#a lot of these aren’t completely unpublished bc I showed or told Mars about them but we basically *were* the entire fandom for a while

[needlesandnilbogs]

as a lil silly tween that can’t celebrate Halloween publicly cuz of parents…

trick or treat?

have a snippet of the time I tried to write a next generation city spies thing with a whole batch of children the original spies as adults adopted! (side note this is pre book 4 so we didn’t know there was actually going to be a Cairo in the books)

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Sunnyvale was bored. More specifically, Sunny was tired of staying at home. She wanted a mission --- no, she needed a mission. It had been too long. (It had been three months. That was two months too long.) The FARM was nice, but it wasn't exciting enough. Like today?

Brooklyn and Paris, the adults nominally in charge of them, were discussing a grocery list of all things. Athens and Cairo were playing a video game. Madrid was reading a book. Lima was weaving. Nobody was doing anything interesting. So here Sunny was, sitting and staring at her homework, pretending to work and actually just being bored.

And then suddenly someone else was in the room. Sunny noticed them before she really saw what was happening --- someone was behind Paris, someone who hadn't been there a moment ago, and they'd all been in the room. And did that someone have a-- no, that was a-- why was there a knife at Paris's throat? And why was he laughing about it?

"Syd," he said, laughing in a way she'd never heard him laugh in all the two years she'd been part of the team (she had more experience than Cairo, but that was it, alas). "I haven't seen you in four years, and this is how you return? This? No phone call, no text, just Rio's joke knife to my throat?"

"Oh, please. I've been on active deployment to a warzone for two years and in deep cover for four, you wanna know how I greeted Tabby yesterday?"

Paris huffed, and Sunny had to wonder. What was going on? Why wasn't Paris worried that someone had apparently broken into the house? Why was Brooklyn stifling a laugh?

"Not in front of the kids, thank you," Paris said. "I gather it's over?"

"My role, at least. Now it's time for Ellie King to do a little reporting closer to home."

"And," Brooklyn said, "for Sydney Gibbs-Montgomery to be a little more present in her siblings' lives?"

"Oh, please," the person (Sydney? Ellie? Syd?) said. "I'd rather spend time with my dear father-in-law, obviously. Why do you think I'm here, Brook? Just to say hi? I haven't even met any of my niblings ever, of course I'm sticking around for a bit." She paused. "Well, I'll be in London with Tabs, but I'm coming up every weekend, mind!"