Title: The Naked Truth (3 of 4)

Author: Emmylou/EmmyAngua

Disclaimer: Ashes to Ashes, Life on Mars, and the characters therein belong to the BBC and Kudos.

Rating: PG-15 (swearing, nudity)

Summary: A Mexican standoff about a case leads to Alex and Gene playing a game involving truth and stripping. The last one clothed gets the case resolution they want, but to get it they’ve got to answer some very personal questions...

Author’s Notes: Short chapter today. Hopefully a fun one though.

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Title: The Naked Truth (2 of 4)

Author: Emmylou/EmmyAngua

Disclaimer: Ashes to Ashes, Life on Mars, and the characters therein belong to the BBC and Kudos.

Rating: PG-15 (swearing, nudity)

Summary: A Mexican standoff about a case leads to Alex and Gene playing a game involving truth and stripping. The last one clothed gets the case resolution they want, but to get it they’ve got to answer some very personal questions...

Title: The Naked Truth (1 of 4)

Author: Emmylou/EmmyAngua

Disclaimer: Ashes to Ashes, Life on Mars, and the characters therein belong to the BBC and Kudos.

Rating: PG-15 (swearing, nudity)

Summary: A Mexican standoff about a case leads to Alex and Gene playing a game involving truth and stripping. The last one clothed gets the case resolution they want, but to get it they’ve got to answer some very personal questions...

Author’s Notes: OK...this started as a little fantasy in my head and while such things would normally disappear by morning, it was still there the next day, and the next night, so I thought ‘bugger this for a game of soldiers, let’s get this thing on paper’.

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In 1939 the government asked for ordinary people to write in with journal entries detailing their lives in a programme named Mass Observation. Inspired by the real diarists - Nellie Last, Pam Ashford, Christopher Tomlin, Maggie Joy Blunt, and many others - From the Home Front follows the lives of four ordinary people;

Lyle Salt - a newly married man who is ashamed of being unable to fight due to his partial blindness.

Trudy Gowans - a people-watching bus-conductress from the city.

Helen Pernell - a housewife who takes in a lodger after her entire family is fighting or evacuated.

Geordy Hurst - a middle-aged country vicar trying to prevent his son's romance with a wild Land Army girl.

The novel not only details their entries - but also takes us behidn the scenes into their lives - showing us the things they didn't write about, and the thoughts and fears they weren't able to send into a government project.

From the Home Front offers an honest look at ordinary people in extraordinary times - and at WW2 from the perspective of people who really don't know what will happen to them next.

Title: Eighteen Years Chapter 9
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Torchwood belongs to the BBC and was created by Russell T Davies.
Ships: Owen/Tosh.
Spoilers: Hint at Fragments.
Summary: Owen and Tosh receive messages from older versions of themselves who were accidentally sent back to 1990. The problem is that one of them wants their younger counterpart to prevent the accident that sent them back, and the other wants them to create it.
A/N: Thanks for being superbly patient again. I know it’s been a while – but I have started Uni, got a new job, and been running a new website. Good news is that this WILL be finished by November (need to be ready for Nano). Bad news is that there is just ONE chapter and an Epilogue to go.

 Previous Chapters: Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three, Chapter Four, Chapter Five, Chapter Six, Chapter Seven, Chapter Eight

10 Random Plots

A young IRS Agent learns how to fight from a tough-girl gladiator in an underground fighting network.

A talented celebrity wishes to see life if they had never become famous – and likes what they see.

A truck-driver gives a lift to a female vampire.

A policewoman meets a geeky young bird enthusiast at a party and goes home with him.

A tattooed man discovers that by touching people he can cure them – but in doing so he transfers one of his tattoos to them. Problem is he only has one left and his wife and child have both been in a serious car accident.

A famous actress falls for a guy but doesn’t count on his large family.

A gardening company take on a new guy – not knowing he’s a murderer who is trying to scope out professional women.

Two elderly lesbians, posing as sisters in a rural village, are outed in a humiliating vandal attack on the village. Soon the vandal starts revealing other secrets about them and others.

A teenage mum discovers she can predict the future by flipping channels on her television.

Ghosts start disappearing in a haunted town.

Title: Eighteen Years

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: Torchwood belongs to the BBC and was created by Russell T Davies. Fox Mulder belongs to 1013 Productions and Fox.

Ships: Owen/Tosh.

Spoilers: Mentions of To the Last Man.

Summary: Owen and Tosh receive messages from older versions of themselves who were accidentally sent back to 1990. The problem is that one of them wants their younger counterpart to prevent the accident that sent them back, and the other wants them to create it.

A/N: You thought I’d given up, didn’t you? Admit it! Normally you’d be justified – I’m terrible for getting paranoid that I can’t write and giving up. Up until yesterday I was um-ing and ah-ing, but I decided that the ending I had planned was to good to forget. The good news is that although the emotional ending of series two perhaps dents some of the mystery, this story won’t actually be too AU. Just imagine in being set early season two (and pretend that Fragments didn’t happen as it Jossed some of the early TW stuff from last chapter).

Previous Chapters: Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three, Chapter Four

Okay, recently, my writing has gone to hell in a handbasket. I feel uninspired and that the writing I do is apalling. 

Got to get going again, so I am forcing myself to finish two of my most recent outstanding fics:

Misdirection (Ashes to Ashes)
Eighteen Years (Torchwood)

No matter how traumatising it is to even read them back, I'm going to keep on going. 

Wish me luck!

My first Ashes to Ashes fic. Hope it's enjoyable.

Title: Misdirection

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: I pay my TV licence…so in a sense I own a very small part of Ashes to Ashes, right? I probably own one of the gnomes. [Brief interruption for an angry call from some heavyweight lawyers at the BBC]. Apparently the BBC does not recognise my existence and I do not, in fact, own anything relating to Ashes to Ashes. Not even a gnome. 

Ships: Galex, Chris/Shaz (Caz?) 

Summary: Alex starts to doubt her own sanity when Molly appears in 1981. She is torn between her feelings and the evidence that proves Molly is actually Catherine Drake – her ex-husband’s sister – who is due to die in a hit and run that afternoon. Can Alex prove the truth before she looses her daughter for the second time?

A/N: This is borne of an effort to write a fic that had a lot of episode like qualities – most especially the moral dilemmas that so define both shows. I’ve tried my hardest to make the plot interesting, make sense, and work as an episode might, but please forgive any mistakes. 

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