Last updated: 31st May 2015
New additions to the site can be found on my Recent Updates page.
I don't rate my stories individually, as I believe that ratings are too
subjective.
However, I would say that the stories on this part of the site range from G to
NC-17 rated.
The stories on this part of the site are divided into the following fandoms:
BUFFYVERSE
Pairing: Buffy Summers/Angel
Gen: Rupert Giles
Highlander: The Series
Pairing: Duncan MacLeod/Methos
Inspector Lynley
Pairing: Thomas 'Tommy' Lynley/Barbara Havers
M*A*S*H
Pairing: Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce/BJ Hunnicutt
Sherlock
HolmeS (Bookverse)
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Starsky &
Hutch
Pairing: David Michael Starsky/Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson
The
Dalgliesh Mysteries
Pairing: Adam Dalgliesh/John Massingham
The
Sandbaggers
Pairing: Neil Burnside/Willie Caine
Pairing:
Tobias 'Toby' Zachary 'Toby' Ziegler/Samuel 'Sam' Seaborn
Should you wish to email me about any of my stories, please feel free to do so
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I always reply to LoCs.
BUFFYVERSE
It's dangerous,
but they still keep on doing it.
An established relationship story.
Written: November 2014. Word count: 2,020.
Buffy had hoped
that by going to Sunnydale her troubles would all be behind her and she wouldn't
have to bother about slaying ever again. However, first the librarian, who
apparently was her watcher, and then a perfect stranger seem intent on making
her fulfill her destiny.
A pre-het story.
Written: October 2013. Word count: 3,020.
Buffy turns
twenty-seventh and experiences something strange. A day later she gets a
surprise visitor.
An established relationship story.
Written: January 2013. Word count: 2,605.
Angel left Buffy
because he loved her. Now more than two decades later he's back, but why?
An established relationship story.
Written: May 2012. Word count: 2,975.
Set after the final episode of Angel The Series.
Angel gets a surprise visitor and a suggestion.
An established relationship story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 500.
A sequel to Innocent Though Experienced.
Angel wishes he could give some of his strength to Buffy.
An established relationship story.
Warning: Up-coming major character death mentioned.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 400.
Set at the end of
Becoming 2.
Finally Buffy knows she could kill Angel.
An established relationship story.
Written: April 2009. Word count: 300.
TEARS THAT BURN
Set at the very end of Season Three.
Buffy watches Angel walk away.
An established relationship story.
Written: March 2008. Word count: 200.
LOVING HER
There are some boundaries that even Angel cannot cross.
An established relationship story.
Written: December 2007. Word count: 200.
HE'LL NEVER FORGET
Set after The Gift.
Angel remembers Buffy.
An established relationship story.
Written: November 2007. Word count: 100.
ALWAYS
A companion piece to My
Girl.
Set after Season Three.
Buffy still misses Angel.
An established relationship story.
Written: October 2007. Word count: 100.
MY GIRL
A companion piece to: Always.
Angel left Buffy, but he'll never stop loving her.
An established relationship story.
Written: October 2007. Word count: 100.
FALLING INTO DESPAIR
Set immediately after The Gift and There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb.
Willow decides that Angel must be told about Buffy's death and that she will be
the one to go to LA to tell him.
An established relationship story.
Warning: Major character canon death.
Written: April 2007. Word count: 1,100.
THE COST
Set after the end of Angel The Series.
Buffy discovers the reason why Angel's hair always looked so perfect.
An established relationship story.
Written: April 2006. Word count: 100.
Gen: Rupert Giles
PRIVATE WATCHER DIARIES OF RUPERT GILES
NOT AN AUSPICIOUS START
Immediately after meeting Buffy for the first time, Giles writes about the
first meeting.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: February 2008. Word count: 275.
SHE HAS FRIENDS
Giles has discovered Buffy has friends.
A Giles centric gen story.
Written: February 2008. Word count: 130.
Giles writes more about Buffy.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: April 2009. Word count: 300.
Giles writes about Willow and how in many ways he wishes Buffy would expand the
same kind of zest to her Slayer studies as Willow does to her schoolwork.
A Giles centric gen story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 400.
Giles makes a diary entry about Xander.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 200.
Giles writes about Angel.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 400.
Somewhat oddly, perhaps, Giles writes about himself and a secret he is
determined Buffy and her friends will never discover.
A Giles-centric Gen story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 300.
Judging others and himself plays an important part in Giles's life.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: November 2010. Word count: 1,300.
It's Giles's first Christmas in America and he is missing home.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: March 2012. Word count: 1,225.
Ethan is back in town and of course trouble isn't far behind him. With Buffy,
Willow and Xander out of town, it falls to Giles and Angel to sort things out.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: March 2012. Word count: 1,530.
Giles is in his home in England, sitting by the fire remembering Buffy and the
Scoobie gang when he receives news that devastates him.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: January 2013. Word count: 1,380.
Set a month after Chosen.
Giles is back home in England and thinking about what will happen now.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: March 2013. Word count: 1,485.
MIGHT IT HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE?
Set after Buffy's return to Sunnydale.
Giles had thought that once Buffy returned home, everything would be all right again. However, he is aware that things aren't; he is also aware that both Buffy and Xander have a secret and he sets out to discover that they are.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: August 2013. Word count: 2,750.
Giles has a few things to say about Buffy's new watcher.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: August 2013. Word count: 2,180.
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Giles decides he needs a break away from Sunnydale and the Hellmouth. He finds
what he thinks is the ideal small town where nothing bad apparently ever
happens.
A Giles centric gen story.
Written: October 2013. Word count: 3,730.
HOME IS WHERE
THE HEART IS
Set during Season Four.
Giles tells himself that he should go home; that there is no reason for him to remain in the States.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: August 2013. Word count: 2,150.
Set after The Prom.
Giles thinks about Wesley and Buffy and also about what Angel leaving Sunnydale
will mean.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: August 2013: Word count: 2,225.
Set during The Gift.
Giles is trying to come to terms with Buffy's death.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: October 2010. Word count: 1,300.
Set during Helpless.
Giles makes a decision.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 500.
LIBRARIES CONTAIN MORE THAN BOOKS
Giles believes his job would be much easier if the school didn't have students.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 300.
THE LIGHT HAS GONE
Set after The Gift.
Giles morns Buffy.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: November 2007. Word count: 100.
I CANNOT TELL HER
Giles cannot tell Buffy what she means to him.
A Giles-centric gen story.
Written: November 2007. Word count: 100.
FORGIVENESS
Set after the end of Angel The Series.
Giles is surprised to see Wesley appear. Wes is searching for something that
only Giles can give him.
A gen story featuring Giles and Wesley.
Written: June 2005. Word count: 851.
HIGHLANDER: THE SERIES
Pairing: Duncan MacLeod/Methos
BACK INTO THE SHADOWS
Set after Highlander: Endgame.
Methos watches Duncan and knows what he has lost.
An established relationship story.
Warning: Unhappy ending.
Written: April 2007. Word count: 700.
INSPECTOR LYNLEY
Pairing: Thomas 'Tommy' Lynley/Barbara Havers
Tommy and Barbara attend the VE Day 70 Celebration: A Party To Remember as there
has been a rumour one of the people performing will be shot.
A first time story.
Written: May 2015. Word count: 2,715.
Author's note: This event was real; all the people mentioned did indeed perform.
I mean no offence to anyone or any serviceman or woman by using the event in
this story.
Tommy and Barbara disagree about a suspect in a case. When said case takes an
unexpected turn, Tommy realises his true feelings for Barbara.
A first time story.
Written: April 2015. Word count: 3,440.
Tommy is debating whether to ask Barbara to go home with him for Christmas.
An established relationship story.
Written: December 2014. Word count: 3,580.
Tommy is watching over Barbara. It's all he can do for her now. Watching and
wait and hope.
A first time story.
Written: October 2014. Word count: 3,485.
Tommy is furious with Barbara for putting her life in danger.
A first time story.
Written: October 2013. Word count: 3,415.
Barbara is about to be assigned to a case that will put her in great danger -
what can Tommy do about it?
A first time story.
Written: February 2013. Word count: 4,355.
Tommy is worried and is trying to be in two places at the same time.
An established relationship story.
Written: May 2012. Word count: 1,297.
Tommy and Barbara are sent undercover as husband and wife.
A first time story.
Written: March 2012. Word count: 3,500.
A sequel to She Can Do It.
A year has passed since Tommy arrested his old school friend. He has gone on doing the job each day, but his heart is no longer in it. But can he walk away? And if he does, what would that do to his relationship with Barbara?
An established relationship story.
Written: March 2012. Word
count: 1,860.
Barbara has been receiving cards from an unknown source for almost a year.
Finally on her birthday she discovers who has been sending them.
A first time story.
Written: February 2012. Word count: 2,900.
Barbara gives Tommy news that should please him. Instead it terrifies him.
An established relationship story.
Written: September 2010. Word count: 1,500.
Tommy's world is colourless following Helen's death and he can feel nothing. But
Barbara finds a way to give him hope.
A pre-het story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 400.
Set six months after Dead Inside.
Finally, Tommy and Barbara go out to dinner, but Tommy can only think of one thing.
A first time story.
Written: August 2009. Word
count: 500.
Tommy is watching Barbara.
An established relationship story.
Written: April 2009. Word count: 100.
Tommy thinks about his past and his present.
An established relationship story.
Written: August 2008. Word count: 500.
WISHING FOR THE SUN
Tommy's life seems to be a mass of cloudy days.
A pre-het story.
Written: December 2007. Word count: 250.
YOU BROUGHT IT BACK
A sequel to Wishing For The Sun.
The sun finally comes back into Tommy's life.
A first time story.
Written: December 2007. Word count: 900.
HOME IS WHERE
Lynley knows he made a mistake.
A pre-het story.
Written: November 2007. Word count: 100.
VENGEANCE IS MINE
An old university adversary turns up again.
An established relationship story.
Written: October 2007. Word count: 100.
HIS SAVIOUR
Tommy recognises that Barbara rescued him from his life.
An established relationship story.
Written: October 2007. Word count: 100.
BREAKING UNWRITTEN RULES
Barbara finds herself in the arms of her boss, being kissed by him and
kissing him back.
It's what she has wanted, for far longer than she's prepared to admit, but it
simply cannot happen.
A first time story.
Written: April 2007. Word count: 1,700.
THE FIRST STEP
A sequel to Breaking Unwritten Rules.
Barbara calling him by his given name, makes Tommy stop walking.
An established relationship story.
Written October 2007. Word count: 300.
M*A*S*H
Pairing: Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce/BJ Hunnicutt
Hawkeye finally
gets BJ into bed. So why does he feel so guilty about it?
An established relationship story.
Written: April 2015. Word count: 2,770.
Not all battle
scars are visible.
A first time story.
Written: April 2015. Word count: 3,600.
Hawkeye is sent
to an aide station near to the front. Before he goes BJ makes him promise him
something.
An established relationship story.
Written: November 2014. Word count: 3,185.
Set after the end
of the war.
One of the many things Hawkeye hated about Korea was that it was never silent.
So now that he is home again without the constant noise he should be happy. So
why isn't he?
An established relationship story.
Written: October 2013. Word count: 3,855.
Set fifteen years
after the end of the Korean War.
Hawkeye has moved away from Crabapple Cove and is now Chief Surgeon in hospital.
One morning he arrives at the hospital and is looking at the list of patients
admitted overnight and he sees a name he recognizes.
A first time story.
Written: February 2013. Word count: 3,785.
The Korean war
over, Hawkeye and BJ have to say goodbye. Hawkeye will return home to his
Crabapple Cove and his dad; BJ to Peg and Erin - but is it really the end of
their relationship?
An established relationship story.
Written: January 2013. Word count: 2,830.
Hawkeye always
keeps his promises. But does BJ?
An established relationship story.
Written: May 2012. Word count: 1,328.
When the war
ended Hawkeye made himself a promise. Years later he has to admit he'd failed to
keep it.
A first time story.
Written: February 2012. Word count: 2,040.
Hawkeye is back
in Maine with thoughts of only one person.
An established relationship story.
Written October: 2010. Word count: 1,000.
The war is over
and Hawkeye and BJ are saying goodbye.
An established relationship story.
Written: March 2010. Word count: 1,000.
BJ knows he
shouldn't be doing what he's doing, so he finds something to blame.
An established relationship story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 100.
Hawkeye knows one
day he'll have to come down to earth.
An established relationship story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 200.
Hawkeye finally
gets what he wants, but he knows there'll be no happy ever after.
A first time story.
Written: March 2009. Word count: 200.
A companion piece
to Victory Is Hollow.
Hawkeye is happy and yet he's not.
An established relationship story.
Written: March 2009. Word count: 200.
Hawkeye breaks the rules.
An established relationship story.
Written: September 2008. Word count: 400.
Both Radar and
Hawkeye are surprised.
A first time story.
Written: September 2008. Word count: 400.
Hawkeye is
ranting.
An established relationship story.
Written: September 2008. Word count: 100.
GOODBYE HAWKEYE
BJ goes to Maine.
An established relationship story.
Warning: Major character death.
Written: December 2007. Word count: 100.
DEATH SURROUNDS
No matter how hard they try, death in a constant.
An established relationship story.
Written: October 2007. Word count: 100.
I CAN'T
BJ cannot believe what he is feeling for Hawkeye.
A pre-slash story.
Written: October 2007. Word count: 100.
KINDRED SPIRITS
A companion piece to I Can't.
Hawkeye muses on his relationship with BJ.
A pre-slash story.
Written: October 2007. Word count: 100.
WALK BY MOONLIGHT
A sequel to I Can't and
Kindred Spirits.
Operating is over for the day.
A first time story.
Written: October 2007. Word count: 100.
THE LETTER
Set ten years after the end of M*A*S*H.
BJ returns home to find a letter, from Hawkeye, waiting for him. The contents
lead to a homecoming.
An established relationship story.
Written: October 2007. Word count: 1,270.
SO MUCH
The war is over and it's time for Hawkeye and BJ to part.
An established relationship story.
Written: October 2007. Word cont: 100.
SUBLIME RIDICULOUSNESS
Falling in love should be sublime.
An established relationship story.
Written: October 2007. Word count: 100.
IT DOESN'T MATTER
BJ is in the Officers' Club waiting for Hawkeye.
A pre-slash story.
Written: September 2007. Word count: 700.
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DOLLAR
Hawkeye is alone in the swamp after operating.
An established relationship story.
Written: April 2007. Word count: 600.
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
JUST ANOTHER CASE
Holmes is asked to undertake what on the surface seems to be a very strange
case.
An established relationship story.
Written: November 2014. Word count: 2,370.
Watson has always
known that he loved Holmes. He just hadn't realised quite how deep that love
went.
A first time story.
Written: November 2013. Word count: 3,325.
Watson had always
believed himself to be a fair man; a good man; a man who played by the rules and
then came the day he returned to Baker Street to find Holmes was missing.
A first time story.
Written: November 2013. Word count: 4,590.
Holmes had a good
reason for giving Watson's distant relative the money to buy Watson's practice.
In fact he had two good reasons.
A first time story.
Written: January 2013. Word count: 2,465.
A sequel to For Watson.
Watson is glad to be back in Baker Street by Holmes's side. He is trying to ascertain quite what has happened in their relationship when they get involved in a case.
An established relationship story.
Written: February 2013. Word count: 2,850.
Set after The
Final Problem.
Watson reflects on his relationship with Holmes and missed opportunities.
A pre-slash story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 500.
A sequel to Time To Reflect.
Watson is not sure he has ever believed in miracles until now. And as such he makes a momentous decision.
A pre-slash story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 500.
A sequel to Believing In Miracles.
Watson acts on his feelings and tells Holmes the truth.
A first time story.
Written: November 2010. Word count: 1,700.
A sequel to Contentment Is Mine.
It's been several months since Watson told Holmes of his true feelings for him.
An established relationship story.
Written: February 2012. Word count: 1,960.
Watson is
thinking about Holmes.
A pre-slash story.
Written: March 2009. Word count: 100.
QUITE CONTENT
Watson muses about his feelings for Holmes.
A pre-pre-slash story.
Written: April 2007. Word count: 600.
A companion piece to Quite Content.
Sherlock Holmes believes he had no choice over aspects of his character.
A pre-pre-slash story.
Written: September 2008. Word count: 500.
STARSKY & HUTCH
Pairing: David Michael Starsky/Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson
A new woman comes
into Hutch's life. Starsky takes an instant dislike to her and based on
something Huggy tells him, his cop's instinct makes him not trust her. However,
he has to admit he is also jealous of her and wonders if his instinct is playing
him false.
A first time story.
Written: May 2015. Word count: 3,460.
Once upon a time
they were in love. Can they, many years later, have the traditional happy
ending?
An established relationship story.
Written: April 2015. Word count: 2,610.
Hutch is being
sent undercover without Starsky in an attempt to catch a group of men who are
preying on under aged girls.
An established relationship story.
Written: February 2013. Word count: 2,410
Hutch has been
seriously injured and it makes Starsky realize something.
A first time story.
Written: February 2013. Word count: 2,635.
Hutch realizes
his feelings for Starsky go beyond those of just a working partner. But before
he acts on them he wants to be quite sure he feels what he feels because he's
made mistakes before.
A first time story.
Written: February 2013. Word count: 2,375.
It's two weeks
before their first Christmas as partners and there's something Hutch would like
to ask Starsky, but he's not sure how to.
A first time story.
Written: January 2013. Word count: 2,280.
It's the day
before Thanksgiving, but Hutch doesn't have much to be thankful for and then a
blast from the past walks into his office. But is it too late to remember their
years in LA?
An established relationship story.
Written: May 2012. Word count: 2,518.
DETECTIVE KENNETH HUTCHINSON LOST
Hutch is missing
and the city seems to have been repopulated with tall, blue-eyed, blond men.
An established relationship story.
Written: March 2012. Word count: 1,100.
Sometimes Starsky
thinks he spends his whole life in vans.
An established relationship story.
Written: October 2010. Word count: 1,200.
Starsky wants to
know why Hutch stays in LA.
An established relationship story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 300.
In many ways Starsky and Hutch are a mirror image of one another.
An established relationship story.
Written: August 2009. Word count: 100.
Their partnership
is both over and covert.
An established relationship story.
Written: April 2009. Word count: 100.
Starsky knows
where his future lies.
An established relationship story.
Written: August 2008. Word count: 100.
BETTER LEFT UNSAID
Hutch knows there are things better left unsaid.
A pre-slash story.
Written: November 2007. Word count: 100.
ME AND THEE
Starsky and Hutch had different reasons for joining the police force.
An established relationship story.
Written: October 2007. Word count: 100.
SOMETIMES LOVE ISN'T ENOUGH
Starsky and Hutch say goodbye.
An established relationship story.
Written: April 2007. Word count: 1,000.
ONLY A CHANGE OF WORLDS
Starsky is behaving oddly and Hutch is worried. But is there more to
Starsky's concerns than meets the eye?
Warning: Major character death.
An established relationship angst heavy story.
Written: August 2001 Word count: 15,141
THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFTS
It's Christmas and Starsky and Hutch search for the ideal gifts to give one
another.
What they find surprises both of them.
A first time story.
Written: November 2000 Word count: 6,188
DO I REALLY HAVE TO WEAR A TIE?
Set after the end of the series.
Starsky has to see a psychiatrist prior to being cleared to return to the
streets after his near-fatal shooting.
He seems ready to re-enter the fray, but is Hutch? And if the blond man isn't,
what will it do to their partnership and relationship?
Can Starsky put those things before his desire to get back to the streets?
An established relationship story.
Written: May 2000. Word count: 2,614.
ALWAYS ON MY MIND
Set after the end of the series.
Hutch is finding it more and more difficult to show and tell Starsky that he
loves him.
Following the shooting, Starsky needs to know more than ever, and finally he has had enough and leaves Hutch.
Hutch chooses a unique way to tell
Starsky how he feels, but will Starsky be there to hear it?
An established relationship story.
Written: June 1999. Word count: 6,270.
HARD TO SAY I'M SORRY
Set after the end of the series.
Alone in a hotel room after one too many attempts to get Starsky to prove he
loves him,
Hutch hears a song on the radio that sums up his entire relationship with
Starsky.
But has he left it too late to put things right?
An established relationship angsty story.
Written: June 1999. Word count: 5,049.
THE DALGLIESH MYSTERIES
Pairing: Adam Dalgliesh/John Massingham
HEALING WORDS
John turns up at Adam's house.
A first time story.
Written: April 2007. Word count: 3,000.
THE SANDBAGGERS
Pairing: Neil Burnside/Willie Caine
Neil is watching
Willie.
An established relationship story.
Written: September 2009. Word count: 100.
Set a few months after Opposite Numbers.
Finally out of hospital, Willie pays a visit.
An established relationship story.
Written: March 2009. Word count: 500.
Willie wonders if Neil will talk to him.
An established relationship story.
Written: March 2009. Word count: 300.
NEVER THE SAME AGAIN
Willie and Neil have been sent on a mission together. Willie is shot, and he
sees a completely hitherto unknowns side of Neil.
A first time story.
Written: April 2007. Word count: 500.
NOT ONLY ABOUT PRIDE
Neil ends his relationship with Willie.
An established relationship story.
Written: June 2006. Word count: 1,065.
THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME
Neil is unconscious in hospital, and Willie decides it is time to tell him
some home truths.
An established relationship story.
Written: August 2005. Word count: 1,144.
THE WEST WING
Pairing: Tobias Zachary 'Toby' Ziegler/Samuel 'Sam' Seaborn
Sam considers the
real reason he chose to run for Senator.
An established relationship story.
Written: July 2009. Word count: 864.