Category: What Happened Instead
Episode inspired stories.
Forget Me Not (by Tauna Petit-Stawn)
Summary: A what if I got off Love Me Not. Instead of getting on the stagecoach, Joan disappears in the middle of the night. Ben is riddled with guilt. Will the Cartwrights ever see her again?
Rated: T (24,000)
Forget Me Not Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
Fish Out of Water (by Patina)
Rating: K+
Word Count=4993
Summary: Joe rescues a mysterious girl from the river.
Star’s Hope (by Tauna Petit-Strawn)
Summary: I should say Jamie is introduce later on in the story, not right away.
Rating T (16,350 words)
A Place to Belong Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Don’t Forget the Stars (by Tauna Petit-Strawn)
Summary: A what if off “Look to the Stars”.
Rating: K+ (10,801 words)
Far Side of Jordan (by Tauna Petit-Strawn)
Summary: After years of marriage Tara stands next to Adam’s grave thinking.
Rating: K (750 words)
Long Road Back Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Acceptance (by Tauna Petit-Strawn)
Summary: Sequel to “Long Road Back”.
Rating: K+ (12, 190 words)
Long Road Back Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Long Road Back (by Tauna Petit-Strawn)
Summary: A what if I got from “The Crucibles”…mostly, what if Ben, Hoss and Little Joe hadn’t found Adam. What if someone else did? And What if Adam didn’t just ‘bounce back’?
Rating K+ (14,570 words)
Long Road Back Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
A Place to Belong (by Tauna Petit-Strawn)
Summary: An idea I got off the episode ‘Love Me Not’.
Rating T (16,285 words)
A Place to Belong Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Devotion (by southplains)
Summary: Did Amy Bishop know of Joe’s love affair with Julia Bulette? If she did, what did she think of it? How did she come to terms with it once she herself was in a relationship with him? Written in response to the ‘Missing Scenes’ challenge here on BB, and inspired by a question posed on another site.
Rated: K+ WC 7900
A Note for Santa (by Dodo)
Summary: A Christmas WHI for First Born
Word Count: 1709 Rated: K+
A Note for Santa Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
A Father’s Dilemma (by Dodo)
Summary: A missing scene from Dark Star. Ever wondered why Ben was so calm when Joe said he wanted to marry Tirza? Read on…
Word Count: 1510 Rated: K+
Defending His Brother (by pjb)
Summary: A missing scene for “The Fighters.”
Rated: K+ WC 2000
Love Cuts Both Ways (by karilyn)
Summary: This is a What Happened Instead for Candy and Lisa Campbell from “The Stalker.”
Rated K (8,890 words)
Another Chance (by southplains)
Summary: A What Happened Instead for the episode “Second Chance.”
Rating: K+ (21,880 Words)
Legacy’s Promise (by southplains)
Summary: A What-Happened-Instead for ‘The Legacy’
Rated: T WC 7000