I’ve finished tallying the ratings, and, while it was once again very close, the winner this round is...

Team Angst!

Congratulations to Team Angst, and my thanks to everyone who wrote, read and rated this round! *♥s you all* Thanks so much for playing!

(If you’re keeping track, Team Angst is in the lead. It’s Team Angst - 10 and Team Schmoop - 6.)

All the fic for this round have now been posted to the comm. If you haven’t already done so, please do read them! Also, please take a moment to rate the fic. The polls are linked from each fic, and on the off chance you’ve read but forgot to rate, you can find the polls here.

Polls will remain open until midnight Thursday, July 2nd (which technically translates to, when I get up Friday morning *g*).

Remember, please, that you may only rate each fic once, and authors may not rate their own fic.

Thank you.

Title: The Drawbacks of Perfection
Author: Jules (juleself)
Pairing/Characters: Charlie Eppes
Rating/Category: Gen, PG
Word Count: 1600
Spoilers: Sniper Zero, Rampage, Breaking Point and Checkmate
Warnings: a little bit of off-screen violence
Summary: "Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. You need to learn to be slow in a hurry."
Notes: I've never been to a shooting range in my entire life, nor do I ever plan to. Also, I don't own much and especially not these characters. And as much as I could need it, I don't make any money with this.

The Drawbacks of Perfection

Title: A Mathematical Lark in the Park
Author: Jelsemium
Pairing/Characters: Charlie Eppes, Don Eppes, Oswald Kittner, Alan Eppes, Larry Fleinhardt, guest stars
Rating/Category: G/Gen (except for one stolen kiss)
Word Count: 3,626
Spoilers: None to speak of
Summary: The guest of honor at a charity concert is stuck in traffic and Charlie has to buy some time. How? With Math and a Very Special Guest!
Notes/Warnings: Cracky Crossover, drink at your own risk.

Rate here on Schmoopiness, Promptitude and General Readability, thanks!

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We may need a pinch-hitter for Team Angst, prompt: Haste.

If you're not already on a team and you're willing to pinch-hit (48 hour or so turn around time), please let me know.

Thank you!!!

Title: Lark or Nightingale
Author: jlm110108@aol.com
Pairing/Characters: Charlie Eppes, Don Eppes, Val Eng
Rating/Category: G
Summary: Charlie thinks he's figured out how to win Val Eng.
Note: The quotes from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" are used without permission.

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To the poll

Title: Time to Make Haste
Author: Digeediva
Pairing/Characters: Charlie Eppes/Amita Rumanujan, Don Eppes/Robin Brooks, Alan Eppes
Rating/Category: PG-13/Het
Word Count: 3791 words
Spoilers: None
Summary: When time is of the essence, something will always go wrong.
Notes/Warnings: This is HET. If you don't like, don't read! I would like to thank my beta elysium1996 for making sure this thing made sense. Ely, girl, you are AWESOME! All other mistakes are mine.
Disclaimer: I do not own Numb3rs. They belong to Cheryl and Nick.

This fic was written for the Angst vs Schmoop Challenge at numb3rswriteoff. After you’ve read the fic, please rate it by voting in the poll located here. (Your vote will be anonymous.) Rate the fic on a scale of 1 - 10 (10 being the best) using the following criteria: how well the fic fit the prompt, how angsty [or schmoopy] the fic was, and how well you enjoyed the fic. When you’re done, please check out the other challenge fic at numb3rswriteoff. Thank you!

Prompt-Haste

Title: Deer Trails and Dusty Roads
Author: schnaucl
Pairing/Characters: Charlie/Ian
Rating/Category: PG-13 Slash
Spoilers: None
Summary: Charlie is at a math conference with the military stages a coup. Ian has to bring him back safely.
Notes/Warnings: I used U-- and H-- for the countries because I figure it's somewhere in Eastern Europe but I don't know the political situation or geography well enough to do it justice, hence the made up countries. Special thanks once again to knotted_rose for the idea, help, beta, and generally being a cool person.

Deer Trails and Dusty Roads

Title: Road Trip
Author: penguingal
Rating: PG
Pairing: Charlie/Ian
Summary: Charlie is buried in work. Ian is sneaky.
A/N: Not part of any previous Charlie/Ian 'verse written by schnaucl and myself. Many thanks to melissima for the beta read and first reaction! I'm in your debt.

Road Trip

Rate it by voting in the poll here.

Title: Just Say Yes
Author: sour_louise
Pairing/Characters: Charlie/Colby
Rating/Category: G/Slash
Summary: Colby's used to saying no.

Rate this fic in the poll here.

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This fic was written for the Angst vs Schmoop Challenge at numb3rswriteoff. After you’ve read the fic, please rate it by voting in the poll located here. (Your vote will be anonymous.) Rate the fic on a scale of 1 - 10 (10 being the best) using the following criteria: how well the fic fit the prompt, how angsty the fic was, and how well you enjoyed the fic. When you’re done, please check out the other challenge fic at numb3rswriteoff. Thank you!.

Title: Reasonable Charlie.
Author: Keenir.
Proofreader: Sororcula.

Characters: Amita Ramanujan, Don Eppes, Larry Fleinhart, Interviewer; Charles Eppes in the background.
Team: Angst.
Category: Charlie
Word: Assent.
Word Count: 1,045 words.
Rating/Category: PG Gen.
Spoilers: Harvest, the going-into-orbit arc, the brief mentions of the late Mrs. Eppes.

Summary: It has been said that everyone remembers us differently. Four people give witness to what they know of Charlie Eppes.

Notes: In the episode Harvest, Charlie gets a very distinctive look on his face when Amita is saying “When I was little, you know, kids used to make fun of me because I was different. But I didn’t want to be different. […] I wanted to push away that part of who I am,” and Charlie says “You wanted to fit in here,” with the voice of someone who knows from painful experience how it is to be on the outside and not wanting to be there.

…so, in this, I engaged in a little wish-fufilment – I gave Charlie the opportunity to have a normal life. but, like everything else, this has a cost, a catch.

Warnings: This is not deathfic…this is post-deathfic (is there a word for that?). And AU – not massively, but significantly.

Disclaimer: None of the canon characters are mine; they belong to the creators of NUMB3RS. I am making no profit in writing this; this is purely for fun.

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”The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.” --George Bernard Shaw.
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Title: Requested, Received
Author: DreamBrother (dreambrother89 )
Characters: Charlie Eppes, Don Eppes
Rating/Category: PG-13/Gen
Word Count: ~700
Spoilers: None
Summary: Life was all about the little things.
Notes/Warnings: Once you're done reading this, please rate it at the poll over here.

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Title: In a Mirror, Darkly
Author: Valerie Vancollie
Characters: Charlie, Don
Pairings: brief canon mentions of Charlie/Amita & Don/Robin
Rating/Category: 15/Gen
Spoilers: Uncertainty Principle, Vector, Man Hunt, Dark Matter, Finders Keepers, Breaking Point, Black Swan, When Worlds Collide, The Decoy Effect, The Fifth Man, Greatest Hits, Angels and Devils
Summary: There was a certain irony to the situation, that the brother who was a federal agent had been abducted to be used as leverage against the brother who was an applied mathematics professor at a highly respected college.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Numb3rs characters, items or situations. I only lay claim to the original aspects of the fic.

Part I: Charlie: NSA
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3

Rate it here

Title: The Eppes Derivative
Author: mercilynn
Pairing: Charlie, Don
Rating/Category: PG/Gen
Summary: In calculus, the derivative is a measure of how a function changes as its input changes. Loosely speaking, a derivative can be thought of as how much a quantity is changing at a given point. (Wikipedia)
Word Count: 707
Notes/Warnings: Thanks, as always, go to my beta sororcula. All other mistakes are my own.

Read it here
Rate it here

Title: Paradigm Shift
Author: starlettmalfoy
Pairing/Characters: Charlie Eppes, Don Eppes, Amita Ramanujan, Colby Granger, OMC
Rating/Category: PG-13/Gen
Word Count: 2,124
Spoilers: Seasons 1-5, 5.23 Angels and Devils
Summary: A stray bullet erases 4 years of his life.
Notes/Warnings: Written for Team Angst for round 16 of numb3rswriteoff with the prompt "Yesterday". Unbetaed. Any mistakes are my own. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did writing it. ^^ See first comment for Author's Note.

Paradigm Shift
To the poll

Below are all of the rating polls for Teams Angst and Schmoop for Round Sixteen. Authors, please remember to link to this post, or directly to the relevant poll itself (by clicking on the Poll #xxxx link), in your fic post.

Rating Reminder:

1. Your rating will be anonymous.

2. You do not have to rate one fic over the other. You are rating each fic on its own merits.

3. Rate each fic on a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being the best) on the following criteria:

-how well the writer used the theme
-how angsty (or schmoopy) the fic was
-how much you liked it

4. Please only vote once in each poll. Authors, do not rate your own fic.

5. Rating for all stories will remain open for two days following the posting of the last story, including pinch-hit fic.



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It’s almost the day we’ve all been waiting for, the first day for fic postage this round! A couple of posting reminders for the Authors so things run smoothly for all of us.

Authors, please review the rules before posting your fic.

Rules:

1. Your subject line should read: Theme (Team Angst) or Theme (Team Schmoop), as the case may be. (That’s it, no title or any other information, just your theme and team name.)

2. Use a header with at least the following information:

<b>Title:</b> <b>Author:</b> <b>Pairing/Characters:</b> (use full names rather than initials) <b>Rating/Category:</b> (eg, NC17/Gen or R/Slash) <b>Spoilers:</b> (if applicable) <b>Summary:</b> <b>Notes/Warnings:</b> (if applicable)

3. You must include a link to the rating polls post, or directly to the poll itself for your theme in your fic post. The rating polls will be posted to the comm momentarily.

4. If you post the fic here at numb3rswriteoff please place the fic itself behind a cut. If you post the fic in your own journal you must link to it here and include the following blurb in your journal:

<i>This fic was written for the Angst vs Schmoop Challenge at <lj user=numb3rswriteoff>. After you’ve read the fic, please rate it by voting in the poll <a href=>located here</a>. (Your vote will be anonymous.) Rate the fic on a scale of 1 - 10 (10 being the best) using the following criteria: how well the fic fit the prompt, how angsty [or schmoopy] the fic was, and how well you enjoyed the fic. When you’re done, please check out the other challenge fic at <lj user=numb3rswriteoff>. Thank you!</i>

~NEW Request~ 4a. If you post the fic in your own journal, please include the prompt and the team you’re writing for in your header so that the folk reading your fic may properly rate it.

5. Your fic must be Charlie-centric and be at least 500 words long. There is no maximum length.

Eep! Sorry for the late reminder, the weekend got away from me. Fic are due this week, beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, June 23! If you lost track of it, you can find out which date you are required to post your fic RIGHT HERE.

Remember, fic must be posted on your assigned day.

Rules and polls will be posted later today.

As always, this posting schedule was developed using the tried and true method of drawing themes out of a hat. *g*

Authors, please comment here to let me know that you’ve seen this post and are aware of your posting date. Thank you!

Posting Schedule:

June 23 - Yesterday (starlettmalfoy, mercilynn)
June 24 - Decision (valeriev84, dreambrother89)
June 25 - Assent (rodlox, sour_louise)
June 26 - Road (schnaucl, penguingal)
June 27 - Haste (csichick_2, digeediva)
June 28 - Lark (jlm110108, jelsemium)

Remember, your fic must be Charlie-centric, your choice of gen, het or slash, and must be at least 500 words long. There is no maximum length.

I’ll post a reminder closer to the 23rd. In the meantime, happy writing! *g*

Final Teams

Angst:

valeriev84 - Decision
jlm110108 - Lark
starlettmalfoy - Yesterday
csichick_2 - Haste (by default)
schnaucl - Road
rodlox - Assent


Schmoop:

mercilynn - Yesterday
penguingal - Road
dreambrother89 - Decision
sour_louise - Assent
jelsemium - Lark
digeediva - Haste


Pinch-Hit:

None


Themes:

Following are the six themes for this round of the Angst vs Schmoop Challenge:

Assent
Decision
Haste
Lark
Road
Yesterday

One person from Team Angst, and one from Team Schmoop, will write the same theme. Themes will be given on a first come, first served basis. Comment here to claim your theme! If themes are not claimed by midnight next Sunday, June 14th, I will arbitrarily assign the remaining themes. Once all the themes have been claimed (or assigned by default) I will post a posting schedule. (Keep in mind, the sooner all the themes are claimed, the longer you’ll have to write. *g*)


Posting: Fic will be due beginning Tuesday, June 23, so if anyone will be unavailable (ie, away from the internet) any day during that week, please tell me now, before I create the posting schedule! Once the schedule has been created it will not be changed. Thank you.

Welcome to June and our sixteenth round here at numb3rswriteoff, which is all about Charlie Eppes! Your story may be gen, het or slash, it’s up to you.

So *rubs hands together greedily*, if you’d like to play this round, comment here and tell me which team you’d like to write for, angst or schmoop.

We need at least 6 people to sign up, 3 for each team, but we’ll take more than that if we can get them! We’ll also need pinch-hitters, so you can sign up for that, instead, if you like.

Teams will be created on a first-come, first-served basis. That means, if we get 10 people who want to write for Team Schmoop and only 5 willing to write for Team Angst, and no one wants to switch over, we’ll be cutting off the teams at the first 5 people to respond for each team.

Sign-ups will be open through midnight Sunday, June 7th. (Fic will most likely be due some time during the week of June 22nd; depending on the number of people we get signing up I may be able to start it a few days later. If you will not be able to post AT ALL during that time period, please do not sign up.)

Also, please do not sign up if you are ineligible to participate in this round. (See the Rule Reminder below.)

Any questions, ask them in comments here or e-mail me at spikedluv @ livejournal.com.

Please, please pimp this out! The more people we have playing, the merrier. *g*

Rule Reminder: Unless you have requested an emergency extension beforehand, you must post your fic on the day it is due. Part of the challenge is meeting that deadline. If you do not post your fic on the day assigned, you will not be eligible to participate in the next round. Please read the rules on the community profile for more information. Thank you.


Teams

Angst:

valeriev84
jlm110108
starlettmalfoy
csichick_2
schnaucl
rodlox


Schmoop:

mercilynn
penguingal
dreambrother89
sour_louise
jelsemium
digeediva


Pinch-Hit:

I’ve finished tallying the ratings, and, while it was once again very close, the winner this round is...

Team Angst!

Congratulations to Team Angst, and my thanks to everyone who wrote, read and rated this round! *♥s you all* Thanks so much for playing!

(If you’re keeping track, Team Angst is in the lead. It’s Team Angst - 9 and Team Schmoop - 6.)

All the fic for this round have now been posted to the comm. If you haven’t already done so, please do read them! Also, please take a moment to rate the fic. The polls are linked from each fic, and on the off chance you’ve read but forgot to rate, you can find the polls here.

Polls will remain open until midnight Saturday (which technically translates to, when I get up Sunday morning *g*).

Remember, please, that you may only rate each fic once, and authors may not rate their own fic.

Thank you.

Title: Knight of the Voice Over
Prompt: Unsteady for Team Schmoop For the Numb3rs WriteOff "Future!Fic" challenge
Author: jelsemium
Pairing/Characters: Colby, Michael Knight and KITT
Rating/Category: (G/Gen)
Word Count: 2,202
Time:
2 hours, 59 minutes to write
26 minutes to edit
Spoilers: Maybe a little one for Season 4.
Summary: A futuristic car and its driver comes to Colby's aid.

Please rate the fic here Polls

Thank you.

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Title: Two Roads Diverged in a Wood
Prompt: Path, Team Angst
Author: elysium1996
Pairing/Characters: Megan
Rating/Category: (G/Gen)
Word Count: 855
Spoilers: Season 5
Summary: Megan's future in DC.
Notes/Warnings: Thank you to bubbleslayer for the beta any other mistakes are mine. Title and verse are from Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken

This fic was written for the Angst vs Schmoop Challenge at numb3rswriteoff. After you’ve read the fic, please rate it by voting in the poll located here. (Your vote will be anonymous.) Rate the fic on a scale of 1 - 10 (10 being the best) using the following criteria: how well the fic fit the prompt, how angsty [or schmoopy] the fic was, and how well you enjoyed the fic. When you’re done, please check out the other challenge fic at numb3rswriteoff. Thank you!

http://elysium1996.livejournal.com/201432.html