FK Fanfic: "Time Out for the Living"

[brightknightie]

And now this retrospective comes to my first story solely from Natalie's point of view.  "Time Out for the Living" was a nominee in the 2000 FK Fanfiction Awards, an honor that still surprises and delights me.

	•	Title:	"Time Out for the Living"
	•	Length:	~6,700 words
	•	Date:	Posted to FKFic-L in March 2000
	•	Rating:	PG
	•	Summary:	Unsettling phone calls, uncanny dreams and an unexpected day off push Natalie to examine her life outside the lab.
	•	Setting:	Between first season and second
	•	Characters:	Natalie, Richard, Grace, Sidney, Sara, Amy
	•	Quotation:	"Since Richie died, she had kept herself busy, and busier, until all the times in which these thoughts might have caught up with her had been squeezed out and away."