Yikes! So long since I updated this story, but for those of you still interested in Evil!Caleb, here's the next chapter.

You know the drill. Still AU. And the characters--well, the Cohen and Caleb--still not mine.

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Sigh. It seems I have this compulsion to post at least one fic update a month no matter how pitiful that story/chapter might be. So, since it's almost December, here's the next bit of "Best Forgotten." I wish I could do better for those of you still reading OC fic, but this is all I could manage.

Disclaimer: You know the drill. The characters belong to Josh & company (however little they would recognize them here.) Only the melodrama and the mistakes are mine.

Oh, and please remember: This is all AU, all the time.

Best Forgotten, Part 10
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More like a Halloween trick than a treat, this update.

I've had little time to write recently and even less inspiration, but I wanted to post at least a mini-update before the month ended. So here it is, mini indeed. In every way.

DisclaimerStill AU (oh, that nasty Caleb!), and the characters? Still not mine.


Best Forgotten, Part 9
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This is what happened, flist. I commented on a post by muchtvs, and somehow she wound up challenging me to post an update of this story, which I haven't touched in a year, by the end of September. I'm sure you've forgotten it too: it's my Trey-and-Ryan-go-to-meet-their-father-when-he's-released-from-prison fic--so old that it was begun before we knew Papa!Atwood's name.

I hoped/planned/expected to finish it here so I could pat myself on the back and return to other, more immediate WIPs, like "Best Forgotten." No such luck. This story still isn't complete, despite the fact that the final scene has been written since 2006. Sigh. Well, maybe I'll do it before 2010.

Anyway, here's the upside: as part of our challenge, muchtvs pledged to update "Discovering. So perhaps we'll see some of that soon. *crosses fingers*

Meantime, for those who remember/care, here's more of "Blood Ties"--unrevised and unedited, so I could meet the deadline (and frankly because I'm afraid to reread it.) My apologies for any and all errors.

Oh, and standard disclaimer: The characters still/always belong to Josh & company.

Blood Ties, Part 5

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Well this is long. Very. It needs editing but I'm not going to bother, because hey, at least I can post a chapter before going back to work. Just a warning, though: if you plan to read, get yourself a drink and a very comfy chair.

So you know the drill: This is AU and the characters (AU though they may be--I'm looking at you, Cal) belong to Josh and company. Only the errors and over-writing belong to me.

Best Forgotten, Part 8
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This was originally supposed to have been part of chapter 6, but it's been so long since I posted that I thought it deserved a chapter number all its own. So, in case you've forgotten:

Disclaimers: AU. Set after "The Girlfriend," and featuring evil!Caleb. Also, I still own none of the characters. Never have, never will.

Hope this section answers a couple questions!

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Written for silverweave for the OC sentence challenge. The prompt was: If Seth had wanted his day to go like this, he would have shoved himself in his locker in first period and saved everyone else the trouble. I think you'll notice it right away.

Set season 1, sometime between "The Heights" and "The Perfect Couple."

Sorry it's late, silverweave and sorry I don't have a Seth icon to go with, but here's the story:

Seth’s No-Good, Rotten, Unfreakingfair, Sucktastic, Miserable, Lousy Day

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First of all a most HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the wonderful joey and impik. May you both enjoy years as amazing as you are.

This update, though, is dedicated to mel and kat and cheeky. It's not a complete chapter; there's another scene with Lucy and Ryan/Brandon, but even though it's half done, I know I won't have time to finish it today, and I wanted to post something before the end of the month. So I hope this bit will suffice until after catch up with reading and replying, write my sentence challenge story and post about my trip (not necessarily in that order.)

Please insert the standard disclaimer here. You know, not mine, yadda, yadda, yadda . . . Oh, and this one: I claim no medical knowledge either!

Best Forgotten, Part 6A
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I'm not caught up with reading-commenting, and I actually have some random RL news I'd like to share, but before any of that, I have to post this update. Why the urgency? Frankly, I just need to get it up before I lose the damn thing again. I finished this chapter yesterday, but when I returned to it today for some final revision (read: editing; it's sadly overwritten) the file was missing. Gone! Or rather, all I could find was about 1500 words of a much earlier, incomplete version. I stormed, I ranted, I cursed--and then, coached by a much more computer-savvy friend, I miraculously found the document! It was hiding all along in a cryptic work file. So, before it disappears again, I give you part 5 of this evil-Caleb (or just) evil AU.

Disclaimer 1, in which I dis-claim the characters, who all still belong to Josh & company.

Disclaimer 2, in which I issue a Blatant Melodrama warning.

Disclaimer 3, in which I apologize for the length of this, because I did not make needed revisions after I recovered the file. Done is done.

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Sigh. It's lonely here in OC fic-writing land. So little company makes it hard to get inspired.

Okay, whine over. And you know the disclaimers, right? Characters (well, the main ones anyway) not mine, no profit made, etc., etc. So here's part 4 of my increasingly AU fic. Happy--or rather, unhappy--reading.

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Hmm: all these pictures of Officer Ben are showing up (and by the way--yum) but here I am, still with an AU season 1 Ryan Atwood. Plus, I still have so many WIPs to finish and what am I writing? Right this. Ah well.

Disclaimer: I own nothing except my own warped imagination. Oh, and the clinic staff.

Now on to part 3 in which, be warned, nothing really happens.

Best Forgotten, Part 3

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I don't know if anybody is in the mood for fic, especially this bizarre one, but this update is done so . . .

For you again, brandy. I hope you feel better.

Also again, the standard disclaimer: The characters aren't mine. They still belong to Josh--well, except the obviously AU ones, that is.

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Please insert my standard apology here. As always, I'm behind on both reading and comments, but I wanted to post this before heading off to a ridiculous Oscar-watching party.

smc36, here is your promised birthday fic, both tardy and silly. I don't know if you recall Eli, the gay roommate I gave Ryan in "School Dazed," but he makes an appearance here. (Appearance? Hell, he's one-third of the story.) In any case, this is set at the start of winter break during what would have been season 5. It is (thank goodness) a one-shot, and Eli, sadly, is the only one of the characters that I own.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRANDY!

This is the kind of story that you do so well and I do not at all. But you wanted to read A nurse in a mental hospital discovers that a well-known missing person is being held there against their will. so just for you, here's a variation on that prompt. Of course, it's a WIP, and since I have about four of those already that need to be finished, I make no promises on when this will be updated.

Since I owe you, a belated birthday fic, smc36, I'm dedicating this jointly to you. (But I am working on your story too, promise!)

Disclaimer: The usual: don't own the characters. Just borrowing them for fun.

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I promised to post this continuation/sequel this weekend, so here it is. I'm not happy with it, but I had to spend most of my revision time shoveling snow instead. And we won't even get a snow day out of the storm. What good is 11 inches on Saturday?

Ah well. Enough complaining. On with the story.

Insert usual disclaimer here.
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A Sekrit Santa gift for mel39, who mentioned that she liked pre-Newport stories. And yes, this is a new installment in my long-abandoned "First Time" series. This part is also (cough) only the first time Ryan got suspended. The fourth time isn't quite complete, but I promised mel this fic by New Year's so here, at least, is its beginning. Happy New Year to one and all!

And mel (and others), please keep your expectations low, low, low.

Disclaimer Still yours, Josh.
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Just because I wanted to post something--anything--before the end of the month, here's the quasi-conclusion of "Home Improvement."

I feel like I should offer a mini-refresher, since this chapter begins mid-conversation and I can't expect anyone to remember what was going on. So here is where we left our still-delusional hero and the Cohens, et al. in his Chrismukkah-huh? style dream:

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Now on with our story (characters still courtesy of Josh & company, btw.)

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And to all of my U.S. flist--HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Today was the very elastic quasi-deadline for the "Sandy is a . . ." challenge. It's really open-ended (post anytime! But please do let me know when you do so that eventually I can make a post linking all the stories.) Since it was my challenge, though, I thought I should update my "Sandy is a Novelist" fic. I'm doing something different here--well, for me--going back and forth in time. So here is flashback #1, no longer from Sandy's POV.

I finished this chapter, literally, on my laptop while sitting on my porch steps passing out Halloween candy. So be warned: I promise nothing in terms of quality.

Disclaimer: The characters still are all Josh's, even these AU versions. But the disclaimers are all mine.

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What's "Blood Ties," you ask? That's a reasonable question, considering it's been 19 months since I've updated. So . . . to save you venturing back, back, back to review, here's the short version: Frank Atwood (my version, not canon's) is being released from prison and has requested that his sons come to pick him up. Very reluctantly, Ryan has agreed to accompany Trey and they've revisited their troubled past through memories/conversations along the way. When last we saw our hero and his brother, they had just arrived at the prison gates.

This was supposed to have been the final chapter because come on. 19 months????? However, it's not. Those Atwood boys insisted on reminiscing some more and never got themselves inside the prison. Most of the ending is done I promise, but there's still a chunk missing, and I wanted to post an update before I head back to work tomorrow.

All previous "They're all Josh's" disclaimers still apply. Plus this one: expect errors, because I did minimal revision and editing here. But now, dedicated to cheekymice (even though she deserves much better), here is the penultimate chapter of Blood Ties.

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