Unnamed Series

A/N: I felt things needed… simplifying. This series is going to go on indefinitely, so starting each summary with 'part x in the unnamed series' or 'sequel to this, which is sequel to that, which is sequel to… which is sequel to New York' I thought I might was well stick them all under one heading. One catch: this isn't a multipart. Each fic here is a oneshot. Most can even be read as such, up to a certain point. I don't know why I feel the need to be so adamant about this, since it really doesn't matter; it just feels like so much more of a series than a multipart. Maybe it's just my way of justifying to myself that this won't run to thirty 'episodes'. From now on, any new fics added to this series will appear here, rather than as oneshots. It may seem daft, sticking them all in one file, old and new, but I figure it saves people having to dig through my userpage to find all the previous fics in the series if they're all here. I don't want to discourage potential readers, you see, and I don't doubt that seeing 'sequel 19 in the unnamed series' puts a lot of people off. Especially with the number of fics on my userpage – it's starting to look a tad absurd ^_^ I've deleted the old versions now, so you've just got these. The most recent addition is 'Subject to Change', 18/11/03.

So, on with the business stuff, which I'm putting here so I only need do it once.

Summary: Schwarz have split up, and Brad and Nagi have moved to New York. They both find it hard to settle in, in their own ways, and even day to day life as a 'normal' person is challenging when you're used to grand schemes and apocalypses. But, slowly, they learn to move on and let go of their past, making new friends and befriending old enemies.

Disclaimers: Weiss, Schwarz, and co. are all copyright of Project Weiss and do not belong to me in any way shape or form. Though on that note, Michael does belong to me. If you don't like him, you can take issue with me. He just kinda turned up one day, as a complete opposite to Schuldig. Oh, right, back to the legal bit - I am making no money from these fics, and they are written solely to please myself and any one else who, well, finds them pleasing.

Time Setting: Post Drama CDs. Really, you don't have to have heard them. If you intend to hear them/read the translation, and are terrified of spoilers, look away now.

Right. Still here? Okay, all you really need to know is that Farfarello married a girl called Sally (I'm not making this up, honest!) Weiss are living in a van and Ken and Yohji have, well, gone a bit nuts. They don't actually end up in an insane asylum during the Drama CDs, not until after Omi has left, anyway, but for the sake of convenient plotting I'm ignoring that. Oh, and I'm also ignoring whichever bit says Nagi got signed up by Kritiker while they were in Germany.

Okay, you can look again. Anyway, much as I like Gluhen, we're ignoring, well, pretty much all the Gluhen canon, and the tail end of the Drama CDs anyway.

Warnings: Yaoi, shounen ai, sap, angst, OC (in 'All the Small Things', it's just him and Brad in a lift, so if you're vehemently opposed to OCs skip that fic, and move on to the next, where his role is once more much depleted, though not as small as some of the earlier fics), AU

And finally:

You've probably noticed that this series, well, lacks a name. And is seven parts long. With an eighth on the way. So I have asked for suggestions. If I pick one from someone here, I'll write you a giftfic. With any pairing. Even weird ones (Crawford / Hel anyone? How about Manx / Neu or Schuldig / Hirofumi?). Feel free to come up with more (pairings and titles, please!). I've cut the number of title I'm considering down to five. In no particular order, other than the one I wrote them down in:

Citing Fate - Shy

Shedding Old Skins – Purple Hotagi

Separation Anxiety – Trenchcoat Man

Fade From Black – Shiroki K.

Split Cocoon – Shiroki K.

Thing is, all of these would make great titles for later parts to the series or alternative names for parts already written, more than they would names for the series as a whole. Eeep. I'm toying with the idea of something based on the word 'chrysalis', like a butterfly pupae, but I can't for the life of me think what.

So, on with the fics!