Title: Murray Knows
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/M
Wordcount:250
Notes: For mmom and catyah
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody, Murray
Summary: I think we all know Murray knows :)

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Title: Night Moves
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/R
Wordcount: 200
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes: Written for mmom
Summary: Sometimes Nick goes to bed first...

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Title: Learning To Dance
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/R
Wordcount: 370
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes: Written for mmom
Summary: In the beginning, on the boat, they pretended to sleep in separate rooms

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Title: Like The Mona Lisa's Heart
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/R
Wordcount: 3950
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes: A little dabble in how the show might have been, if it was made now. The year is 2019 (ie pre pandemic). Boys are canon-age.
Summary: Nick, Cody and Murray help out Mama Jo with one of her proteges, and find a whole lot more trouble than they bargained for.

Cody Allen's nose was broken. Again. And Cody was anything but happy about it.

Title: One With Everything
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: PG New Relationship
Wordcount: 1100
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Summary: It's new, and they're still finding their way.

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Almost a year ago, quoshara prompted me "brewing storms"... sorry for the long wait...

Title: Lightning Rod
Author:
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/First time/M
Wordcount: 6400
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Summary: Nick and Cody are still getting used to living together on the boat. A week of stormy weather provides some challenges... and a whole new outlook.


Lightning Rod on AO3

First I did a thing, and then I did another thing...

The first thing I did was sign up for Night on Fic Mountain, which was cool. (Even cooler: I got an awesome Alex Delaware gift - you can read it here: We Were Running Against the Wind, 1850 words, Milo & Alex, Post-series

This is potentially an expected thing, although I've never done Milo POV before (I don't think...):

Title: Partners in Crime
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Alex Delaware
Genre/Rating: Gen/PG
Wordcount: 1078
Pairing/Characters: Alex Delaware, Milo Sturgis
Summary: While working a case, Milo reflects on his friendship with Alex.

The next thing I did was pick up a pinch hit for Fandom 5k. For Agatha Christie's The Man in the Brown Suit. Who's read this? Who loves this as much as I do? (Aside: the rest of Christie's work I can take or leave. This one is on my desert island list. Go figure.)

Anyway, I never thought of it fannishly, although my recipient pointed out the (blatantly obvious) Harry Lucas/Harry Rayburn|John Eardsley ship which I think I'd just kind of latently accepted all along. And I happily set out to write that.

Only somehow I didn't, and instead wrote an adventurette for the ensemble in Paris. Which, I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed. And I still ship Lucas/Eardsley :)

Here 'tis:

Title: An Interlude In Paris
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie
Genre/Rating: Gen/PG
Wordcount: 5223
Pairing/Characters: Anne Eardsley, Suzanne Blair, Colonel Race, Sir Eustace
Summary: I didn't give it one, but the title does very well, I think.

 I did hurtcomfortex this round, and it was awesome! Also I got Riptide and its awesome too, and you should go read it immediately if you haven't already :)

This fic I wrote was Sherlock Holmes (Conan Doyle) which I've never written before, Holmes/Watson (which I don't necessarily ship in the books, although RDJ and Jude Law are another matter entirely) luckily for a delightful set of prompts!

You can find it here: A Place of Rest, PG, 1100 words, Watson is ill. Holmes is a surprisingly attentive nursemaid. 

Title: Aboard
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Drabbles/Gen
Wordcount: 500 (5 drabbles/drabble series)
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Summary: Murray reflects on his new life on board the Riptide, and his new friends

For the Riptide Drabble Challenge

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Title: Not Given Lightly
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/NC17
Wordcount: 7000
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody

( I'm heading for forty, Nick. I just don't think it's gonna happen for me.Collapse )

Title: Snakepit
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Casefic - slash R
Wordcount: 5300
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Summary: A missing yuppie and a missing snake are getting ready to screw up Nick's life. A whole lot, as it happens...

( Cody an' Murray both know I don't like snakes much, but they don't get it, not really. Even Cody's not above tossing a rubber snake at me if one happens to be lying around.Collapse )

You can customise the Unconventional Courtship Generator and so I did... (Mills and Boon plots with characters from your show)

315) Killer Affair by Cindy Dees
A plane crash had left Nick Ryder stranded, with a tropical storm approaching and a serial killer on the loose. And it had brought him close — far too close — to the most compelling, most sensual man he had ever encountered.
He knew there were dark, unspoken secrets in Cody Allen's past. And yet he agreed to masquerade as his lover to try and trap the murderer stalking these once peaceful islands. But their charade of passion quickly flared out of control, until it was as real and as powerful as the rising storm — and made them the target of a madman's deadly rage...

18)GETTING IT! by Rhonda Nelson
Cody Allen has a secret that could ruin him-his boyfriend doesn’t sleep with him! He decides to spice up a conference and sets a seductive trap. Only it’s not his boyfriend’s bed he ends up in...
Nick Ryder can’t believe it when a strange man surprises him in the shower and starts to berate him for not seeing to his needs. But the more he’s around him, the more Nick's inclined to give the sassy man a taste of what he’s been missing...

and my personal favourite...

243) Captured Countess by Ann Lethbridge
Never trust a spy!
Cody Allen, the Count Vilandry, is on a dangerous mission — to lure fellow spy Nick Ryder into bed and into revealing his true loyalties. With such sensual games at play and such strong sensations awakened, suddenly Cody's dangerously close to exposing his real identity.
Nick knows that the count has been sent to seduce him. The only question is to what end? He's never met such a captivating man — and he's determined to enjoy every seductive second he spends as his very willing captive!

Title: Elemental
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: NC17/Slash
Wordcount: 5300
Notes: Posted to smallfandomfest; for seraphina_snape and her prompt "everyone thinks they're doing it"
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Summary: Nick and Cody accompany Murray to a High Q conference, and are taken aback to discover that after the party on the boat, the High Q members think they're a couple...

( Ah, as I’m sure you’re aware, the High Q members are, um, pretty astute. And, well, they noticed the number of staterooms, and the number of guys, and well, made assumptions accordingly.Collapse )

Title: Eclipse
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/R
Wordcount: 2900
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes: Sequel (of sorts) to Comet Tail
Summary: Murray just wants to see the eclipse. Nick just wants some sleep, and Cody's the only one making any sense.

( 'What even is a partial lunar eclipse?' Nick muttered, trailing behind Cody on their way into the motel. 'And what makes it more important than getting home?'Collapse )

I found 3 aged Riptide ficlets which I had unaccountably never posted to AO3. It really makes no sense to me lol, so I have now rectified that omission:

Title: The Communication Game
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/NC17
Wordcount: 1000
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Summary: What happened the night before 'The Hardcase" (S1E7) (Or, A PWP in which the guys try to fit intimate relations around having a roommate)

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Title: Coming Home
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/PG
Wordcount: 555
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Summary: Home isn't always a place

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Title: Sea View
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Pre-slash/PG
Wordcount: 210
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Summary: Nick likes looking at Cody

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Title: The Road Home
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/PG
Wordcount: 3800
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes/Warnings: For sylvanwitch. memories, parallel events and the first connection. Must also confess the working title: Schrodinger's Cody... :)
Summary: Nick's been having the same nightmare forever.

( Pinned down, Cody on the ground scant yards away, certainly hurt, maybe worse. No way to get to him, enemy fire holding him in place. Any step was death, and if he died, so did Cody.Collapse )

Title: Night Magic
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: PG Pre-slash
Wordcount: 3100
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes/Warnings: For jekesta who wanted huddling for warmth. This is not a traditional fulfilment of the prompt but I hope you like it anyhow *hugs*. The prompts so far form a little pre-slash series, we are getting closer now...
Summary: Cody spends a rare Christmas at his mother's...

( Cody's relationship with his mother was difficult, at best, but that was one of the things that made the annual visit important. If he put it off too long, she appeared in California, and that was a whole other kind of hard.Collapse )

Title: From The Dance
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Preslash PG
Wordcount: 1500
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes/Warnings: For seraphina_snape who wanted hc or fluff... i think this counts mainly as fluff :)
Summary: Nick doesn't like Cody's exotic new flame very much...


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Title: Stripped Down
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Pre-slash, PG
Wordcount: 2400
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes/Warnings: For milomaus who prompted "Cody's seen Nick in swimming trunks loads of time, but this time...."
Summary: Nick and Cody have to work off a debt to Mama Jo on board the Contessa, and Cody finds himself looking at Nick in whole new way...

( It was Bambi who'd taken them below to the girls' quarters and shown them the tiny speedos they were expected to wear for the occasion -- gold, with black detail.Collapse )

Title: Death By Drowning
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Gen/Pre-slash PG
Wordcount: 2500
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Crossposted: pier56, smallfandomfest
Notes/Warnings: Prompt: Diving accident. Not slash, because I wanted to explore something "as on screen" if that makes sense. And you know, gratuitous h/c and pre-slash cuddling? SUCH A CHORE FOR ME... :D
Summary: Cody really doesn't know what he wants out of life, and a close shave doesn't help him figure it out. But it does underline the one thing he's got...


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Title: Unbreakable
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/PG
Wordcount: 215
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Summary: Prompt: "Giving up you"

Even years ago, when they were "just friends" (they were never just friends, from the moment they met they burned, and Cody's not the only one who feels it, oh no), they were partners, blood brothers, and everyone knew it.

Where Nick went, Cody followed. When Cody got a wild idea, Nick saw it through. When one of their asses was in the fire, the other was either pulling him out, or burning right along with him. It was just how it was, and nothing changed it -- not war, not women, not civilian life.

This idea, the wildest of them all, the one Cody first broached on an R and R week back in '75, defined them or maybe completed them. Army guys don't; two guys can't; but they did, and they can, and it's been twenty years now.

Good years, bad years, sad ones, happy ones -- doesn't matter, they're together and that makes them the best years of their lives. Each and every one. So intense, it would have to burn out soon -- only it never did, and it never will.

They've given up a lot, over the years, and gained a lot too. But the one thing they'll never give up is each other; the one thing they'll always have is their bond.

yay! New desktop computer! My old (new) laptop (about 2 years old) has always been heinously unsatisfactory, and last week F's laptop expired so she pinched mine.

I've been using the iPad almost exclusively (for the last 2 years, I mean) but even with an external keyboard I find it laborious to write fic on, and since I've had the "new" laptop I've struggled to do any sort of word count at all.

So last week I said what the hell, and bought a refurbed ex-lease PC. It arrived yesterday, I just set it up... so let's hope this is the foreshadowing of things to come!!

(To be fair, I wrote most of this fic on the iPad, although, it's been in WIP mode since August 2015 (!!!))

Anyway, without further ado, have a shameless PWP, which was supposed to be finished for July 4 but didn't quite make it.

Title: Fireworks
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/NC17
Wordcount: 1660
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes/Warnings: Pre-series, and really, it's porn. That's all,, folks :)
Summary: The Fourth of July is filled with fireworks and people and always hard for Nick and Cody. But this year they have a new way of dealing with it...

( Cody was hauling trash from the salon, thoroughly ruffled by the advances of the three flirty debs who'd seemed to think the captain and first mate came as part of the charter package.Collapse )

Title: Comet Tail
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash PG
Wordcount: 3675
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes For the pier56 Seasons Change challenge
Summary: Three detectives, a steep rooftop, a telescope and Halley's Comet... what can possibly go wrong? Or just maybe, will it set the stage for things to suddenly go incredibly right?

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Title: The Tempest
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/R
Wordcount: 12,000
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes/Warnings: My summerfest "ficlet"...
Summary: The Riptide's stolen, and Nick's missing presumed dead...

Case story. Love story. When it comes to Riptide, is there really any difference? This way to AO3...