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					the circuit by seana james http://xenafiction.net/scrolls/seana_james_tc.hts SYNOPSIS: After ditching Mel Pappas unceremoniously on a boat to Corinth sometime before, Janice Covington shows up unexpectedly while Mel is touring the country with her new translations of the Xena Scrolls and the two have an energetic reunion. excerpt: Inside a folded scrap of notebook paper held a small cache of rose petals and a lock of ebony hair tied with a scrap of pink ribbon. Written across the paper in a hand Melinda recognized as her own was a single sentence: "There's real coffee in the cupboard, and the latest set of translations is on the top of the tallest pile on that disaster you call a desk." It was signed, "Yours, Melinda." "I found myself looking at that a lot, the last year," the red-head's voice held none of its usual bravado, "and praying that those last two words could be true." EWOK: darn. NANCY: Ohhh not bad. And the story is short too:-) Happy happy reviewer:) No matter how many times I read Janice Covington entrances, I never get tired of them. excerpt: At the back of the huge, cathedral-like building, in a dark corner well beyond the reach of the speaker's gaze, stood a figure that the ushers took to be a young man dressed in a brown leather jacket and battered fedora. He was standing under a 'No Smoking' sign, but in the darkness, the tip of a cheroot glowed cherry red. EWOK: Ooooh, what a little Janice can dooooo... NANCY: Well, this Janice certainly has the 'tude, even if the writer doesn't *quite* have the lingo. One thing I love about all these Mel/Janice stories, is that no one can really decide whether or not Jack stole the scrolls at the end of the episode. I mean, I thought he did, and then all these Mels and Janices run around with their scrolls right after the war happy as Larry... EWOK: Well, how else did Ted Raimi get the damn things to show to Rob Tapert if Jack didn't steal 'em? NANCY: *Confused look* I don't know. Guess we can all just claim poetic licence on that one. excerpt: She ripped the shirt open with one twisting jerk and covered Janice's aching breasts with her palms. Covington was much too busy to grieve for the shirt, but she felt a decided jolt in her loins at the thought of Melinda's unconscious strength. Bet Gabrielle lost a lot of shirts, came the vagrant thought through the passion-clouded passages of the archaeologist's mind. NANCY: *ROFLthud* EWOK: That *would* explain the BGSB. NANCY: *grin* Oh gosh, a new explanation for why Gabby's costume kept changing over the years and Xena's didn't. After all, it's a little hard to rip armour open, even in the heat of passion! NANCY: Some convoluted sentence structures had me cringing in parts, but good lines always seem to make up for that. 7/10. EWOK: 6 out of 10 for this l’il Ewok...