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Nasty LJ is not letting me post to anyone's journal today. However, I just wanted to say that I'm here and I'm not going anywhere. I may not comment as much as I should, but I'm still around.

*waves and hugs flist*

Many thanks to my anonymous gift giver. I love my polar bear!

Hope all of you had and are still having a wonderful holiday season.

( Warning! Warning! Ryan angst - Dead ahead! )

I was wondering if anyone from California could help me. I looked it up on-line and the way I understand it is that it is the law to wear a seat-belt in California. Can you be pulled over if that is the only thing you're doing wrong? If I remember correctly, when the law was passed in my state you were not supposed to be pulled over if you are not breaking any other traffic laws. However, I know first-hand that is not the case anymore.

Thanks for the help, and yes...I am actually working on Twist of Fate. Shocking, isn't it?

Title: What Goes Around
Background: Post "The Girlfriend." Angst, AU, and PG rating (so far).
Ground rules: This is a round robin fic. The first person to claim it in a comment writes the next part and posts it as soon as they want or at least by... hopefully next week. The installment can be any length, change style, genre, POV, and go in any direction at all. That's the fun of it! :)
Disclaimer: None of us own any of the characters, unless we invent some original ones. So far, I haven't.
Anne's note: loracj was kind enough to look my part over for me. I tinkered just a teeny bit, so any mistakes are all mine and not in any way her fault.

( What Goes Around )

Yeah, big shocker, I've missed my one week deadline for chazper 's Round Robin Fic. The good news is that I have actually got it written and it's already been sent to loracj. So hopefully you'll see something in a few days.

Sorry about the delay. I'm a bad, bad writer.

Title: A Twist of Fate
Ratings/Warnings: No warnings
Beta: loracj. Much thanks to her as always. She had a very good and valid suggestion that could have made this a better chapter. However, I have my limitations and I just couldn’t make it work. Perhaps, if I ever got any sleep....but I digress. Anyway, through no fault of her own, you are stuck with my inferior version of the chapter. I did a LOT of tinkering after she sent it back. I should have had her take another look, but like the last chapter I’m sick of this one, too. So all grammatical errors are mine and mine alone.
Special Thank You: I need to give special thanks and hugs to willwork4dean, and especially fredsmith518. Without them the last couple of paragraphs from Ryan’s point of view would have just plain stunk.
More hugs and thanks to themus_revenge. She read through this for me and petted my ego. Without her support, I would have deleted this whole chapter and started anew.
Disclaimers: I own nothing in relation to The O.C. All mistakes are mine.
Summary: Beginning of Season 1, AU, In The Pilot, Kirsten asks Sandy “What if this is all a scam? What if he’s just using you to case the house?” In this story it is the truth, but not by Ryan’s choice. For the purposes of this story Dawn is dead and there never was a Trey

( Twist of Fate:Chapter 17 )

Hello everyone. I was wondering if anyone could help me with a tax return question one of my friends is having problems with.

She has a new client, a single guy in his late twenties.  His parents are originally from Sweden, but have lived in the U.S. for all of his life. Over the years they have made investments in his name.  Anyway, my friend has information regarding  stock dividends. Basically, we are too stupid to read the paper. For example, if we have the number thirty thousand two hundred forty-eight dollars and twenty cents it looks like 30,248.20. The paper she has shows the number 30.214,20. The comma and decimal are switched. Is that the same number? It is shown above the words Saldo inkl. ranta. Or at least that's what it looks like. The fax is not very clear. 

If anyone could enlighten us stupid lazy Americans I would greatly appreciate it.

How would you describe the sound of footsteps; big heavy footsteps of a certain villainous character?
Also, let's say that  these footsteps coincided or joined in with something else. Would you just say that these two things coincided or that they were in sync. or what?

Hope this made sense. Much thanks in advance.

Merry Christmas to one and all!!
Thanks to everyone here in LJ-Land who made my life a little brighter each day this past year. 

Title: A Twist of Fate
Ratings/Warnings: This chapter is extremely tame. You do have to put up with Caleb for one short scene, but at least he’s not Art.
Beta: loracj. I usually ask her to look over each chapter twice, but I’m so sick of this one hanging over my head, I went ahead and posted it. I claim all punctuation errors as all mine.
Disclaimers: I own nothing in relation to The O.C. All mistakes are mine.
Summary: Beginning of Season 1, AU, In The Pilot, Kirsten asks Sandy “What if this is all a scam? What if he’s just using you to case the house?” In this story it is the truth, but not by Ryan’s choice. For the purposes of this story Dawn is dead and there never was a Trey
Note: I believe I might have said that I wouldn’t actually have Caleb appear in this story. Well, you know what a pompous ass he can be. He simply refused to be put on the back burner and managed to bully his way right into this chapter. However, as opposed to canon’s version of Kirsten, I promise that I won’t let him be mean to Ryan (who doesn’t even appear in this chapter).
( Twist of Fate: Chapter Sixteen )

WIP MeMe (Gakked from brandywine421  ,  themus_revenge  ,  and   helenc)

When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

Please remember that these excerpts come from very, very, very rough drafts or outlines. I haven't  proofed them. There are bound to be countless spelling , grammatical, and punctuation errors. Please forgive me.

 

For those of you reading, I have updated Twist of Fate. It's the AU version of the pilot where Ryan is living with his evil stepfather Art, who is forcing Ryan to stay with the Cohens in an attempt to steal from them.
( Twist of Fate: Chapter Fifteen )

Title: A Twist of Fate
Ratings/Warnings: Angst, minor wearing
Beta: loracj Once again, I have changed and added a few paragraphs after she checked it. Any grammatical or punctuation errors are entirely the fault of the author.
Disclaimers: I own nothing in relation to The O.C. All mistakes are mine.
Summary: Beginning of Season 1, AU, In The Pilot, Kirsten asks Sandy “What if this is all a scam? What if he’s just using you to case the house?” In this story it is the truth, but not by Ryan’s choice. For the purposes of this story Dawn is dead and there never was a Trey
A/N: Once again, any legal references in this chapter are purely for the fictional purposes of this story. I know nothing of the legal system Except for the small fact that not wearing a seat belt will cost you $55. *whistles innocently*
Special Thanks: katwoman76 and themus_revenge each looked over this chapter for different reasons. They both had extremely valid points about parts of this chapter that needed added to or fixed. I hope the revisions meet with their approval.
( Twist of Fate: Chapter Fourteen )

Title: A Twist of Fate
Ratings/Warnings: Angst, minor swearing
Beta: loracjI did some more tweaking after she looked at it. So if you find any punctuation mistakes they are entirely my fault.
Disclaimers: I own nothing in relation to The O.C. All mistakes are mine.
Summary: Beginning of Season 1, AU, In The Pilot, Kirsten asks Sandy “What if this is all a scam? What if he’s just using you to case the house?” In this story it is the truth, but not by Ryan’s choice. For the purposes of this story Dawn is dead and there never was a Trey.
A/N: Hope you still have the shovel from the last chapter.
Special Thanks: Big hugs to katwoman76</lj>and themus_revenge. For different reasons, they both read the next two chapters before I posted, and both of them came up with very valid points that I had missed or not thought of. Hopefully, my changes are to their liking and have made the chapters better.
( Twist of Fate: Chapter Thirteen )

Okay, this is only one line in ToF and it really doesn't matter that much, but if you had to describe Seth in terms of a dog, what kind of dog would he be? For example, we all know Luke is a big golden retriever. Like I said it's not really important, and I could change the paragraph, but now that I've started thinking about it, I'm like a dog with a bone. *sorry, couldn't resist*

Thanks for any help.

Title: A Twist of Fate
Ratings/Warnings: Angst
Beta: loracj Many thanks to her patience with me. I have now picked up a new nasty habit of randomly putting quotation marks around sentences for absolutely no reason.
Disclaimers: I own nothing in relation to The O.C. All mistakes are mine.
Summary: Beginning of Season 1, AU, In The Pilot, Kirsten asks Sandy “What if this is all a scam? What if he’s just using you to case the house?” In this story it is the truth, but not by Ryan’s choice. For the purposes of this story Dawn is dead and there never was a Trey.
A/N: The past few chapters haven’t been as angsty as others. However, this chapter is officially “The Return of the Angst.” This was written with a heavy-hand. Seriously, bring a shovel...a big one.
( Twist of Fate: Chapter Twelve )

Title: Moms and Dads
Ratings/Warnings: None
Beta: loracj, but any errors are all mine.
Disclaimers: I own nothing in relation to The O.C. All mistakes are mine.
Summary: Approximately a million years ago yessi_5 posted a plotbunny challenge asking for a story where Little Sophie asks Ryan why he doesn’t call their parents “Mom” and “Dad” like she and Seth do. Some truly talented and gifted writers have already written their versions of this story. In order, to avoid comparison, I made Sophie a little older in this story. She’s ten and you need to imagine her looking like Kirsten, but with a personality more like Sandy and Seth.
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Title: A Twist of Fate
Ratings/Warnings: mentions of abuse
Beta: The truly awesome and patient loracj
Disclaimers: I own nothing in relation to The O.C. All mistakes are mine. Also, I know very little about the laws of California. Any reference to anything legal is purely the made up fiction of the author’s little mind. Also, in a previous chapter I said that Ryan’s father was named Larry. I have changed it to Frank to coincide with canon.
Summary: Beginning of Season 1, AU, In The Pilot, Kirsten asks Sandy “What if this is all a scam? What if he’s just using you to case the house?” In this story it is the truth, but not by Ryan’s choice. For the purposes of this story Dawn is dead and there never was a Trey.
( Twist of Fate: Chapter Eleven )

Title: A Twist of Fate
Ratings/Warnings: None
beta: A great big thank you to loracj. I swear I know the difference between your and you're!
Disclaimers: I own nothing in relation to The O.C. All mistakes are mine
Summary: Beginning of Season 1, AU, In The Pilot, Kirsten asks Sandy “What if this is all a scam? What if he’s just using you to case the house?” In this story it is the truth, but not by Ryan’s choice. For the purposes of this story Dawn is dead and there never was a Trey.
( Twist of Fate: Chapter Ten )