People of Thedas

Title: Apostates of Amaranthine: Chapter 108: "It gets me off the hook"
Characters: Anders/f!Amell (Maggie)
Rating: M/AO (this chapter T)
Word Count: around 2200
Summary: Unlikely hero Maggie Amell attempts to rebuild the Grey Wardens and deal with continuing threats from the darkspawn, while trying to fit into a world that's a far cry from the tower. All this while the Chantry seems to wait around every corner, eager to remind her and Anders just what they think of mages who manage to escape Circle control.
In this chapter: Maggie's secret weapon.

( You don't spend a lifetime reading books about war without picking up a few things. )

Title: Apostates of Amaranthine: Chapter 106: "Now I see your fiendish plan"
Characters: Anders/f!Amell (Maggie)
Rating: M/AO (this chapter T)
Word Count: around 2200
Summary: Unlikely hero Maggie Amell attempts to rebuild the Grey Wardens and deal with continuing threats from the darkspawn, while trying to fit into a world that's a far cry from the tower. All this while the Chantry seems to wait around every corner, eager to remind her and Anders just what they think of mages who manage to escape Circle control.
In this chapter: This is the downside to expecting civility out of a professional monster-killer

( She hates being reminded that Alistair is younger than her. )

So I realized there was a serious flaw with my computer set up with regards to being able to write. See, I'm abnormal. I can't just write. I can't *focus.* Never could. I need distractions. I need noise, movies, video games, television, something. I have the attention span of a fruit fly. I used to use my laptop to write and do other stuff on my desktop, but my new desk didn't fit both.
Can you believe it took me six months to figure out why, every time I sat in front of Word, nothing happened? And so I drop off the face of the earth since, well, not being able to write is kind of depressing as hell.

Low and behold, I add a second monitor and I can write again. Wish I'd figured that out months ago.
And here we have not one but two chapters, about seven thousand words, all churned out in the last week. I feel like I should be making the Morrigan character selection screen motion while shouting "I'M BACK!"




Title: Apostates of Amaranthine: Chapter 104 "You take that back!"
Characters: Anders/f!Amell (Maggie)
Rating: M/AO (this chapter T)
Word Count: around 2500
Summary: Unlikely hero Maggie Amell attempts to rebuild the Grey Wardens and deal with continuing threats from the darkspawn, while trying to fit into a world that's a far cry from the tower. All this while the Chantry seems to wait around every corner, eager to remind her and Anders just what they think of mages who manage to escape Circle control.
In this chapter: Thedas has no Geneva Conventions. Fortunately for Maggie.

( Always making friends and influencing people. )


Title: Apostates of Amaranthine: Chapter 105 "I think I managed to offend myself"
Characters: Anders/f!Amell (Maggie), Alistair
Rating: M/AO (this chapter T)
Word Count: around 5000
Summary: Unlikely hero Maggie Amell attempts to rebuild the Grey Wardens and deal with continuing threats from the darkspawn, while trying to fit into a world that's a far cry from the tower. All this while the Chantry seems to wait around every corner, eager to remind her and Anders just what they think of mages who manage to escape Circle control.
In this chapter: The argument they managed to avoid for almost twenty years finally explodes.

( Even as King Alistair is still master of the surprise neck lock. )