Category: Adam / Joe
Stories centering on Adam and Joe.
Always My Heart (by Wrangler)
Summary: Adam’s visit after a ten-year absence brings joy for his father but raises animosity in Little Joe. Now Ben must play peacekeeper to try to bridge the gap in his son’s relationship while revealing where his own heart lies. Rating T, WC 25.500
Nemesis (by VRON)
Summary: Adam and Joe find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Rating and Reader Alerts: PG (violence) Words: 39,145
Someone Watching (by VRON)
Summary: A brief and fanciful ‘what if’.
Rating: G Words: 1,240
Courage aka The Mountain Trek (by Krystyna)
Summary: Bravery isn’t the absence of fear as Adam tells Joe, but carrying on as you know you should in spite of it.
Rating: T (3,780 words)
Silent Burden (by LisaA)
Synopsis: After a nightmarish experience, Adam and Joe find themselves riddled with guilt as they fight to keep their heavy burden a secret from their father and Hoss.
Rating: PG-13
Words: 27,500
Emiline Hutton’s House (by Jenny G)
Summary: A subtlety haunting story written for Halloween. Caught out in a fierce thunderstorm, Joe and Adam take shelter in a long abandoned house where shadows of the past may still linger.
Rating: T (8,050 words)
Did I? (by Starlite)
Summary: Adam has been shot, did Little Joe do it?
Rated: PG (10,950 words)
Last Request (by the Tahoe Ladies)
Subject: The two surviving Cartwrights reunite after many years apart. Decisions need to be made.
This story was written by Tahoe Ladies Bailey and Irish.
Rated K+ Word Count: 5800
He Just Wanted To Help (by Lima)
Ben is away on business, leaving 22-year-old Adam in charge of the ranch and his brothers. However, a bank robbery in Carson City and Little Joe’s stubborn insistence on helping is more than enough trouble for him. After Adam forbids Joe from helping, the 10-year-old decides to take matters into his own hands and ends up in the hands of the robbers. Now the only chance Adam has of seeing his youngest brother again is to track down the robbers, and hope he finds them in time.
Rated: K+ (35,170 words)
You See, It Was Like This (by Heidi)
Summary: It seemed simple enough. Deliver a package to Widow Hammburg on the way into Virginia City. Adam wasn’t sure how it had gone so wrong.
Rating: G Words: 6,455
My Brother’s Keeper (by the Tahoe Ladies)
Summary: The brothers perspective of the Season 4 episode.
Rated: K – Word Count: 7340
The Hunt (by Kathee Pafford)
Summary: When Joe and Adam are hurt during a hunting trip, Adam’s determination to help his brother could cost him his life…
Rating: PG Word Count: 12,300
Riot! — What Happened Instead (by CwrightGirl)
When Adam arrives at the Nevada State Prison for a routine inspection, he is taken hostage by desperate inmates who are ready to change the prison’s abusive conditions by any means necessary, even murder. Outside the prison walls, Joe and Candy work together to end the riot and save Adam. While trapped, Adam meets Griff King, a young covict who enlightens Adam about the corruption found at the prison.
Rating T WC 15,000
