2008 November
2,484 words
PG-13

Vignette.   Tracy receives advice from Natalie on facing difficult crime scenes.

"She had tried to become friends with the curly-haired coroner when she first got this assignment, but they just hadn't clicked."

2008 September
9,991 words
PG

"He had been so proud to be awarded tenure last year, to be recognized as a worthy and wanted permanent member of the faculty."

2008 July
59 KB
9,987 words
PG

"The mesmerism-enforced lie that had covered Richie's vampirism curdled on Natalie's tongue."

2008 May
3KB
100 words
G

"Do you blame me for Detective Schanke and Captain Cohen's deaths?"

2008 April
83KB
14,135 words
PG-13

Novella.   While Fleur is pregnant with Andre, a stranger named Lacroix arrives uninvited at a hunting party.

"How my ladies would laugh, to hear I had a successful flirtation and don't even remember it."

2008 March
9KB
1,283 words
G

Vignette.   On Good Friday, Schanke inadvertently reminds Nick of the Crusades, and Natalie notices.

"I pointed out that we indispensable public servants don't all get the four-day weekend that schoolgirls and saleswomen do, but did they listen to me?"

2008 February
10KB
1,489 words
PG

Vignette.   Between the scenes of "Father's Day," Janette packs for the trip in pursuit of Nick.

"Prudence often dimmed and drifted, when it came to Nicolas."

2007 October
20KB
3,101 words
PG

Short Story.   At a wedding reception, Natalie ensures Nick's secret is kept.

"If most vampires persist in thinking of psychokinetic hypnotism as a magic spell, it's no wonder they don't use it to its full potential."

2007 August
25KB
3,742 words
G

Parody.   Some fun with Doctor Who.  It seems everyone has seen the new season of Nick's favorite show -- except him.

"Nick sighed.  Putting away killers to atone for his sordid past was all fine and good, but no one should have to work on premiere night."

2007 July
40KB
6,169 words
PG

Short story.  In 2012, Natalie suspects more behind a change in their daughter's custody arrangements than her ex-husband Nick has said.

"One reason of many for not telling Joanie had been to keep her innocent by the Enforcers' code if they ever came for Natalie and Nick."

2006 November
30KB
4,906 words
PG

Short story.  Myra and Don Schanke's anniversary celebration proves more exciting than planned.

"Oh, man.  Nick didn't stand you up, did he?  I mean, not that anyone would stand you up!"

2006 September
22KB
3,327 words
PG

Short story.  Schanke's stomach rumbles through an early case with Nick.

"And once again, the sight of some salsa picante lays low the mighty Detective Knight.  Do you realize, Natalie, that Mr. Pride of the Metro PD here cannot cope with a little ketchup on his crime scenes?"

2006 August
16KB
2,505 words
PG

Vignette.   Mailing Christmas gifts in 2006, Natalie bumps into a very old acquaintance.

"She had no intention of leaving her place in line, not for vampire, murderer or apocalyptic space debris."

2006 July
13KB
1,939 words
G

Vignette.   A shift at the Raven hinges on personal intangibles that have nothing to do with work.

"This was one of the nights when she felt how very good she was at what she did, and how much it was worth the doing."

2006 May
12KB
1,899 words
PG-13

Vignette.   Thwarted in "Stranger Than Fiction," Lacroix moves through Toronto, unable to stop thinking about Nick's feelings for Emily.

"Let him think me routed for the moment, if he must.  I know what he must relearn: this game never ends, and I never lose."

2005 December
19KB
2,982 words
PG

Short story.   Crossover with Highlander.   Nick and Darius have an appointment for New Year's Eve 1999, but neither of them make it.

"She met his eyes, her own again a rich blue.  The depth of the sorrow there shocked him.  Carefully controlled, it nevertheless went down, and down, and down, perhaps without end."

2003 October
315KB
53,030 words
PG-13

Novel.   Nick regains his humanity, but he's not the only one.  And no one is prepared for all the consequences.  Flashbacks 1226-1228.

"Nick strolled back to his loft in the crisp morning light, feeling everything was right with his world.  Granted, his arm was in a sling, his partner might never again pass a police physical, and the Enforcers could well be coming to get him and the woman he loved..."

2003 April
15KB
2,408 words
PG-13

Vignette.   Natalie attempts to understand Nick's struggle, as he grapples with his third shift as a homicide detective.

"That's exactly the kind of thing I need to know, if we're going to cure your condition, not just treat its symptoms. And that is our mission statement, isn't it?  Find a cure?"

2002 September
20KB
3,606 words
PG

Short story.   In 1990, Barbara Vetter learns of two important choices her daughter has made.

"Tracy had done well enough in every course she tried, and Barbara had hoped each time that this was it, this was the path less traveled than the Vetter destiny."

2002 June
21KB
3,475 words
PG

Short story.   A much-changed Natalie confronts Nick with a stunning request only he can fulfill.

"Fully awake, he could feel the splice in the metaphysical rope of his artificial life, the place where his being twisted inextricably with hers. Family. The monster who had done this to her was close kin."

2002 May
11KB
1,598 words
G

Vignette.   In an alternate future, Natalie's past never really lets her go.

"And if he had died -- in a freak accident, or at the hands of what she now thought of as the dark underworld he had first escaped and then battled -- she would never know."

2001 August
23KB
4,543 words
PG-13

Short story.   In "I Will Repay," Janette tells Nick she never converted anyone to vampirism.  But what about the Baroness in "If Looks Could Kill"?

"Newly returned to this world, Sofia needed -- and would want -- only vibrant, living, human blood, not the sluggish undead mire that was all Janette had to share."

Nominee, 2001 FK Fanfiction Award

2001 July
18KB
2,993 words
G

Parody.   Canonical characters organize to protest the working conditions in fanfiction.

"Bad day on the fic list?  Let me guess -- you spent an entire shift making love to Tracy Vetter for no emotionally established reason in no logically explained manner, and you need an aspirin and a shower?"

2001 January
117KB
13,511 words
PG-13

Novella.   Surviving "Hearts of Darkness," Jacqueline turns to Urs and Nick for help.

"Either one would help me, I guess.  Lucien for a price.  Javier, because he always does, eventually.  And there are others.  But unlike them, you'll help her, just because she needs help."

Nominee, 2001 FK Fanfiction Award

2000 February
41KB
6,709 words
PG

Short story.   Unsettling phone calls, uncanny dreams and an unexpected day off work coerce Natalie into examining her life outside the lab.

"Since Richie died, she had kept herself busy, and busier, until all the times in which these thoughts might have caught up with her had been squeezed out and away."

Nominee, 2000 FK Fanfiction Award

1999 May
55KB
9,110 words
PG-13

Song-challenge story.   Nick struggles to hold on to his new life and hopes when Lacroix confronts him with old demands and desires.

"Do you think that ignoring my feelings will make them go away?  Do you imagine that if you pretend I'm a vampire like any other, I will be?"

1998 December
300KB
64,608 words
PG-13

Novel.   In the wake of "Ashes to Ashes," Natalie strives to derive a cure for vampirism from Divia's lethal venom, while Fleur's return to her family raises memories of 1229.

"I hope, Doctor Lambert, that you will tell my brother of my attempt last night to dissuade you.  He will be looking for a scapegoat, and I'm not eager to take on the role again so soon."

1998 Summer
37KB
6,466 words
G

Short story.   Staying with Janette in early second-season, Lacroix pieces together what happened after Nick staked him.  This piece appeared in the charity fanzine Tojours Lacroix (1999, 208 pages, 8.5x11"), edited and produced by Lisa P.

"Logic could not cut through the shrine he had made of his own wretched loneliness."

1997 September
35KB
5,572 words
G

Short story.   Bending series time, Princess Diana's death distresses Natalie and reminds Nick of Queen Caroline, wife of England's George IV.

"Natalie had turned nineteen the summer of the royal wedding, and there had been something inescapably exciting about watching this girl, her own age, walk onto the world stage."

1997
PG

Parody.   These satires are chapters of the humor fanzine My Parental Units Invaded the Earth, and All I Got was this Lousy T-Shirt (1998, 103 pages, 8.5x11"), a round-robin crossover starring the characters of Forever Knight, Due South and The X-Files, supported by their counterparts from Highlander, Xena, Doctor Who and many more, edited and produced by Celeste.

"Oh, Nat!  It's all so clear to me now ... I will always reject my physical nature, even as I know you're rejecting yours in waiting patiently for me and not getting involved with stray Mounties and FBI agents, however attractive, mortal, available and taxpayer-funded."

1997 June
182KB
32,212 words
PG-13

Novella.   Partially amnesiac since "Last Knight" three years before, Tracy's resurging memories suddenly plunge her into the unsolved mysteries of Natalie's murder and Nick and Vachon's disappearances.

"She told him everything she had learned about that wrinkle in their reality -- everything, except that her own blood spoke of apricots and calla lilies. For now, she kept that to herself."

1997 Easter
12KB
1,808 words
PG

Dialogue.   Nick answers Lacroix's "Last Knight" speech.  He made the wrong choices for all the right reasons.

"I placed my faith in hers, and she gave it back to me in myself.  Now, it leads me after her, to the reckoning that is the price for having a soul."

1997 February
38KB
6,315 words
PG-13

Song-challenge story.   In Paris after "Last Knight," Janette sees Nick for the first time since he brought her back across in "The Human Factor."

"He looked haggard, thin, and he had a beard again -- shaving was always the first thing he neglected when he decided that ignoring his body would help save his soul."

1997 February
25KB
4,213 words
PG-13

Short story.   Alma redecorated the Raven for Janette in "Love You to Death."  After Janette left him her club, Lacroix required someone to perform the same service.

"Alma shivered at the thought of what it would mean to be a vampire in Toronto with this strange, new Lacroix in charge of this strange, new Raven."

1997 January
PG

Short story.   Lacroix's two-thousandth birthday celebration draws many guests with many conflicting agendas.  Co-written with Bonnie, Cynthia and Jane, this short story appeared in the charity fanzine For the Good of the Knight (1997, 73 pages, 8.5x11"), edited and produced by Sharon H.

"Your appearance is commanded at Il Palazzo, Pompeii, Italy on the occasion of the 2,000th birthday of Lucien Lacroix.  Festivities begin precisely at sundown.  ...  Appropriate gifts graciously accepted."

1996 Winter
7KB
1,291 words
G

Vignette.   Lacroix muses on his loss of Fleur and how, perhaps, it led inevitably to his loss of Nick.   This piece appeared in the charity fanzine Tojours Lacroix (1999, 208 pages, 8.5x11"), edited and produced by Lisa P.

"He is what is left to me of her, and his hatred is what is left to me of himself."

1996 June
12KB
1,776 words
G

Vignette.   In a fluffy "Nobody Dies; Nobody Ever Dies" atmosphere, Natalie and Nick chat about friends and family, happily ever after.

"How about you, Natalie Lambert Knight, love of my eight hundred and four years?  Are you happy?"

1996 May
9KB
1,181 words
G

Vignette.   Lacroix approaches Tracy at the Raven after Vachon's death and Nick's "Ashes to Ashes" request.

"He had promised Nicholas, after all. But when he had promised, he had not known she was in love."

1996 April
18KB
2,894 words
PG

Short story.   Forty years after it was incurred, a debt comes due before the eyes of Nick and Natalie's grieving daughter.

"And you bargained well, for someone with a table leg through his chest."

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