Xanthe

Title: A Cure for Jetlag
Author: Xanthe
Fandom: NCIS
Genre: Slash
Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Categories: Humour, romance, post-ep for Jetlag
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 2,800
Spoilers: Jetlag
Disclaimer: These characters belong to DPB, CBS, Paramount, et al. No copyright infringement is intended.
Many thanks to: nikitariddick and tejas for audiencing/beta.
Summary: Tony returns home and isn't very pleased by what he finds...and Gibbs suggests a cure for jetlag.

( A Cure for Jetlag )

Title: Fairytale of New York
Author: Xanthe
Fandom: NCIS
Genre: Slash
Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Categories: Angst, holiday, romance, humour, songfic (um, sort of!).
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 2,400ish.
Spoilers: None. Set a year or two in the future.
Disclaimer: These characters belong to DPB, CBS, Paramount, et al. No copyright infringement is intended.
Author’s notes: “Fairytale of New York” by the Pogues and the late, great Kirsty MacColl is my favourite Christmas song. And what could be more natural than a fusion of that song with a Gibbs/DiNozzo story? Uh, well, lots of things I suspect! This story doesn’t attempt to capture the storyline of the song (!!!), but is more a homage to it, with some actual lines of the song popping up here and there for those eagle-eyed enough to spot them. The song lyrics and the song itself can be found on my website here. Thank you for indulging me in this particular piece of bonkersness!
“Drunk Tank” = Chiefly US slang. Police custody cell, in particular, where the drunk and disorderly are held until sober
Many thanks to: taylorgibbs for the beta, and nikitariddick for the audiencing and ever-constant encouragement.
Summary: Gibbs and Tony spend a night in the drunk tank, courtesy of the NYPD.

( Fairytale of New York )

Title: Insomnia
Author: Xanthe
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Category: Romance, fluff.
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 3300ish
Status: Complete
Spoilers: None
Summary: Tony and Gibbs are forced to share a bed while working a case - and Tony discovers something truly horrifying about his boss...
Author's Note: This was written for the NCIS Chat list challenge which went as follows:
Gibbs+DiNozzo+1 bed=cuddles! The cuddling opportunities are so rich! Is Gibbs the cuddler? Tony? First time please :)
Huge hugs to Nikita for the beta :-)

( Insomnia )

Title: Puppy Love
Author: Xanthe
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Rating: PG
Genre: Slash
Category: Bit of crack, bit of romance ;-).
Wordcount: 4,000ish
Status: Complete
Spoilers: None
Summary: Tony's true inner self is revealed – as is his heart's desire…
Extract: Tony lay down, put his nose on his front paws, and gazed up at Gibbs mournfully.
Author's Notes: So, I got sidetracked again. This time it's Nikita's fault – she knows why *g*. I should point out that I’m not making the slightest claim to originality here. The central conceit in this story is a tribute to the fabulous Issums Bunny which I read a few months back and loved. I’m also a fan of The Definition of Home by triskellion. And then there are all those lovely SGA fics where Rodney and/or John get turned into cats… so this is my attempt at the genre *g*.

( Puppy Love )

Title: Hands
Author: Xanthe
Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Fandom: NCIS
Rating: NC17 for explicit sex.
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Wordcount: 6,543
Summary: It’s Christmas…and Tony has a fascination with Gibbs’s hands.
Author’s Notes: I must admit it’s really me who has a fascination with Gibbs’s hands *g*. This story grew out of a discussion that I had on the subject with lantean_drift on my birthday. It’s been brewing up ever since and I finally gave into it and wrote it. It was supposed to be just a little Xmas fic but it kind of grew. It’s unbeta’d so please forgive any errors and accept it as my little present to all the people who have been so kind and generous in sending me feedback these past few months since I started writing again.
Extract: They were the hands of a craftsman who could coax smooth curves out of solid wood and the hands of a killer who could caress a gun into perfect working order. They were working hands, creative hands, patient hands. They were hands that knew how to get the best out of wood, and guns, and…him.

( Hands )

Title: "Andy"

Author: Xanthe

Fandom: NCIS

Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo

Rating: NC17

Keywords: Wall to wall angst, a dollop of hurt/comfort, and a massive side order of daddy issues.

Spoilers: Specifically “Requiem” and “Heartland”.

Status: Complete

Timeline and canon: In this story I’ve based Tony’s age being 36 in 2008 on the fact that it’s explicitly stated by both him and Kate that he’s 32 in the episode “Split Decision” which aired in 2004, and he mentions playing college basketball in 1992 in “Swak” which ties in with this dating. Other canon facts are not entirely consistent on this subject (surprise!) but that’s what I’ve used for this story.
I found Gibbs’s timeline and canon inconsistent and confusing so I’ve put my own spin on it here – trying to stay as accurate a possible while steering a middle path. If this bothers you, then you might want to consider it an AU – which it pretty much is really anyway *g*.

Note: I was deliberately trying to explore some Daddy issues here as it seems to me that both Gibbs and Tony have them in very different ways - I've tried hard not to make it squicky though. This is not an incest fic in any way.

Wordcount: Around 47,000.

Thanks to bluespirit_star for being so supportive, encouraging and all-round fabulous; also, and very importantly, for beta-reading and for the stunningly beautiful graphic. Thanks also to Rachelle, for helping out with the US beta and the many cool details. Any mistakes are, of course, mine.

Summary: When Tony receives some bad news, it forces him and Gibbs to go on an emotional journey and face up to the events of a time long past.

Extract: Gibbs had been waiting for a dead body to turn up, and it seemed one just had - only not the way he'd expected. This was one of those bodies that had been hidden for seventeen years, and those kinds of corpses always stank to high heaven when they finally rose to the surface.

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Title: Context
Author: Xanthe
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Genre: Slash
Category: Romance, angst, post ep
Rating: NC17
Spoilers: This is a post-ep for 6X04, Heartland.
Author's Notes: Thanks to bluespirit_star for the amazingly fast beta!

Summary: “Well, you’re the only one of my boy’s people I haven’t had a chance to talk with yet,” Jackson told him. “And you’re the one I most want to talk to so…humour an old man, Tony.”

( Context )

Title: Coming Home
Author: Xanthe
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard (AU, set in a bisexual/BDSM universe)
Genre: Slash
Category: Romance, BDSM, spanking, hurt/comfort, angst, drama/action, BDSM-verse
Rating: NC17 for loving, consensual BDSM sex and spanking scenes.
Spoilers: Season One.
Wordcount: 183,800 – give or take *g*.
Posting: Because of the size of this story, I’ll be posting it in daily installments to my LJ. There are 19 installments of between 8000 and 11,000 words each. This story is finished and complete. I'll post links to the entire story at the end.

This novel-length story is a prequel to General & Dr Sheppard telling the story of how the AU John and Rodney first got together.

Summary: “Colonel John Sheppard knew, from the moment he first met Dr Rodney McKay, that the man would be trouble.”

Author’s Notes and Thank Yous

1. “Coming Home” is set in the same storyverse as ‘General & Dr Sheppard’ (G&DS). You don’t have to have read that in order to read and enjoy this.
2. This story is set entirely in a universe where bisexuality and BDSM sex are the norm. The BDSM depicted in this story is lifestyle BDSM – so it’s more intense than the “silk scarves” variety. It is safe, sane and consensual and the characters enjoy their sexuality. If you are squicked by BDSM practices (such as spanking, bondage, biting, marking, and dominant/submissive power exchange) please don’t read this story.
3. First and foremost this is a story about two people finding each other and learning how to be together. The BDSM is just a backdrop to that story.
4. Obviously as this is an AU, where bisexuality and BDSM are the norm and people are comfortable with that, the characters speak and act a bit differently to how they might speak and act in our universe. It was established in G&DS that the characters in this universe are much more open about their sexuality and comfortable talking about it.
5. Some events from the actual show are depicted in this story but they don’t necessarily happen in the same order, and they certainly don’t happen in quite the same way as they happened on the show. In a few places I have used some actual lines of dialogue from ‘Suspicion’, Hide and Seek’, and ‘38 Minutes’. This was done on purpose to emphasise the fact that this universe sometimes has echoes of our own.
6. Please don’t post to tell me how and why this society won’t work – I'm pretty sure I already know! If you like this kind of thing then it’s an enjoyable fantasy. It's not intended to be a "how to" guide to the functioning of a BDSM society or as to how BDSM should be practised. It's a story about people first and foremost.
7. I’m not postulating that this society is any better or worse than our own – it’s a fantasy construct with its own good and bad points.
8. I was working off my own canon here as some of the events that happen in ‘Coming Home’ are referred to in ‘G&DS’. I tried to make everything fit appropriately, and hope I succeeded. Some things will be picked up in the next story in this series, whenever I get around to writing it *g*. Please note that although John is a General in G&DS, he starts out as a Colonel here.
9. I love getting friendly feedback so please leave some if you enjoy this story!
10. A note about the posting method. I'm posting in installments but the story is finished. I'm posting in installments for various reasons: firstly, I do like to reply to feedback. I think if people have been kind enough to leave it then I like to acknowledge it. So if I posted more than 2 a day I simply wouldn't be able to keep up with the feedback and I want to enjoy the feedback and give people proper responses. Secondly, I asked my flist how they wanted the story to be posted and the consensus was that daily installments were best. People mentioned how they felt G&DS had been a real event, and they'd loved having something new to read each day and being able to chat with other readers about the fic. Of course people who don't like installments can wait until the entire story is posted and then read it all in one go - no problems there! There are 19 installments to this fic.
11. My apologies for the exceedingly long author’s notes! There was a reason why I felt they were necessary with this story.
12. Just to recap - if you dislike BDSM, or the way I write BDSM in particular, and/or you hated ‘G&DS’, then there’s really no reason for you to read ‘Coming Home’. If you loved 'G&DS' and/or really enjoy the way I write, then yay and hoorah and I hope you get a kick out of this one too – it's you guys I'm writing for!

Big Thanks To:
bluespirit_star for constant encouragement, discussion and support, to say nothing of prompt and helpful beta. I honestly couldn’t have written this without you, and most of the time I was actually writing it *for* you! Thanks so much.
flyingnorth for enthusiasm and many a long discussion about this universe
shrewreader for US beta.
Everyone who has been so encouraging (and patient!) about this story and all my flist for being so supportive whenever I mentioned it.
bluespirit_star again for yet another gorgeous title graphic

Now, on with the story!

Coming Home - Part One: Trouble with a Capital ‘T’.

Title: Doctor's Orders
Author: Xanthe
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: Rodney McKay/Carson Beckett
Genre: Slash
Category: romance, angst, BDSM, humour
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 20,000ish
Author's Notes: This story was written for atlantiskink's kinkathon for ravenlaughing who requested: "I have a desperate need for/would like McBeckett, with Carson as the Dom. Spanking's hot, being tied to something's just as good, and I sure as hell wouldn't mind Forceful!Carson. In a good way, not in a rape way."

Warning: This fic was written for a kinkathon so, needless to say, it's kinky! There's some dom/sub type sex, some light bondage, and some spanking. Please don't read if that squicks you.
Disclaimer: I was working to a deadline here during an insanely busy time in my Real Life so there might be some technical details about the city that I've got wrong. I DID do research but couldn't find an answer so I've invented some stuff. I don't think it's important to the overall story though.

Many thanks to: the sparkly pink Bluespirit for usual fabulous beta and the very naughty icon *g*

Summary: "You are NOT the person you pretend to be, Carson Beckett!"

( Doctor's Orders - 1/2 )