Title: Till It Be Morrow
Series: TDS/TCR
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Unspecified mental illness; unelaborated allusions to violence.
( Two disclaimers, with love )


Summary: A bit of angst. Stephen tries to piece his world back together.

(Title is of course snagged from the Bard.)

( Jon has visited him before; he is sure of that. His wife has visited too. He can't remember if he's seen his kids. He has taken a lot of pills; he can't remember what was in them. The nurses are nice. )

Title: All The King's Horses, 1/3
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Rating: R overall
Words: ~2700
Warnings: This story gave the author nightmares. Proceed with caution.
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Notes: It was impossible to write this one with "Stephen" as he is on TCR. He simply isn't strong enough to go through it. So this chapter is spent fixing up some of his other damage first.


( The pundits on the far left crowed hypocrisy; the religious right denounced him entirely. The late-night comics batted around jokes at his expense like tennis balls. )

Title: (but he can't hide)
Rating: R
Warnings: BDSM; twisted sexual mores; implied alcoholism; mild blasphemy; three-dimensional characterization.
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

This is a remix of Running, by nm_317, which is awesome from the title onward. It's also my first attempt at a remix, so if you don't like this, don't hold it against the original.

"Running" drops some tantalizing hints about character!Stephen's backstory. This goes into it a bit more, starting when he's in his twenties and finishing on the cusp of his presidential bid (i.e., when the original story takes place).

Makes reference to this toss, this Rare Correction, this Wørd, and this Larry King interview (the in-character parts).

( He tries not to remember what else that control could be used for. His dreams will not let him forget. )

Title: Keeping Up Appearances (aka The LSD Story)
Rating: PG-13
Series: TDS/TCR
Warnings: Drug usage, extreme strangeness.
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Summary: After an accidental LSD trip gives Stephen unexpected insight into how broken his mind is, he tries in vain to pick up the pieces. Which Stephen am I?

(The interspersed quotations are from Sylvia Fraser's In My Father's House. The author is a Canadian female incest survivor who grew up in the '50s, while "Stephen" is none of these things; still, the psychological tenor is the one I want.)

We are who we pretend to be; so we must be very careful who we pretend to be.
--Kurt Vonnegut

( For several years she won the trophies and garnered the votes, but she had an inherent flaw. She did not react to circumstances out of real emotion. She was programmed like a computer and, like a computer, she played to rule. )

Title: A Tiny Version of Himself
Fandom: TDS, TCR
Rating: PG
Words: ~1400
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Notes: Normally I write stories in which "Stephen" is pushed to the brink of complete internal disintegration, and someone (mainly Jon) pulls him back. This one takes place a year or two after he's gone over the edge.

The title is from I Am America: "Children are tiny versions of you, minus the crushing failure."

( 'Hi, Jon! Hi! Come see what I made! Did you bring me anything?' )

Title: Five Times Jon Terrified Stephen (5)
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Rating: PG for innuendo
Words: ~3300 in total
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One | Two | Three | Four | Five

( In which Stephen is scared by, for, over, and generally because of Jon. )

Title: Five Times Jon Terrified Stephen (4)
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Rating: PG for innuendo
Words: ~3300 in total
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Notes: We certainly all know about this infamous toss. Another that isn't used nearly enough.

One | Two | Three | Four | Five

( In which Stephen is scared by, for, over, and generally because of Jon. )

Title: Five Times Jon Terrified Stephen (3)
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Rating: PG for innuendo
Words: ~3300 in total
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Notes: We know that Stephen has, in the course of various good-natured pranks, sent both Bobby and Rob Corddry to the hospital. We don't know how many others there are.

One | Two | Three | Four | Five

( In which Stephen is scared by, for, over, and generally because of Jon. )

Title: Five Times Jon Terrified Stephen (2)
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Rating: PG for innuendo
Words: ~3300 in total
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Notes: You remember this toss, I hope. It's mentioned far too little.

One | Two | Three | Four | Five

( In which Stephen is scared by, for, over, and generally because of Jon. )

Title: Five Times Jon Terrified Stephen (1)
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Rating: PG for innuendo
Words: ~3300 in total
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Notes: This started small and snowballed, so I'm posting each of the Five Times separately. I shouldn't need to link a clip for this one, but I will.

One | Two | Three | Four | Five

( In which Stephen is scared by, for, over, and generally because of Jon. )

Title: Five Other Universes Where Arrows Opened
Series: The Daily Show
Rating: PG
Words: ~1500
( Disclaimers, one in poem form )

Notes: Based on _lady_vanilla_'s story All Sparks (chapter 7, with links to the others). It left me with a lot of vague ideas but no full-fledged story, so I took refuge in the Five Things format.

This is also good ground for a game of spot-the-reference-to-other-fics.


( Five universes abruptly stricken with windows into five others. )