Chapter 9 teasers:

“Like I said, you don’t know Murdoc. Every time we think we’ve learned something solid about him, it turns out to be wrong. Your father found out a few years back that Murdoc’s entire file was faked – everything the DXS had ever been able to dig up on him.”

“No kidding?” Sam was leaning forward again.

“Yeah. It was all somebody else’s past. Murdoc had stolen it – filed off the serial numbers and pasted it onto his own life. We never did find out anything about his real history.” Pete’s face had drawn itself into sharp angles. Sam realised that, for whatever reason, Pete took the failure personally. “We only found out about Murdoc’s sister because Murdoc actually told MacGyver – and that piece of information didn’t lead anywhere.”

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MacGyver felt his head clearing with the surge of adrenaline. He’d caught himself with his right hand as Terco’s shove sent him sprawling. The big man advanced on him, face contorted with rage, brandishing a tree limb he’d picked up from the ground. Mac stayed low until Terco had swung his arm back, committing himself to the move, then pushed off from the ground, half spun, and caught the commander full in the gut with a roundhouse kick. As Terco staggered back, Mac ran at him, wrenched the club from him and stepped back, panting, waiting for the next charge.


Follow the link for the full chapter:
Chapter Nine: Dangling Participle

Or, to begin at the beginning:
Chapter One: Present Imperfect

Fantastic chapter with a tremendously exciting wind-up! I'm perched on the edge of my seat, dyin' for more!

Excellent writing, 'Beth!

This is such gorgeous writing. So very evocative. Here I am, surrounded by snow and ice, and just having finished reading this wonderful chapter I feel hot and sweaty and dirty like I'm over there with Mac. It took me some minutes to get back to reality. I absolute love it when a writer does that to me. And the description of Mac's arm, not only did I see it, I felt it and it still hurts. (I wonder if you feel it too when you write it.)

I wish this was a real book to hold in my hands. That's one of the reasons why they must make the MacGyver movie, because then perhaps there will be market for MacGyver books! I have read some Stargate SG1 books that were okay, but not half as good as what you write, Beth.

Damn, I wish there were a market for MacGyver books! I honestly think they'd sell.

I think I'll take the fifth about how much my own arm might be hurting, because I still have more to deal with along those lines in the current (next) chapter. There's both the physical pain and the mental confusion -- not to mention the utter sense of just being fed up with getting shoved around! I actually didn't know I was going to end up with a fight scene at all until I hit that point.

I need to give special thanks, once again, to my wonderful sister Liz. I called her up one fine evening and said "Tell me all about dynamite", and she did. We had a wonderful chat.

Remind me to stay on your sister's good side!

Definitely. You might want to ask her questions yourself!!



(Especially since she's also my firearms expert . . . she didn't even flinch too badly when I quizzed her on dropping a loaded gun into a hot fire.)

oh wow his entire history is unknown a great way to go about this. i want to read more.

Um, if you mean you want to read the entire chapter, not just the teaser -- click the link for chapter nine. Or the other link, which will start you at the beginning of the story.

I just read through chapter 10 on ff.net and my goodness... I need to know what happens to Mac next. Pleaes hurry back. Oh, and please tell me that Mac wont' be losing the arm to the infection...

Great writing as always....well researched and beautiful imagery.

This is what the flu can do to you . . . I haven't been back for weeks, and am finally catching up! I'm glad you've enjoyed!

Two notes about the prospect of losing his arm:

Septicemia is a systemic infection -- Mac is not in danger of losing his arm, he's in danger of dying very painfully. Gangrene would be a risk to the arm, but he isn't developing gangrene.

In the first two chapters, which are set thirteen years later, he's alive and has both arms; Nikki notices the faint sccar he still has on his left wrist.

Incidentally, I have to offer reciprocal bouquets here. Bandersnatch has finally started posting "Head Shy" (YAY!), and she thanked me in the header for the beta work I did on it.

Now I get to salute her in turn: she's been doing the heavy lifting on my medical research, for this story and for the others. Yay Bander!!