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: 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: 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: 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: The Air That I Breathe
Rating: PG
Summary: After an accident at reserves, Nick just wants Cody. But maybe Cody has other things on the horizon. Female things...

( Nick paid the taxi driver, hauled his duffel from the trunk and headed down the companionway, walking slow to hide the stiffness in his muscles, and to give his lungs a break. )

Title: Clothes Make the Man
Rating: PG
Summary: How to get Cody in the mood...for diving.

( 'What's the big deal, Cody?' Murray asked. 'You dive all the time.' )

Title: To Have and To Hold
Rating: R
Summary: A thing of beauty is a joy forever :)

( Nick's never been able to keep his mind off Cody's ass. )

Title: To the Moon and Back
Rating: R
Summary: Nick and Cody try celebrating Valentine's Day with their dates. Things don't go exactly as planned...


( Cody walked home disconsolate. It was supposed to have been the best Valentine's Day on record, and now, at barely sunset, he was already alone. And likely to remain that way for the foreseeable future. )

Title: Power Sailor
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Two bunks, two books, two men and one need after lights-out.

( Okay yes, one of the books is a magazine. )