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Title: Magnetic Midnight (The Rosebay Affair - Part 4.5)
Author: saki101
Genre: Slash
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairing: Illya/Napoleon
Warnings: A few characters have wandered in from another DMC film called Around the World Under the Sea. (A video clip which introduces the characters in the film may be viewed here.) They did that in another of my stories, too. It isn’t necessary to read that one first, but having a look at the clip will help, and will also demonstrate that Dr Philip Volker is just as pretty as Illya.
Disclaimer: Don't own any of these characters or their universes and no money is being made!
A/N: At the beginning of The Rosebay Affair: Part IV, Kittridge was going off to Greenland to join a mission headed by a non-UNCLE scientist named Philip Volker. ride_4ever’s prompts included aurora borealis and dogsleds, so following up on the Greenland mission came to mind immediately.

(Also posted on AO3.)

A beautiful picture has been created for the story by open_channel_d. It may be viewed here.

Excerpt: The plane droned above clouds tinted pink by the rising sun.

“Straight on ‘til morning,” Napoleon murmured, unbuckling his safety harness and stretching.

Illya eyes swept over the instrument panel and then over his partner. “A bit more northerly than that,” he replied.

( Magnetic Midnight )

This is mostly the thirty segments of backstory which I posted during November 2011's PicoWriMo. The extended flashback is far from finished, but as I have re-ordered them the selections follow one another fairly continuously, so I thought I'd collect them in one place with the hope that more work will be done from the foundation gathered here. Feedback would be most appreciated.

For those who have read Third (and can still remember it), this describes how Illya, Daria (Dasha), Alexandra (Sasha), Kyrill and Pavel met one another (pre-UNCLE).

Title: Third - Leitmotifs
Author: saki101
Fandom: Man from UNCLE
Pairing: Illya/Napoleon (overall), Illya/various (this section)
Genre: Pre-slash and het
Rating: R
Word Count: ~8K
Disclaimer: The usual, because MFU is not mine and no money is being made.

( Third - Leitmotifs )

Gacked from azdak who gacked it from from sallymn -

1. Go to page 7 (or 77) of your current WIP.
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines – sentences or paragraphs – and post them as they’re written.

This is part of the backstory to Third,
a bit further on than the scenes posted during the November picowrimo.

Naturally, I went for the seven paragraph option. That left two paragraphs in the scene (one of which involves a dark and stormy night, so proceed at your own risk) which I put in, too, a little further down. (Not exactly following the rules there, I know, but at least it's only about 400 words.)

( Rehearsing )

Part III has been a very long time coming, so everyone's patience probably ran out ages ago. If, by some miracle, it has not, then here is a further expansion of Third, an Easter Egg I posted at MFU Writers Survival School in April 2010 and continued in May. Some readers wanted to know more about Illya's mysterious friends. Palme d'Or starts the morning after Parts I and II and explains some of the connections between the characters.

Part I of the story may be found at MFUWSS here.
Part II is here.
(Also posted on MFUWSS.)

Rating: R (there are slash and het aspects)
Length: ~7K
Warning: There are screencaps in this section, so it may be a little slow in loading.
Disclaimer: I don't own MUNCLE and no money is being made. As in the previously posted parts, the non-canon (original) characters are mine.
Author's note: Playing around with reality a bit with regard to the name of the prize given at Cannes in certain years.

Excerpt:

No one lounged against a wall quite like Illya; no one imbued that seemingly relaxed posture with the seductive menace that he did.

( Third: Part III - Palme d'Or )

This is the second part of a further continuation of the story which started with Blue Diamonds and continued in Black Sapphires and Baroque Pearls (Part I). There is also a connection with a ficlet I wrote entitled When the Cherries Bloom.

At the beginning of July I participated in picowrimo with the overly optimistic goal of finishing this story by the end of the month, which got revised to the end of August. Unfortunately, it isn't quite done yet.

Many thanks to utopiantrunks for listening to me mulling over the ideas for the plot and for helping me keep the POV straight. All the shortcomings are mine.


Title: Baroque Pearls (Part II)
Author: saki101
Fandom: Man from UNCLE
Genre: Slash
Rating: R-ish
Word Count: 10K
Disclaimer: MFU is not mine and no money is being made.

Note: This section is a further development of the story and doesn't stand alone.

Excerpt: From the top of the dark curtains, sunlight seeped across the grey ceiling. Illya kicked the covers off and stretched. The surf sounded rough. Anton stirred. Illya turned his head on the pillow.

“They’ve sent you back to me, haven’t they?” Anton asked, propping himself up on his elbow, facing Illya. Illya met his gaze. “What do they want?”

( Baroque Pearls - Part II )

Title: Treasures
Author: Saki101
Genre: Slash
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~10K
Written for the 2010 Down the Chimney Challenge (DtC 7) for cosmosmariner and originally posted on muncle. (A video clip which introduces the characters in the film may be viewed here. A photo of Illya, in costume as it were:

Disclaimer: Don't own any of these characters or their universes and no money is being made!

Excerpt:

Napoleon resumed his study of Doctors Kuryakin and Volker who were donning the last of their scuba gear. One of them turned towards the deck as he zipped up his wet suit and smiled at them.

“I can hardly tell them apart,” Napoleon marvelled, and Napoleon was justifiably proud of his observation skills.


( Treasures )