Before & After & Inbetween

Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arc: Decagram
Story: Business as Usual
chapter: part.0 - On Vacation
word count: 22.696
rating: Mature
Summary: ...in which Seishiro and Subaru learn the hard way that overcoming the differences of two feuding clans is nothing in comparison to a business merger!
Chapter summary: Golden Week 2000

Warnings: "Business as Usual" as a whole is rated R for violence, (organized) crime, occultism, sexual situations, alternative lifestyles, and a vocal tree having issues. Single chapters may be less restricted.

As a direct sequel it may not make sense unless you know the previous parts of the Decagram, most notably "36°" and "Family Matters". You can find all stories of the Decagram at the Archive of our Own and on my homepage.

My stories are based solely on the German translation of the Clamp manga books, therefore there might be differences in names and details from the English or Japanese editions.

Link to the Archive of Our Own

The Fanart Gallery for the Decagram is back to its former glory at Decagram Fanart Gallery.
The images are now hosted on my homepage. If you have any problems with them, please let me know. :)

Title: Family Matters (Sequel to 36°)
Rating: "Family Matters" as a whole is rated NC-17 for violence, crime, occultism, sexual connotations, alternative lifestyles, and a vocal tree having issues. Single chapters may be less restricted.
Characters: Subaru, Seishiro, Tree-san, Lady Sumeragi, (the CCD & X-cast)
Pairings: Sei/Su, (T/Sei)
Genre: drama, history, cont
Words: 148.110
Betaed by: solo
Comments: As a direct sequel it may not make sense unless you know "36°".
Summary: The second story of the Decagram (Sequel to 36°) -- Preventing the End of the World caused some side-effects Subaru is ill-prepared to deal with on his own.
Status: complete

Links:
Family Matters (edited) as PDF [1.64 MB, text-only] on my homepage.
Family Matters (edited) on the AO3 fanfic archive (downloadable in ebook format).

Please note: Family Matters saw some serious editing after it was finished in individual blog posts at the end of December 2010.

Family Matters gained 2000 new words (and quite a few editings) today.
The dreaded bathroom scene with the Ijyuins is finally completed and - barring finetuning over the next few days - also nicely done.

Next will be the memorial service.
Including Seishiro stalking in the bushes, Kakyo fulfilling the memoried person's last wish, and the Twin Star having his revenge, kind of. Karen's presence is still under debate, as are Sorata & Arashi's (pity that it's too early for her to show).
Wish me luck.

( Excerpt instead of quotes: )

1. my phototrophic glasses are back at Rodenstock. This time, the left glass shows a spidery web. Oh yay, another three weeks of having to make do with the "conference glasses".

2. Family Matters' completeness is slowly registering with me, resulting in the wish to simultaneously: create the one-file-version (for ebooks & printing), work at the plot of the sequel, and play with the side-fic about Seishiro & Mariko. Wah!

3. braindead people'r'us.

Therefore:

A long-time reader, who doesn't want to be given credit, recently went spot-sighting in the area of Tokyo where I made up Seishiro's house to be.
Given that I invented it in 2005 (before Google Streetview!) based on a Falk city map of Tokyo (1:15000), the findings are almost scary...

( see three large images for yourself )

Family Matters

total word count of chapters 1 - 17: 119.468
longest chapter: 09 (8837 words)
shortest chapter: Interregnum 2 (after chapter 5) with 1761 words

for comparison: 36° (complete) has 50.964 words (discounting side-stories)

Therefore, FM is now officially more than twice as large as 36° (and it's still growing)!