Against All Odds: Epilogue
**_Against All Odds: Epilogue_** _(Alexei)_ "I have to say, your work is truly remarkable." "Oh." Alexei shuffled a few steps closer to the raised section of his workshop's compact display area. "Thank you for saying so." He beamed proudly,...
Against All Odds: Part 26 - Recovery…
**_Part 26 - Recovery..._** _(Alexei)_ The half-hour journey that brought Alexei to the old docks that afternoon lasted thirty minutes too long for his liking, such was his urgency to seek Nathan and his captors out. Raindrops collected upon his...
Against All Odds: Part 33 - Reverie
**_Part 33 - Reverie_** _(Alexei)_ "We're almost there!" Alexei boomed out a laugh, eyes fixed upon the little husky straddling his muzzle. "Can you see anyone yet?" He kept his form gentle, wary of dislodging Nathan during the swim across the...
Against All Odds: Part 36 - Lifeline
**_Part 36 - Lifeline_** _(Nathan)_ "Yet another day of _this_," Nathan moaned, glaring hatefully at the ever-increasing list of unread emails. "I'm so over it now." He flopped back in his office chair, rapidly losing focus on the work task at...
Against All Odds: Part 31 - Sands of Time
**_Part 31 - Sands of Time_** _(Nathan)_ To Nathan's considerable relief, the stay in hospital he and Alexei had to endure lasted less than a day. Still, they each had to put up with an array of scans and treatments throughout the night, with a...
Against All Odds: Part 41 - Final Steps
**_Part 41 - Final Steps_** _(Alexei)_ _ _ Afflicted by a near-unscalable mountain of paperwork along with interview after long, tedious interview, it took until long after the first leaves of autumn had fallen for Alexei's departure day to finally...
Against All Odds: Part 22 - Breaking The Walls
**_Part 22 - Breaking The Walls_** _(Alexei)_ Despite Erik's insistence on heading into the office to chat, he spent the first minute or so inside shuffling anxiously, lost to the world within his own thoughts. The wall of silence built up...
Against All Odds: Part 27 - ...Relapse
**_Part 27 - ...Relapse_** _(Alexei)_ "Alex!" A soft yet persistent pounding against his muzzle stole Alexei from his sleep. With a yawn, he forced his eyes open to a squint, spotting Nathan's little arms clinging to his nose through the...
Power Play (AaO Universe)
**_Power Play_** My neck jerked hard as my tired head slipped from the paw that'd somehow managed to hold it up. I gasped gently; shocked by the sight of my study desk racing towards me. Somehow, I caught myself before making contact. Dear gods,...
Escaping the Storm: Part 1
**_Escaping the Storm_** **_Part 1_** "Come on, what in the gods is taking so long!?" Erik spun to the gap in the dreary warehouse's towering racking, frozen to the spot by the nasally roar of his supervisor rising to the skylights...
Against All Odds: Part 30 - From The Ashes
**_Part 30 - From The Ashes_** _(Alexei)_ Alexei's workshop smouldered in the streetlights' glow; the fire brigade arriving too late to prevent the flames from reducing it to a charred, broken shell. His apartment sat perched precariously above,...
Against All Odds: Part 24 - Trauma
**_Part 24 - Trauma_** _(Alexei)_ "I... do not understand." Alexei staggered back, allowing Erik a half-step to the side and away from his intense grasp. His colleague's revelation had ploughed into him like a freight train, leaving the wolf...