Alder's Grove

This ficlet comes after: No Apple for Teacher, which followed Useful.
Both of those fics are after Retirement and Retirement 2: 50 years after the original series, Kai finds herself in possession of Rozen while she considers leaving Addergoole East.


“You’re not teaching them enough!” Rozen’s voice was a roar. He knew he was getting way too loud, and some part of him - the part that cared about the Bond - felt a little guilty about that.

The rest of him was angry enough to override that part.

“I’m teaching them plenty! When have you been a teacher?” Kai glared up at him, her hair a halo of red. Here, alone, she looked like herself. He tried not to let that distract him.

“More times than you give me credit for! I was even a Mentor a couple times!” Now his pride was pricked. “Look, you want me to teach them combat. You have to let me teach them combat.“

“I’m letting you teach them combat.” She was implacable. She wasn’t even shouting anymore. Rozen didn’t know what to think about that. It was starting to take the wind out of his sails, though. “I just don’t want you to teach them to be assassins.”

“Look-”

“I’m looking. You don’t need to keep saying that.”

Finally, he’d gotten her irritated. He swallowed the guilt-misery and nodded acknowledgement. “I’m not teaching them to be assassins-”

“No, you’re not.”

“Could I finish, please? I’m not teaching them to be assassins,” this time he hurried on before she could interrupt him again. “Just to take care of themselves. They’re kids, Kai, and the world is awful.”

He dropped to his knees. “Please?”

This story is written for Clare K. R. Miller's request, thanks to the "Addergoole Wants You" comments-for-fics promotion.  It follows Useful, itself one of the stories in the Addergoole-50-years-later stories following Retirement and Retirement 2.

Rozen was not sure about teaching...

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So a while ago I posted a meme, and I am slowly working my way through answering.

Kai/Rozen: AU (Where he does Keep her his first year) here

While this fic takes place in Mendosa's office, it comes with the implied warning that it is, after all, a Keeping fic.

To thnidu's prompt to this dailyprompt prompt.

This comes after A Handful of Kai-Rozen Fics. Well, it comes after the post-apoc one "Secret Kink."

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October 22, 2004

"What are you planning on doing now?"

Rozen hadn't meant to collect a mascot. Keeping pets in school was one thing, but the world outside was different.

It had turned out, though, that the world outside was a bit difficult. And she'd volunteered. Liked his biceps.

"You tell me." Not quite a mascot. More of a seeing-eye girl.

October 22, 2013

"Rozen, boss, you can't fight them."

Lily was dragging on Rozen's arm. When Austin had left him, he'd found her: flame-red hair, freckles all over. He liked redheads.

"Lil. Let go." He pushed her behind him. "Go get my weapons, then you can hide or run."

"Boss, you're going to die."

"No. But you're definitely not going to."

He really liked redheads.