Variations
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“I assume you’re not dead then,” Algy said, making himself walk over to the man standing still and silent under the street lamp, willing his voice into dryness and steadiness. “What a pity.”
A meeting in the November rain; and a suggestion, which might one day be repeated.
Part I of Variations.
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- Part 1 of Variations
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“What are you doing here?” Algy asked, shortly.
Von Stalhein smiled. “I live here. I believe it would be more pertinent for me to ask you.”
“I meant here here. In this museum.” In front of this sculpture. At his elbow.
Algy tries to have a quiet couple of days in Berlin. It works out about as well as you'd expect.
Part II of Variations.
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- Part 2 of Variations
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It was a challenge, of a kind: baiting the hook, but not disguising it. Daring him to bite.
Algy decides to pay a call to the address on the card.
Part III of Variations.
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- Part 3 of Variations
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Biggles was stubborn, self-reliant, self-contained. He couldn't bear the fact that he had needed. That Algy kept seeing him at his worst. And one day -
Better to go than to be told to leave.
Biggles has a bad night; Algy makes a decision.
Part IV of Variations.
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- Part 4 of Variations
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July-December, 1927: Seven Entr'actes In Search Of A Finale by Tweague
Fandoms: Biggles Series - W. E. Johns
25 Nov 2024
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Seven scenes over six months, as Algy becomes accustomed to Berlin.
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- Part 5 of Variations
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"I’m quite certain that you’ve been to dives just as disreputable, haven’t you? You seem to spend half the year in Monte Carlo, you must have been to heaps of clubs every bit as bad.”
She looked so hopeful that Algy nearly laughed. “Not that sort of club,” he pointed out.
Lotte takes Algy to a nightclub; Algy almost entirely fails to have a good time.
(NOTE: This is set in 1928; there is a brief mention of a fight at the club with Brownshirts, and also brief discussion of the dangers that openly gay people faced or could face in Berlin society of the time. Neither of these are the main focus of the chapter, however.)
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- Part 6 of Variations
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(Another time, another place): thirst, hunger, heat by Tweague
Fandoms: Biggles Series - W. E. Johns
27 Nov 2024
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He swallowed; passed a heavy hand over his eyes. Probably he had caught the sun, because his skin prickled and ached, and Erich had spoken of slaking your thirst, appeasing your hunger, and the words had taken up residence somewhere in the pit of his belly and he couldn’t stop thinking -
Algy finds himself urgently in need of von Stalhein’s assistance. A gratuitous sex-pollen AU excursus from the main Variations continuity.
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- Part 7 of Variations
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Algy’s eyes narrowed. “Is this a holiday?”
Not even a hint of a smile. Just those blue-grey eyes, glittering. “Certainly not.”
It is at least possible that this is a holiday. Fluff, fluff, unrepentent fluff, with feelings and smut and bonus archaeology.
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- Part 8 of Variations
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“I was thinking - well, wondering, really - whether you might be able to offer me work a bit more regularly, for a while?"
A brief (and pointless, and smutty) missing scene from the end of 'Samos'. Algy drops in on Erich at the office after they get back from Samos. Erich is delighted.
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- Part 9 of Variations
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September 1928 - January 1929: Contact by Tweague for gatty
Fandoms: Biggles Series - W. E. Johns
12 Dec 2024
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“I’ve been told I can get a bit grabby, sometimes,” Algy said, somewhat diffidently. “I really don’t notice I’m doing it half the time. So just push me off if you get sick of it.”
Six short scenes from the first six months, on the prompt 'touch'.
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- Part 10 of Variations
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“Is it normally like this?” he asked von Stalhein on the first of the month, as they stood near the hangar at Tempelhof, waiting for the plane to be ready. He was wearing all the layers he normally needed to feel comfortable at ten thousand feet, and still he could feel the chill.
“No,” von Stalhein had replied. “It is not.”
February 1929 was the coldest month for three hundred years across much of northern Europe: the perfect time to have recently moved into a drafty flat in Berlin.
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- Part 11 of Variations