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For all those who, like me, honor Saint Dismas.

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It’s What You Don’t See Coming That Gets You

Everybody’s having fun on Christmas ... until they’re not.

Katie and Gabriel all dressed up for the holiday.

Jonathan in the goofy sweater that Herc gave him.

Lots of presents!

Tommy and Angelica sneaking a kiss off in the corner.

Cookies for everybody.

And then the doorbell rings.

Read it here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18215243/chapters/43092569

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More of Us, Chapter 9, “Rather Not Have This Debate”

This work was on a long hiatus, but I’m back to it and have just posted Chapter 9. Here’s what’s going on.

The University of Pennsylvania is an amazing Ivy League school.

But Danny certainly didn’t expect to be offered a visiting professorship there. As usual, things are not what they seem.

Angelica seems quite suspicious.

But Patty’s been with Danny for a long time, so she knows to play along.

Alex is not at all happy that Ben can’t charge Maria with a crime and has to release her.

Maria has an important phone call to make.

What does she mean, John Laurens always gets in her way?

Here’s the story if you want to read it:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18215243/chapters/43092569

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Random rainbow on a closet door. It’s been quite a while since one showed up, and I needed a positive sign today.

I’m having a bit of a struggle with a chronic physical thing that I don’t like to talk about because it’s extremely boring, not life-threatening or anything dramatic like that, but right now pain is making it hard to work or do any of my usual fun things like knitting and art. It will resolve -- it always does, but the time frame is unpredictable -- but in the meantime, if you’re waiting for the next chapter of anything, thank you for your patience.

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I Go to France, Chapter 57, “Welcome to the Present” (final chapter)

                                       The Angel Picture

There is a work of art called the Mérode Altarpiece that becomes significant in I Like You a Lot and continues to be important through I Go to France. It is a link in the very close friendship between John and Danny.

The original is a triptych, painted in the workshop of Robert Campin in Tournai, Belgium sometime around 1430 for a family by the name of Ingelbrecht. It’s in the Cloisters, a part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. It’s quite small; the center panel measures about 64 cm. (25 inches) square. It was probably intended to be displayed in a private home rather than a church. If you’d like to know more about it, there’s tons of information available via google.

It’s a fascinating picture for a lot of reasons, not least of which is that “the perspective is whack,” as John says. It comes into my The Revolution’s Happening series at a point where Alex and John have broken up, and Alex sees it in the museum. The angel’s long curls remind him of John, making him realize how much he misses him, and ... just read the story.

Much later, the picture (a print, obviously. Nobody in the squad steals a work of art from the Cloisters) crosses the ocean with Danny and provides inspiration at a time when he needs it. I’ve just posted the final chapter of I Go to France, and the angel picture is still important. Here’s the story if you want to read it:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16747234/chapters/39288505

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I Go to France, Chapter 53, “Check the Damages”

Absolutely nothing is more important to Danny than Gabriel. He’d do anything to keep him safe.

So why is Caroline Duval stalking him? And what will happen now that Danny has made an impulsive, dangerous decision?

Abbie gets people on it and tells Danny to sit this one out. “We can handle it.”

Danny does not like being told to back off.

Caroline is surprised when her old boyfriend turns up.

But she has really underestimated him.

He brought something she didn’t expect.

“Problem solved,” Abbie says. “Good luck with your new job.”

What new job? Oh, Danny’s a college professor -- and an occasional spy.

Here’s the story:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16747234/chapters/39288505

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I Go to France, Chapter 37

It’s been a long. cold winter for the Movement, but there are plans for a new offensive against King’s government.

Alex and John are working on strategies for the action, code-named Dolphin -- but now there’s bad news from France.

The hyper-conservative Diane Plumier, an ally of President King, has announced her candidacy for the Presidency of France.

The Movement, supported by the current French President, Loïc Capet, can’t succeed without arms from France. Danny and the Résistance must find a way to derail Diane Plumier.

Maggie, Diane Plumier’s goddaughter and a Résistance member, is working on the campaign, but reporting back to Danny.

Maggie says that Diane seems to have some unusually close relationships with some of her young aides.

Danny has an idea.

But will Abbie approve it? And if she does, will it work?

Read it here.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16747234/chapters/39288505

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I just read an article about Tony Mendez, who spent 25 years in the CIA as a master forger, creator of fake documents, and brilliant author of backstories for spies and agents. His plan to get American diplomats out of Tehran after they’d been trapped there by the Iranian revolution was made into the Oscar-winning movie Argo. He died last year, and I’m hoping somebody is working on a book about his life.

Great, right? Really interesting. But something quite unnerving happened as I was reading it. When I came to the part about his talent in forgery and how his documents were easily accepted as real, part of my brain said, Oh, cool. I have to show this to John and Danny.

No, really, that happened. There is some part of me that believes my Provoke Outrage AU actually exists and that I can communicate with the people in it. I’m somewhere between intrigued and terrified about this.