Fear and Desire - Part 3: You Know Who Your Friends Are
_ **Fear and Desire** _ _ **Part 3: You Know Who Your Friends Are** _ Nick continued to stride back and forth across the front lawn, mumbling incoherently as he struggled to comprehend Sam's words. He kept on replaying the same thought over...
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...
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,...
Against All Odds: Part 25 - Margins
**_Part 25 - Margins_** _(Nathan)_ A gust of wind whistled through the broken panels of the old window above Nathan's prison, stronger and colder now that the veil of night wrapped suffocatingly around the abandoned factory complex. At last check...
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...
Fear and Desire - Part 5: In Good Times and Bad
_ **Fear and Desire** _ _ **Part 5: In Good Times and Bad** _ The head of the hooded pursuer jolted back violently, Sam's swift fist taking them completely by surprise as it crashed hard up into their snout. Off-balance, the fox followed up by...
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 38 - Release
**_Part 38 - Release_** _(Nathan)_ ** ** The black window that replaced Alexei's image sat imposingly in the centre of Nathan's screen, mirroring the emptiness left deep inside of him. He sat unmoving in his chair, reeling from the force of the...
Against All Odds: Part 28 - Retribution
**_Part 28 - Retribution_** _(Nathan)_ "Yes, I spoke with your friend earlier," the female dispatch officer confirmed over the phone, responding to Nathan's panicked summary of the situation and its unwelcomed escalation. "He told me of your...
Against All Odds: Part 39 - The Extrication of Alexei Korolev
**_Part 39 - The Extrication of Alexei Korolev_** _(Alexei)_ Cooking, cleaning and another stint of gardening: they all kept Alexei busy around the house the day after his difficult discussion with Nate. A decent night's sleep helped to ease his...
Fear and Desire - Part 2: Now or Never
Part two of my story 'Fear and Desire'. Once again, it is marked clean, but contains strong language in places. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _ **Fear and...
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...