The geometry of life: a story in two parts by oxoniensis The forecast was for a 62% chance of rain. In her shoulder bag she put a Smith and Wesson. She put on jeans, a t-shirt that showed Mickey Mouse saluting the American Flag, a light tan windbreaker and her comfortable blue SAS sneakers. The morning of the assassination, Patti Jankowski got up, took a long shower and towel dried her hair before braiding it into two long ropes that hung over her shoulders. This is a story about punk rock and road trips and California.įeeling better since I've surrendered by noelia_gĭon't you know it's supposed to feel better for boys?īrad goes back to Iraq, even though he’s in love. Brad Colbert, and assigns him the 24/7 task of being the Vice President's shadow. When the number of death threats starts to climb, he calls in the one person he's sure he can trust, USMC Sgt. There is little that Agent Mike Wynn takes more seriously than the life of Vice President Nate Fick. One thing is clear some of it was Ray’s fault. Their identities are blurred by a hundred different small interactions that mean very little on their own, outside of a larger context. The slide from “the LT and the Iceman” towards “Nate and Brad” is slow. Procedures Of Intervention by penguinparity It just seemed like a slide into lazy Sunday night sex was inevitable. "Are you defacing my tattoo?" "You defaced my fern, seems only fair."īrad's a low level telepath, but Nate happens to be one of those he picks up loud and clear. Bet for or against?ĭon’t Lick Your Fingers When You Turn the Page by nightanddaze ♥ Orioles playing two in Atlanta starting Thursday, it reads. He takes a late afternoon dive a few miles off the coast, comes up to find a text from Nate's Google voice number. Nate has two shots of Patron- no lime, no salt.ĥ Times Nate Fick Breaks the Rules of Ethics (But Not Rule 8.4d) by goshemilyĪfter Iraq, after Nate leaves, he doesn’t hear from Brad for a long time. Brad has one beer, a Red Stripe that's so cold the bottle is sweating before their waitress gets it on the table. The day after Nate's paddle party Brad meets him for drinks in a bar down the street from Nate's apartment. The third time they’re drunk and sloppy, and it barely warrants mentioning. I rode away from your station by imogenedisease The Great Revelation could have ended all their lives, immortality be damned. Nate works for a company in research and development. Unethical Behavior In The Workplace by fourfreedoms There are some moments that he's never going to be able to write about. It starts on the first day of a war with broken radios. "That," he says, "is how you know it was close." - Sebastian Junger, War But I'm sure he'd be good at all of those things if the situation arose. To the best of my knowledge Nate has never needed a hooker's help to solve a mystery, played pro hockey, taken Holy Orders, suffered a head injury and woken up in 1973, or survived the apocalypse. The Night Is Always Darkest Before Dawn by looleebelleįive Things That Never Happened to Nate Fick. Inspired by don't miss anything from home by pticha21. As East Timor moves inexorably towards freedom – or war – Nate is drawn into events that will define the future of the province forever. But the year is 1999, and the shock fall of military dictator Suharto is still reverberating throughout the country, triggering changes nobody ever thought possible. When Peace Corps assigns Nate to East Timor, a tiny half-island in eastern Indonesia, he figures he'll have a lot of time to catch up on his reading. So when he finally stepped out into the bright sunlight a week After and didn’t get eaten by mutant zombies or attacked by crazed cannibals, Nate was understandably confused. Maybe one day they’ll do this for real.īrad and his emotions have an understanding: he doesn't talk about, or think about, anything that might affect his combat effectiveness, and his emotions do whatever the fuck he tells them to. They’ve been playing house like this for the better part of a decade between grad school and England and promotions and deployments. Now's The Only Time We Know by chemfishee ♥ Where there's no summary, I've used the first sentence. Unholy amount of Brad/Nate in comparison to everything else. Separated by pairing but in no other order than that. ♥ next to a link means I really, really, really loved it. I'll leave the post unlocked just in case anyone wants to share it for any reason? I mentioned possibly making this on twitter and, uh, basically pointblankdarcy made me :P Not by any means exhaustive because you know I'll have forgotten to bookmark stuff.
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