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Sylum Teaser: ‘Cause I’m being that Evil Today

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What?  I’m being really really evil today.  That and now that the wiki is finished or as finished as it can get at the moment – all my bunnies came home.  Every single damn one of them.

Before you start squeeing too much – the 3rd Part of the Winchester Saga will not appear during Advent – there’s major storyline in this and it will take some time to hammer it all out.

But I figured what the hell – have a sneak peak at what’s being planned.  And take a look at the shinies afterwards!

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So how long was long enough before you chase down your elusive Mate who was hiding in Transylvania of all the hellish places?

John Winchester sighed and looked into the dirty old mirror that hung in Bobby’s guest bathroom.  He had stayed with his friend for the past two years.  Learned all that he could about Vampires, Clans, the society, all of it.

Part of him still wished that Bobby had tied him to a chair decades ago and explained all this shit, but as Singer liked to point out – Winchesters don’t do well being forced to do anything they don’t want to do.

He needed these years.  A least he was smart enough to recognize that fact.  John had some serious shit to come to terms with.  And he wasn’t even referring to Balthazar and that particular nightmare.  He had his own issues way before that asshole.

He had tried to track down his birth mother, or at least find some information on who she was.  Even with Skinners connection in the FBI, he wasn’t able to find much.  Bobby was the one who found some sketchy information from John’s hometown, about the local pastor’s daughter ‘fall from grace’.

The best guess either man had come up with, was that she hid the pregnancy and dumped John behind the Winchester Hardware Store.   There was no birth certificate or any DNA on file.

In the end it hadn’t mattered.  He was a goddamn Winchester the rest was irrelevant.

And this Winchester was tired of waiting around for his Mate to come swooning back into his life, to sweep him off his feet and ride off into the damn sunset.

He rolled his eyes at the mellow drama his head had started coming up with, finished cleaning up and headed out of the bathroom to head downstairs.

He wanted his Mate.

And when that particular thought had started popping up in his head, it had sent him to Rossi for a third or fourth round of sessions.  After a while he lost track of the variety of issues he was dealing with.

When Dean and Sam stopped by South Dakota to inform him about Stark’s offer for them to go to school, it was the push he needed to truly contemplate leaving South Dakota behind and Claim what was his.

He had needed the two years.

Needed the time to put everything into perspective.

Spend time with his sons and get to know them.  He was proud of both of them and for the first time, told them that.  Sam teared up, Dean rolled his eyes at the chick flick moment, but John refused to back down it had to be said at least once.

Afterwards they could never discuss it again.

John took the time to be trained.  Got his ass kicked by Bobby, Bruce, Dick, Riddick, both sons, and a duded named Gerard.  He learned how to masterfully use a sword, but he preferred Dean’s double barrel sawed off shotgun, with the shell casings packed with shrapnel.

His kid was a genius.

John made his final decision to find Gabriel, when Constantine called and bitched about how mopey the ‘Great Van Helsing’ was being.  It was sad, pathetic, and could John man up get his ass on a plane and fuck the guy into the bed so Constantine could get a good night’s sleep.

And that was exactly what he was planning to do.

 

Clan War 10th Anniversary: Family

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Title: Clan War 10th Anniversary Edition: Family

Author: Bj Jones

Creative Consultant: Timothy Quinn

Artist: Taibhrigh

Author’s Note: You’re in for a special treat with this one.  As we’ve moved the series further from fanfiction a lot of Family had been changed.  Though we’ve add into it, the back story of Riddick and Bryon.

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Clan War 10th Anniversary: Loyalties

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Title: Clan War 10th Anniversary Edition: Loyalties

Author: Bj Jones

Creative Consultant: Timothy Quinn

Artist: Taibhrigh

Author’s Note: The original Clan War was 450 +/- pages.  Somewhere in Loyalties we passed that page mark and kept on going.  Do note that there is a lot of detail concerning what the Manor looks like in this particular chapter.

Sit back and enjoy!  The Manor Tour will start at the Grand Staircase in 5 mins.

 

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Happy Birthday: Bj Jones

And to celebrate my birthday – y’all get a gift!! Or I’m just being evil – depends on which way you want to look at it.

Snippet: Advent Fic – Moulin Rouge!

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He climbed up the elephant and looked inside the once famed Red Room.   Instead of the lavish interior, oversized bed, cushions, and all the comforts one would want.  It was now painted in bright colors, rich in texture, very true to the Bohemian way of life.  On the walls hung Toulouse’s Art.  There were bright cushions on the floor so patrons could sit and admire the paintings.

But what caught his attention was the man who stood in the middle.

He was not much taller than Christian’s own height, somewhere around 5’10”.  His brown hair was cropped short, but still looked wildly out of control.  He wore simple cargo pants, a button down shirt, and a scarf was around his neck.

When he turned around, it was his eyes that caught all of Christian’s attention.

Startling blue.

Just like hers.

She had come home.

Really and truly come home to the Moulin Rouge.

“Who the fuck are you?”

“Oh sorry.” Christian held out his hands hoping to look non-threatening.  “Sorry, I didn’t mean…I saw your light on, and I…I climbed up the…”  This was starting to feel all too familiar.

“You climbed up the elephant!”  He stared at him in shock.  “What the hell is with people climbing the damn thing.  It’s an historical building, not a jungle gym!”

Christian didn’t want to know who else was climbing on the 136 year old elephant.

“I really didn’t mean to…”  He glanced around seeing more of the gallery.   The transformation was amazing.  The artwork was glorious, and the way they were presented almost felt like he was back in the Red Room.  Minus the bed and kinky toys he knew had been stashed away.  “It looks amazing.  Nothing like I remember.”

“Thanks.”  He glanced around, his hands rested on his hips.  “Who are you?”

He held out his hand, a bright smile on his face.  “Christian.”

“Seriously?”  He snorted, but took the man’s hand.  He frowned at the touch, something very familiar, yet elusive.  “Jake Stone.”

Clan War 10th Anniversary: Interlude: Rode Hard Put Away Wet (CSI: Anthology)

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Title: CSI: Anthology – Interlude: Rode Hard Put Away Wet

Author: Bj Jones

Creative Consultant: Timothy Quinn

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This story in the Anthology sets right in between Clan War: Bonding and Clan War: Transitions.  I hope everyone has caught up on the Anthology to understand what’s going on.

Clan War 10th Anniversary Edition: Bonding

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Title: Clan War 10th Anniversary Edition: Bonding

Author: Bj Jones

Creative Consultant: Timothy Quinn

Artist: Taibhrigh

Author’s Note: This chapter is longer and more detailed than the original.  Which is why many of these chapters have taken longer to re-work.   Lets put it in a perspective everyone can understand.

Bonding: 30 pgs

10th Anniversary Edition: 204 pgs

This is standard with all the Chapters.  The original Clan War worked out to be 400+ pages.  We passed that number somewhere in Loyalties.

Note from Bj Jones:

As it’s been a while since this has been said I figured a reminder was in order as we start to officially post Clan War.

So listen up this will only get said once.

We do not put warnings on stories.

There’s a large blanketed warning over the full series: At one point in time we will discuss subjects that will be uncomfortable, write something offensive, showcase a large variety of sexual acts and partners, and use language appropriate for the time period.

In conclusion: Sylum Essay: Modern Sensibilities ….

Thank You.

Now enjoy the story …. cause your in for the wildest wild in the Caribbean!

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Sylum Inspiration: Teaser Fic

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Advent Fic: Teaser

As I’m away on vacation thought I would tease everyone with a fic that will be posted for Advent this year.  I blame Travis for this particular bunny and Speed for feeding it!

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His focus was on Warrick, who was standing at the entrance of the famed alley.

Taking in everything around him, it wasn’t hard to figure out that the ‘something’ Brass was up to, was about to go down.  Kenway reached over and took Sam’s leash, pushing Nico towards Warrick.

Yeah whatever was going on, it seemed everyone was in on it, except for Nick.

God he hated surprises.

Nico pulled the bandanna down from his face, and then took off his sunglasses, hooking them around his neck.  He walked across the small area, stopping in front of Warrick.  He couldn’t read his Mate, though he could feel some anxiety, the Pirate seemed calm.

“Warrick.”

“Nico.”

The SWAT Officer smirked, his stance falling into a more relaxed position, hands hooking into the edge of his holsters, fingers settling against the weapons.

“Want to explain what’s going on?” He asked glancing around, not really shocked to see the kids and a variety of members from their Clan.

“I…” Warrick took a calming breath.  “We’ve been together now for almost three hundred years.”

Nico nodded slowly.

“And we’ve been many things to each other.”  He kept his hands in his pockets, not to show them shaking.  “Captive to Pirate.”  He got a chuckle out of Nick for that one. “Master and Slave.”  Nico frowned but waited patiently.  “Friends. Co-workers. Lovers. Mates.”  He nodded with each on not sure where this was going.  “I never thought we needed another title or label for who we are to each other.”

10th Anniversary: Kiss of Death

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You can’t kill someone if they are already dead…

It’s how it all started.

Well actually it started when Rory Cochrane decided to leave CSI: Miami (good decision there Rory) and the writers came up with the stupidest way to remove the character.  Oh yes let’s not actually put any effort into this – lets kill him because he didn’t clean his gun.  *eyeroll*

To quote: Seriously serious with this!

Anyway.  As stated in a previous post, the rash of OMG Speed didn’t Die!! Fics began.  The 10th Anniversary Lost Son Video showcased a few of them.  What can I say I worked to come up with a million different ways to fix that particular stupidity.

Then ‘You can’t kill someone if they are already dead…’

Kiss of Death was supposed to be a one off … waits patiently for the laughter to die down … done yet? I had no idea where I was going with that story or that it would still be in my life 10 YEARS later.

Today is the actually 10th Anniversary of the posting of Kiss of Death.  *shakes head* Still can’t believe it’s been 10 years.  And to celebrate that moment we’re posting the 10th Anniversary Edition of Kiss of Death.

First off you’ll notice the changes from the start.  When KOD was first written I was making things up as I went – literally was like blah blah blah oohhh that could work blah blah blah.  Now we can look at the story and put in more detail from what we know more about these guys, add in timestamps that were later written that fit nicely in the arc, and basically pull in threads tighter that either didn’t go anywhere or take them up again.

There will be some changes mainly on the fact some ideas I never liked, some ideas never went any where, and some characters who are annoying twits who demanded more attention.

Quick note: the original Clan War will not go away.  It will stay up on the Archive as a tribute from where we started.  But as time goes one to understand storylines you will need to read the 10th Anniversary Edition.

2nd Note: Art by Taibhrigh

Now with no further delay.

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Dear Timothy Quinn – my Speed and my inspiration.  This … This wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you.  Thank you from my heart & soul!

*feeds Bob2*

*smirks and runs away*