Category: What Happened Next/Later
Episode inspired stories.
After The Storm (by Mary S)
Summary: Adam comes to terms with what happened and his responsibility for his actions during The Crucible. Rated: G (17,150 words)
Ex Corde Caritas aka Love from the Heart (by Rona)
Summary: WHN for My Brother’s Keeper. Despite Joe’s recovery from the accident, Adam feels guilty. Can he resist the lure of the east?
Rated: T (10,120 words)
An Eye For An Eye (by Rona)
Summary: A WHN for The Quest. Joe has completed his contract for the Sun Mountain Mining Company, but Povey, his rival, has disappeared.
Rated: T (10,310 words)
Return of a Gunfighter (by HelenB)
Summary: Gunfighter Drew Maxwell returns to Virginia City.
Rating: T (13,900 words)
A Life Lived Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
Shadow of a Man (by MaureenM)
Synopsis: This is a sequel to The Crucible, it centers on the trials Adam goes through after his encounter with Kane.
Rating: PG-13
Words:13,200
By Wisdom’s Wings and Love’s Own Hand (by the Tahoe Ladies)
Summary: A WHN for Triangle
Rating: T (3,980 words)
Showdown (by Rona)
Summary: What would have happened if Pardoe wasn’t really dead?
Rated: T (10,370 Words)
After the Fall #2 – Bloody Peace (by Monette)
Synopsis: We all know Adam left the ranch, never to return. We all probably know a story line or two that would have encouraged him to return for an occasional episode.
Rating: PG
Words: 13,800
Part of After the Fall series, links included within.
Brother? (by Lau)
Synopsis: What was Adam real feelings when he knew that Clay Stafford was his little brother’s brother.
Rating: G
Words: 2,100
The Final Bequest (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: A retrospective on two episodes of Bonanza, The Quality of Mercy and The Dark Gate. Adam and Joe each contemplate the death of a best friend.
Rated: K+ (6,285 words)
Sacrificial Lamb (by pkmoonshine)
Summary:. While Adam and his wife, Teresa, are visiting with his family at the Ponderosa, someone from his (Adam’s) past arrives unexpectedly. She is in deep trouble and desperately needs his help.
Rating T (55,240 word)
Bloodlines Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
Clay (by Rona)
Summary: A sequel to the episode First Born. A chance meeting in an hotel reunites Joe with his brother Clay. But is Clay’s past about to catch up with him again?
Rated: T (10,585 words)
Silent Audience (by MeiraB)
Synopsis: Here’s a new “What Happened Next” for the episode “The Honor of Cochise”. Ever wonder what happened to Adam, or what his family told him about why his medical treatment was delayed?
Rating: PG
Words: 2,650
Stranger No More (by MeiraB)
Synopsis: A short “what happened next” for the episode “A Stranger Passed This Way”. It shows what might have been discussed at the Cartwright breakfast table the morning that Hoss recovered his memory, but forgot his period of amnesia.
Rating: G
Words: 2,350
The Friendship – A Parody (by LissaB)
Summary: What happened after the director yelled cut, or worse yet, what was left on the cutting room floor.
Rating: K+ (1,185 words)
