So don't ask why you lot inspired this, but you all did. I haven't uploaded to the library because it is a work in progress piece. Basically it is a follow-on from "No" ... Although it is unnecessary to read "No" in order to get the picture. I am merging my two fandoms in this one ... am curious to see how I can fit them together ... So if you're interested, you can find it here Dunno if y'all will be particularly interested ... she'll be angsty and pretty mushy, so ... yeah ... not my usual brand of work. SJ

Updated ...

You have me hooked. I love this Fic. I am an avid watcher of CSI and really like the way you are bringing the two worlds together. The one thing that niggled with me was Grissom having his chin cupped in his hand so much. (and this is probably the fault of my observational skills) I just do not remember seeing him do this all the time. I will have to watch for it tonight, when I watch a CSI rerun from a few years back. Keep up the good work.

Ahh thank you CD, for reviewing. Glad you're hooked .... heh. Thank you, also, for pointing out something that irritated you. I don't recall having him cup the chin that much, however, quite likely that I did (I tend not to reread after I've written). Call it lazy writing on my part ... and I totally admit it. He does a form of chin cupping, but it is more between his thumb and index finger. Usually there is a pen in between middle and index finger, with the other fingers curled into a loose fist thingie ... Or something like that. .. Phew. I'm too damn lazy to figure out how to write the posture correctly ... LOL But I will fix it from here in. Thank you for the smack on the butt! SJ

I did not really intend you to rewrite or change anything. It was just that had not noticed this as a big habit of Grissoms' and I was going to watch and see if I noticed him doing it a lot. As I said it is probably just my lazy observation skills coupled with my multi-tasking while I am watching/listening to a show. I only look up from marking or working when something dramatic is happening, Or ...... in the summer I get to watch the show in reruns, if I am lucky.

Originally posted by clouddancer I did not really intend you to rewrite or change anything.

Oh, honey. What is the point of getting critiques if you can't change it? I actually appreciate it. You said you were a avid fan of CSI. So your opinions on Grissom do count! Distracted or not, subconsciously you do see the little things the characters do. I reread what I wrote, and sure enough, it was a little over the top. I'll be a little less lazy on the writing part of things to correct it. I was getting a little lazy .. :grin: Unfortunately I've had no time to get to it today, so I will have to get back onto it tomorrow ... Thanks again. Remember I'm not a timid writer, so if you see shit that sucks, just tell me. I only ask that you don't just tell me "It's boring" or "it sucks" without telling me why. I like to know *where* I messed it up so I can fix it. Thankee SJ

Sooooo! Now I know I should start cracking the whip tomorrow? Didn't I see a smilie with a whip? Now where was that? Off to go a hunting!

Hey SJ!! I have been waiting for the next chapter of this story. Consider this your first warning! I've given you what ...... two whole days? Next time I start counting down from Ten. Hey I am a teacher! Counting works with my grade ones.

LOL! Halfway through the next part - I got busy here at work... I got asked to take an IQ test - I got 143 ... Is that good? Will finish some more today. SJ

Oh SJ! That is 10..........

Ahh shit ... Sorry. I have a sick toddler at home and have thusly been home with him - can anyone please tell me how to convince a 2-year old that food is actually a good thing, and not something to be consistently turned away - therefore have not done anything fic-wise. Will try today.. Do apologise, darlin ... If I can keep my mind off the fact that Joshie hasn't eaten in three days and refuses to drink more than sips of juice or water, then I should be able to do something ... sigh. SJ

So Sorry to hear the bad news about little Josh. Hope he is doing better today, and lets you write. Meanwhile, I am waiting for my Mark/Grissom fix.

For you, CD ... Updated SJ

Oh! Thank you!!! claps hands and dances feet, Off I go.

SJ I know you have been busy writing Whipering your Name (Which I am really enjoying as well) but I am missing my BOTP/CSI story. Will the Swan make her escape before the Eagle gets there? More, more, I need more.......

Finished whispering and am back to this one, dear... Will see more of it tomorrow, I promise. SJ

Yes I just read Whispering! Loved the ending. Not usually a Swan/Condor fan but you had me hooked. Yah! Now back to more NO. Can't wait until tomorrow.

For once I was feeling sorry for Mark..she used him in a way.. He really didn't get much of chance at all, if she really wanted the Condor. It was a good ending. I'm very much an Eagle/Swan fan but variety is the spice of life! You have an enchanting writing style SJ, it just sucks you right into the story your telling...

SJ I have one question with the CSI fic.... are all the chapters that you have written on the clubhouse site as well? Seeing that I still have problems viewing any stories here I too am anxiously awaiting the next chapters....

Originally posted by gatchgirl SJ I have one question with the CSI fic.... are all the chapters that you have written on the clubhouse site as well? Seeing that I still have problems viewing any stories here I too am anxiously awaiting the next chapters....

All of my fics are always posted at the Clubhouse before anywhere else. I'll put a note up here when I update. I had every intention of getting back to it yesterday, but was off work because I have the flu :wibble: ... Hopefully I can pull out some energy to get it done today considering I am back at work. Wish me and my aching body luck today - this fucking sucks ... I want to go back to bed ... sighh.. SJ Looking for the snuggles of an Eagle to make me feel better - or maybe even a pack of Tim Tams - Any Aussie birdies feel like sending across a "Get Well" pack of Tim Tams and Vegemite to a sick Swan?! Or even a stubby of VB!!

So sorry to hear you are not well. Hopefully you will find something to get your strength back, and not a desk full of complaints and a boss with a dirty look and a tonne more work. All I could send you is some Tim Bits and an Ice Cappuccino, I might even be able to scrounge up some dark chocolate, to get your writing strength up. Unfortunately this will not help your Aussie homesickness.

Hope you get to feeling better SJ. Can't help with the homesickness, I've never even had the chance to see Australia (sp?). Maybe your boy gave it to ya, heres to both of you feeling better! - =

Ahh thanks guys. It kinda sucks, cause it was my 7th anniversary on Monday night, and I was sick and in bed by 8pm. My Lovely Condor (Flash) stayed home from baseball (GASP!!) to look after me ... But never fear, I am working on the fic as we speak .... SJ

Okee it's been updated ... Find the newest chapter here

I like! I like. I was begining to wonder if Mark was going to wuss out and let Anderson over rule him, but I liked how he let his command capabilities shine through. Would have liked to see more of what Grissom and Brass think about the whole incident. But maybe in the next scene - as Mark and Jason head off to explain to Keyop and Anderson leaves to arrange the Federation team. Side Note: I know all encrypted codes can be broken, given enough time, but I like to think the Federation and the team have highly advanced codes that are near impossible to crack, even on their personal computers. Especially since they could incorporate codes from other worlds and perhaps other world languages. It would be fun to see Archie stymied as he tried to crack those codes. On the other hand, it will also be fun to see Keyop and Archie working together to scan Marks computer. What embarrassing files will they find?

Glad you liked it. Here's another update. and here is another update - phew, two in one day. Go me!! SJ

Originally posted by SJ_SwanJun

Originally posted by gatchgirl SJ I have one question with the CSI fic.... are all the chapters that you have written on the clubhouse site as well? Seeing that I still have problems viewing any stories here I too am anxiously awaiting the next chapters....

All of my fics are always posted at the Clubhouse before anywhere else. I'll put a note up here when I update. I had every intention of getting back to it yesterday, but was off work because I have the flu :wibble: ... Hopefully I can pull out some energy to get it done today considering I am back at work. There could be some bribery involved...Finish When the war is over part 2 and you will get your timtams ...good trade off I think!I would not know where to send them anyway! Wish me and my aching body luck today - this fucking sucks ... I want to go back to bed ... sighh.. SJ Looking for the snuggles of an Eagle to make me feel better - or maybe even a pack of Tim Tams - Any Aussie birdies feel like sending across a "Get Well" pack of Tim Tams and Vegemite to a sick Swan?! Or even a stubby of VB!!

mmm there maybe room for bribery here! HEHEHE Finish When the war is over part 2, and you will get your timtams...(had a timtam explosion the other day it was sooo yummy...) The only problem is I don't were you live to send them!

Oh wow! Two I one day!!!! I am in heaven You are spoiling me. And from both the sides I have been wondering about. Now you have left me wondering who "Chris" is, that he would be called into the same precinct. I am trying to narrow down the list of possibilities. Rubs hands together and starts making lists....... Oh to much to do, maybe I will just wait until you reveal all. I would make a very bad detective - too impatient. Must know all ..... NOW.

Originally posted by clouddancer Now you have left me wondering who "Chris" is, that he would be called into the same precinct. I am trying to narrow down the list of possibilities.

Ha ha ... If you are an avid watcher of CSI (I have been for all seven seasons) then the hints are all in there as to who this "might" be.. SJ

Updated Enjoy...I actually set aside all of today's work to do this! Bad me... SJ

Hello SJ! I see you are back. Hope the golf tourney was sucessful. Now, to the important buiness. I know detective work can take a while but....... two weeks with no word. Poor Princess has been tied to the bed and Mark and the team in the Precinct for nearly two weeks. They need to get out. Come on Grissom your team usually does better than that. SJ's muses had better start working or I will bring out the whip. (I have found it now)

CD thats not even the worst of it.... poor Swan is caught with a possible bomb going off in another one of her fics..... Ebony... If I read that right, I think you want us to bribe SJ... I'm all for it, but I have no idea what TimTams are except that they come from Aussie!

Hmmmm??? I think I remember that one. Was that the one where Princess had left the team. Had twins and had joined the bomb squad? Was that a SJ story? Or someone elses. I have read so many stories these last few months I do not remember all the authors. Will have to check this out tomorrow. Time for bed so I can be fresh for my course early tomorrow. (Forgot to bring my homework home so I have to get in early so I can read.)

::blushes:: Oh, kids ...I am dying. My muse is tearing at my arms for both fics mentioned ... and I am so desperatly hankering to go on with both. But it turns out that, even though I am but a lowly phone jockey, I have to make sure all of the sales/wage/tailoring/bonus budgets by week for ALL 212 stores for the Fall season. I have until Friday to get them all done ... Which will only be accomplished if I can turn all the phones off and tell everyone else to stick their meaningless work up their asses! So I just may have to pull in a really late night sometime this week ... In other words - Monday at the earliest for both ... I can't write at home, cause Josh won't let me on the puter. Right now he is jumping all over my knees and demanding I do something ... I can't ... wuite ... decipher just what ... exactly ... he wants ... olhjfweihn hnq E :points up: That's his message .... Anyhoo ..... Have to chase him. He took off my knee and across the room ... SJ

Originally posted by clouddancer Hmmmm??? I think I remember that one. Was that the one where Princess had left the team. Had twins and had joined the bomb squad? Was that a SJ story? Or someone elses. I have read so many stories these last few months I do not remember all the authors. Will have to check this out tomorrow. Time for bed so I can be fresh for my course early tomorrow. (Forgot to bring my homework home so I have to get in early so I can read.)

Bolding is mine YOu know ... that sounds like a really awful fic eh? Yeah, it's mine. Part two of War .... It really is better than it sounds ... I hope ... SJ

Originally posted by SJ_SwanJun YOu know ... that sounds like a really awful fic eh? Yeah, it's mine. Part two of War .... It really is better than it sounds ... I hope ... SJ

It is not a really awful fic. It is just my synopis that is really awful. I would be a terrible caption writer. How do you narrow down a story to one sentence and capture a readers interest? When I had to do book reports in school I did a terrible job. I had a very hard time deciding what the main idea in a story was and would end up telling just about the whole story. I am getting better at it as a teacher, where I have to explain the theory to my students. Okay SJ, I guess I can give you till next week to continue with one of the fics. I am just not sure Princess and Mark can last, being separated that long, in either fic.

Lowly phone jockey? Only in title, vacation coverage, and coworkers who haven't tried your entire job.

Originally posted by CricketBeautiful Lowly phone jockey? Only in title, vacation coverage, and coworkers who haven't tried your entire job.

HAHA! Oh I love it... But ya know. That's not necessarily accurate. The girl who was on the desk before me (who is now Executive Assistant) thinks low of the job. I always take the day after our Golf Tourney off as a vacation day, last year, I took the following Mon and Tues off. So there we were, in the clubhouse sharing drinks with the executives (okay, I was just standing behind her in line for the bar to get a drink), and one of them asked if she was going to "Play the pretty receptionist" in my absence ... note: She didn't know I was behind her. Anyhoo. She puts on a mocking voice and says "Oh, yeah. So now all I have to do for three days is look pretty and say "Good morning XXX-company" ..." Nice, huh? And this, from the woman who was ORIGINALLY the phone jockey here! Oh how soon they forget ... I freaking LOVE it, now, when I have to take leave and she gets stuck here. Stick it right to her... LOL There are, really, only a handful of people in this office who appreciate this little phone jockey. And they are executives ... The lower lot, merchandisers and buyers and sales audit and payroll, are the ones who think I am as useless as tits on a bull. Even the vendors have a "awe" moment when they are waiting for their buyer at the desk and see what I trudge through doing my job ... One of them said to me yesterday that he had no idea how I did it and still managed to be buoyant. I said ... "coffee, and plenty of it - so next time you're coming in, I take a double double with milk" heh heh ... It's the raw sexual innuendo that really gets to me. I mean, yeah, you can be playful all you want with little comments ... but there is a line. How am I supposed to maintain a smile and not throttle someone when they say ... and I quote: "Next time I'm in the office I am going to crawl down under your desk and lick ...(You can imagine the rest)" Oh, and ... "Hey SJ Show me your vagina." (Imagine my horrified gasp and disgusted "what?!") "Oh come on, you can show me, everyone else has seen it." And that is the tamer of the comments ... trust me. But don't feel sorry for me. I did, eventually, deal with each of those assholes in my own swan-like way I am known by many in this office as being a "challenge" when tormented for a reason. They say "Don't fuck with the Aussie woman at the front." :grin: Anyhoo...enough of that, and wasting time ... I should get back to these budgets so I can get some fic work done. Byeeeeeeeee SJ

Office politics you gotta love it NOT! you are really making me think it is better to stay on the shop floor in my own little store, I get people come in from Head office and talk to me like I don't know anything! I'm there 45hrs a week,run a store that makes budget and is immaculate and has been recognized for it but... Usually buying or visual or some fly by floating manger who has been in the company 5 mins. I sort them out quick, experience counts for a lot, but we love over support girls at H/O, they back us up where they can. I think that's what you do SJ isn't. Your a phone support for your stores?? Well I hope things get better at work and some of those outdated thinking people leave. Haven't they heard of descrimination??? My sister in-law has an extremely good cleavage(she had a reduction done because they kept growing) and she has had the same things happen to her, lucky she's she a tough Aussie chick when she worked in England and Ireland. Welcome back SJ

I can just imagine what you could do to make their lives miserable! Little do they realize how important it is to have a good receptionist. It's too bad the execs realize how important phones is, otherwise maybe they'd get a mindless twit to do it, and give you a desk more in line with the rest of your job.

Wonder if she could get away with calmly mentioning to a caller that so and so is busy picking their nose or something along the line... expecialy if it's really going on... or would that be too mean or get her in trouble?

You just know they'll say something similar next time they're alone with you,... "Hold on a moment." Fiddle with the phones, say something into the phone like "Please hold," fiddle again, "Pardon?" Be very calm when his comments arrive at his wife's daytime phone, or your boss's voicemail, or over the back-office PA system. One phone system I worked with, you could dial a code and an extension, and just talk through that phone's speaker. The company that taught it to me loved it; their offices were open enough that there wasn't a lot of privacy. The next one was glad I pointed out the ability to eavesdrop with it and shut it off.