Karen, Maria, Dani, and Nina

To Belong

at Ponnyexpressen

Wendy M

I liked how seamless the ladies made this story seem...you couldn't tell where one person ended a piece, and the next one started it.
They did a great job of keeping true to the events that we know occurred in the episodes, yet filled in gaps as well...especially in the friendship of Buck and Ike.

Karen

Vest of Honor

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Raye

Breath of Heaven

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Wendy M
Raye has a way of bringing you into the moment with the characters until you feel as if you are actually living it with them.

Excerpt
A kiss, soft and tender, she touched her lips to his forehead, his cheeks and his little nose. Smiling, Louise rubbed her cheek against the downy hair on his head. She cuddled him close and listened to the his even breathing, feeling the light gusts of warm breath on her skin. It was heavenly.

Voices outside her window told her that life continued in another place, but here in her bedroom she had a world of her own.

Louise smoothed the blanket back again and watched as the soft light of the approaching night sweep over his head. She looked up at the empty room, with Emma and Rachel gone, the room seemed cavernous. Turning back to her newborn son, Louise suddenly felt that nothing really mattered except for the baby in her arms

A soft yawn drew her eyes and Louise felt some new and unnamed feeling wrap itself around her heart.

“I remember how to change a diaper and feed a baby with a bottle, but...” eyes, hazel and brown drifted closed taking her thoughts with their sight. “I don’t have much in the way of real motherin’ skills, so you’ll have to be patient.” In sleep, her son looked as if he was pouting, his lower lip set a bit further out than the top. Gently, she traced the bow of his tiny lips, “Now, don’t go worryin’ on me.” The soft sound of footsteps outside the door drew her gaze. A second set, softer, but just as solid joined the first. “Sounds like your father wants to see you, we’ll call for him in just a minute.”

Louise froze as a tiny whine rose up to her ears. Looking down she stopped thinking, her son’s eyes looked back at her with a strange mixture of innocence and wisdom in his gaze. “What did I ever do to deserve you?"

Amara

Forever

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Wendy M

Amara did a good job of the characterization with Lou and how she dealt with telling Kid about what Wickes had done to her.

youngridersfan

I Want You To Live

at LJ's TYRfic

Mercy

This is an awesome story where the author explores the reactions and thoughts of Kid and Lou in the episode about Lambert. It's very beautifully written and I could really picture the characters having those thoughts and feelings.