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, it’s Team Angst - 3 and Team Schmoop - 4.)

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: Measures Desperate
Author: leda_speaks
Pairing/Characters: Don/Charlie
Rating/Category: NC-17, slash
Summary: Charlie needs, Don needs

Rate this fic in the poll here

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Title: Paris au Printemps, L’Après Midi
Author: ALF
Pairing: Don/Charlie
Rating: R
Word Count: 552
Summary: Paris in the Spring.
Spoilers: Minor one for All's Fair and the title comes from the "Pissarro painting" in Provenance
A/N: Thanks to castalie for giving this a read through for French authenticity. The poll to rate this fic can be found here. Any resemblence to cpwatcher's fic is purely happy coincidence!

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Title: Crossing Back
Author: schnaucl
Pairing/Characters: Don/Charlie
Rating/Category: NC-17/Slash
Spoiler: Slight spoiler for Breaking Point
Summary: Don spends so much energy trying not to cross one line that the others become blurred.
Notes/Warnings: Incest. Thanks to the generous and wonderful spikedluv for being my beta. I am not worthy. As usual, the characters etc. belong to the fine people at CBS. Last time I checked, those people were not me and I'm not making any money off of this.

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Title: Stalling For Time
Author: reviewspider
Pairing: Don and Charlie Eppes, Don/Charlie, Eppescest (Minor Don/Coop/OFC, Coop/Don, Ian/Don, Ian/Charlie)
Rating: R
Word-Count: 3,127
Prompt: Yearning
Spoilers: Minor ones for Manhunt, Sniper Zero, and basic plotline.
Summary: In the end, Don still doesn't know why he's waiting.
Warnings: Incest, Homosexual relations, rough sex.
Polls: http://community.livejournal.com/numb3rswriteoff/33189.html?mode=reply

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Title: Yearning
Author: jestana
Pairing/Characters: Special Agent Don Eppes, Dr. Charlie Eppes; Don/Charlie
Rating/Category: R/Slash
Word Count: 1,773
Spoilers: Minor ones for Manhunt and Rampage
Summary: Don decides to tell Charlie a secret.
Warnings: Incest, rating for intimate relations between brothers.
Challenge: Yearning for Team Schmoop
Beta: umbralillium
Poll: Here

( Yearning )

Below are all of the rating polls for Teams Angst and Schmoop for Round Six. Writers, 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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Yay, 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. *g*

Reminders:

1. Your subject line should read: Theme (Team Angst) or Theme (Team Schmoop), as the case may be.

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>

5. Your fic must contain the pairing Don/Charlie and be at least 500 words long. There is no maximum length.

Fic are due next week, starting on Tuesday, April 22! If you lost track of it, you can find out which date you are required to post your fic RIGHT HERE.

The 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:

April 22 - Yearning (reviewspider, jestana)
April 23 - Blue Moon (schnaucl, cpwatcher)
April 24 - Magic (leda_speaks, admiralandrea)

Remember, your fic must contain the pairing Don/Charlie and be at least 500 words long. There is no maximum length.

I’ll post a reminder closer to the 22nd. In the meantime, happy writing! *g*

Final Teams:

Angst

leda_speaks - Magic
reviewspider - Yearning
schnaucl - Blue Moon (by default)


Schmoop

jestana - Yearning
admiralandrea - Magic
cpwatcher - Blue Moon


Themes:

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

Blue Moon
Magic
Yearning

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 Monday, April 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 the week of April 21, so if anyone will be unavailable (ie, away from the internet) any day during that week, please tell me now! Thank you.

Welcome to April and our seventh round here at numb3rswriteoff! This round is dedicated to the pairing of Don/Charlie.

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 Monday, April 7th.

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

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

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