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Title: A Long Time Coming
By: HF
Email: hfox @ ontheqt.org / aesc36 @ gmail.com
Rating/Warnings: PG13/R. Minor swearing, heaping cupfuls of UST RST.
Disclaimers: Without a Trace belongs to CBS, Jerry Bruckheimer, and very likely many other people.
Previous parts: 01; 02; 03; 04; 05; 06; 07

Notes: Only a couple more chapters to go, three at the outside; this thing is long enough already.

( ekstasis )

Title: A Long Time Coming
By: HF
Email: hfox @ ontheqt.org / aesc36 @ gmail.com
Rating/Warnings: PG13 for now. Minor swearing, heaping cupfuls of UST.
Disclaimers: Without a Trace belongs to CBS, Jerry Bruckheimer, and very likely many other people.
Previous parts: Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five

Notes: Next part. Yes.

( His mind produced a different ending, one where he never saw Martin again, where instead of living flesh and blood there was a coffin, and regret. )

Post-fic musing: I was watching "Silent Partner" the other night, and was completely taken with the end, when Danny goes into Jack's office to get some forms signed and Viv asks him how things went with Martin on the San Diego trip. Danny replies with something along the lines of, "He took a little breaking in, but he's a good guy," and the entire time Jack's giving him this Look, like he knows exactly what Danny's definition of "breaking in" entails. *pleased cackle*

Gotta love the slash!radar. Once it goes on, it never goes off.

Title: A Long Time Coming
By: HF
Email: hfox @ ontheqt.org / aesc36 @ gmail.com
Rating/Warnings: PG13 for now. Minor swearing, heaping cupfuls of UST.
Disclaimers: Without a Trace belongs to CBS, Jerry Bruckheimer, and very likely many other people.
Previous parts: Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three

Notes: Apologies for the delay. Tremendous difficulties persuading this chapter to cohere.

( And here they were, quietly and inexorably creeping on to forty, sitting in the half-light of Danny’s apartment, looking at themselves. )


In other news: This will end up being more than five chapters. In case you, y'know, couldn't tell.

Title: A Long Time Coming
By: HF
Email: hfox@ontheqt.org
Rating/Warnings: PG13 for now. Minor swearing, heaping cupfuls of UST.
Disclaimers: Without a Trace belongs to CBS, Jerry Bruckheimer, and very likely many other people.
Previous parts: Chapter One*

Notes: The first chapter has been revised, for reasons of plot and Martin!torture. On with the show...

( “God, Martin, what did you get yourself into?” )