Category: Adam / Joe
Stories centering on Adam and Joe.
The Price You Pay (by Linda Br)
Synopsis: Adam takes a 15 year old Joe to San Francisco on a business trip. On the way home, the journey goes terribly wrong, for both of them.
Rating: PG-13 Words: 17,450
Tucked Away (by DJK)
Summary: A lost book and a lost love leads to a moment between brothers.
Rating: G (1,090 words)
Yard Chores (by VickiC.)
Summary: Six-year-old Joe asks his big brother what he can do and Adam comes to regret telling him.
Rating: G (5,700 words)
Attic #1 – Treasures in the Attic (by VickiC.)
Summary: Adam and Joe bring down some trunks from the attic and Pa relates a hundred year old family story to amuse a bored Little Joe on a winter’s day.
Rating: G (6,840 words)
Fireflies (by Sadie Spinner)
Synopsis: Adam opts to stay home with his baby brother and finds time to reflect on his feelings for his family while sharing the magic of summer.
Rating: G (11,000 words)
The Next Generation #2 – Love Changes Everything (by StephyL)
Synopsis: Adam and Joe are going to be leaving the large city of Boston and must make the choice to take the girls with them or leave them forever and maybe never find women like them again.
Rating: PG
Words: 8,900
The Next Generation – Homesick #1 (by StephyL)
Synopsis: When Little Joe becomes very sick Adam opts to take him to a doctor in Boston, but Ben is unsure about it, however when Paul explains that it might be Joe’s last chance, the two brothers make the trip. The general date is June 1865, approximately two months after the Civil War ended.
Rating: PG-13
Words: 11,300
The Argument (by CarlaL)
Synopsis: The two Cartwright brothers circled each other sizing up each other for the final draw, the question is: Who really did win?
Rating: G
Words: 1200
Home for Christmas (by StephyL)
Synopsis: When Ben and Hoss are said to be dead, Adam and Joe must deal with their feelings and the feelings of each other. Can the two brothers pull together and make it work, or will their first Christmas without their Pa, be the last for both brothers.
Rating: PG-13
Words: 5,200
Shadow on the Mountain (by Jenny G)
Summary: A hunting trip turns into an ordeal and an exercise in endurance when Joe and Adam are captured by the Shoshoni.
Rating: T (75,100 words)
Water and Oil (by DebbieB)
Summary: Joe Cartwright, fun loving, adventurous and free-spirited has been out of brother Adam’s good graces for sometime and wants desperately to restore their relationship. One brother water…the other brother oil. Can they find the mixing ingredient?
Rated G WC 10,280
Vengeance – WHN (by LissaB)
Summary: A continuation of the episode Vengeance, taking up the story after barn scene between Adam and Joe, and Red Twilight.
Rating: T (67,830 words)
Always My Heart (by Wrangler)
Summary: This story addresses the arrival of Adam Cartwright after a ten year absence and how his return affects the remaining Cartwrights.
Rated: T ~ WC 25,500
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