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( No wonder I have no free time.... :D )

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Title: Abeyance
Author: wojelah
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi
Rating: FRAO
Spoilers: Through Faceless, Nameless - ep-tag-type stuff.
Summary: "He's trying pretty hard not to think about today and he knows it. They're going to be dissecting everything in minute detail, and it's not going to get easier as they go. He needs a breather before that starts. He didn't used to, but he does now."
( Author's Notes cut for spoilers )

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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

~Jorge Luis Borges

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( By the time Dave pulls into the parking lot, it's late. )

Title: Prerogatives (4/4 - Complete)
Author: wojelah
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi; Aaron Hotchner/Jennifer Jareau (but only if you're so inclined)
Rating: FRAO
Spoilers: Through To Hell...And Back, but it's "blink and you'll miss it"-type stuff.
Summary: Prerogative. n. A right or privilege which belongs to a person by virtue of rank, office, position or special characteristic and which entitles that person to precedence or the exercise of some power or advantage not granted to others. (A.k.a., the one where someone stalks JJ and the BAU circles the wagons. And, you know, saves the day.)
Author's Notes: I said to smittywing, "I want to write something plotty." She, being possessed of preternatural patience, did not hit me over the head with a book. 20K+ words later, this is the result. I really, really should know better. Thank heaven she was willing to beta the damn thing - and to force me to write the parts that made it better.

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"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."

- Michel de Montaigne

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Part One
Part Two
Part Three

( She goes home. )

Title: Prerogatives (3/4)
Author: wojelah
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi; Aaron Hotchner/Jennifer Jareau (but only if you're so inclined)
Rating: FRAO
Spoilers: Through To Hell...And Back, but it's "blink and you'll miss it"-type stuff.
Summary: Prerogative. n. A right or privilege which belongs to a person by virtue of rank, office, position or special characteristic and which entitles that person to precedence or the exercise of some power or advantage not granted to others. (A.k.a., the one where someone stalks JJ and the BAU circles the wagons. And, you know, saves the day.)
Author's Notes: I said to smittywing, "I want to write something plotty." She, being possessed of preternatural patience, did not hit me over the head with a book. 20K+ words later, this is the result. I really, really should know better. Thank heaven she was willing to beta the damn thing. Part four still needs beating with sticks, but part three got the seal of approval.

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"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."

- Michel de Montaigne

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Part One
Part Two

( At first, Emily's only sort of aware - just enough to register that she's profoundly uncomfortable and to remember that she needs to stay very, very quiet about it. )

Title: Prerogatives (2/4)
Author: wojelah
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi; Aaron Hotchner/Jennifer Jareau (but only if you're so inclined)
Rating: FRAO
Spoilers: Through To Hell...And Back, but it's "blink and you'll miss it"-type stuff.
Summary: Prerogative. n. A right or privilege which belongs to a person by virtue of rank, office, position or special characteristic and which entitles that person to precedence or the exercise of some power or advantage not granted to others. (A.k.a., the one where someone stalks JJ and the BAU circles the wagons. And, you know, saves the day.)
Author's Notes: I said to smittywing, "I want to write something plotty." She, being possessed of preternatural patience, did not hit me over the head with a book. 20K+ words later, this is the result. I really, really should know better. Thank heaven she was willing to beta the damn thing. We're working out the kinks in the later parts, but parts one and two now have her official thumbs up.

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"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."

- Michel de Montaigne

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Part One

( Wabash is both incredibly successful and profoundly aggravating. )

Title: Prerogatives (1/4)
Author: wojelah
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi; Aaron Hotchner/Jennifer Jareau (but only if you're so inclined)
Rating: FRAO
Spoilers: Through To Hell...And Back, but it's "blink and you'll miss it"-type stuff.
Summary: Prerogative. n. A right or privilege which belongs to a person by virtue of rank, office, position or special characteristic and which entitles that person to precedence or the exercise of some power or advantage not granted to others. (A.k.a., the one where someone stalks JJ and the BAU circles the wagons. And, you know, saves the day.)
Author's Notes: I said to smittywing, "I want to write something plotty." She, being possessed of preternatural patience, did not hit me over the head with a book. 20K+ words later, this is the result. I really, really should know better. Thank heaven she was willing to beta the damn thing. We're working out the kinks in the later parts, but the first has her official thumbs up.

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"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."

- Michel de Montaigne

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( Dave actively discourages Emily from watching his interviews - or reading them, or listening to them, as dictated by the choice of media imposed by his press agent. )

Title: Post-Modern: A Play in Five Acts (5/5) - Act Five: Emily
Author: wojelah
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Spoilers/Warnings: Through Demonology.
Summary: Four times David Rossi made a mistake and the one time he managed to fix it.
Notes: Blame smittywing. I'm not sure where this came from, but she encouraged me that it was not a terrible idea. And then she helped make it work.

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"The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly."

- Umberto Eco

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Act One: Camille
Act Two: Angela
Act Three: Erin
Act Four: Maria Elena

( Act Five: Emily )

Title: Post-Modern: A Play in Five Acts (4/5) - Act Four: Maria Elena
Author: wojelah
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Spoilers/Warnings: Through Demonology.
Summary: Four times David Rossi made a mistake and the one time he managed to fix it.
Notes: Blame smittywing. I'm not sure where this came from, but she encouraged me that it was not a terrible idea. And then she helped make it work.

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"The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly."

- Umberto Eco

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Act One: Camille
Act Two: Angela
Act Three: Erin

( Act Four: Maria Elena )

Title: Post-Modern: A Play in Five Acts (3/5) - Act Three: Erin
Author: wojelah
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Spoilers/Warnings: Through Demonology.
Summary: Four times David Rossi made a mistake and the one time he managed to fix it.
Notes: Blame smittywing. I'm not sure where this came from, but she encouraged me that it was not a terrible idea. And then she helped make it work.

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"The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly."

- Umberto Eco

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Act One: Camille
Act Two: Angela

( Act Three: Erin )

Title: Post-Modern: A Play in Five Acts (2/5) - Act Two: Angela
Author: wojelah
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Spoilers/Warnings: Through Demonology.
Summary: Four times David Rossi made a mistake and the one time he managed to fix it.
Notes: Blame smittywing. I'm not sure where this came from, but she encouraged me that it was not a terrible idea. And then she helped make it work.

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"The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly."

- Umberto Eco

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Act One: Camille

( Act Two: Angela )

Title: Post-Modern: A Play in Five Acts (1/5) - Act One: Camille
Author: wojelah
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Spoilers/Warnings: Through Demonology.
Summary: Four times David Rossi made a mistake and the one time he managed to fix it.
Notes: Blame smittywing. I'm not sure where this came from, but she encouraged me that it was not a terrible idea. And then she helped make it work.

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"The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly."

- Umberto Eco

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( Act One: Camille )

Title: Learning to Miss
Author: wojelah
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi, Criminal Minds
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Spoilers/Warnings: Through the end of S4. Could be thoroughly jossed come September.
Summary: "... shag Hotch, marry Rossi." It's not really a hard call, and she's pretty pleased with herself for dodging that bullet, until she realizes that it did not come out right at all - she'd meant to say marry Hotch, shag Rossi.

Notes: smittywing made this so much better. Which is the norm, but I am always grateful.

"There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

( Learning to Miss )

Title: Against His Better Judgment
Author: wojelah
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi, Criminal Minds
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Summary: "It has to be Prentiss because she's damn good, and reliable, and there's no one else he'd rather send. Which is both the truth and the biggest lie he's ever told."

Notes: smittywing started it. And then she was gracious enough to let me write the other side. And to totally ignore all the arbitrary wordcount rules I'd set for her. You can read Emily's side of the story here: Against Her Better Judgment. Now it's Rossi's turn.

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
-Dorothy Parker, 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929

( Against His Better Judgment )

Title: Longest Way Round is the Shortest Way Home (Part One)
Author: Smitty & Wojelah (smittywing & wojelah)
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi, Criminal Minds
Rating: NC-17/FRAO

Notes: Episode tag for 4x17, Demonology. smittywing started writing Longest Way Round for me when I was working late and I picked up Rossi's POV. Set in the same universe started in story Cause of Snow. Many thanks to shetiger for being a beta rockstar and checking not one but two stories in one night!


“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
-- James Joyce

Prentiss's Side of the Story: Longest Way Round

( Rossi's Side of the Story: Shortest Way Home (Part One) )

(Part Two here)

Title: Longest Way Round is the Shortest Way Home (Part Two)
Author: Smitty & Wojelah (smittywing & wojelah)
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi, Criminal Minds
Rating: NC-17/FRAO

Notes: Episode tag for 4x17, Demonology. smittywing started writing Longest Way Round for me when I was working late and I picked up Rossi's POV. Set in the same universe started in story Cause of Snow. Many thanks to shetiger for being a beta rockstar and checking not one but two stories in one night!


“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
-- James Joyce

Prentiss's Side of the Story: Longest Way Round

( Rossi's Side of the Story: Shortest Way Home (Part Two) )

Title: Cause of Snow
Author: wojelah
Fandom, Pairing: Criminal Minds, Rossi/Prentiss
Rating: FRAO
Word Count: 7,700ish
Author's Notes: The fact that I considered this pairing at all is the fault of innerslytherin and severity_softly , who wrote this, which is very, very hot and makes the pairing completely plausible. The fact that this fic happened is all smittywing 's fault. Title is from the poem "Snow Day," by Billy Collins, whose narrator is "a sympathizer with the anarchic cause of snow." Thank heaven for the marvelous beta-abilities of smittywing and omglawdork , who say things like "I'm pretty sure most cars now have automatic windows."
Summary: Prentiss has a flat tire, no power, and a free weekend. Rossi has several spare bedrooms, wine, and a wood-burning stove. Emily's a little baffled, but she'd like the chance to enjoy the evening a little longer.

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( The first time it happens, it's Friday and it's snowing. )

Title: Heaven for Beginners
Author: wojelah
Pairing: McKay/Keller
Spoilers: for Brain Storm (5x16)
Word Count: ~1,200
Rating: R.
Summary: "They've had a lot of "dates" - for Jennifer, the conferences are really pretty much old hat these days, and she considers herself something of an expert in the peculiar sociology of astrophysicists."
Author's Notes: This is so the fault of the caucus, for letting me write it instead of finishing up the other two fics (which are coming, contrary to appearances.

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( It's the year anniversary of declassification, and the world of science is only beginning to realize what they've been missing. )

Title: Albatross (The Ancient Mariner's Remix)
Author: wojelah
Remix of: Panic Response by troutkitty</lj>
Characters: Sheppard + McKay = McShep
Timeline: Wherever you care to place it
Word count: ~2,300
Rating: Very, very soft R.
Summary: "Right now, standing by the gate on MX-whatever-the-hell, John Sheppard, Lt. Col., USAF, is looking just as freaked out as Rodney feels, because something on this planet is not right, which means it is well-past time to get the hell back to Atlantis."
Author's Notes: Thank god for smittywing and her mad betaing.

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( They have been there for eternity, a doomed race, trapped by their own madness and despair, vaporized and bound. Ghosts in the machine, quite literally. )

Author: wojelah
Title: Bar Harbor's Best
Rating: R
Spoilers: None
Author's Notes: Written for artword challenge 010: Reversed. For beeej's marvelous piece. AU.
Summary: "Rodney McKay had been a consternation in Bar Harbor for nearly a decade, having left a good three years before John had ever set foot in the place."

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Full picture at beeej's journal here (in multiple sizes) or under cut.

( George Harbeck was seventy-nine when his pub caught fire. )

Author: wojelah
Title: Breve
Rating: G
Spoilers: through Doppelganger.
Author's Notes: Breve - a rest with a duration equal to eight quarter notes. Also called a "double whole". 
Summary: Hug fic, written to comfort a friend.

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