FORKNI-L
Digest - 16 Dec 2006 to 17 Dec 2006 (#2006-82)
Sun, 17 Dec 2006
There are 4 messages totalling 143 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. searching for a recent story (3)
2. Fingerprints and DNA
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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:32:56 -0800
From: Laura Davies <brightfeather1.geo@y.......>
Subject: searching for a recent story
Hey y'all!
By recent, I mean in the last year... IT was a
House/FK crossover in which House cured Nick's
vampirism. LaCroix made an appearance, and I believe
they called Nat to come as well. I lost the link in a
computer crash, and I'd really like to reread it.
Thanks,
Laura
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:57:38 -0500
From: Stephanie Kellerman <stephke@i.......>
Subject: Re: searching for a recent story
If anyone finds it I would like to read it too. House and Knight? An
interesting combination.
Laura Davies wrote:
>Hey y'all!
>
>By recent, I mean in the last year... IT was a
>House/FK crossover in which House cured Nick's
>vampirism. LaCroix made an appearance, and I believe
>they called Nat to come as well. I lost the link in a
>computer crash, and I'd really like to reread it.
>
>Thanks,
>Laura
>
>
>
>
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:22:48 -0600
From: Janette NatPack <natpackjanette@g.......>
Subject: Re: Fingerprints and DNA
On 12/11/06, Orel, Sara <orel@t.......> wrote:
>
> Do vampires excrete enough oil that they would leave good fingerprints?
> I assume they have them, as their body is what it was when they died
I agree that they still have fingerprints, and I've always liked the idea of
vampires not leaving fingerprints of the traditional sort. After all, Nick
would have left prints in some pretty unusual places!
short of putting ink on the hands I can see it being
> difficult to have them leave fingerprints. Maybe Nick every once in a
> while gets the oil from his gun on his hands to leave enough
> fingerprints that people don't get horrendously suspicious.
I like this idea! I can also picture him having a little bottle of hand
lotion, or deliberately touching surfaces that would take the fingerprints
(like clay or jello or somesuch) so that his prints would show up. Perhaps
when he greets the first officer on the scene, he shakes his hand, and thus
gets some human skin oils onto his hand, then touches something casually or
behind others' backs so that his prints show up at least one or two places.
He could plant just enough prints to mimic normal occasional carelessness,
and still have a reputation among the Crime Scene techs as being much better
about not touching things without gloves than the average detective. :-)
The other thing I was wondering about was decay in DNA. Do the cells in
> a vampire's body actually reproduce as they did when the vamp was alive?
> So is the DNA subject to any sort of variation? Or has the vampirism
> changed the actual DNA itself?
My guess would be that Nick still has DNA, but it's a lot harder to get a
sample of it. He probably doesn't shed epithelial cells like normal humans
do, doesn't excrete cells with his saliva, and while his hair grows, I'd
guess it doesn't go through the mortal anagen-catagen-telogen-exogen stages
and it would be harder to pull out, so he wouldn't leave them around the
crime scenes very often. His biggest risk might be the tendency to sweat
blood (although that's only been demonstrated when he has a nightmare or
gets ill); finding your detective's blood on the crime scene would certainly
raise some questions. I suppose he could claim a tendency towards
nosebleeds, if it comes up often enough....
-Janet(te)
NatPack, despite the name ;-)
"A professional writer is an amateur writer who didn't quit."
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:46:06 -0500
From: Deborah Hymon <debh@e.......>
Subject: Re: searching for a recent story
Here's the link to all of NANCY TAYLOR'S stories:
http://home.comcast.net/~nat1228/nonseries.htm
The Things That One Tames is the name of the FK/House crossover. I had never
watched House until I read Nancy's story, and now I watch it whenever
possible. As usual, Nancy's story is very good.
Nancy wrote this one under the pen name: A.S. NightBird
The direct link is:
http://home.comcast.net/~nat1228/tames.htm
Enjoy!
Deborah
DeborahAHymon.com
on 12/17/06 1:32 AM, Laura Davies at brightfeather1.geo@y....... wrote:
> By recent, I mean in the last year... IT was a
> House/FK crossover in which House cured Nick's
> vampirism.
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