dreamer_marie

Title: The Crappiest Christmas
Words: 9183
Rating: PG-13
Summary: When Logan invited a few friends for a high-stakes poker game, he couldn't have imagined how spectacularly wrong things would get. An Echolls Family Christmas seen from Logan's point of view.
Spoilers: Up to An Echolls Family Christmas.
Disclaimer: The characters were created by Rob Thomas and remain the property of Thomas, the CW, and Warner Bros. Television. No infringement is intended, no profit is made. All characters in this story are fictional. Any mention of real persons is entirely fictional. None of their quotes or actions in this story have any basis in reality in any way.
Author's Note: I would like to thank the lovely love_is_epic for beta-reading this story. The dialogue from the episode was directly lifted from the TWIZ website, so thanks for the effort they put in transcribing it!

( It had seemed like a good idea at the time – a thrill and a good distraction from the Christmas party preparations at home. )

Title: Larry King Live
Characters: Duncan, Lilly Jr., Larry King, Logan.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In Australia, Duncan watches Logan's interview with Larry King.
Word Count: 3479
Disclaimer: The characters were created by Rob Thomas and remain the property of Thomas, the CW, and Warner Bros. Television. No infringement is intended, no profit is made. All characters in this story are fictional. Any mention of real persons is entirely fictional. None of their quotes or actions in this story have any basis in reality in any way.
Spoilers: Up to episode 3.04 "Charlie Don't Surf"
Author's Note: I would like to thank the lovely love_is_epic for beta-reading this fic. This fic was written for the September vmfic_gameon challenge # 4 (the words are: news, react, reticent, neutral, phone and snake).

( During the commercial, Duncan tried to calm himself. )

Title: Larry King Live
Characters: Duncan, Lilly Jr., Larry King, Logan.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In Australia, Duncan watches Logan's interview with Larry King.
Word Count: 2969
Disclaimer: The characters were created by Rob Thomas and remain the property of Thomas, the CW, and Warner Bros. Television. No infringement is intended, no profit is made. All characters in this story are fictional. Any mention of real persons is entirely fictional. None of their quotes or actions in this story have any basis in reality in any way.
Spoilers: Up to episode 3.04 "Charlie Don't Surf"
Author's Note: I would like to thank the lovely love_is_epic for beta-reading this fic. This fic was written for the September game_on challenge # 4 (the words are: news, react, reticent, neutral, phone and snake).

 ( Duncan stopped the stroller and gave the titles on the newsstand a pondering look, knowing he was only attracting attention by doing so. )

Stolen from

a_t_rain

• "Oh, hello, Mr. Darcy," answered Cookie Monster. "Have you seen me cookie? It is chocolate chip cookie."
• Logan couldn't help enjoying the sound of Piz shooting himself in the foot (he doubted Duncan would have been stupid enough to object to Veronica helping him).
• They were playing poker, for fuck's sake, not giving Sean a makeover.
• "Can you take me to see her?" asked Holly, looking at Benson with pleading, watery blue eyes.
• Every species, vegetal or animal, that was in any way hostile to Gormners, has been eradicated, along with everything that they don't care about.
• If Truth were an anthropomorphic representation, it would be a middle-aged man lying on the couch, with a collection of pizza boxes and beer bottles and the belly that comes with it, watching television in his pyjamas at eleven o'clock in the morning.
• "Nebraska City Memorial Hospital, how can I help you?" she said in the phone, wondering if she could do anything with that cool bottle of absinthe she had just bought (she had no idea what absinthe was, but it was sophisticated. It even had French written on it).
• "I knew this would happen," she was saying to her husband, "I knew my mother should never have consented to the match – though she meant well – this would never have happened if my father had been alive! He knew her better than that!"
• "Until nine months ago, the heir of Lord Dalrymple was his grandson through his eldest son. The grandson died in a road accident, leaving behind his pregnant wife, who gave birth two months later to a son. Then the old Lord died, and a month later the infant followed. The next heir collapsed in church, then his son and his family ate the wrong mushrooms, and I believe the younger brother died on the battlefield on the continent. I am not sure what happened to his son, except that he died just before Christmas, when he came home from school."

There you go. Everything that was ever started and which I haven't finished. Some stuff I'm still working on, and some has been abandoned.

>>> questions = ['name', 'quest', 'favorite color']
>>> answers = ['lancelot', 'the holy grail', 'blue']
>>> for q, a in zip(questions, answers):...     
print 'What is your {0}?  It is {1}.'.format(q, a)
...
What is your name?  It is lancelot.
What is your quest?  It is the holy grail.
What is your favorite color?  It is blue.

It's a fannish programming language! There are plenty of other examples in the tutorial. That's not even the last of it. The name of the development environment is IDLE. AfterEric Idle.
...
OK, I'll stop being a nerd now.

Summary: Had they been only ten minutes sooner, they should have been beyond the reach of his discrimination, for it was plain that he was that moment arrived, that moment alighted from his horse or his carriage. (Pride and Prejudice, chapter 43)
What if that was exactly what had happened?
Final chapters
Length: 1890 words.
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I don't own any of this, Jane Austen does.
Author's note: I would like to thank the beautiful Patagonian for beta-reading this story and

carlanime

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

( At exactly six o'clock, Miss Younge, holding John by the hand, was introduced in his study by his disapproving butler. )

Darcy had no trouble, the next morning, in getting the Gardiners and Mr. Johnson's approval. They were all very happy about it, and Mr. Montgomery was never mentioned again. The wedding was celebrated as soon as propriety permitted, and Mr. and Mrs. Darcy left for Pemberley to be happy. 

Lady Alicia never gave Elizabeth precedence, no matter what General Fitzwilliam said. But the family accepted Elizabeth easily enough – it was, after all, Darcy's second marriage, and his relatives were mostly relieved that he had not married his maid.

Mr. Collins was very good at managing his estate, mainly because most of it was done by his wife. Her correspondence with Elizabeth was, in the first year of her being mistress of Longbourn, very frequent. Sometimes, Darcy's judgement was applied to, but he preferred to leave most of it between the two friends. Mr. Collins had a very important role, however, in being courteous to all his neighbours, something he was schooled in very thoroughly by his father-in-law. He could not, however, provide the same kind of advice to the young ladies in Meryton that his cousin had done, and for a while the elegance of Hertfordshire suffered for it. Happily, Netherfield Park was soon occupied by new owners whose elegant daughter properly succeeded to the former mistress of Longbourn.

Georgiana never had any reason to complain about Sally. On the contrary, she was so happy with her that Sally quickly rose to upperclass maid, and the housekeeper was soon thinking about training her as her successor. Sally sent about half her money to her mother, who sent it straight to Wickham. It took Mrs. Younge a long time before she realised that he was not worth her devotion. It took Wickham even longer to realise that sending Darcy begging letters was a waste of his time. 

How had Wickham learnt about his son? Straight from Lydia. The poor girl had never gotten over him, and had sent letter after letter to Edwards Street. In the hope of interesting him in her again, she had told him that John would go to London with Elizabeth. The idea of teaching his son to be a thief had been too alluring to his vanity, and that was how the plan to abduct John had started.

Mr. Johnson had to find someone else to suspect of showing his wife too much interest. He did not need to look long: Darcy's engagement soon brought the Bingleys to town, and Mr. Bingley renewed his acquaintance with Jane. Neither of them would of course do anything improper, but Mr. Bingley could not imagine any gallantry to be enough for Mrs. Johnson, and she would always blush becomingly at his attentions. Mrs. Bingley had a very different disposition from Mr. Johnson, and Mrs. Johnson's sweet disposition endeared her so much to her that they soon became fast friends. 

It soon became apparent that John was not happy in London. He missed the farm on which he had spent the first six years of his life. It also became obvious to Mr. Gardiner that he was not cut out to work in his firm. A couple of childless tenants of Darcy's were more than happy to take him in as a help, where he did so well and endeared himself so much that they adopted him. He remained close to his uncle and aunt, who often came to visit him. It was much whispered about, but nobody ever dared say anything about it in front of Darcy. He wouldn't have minded too much, though. He was too happy to care much about his reputation.

Author's Note: This rant was inspired by a number of professionally published original novels and has nothing to do with some brilliant (male) fanfiction writers of my acquaintance,whose knowledge of female underwear is nearly as good as mine.

( Just something I needed to get off my chest )