16 Works by Clo
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'Their biggest flaw as a crew at this point is probably that none of them deal well with inaction. Saving their captain right after arriving in the future could be the rallying cry they need. '
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- Part 1 of in the wood ash
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Sascha suggests a solution to their shared misery over losing; Novak counters with some life lessons. The whiskey's just there to ease everyone along.
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No one expected Andy to grow wings. It was taken for granted that Novak would.
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Turns out, secret marriages are complicated. Andy's worried, Novak's faking it like a pro, and they maybe should've thought this one through.
(Or, the one with the wedding night and their inability to talk about their feelings without messing it up)
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- Part 3 of your hand in mine
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In another universe, eighteen-year old Andy washed up in London without money, friends, or options. One thing led to another and four years later he's scraping along in his career. Some days, he can almost convince himself that being a prostitute isn't all that bad.
Today was not one of those days. At least, not until he bumped into a good-looking Serbian guy on the Tube.
(Or, the one where Andy ended up a prostitute instead of a tennis player through a series of accidents and bad decisions, and Novak's mostly trying not to screw up his life.)
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Andy was happy when Roger found him three years after the world ended, but he's not convinced there's any reason to be road-tripping across Europe in a post-apocalyptic winter.
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- Part 2 of the wasteland
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Three years after the world ended, they find each other again.
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- Part 1 of the wasteland
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"‘Novak,’ Andy says, loud with exasperated affection this time. 'It's a kilt.'
'Oh!' Novak says. After a moment, still tentatively running his fingertips over the loose folds of wool, 'that is not just Scottish for dress, right?'"
The one where explaining kilts to Novak goes about as well as could be expected. (In the same 'verse as 'the coming of the fall' but can be read as a standalone.)
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- Part 2 of your hand in mine
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Novak's summer started terribly. It didn't get any better after that. But summer's just a season and the only way to go is up.
(Or: the story of a US Open final that didn't happen in more ways than one, and one (unlikely) explanation for Novak's miserable summer of 2016.)
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- Part 1 of your hand in mine
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After being friends for so long, Andy really should've learned by now not to let Novak Djokovic call the stakes. Especially when said stakes involve the words 'bet' and 'bondage' at the Olympics.
Even if it's what he wants.
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Wimbledon 2015 has prank wars, the Federer children being supervillains-in-training, and Roger thinks he might be having a mid-life crisis because he can't stop thinking about Andy Roddick. If this Wimbledon gets any stranger, he’s going to start shipping in his water bottles in case they’re getting spiked.
And then the sex flowers show up.
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"What starts as a bet, becomes a habit, becomes a refusal to back down."
(Or, one way the night of the Rome Masters final 2006 probably *didn't* end.)
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'“I am fine,” Novak says immediately, as if he isn't obviously being held upright by the wall alone, as if he doesn't look like he just got served up as dinner for a pack of wolves. His voice still rasps a little. “Andy, it is okay. I need just a moment and I will leave, it is not so bad as it looks.”
It takes a second for Andy to find his voice, a second more to breathe through the rising edge of panic he'd tried so hard to leave behind in Australia. “It looks pretty bad,” he says and has to pause to swallow when his tone pitches too far into shrill. “What the hell happened?”'
Or, the one where Novak is a vampire and Andy should really know better by now.
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Morning afters are for complications, and consequences, but also enjoying it while it lasts.
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- Part 2 of loss as an art form
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An early morning summons to Jonathan’s room could spell ruin for Roger’s plan.
Brief what-we-didn’t-see-on-the-page discussion between Roger and Jonathan, set toward the end of Lioness Rampant before Alanna comes back. I always wondered how Roger knew to wait for Alanna on the palace walls, when the way he questions Thom makes it clear his spies aren’t worth their weight in mud. Someone must have told him.
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"Andy knows intimately every single way in which 'just a loss' can rip you to pieces."
Andy's always had Roger in his head, under his skin. It doesn't help that Roger's always there when it really matters. Set after the 2015 Wimbledon final, as my catharsis.
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- Part 1 of loss as an art form