Stories for a winter's night

Title: Jealous Smokescreen
Series: G1
Rating: PG
Summary: Smokescreen is getting tired of not having his efforts recognized. Ratchet tries to be the voice of reason and a wall to scream at.
Pairings (if any): No pairings, but does feature Smokescreen and Ratchet, with mentions of Optimus, Prowl, Jazz, Mirage, and Bumblebee.

Author’s Note: This is written in response to straya’s request for “Jealous Smokescreen” over at my 28 Smokescreens meme. This was requested almost two years ago, and yes, it has taken me this long to come up with an appropriate story. See the problem is, every time I tried to write it, I came up with a variant on Straya’s “Jealous Ratchet” or a slashy fic, and really, neither was appropriate. So now, nearly two years later, I have finally been hit with the proper inspiration to write this.

Straya, I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: Transformers belong to Hasbro and Takara, and are licensed to IDW and Dreamworks. My original characters are my own and any similarity between them and any existing characters from canon or fandom is purely coincidental. I claim no ownership by writing this work.

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( Jealous Smokescreen )

Life’s Lessons
in response to: Naïve Smokescreen


Disclaimer: Transformers belong to Hasbro and Takara, and are licensed to IDW and Dreamworks. My original characters are my own and any similarity between them and any existing characters from canon or fandom is purely coincidental. I claim no ownership by writing this work.

Author’s Note, the first: It is complete! And for those who want to look back or need a refresher, Part 1 can be found here and Part 2 is here, Part 3 is here, Part 4 is here and part 5 is here.



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( Naïve Smokescreen )

Life’s Lessons
aka: Naïve Smokescreen (part five)


Author’s Note: It has a title! And two more sections to go before it's complete. Once it's done I'll post it to FFNet and maybe the Cell or Transficsation. We'll see. And for those who want to look back or need a refresher, Part 1 can be found here and Part 2 is here, Part 3 is here and Part 4 is here.


( Naïve Smokescreen )

Naïve Smokescreen
Part Three

Disclaimer: Transformers belong to Hasbro and Takara, and are licensed to IDW and Dreamworks. My original characters are my own and any similarity between them and any existing characters from canon or fandom is purely coincidental. I claim no ownership by writing this work.

Author's Note: This is written in response to the 28 Character Meme floating about LJ. tiamat1972 requested this and I hope she approves. The next part(s) should be showing up in the next few days. This story does make mention of events in Regrets and Bad Day, but there are no spoilers and you don't have to have read either to get this. And, as always, this takes place in my own little twisted AU. And for those who want to look back or need a refresher, Part 1 can be found here and Part 2 is here.

( Naïve Smokescreen )

Naïve Smokescreen
Part One

Disclaimer: Transformers belong to Hasbro and Takara, and are licensed to IDW and Dreamworks. My original characters are my own and any similarity between them and any existing characters from canon or fandom is purely coincidental. I claim no ownership by writing this work.

Author's Note: This is written in response to the 28 Character Meme floating about LJ. tiamat1972 requested this and I hope she approves. The next part(s) should be showing up in the next few days. This story does make mention of events in Regrets and Bad Day, but there are no spoilers and you don't have to have read either to get this. And, as always, this takes place in my own little twisted AU.

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Well, Metamorphosis is progressing nicely. I've finally figured out where Chapter 10 is going, which is nice seeing as I have to post it next Wednesday if I'm going to keep on schedule.

I have found myself questioning the organization of the story, however. I'm wondering if I wouldn't be better off writing three seperate stories rather than seperating the chapters as I am. ... Maybe I'm not giving my readers enough credit. I think the problem is that I am not getting any feedback on the new chapters and the hit count has dropped dramatically, so I'm a concerned that I'm loosing my readers. Admitedly, I am planning on having two of the three branches come together in the next ten chapters. Maybe that will make a difference.

Ah well, I'll keep an eye on things and make a decision later.

As for Life After Death, that baby is back on the rails. The boys still have to make their escape attempt and Eltara has some tricks in her packs, but it's coming along nicely. I'm hoping that I'll be able to give Tandor some more air time. He really is quite clever and dangerous, just a little spineless whenm it comes to his Captain and twu wuv. There's a lot that I want to cover before the boys get out of this.

And Donatello and Raphael are refusing to talk to me about Return to Darkness, so that's at a bit of a standstill. All I've been able to put down is that it takes place while Leo is in Japan, so I won't have to write him (I've always had problems writing his character properly).

Nothing is really coming to me from Smokescreen (I think he's angry at me for sticking him in Life After Death), though I do have a plot bunny for Daring Smokescreen, but it's a deathfic and I don't know if I want to write it. And lastly, I'm stuck on Vingettes and the mecha_erotica December Challenge is just a nugget so far.

... You know, after writing this, I know what my problem is. Oversaturation ... I really need to cage these bunnies and get them sorted out ...