Title: Defensive Maneuvers
Fandom: NCIS
Characters: Tim/Kate/Tony, Gibbs/Abby
Word Count: 4340
Rating: Adults Only
Summary: Tony’s dad arrives to Fix Things; also we learn a little more about Jessie.
Author's Notes: House of Cards Book IV Chapter 4
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( Try not to scare anyone this time, okay? )

Title: Returning Fire
Fandom: NCIS
Characters: Tony/Kate/Tim, Gibbs/Abby
Word Count: 3211
Rating: Adults Only
Summary: All warfare is based on deception.
Author's Notes: House of Cards Book IV Chapter 3
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( Please don’t touch the children. )

Title: Under Attack
Fandom: NCIS
Characters: Kate/Tim/Tony, Gibbs/Abby
Word Count: 2735
Rating: Adults Only
Summary: It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.
Author's Notes: House of Cards Book IV Chapter 2
Hi. I’m not a lawyer, I just write fic. If I get the legal stuff wrong, don’t shoot me.
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( Is that a fact. )

Title: Second Timers
Fandom: NCIS
Characters: Tim/Kate/Tony, Gibbs/Abby
Word Count: 3728
Rating: Adults Only
Summary: A typical day at the office… and a tiny bit of infodump.
Author's Notes: House of Cards Book IV Chapter 1
Begins a little over a year after the end of Book III
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( I don’t want to be here all night again. )

Title: Glutton for Punishment
Fandom: NCIS
Characters: Tim/Kate/Tony, Gibbs/Abby
Word Count: 3427
Rating: Adults Only
Summary: In which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a Tight Place.
Author's Notes: House of Cards Book III Chapter 12
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( And we don’t poke the baby. )

Title: Solutions and Precipitates
Fandom: NCIS
Characters: Kate/Tim/Tony, Gibbs/Abby
Word Count: 3236
Rating: Adults Only
Summary: It’s really all about perspective.
Author's Notes: House of Cards Book III Chapter 11
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( That wouldn’t be any fun. )

Title: Silent Echoes
Fandom: NCIS
Characters: Tim/Kate/Tony, Gibbs/Abby
Word Count: 2985
Rating: Adults Only
Summary: Nobody gets a “happily ever after”; the best we can hope for is “fairly decent.”
Author's Notes: House of Cards Book III Chapter 10
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( I told you she wouldn’t kill the kids. )

Title: And Then the Stork Comes Down the Chimney
Fandom: NCIS
Characters: Tim/Kate/Tony, Gibbs/Abby
Word Count: 2676
Rating: Adults Only
Summary: In which the character list gets a tiny bit longer.
Author's Notes: House of Cards Book III Chapter 9
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( You’re serious about this. )

Title: Upon a Midnight Clear
Fandom: NCIS
Characters: Tim/Kate/Tony, Gibbs/Abby
Word Count: 3525
Rating: Adults Only
Summary: A little time for peaceful reflection.
Author's Notes: House of Cards Book III Chapter 8
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( Of course you’re hungry; you’re a growing boy. )

Title: One Big Happy Family
Fandom: NCIS
Characters: Tony/Kate/Tim, Gibbs/Abby
Word Count: 3478
Rating: Adults Only
Summary: Piling things on the head of a pregnant woman is never a good idea.
Author's Notes: House of Cards Book III Chapter 7
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( That isn’t very funny, Kate. )