Nick & Cody

Title: Nothing Ventured
Rating: R
Summary: Cody always believed a picket fence-fairytale would come his way, but when it looks like Nick's serious -- really serious -- about a woman, his fairytale idea gets real fast. Being happy for Nick just isn't working, so what's left for him anyway?

( A little boredom should be relaxing, reassuring, no guns, no fights, no danger. Should be, only a couple of years in Vietnam means they're not wired that way, and too much safety makes them nervous. )

Title: Frostbite
Rating: G
Summary: A case takes the Riptide Detective Agency to a Canadian ski resort, where Cody must cavort with a deb, Murray cavorts with computers and Nick is stuck with the thugs in the parking lot. Nick gets hurt, but Cody must close out the case...

( Let's go to the land of the ice and snow... )

Title: The Best Policy
Rating: R
Summary: Nick doesn't always tell Cody truth. Or at least not the whole truth. But maybe he should...

( Honesty and harmony -- two words with nothing to do with one another, in Nick's opinion. Even mild honesty, like the duct tape saga, went South hard and fast. If one thing was certain, it was that Nick considered too much honesty an unnecessary risk in his friendship with Cody Allen -- something he freely owned as the most important relationship in his life.  )

Title: Flashpoint
Rating: NC17
Summary: Cody thinks Joanna might be the one for him. Nick tries to help. Murray's smarter than both of them.

Part One

( Joanna, as a girlfriend, had a number of advantages. Cody knew she must have, because he'd been dating her nine months. It was just that at the moment, he couldn't think of any. )

Part Three

Title: Memories Are Made Of This
Rating: NC17
Summary: Older boys, Facebook and memories...

( 'I look old,' Nick griped, peering over Cody's shoulder at the laptop screen. )

Title: Journey's End
Rating: NC17
Summary: A gay couple hire the Riptide Detective Agency, and make an assumption Nick and Cody are together. But what does 'together' mean, anyhow? Going undercover raises questions -- and answers -- which rock Cody's world. And what does Nick's strange behavior mean?

Part 1

( The Riptide was a welcome sight, even if Cody found himself in the aft stateroom, mentally calculating the space requirements for a double bed. Or maybe even a queen. )

Title: Memorial Day
Rating: PG
Summary: For veterans, Memorial Day can be complicated.

( As Cody tucked Nick in for the night, curling in beside him and turning SportsCenter on low, his clever, welcome hands surging their way up Nick’s neck to cup the back of his skull, Nick knew it was simply this: that they had made it. Against so many odds, they had this. )

Title: All The Time In The World
Rating: PG
Summary: Nick's away at reserves, and being alone is hard on Cody.

( Cody finds smiles and conversation from a well of lies he keeps inside, the only place inside him he can touch right now. )

Title: Duel
Rating: PG
Summary: A case goes wrong, and Nick wakes up in hospital. But the reality he wakes to isn''t the one he remembers -- what if it never was? Could the Riptide Detective Agency be nothing more than a hallucination?

( I'll hold on, Cody. Don't leave me. Promise you won't leave me. )

Title: Orange Grove
Rating: PG
Summary: A moment in an orchard...

( Nick was supposed to meet him at the ring of trees closest to the long low ranch-house, but there was no one in sight.  )