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  Table of Contents Author’s Note Chapter 1—A Holiday Escape Chapter 2—Roxanne Makes Her Final Wishes Chapter 3—With Every Ounce of Effort Chapter 4—Never Giving Up Epilogue   Author’s Note: Yes, I do realize this is self-ship but in writing this, I feel healing, catharsis, and some much-needed self-love that I have been not only wanting but needing.       Chapter 1—A Holiday Escape                 It was Christmas at Woodstone Manor, and the ghosts were celebrating in their different ways.    Even if they were unique in their world views, something about this time of year made people more reflective, kinder, gentler, and even more serene.                     ‘I thought we were going to be booked until January !’, Jay complained, seeing that the guest book hadn’t h...

  Table of Contents Author’s Note Chapter 1—Her Knight Chapter 2—All I Ever Wanted Chapter 3—A Brilliant Future Chapter 5—Proud Parents Epilogue   Author’s Note:   If you haven’t watched all three seasons of Invasion, I would beseech you to watch them now or this little AU fic won’t make sense.      Chapter 1—Her Knight   Mitsuki had connected with the alien neural network she had finally connected with Nikil.    All this time she had never known that he had defended her.   He had fought for her, and he did all he could to protect her from being experimented on.    She had seen why he had worn the veneer of a man who had erected so many walls that absolutely nothing could penetrate, but it was obvious that he was a man that was deeply in love with her although he would’ve never admitted it aloud.     He had a reputation to defend after all, and most people hated him.    Behind Ni...

  Table of Contents Chapter 1—One Fine Liberating Day Chapter 2—Vinny the Toxic Substance Chapter 3—Hopelessly Devoted Chapter 4—Two are Better Than One Chapter 5—Vinny’s Turf Epilogue     Chapter 1—One Fine Liberating Day                 From the time Xandra Tello had been young, she had been pledged to Boss Don Tello.    Tello was a cruel man.    Nothing Xandra said or did went without scrutiny or approval.    Every move she made was monitored and she lacked even considerably basic freedoms like having her own privacy in the bathroom.      Even her love life was controlled.    Whenever Don wanted to be intimate, he had to force Xandra to be with him.     More often than not she would have a bit of bourbon, since inebriation would make her forget the time he was raping her.     He wasn’t r...