Sniffles

I have an overflowing inbox of LJ comments I will try and answer but...

Lauren is home sick with a cold.

My head is killing me, my throat is sore; you see where I'm going with this, right?

Tonight is E's Halloween party which I've been working at ALL WEEK, decorating the basement. I'm getting freaked out by it in a way my own parties don't (David and I love giving parties but the guests are all people we've known for years; the sort you find loading your dishwasher for you at the end and tidying up even when you tell them to leave it, bless 'em). Tonight it's going to be some kids I don't know that well (mixed in with kids who're practically family) and I won't be supervising, I'll be upstairs listening anxiously for problems and trying not to be an embarrassing mom.

Whole new ballgame.

And David returns from France midway through it.

Excuse me. Got 45 balloons to blow up, tie a string to and staple gun the string to the basement ceiling. Luckily I also have my friend who is coming over soon with coffee and energy in abundance to help.

Sentinel Fic 'Rag and Bone' Jim/Blair NC17 1/2

Written for the Spook Me Ficathon. The masterlist is here

My monster was 'Shape-Shifter' and my two secret prompts, both of which are in the story, slightly obliquely, but they're there, were: "Bloodlust!" and "Curse of the Faceless Man".

Many thanks to ozsaur and dustandroses for organizing this and many grateful thanks to t_verano who read the first draft and pointed out a dozen places where the plot didn't make any sense at all and thereby saved me confusing everyone who read it.

The fandom is 'The Sentinel', it's slash, with a Jim/Blair pairing, the fic is set in S2 and has references to the S1 episode, 'Cypher'.
Wordcount is 20,184 so I've had to split it into two parts to post. There's a link at the bottom of this to part two.

( Rag and Bone )

Part Two

Sentinel Fic 'Rag and Bone' Jim/Blair NC17 2/2

Here's Part Two of the story.

( Rag and Bone Part Two )

Basement pix!

You can't see all the awesome details, but this is what it looks like down there. At the back I've covered all my bookcases with hanging sheets of plastic in orange and black to make a cave where they can dance and there are 40+ violet and orange balloons hanging from the rafters and cobwebs everywhere.

I am shattered.

Sentinel Fic 'Contrary to Expectations' Jim/Blair R

This one's for arrow00. 1500 words of early S1 with less porn in it than it should have but I hope it cheers you up ::hugs::

( Contrary to Expectations )