Andrew Q Gordon

Happy Birthday John!!! Have a great day, make it fun, take pictures - but make sure they're tasteful or they might not approve

Demise Well I sure hope neither one of them bites a bullet, though if Ryan doesn't pay attention, he might end up death rather quickly. Maybe this will serve as a wake up call that it is dangerous enough out there with out courting danger. One thought I had while writing this - Will's replacement, when it comes, is going to be far more challenged to reach a point of near invulnerability. 40 years ago things were much different, no Close Circuit TV's not the proliferation of guns among criminals, no internet, no cell phone camera's, I mean the next host - who will need some time to figure out what exactly he or she is and what they are supposed to do - is going to be hard pressed to survive more than 1 mission or 2; sorta like Ryan's Purpose and his hosts. Just sayin'.

A day late, yes, but who knew traveling with an infant would be so hard Chapter 24 is posted. Here is the link: Purpose: Chapter 24 I know I ask for feed back a lot, but if there are things that seem weird, off, not right, I'd really like to hear from you with those. The last 6 or so chapters are started but not complete so if there is something that concerns anyone, please let me know. Andy

I'd soo tap that - oh wait - jk - no not really, I would - eer wait ** looks around to see if the hubby is reading over his shoulder** okay yeah I would! Thanks for the Thanksgiving Day eye candy

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Crap, I got my bad baseball players mixed up. I think I meant Marvelous Marv Thronberry - and for some reason thought he was the catcher for the Mets. Oops wrong on so many levels.

Okay, that is something you should not and better not get here. FYI, just in case you didn't know, you need 5 qualifying posts in the forums to post your story, so you got three more to go. If you have any questions, just ask, most everyone - with the exception of Cia - is very friendly. Just kidding about Cia not being friendly - she's actually quite wonderful, but I figure I owe here a few digs : P

Well I get asked that question by my husband so don't think you won't get the 'why do you write about gay characters all the time' question here as well Welcome and enjoy yourself. Andy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBYN!!! Yeah I know a day late and a buck short , but I hope it was a great day.

Happy Birthday!! Have fun and enjoy.

Oh they were rated, they were rated '0'! Just kidding, let me go fix that and give them the rating they deserved

Anyta, not you too?!? Don't go asking for more of this Of course you were quite instrumental in this as well as all my other work so, of course you can say whatever you like Thank you for the review and for all the help with this story, which wouldn't be what it is without you.

Thanks so much for all the comments - yeah it is a bit hard to put them to rest too, but I have so much else I want to write about - but I also have thought about what's next for so many of the players. Time, time, time. If I had more of it, I'd write more Don't fret, I suspect soon enough I'll return to Graydon and the characters spawned here. Just might take a bit of doing. Andy

Thanks BG - As for the extra Paragraph, feel free to write and post it in my forum under the Trial of Jordan Topic - Be interesting to see what someone else has in mind for Second Shot's villain.

Dan, Sounds like you had an adventure of your own yesterday As for more legalism? Meh, even I find it boring, can't image having to write about it too. Thanks for reading and for your comments. Andy

Trevor, I hope you didn't think Peter would just wake up and it would all be better. As or Jordan, yeah he got the life sentence. What happens to him in prison is something I gave no real thought to, though I think he is too much a coward to kill himself. Who knows. As for Peter, well no comments in case I write the sequel Andy

Conner, You are too kind. But I'll take the compliments anyway Thanks for your feed back, you are a true undiscovered treasure on GA. Andy

You are welcome, but eek, please don't give me too much credit for the anti-social behaviors, I don't need angry friends at my door . If the story wasn't too legalistic, that was in large part due to Nephy's help. She was very good at pointing out things that might be too technical. As for this being an 'add on' , Originally I was going to make this part the end, but it 'felt' better ending Second Shot where I did and doing the trial separate. It also let me write it from the prosecutor's POV so that added some depth to the story that writing it from Jason's POV wouldn't. But yes, I agree, there are stories that I wish I could get the author to write a companion story about a sub plot that doesn't get resolved in the story itself. Andy

Thanks Dave, I admit I tried to help you out by posting a day early so I could free up your Sunday - you did say you'd be waiting for it so this was a way to get it out of the way to enjoy the rest of your weekend. As for neither of the 'boys' finding joy in the verdict, I think it would be out of character for both to be elated. So that's how I wrote them. Thanks for all the help, encouragement and dare I say prodding, along the way.

GR. I did say I'd post this Sunday, why were you checking? Did you think I'd post it early Oops, wait, I did post it a day early, never mind. One not on Mitigation. Since he took the case to trial, he maintained his innocence so he couldn't accept responsibility or even apologize for the attack. To do so would be an admission and would make any appeal almost pointless as the admission could be used at the re-trial if one was granted. Milton, to me, is almost the ideal judge - what, did you think a life long prosecutor was going to want a softie? See below response on the possibility of a sequel/companion. Andy

See the response below. But yes, that was originally how I left this, for people to image whatever they wanted after this point I suspect most have them married with kids they had through a surrogate -err wait, that's me. Anyway, feel free to dream away. Andy

I'm a tad sad too. Who knows maybe I'll be able to do a Mark Arbour and make this into a series/saga - err, no probably not, but I have begun, very very very minimally a sequel and a companion. Now I need time to write them.

Thanks Gregg, I appreciate the comments and am glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks Wayne, you've been a great encouragement along the way. As for glossing over the after affects, I did try to keep this as realistic as possible so pretending they didn't exist would be wrong. Who know's if I get around to the sequel and companion case you might see if those affected either of them in the long run.

If you get that going, I'll license the character to you and we can split the revenue, - baby Q needs a college fund after all and this was all gratitis Chapter stars aren't the same as author stars, but either way - thank you for all the support Trevor, now I need to find a new story to interest you like this one has. Nothing can over come cold medicine insomnia, trust me I tried. Were you one of the ones who told me I goofed? Glad this one passed muster. Not worry, just me being snarky. It will probably end up lowering my rating - but as you said, who cares in the end. Sheesh . Fine, I do it later today. No pleasing some people. Thanks B-man, very much appreciated your support along the way. Now what'll it take to get you to come read Purpose?