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It wasn't a conscious decision but.... I was just rereading No One's "Ice and Fire" (which you really should read!) and realized that it was the inspiration for the opening scene of "Protective Coloration".

That wasn't the first part that I wrote for my story and they obviously go different places but I don't think I would have come up with it if I hadn't recently read the other story.

I fixed the previous formatting issue and queued the remaining eight chapters to post on Tuesdays and Saturdays until completed.

Please let me know what you think of it and if you find any mistakes.

I was hoping that saying I was almost ready what give me the kick in the pants that I needed. It worked. I also decided to go with it as is - the first three chapters are queued (later today, next Tuesday and next Saturday.) Once I see that those are working correctly (it has been a long time since I posted something!) I'll queue up the remaining six chapters.

Please feel free to contact me with corrections/suggestions. Note, though, that this is fiction so I've taken a few liberties to help me move the story along. So if you find yourself thinking, "That's not how a police investigation would work" or similar, you're probably right but I've made the choice to handle it this way. Still feel free to let me know but realize I'm unlikely to make changes of that scale to this story. Future stories might well benefit, however.

[Edit] Something went haywire with the submission - the submitted chapter has change tracking marks that I thought had been removed. I've reuploaded it as straight text pasted in to see how that works, but it won't show until maybe tomorrow morning.

I have a new story coming. Eventually.

It's completely written and a couple of editors have worked it over. That's the good news.

While I was cleaning up from those edits life and work went all to hell, though, and I lost the thread - that spark and excitement that makes the story pop for me. I have made myself get back there and cleanup bits and pieces but it's not done yet and even then I want to get it looked over again.

Note, this is not a sequel to "Building a Better Past" but a separate standalone story. Nothing much has happened with the sequel is a few years and I don't want to get anyone's hopes up there - it needs a spark to get any further.

If you're at all into ff then you really owe it to yourself to read No One's Ice and Fire . Humor, self-consciousness, sexiness, some actual sex - it has all of that, but that doesn't do it justice. On the surface the two main characters seem very different but that's not the whole story and given such a short story they round out nicely.