Against All Odds: Part 35 - Fracture
_ _ **_Part 35 - Fracture_** _(Alexei)_ "Good gods," Nathan gasped, his voice exiting Alexei's headset via the old computer he'd set up in the corner of his sparsely furnished, green-walled bedroom. "You should see this." "What?" "A video I've...
Lunchtime at Riki's (AaO Universe Side Story)
_ **Lunchtime at Riki's** _ "Things are gonna be okay," I called up to Zoran, backing away from the doorway of our apartment as he stormed in with the morning's mail in paw. "Don't get worked up about it." "Don't get worked up!?" he boomed,...
Against All Odds: Part 19 - A Guide to the Past
**_Part 19 - A Guide to the Past_** _(Nathan)_ After Erik's problematic stint alone in the shop, Alexei opted to spend the following day working alongside him. He gave his reason for doing as being down the busyness that sometimes followed Sunday's...
Against All Odds: Part 31 - Sands of Time
**_Part 31 - Sands of Time_** _(Nathan)_ To Nathan's considerable relief, the stay in hospital he and Alexei had to endure lasted less than a day. Still, they each had to put up with an array of scans and treatments throughout the night, with a...
Against All Odds: Part 34 - Rumbled
**_Part 34 - Rumbled_** _(Nathan)_ If spending Sunday in solitude anticipating his first day back to work had dragged Nathan's mood down, arriving at his desk on Monday morning plain caused it to plummet. He forewent the opportunity to head in...
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...