodie. |
| How can I understand your silences? |
| Even now, are we still friends? |
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| Perhaps you wish we were not lovers. |
| Regret changes things, makes them strange. |
| Only remember, what we have of love — |
| Feelings like nothing we ever knew — |
| Eager touching, kissing, clinging, |
| Skin warm against skin, |
| Sucking, smiling, squrting, shivering, |
| In our own world of shared loving, |
| Only remember how good it was. |
| Neverending passion. For me, at least. |
| And you? |
| Look at me. |
| Stop thinking. Feel. |
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| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 11 |
| Word count (thousands) 80 |
| Date written: Feb. 1997 |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Acropros 2 |
| Category: POEM |
| Trip me up, will you? |
| Haven’t lost my edge yet, sunshine. You’ll see. |
| Even with you, I can’t be a cream puff. |
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| Partner becomes a lover; things change. |
| Reflex actions reach a different consequence. |
| Often want you, can only touch with eyes. |
| Feelings spiral through me, uncontrolled, |
| Escalating needs. Need you, only you. |
| Simply can’t get enough. |
| Scares me. |
| Independence used to be a goal. |
| Once, it mattered. |
| Now… want you, want you bad, |
| Always want you. |
| Love you, |
| Sunshine. |
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| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 11 |
| Word count (thousands) 80 |
| Date written: Feb. 1997 |
| Sequel to: Acropros |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Best, The |
| Category: DEATH |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): 31 dec 1996. B is CI5’s controller, a hard-working and reserved man, a legend for his employees, who swap stories or maybe legends about him, C and the old days. B lives for the job, but every New Year’s Eve he throws a big CI5 party — his way of celebrating D: their anniversary and D’s death in a blast happened that very day, respectively in 1982 and 1983. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 8 pp. |
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| Date written: Oct. 1997 |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Bleak Midwinter |
| Category: XMAS |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B is on holiday at Jennifer Black’s for Xmas while D is working. He missed B and reflects that he has no “loved ones” – and alone on Xmas day, D realizes he loves B. On cue, B arrives – he left the girl with an excuse and came to be with D. Happy toast and that’s it (SWS). |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 32 |
| Word count (thousands) 3.4 |
| Date written: Xmas 1997 |
| Sequel to: Midnight Clear |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Clandestine Intent |
| Category: HIS (HISTORICAL) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): Regency period. Lord C is secretly heading a network of 5 undercover agents, one of which is D. Someone has however killed an agent, and there could be a traitor in their midst. C asks D to investigate — at the same time, he asks his valet (and dark horse, secret-into-a-secret agent) B to investigate D. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): Some angst as B&D fall in love but have to investigate and suspect each other. The case is eventually resolved: it was C’s daughter, resenting not being allowed to be an agent. B&D can now trust and have each other. |
| Word count (thousands) 28 pp. |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Emancipation |
| Category: RELAT (RELATIONSHIP) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): Rahad (The untouchables) is back to London and B&D are protecting one of his targets. However, Rahad ambushes them and would kill D — to save D B swears to obey to whatever Rahad will command. B’s feelings for him are eventually noticed by D (during a dangerous op) and they become lovers: but D soon notices something strange is going on. B sometimes disappears for a few days and then doesn’t want to be touched: and he has been lying to CI5 as to his whereabouts. Thinking of an affair, or worse of B turning, D follows him and discovers that B is still holding to his promise to Rahad, who has turned him into his sexual slave. After a tense confrontation, B explains that he submits to Rahad’s sadism because he promised to in order to save D’s life. D then kills Rahad and gets his B back. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 25 pp. |
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| Date written: Oct. 1997 |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Even Greater Good, An |
| Category: FTGG (For the Greater Good) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): Balliol has been threatened, so he is assigned a CI5 bodyguard, B. They fall in love. When the killer strikes, B and D save each other, but D is hit. As he recovers in hospital he is afraid that now he doesnt need a bodyguard anymore B will leave him: but B is there to stay. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 8 pp. |
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| Date written: Oct. 1997 |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Forever True |
| Category: EMCON |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B is in CI5 and D is a cop. They fall in love, but D is married with kids and loves his wife too. After some esitation, B&D consummate the affair. When the wife finds out, D realizes he cannot choose. They also have to deal with a difficult case where D’s family is threatened by the baddies. In the end, they settle in a menage of sorts, with D having both B and his wife. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 130 pp. |
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| Date written: Oct. 1997 |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Gift of the Magi |
| Category: XMAS |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B&D are doing surveillance at night, cold midwinter. D asks B what he wants for Xmas, and B answers “a kiss”. D gives it to him, and what a kiss it is: both had wanted it for a while. Then, silence, and D says: “ask me what *I* want for xmas…” |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 6 |
| Word count (thousands) 500 |
| Date written: Xmas 96 |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Life of Luxury |
| Category: CASE |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): It is Valentine Day and B is unhappily alone undercover as an evil man, waiting for a drug shipment in his hotel room. When room service arrives, it is D carrying a message: the waiting time is almost up. They exchange Valentine greetings and start kissing – but the drug arrives and they have to fight – happily together anyway. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 32 |
| Word count (thousands) 700 |
| Date written: Valentine Day 1997 |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Midnight Clear |
| Category: XMAS |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): Xmas. B spends it at Jennifer’s family in the country, since he wants to know how a family celebrates. All the happiness and joy notwithstanding, though, he realizes he misses D and that he is in love with him. B tells Jennifer and gets back to London. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 32 |
| Word count (thousands) 2.5 |
| Date written: Xmas 96 |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: O Christmas Tree |
| Category: XMAS |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B loves Xmas and is happy – D is indifferent, but he gives B a new gun as a present – and then D gets to unwrap and eat his own present, B, under the xmas tree. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 32 |
| Word count (thousands) 800 |
| Date written: Xmas 1997 (23 dec) |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: O Holy Night |
| Category: XMAS |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): Another Xmas on the streets saving London – staking out a terrorist cove, running after one of them and killing him inside Harrods, defusing a bomb, “borrowing” a Rolls to get the other terrosists on the highway. But that’s where B&D belong and are happy. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 33 |
| Word count (thousands) 4.4 |
| Date written: Xmas 1996 |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Sand Castle |
| Category: EPSOD (EPISODE) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): The story behind “Wild Justice” from the points of view of B, D, and C. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 100 pp. |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Silent Star |
| Category: XMAS |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): Xmas eve. B died in the wreck of his plane. D is falling apart, remembering all the incidents between them: B had been in love and D had been turning him down despite some growing attraction– and now he reproaches himself for self-centeredly wasting B’s love and not realizing he loved B too. D is so wrapped in his grief that he doesnt answer r/t and phone, so he almost gets heart failure when B in person appears. B was not dead, and got rescued after a few days. D jumps at the second chance and all is well. |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 9 pp. |
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| Date written: Oct. 1997 |
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| Author (if available): Holden, Elizabeth |
| Title: Waterbed Symphony |
| Category: RELAT (RELATIONSHIP) |
| Plot summary (very short pieces are sometimes copied here in their entirety): B&D start an affair but D is afraid they spoil their friendship and their career, so he wants to cool it. B seems to agree; but as they are on stake out in C’s house, B says that their affair is serious and that he loves D. D needs very little convincing (both were actually afraid that the other did not want commitment so hesitated). Happy ending except duty interrupts them just as D gets the hang of C’s waterbed! |
| Size in K/Number of Pages (pp): 6 pp. |
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