Not your same ol' love story

Title: Saudade
Fandom: Code Red original fiction
Pairing: Paulo Castelli + Ali Matson
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 891
Summary: Without a way to return to the US, Paulo is unable to visit or contact his old friend and lover.  But she’s still on his mind.
Author’s Note: Written for allbingo untranslatable words bingo.
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Title: The River and the Highway
Fandom: Code Red Original Fiction
Pairing: Gen, Allyson Matson + Paulo Castelli
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,559
Summary: Ali’s thinking about her past.
Author’s Notes: I wrote this in 2008 after the anniversary of the death of a long-time friend, Tony. This fic has been on my mind lately because it deals with the memory of two deaths for my character, Ali. Her childhood friend and her first husband. Tomorrow would have been my 23rd wedding anniversary, so I’m thinking that’s what stirring all this emotion up. Title and lyrics from a song by Pam Tillis called “The River and the Highway”, one of my favorites. I always kind of fancied myself as the river, and now I think I've become her.
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Finally had a chance to get caught up with these. Yay! Prompt 2 will be at the bottom since it wound up being a three beat fic rather than three sentences.
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Title: Why Me?
Fandom: Code Red Original Fiction
Pairing: Gen
Rating: PG
Word Count: 320
Summary: Ali is having a rough day wondering why all the bad stuff happens to her.
Author’s Note: Written for day 4 of the comment fic challenge at 1_million_words. The prompt was ‘why me’.
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Title: Day by Day
Fandom: Code Red Original Fiction
Pairing: Allyson Matson + Dustin Michaels
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,353
Summary: Ali’s struggling with the chain on Rory’s bike as well as other things.
Author’s Note: I don’t delve into this fandom much any longer, but I miss having Ali around. One day, I’ll go back and clean up all of her stories and post them here. Written for the Weekend Challenge back in *cough* August. My prompts were, ‘comfortable, sexy, cool’ and “What are you doing?” “I have no idea.”
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Day 7's prompt was 'no dialogue'. So um, have some more stream of consciousness from Ali's point of view.
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Title: Skittish
Fandom: Code Red
Pairing: gen
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 659
Summary: For someone who works with explosives, Dave is much too easily startled.
Author’s Note: Day late and a dollar short as always.  Wrote this for last week’s weekend challenge.  My prompt was ‘Based on how I react when toast pops out of the toaster, I will never look cool walking away from an explosion’.  Wasn’t sure what to do with this at first and then it came to me…
( Poor 'Zook )

Title: Ice Water in My Veins
Fandom: Code Red original fiction
Pairing: Ali Hart/Paulo Castelli (the poor boy finally has a last name after… I can’t even tell you how man years… 15 maybe?)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Ali is awakened by a text message to return to base to interrogate a prisoner refusing to speak English.  Confronted by a ghost from her past, she has to put on a cold exterior to keep anyone from knowing that there’s more between the two of them than a shared language.
Author’s Notes: Written for the weekend challenge at 1_million_words. I was given the emotion of ‘cold’.  This was the first thing that came to mind.  And now… I have pumpkin bread to eat.
Word Count: 2,169

( The things we do for love... )

Title: Out of Her Hands
Fandom: Code Red original fiction
Pairing: Gen, Ali Matson + Albert Rogan
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,363
Summary: Ali stops to look at her life and feels like it’s all beyond her control.  And then Albie comes to her rescue.
Author’s Note: Square number 7 for my bingo card. My first fandom (!) and one I rarely write in these days.  I miss Ali.

( I'm gonna let it go )

Title: The Break Up
Fandom: Code Red Original Fic
Pairing: Allyson Hart/Bryan Tracey
Rating: PG for some language
Word Count: 1,637
New Words: 674
Summary: Ali’s boyfriend crosses the line and she kicks him to the curb. 
Author’s Note: See here for a full dissertation on this series.  This is part of an extremely old series that I started back in 2006 or so.  This particular short was written exactly eight years ago yesterday (1/31/07).  I got to a point where I made it halfway through a multi-chapter fic and just… stopped. I’m hoping that by reworking, reediting, and reposting these fics I can get back and finish that one that’s been languishing since February 2010.  Eh, what’s five years, right? 

Oh, and don’t have a heart attack… it’s het.  Hah. (Well, up to a point it is… but you’ll see that when we get there.)

P. S. That's my Ali icon, btw.

( And so it begins... bring on Blake! )