Timeless A-Peel wrote:
I have images of a sloshed Purdey watching football playing sheep and tugging on Gambit's sleeve. "Mike, the sheep! The sheep! They're offside!"

Cue Gambit. "No more Purdkas for you."

Oh dear I can just picture it

Philippa wrote:

Timeless A-Peel wrote:
I have images of a sloshed Purdey watching football playing sheep and tugging on Gambit's sleeve. "Mike, the sheep! The sheep! They're offside!"

Cue Gambit. "No more Purdkas for you."

Oh dear I can just picture it

Gambit's so used to Purdey's strangeness, I can see him doing his "look to the heavens" eyeroll. "Give me strength!"

He loves her for it anyway

Philippa wrote:He loves her for it anyway

Doesn't he just?

FINISHED BRAZIL

Well...
That was AMAZING!!
Seriously, iv'e said it before but it was just like a film It had a great plot which i have no idea how you came up with cus i wouldnt even know where to start

Really shows P&G relationship starting to form more, Poor Gambit he was devastated when she went missing and Purdey deffinatly missed him more than she'd like to admit. I love how when Purdey got to brazil she called Gambit

I dont really know much about Emma Peel but great to see her in there helping Purdey doesnt seem too pleased tho
He brought her marshmellows haha that was fab!

Talk about an intense ending wow! Is it wrong that i kinda wanted her to shoot him not like Purdey tho & the sly way she took Gambits gun
Its great how you explained her hair too. Really ties it in and is a very good explanation.

Timeless seriously this fab, really enjoyed reading it

Life on mars next, il start it soon
Wow this post might be abit long

M-J;;W wrote:FINISHED BRAZIL

Well...
That was AMAZING!!
Seriously, iv'e said it before but it was just like a film It had a great plot which i have no idea how you came up with cus i wouldnt even know where to start

Really shows P&G relationship starting to form more, Poor Gambit he was devastated when she went missing and Purdey deffinatly missed him more than she'd like to admit. I love how when Purdey got to brazil she called Gambit

I dont really know much about Emma Peel but great to see her in there helping Purdey doesnt seem too pleased tho
He brought her marshmellows haha that was fab!

Talk about an intense ending wow! Is it wrong that i kinda wanted her to shoot him not like Purdey tho & the sly way she took Gambits gun
Its great how you explained her hair too. Really ties it in and is a very good explanation.

Timeless seriously this fab, really enjoyed reading it

Life on mars next, il start it soon
Wow this post might be abit long

Wow! I'm so glad you liked it so much! And remember, I love long posts.

It took a very, very long time to finish that fic--parts of it existed years before I finished the bulk of it. It probably is the most "epic" of my fics--long, set in an exotic locale. It would be awesome to have a film--too bad I can't travel back in time and do one, eh?

The plot was the most difficult part. It always is. The character interaction is easy--that's why I write. But this one required a lot of scenes with Steed, Gambit, and Emma piecing things together, and those scenes are never as much fun to figure out and write. Plot is hard. It's still hard. I have other fics that need a more detailed plot waiting for me. Hopefully I'll be able to make them as good as you thought this one.

The whole series is meant to show the development of Purdey and Gambit's relationship, so they're definitely meant to be slowly getting closer, and appreciating each other more, with each installment. I think Gambit would be a total wreck if Purdey went missing. And I think Purdey would miss him, too. She needs someone to pull her back when she gets a little extreme, and without Gambit to be the voice of reason she's a little lost. At the same time, because he's more of an equal than Steed, she can talk to him about things she'd feel self-conscious about otherwise. They know each other pretty well by this point, and it's getting harder and harder for Purdey to deny the attraction--particularly when Gambit remembers the marshmallows. But, of course, there's always a spanner in the works. That would be "Life on Mars."

I didn't start out planning to use Emma, but the connection in the canon was too strong to resist (Emma's husband Peter went missing in the Amazon, just like Purdey, so if Steed wanted a guide, who would he turn to?). I only used her because it made sense--I would never throw her in just for the sake of it, but it was fun to play with her relationships with Steed and Gambit (and Purdey). Purdey is frequently jealous of Emma in the series, and the idea of Emma taking her place in the team, even temporarily, wouldn't sit with her very well. I think she'd get on well with Gambit, though, so that was fun to do.

That's not the first time Purdey's swiped Gambit's gun like that--it'll appear in another fic, but I haven't written it yet. I know it's tempting for Purdey to kill Pym, but I thought about it and it felt wrong. Gambit's right--it won't make everything better. The idea is that Purdey is so blinded by her need for revenge that she's not thinking straight, and she needs Gambit, and his firsthand experience with this sort of thing due to his mysterious past, to make her see the light. Gambit's past will also be explored--in another fic. Yes, I know. Tease tease. Lots to come in the arc still.

I always try to tie the stories into the timeline of the series, so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to explain why Purdey started to grow her hair out. I love doing little details like that.

Well, thank you very much for your review! I'm really happy you enjoyed it, and hope you like "Life on Mars," too. I'm hard at work on edits, I promise, so hopefully there will be a new update soon.

Double fic dose! Just posted the latest chapter of "Life on Mars." Short but hopefully interesting. Enjoy!

Oh great, off to read

Great chapter, absolutely loved it! I left a review on ff.net

Philippa wrote:Great chapter, absolutely loved it! I left a review on ff.net

Thanks for the review, Philippa! Yes, Purdey doesn't know which way's up at the moment. But don't worry--she's never down for long...

She's in a very awkward position at the moment though. I mean, it's not a situation in which you can just "play along" for a while

Philippa wrote:She's in a very awkward position at the moment though. I mean, it's not a situation in which you can just "play along" for a while

She doesn't have any choice but to play along, at least a little, at the moment, but that doesn't mean she can't start slowly bending things her way. She just needs an action plan...

Got me all curious now

Philippa wrote:Got me all curious now

Oh, that's wasn't my intent at all.

I decided to open another subject 'cause I wasn't sure if I could put my little story in the previous one, I don't want to mess up everything.
Hope you'll understand
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Dark Wedding...

London and its streets..., it was 9.25 this morning when Purdey finished taking her shower. After that "cleaning time", the young woman decided to choose an unordinary outfit because her best friend, Julian, was going to marry a woman called Tricia, for the very first time. Purdey was extremely happy for the young fellow, then she began to remember the previous evening she had had, when Julian and her had gone to the pub, celebrating the event with many old friends.
"I cannot believe it, my little Ju's gonna be a real man now, time to face it...", Purdey took the time to whisper then opened her wardrobe, she finally opted for a white dress, with small pearls on it. After having put it on her, the lady went to the living room and took up the phone.

"Mike Gambit here." said the voice.
"Hello sir, could you go to my apartment, please ? A beauty's waiting for you, just for a service of course. Don't begin to imagine things..."
"The dear old guy is going to drop you off to the wedding, I'm coming, Purdey".
Purdey smiled while she was listening to Gambit, she liked teasing him.
Then, she hung up.

The morning had seemed quite normal but things began to change step by step...


Julian Withers was a very attractive man. He was the son of an old rich actor who had performed in front of the entire English population-almost.
He had been Purdey's friend since they were children.
"Today" was synonyme of change for him, he was gonna marry a pretty girl that he had met at the Opera, one night, nine months ago.
He was now in his bedroom, testing his costume, if he seemed perfect.
Suddenly, someone knocked on the door...
"Come in", the young man said.
"Oh, Jefferson, there's no problem, no particular thing to re-arrange, it's alright, go to the kitchen and check if we've got sufficent bottles, if there's not enough champagne, this marriage won't be a happy one and Purdey and her friends won't be satisfied !", then he smiled, imagining if the situation happened for real.
"Right, Sir." Then, the butler shut the door, leaving his master in his bedroom.

Then, Julian looked at himself through the mirror and heard another knock.
"Again ! ", he had said it in his head then started to be anxious.
"Come in".
Suddenly, the door opened, revealing a wonderful creature dressed in a white costume...
"Darling" Julian said, "You can't see me now, the wedding hasn't started yet, and it's not good to see each other before it, it's a bad omen..."
The brunette bride smiled then answered "Yes, indeed, it announces a bad omen" then she returned her arms which had stayed behind her before and showed a gun equiped with a silencer, in front of her lover.
Julian froze at this moment, realizing that his one wasn't that tender ...
A little noise spread right after that in the room...

Hey I think it's great you want to share fanfic with us, but would it be possible for you to host if off-site? I'd rather not have a long thread of stories here. So perhaps you could use google docs or something similar?

I don't know where I can put the other parts, well perhaps with private messages.
Those who want to read the story, tell me and I'll send it to you via pm.

It's very easy. Just go to http://docs.google.com and upload the story there. Then post the links in this thread. Timeless does it all the time. It's just that the topic get really packed if everyone starts to post full stories in here.
That is, if you don't want to make the story public. Otherwise you could just post it on www.fanfiction.net as well.

I feel another chapter of "Life on Mars" coming on...

Yay!


I really need to look through your beta-reading of my latest chapter, but Ashes to Ashes is a really time consuming thing at the moment. I've got all sorts of stories playing around in my head at the moment

Philippa wrote:Yay!


I really need to look through your beta-reading of my latest chapter, but Ashes to Ashes is a really time consuming thing at the moment. I've got all sorts of stories playing around in my head at the moment

It's up, it's up! I'm hoping I can keep up the rewrites at this rate. I'm doing well, adding lots of new stuff.

I know what it's like having lots of competing fic ideas. I'm still interested in what you have in mind for TNA. I can't write for shows like A2A when the actual show hasn't finished yet--the idea that everything I write will be nixed by what happens in the canon depresses me too much. I might finish "In Custody" one of these days, though.

Argh, I have other AU plotbunny ideas, though.

w00t! Off to read!
Yeah I really don't know what to do with my TNA ideas. They're both half finished, and without any real purpose.
I really dislike my Avengers story by this point, and the only reason I've decided to finish it is because I don't like the thought of leaving it unfinished.
But when it comes to A2A, my creative juices are flowing so to speak

Philippa wrote:w00t! Off to read!
Yeah I really don't know what to do with my TNA ideas. They're both half finished, and without any real purpose.
I really dislike my Avengers story by this point, and the only reason I've decided to finish it is because I don't like the thought of leaving it unfinished.
But when it comes to A2A, my creative juices are flowing so to speak

Hope you enjoy!

Your TNA stories don't have to have much purposes--most of my shorts are "short" on plot, but long on dialogue I wanted to do. Some of them are less than a page long. It's all about getting those dialogue bits in some sort of readable form. You know I'm always happy to beta Purdey/Gambit banter. Finishing your first fic is pretty good, though. It's hard work to finish any story, new or old.

I now want to run off and write another AU that's been poking at me, by I don't want to leave "Life on Mars" again. Darn.

Decisions decisions....

But seriously, I really hate my first story with a passion now.