Timothy M.

If you need more, I'd love to do Goon or The Beard by dkstories. Both are amongst my absolute GA favorites.

So we get to learn more about the Veiled Prophet concept and Monk's efforts to help the boys. But I'm rather puzzled about Mr. Stayback wanting to embarrass his poor employee further by having the incident mentioned in the paper. We forgive you the poetic license of moving the time of death. The injustice fits well with the general theme.

I'm glad to hear you're reading A Taste of Desire. Hope you enjoy it.

That was a nice visit, and I actually recall seing a movie that feature the blue-skinned shapeshifter. December 3rd is 'around Christmas' in my book, so I wouldn't blame St.John for reading the letter right away. He seems in a fairly mellow mood, in spite of recent happenings, so fingers crossed that nothing bad happens.

yay, so they found their special dream home place. And Em started to kick himself for being an idiot.

Thank JAR - yep, about time Rob showed up. Right now it looks like Rob won't be doing much... But we can always dream.

Somehow I missed this story. We celebrate Christmae Eve too, so this was quite familiar, even though we didn't have the hidden tree or Das Kristkind tradition. My favorite gifts were books.

Felix is wonderfully devoted, but I think he was right in telling Hampden how the game needs to be played from now on. The stakes are so much higher and they both need to keep the goal in mind. Luckily they have two good guardian angels who will do their best to work a miracle. The love and honest innocence of these two boys shines brightly in this and the previous chapter. It warms my heart.

I seem to recall reading a Chris meets James tale... goes away to poke around in old stories... wait, that's cheating never mind, good story even though the poor elf broke his leg.

The correct answer to Jack is: "A pedophile molested your brother, so you think all gay men are like that? That's like saying: someone raped my sister, so all straight men are rapists. Or a black dude stole my car, so all black men are thieves. Sexist profiling is as bad as racist profiling. But just because you're a bigoted idiot, I won't think badly of your friends here." Of course, no teen would be able to express the above, and particularly not in a stressful situation, so I think Rob did the best he could.

I like the fact none of them have made a bg deal about the bed-wetting in front of Bradley. Many years ago there was a survey done in Denmark which showed that children who wet the bed often had psychological problems and were socially isolated. But it also showed that the psychological problems were not the cause of the bedwetting (as had been thought before), which was in fact often due to a lack of a specific hormone or there was a physical reason. No, the anxiety etc was caused by the bedwetting, because it was considered shameful. The kids didn't want to have sleep-overs or go on school trips, due to the problem. But if the parents didn't blame the kids and gave them ways to cope (like wearing a night-nappy, so they wouldn't wake up in a wet bed), then there were less psychological problems for the kids. So I hope the doctor they see on Monday is aware of this knowledge and will act accordingly and not fill them with mumbo-jumbo about it being caused by the trauma of loosing his dad. I'm glad Lisa's mum asked her, so they know Brad did it before the accident too. The doctor would probably have asked, and then they'd feel silly not knowing.

Great minds think alike. I wrote stud first, but felt I had to be more neutral and go with the animals in the profile pics.

super penguin (cat), super wolf, and super stallion.

me too

Ohh, I hadn't seen that coming ! Wow, I can understand why he hesitates, but kudos to Dan for supporting Mark and seeing the silver lining of him moving to Toronto. Elaine needs to be given a good talking to, and I hope Bob will keep her in line. Perhaps Mark should make it a requirement that she stays away from him from now on. At least there isn't a whole batch of lovers which can fall out of the closet, but I wonder what Mark will say about Carl. Surely he can simply say he's never had a relationship before Dan, because he was hung up on an unrequited love for a straight guy. Nobody needs to know anything else.

Aww, thanks for the feature, Cia - and for the answer to my grammar question. Oh, and to comicfan for a prompt which inspired me to take up the challenge of Rob & Co again.

That was fun, but now I want to see a picture of a mistletoe ball as opposed to a simple twig of mistletoe. I wondered if the groaning he heard was due to something else than account books? On the other hand if they were still at the kissing under the mistletoe stage, my naughty thoughts may be wrong.

Thanks, LL, it was a nice suprise to mee too how I suddenly got inspited by a current prompt. I love how well you understand Rob, maybe it's because he reminds you of Jenson in your own story Crave? And 'equally exasperated and grateful' may be the best description of Eric's feelings so far. Rob may fantasize about some no-strings-attached fun at the Prom, but he's clever enough to see the pitfall in this case. Even if Trevor is even more aware of the risk.

Thanks, dugh, now I have the same image stuck in my head. I may have to find a way to use that. ;yes: Although if and when we eventually arrive at Prom night I hope Nelson will keep Eric too busy to needed propmting or think of anything else.

Thanks, GC, your fast review was a nice surprise too, I hadn't even sent you a chapter alert. I can easily imagine you laughing and giving me a virtual high five for the entertainment value. I almost didn't include the affirmation at the end, so it's interesting you find it superfluous. Makes me happy because that means I have shown how they feel already. Yep, Rob will have fun yanking a number of chains from now on.

Thank you, Gary, it's a great treat to have you point out the portraying of special honesty and love, since that is your force too. I'm also glad everyone thinks the talk waas fun, then I succeded in my mission.

Thanks, Drew I thought you might like the imp-boy idea. What a compliment, that certainly made my day. I guess most stories are about relationships in one way or another, so it's nice to know I'm doing well. Rob and Eric interaction is one of the joys of this story, writing or reading.

Thanks, Rex, I'm glad you liked the interplay, it was fun to write.

Good to see Will in some nice, calm interaction with the important memers of the family. Even Brad feels good about this.

Just make us feckless authors feel bad for not being all organised and such, eh...