"Duel" (Other, 1986)

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. )

"Firing Point" (Fear of Falling, 1996)

Title: Firing Point
Rating: NC17
Summary: Nick and Cody play at target shooting, and Cody's not as fit as he used to be...

( Cody reloaded, struggling to return his breathing to normal. When he'd agreed to Nick's shooting range idea, he hadn't expected it to include broken-field running and moving targets. At forty-five, he wasn't in the shape he'd once been. )