Title: Hunger Hurts, But Starving Works
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie
Rating: NC-17
Warning: Incest, rimming
Word Count: 772
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended
A/N: My last submission for quoted20. I have completed the challenge!
The title of the piece and section headers come from the more famous motivational quotes in the pro-ED community. The last two headers are from the Bright Eyes song "I've Been Eating For You." A quote challenge with multiple quotes? Yes, I'm that daring.
For some reason, when I picked the main quote, the first thing that popped into my head was doing a piece with ED headers. *shrug* Who really understands their muses? Raise your hand.
The quote:

"The rest is silence." - William Shakespeare

( Hunger Hurts, But Starving Works )

Title: Life Happens
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don (Bradford, Don/Charlie implied)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1490
Warnings: Since Don/Charlie is implied, incest is implied
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended
A/N: The quote:

"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep." - Fran Lebowitz

( When the good stuff happens, they call it a blessing. )

Title: Open Spaces
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie, Megan, David, Colby, Larry, Amita
Rating: G
Word Count: 560
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended
A/N: Inspired by alleskleber
The final chapter!
Pariah / Hell of a Day / Keep Living / Disclosure / Your Mistake / Ghosts / Red Hot / It's Real / Checkmate / It's All Over But the Crying / Bittersweet
The quote:

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll

( 6 Months Later )

Title: Bittersweet
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie, Megan, David, Colby, Alan
Rating: PG
Word Count: 728
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended
A/N: Inspired by fanfictionrules and schnaucl
Pariah / Hell of a Day / Keep Living / Disclosure / Your Mistake / Ghosts / Red Hot / It's Real / Checkmate / It's All Over But the Crying
The quote:

"Our children change us... whether they live or not." – Lois McMaster Bujold

( Charlie feels his father's eyes burning into him... )

Title: It's All Over But the Crying
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie, Colby, Alan
Rating: PG
Word Count: 740
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended
A/N: Inspired by fanfictionrules
Pariah / Hell of a Day / Keep Living / Disclosure / Your Mistake / Ghosts / Red Hot / It's Real / Checkmate
The quote:

"Nobody deceives us better then we deceive ourselves." – Seneca

( Three seconds )

Title: Checkmate
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie, Amita, Larry
Rating: PG-13 for the most part, small moment of NC-17
Warnings: Incest, mostly dialogue
Word Count: 2469
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended
A/N: Pariah / Hell of a Day / Keep Living / Disclosure / Your Mistake / Ghosts / Red Hot / It's Real
The quote:

"To betray, you must first belong." - Kim Philby

( ''What the hell were you thinking?'' )

Title: It's Real
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie
Rating: R
Warning: Incest
Word Count: 995
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended
A/N: Pariah / Hell of a Day / Keep Living / Disclosure / Your Mistake / Ghosts / Red Hot
The quote:

“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things time cannot mend, some hurts that go too deep that have taken hold.” – JRR Tolkien

( Charlie's heartbeat is already pounding in his ears... )

Title: Red Hot
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie, Colby
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 1433
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended.
A/N: Start of follow-up series to my After the Break series.
The quote:

"I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry." - Maxine Waters

( Don can't stop the words before they come rushing out... )

Title: Soft, Sweet, Thick
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 705
Warning: Incest
Challenge: quoted20
Dedication: schnaucl requested something sexy and sweet. Hope this is a nice break from all the angst I've been writing.
Summary: Charlie is turning 18 and visiting home from Princeton. Don is 23 and on break from Quantico.
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't want, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended
A/N: The Geena Davis movie referenced is The Long Kiss Goodnight, which references a book by Harold Robbins.
The quote:

"All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening." - Alexander Woollcott

( Soft, Sweet, Thick )

Title: Ghosts
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Incest
Word Count: 780
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, not want, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended
A/N: Pariah / Hell of a Day / Keep Living / Disclosure / Your Mistake
The quote:

“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.” – Bill Cosby

( Don's been trying Charlie on his cell phone for three hours. )

Title: Your Mistake
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie, Colby, Alan
Rating: NC-17
Warning: Incest
Word Count: 515
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't want, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended
A/N: Answers the question as to how Don's team found out about him and Charlie
Pariah / Hell of a Day / Keep Living / Disclosure
The quote:

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde

( Don slammed Charlie against his apartment door, their mouths meeting roughly. )

( More Author's Notes )

Title: Disclosure
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Charlie, Larry (Don/Charlie)
Rating: PG
Warning: Incest mentioned
Word Count: 666 (hee!)
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't want, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended
A/N: I finally got over my fear and wrote Larry. Whew.
Pariah / Hell of a Day / Keep Living
The quote:

"When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship." - preacher

( That's an interesting development in your relationship... )

Title: Keep Living
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Incest
Word Count: 796
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't want, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended.
A/N: Continuation of Pariah and Hell of a Day.
The quote:

“Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.” – Robert Cody

( Don lied. )

Title: Hell of a Day
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie, Megan (Colby, David, Charlie/Larry)
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: quoted20
Warning: Incest
Word Count: 1662
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't want, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended
A/N: Follow-up to Pariah
The quote:

“I should warn you, getting what you want and being happy are two quite different things.” – The Sandman

( You trust me, don't you? )

Title: Pariah
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie, David, Megan, Colby
Rating: R
Word Count: 755
Challenge: For quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't want, just borrowing, only fun, no infringement intended
A/N: The quote:

"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds." – Democritus

( Colby's got his arms crossed tightly over his chest... )

For the sake of balance:

Title: Enough For Now
Fandom: Numb3rs
Pairing: Don/Charlie
Rating: NC-17
Warning: Incest
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't want, only borrowing, just fun, no infringement intended.
Dedication: For spikedluv and jaredsexual for surviving through three angst-ridden fics.
A/N: The quote:

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows. “ – Roger Zelazny

( Back in the stacks of 17th century philosophers, Don unbuckles his belt. )

Title: Tomorrow Dies
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie/David
Rating: NC-17
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't want, only borrowing, just fun, no infringment intended.
A/N: The quote:

“We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.” – Art Buchwald

( Jesus Christ, Don, how many is that? )

Title: No Apologies
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don, Megan (Don/Charlie is the plot)
Rating: PG
Warning: Mention of incest
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't want, just borrowing, only fun, no infringement intended.
A/N: The quote:

“It just seems natural. You and me against the world.” – Chuck Palahniuk

( His hands are shaking. )

Title: And You Will Keep Your Word
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters: Don/Charlie, Margaret
Rating: PG
Warning: Teensy bit o' incest
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't want, just borrowing, only fun, no infringement intended
A/N: The quote:

“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.” – Jim Morrison

( She'd been rushed to the hospital two days ago... )

Title: Six Before Breaking Fast
Fandom: Numb3rs
Pairing: Don/Charlie
Rating: NC17
Warnings: Incest
Challenge: quoted20
Disclaimer: Not mine.
A/N: The quote:

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

( Six impossible things )