Seeking N&Ner Happy Endings Fanfiction

[brightknightie]

honor_reid has asked for recommendations of high-quality Nick/Natalie stories with endings that grant the characters, if not a happy-ever-after, at least an "ordinary-ever-after."  So many FK stories conclude sadly, bittersweetly, suddenly, or tucked back into canon that she'd appreciate directions to some more definitively hopeful endgames for her favorite couple.

I can think of some stories (listed below), but I bet that you all can think of many more!  After all, I'm a gen fan at heart; most of you are romance fans.  And where I lean IB and Les Mis, many of you are N&Ners!  So please pitch in, if you can.  And yes, please mention your own work, if it matches.

(I may harvest stories mentioned in comments for future recommendation-of-the-month use, so you know.)

Note: The Nick&NatPack Faction Site is still available, with members' G, PG and PG-13 and R and NC-17 fanfiction in separate archives.

Some Good N&Ner "Ever-After" Stories
(Achieving or Promising Nick/Natalie a Happy or Ordinary Future Together)

• "The Bargain" by Chris H. (1995, R)


• "Lost and Found" by Susan G. (1999, PG)


• "Ever After" by Susan G. (1994, PG)


• "Coming Across" by Lisa McD. (1993, G)
  -- [Sequels: "Confessions," "Heart Within the Beast," "Father Christmas Figure."]


• "Food for the Soul" by Mary Co. (2000, PG)


• "Coming Home" by Mary Co. (1998, PG-13)


• "Last Things" by Mary Co. (1999, PG)


• "Fortune's Wheel" by Mary Co. (1999, PG)


• "Unfinished Business" by Kathy W. (1997, PG)


• "To a New Day" by Sandra G. (1995, PG)


• "Quid Pro Quo, Doctor Lambert" by Amy R. (1996, PG)

Some Good N&Ner "Interlude" Stories
(Nick/Natalie's Moment Together is Happy; Their Future is Unknown)

• "The Heart of the Holidays" by Jill K. (1996, G)


• "Color of the Night" by Wiliqueen (1995, G)


• "Seduction of the Diligent" by Susan G. (1996, PG)


• "Physical Therapy" by Ophelia P. (1995, NC-17)
  -- [Caution: The sequels are extremely disturbing. The series does end with Nick/Natalie determined to stay together, but I can't recommend the sequels.]


• "Soaring" by Kristen F. (2005, G)


• "Mortal Ties" by Cindy I. (2000, PG)


• "Day Dreams" by Cindy I. (2000, R)